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Dinner party conversation can be difficult, but for Seth Horvitz, the high-caliber assault rifle he mistakenly received through Amazon.com was the perfect centerpiece. Horvitz was immediately suspicious of the package that arrived on his doorstep Tuesday because its size and shape didn’t appear to match the flat screen television he’d ordered. Expecting a used Westinghouse 39-inch LED television that he ... Read More »

Hyundai may be planning on recalling around 221,630 cars in the U.S. according to U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website. The recall is due to a possible defect in the airbags. Hyundai’s Santa Fe vehicles produced between April 19, 2006 and July 7, 2008, and Sonata passenger vehicles produced from Jan. 24 through Jun. 21 are affected, the posting ... Read More »

Marissa Mayer is the new CEO Of Yahoo. She quit Google today and starts her new job tomorrow. Mayer was Google’s first woman engineer. She managed its search product for years. She also led development of iGoogle, Google News, and Gmail. (Check out more on her impressive career here.) In 2010, she switched to Google Maps and other local products. ... Read More »

A city bus driver says he was thinking of his own young daughter when he rushed to catch a 7-year-old girl plunging three stories from a New York building Monday – an action caught on video. “Please let me catch her, please let me catch her,” Stephen St. Bernard, 52, recalled thinking. “That’s all I could say. Let me catch ... Read More »

U.S President Barack Obama has revealed that he feels the economy is as broken as it had did four years ago, when he took office. He’s most frustrated by the inability “to change the atmosphere” in the capital “to reflect the decency and common sense of ordinary people” who want leaders to solve problems. He adds “there’s enough blame to ... Read More »

Bob Russell could not be blamed for losing hope that he would reunite with his 1967 Austin-Healey. Stolen outside his Philadelphia apartment 42 years ago, the British roadster seemed a lost cause. But thanks to the Internet and some creative police work, Russell has his pride and joy back. When Russell, then a graduate student at Temple University, returned home ... Read More »

Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. is laying off 600 staffers in its Geek Squad technical support division and 1,800 other store workers as it seeks to restructure operations and improve results, the company said Friday. The cuts amount to about 1.4 percent of the company’s total staff of 167,000. Best Buy is trying to combat the “showrooming” of its stores, ... Read More »