Hitting shops on January 1, the miniature block version of the fearless rover comes with 6-wheel suspension, a robotic arm, and even tiny plastic Martian rocks. Read this article by Dara Kerr on CNET News.

Germans are serious about their beer. Serious enough for the European country's main brewers association to urge the United Nations to recognize that fact. The brewers association wants a five-century-old law governing how German beer is made to become part of the UNESCO World Heritage list. It would join the Argentinian tango, Iranian carpet weaving and French gastronomy, among other famous traditions, that are considered unique and worth protecting.

The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Darden Restaurants will sell or spin off its Red Lobster unit to boost value for shareholders. Its plans also include suspending the opening of new Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants. And Darden will not make any acquisitions in “the foreseeable future.’’ But it will review management compensation and put greater emphasis on sales growth. Darden’s quarterly net income fell to $19.8 million from $33.6 million a year earlier, the company reported Thursday.

The woman was shocked when she received two nude photos of herself by e-mail. The photos had been taken over a period of several months — without her knowledge — by the built-in camera on her laptop. Fortunately, the FBI was able to identify a suspect: her high school classmate, a man named Jared Abrahams. The FBI says it found software on Abrahams’s computer that allowed him to spy remotely on her and numerous other women.

A million-dollar drawing by Pablo Picasso was snapped up on Wednesday by a 25 year-old American art lover at a online charity raffle for a mere 100 euros ($140). Jeffrey Gonano said he had been looking for a picture to hang on his living room wall when he read a news article about "L'Homme au Gibus" ("Man with Opera Hat"), raffled by Sotheby's in Paris.

On November 29, 2013, Grand Canyon experienced a rare temperature inversion, where cool air rising from the bottom of the canyon meets warm air from above, creating a layer of fog in the canyon. This happens about once or twice a year, but this particular inversion was a 10 year event, with clear skies above and the canyon full nearly to the brim with fog.

The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome suggests they inbred with their family members while occasionally interbreeding with modern humans, a new study has found. The study, that used DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that...

Exoplanets are seemingly easy to find these days, but their moons have been all too elusive -- at least, until now. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame claim to have spotted what may be the first exomoon.

Apple's had its hand slapped over its product warranties more times than it cares to remember. In its latest brush with competition regulators, the company has been hit with a court order from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) following claims it was misleading customers over their rights to a replacement, refund or repair on faulty products.

Ever since cookie butter hit shelves, the spotlight has shone a little less brightly on its hazelnut-chocolate predecessor, Nutella. We're bringing the focus on this longtime favorite back with this roundup of 24 mouthwatering recipes, so settle in with your personal jar of the good stuff in one hand, spoon in the other and scroll away!

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Pleasantly firm to the bite, whole-wheat spaghetti, called bigoli in Italy, combines beautifully with a sauce of caramelized onions. A new twist on this classic flavor match is this topping of roas...

Buy any car today, regardless of make, model, or cost, and they’ll all have one thing in common: windshield wipers. They are a necessity, both by law and the fact you need them to be able to drive safely when it is raining. But if McLaren has its way, we could soon see cars that no longer require them.

From the sound of it, it's not a very good speaker. But then, that's not quite the point. What's particularly cool there is that a team of Cornell

With each passing year, Facebook struggles to keep the attention of the future generation. Studies show that the number of teens active on Facebook has declined as much as 16% in Q3 of 2013. This foreshadows the inevitable exodus to the next...

Worldmapper is a huge collection of interesting cartograms - maps with countries resized according to different factors. Those who like visualizing data can waste a lot of time looking through this repository.

Would you change your name for a chance to move to Berlin, all expenses paid? That's the question at the heart of a strikingly bold—and utterly bizarre—marketing campaign by the German airline Lufthansa, which in October made a rather unconventional proposition to Swedes: Legally change your name to Klaus-Heidi, tell us why you did it, and put yourself in the running to win "a new life" in Berlin

The Supreme Court has a chance to give innovation a boost this year by rolling back one of the country’s most economically stupid policies. With the case of Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, the justices will dive into the issue of whether companies should be able to patent computer software.

How sweet it is! Dessert is one of our favorite parts of the holidays, but with travel and parties aplenty it can be hard to find time to bake. If you're feeling a little oven shy or just wonder why those cookies you pop in the oven always come out blacker than golden brown, maybe it's time to try something new! We've found 25 stellar

Marvey'o Otey from William Byrd High School makes an incredible behind the back three.

This beautiful oven pancake makes an impressive presentation, but it's actually super simple to prepare. It's also a quick way to make pancakes for a group! Preheating the frying pan before adding ...

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A look at why we curse by Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard.

Technology advocates Chris Maury and Elizabeth Stark have teamed up to make jailbreaking iOS 7 open-source, and free technology.

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China's first lunar rover landed on the moon Saturday, less than two weeks after it blasted off from Earth, according to Chinese state media.

You may know what a VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is; you probably don't use one. You really should be using a VPN, and even if you don't think so now, at some point in the future you may consider it as important as your internet connection.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a blog on Tumblr saying how “very sorry” she is for the inconvenience and frustration the Yahoo outage caused to its users. She also explained the cause of the very long “scheduled maintenance.”

We threw four guys into a share house together, gave them a couple of beers and then made a stack of videos about it.