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Google is getting a new CEO: Larry Page — who who co-founded Google as a young Stanford postgraduate and was briefly CEO before handing the position to the more experienced manager, Eric Schmidt — is now taking the reins.

Finding health information can be hard if you have a rare disease. Those patients often have to become experts themselves. Social media like Facebook make it easier for people with rare disorders to find each other and share that expertise.

One way to follow what's going on in the Middle East and South Asia right now is through social media — Facebook, Twitter and blog posts.But of course you have to speak the local languages to do that. So scientists in the U.S.

We may be moving closer to the reality that Julie Andrews sang about when she crooned: "The hills are alive, with the sound of music."

Playing a game these days is just a touch away on many smart phones.But Nintendo hopes it can convince customers to carry another device by offering another dimension — a 3-D gaming experience — with its 3DS hand-held device, which went on sale this weekend.Consumers have been slow to embrace 3-D te

If the pediatrician wants to know if your kids are on Facebook, it's not because she wants to friend them.The question about Facebook, and other queries about a child's life online, should be part of the medical history doctors take of kids in the age of social media, according to recommendations ju

What if you could buy a tablet with a slightly smaller screen than the iPad for half the price or even less? Hackers have been turning e-book readers into tablets for cheap Internet on the go.In fact, San Francisco hacker Mitch Altman doesn't read e-books on his Kindle at all.