DIY Rainbow: How Australia Showed Its Support for Gay Rights with Chalk and...
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View ArticleThat Time Diane Kruger Drank Exhaust Emissions From A Car
Diane Kruger can now add drinking the exhaust emissions from a Mercedes-Benz to her list of accomplishments. While this may sound gross, the "Inglourious Basterds" actress wasn’t drinking the emissions...
View ArticleNobody Wants To See Your Facebook Look Back Video
This might hurt your feelings, but I'm just going to come out and say it: I don't care about your Facebook history. For its 10th anniversary, Facebook came out with a new feature called "A Look Back."...
View ArticleScientists Create Robotic Hand That Includes Sense Of Touch
WASHINGTON (AP) — To feel what you touch — that's the holy grail for artificial limbs. In a step toward that goal, European researchers created a robotic hand that let an amputee feel differences...
View ArticleMakers Are Radically Changing the World...Already
By Singularity University adjunct faculty Mark Hatch, who is CEO and Co-Founder of TechShop and author of the Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and...
View ArticleAsteroid's Internal Structure Glimpsed For First Time Ever (VIDEO)
The innards of an asteroid have been measured for the first time. Scientists using a European Southern Observatory telescope have made precise measurements of Asteroid Itokawa's density. They...
View ArticleNew 'Wingman' App Lets You Find Love (Or Casual Sex) On Any Flight In America
The mile-high club could have more members in the very near future. Wingman is a forthcoming app that "connects you with attractive people on your flight, all before you touch down." Similar to Tinder,...
View ArticleJonny McGovern Releases New Episodes Of 'Whoa, Dude!' Web Series (NSFW)
When Jonny McGovern's new series "Whoa, Dude!" hit the Internet last week, viewers ate up the scantly clad men and "Tosh.O"-esque format of the show. Now, McGovern has released two new episodes in the...
View ArticleShould Barcodes Be Penguin-Shaped? (We Think The Answer Is Clear)
Maybe they didn't stand out so much when their primary purpose was to line the shelves of supermarkets, but with the advent of smartphones, barcodes and QR codes became much more integrated with visual...
View ArticleGoogle Picks Longtime Executive Susan Wojcicki To Head YouTube
(Reuters) - Google Inc executive Susan Wojcicki has been appointed new head of the company's YouTube video business, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The move, in which Wojcicki will...
View ArticleIranian President Hassan Rouhani Dubs New Health Care Initiative 'RouhaniCare'
While some Republicans may not like it, it looks like Obamacare has earned at least one important fan abroad. The English Twitter account of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attracted attention on...
View ArticleTarget Hearing Highlights Need for Congressional Action on Data Breaches
To listen to some House Republicans at the Target hearing Wednesday, and the Senate Republicans on Tuesday, one would be forgiven for thinking that the massive data breaches experienced by customers of...
View ArticleThis Is What Happens When You Mix Alcohol With MIT Students (VIDEO)
Gin and tonic, vodka and cranberry, and bugs and biomimetic cocktails? When you're a mechanical engineering graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it all seems par for the...
View ArticleTwitter's Plan To Woo Regular People
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo kicked off the company's inaugural earnings call Wednesday by listing four adjectives that, to him, sum up the service's most winsome qualities: "public," "real-time,"...
View ArticleFormer Federal Official Claims Attack On Silicon Valley Phone Lines Was...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman Jon Wellinghoff says he believes an April attack on Silicon Valley's phone lines and power grid was terrorism. Wellinghoff,...
View ArticleCellphones Better Than Sex, Most Americans Say
What's more important than sex? Turns out a whole bunch of things, according to an online poll conducted by Harris Interactive. On a list of 10 things people can't live without, sex came in near the...
View ArticleHow Google Beat Microsoft at Its Own Game
The year was 1980. Apple, led by Steve Jobs, introduced the world to the miracle of personal computing. The PC revolution had started. IBM wanted in, but lacked lacked the essential software necessary...
View Article9 Things You're Doing Wrong With Your iPhone
If you're anything like us, your smartphone is your precious baby. Unfortunately, you probably don't treat it as well as you should. Here are some things you're probably doing wrong with your iPhone:...
View ArticleSelling the President's Ambitious Trade Agenda
Two lines -- that's what the most ambitious trade agenda in two decades received in President Obama's State of the Union address. Obviously, any issue receiving mention in a State of the Union is a big...
View ArticleEmail Follies Plague Corporate America
The modern world of Corporate America runs on email and web-based applications; consequently, employees of Corporate America are continuously sending emails, at all hours of the day and night, using...
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