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A new app launched this weekend that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders. 

Most ads have sold for about $3 million per 30-second spot-an all-time high price for the Super Bowl, which is the most watched event in the nation, with about 100 million U.S. viewers.

House passes resolution to honor actor Paul Newman

Online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource for employers vetting job applicants. Now the sites are proving fruitful for prosecutors, who have used damaging Internet photos of defendants to cast doubt on their character during sentencing hearings and argue for harsher punishment.

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Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after a conservative blogger complained that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

All those words and phrases are on Lake Superior State University's annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.

Voters stand to lose out if the Supreme Court treats political spending by businesses and other big-money players as protected speech.

An Associated Press reporter's official reprimand over an innocuous comment on his Facebook page has sparked the ire of union officials.

Cable TV operator Comcast Corp. is expected to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal, perhaps as early as this week