"Welcome to Iowa State University. May I take your paper, please?" A bill circulating in the Iowa state Senate would rate professors' performance based on student evaluations. Just student evaluations. Low-rated professors would be aut ...

But theres no promise you'll become protector of a magical island. Grab your lottery tickets and a bucket of fried chicken from Mr. Cluck’s Chicken Shack, Lost fans. As many Lost fans have pointed out—and already begun celebrating—Wednesday is a ...

How do you imagine the perfect library? Similar to Hansel & Gretel’s house of chocolate – only made of books? Yes, it’s happening! You’ll have the opportunity to read in such a library, enjoying your favorite activity with hundreds of other bookw ...

The European Commission has warned EU citizens that they should close their Facebook accounts if they want to keep information private from US security services, finding that current Safe Harbour legislation does not protect citizen’s data. The comme ...

It happens so quickly you almost don’t believe it: Seth Robertson and Viet Tran ignite a fire, snap on their low-rumbling bass frequency generator and extinguish the flames in seconds. And even after you’ve seen it over and over, it’s still unbelieva ...

In a week centered around wheat and its wonders, we thought it would be good/helpful/responsible to get a ground-level definition of what gluten, the hero (and sometimes villain) of bread making magic, is. Who better to ask than food science demigod ...

The open letter to the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran signed by 47 senators and instigated by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) was a stunning breach of protocol. One so outrageous that my former colleagues at the New York Daily News dubbed the signe ...

Lenovo bagged a paltry US$250,000 from the deal that saw it install the Superfish certificate slurper onto PCs, according to reports. The PC maker was last month caught installing the ad/bloat/malware into its consumer PCs, sparking a very considerab ...

When I first covered the company back in 2012, the pitch was pretty straightforward — it provided customizable search tools that didn’t suck to sites like TechCrunch. On the other hand, online publishers might not be the most lucrative customer base, ...

Police officials offered a detailed account of what they say prompted the Sunday morning shooting, which was captured on video by a bystander. Cmdr. Andrew Smith said officers assigned to the LAPD's Central Division and Safer Cities Initiative — ...

He went for his waistband. Yeah, it's so strange how much unarmed men, confronted by police with guns drawn, seem to LOVE digging in their waistband. Police claimed that they thought they saw Brian Beaird do this over and over again, but as you ...

CIA Director John Brennan is planning a major expansion of the agency’s cyber-espionage capabilities as part of a broad restructuring of an intelligence service long defined by its human spy work, current and former U.S. officials said. The proposed ...

BitTorrent originals? Better believe it. San Francisco-based BitTorrent, Inc. is moving a contingent into the Malibu office of Rapid Eye Studios, where the two companies will partner to identify, produce and distribute original video content for the ...

Pasquale's 'Black Box Society' takes on the destructive power of money-hungry computation.

Project Tango, Google’s 3D-scanning camera, has graduated from Google’s experimental lab and is on its way to the real world. The scanner began as a concept for a smartphone which would scan the world around it in 3D. It could then make that into a m ...

You can donate blood, plasma, eggs, and sperm. Why not poop? Yes, your feces are perhaps your greatest untapped monetary resource. Thanks to a nonprofit organization called OpenBiome, you can cash in to the tune of $13,000 a year -- and save lives wh ...

Longsword enthusiasts are resurrecting ancient sword technique as a modern, organized sport, with timed bouts and complex rules.

A British young boy committed suicide after falling victim to a ransomware scam – one of the common varieties notifying the user that they were visiting illegal websites and demanding ransom (in this case £100) for the police to drop the prosecution. ...

The most famous archaeological relic in the world has been damaged during a botched cleaning attempt. After being knocked off, the blue and gold braided beard on King Tut's burial mask was "hastily" glued back on with an inappropriate ...

Cardale Jones made the world believe a Buckeye can soar. So, too, did the TV ratings. The Ohio State Buckeyes' 42-20 spit-roasting of the Oregon Ducks Monday night was the highest-rated cable program in history. More than 33 million people watch ...