Google Inc. announced Wednesday the launch of a new music service in partnership with three major record companies, a service that will compete directly with Apple and Amazon to sell music to consumers and allow them to access songs from any PC or Android-based mobile device, but goes a step farther by allowing users to share tracks with friends through the Google social network.

“South Park” is going to be around for a long time.

Not so long ago, consumers couldn’t get enough of their CrackBerrys. Now it appears many are sobering up.

California and Texas lawmakers formed a rare alliance to secure $240 million in federal funds to pay for jailing illegal immigrants despite a congressional drive to reduce Washington’s red ink.

Hours after New York officials raided Zuccotti Park, emptying it of the nation’s first Occupy Wall Street protest camp, a New York judge ruled in favor of the city and said that protesters may not return to the area with their tents.

Fourteen-year-olds who were frequent video gamers had more gray matter in the rewards center of the brain than peers who didn’t play video games as much — suggesting that gaming may be correlated to changes in the brain, much as addictions are.

NBC’s newest correspondent fits the profile of a lot of other network news hires — bright, articulate and educated at America’s best colleges. She’s also unlike other network news hires — having lived for eight years in the White House and done little to veil her suspicion of the media.

Jerry Sandusky acknowledged Monday that he used to shower and “horse around” with young boys, but the former Pennsylvania State University coach said he had never molested any children.

Adobe’s Flash multimedia platform will no longer be developed for mobile devices, the San Jose software company announced Wednesday, years after Apple Inc. and co-founder Steve Jobs refused to use the technology on their mobile devices.

Less than 24 hours after Brett Ratner resigned as producer of the 2012 Oscars after making an anti-gay slur, his handpicked host Eddie Murphy has quit.