And we’re back with episode two of our Road To Disrupt video series, which shows the good, the bad, and the ugly moments startups go through when competing in the Disrupt Battlefield competition.

Want to know exactly how ideology and economics shape society? Split a nation in half. Twenty-five years later, what we’re still learning

Facebook has long been promoting the the idea of free, zero-rated mobile services in emerging countries to drive more Facebook (and wider mobile data) usage. Now, working under its Internet.org initiative, it has crafted another way to promote growth ...

Jason "Mayhem" Miller live-tweeted an apparent standoff with members of the Orange County Sheriff's Department at his California home on Thursday.

Pizza Hut has gotten a lot of attention lately with its Cheesy Bacon Stuffed Crust Pizza and Skinny Slice, but the company's latest move is the little slice of nostalgia we've been waiting for.

The new supervisor thought his idea was innocent enough. He wanted the baristas to write the names of customers on their cups to speed up lines and ease confusion, just like other Starbucks do around the world. But these aren’t just any customers. Th ...

Asiya Ummi Abdullah, a 24-year-old Muslim convert, admitted taking her infant son to live among Islamic State terrorists in the Syrian city of Raqqa.

With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama is doing more than to knowingly enter a quagmire. He is doing more than play with the fates of two half-broken countries—Iraq and Syria—whose societie ...

The wife of the British taxi driver being held hostage by the ISIS has issued a plea for his release. Alan Henning from Eccles in Salford was seized while on an aid mission to Syria last December while driving an ambulance.

A new study shows that internet trolls really are just terrible human beings.

An American recently sentenced to six years hard labor by a North Korean court pretended to have secret U.S. information and was deliberately arrested in a bid to become famous and meet U.S. missionary Kenneth Bae in a North Korean prison, state medi ...

The family of an unarmed black man shot dead by Los Angeles police accused the officers of violating his civil rights in a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday and was seeking $75 million in damages from the city.

Would you enjoy social media more without all those pesky 99-percenters complaining about their mortgage payments and high cable bills? For a mere $9,000, Netropolitan is here to help. Launched Tuesday, Netropolitan bills itself as "the online c ...

The hypothesis is so absurd it seems as though it popped right off the pages of a science-fiction novel. Some scientists in Palo Alto are offering a $1 million prize to anyone who can end aging. “Based on the rapid rate of biomedical breakthroughs, w ...

Forget about Tesla and its futuristic new Gigafactory. When it comes to using electricity for transportation, the real action may lie in the polar opposite of the fancy sports car. Municipal intracity buses may be déclassé, unloved, slow, lumbering b ...

We know that the Earth and the solar system are located in the Milky Way galaxy. But how, exactly, does the Milky Way fit in among the billions of other galaxies in the known universe? In a fascinating new study for Nature, a team of scientists mappe ...

The tech industry’s effort to master the last mile of delivery is well documented. Online retailers are obsessed with finding ways of getting packages to your door as quickly as possible. But what about the first mile—the mile traveled when you send ...

NASA is revolutionizing 3-D printing by not only sending a printer to the International Space Station (ISS), but by also printing rocket parts similar to those used in their Space Launch System (SLS).

"Ex-RAF pilots tell us that in the ideal plane of the future, they would only see their hands and the joystick - not the rest of the plane. We would cover the entire skin of the plane in cameras and present the data they capture within a pair of ...

In early spring, Russian president Vladimir Putin deployed soldiers without insignia into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea to ensure a quick annexation of the territory. After a month of denying their existence, the Russian president acknowledged th ...