Sitting at the bottom of the ocean, just off Colombia’s coast, is one of the hemisphere’s richest treasures: a Spanish galleon packed with billions of dollars worth of New World gold, silver and emeralds. The fight over who will profit from the San J ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity revolutionized how we understand space, time, and gravity. While most of us can only boast a surface-level understanding of the theory, it’s time to brush up on the game-changing concept, seeing as a new study w ...

YouTube creators are gaining a number of new tools to generate revenue from their videos outside of traditional advertising, as well as those that will help them better engage their fans, according to news the video streaming site announced today at ...

President Trump decided this morning to take a very odd step of sounding off about the domestic politics of a major ally, Germany. His core factual assertion that “crime in Germany is way up” is the opposite of true. On the contrary, in May, Interior ...

Canadians have reacted with dismay to reports US President Donald Trump questioned whether Canada burned down the White House during a call with the country's leader, Justin Trudeau. British forces did set fire to the presidential residence duri ...

At the end of last year, chef and TV personality Mario Batali stepped out of the spotlight and from his businesses after nine women came forward with sexual misconduct accusations against him. Now, the disgraced chef is under criminal investigation b ...

A California man is headed for a 15-month stay in federal prison over “restore CDs” — disks that reinstall Microsoft’s Windows operating system after a failure — after a ruling two weeks ago by a federal appeals court. In his 2017 trial in federal di ...

The world's oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Nabi Tajima died of old age in a hospital Saturday evening in the town of Kikai in southern Japan, town official Susumu Yoshiyuki confirmed. She had been hospitalized since Janu ...

American magician David Copperfield has been forced to reveal a famous trick after a participant claimed he'd been injured during a Las Vegas performance. British tourist Gavin Cox, 58, filed a negligence lawsuit after falling while participatin ...

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If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.” “I love risk.” “I want flexible work hours.” “I want to work on tough problems that matter.” “I have ...

I am one guy with a web app which makes $14k per year. Is having a blog alongside my website clever marketing or just a waste of my time?

In a study published March 14 in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers announced the discovery that all galaxies rotate about once every billion years, no matter their size.

The FCC voted to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies control over what we see and do online. On February 27th, the Internet will Flood the Senate with phone calls, emails, and meetings. Are you in?

New connected kiosks are replacing London's payphones. Every time you use them, you're allowing Google, BT and Primesight to track you through the city

I get asked all the time by my adoring fans (aka the two people who will read this), “Lion, how did you get such a kick-ass writing style? I love listening to you roar and growl all over the jungle. Can you be the voice of our generation? “To which I ...

OK. Firstly, let me clarify! The term I’m talking about is of course from the 1951 animated film Alice in Wonderland. So when I say, “rabbit hole”, I’m referring to the deep and colorful scenarios that Alice, our protagonist encounters as she gets lo ...

Our skin might give us grief sometimes, but one thing we can always depend on it to do is not start indiscriminately leaking blood and sweat everywhere - despite the fact that we're shedding roughly 500 million cells every 24 hours.

Millennials, don't give up your smashed avo just yet. Hadrian the WA bricklaying robot is about to make construction of houses safer, faster and cheaper.

Professional blogs are boring. They replicate mass media. They don’t bring any fresh ideas to the table. They take middle-of-the-road positions on everything. They focus on churning out content, not for its intrinsic value but for clicks (for revenue ...