We were all supposed to be riding Segways by now. The company was supposed to be rolling in cash, the scooter’s inventor a modern day Jay Gatsby (minus the bootlegging and murder). It didn’t happen: Today, the Segway is a punch line, a way for mall s ...

Egypt’s revolution (and counter-revolution) hasn’t stopped an influx of Chinese, who bring with them a rich and delicious culinary heritage.

President Obama has proposed making community college free as a way to increase employment and earnings. Is that the right approach?

Patience may be a virtue, but Tilda, a female orangutan currently living in a German Zoo, would rather not wait to receive attention, and has started producing human-like vocalizations in order to be noticed by her keepers. That makes Tilda the first ...

Cuban exiles in Miami say they have detected "tension" between close relatives of Fidel Castro and "military circles" in Cuba by the many rumors that have been unleashed in recent hours on the death of the former Cuban president. ...

I have to confess: I was suckered by the trailer for American Sniper. It’s a masterpiece of short-form tension – a confluence of sound and image so viscerally evocative it feels almost domineering. You cannot resist. You will be stressed out. You wil ...

Thrill-seeker Lewis Knights brought a GoPro camera aboard a go kart and rode down the Skyline Queenstown Luge in Queenstown, New Zealand. The result is a first-person view of a speedy half-toboggan, half-go kart ride around sharp curves and down stee ...

A team of archaeologists led by Dr Mykhailo Videiko of the Kyiv Institute of Archaeology has discovered the remains of a 6,000-year-old temple at a Trypillian culture village near modern-day Nebelivka, Ukraine.

If Canada legalizes betting on single sports events, it could claw billions of dollars from the shady world of organized crime. Cash would be pumped into health care, education and other social programs. Authorities would be better equipped to sleuth ...

It's hard to spot every possible road hazard. Mirrors and cameras will show what's behind you, but your car's roof pillars can still hide careless pedestrians and aggressive drivers. They won't be issues if Jaguar's 360-degre ...

The wife of Thailand's crown prince has relinquished her royal title, culminating a downfall that means she is no longer in line to become the Southeast Asian country's next queen. While the reason for Princess Srirasm's decision wasn& ...

When alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht’s trial begins in less than a month, he’ll face charges of narcotics conspiracy, money laundering, and computer fraud—not murder. But the specter of violence is creeping into Ulbricht’s trial nonetheles ...

Fixing a $6 million racing yacht after crashing onto a reef at 22 miles per hour is a bit more complicated than repairing your car after a fender bender. First of all, when you’re stuck on a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, it’s hard to get an ...

As Joey Donner in the 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You," Andrew Keegan attracted his fair share of fans. Now, he's attracting converts. According to Vice, the actor has started a new age temple and spiritual movement in Venice, Ca ...

Spanish designer, Daniel Garcia, imagined a four-door sports coupe for the Audi lineup. Garcia designed the Audi A9 Concept as a possible replacement for Audi’s current flagship model, the A8. The A9 Concept was designed using Audi’s current design s ...

Cord cutting is accelerating even as Sony, Dish and others plan to start new TV services.

Paul Burstein was trying to fix a software bug, and Twitter was helping him out. The year was 2011. Burstein worked as an engineer at the massive internet company Salesforce.com, and the bug—a rather annoying flaw in the popular Java programming tool ...

Senior vice president Emil Michael floated making critics' personal lives fair game. Michael apologized Monday for the remarks.

Following in the footsteps of other digital brands like CNET and WebMD, Airbnb is getting into the print magazine business. At a convention in San Francisco on Friday for its hosts — people who rent rooms or apartments to travelers — Airbnb will form ...