This Is What Texting Negotiations Between A Cop And Suspect Look Like
Excerpts from the text exchange between Kalamazoo, Michigan, police negotiator Andres Wells and suspect Jesse Cook during a July 6, 2011, standoff. With 6 billion text messages exchanged daily in the...
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The 'Heartbleed' Bug Has Not Been Exterminated
Though the breaking news of the Heartbleed vulnerability is a month old, this doesn’t mean that this “bug” has been squashed. There still remain about 318,000 servers that are vulnerable to this...
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How Large-Scale Solar Power Can Reduce Pressure On Farm Land
This story originally appeared on Mother Nature Network. Solar power has been growing like crazy in recent years, particularly in terms of utility-scale solar farms. And that's led some to worry about...
View ArticleThe Best-Selling Products Of All Time
From 24/7 Wall St.: Creating the most popular product of the year will make consumers and investors happy. But making an all-time bestseller can transform an industry and define a business for decades....
View ArticleThis Robotic Drum And Bass Set Is Straight Out Of Science Fiction
Question: How can music be totally metal without ever shredding a single guitar? Answer: When it happens to be this incredible robotic drum and bass set above! The futuristic music video straight out...
View ArticleFrom Busy Moms to Business Partners: How We Started a Fashion Company on...
This essay was produced in partnership with Facebook Stories. Facebook is a cosponsor of National Small Business Week, May 12-16. Read about other small businesses on Facebook Stories. --- A few years...
View ArticleSamsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee Hospitalized After Heart Attack
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Kun-hee remained hospitalized in stable condition Monday after being treated for a heart attack, company officials said. Lee, 72, was...
View ArticleFCC Head To Revise Broadband Rules Plan - WSJ.com
The head of the Federal Communications Commission is revising proposed rules for regulating broadband Internet, including offering assurances that the agency won't allow companies to segregate Web...
View ArticleThere's Now A Seamless For When You're Feeling Sick
You can use different apps to order dinner, call a cab, find a date, and get directions. Now, a new startup wants to add one more thing to that list: seeing a doctor. Pager, currently being beta-tested...
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These Vintage Ads Prove We Had No Idea What The Future Would Actually Look Like
If you thought "The Jetsons" was far-fetched, think again. While you may laugh at the idea of every household having a robot, flying cars, and supercomputers, it was the beginning of the Space Age in...
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3 Massive Problems with Digital Publishing Today
The future of publishing is hotly debated. The advent of the Internet and mobile technology has greatly revolutionized a formerly traditional industry, giving it new form and new life. Ten years ago,...
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The 'Game Of Thrones' Characters Texting Is The Best Thing Ever
Texts are coming. The Sunday, May 11, "Game of Thrones" episode, "The Laws of Gods and Men," was insane, but it would have been even more insane with texting. Check out last week's "Game of Thrones"...
View ArticleNarcissus Takes a Selfie
You may have heard that "selfitis" -- the inflammation of one's ego, as evidenced by taking too many "selfies" -- is a mental disorder according to the APA. Unfortunately this "news" story went viral...
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Why These 3 Women Chose To Go Into Porn -- And How The World Treats Them...
When Belle Knox, a 19-year-old Duke University freshman, was “outed” as a porn star in February, the conversation spread far beyond Duke’s campus. A flurry of tabloid reporting placed Knox at the...
View ArticleSnapchat's Big Lie to Americans
Which is worse: pursuing a scorched earth policy towards online privacy while claiming to "do no evil" or blatantly lying about yourself as an important online privacy application? I would vote for the...
View ArticleAT&T In Talks To Buy DirecTV For $50 Billion
Telecom giant AT&T is in "advanced talks" to buy satellite TV service DirectTV for about $50 billion, according to Bloomberg News, which spoke with people familiar with the matter. The potential...
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World's Tallest Living Wall Features 15 Stories Of Vertical Gardening (PHOTOS)
This story originally appeared on Mother Nature Network. Green over Grey, a wonderfully monikered vertical garden design firm headquartered out of Vancouver, B.C., has unveiled what it is heralding as...
View ArticleFDA Approves New Type Of Robotic Prosthetic Arm
A recent CBS report suggests that the FDA's newest development in prosthetic limbs might be taking a page out of "Star Wars." The robotic prosthesis, formally known as the DEKA arm, will be controlled...
View ArticleBroadband Companies Nervous Over Latest Net Neutrality Push
Broadband companies are fighting back against a push to add teeth to the Federal Communications Commission's wavering defense of net neutrality. According to a Democratic House staffer, former New York...
View ArticleWeather Channel Caught In Storm Of Controversy Over Sarcastic Tweet
The Weather Channel has apologized to outgoing Fort Worth, Texas, City Councilman Joel Burns after a recent Twitter flap. Burns, an openly gay politician, gained national attention in October of 2010...
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