One ambitious start-up wants to reroute the plumbing of the consumer Internet. Now it has the money to try to make it happen. The start-up, called IFTTT (pronounced like “gift” without the “g”), announced on Thursday it had raised $30 million in fund ...

If you’re suffering from Ice Bucket Challenge fatigue, here’s another video worth watching: the dying American dream, perfectly illustrated in Lego bricks.

The first British national to contract the Ebola virus is being flown back home on an RAF jet, the Department of Health has confirmed. The unnamed patient, who was working as a healthcare specialist in Sierra Leone, will stay in a high-level isolatio ...

A year after being sentenced to a 35-year prison term for giving secret documents to WikiLeaks, US army private Chelsea Manning says the military is continuing to deny her gender-reassignment treatment. In a letter sent to NBC news and released on Fr ...

Paul McCartney previously expressed his enjoyment of Kanye West’s Yeezus, and considered having the rapper appear on his song “Appreciate”. Kanye, meanwhile, commonly refers to himself as the Black Beatle and was spotted attending Macca’s recent show ...

A fan-petition for Nintendo to include a character named after Robin Williams, who died earlier this week, has so far collected almost 90,000 signatures. Nintendo tonight responded to Polygon's request for comment on the Change.org petition, whi ...

Although we look back on it now through a mournful or angry lens, it's easy to forget just how downright disorienting the days and weeks following the Boston Marathon bombing in April of 2013 were. Adding to the surrealism of the drama for me wa ...

A Malaysian teenager who 'liked' an 'I love Israel' Facebook page has received death threats and is being investigated by police for 'sedition.' A teacher of the 17-year-old in Penang, northwest Malaysia, posted a screen ...

Could a real life Purge actually happen in Louisville, Kentucky & Jacksonville, Florida in the next few weeks?! Some idiots have made threats, and the police aren’t taking them lightly. Residents are being warned about the threats floating around ...

The Oscar-winning actor’s upcoming projects include a sequel to Williams’ 1993 hit Mrs. Doubtfire in development by 20th Century Fox and indie comedy A Film By Alan Stuart Eisner.

Brazilian beef exports soared last month, due mainly to a doubling in purchases by Russia, which has responded to international sanctions over Ukraine by banning imports from Europe and the United States. Brazil's Association of Meat Exporters s ...

From velcro to bullet trains, nature has inspired some of the most impressive feats of human innovation. This summer a crab-like, underwater robot, developed by Korean scientists, will search for ancient artifacts in the Yellow Sea. Drones are mimick ...

When scientists use these words, they typically mean something completely different than what they do when non-scientists use them. Sometimes our definitions are too narrow or too broad, and sometimes, we use terms interchangably when they actually s ...

Europeans have long been suspicious of U.S. poultry. American birds, they complain, are bathed in a chlorine solution before they’re brought to market. That’s why EU leaders are currently fighting to uphold a ban on imports of what is popularly refer ...

Dutch-based scientists, chefs and artists have launched the world's first cookbook for lab-grown meat - serving up a bizarre assortment of test-tube dishes including roast raptor leg, dodo nuggets and in-vitro oysters.

That BioShock teaser from 2K? It's not a new BioShock game. It's the first one, but on Apple devices. Hence the apple in the tease. Clever. Who called it?

For one Federal Communications Commission worker, his porn habit at work was easy to explain: Things were slow, he told investigators, so he perused it “out of boredom” — for up to eight hours each week. Lack of work has emerged time and again in fed ...

As promised, creator Dong Nguyen has brought the world's favorite pixelated flapping bird back to life, and this time, there's a multi-player option. Nguyen released Flappy Birds Family for the Amazon Appstore for Android on Friday, as Poly ...

Nashville and Memphis lay legitimate claim as Tennessee’s music cities, but we have forgotten that at one time Chattanooga was a destination for some of the best music in the South. And Ninth Street, or the Big Nine, was where you went to find it. Fr ...

Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce firm, confirmed on Tuesday that it had raised $1 billion in its latest round of fund-raising, making it by far the largest venture investment ever received by an Indian Internet company.