In a historic decision on Friday, the United States has decided to give up control of the authoritative root zone file, which contains all names and addresses of all top-level domain names.

Half of Silicon Valley start-ups are “silly” and the price paid by Facebook for WhatsApp was “higher than I would have expected”, says Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. “Innovation in California is at its absolute peak right now. Sure, half of the companies are silly, and you know two-thirds of them are going to go bankrupt, but the dozen or so ideas that emerge out of that are going to be really important,” he said in an interview with Rolling Stone.

Radical life extension would give humans the power to create an artificial hell for criminals. Should we?

On World Wildlife Day, March 3, Nepal celebrated 365 days with zero poaching. No rhinos, tigers, or elephants were killed. It's the second year of such success in Nepal. In 2011 the country also had none, and in 2012 it lost just one rhino to poaching.

Japanese artist Hikaru Cho did the series “It’s not what it seems” in which she transforms fruits and vegetables. She paints with acrylic on the food to turn them into something else : a clementine is actually a tomato, an aubergine turns out to be an egg and a cucumber turns into a banana.

Hundreds of “rogue” wandering black holes may dwell in the Milky Way – and now Harvard University researchers say they know how to detect them. The discovery of these strange objects could shed light on the formation of the Milky Way and other galaxies.

The inventor of the world wide web has marked the 25th anniversary of his creation by calling for a 'Magna Carta' bill of rights to protect its users. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC Breakfast the issue could be compared to the importance of human rights.

Pirating movies and games has always been an ugly practice. Besides a willingness to break who-knows-how-many laws and risk a trip to prison, it requires visiting hideous websites to download files that can only be opened with unsightly programs. Now that is starting to change, thanks to the dedication of a few hobbyists and the frustration of many more pirates.

In an era when we've all got GPS in our pockets, OnStar can find a stolen car and the NSA can track anyone, anywhere, it is still possible--although rare--for an airliner to seemingly vanish. That appears to be what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went down about an hour after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on Friday night.

We’ve gathered ten of the most fascinating and interesting gifs that will surely amaze you and make you a big fan of science.

Shainblum's self portrait with Milky Way Galaxy in the Mojave Desert, California.

Couch Gag for The Simpsons "Diggs" by Sylvain Chomet.

Get out your red/blue glasses (red for the left eye) and look out over this expansive martian landscape. The panoramic stereo view is composed of images from the roving Curiosity's Navcam taken at a rest stop during a 100 meter drive on Sol 548 (February 19). The 5.5 kilometer high peak of Mount Sharp, also known as Aeolis Mons, is on the horizon, its base a destination for Curiosity. In the foreground are rows of striated rocks along the Junda .

How did everything get started? Has the universe a beginning or was it here since forever? Well, evidence suggests that there was indeed a starting point to this universe we are part of right now. But how can this be? How can something come from nothing? And what about time? We don't have all the answers yet so let's talk about what we know. Also, we try to make this one not depressing. Tell us if we succeeded.

Some people claim that they have experienced out-of-body experiences—aka "astral trips"—floating outside of their bodies and watching themselves from the outside. A team of scientists found someone who says she can do this at will and put her into a brain scanner. What they discovered was surprisingly strange.

One of Carl Sagan's most pertinent messages for humanity. Everyone should take 2 minutes to watch this video.

Based on Steven Jay Schneider's incredible book series, this video contains 215 extra titles as well. This epic little monster took me one year to the date to finish. I tried my best to make it an overpowering exercise in film. In another 130 years, this will be a completely different list. It was important to start with a film projector because film itself is becoming/already is a thing of the past.

Rosa Torres spent a week posting flyers and calling her local shelter in search of her lost dog, Raffiki. She saw it on the Karma Rescue website a week later, but it had already been adopted by a new family. Now Torres and her son, four, are trying to get the dog back. What rights do they have under US law?

As we recently discussed, Keurig is busy making plans to embed new technology in their new "Keurig 2.0" line of coffee makers that will reject unsanctioned (read: less expensive, competing) coffee pods. The technology would also presumably prevent the use of manual re-usable filters, which are usually found for between five and fifteen bucks online.

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Ever wondered why your cat blows up the litter box after giving it a big bowl of milk? Well, we got the answer to why your cat is declaring chemical warfare and we also have many other interesting things you should know about cats. Check out these facts and learn a little bit more about your furry friend.

College Station is right in the middle of Texas — a few hours by car from Austin, Dallas and Houston and home to Texas A&M, a major research university. But if you're in the market for high-speed Internet access, College Station can feel like the middle of nowhere. "It's been pretty bleak. You get too far from the university, and it's nothing," says Andrew Duggleby, co-founder of Exosent Engineering, a company that designs and builds tanker trucks for the oil industry.

A baby born with HIV may have been cleared of the virus after doctors gave her treatment for the infection within hours of her birth. Doctors gave the baby's mother anti-HIV drugs during labour to cut the risk of passing her HIV on, and began treating the baby four hours after she was born in suburban Los Angeles last April.

In a very familiar future, squads of privatized police officers from various corporations, walk the streets of New York and sell protection plans to citizens. A movie Written and Directed by K-MICHEL PARANDI

I think there may be a surveillance device on my car,” my mother-in-law said. She had visited to make dinner for the kids, something she does once a week or so. I dutifully went outside, took a look at the offending piece of technology, and after a few quick searches online I found out she was right. But at least it was a surveillance device that she had paid for.

For this group of old friends, assembled for an impromptu reunion, the venue would feel familiar: an online chat room running on a secure private server...

A strange woman arrives from the North to a prehistoric village bringing some bad news. A short film by Ifigeneia Kotsoni, with Katerina Misichroni and Dimitra Doumeni. Beautifully shot showcase of a director with great potential.

A new study from the University of Manitoba has shockingly claimed to have found that the Internet trolls we all know or love so well may not be very nice -- or particularly mentally healthy -- individuals in real life. The study tried to explore...

Tau proteins, which are responsible for Alzheimer's disease, bind to the folding protein HSP90. The molecular recognition mechanisms that play a role here have been unveiled by an international team of scientists, and may open the door for new approaches for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and further neurodegenerative diseases that are caused by protein aggregation. These scientific insights provide an important basis for better understanding these disease mechanisms.

The next time you start shaking your finger and shouting "Shame on you!" because your dog chewed up your favorite fuzzy slippers, just remember that no matter how guilty your dog looks, it doesn't know what your rant is about.