In 2008, shortly after Bill Gates stepped down from his executive role at Microsoft, he often awoke in his 66,000-square-foot home on the eastern bank of Lake Washington and walked downstairs to his private gym in a baggy T-shirt, shorts, sneakers an ...

The mid-1910s saw an explosion of people driving unlicensed cabs. They were called jitneys (slang for a nickel, which was also what they typically cost) and cities across the U.S. scrambled to regulate them. Today, cities around the world are struggl ...

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North Korea has allowed CNN to interview three Americans who have been detained there for unspecified crimes against the state. CNN aired the interviews with Kenneth Bae, Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle on Monday.

Reports say hospital in Swedish capital is treating in isolation unit a man who travelled to a "risk area".

Due to global warming, scientists say, the chances of the southwestern United States experiencing a decade long drought is at least 50 percent, and the chances of a “megadrought” – one that lasts over 30 years – ranges from 20 to 50 percent over the ...

Google Maps has apparently been tracking cell phones, according to a report. The firm’s location tracking site can show exactly where a person and their cell phone has been by breaking down the locations it shows by day. According to Vox, the “tech g ...

Few ingredients come with as much baggage as MSG. Otherwise known as monosodium glutamate, the compound has had a bad reputation for nearly 50 years, so we at Reactions felt it was time to clear its name. In this video, we debunk MSG myths and explai ...

If your monthly cellphone bill seems high, that may be because American cellphone service is among the most costly in the world. A comparison of two similar plans, one in the United States and one in Britain, reveals a marked difference.

Kim Min-koo has a reply to new American research that hits South Korea where it hurts: in the stomach. Wobbling drunk and hungry just after dawn, he rips the lid off a bowl of his beloved instant noodles, defiant over a report that links them to heal ...

Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski has worked in satirical illustration since 2004, specializing in thought-provoking images that make his audience question their everyday lives. His subjects deal with everything from social media to politics to poverty, ...

By treating the Internet as a giant surveillance platform, the NSA has betrayed the Internet and the world. It has subverted the products, protocols, and standards that we use to protect ourselves. It has left us all vulnerable—to foreign governments ...

Protests in the streets have not been the only disruption in the city of Ferguson since the shooting of Michael Brown by police. A cyber attack by the hacker group “Anonymous” has done more damage than any bottle or brick. The threats from “Anonymou ...

The images, discovered by Henner while researching satellite photographs of oil fields, look like post-apocalyptic wastelands.

Long before we were debating the merits of Android Wear and the rumored iWatch, companies were experimenting with quartz technology, LEDs, and miniaturized circuits to create the ancestors of the modern wearable. HP — which made some of the most impo ...

For security firms, a major online security breach is a potential marketing opportunity. The latest is legitimately scary: Russian hackers stole 1.2 billion unique username and password combinations – that’s nearly the population of China – and more ...

Math captured this GoPro footage of a baby seal climbing on his board and playing with him and a friend in the water.

Turns out there are a lot of people who want the Internet to forget about them—whether they deserve it or not.

"DMX" Screams His Head Off on Amusement Park Ride then trys to play if off Caught on Camera

Lionsgate has filed a lawsuit against six file-sharing sites that allegedly distributed leaked copies of The Expendables 3 film. The movie studio claims that the sites in question failed to respond to takedown requests. Lionsgate demands a permanent ...