The cockpit voice recorder from the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea has been located. The recorder, which has yet to be recovered, was found near where the flight data recorder was retrieved earlier.

Science fiction has long offered us the image of "the final frontier," but some sci-fi authors have mapped frontiers of their own. Author Stephen Burt says James Tiptree Jr. (pen name of Alice Sheldon) was a pioneer in writing about gender ...

One arraignment courtroom instead of two. Clerks watching “Batman” on their computer screens and playing with their cellphones as they wait for something to happen. And Manhattan’s night court shutting down an hour early because there are no more cas ...

From 3-wheelers to doorless rides, these are the car concepts that excited us the most in 2014.

Cuba said Monday that it has a right to grant asylum to U.S. fugitives, the clearest sign yet that the communist government has no intention of extraditing America's most-wanted woman despite the warming of bilateral ties.

Authorities urged calm after a third driver rammed his vehicle into a crowded Christmas marketplace. At least 11 people were injured after a driver rammed his vehicle into a crowd of Christmas shoppers in Nantes in western France on Monday, marking t ...

If there is anything approaching a silver lining in the horrific slaughter of 132 school children in Peshawar, it is the united outrage in Pakistan against Tehreek-e-Taliban (or the Pakistan Taliban) that perpetrated this gruesome attack. Virtually e ...

When Elon Musk unveiled his idea for the Hyperloop in August of 2013, no one seemed sure what the next step would be. The Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO dropped a 57-page alpha white paper on us, noting he didn’t really have the time to build a revoluti ...

In the summer of 2004, a young jihadist in shackles and chains was walked by his captors slowly into the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. He was nervous as two American soldiers led him through three brightly-lit buildings and then a maze of wire ...

Poland's former president has publicly acknowledged for the first time that his country hosted a secret CIA prison where a US Senate report says torture was used against Al Qaeda suspects. Aleksander Kwasniewski said that as president he put pre ...

The U.K. government Wednesday took aim at tech companies and other international firms, proposing a 25% tax on profits on “economic activity” that is shifted overseas. Treasury chief George Osborne said in his autumn budget statement to Parliament th ...

Winamp is dead. Google Reader is dead. But today’s loss is almost too much to bear. Microsoft announced that it is killing Clip Art. The wave of emotions (may Google Wave also rest in peace) is hard to control. Microsoft is swapping the Clip Art libr ...

Tunisians went to the polls on Sunday to pick their first directly elected president, the final step in the North African state's transition to full democracy following a 2011 revolution that ousted long-time ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

Give Woody Harrelson a piece of yarn, and he'll knit you a full-on sweater. Here's his take on playing Haymitch Abernathy sober, as opposed to falling-down drunk in the past two 'Hunger Games' films.

Ten years after banning the use of firing squads in state executions, Utah lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow the practice again to avoid problems with lethal-injection drugs.

Google gets most of the attention when it comes to self-driving cars. And when it isn’t getting all the love, people focus on the efforts of premier automakers like Audi and Tesla. But the autonomous vehicle that makes human driving a quaint pastime ...

All of New York's storefront psychics are technically breaking the law. But they're rarely prosecuted, even when they disappear and leave victims short tens of thousands of dollars.

Measuring slightly over an inch in stature, Ozobot is the world’s most compact intelligent toy and its ability to navigate between both worlds created a new realm called “hybrid gaming.” Ozobot follows the path of the lines you create on your tablet, ...

Call of Dignity: Advanced Respectfare

An internet campaign has successfully stopped a self-described pick-up artist from spreading his disturbing methods across Australia. Julien Blanc, from the U.S.-based group Real Social Dynamics, started his Australian tour in Sydney on Oct. 29 in wh ...