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It's not the first time John Daly has had to ask for help -- but it must be one of the most embarrassing.

Too lazy to have a shower? Worry no more, there's a lotion for that.

The Obama administration was trying to address consumers’ concerns that costs were too high and that the choice of doctors, hospitals and prescription drugs was too limited.

Facing Hispanic voters’ anger over the lack of an immigration overhaul, the president has promised a review of ways to refine immigration law enforcement.

An escalating campaign against President Obama’s get-tough policies is having an effect on the deporter in chief.

Eliminating tariffs on all goods between the trans-Atlantic trading partners looks challenging. So does the 2015 target for completing a deal.

The administration has not nominated an envoy to Ireland since the last one left in 2012, and the delay has bruised feelings.

Additional memos from Bill Clinton’s presidency made public by the National Archives mention Colin Powell, George W. Bush and much advice from aides.

Lucas123 writes "Imagine that in 1952, an IBM RAMAC 350 disk drive would have been able to hold only one .MP3 song. Today, a 4TB 3.5-in desktop drive (soon to be 5TB) can hold 760,000 songs. As much data as the digital age creates (2.16 Zettabytes and growing), data storage technology has always found a way to keep up. It is the fastest growing semiconductor technology there is. Consider a microSD card that in 2005 could store 128MB of capacity. Last month, SanDisk launched a 128GB microSD card — 1,000 times the storage in under a decade. While planar NAND flash is running up against a capacity wall, technology such as 3D NAND and Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) hold the promise of quadrupling of solid state capacity. Here are some photos of what was and what is in data storage."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Lucas123 writes "Imagine that in 1952, an IBM RAMAC 350 disk drive would have been able to hold only one .MP3 song. Today, a 4TB 3.5-in desktop drive (soon to be 5TB) can hold 760,000 songs. As much data as the digital age creates (2.16 Zettabytes and growing), data storage technology has always found a way to keep up. It is the fastest growing semiconductor technology there is. Consider a microSD card that in 2005 could store 128MB of capacity. Last month, SanDisk launched a 128GB microSD card — 1,000 times the storage in under a decade. While planar NAND flash is running up against a capacity wall, technology such as 3D NAND and Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) hold the promise of quadrupling of solid state capacity. Here are some photos of what was and what is in data storage."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

A friend of Flight 370's pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah talks with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

CNN's Martin Savidge re-creates the timeline of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 inside a Boeing 777 cockpit simulator.

Scientists have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of dinosaur, based on remains found in Alaska.

Scientists have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of dinosaur, based on remains found in Alaska.

Only Europe, in concert with the United States, can put a check on the Putin doctrine before it drags the Eastern half of the continent into the abyss.

In the mid-March chill, the victims and their stories continued to emerge as firefighters ferreted through the piles of bricks and wreckage on the East Harlem block where a powerful explosion and fire leveled two buildings.

While much of the world is focused on the Russian incursion into the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, another long-term move may allow the former Soviet navy to dominate U.S. interests to the north: the Arctic.

Zain Asher looks at the passport black market - how they're made and what the U.S. government is doing to combat it.

The 21-year-old suspect will be charged with two counts of capital murder, police said.

A bomb exploded near a passing bus in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta on Friday afternoon, killing 10 people and injuring 35 others, police said.