Art Ephemere by Vivi Mac is created very detailed portraits of famous people out of literally anything – salt, milk, caramel, gum, crushed ice – you name it.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude plans to standardise on open formats to cut costs on Office suite and break 'oligopoly' of IT suppliers

Nature spent millions of years perfecting flapping-wing flight. Now engineers can reproduce it with machines.

He is trying to tell you all of you at home you can dodge bullets. But please don't try it. Morpheus makes mistakes too!

Or maybe he's just using it as a mirror to check himself out.

Romania-based photographer Dan Cretu creates all sorts of fun everday objects like cameras, radios, and bicyles using cut fruit and vegetables. Cretu says the pieces aren’t digitally altered and that due to the organic nature of the medium, each piece has to be constructed and photographed in less than four hours.

Everyday from the moment we wake up, we live our lives caring what other people think of us. We accept the status quo for what it is because everyone around us does. We tip toe our way through life by doing things in order to please others, not because it’s what we believe in. Eventually our actions, appearances, and lives become moulded by how we think other people perceive us.

Brooklyn-based Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park never ceases to amaze us with his skilled craftsmanship in working with wire.

Cat Cafes are probably one of the coolest things about living in Japan!

While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations.

Australian graffiti artist Sofles takes over an empty warehouse in this time-lapse piece titled, “Limitless.” Deftly shot by Selina Miles for Aussie rattle can brand Ironlak. The expansive film also features the work of artists Fintan Magee, Trea/Cut: Selina Miles.

Leonardo DiCaprio Crashes Jonah Hill's SNL Monologue

The CEO of BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange, has been arrested at JFK airport for running an illegal wire service, the New York Post's Kaja Whitehouse reports.

Google is on a shopping spree. But instead of a shopping cart filled with gadgets or groceries, its aggressive buy-up of robotics, smart device, and artificial intelligence startups is Google's way of assembling the pieces and people it needs to build a brain as much like ours as possible -- and in many ways even better.

Colorado's Denver County is adding cannabis-themed contests to its 2014 summer fair. It's the first time pot plants will stand alongside tomato plants and homemade jam in competition for a blue ribbon. There won't actually be any marijuana at the fairgrounds. The judging will be done off-site, with photos showing the winning entries. And a live joint-rolling contest will be done with oregano, not pot.

The genesis of the Ryno one-wheeled electric motorcycle can be traced back to a moment when Chris Hoffman’s daughter asked if he could build something like what she saw in an episode of Dragon...

Microsoft worked with local artists to create the massive image, setting up stunts and installations through the area for users to try and find.

A striated caracara, intrigued by our spy egg-cam, decides to fly off with our camera but in the process captures the first ever aerial footage of a rockhopper penguin colony shot by a flying bird.

Ray Kurzweil is sitting in an office in San Francisco’s tallest building overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Over 45 minutes, speaking rapidly in monotone sentences dense with facts and ideas, Google’s director of engineering has outlined a future for the world that would seem incredible, were it not that this man has a 30-year track record of making seemingly bonkers predictions that have proved to be accurate.

Johnnyrandom, a crafty composer, uses only a bicycle to create an interesting piece of music.

Binge-watching is mainstream. And Law & Order is among the most popular television shows of all time. But nobody has binged on a show the way Jeffrey Thompson gorged himself on Law & Order. He not only took in all 456 episode in the procedural’s 20-year-run, in order. He also meticulously cataloged — with more than 11,000 screen shots — every single instance of a computer or similar technology that appeared on the show.

The South Korean ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning has banned the common practice of mobile manufacturers and networks putting un-removable apps on smartphones.

There's science and then there's pseudoscience. But what about the grey area in between? Jack Flanagan looks at Cryptozoology, the science of legendary monsters.

Ancient, hybrid brews embody a past before ale and wine became separate categories.

Are we willing to speed our lives up indefinitely?

Ukrainian anti-government protesters agree to a truce in clashes with police, as opposition leaders meet with President Viktor Yanukovych for more talks.

Running, jumping and biking on 8,000 litres of non-newtonian fluid in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! Brought to you by Mach by Hong Leong Bank together with We are KIX.

This item has been corrected. The web is about to have its big bang. About 1,000 new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs (the last bit of an internet address, such as the com in qz.com) will come into existence this year. On Feb. 4, anybody will be able to create and start running a website on...

A US federal judge in Washington wrote that a suspected internet pirate should not be prosecuted solely because his computer's IP address was identified by a film studio. The landmark opinion may tip the fortunes of defendants in similar situations.

You can't buy a PiPad, but you can turn your Raspberry Pi into a tablet with some odds and ends and elbow grease.