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Melting bridges, misplaced landmarks, and major cities disappearing: Apple's glitch-ridden maps program released in its new mobile software has customers fuming and analysts puzzled.

"Wow Someone Just Shot Up This Batman Movie. I Literally Just Seen A Little Girl Get Carried Out With Bullet Wounds."

Suddenly, it seems, more US entertainers are coming out publicly as gay, lesbian or bisexual -- a welcome sign of a more accepting America, activists say, amid a fierce debate over marriage equality.

Seventeen magazine, responding to a gutsy high school student's petition, is pledging to feature only real, unaltered images of girls in its pages, social action platform Change.org said Tuesday.

Twitter said a "cascading bug" caused outages affecting millions of users of the wildly popular site, and dismissed claims of a hacker attack.

The wildly popular Twitter website went offline briefly for many users Thursday, prompting a flurry of complaints on rival sites.

Investigators on Tuesday scoured an upmarket shopping mall in Qatar for clues to an inferno that killed 19 people, 13 of them children, as heartbroken relatives and friends began to bury the victims.

Qatar prepared on Tuesday to bury or send home the bodies of 19 people who perished in a blaze that whipped through a nursery at a shopping mall, including New Zealand triplets and 10 other trapped children.

The Big Apple may not have California's weather, but tech fans at New York Internet Week say that in every other way the city is on course to become Silicon Valley 2.0.

A US sex publisher which fought a long copyright battle with Google has sued the Tumblr social networking site claiming "rampant" illegal use of its photographs, court documents showed.

Google is leading Facebook in the race for smartphone users, a US survey showed Monday.

FRC's Tony Perkins is sounding off against a Mike and Ike campaign in which the pair break up. ?Tony Perkins, the president of the Christian conservative Family Research Council (FRC), is sounding off against a Mike and Ike campaign in which the pair break up, media watchdog RightWingWatch.org reported. In the ads for the fruit-flavored candies, surprised co-workers, celebrities and others talk about the split, saying Ike wants to pursue a career in the arts and Mike is looking fulfill his dream of becoming a music legend. NBA player Lamar Odom says, ?When I heard the news, I was devastated,? while The Middle's Eden Sher responds with, ?I'm totally Team Ike.? (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page. Visit our video library for more videos.) Despite the facts that Mike and Ike are fictional characters ? no physical representation of the men is shown ? and the ads do not specifically mention that they are a couple, Perkins called the ads a ?cultural low? in a recent news b

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, known for her hard work and gruelling schedule, took a rare moment off at the weekend and let her hair down to enjoy a dance and a beer with some friends.

The daring exploits of a US mayor went viral on Twitter Friday after he dived into a burning building to save a neighbor in a new act of bravery, earning him the title of "superhero."

The creators of "Texts from Hillary," a spoof blog featuring photos of a sunglasses-sporting Hillary Clinton that quickly went viral, met the US secretary of state Tuesday.

Pioneering British social network Friends Reunited relaunched its site on Tuesday, rebranding itself as a bank of "treasured memories" in a bid to claim a niche in a field now dominated by Facebook and Twitter.

(Reuters) - In just five years , Twitter has evolved from a 140-character punch line into a universal, all-purpose newswire, free and open to almost anyone, throbbing with the pulse of the planet in real time. It's where Newt Gingrich announced his presidential run, Prince William announced his engagement, and where the killing of Osama bin Laden was old news by the time President Obama announced it on television. If you're watching or taking part in a political protest - be it in Tahrir Square or downtown Manhattan - Twitter is where you have to be: faster than CNN, more credible than Fox News, and uniquely able to invite you to both follow the news and report it too.

Adam Lambert is set to grace the spring 2012 cover of British glossy 'FAULT Magazine'. Adam Lambert? is set to grace the spring 2012 cover of British glossy FAULT Magazine. The magazine confirmed that the 29-year-old Lambert was their cover man in a tweet: ?@AdamLambert confirmed & shot for the cover of FAULT Men in Spring.? Stylist Avo Yermagyan was first with the news, writing Tuesday on her Tumblr: ?Styled the ever-so-charming Adam Lambert today for the cover of FAULT Magazine's forthcoming SPRING 2012 ISSUE.? The magazine looks at how celebrity affects social issues. ?FAULT never underestimates the effects fashion and artists have to provoke social change and the ability to shape our future,? the magazine says on its website. ?With this knowledge and understanding, we celebrate and present diversity of brilliant minds, embracing all aspects of the art world to create something truly phenomenal.? The American Idol alum has taken on gay rights since publicly declaring his sexuality o

New York City is already the US capital of advertising, fashion, finance and media. Now it wants to be its high-tech center too.

Google+, the Internet search giant's rival to Facebook, has a high-profile new member: US President Barack Obama.