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With shows now getting a long afterlife on the internet, and other shows getting picked up by streaming services after cancellation, it is now harder than ever to define a television hit.

By even his own admission, Donald Trump has only a 10-20% chance of becoming the country's next president. And most Republicans don't consider him a threat to win the nomination.

On Wednesday's episode of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," Stephen Colbert revealed that he had plans to end "The Colbert Report" before he even knew if he'd have a chance at David Letterman's "Late Show" hosting gig.

Undefeated knockout specialist Keith "One Time" Thurman ripped into Floyd Mayweather for considering Karim Mayfield — a fighter who has lost two out of his past three bouts — as one of his potential opponents for his last fight in September before he retires.

The blackout at the NYSE on Wednesday was caused by a software release.

In June, Joseph Gibbons, a former MIT lecturer, was found guilty of filming himself while robbing a New York bank in what he claimed was an art project. He took $1,000, and now faces up to three years in prison.

London (AFP) - Serena Williams powered into her eighth Wimbledon final as the world number one maintained her 11-year mastery of Maria Sharapova with a 6-2, 6-4 demolition on Thursday.

The Supreme Court will soon take up a case that could destroy affirmative action policies allowing US colleges to consider applicants' race in admissions to maintain a diverse campus.

Just like the official carry-on size seems to change every day and varies between airlines, baggage fees are murky, inconsistent, and difficult to navigate.

The Islamic State's use of social media to publicize its many atrocities, while disturbing, is nothing new — in fact, it was the Mexican drug cartels that launched this modern era of "terro-communication", Don Winslow argues in the Daily Beast.

Gamestop is one of the few remaining brick-and-mortar stores for video games. In a digital age where most entertainment content has become a commodity, video games retail remains firms for three reasons: 

Native is one of the hottest topics in digital media, and advertisers and publishers are taking notice.

Google's artificial neural networks are supposed to be used for image recognition of specific objects like cars or dogs. Recently, Google's engineers turned the networks upside down and fed them random images and static in a process they called "inceptionism."

Stocks opened higher on Thursday, with all ten S&P 500 sectors starting the session in the green. 

NBC and "America's Got Talent" is giving the competition show's fans another fun level of interaction.

Congratulations!

After applying, waiting, interviewing, waiting again, and then finally negotiating an offer, you have a brand new job.

It's easy to get so caught up in the excitement that you don't stop to think about what this will mean for your finances.

Here are five things experts suggest you do before, or right after starting, a new job. 

1. Make sure you understand your new compensation package.

Job seekers tend to focus just on salary, says Cameron Laker... Читать дальше...

Scientists create and discover new materials all the time. But few are so jaw-droppingly cool that they deserve to be recognized.

The vast online community Reddit has been facing turmoil for the last month or so, peaking last week with the sudden departure of Victoria Taylor, a Reddit employee who spearheaded Reddit's popular "Ask Me Anything" platform. This move created an unforeseen level of chaos on the site: Reddit's moderators, who aren't company employees, closed off many of the site's biggest communities to the public. 

It's no secret that the biggest holder of Greek debt — which Greece is refusing to pay —  is Germany.

I remember the moment a few years ago while watching TV when I realized that if I were riding in the Tour de France, at age 42 I’d be the oldest person in the race. It hit me that my dream of racing in cycling’s biggest event was over…it was not going to happen.