This undated image released by Goldstar shows Jim McCarthy, CEO of ticket discounter Goldstar in New York. Goldstar, a sort of Priceline.com for events, finds unused tickets to everything from wine tastings to circuses and sells them discounted to its 4 million subscribers from Boston to Seattle. The average fee is $5.

Goldstar's Jim McCarthy on why live is better

Jim McCarthy doesn't just think it's fun to go out and see a play or a comedy show or a basketball game. He thinks it actually makes you a better person. 1371645410

FILE - In this May 27, 2013 photo, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto listens to a reporter's question during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Hashimoto earlier said and tweeted that sex slavery by Japan’s Imperial Army before and during World War II was a “necessary” wartime evil. He also used Twitter to post his suggestion that the U.S. military patronize adult entertainment to help reduce sex crimes committed by American troops.

Social-network gaffes plague Japanese politicians

On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times costly fashion. 1371641822 Photo Gallery Available

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2012 file photo, musician Robin Thicke performs during Macy's Passport presents Glamorama 2012 at The Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Thicke's "Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)" was the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Monday, June 10, to Sunday, June 16, 2013.

Spotify's Top 10 most streamed tracks

The following list represents the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Monday, June 10, to Sunday, June 16:

Stuntwoman sues News Corp. over alleged phone hack

A woman who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie sued Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in Los Angeles on Tuesday, claiming she's a victim of a phone hacking scheme to obtain information about the actress.

DreamWorks says TV revenue to hit $200M by 2015

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the studio behind "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda," said Tuesday that a new deal to provide original TV shows to Netflix will help it double the revenue it gets from TV shows to $200 million by 2015.

FILE - This May 1, 2013 file photo shows Jay-Z at "The Great Gatsby" world premiere at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. Jay-Z is teaming up with Samsung to release his new album, unveiling a three-minute commercial during the NBA Finals and announcing a deal that will give the music to 1 million users of Galaxy mobile phones. The new album, called “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” will be free for the first 1 million android phone owners who download an app for the album. Those who do so will get the album on July 4, three days before its official release.

With Samsung, Jay-Z's business continues to boom

He really is more than a businessman.

Israel picks team to build high-speed web network

An Israeli committee has chosen a consortium led by Swedish company ViaEuropa to build a nationwide high-speed broadband network.

A look at original shows by online video services

Netflix's deal to air 300 hours of original television programming from Dreamworks Animation in a multi-year deal is part of a trend in which online streaming video services including Amazon and Hulu are increasingly producing original shows.

FILE - In this Monday, June 10, 2013 file photo, people wait for the doors to open for the start of the keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May.

Apple details government requests for data

Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May.

News Summary: Apple details gov't data requests

DISCLOSURE: Apple Inc. said it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May.

Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest

A Chinese university has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine that previously claimed the top spot and underlining China's rise as a science and technology powerhouse.

Union ratchets up pressure on Amazon Germany

Union members at online retailer Amazon's German operations have begun a two-day strike to ratchet up pressure on the company over pay demands.

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2008 file photo, Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page talk during a new conference at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google has settled a shareholder lawsuit to clear the way for a long-delayed split of the Internet search leader's stock. The agreement announced Monday, June 17, 2013, resolves allegations that Google co-founders Page and Brin engineered the stock split in a way that unfairly benefits them and shortchanges the rest of the company's shareholders.

Google settles suit, clears way for stock split

Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year.

In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013 photo shows Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver talking about his facebook page in Kent, Ohio. Oliver uses the reach of his department’s increasingly followed Facebook page to interact with residents and take to task criminals and other ne’er-do-wells, his preferred term is “mopes”, for the stupid, the silly and the outright unlawful in messages that mix humor and blunt opinion.

Ohio police chief takes criminals to task online

If you're up to no good in this pocket of northeast Ohio, especially in a witless way, you're risking not only jail time or a fine but a swifter repercussion with a much larger audience: You're in for a social media scolding from police Chief David Oliver and some of his small department's 52,000-plus Facebook fans. Photo Gallery Available

Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro holds a model of a Telenoid as he addresses the Global Future 2045 Congress, Saturday, June 15, 2013 at Lincoln Center in New York. Some of humanity’s best brains are gathering in New York to discuss how our minds can outlive our bodies. The conference is funded by a Russian billionaire with an aggressive time schedule: immortality by 2045.

Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine

Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so. Photo Gallery Available

How Britain spies on friends and rivals alike

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper have thrown back the curtain on the world of diplomatic espionage, revealing - in explicit detail - how British spies monitor enemies and allies alike. So what does GCHQ, Britain's eavesdropping agency, actually do? And how does it do it? And is any of this really all that surprising?

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2011 file photo, a Netflix DVD envelope and Netflix on-screen television menu are shown in Surfside, Fla. Netflix is going to start running original television series from Dreamworks Animation, the company announced Monday, June 17, 2013. Financial terms were not disclosed. Netflix Inc. says the multi-year agreement is its biggest deal ever for original first-run content and includes more than 300 hours of new programming. It expands on an existing relationship between the companies.

Netflix cuts original TV deal with DreamWorks

Netflix said Monday that it would offer new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation starting in 2014 in what the company described as its biggest transaction ever for original first-run content. Photo Gallery Available

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A Dec. 22, 2005, photo provided by Brookhaven National Laboratory shows the 50-foot-wide electromagnet storage ring at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., on eastern Long Island. The ring, which will capture subatomic particles that live only 2.2 millionths of a second, will be transported in one piece, and moved flat, to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. The trip is expected to take more than a month.

Scientists moving 15-ton magnet from NY to Chicago

New York to Chicago, in five weeks? Photo Gallery Available

Web giants get broader surveillance revelations

Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said that after negotiations with national security officials their companies have been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data.

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