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Amerikaanse zangeres Donna Summer is in Florida op 63-jarige leeftijd overleden.

In Florida is de Amerikaanse zangeres Donna Summer overleden. Dat melden Amerikaanse media. Ze overleed aan de gevolgen van kanker.

In de jaren zeventig had ze veel discohits, zoals 'Last Dance' Hot Stuff' en 'Bad Girls'. In de jaren negentig scoorde ze een hit met een remix van 'I Feel Love'. Donna Summer stond ook bekend als The Queen of Disco.

Donna Summer is 63 jaar geworden.

Meg Whitman doesn't want to get rid of Hewlett-Packard's PC group, but that doesn't mean she's above making some cuts. According to a pair of anonymously sourced reports, Whitman is planning to announce some big layoffs -- perhaps between 8 and 15 percent of the workforce -- when she announces the company's quarterly financial results next Wednesday.

The HTC One X is one of the best smartphones on the market, and the best Android phone you can buy right now, period.

Donna Summer, the disco queen whose 1977 smash hit "I Feel Love" was nothing short of seismic in its impact on electronic music, died Thursday of cancer at the age of 63.

Your summer schedule probably includes a lot of camping trips, hikes, and concerts. When you're spending tons of time outdoors, sweating out all of your electrolytes, you must remember to stay hydrated. More »

Steve Jobs had dreamed of one day taking Apple onto our public radios with a sleek, well-designed car -- so said J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler at a recent business conference.

There's no shortage of drumming apps and games for the iPhone and iPad, but who wants to risk damaging their device's display during an epic drum solo? That has to be the reason Dream Cheeky created this compact iDrum kit that lets you bang away without breaking your touchscreen toys. More »

What do the Nike+ FuelBand, the Boxee box, and the Xbox 360+ have in common? All were all given a boost by Astro Studios a San Francisco-based design firm you may not have heard of.

As had been expected, Facebook will debut on the Nasdaq tomorrow at a price of $38 per share. What’s that mean for you? Not much. What’s that mean for Mark Zuckerberg and Co.? Sixteen billion dollars. That’s around 10 billion … Continue reading »

This is the once-classified model of Osama Bin Laden's compound—the one used to plan the Navy SEAL raid against the terrorist leader. From a distance, this model could be a piece you'd see in a museum, but in the details, you'll see the painstaking work that went into this tool which helped kill the devil lying inside. More »

A researcher with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, who also served as a consultant on the $200 million movie based on a board game, talks about how Battleship's alien encounter squares with reality.

Whether at the crack of dawn or at the end of a long day, no one really ever has the energy to bathe. So like a bidet, the Loop shower uses numerous jets of water to clean your entire body automatically, even where the sun don't shine. More »

Scott Hanselman is a Microsoft programmer, stand-up comedian, and author. And now, he is a philosopher of computer iconography. The bane of his existence? It’s the Icons whose real world analogues no longer exist. Here are five of the worst … Continue reading »

Bay Area rapper Kreayshawn pays her haters no mind The 22-year-old rose to prominence last May when the video for her swagged-out ode to anti-materialism "Gucci Gucci" went viral logging almost 35 million YouTube views - and more than 33000 "dislikes" – to date With her Columbia Records debut Somethin'...

Greenpeace has been on the offensive against Apple this week, blasting the company for sourcing the power for its energy-intensive data centers from coal power plants. Today, Apple fired back with some remarkable facts, claiming it's a clean and renewable energy superstar. More »

Well, this is flat out amazing. Most waterproof cases for phones are bulky monstrosities that keep water out, but make it really difficult to use the device it’s protecting. Not the Case Marine. At just 0.25mm thick, you can actually … Continue reading »

We're all guilty of talking about the weather. No matter what, you always need to know if it's raining, if it's hot, if it's snowing. Which is why the Weather Channel is the fifth-most downloaded iPhone app of all-time. Arriving today is a new-and-improved version. More »

To jailbreak or not to jailbreak? That was the question on everybody's mind Thursday as copyright regulators, content creators and digital rights groups battled over whether Americans should have the right to tinker with the devices that they buy.

Verizon dropped the bad, bullshit news yesterday: It's killing all grandfathered unlimited data plans next year. Thanks to a statement from Verizon to the NY Times, we know exactly how it plans to do so. The answer? You can keep the plans, but it makes absolutely no financial sense to do so. More »

I have an irrational fear, wait scratch that, I have a completely rational fear of alligators and crocodiles. They're scaly dinosaurs that chomp with the power of two thousand warlords and were put on this Earth to kill us. And they were even worse two to four million years ago because they were three stories tall. More »