You may know that the UK's GCHQ intelligence agency pokes its nose into people's internet service accounts, but it's now clear that the spy outfit is mapping the internet connections of whole nations, too. Heise has obtained documents ...

Google is going to great lengths to reinforce some of the world’s undersea data cables after a series of shark attacks, a product manager has revealed. The fibre optic cables, which carry internet traffic around the world, are protected by a series o ...

I recently embarked on a three week trip to Paris, to try and capture the city in all its glory. I had never visited the city before, and was quickly struck with how beautiful it is. My aim was to capture the classic sights; ornate buildings and typi ...

You ever have that funny friend, the class-clown type, who one day just stopped being funny around you? Did it make you think they were depressed? Because it's far more likely that, in reality, that was the first time they were comfortable enoug ...

The official third and final installment to the viral "Identical Plays" video series.

Playing video games for a short period each day could have a small but positive impact on child development, a study by Oxford University suggests. Scientists found young people who spent less than an hour a day engaged in video games were better adj ...

Wind power is officially the cheapest source of energy in Denmark, according to the nation's government—and by 2016, it claims the electricity whipped up by its newest turbines will be half the price of fossil fuels like coal and natural gas.

A wine-cup believed to belong to ancient Greek politician Pericles was discovered on Wednesday in an ancient tomb, in Kifisia, northern Athens, Greece. The ancient tomb came to light during excavations for the foundations of a new building. The wine- ...

Woody Allen’s last film, Blue Jasmine, was among the most financially and critically successful of his long career. But ever since his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow reiterated longstanding allegations that he had sexually assaulted her, discussions o ...

One arm of the US government may be trying to crack Tor, but another arm is handing Tor money — a lot of it. As spotted by the Guardian, the anonymous browsing tool Tor is reporting that it received over $1.8 million in federal funds last year, a fig ...

Earlier this month, Brazil’s National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) confirmed that an Amazonian tribe that had never before had contact with the outside world had made voluntary contact; a rare event that is usually brought on by threats of violence. Rat ...

By its own admission, Comcast is working with think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute. Fellows at the Institute are printing op-eds all throughout the media in support of killing Net neutrality--without disclosing the think tank's tie ...

A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states got a boost on Monday, when the billionaire venture capitalist behind the proposal said he had gathered enough signatures to place it on the ballot in two years.

When FedEx was Federal Express, a struggling, young company with only $5,000 left in the bank, founder Fred Smith boarded a plane for Vegas.

In 1901, Fancy Cycling, an extraordinary book by Isabel Marks, was published, showing straight-faced paragons of Edwardian society pulling off some pretty daring (and peculiar) stunts. The original 1901 book which was one of the first to promote dari ...

Health bosses are investigating the results of a study which shows that women who avoid sunbathing during the summer are twice as likely to die than those who sunbathe every day. The study, conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Swed ...

If you've ever driven a highway on a major trip, you know how monotonous it can get -- and it only gets worse for big rig operators, who may spend every day on those uneventful roads. Mercedes-Benz may eventually let those long-haul drivers make ...

A new Pew Research Center poll shows that the number of Americans who think the United States "stands above all other countries" has declined from 38 percent three years ago to 28 percent today. A strong majority of Americans (58 percent) s ...

Something tells me the POV category is about to get a bit more popular.

Since the last commercial supersonic flight 11 years ago, the world has accelerated in every respect but one: Instead of increasing speed, airlines have focused on driving down costs by commissioning ever-bigger planes crammed with ever more people. ...