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Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. The move to integrate real-time search results directly into Google's flagship Web search...

The U.N.'s top climate official has given an upbeat assessment on the prospects of reaching a global deal at the climate summit which opens in Copenhagen on Monday. Suspicions are growing that Russian security services were behind the leaking of...

The world's first commercial passenger spaceship, funded by Virgin boss Richard Branson, is due to be unveiled. SpaceShipTwo, to be put on show in America's Mojave Desert, is a joint effort between Sir Richard and famed aviation designer Burt Rutan,...

However, as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), R&D expenditure dropped slightly over this period...It noted that spending on research and development in relation to GDP was a good indication of the competitiveness of a country's economy. "Highly competitive...

The Internet company is rolling out an online tool that allows consumers to see — and edit — the personal profiles that Yahoo has compiled about them based on their Web browsing behavior...Yahoo Inc.'s new Ad Interest Manager tool, released...

A rare Komodo dragon has been born at the Singapore Zoo after 34 years of trying to breed the world's largest living lizard, officials said. The baby was born after more than year of courtship between Bima, the father, and...

Schmidt is "tweeting" under the handle @ericschmidt, a Twitter spokeswoman said in a Twitter message on Monday...Schmidt has sent two "tweets," one of which was a link to an opinion piece he wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal,...

Rain that began shortly after midnight has commuters taking their umbrellas to work and is creating nasty road conditions for the morning drive. The downpour in Los Angeles County is expected to continue through the day, and the heaviest rains...

Music videos from Norah Jones, Coldplay, Katy Perry and other artists under EMI Group PLC are headed to an online music video venture, Vevo, set to launch Tuesday with a gala in New York. EMI's videos on Vevo will join...