Sometimes it will make you wonder, how do the YouTubers get their hands on not-yet-released smartphones to make their test videos? Samsung is still over 10 days away from being shipped out in...
A scientific study, led by the University of Sydney, of the Great Barrier Reef during its last interglacial period showed that it nearly got drowned. While it did have some degree of stability of its...
With recommendations from Texas A&M University, the state legislators are investigating the benefits of RAPIDO -- a pilot program that reduces the time to rebuild homes destroyed by natural...
Swatch Group Ltd., the largest Swiss watch business, reports record sales for 2013 and a strong start for 2014. The company on Friday said year-over-year gross sales for 2013 increased 8.3 percent to...
Last year was a year for stock market record books as index fund buyers added 30% to their nest eggs while many skilled hedge fund managers underperformed. Oddly, many of the smartest investment...
Last year was a sizzling year for stocks, and though technology and telecom stocks as a group rose only 18%, their were pockets like Internet stocks that soared. PowerShares Nasdaq Internet Portfolio...
The following post is by Roger Wu, cofounder of the business-to-business content distribution network, Cooperatize. We’ve seen it too many times. Someone tweets something in poor taste, the...
The eternal chicken or egg question — did Mars seed life on earth or did earth seed life on the Red Planet? — is utter astrobiological “nonsense.” Or so says Pascale Ehrenfreund, an astrochemist at...
This may well be the worst piece of Bantha poodoo to ever soil U.S. airwaves. Originally broadcast on CBS in 1978 –and then never shown again– the Star Wars Holiday Special was produced by ...
Russia’s economy has had a lousy 2013. Estimates of GDP growth have been getting smaller and smaller with each passing week. The current consensus is for full-year growth of 1.4%, but given the...