A federal appeals court Tuesday denied Alabama's request to stay a lower court's decision striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban. The ban remained in effect as Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange appealed the ruling to the ...

Whatever happened to interplanetary travel, hover cars, and hypersonic jets? Once it seemed as if there were no limits to how far or fast we could travel, such were the leaps in technological development in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Inventors drea ...

The company announced Monday that its Amazon Studios division -- the same one that is behind TV shows like "Transparent" -- will "begin to produce and acquire original movies." The first movies will enter production later this yea ...

In an on-camera interview with James Bamford for an upcoming episode of PBS' NOVA, Edward Snowden warned that the US Department of Defense and National Security Agency have over-emphasized the development of offensive network capabilities, placi ...

For the second consecutive week, New York City police have virtually ceased writing tickets and arresting people for many nonviolent crimes, on the order of a 90 percent drop from a year earlier. After perceived slights by Mayor Bill de Blasio, civil ...

Australia’s foreign affairs minister is looking into the case of a Sydney couple stuck with a million-dollar hospital bill after their daughter was born in Vancouver last August. John Kan and Rachel Evans had taken out travel insurance and extra cove ...

Edmonton police chief: Apparent murder-suicide is worst mass killing in city's history; bodies of 7 adults, 2 kids found in 3 places

A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in nationwide protests over police killings of unarmed black men. The boys and girls varsity basketball teams from Mendocino High School were disinv ...

SpaceX has postponed their resupply services mission to Tuesday, Jauary 6 saying that this will give their engineers more time to investigate some of the problems that arose with the Falcon 9 rocket during testing earlier this week. "The new la ...

Things can go wrong when you book an Airbnb listing: the host leaves town without arranging a key exchange, or the cleaning service never showed up between guests. At a normal hotel, you’d call the front desk. With an Airbnb, you call the company’s c ...

Purch, Inc. announced on Wednesday that it had purchased AnandTech.com, ending the site's 17-year run as an independent publication. Purch also owns a number of other long-running technology sites, including LaptopMag (founded as Laptop Magazine ...

'Super Smash Bros.' for Nintendo's Wii U is the console's fastest selling game in the U.S., Nintendo announced Tuesday.

Tim acquires many business cards in the course of meeting people at toy fairs and puzzle parties. Many of these he keeps since they have useful contact details. However some of the business cards he receives are so creative and so wonderful that they ...

Dyson is spending big on new products and product categories, the company announced today. The maker of vacuums, fans, heaters, hand dryers, robots and more..

New UN report details group's 'diverse portfolio' of revenue streams, including from stolen oil, and robust artillery.

Haroshi is a Japanese skateboarder and self-taught woodworker, who is known for his large sculptures made from skateboard decks. Haroshi selects and stacks the skateboards, then hand carves, paints, and polishes them into a veneered finish. As the sk ...

Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it. We started Spotify because we love music and piracy was killing it. So all the talk swirling around lately about how Spotify is making money on ...

He reveled in tormenting members of the Bush family, Colin L. Powell and a host of other prominent Americans, and also in outfoxing the F.B.I. and the Secret Service, foiling their efforts to discover even his nationality, never mind his identity. Ea ...

A new fashion trend hit the runways at China Fashion Week in Beijing this week, and it was well-timed considering the air quality outside. Models showed off a variety of designer respiratory face masks as they strutted down the catwalk, part of the Q ...

Canada will stop processing visa applications from foreign nationals who have visited West African nations with large outbreaks of the Ebola virus.