Two senior officials with Croatia's leading football club are arrested on suspicion of embezzlement and tax evasion, police say.

Selfies, long the rage on social networks like Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook may now have a serious application as payment card giant MasterCard announced it will start using selfies to verify payments. 500 pilot users will now take a photo instea ...

Matt Mullenweg explains how his "Uberman" sleep cycle helped him write WordPress -- and why he eventually stopped doing it.

A three-month Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended after claiming at least 49 lives.

In yet another bid to make up lost ground in the long march to the future of computing, Microsoft is now open sourcing the very foundation of .NET - the software that millions of developers use to build and operate websites and other large online app ...

South African avant-rap duo Die Antwoord have released a video for their new track "Ugly Boy" that features cameo appearances from a fairly plucked-out-of-thin-air cast of celebrities. Cara Delevingne, Marilyn Manson, Flea, Jack Black, Dita ...

Come April 2016, Intel 32-bit users might be on their last, overdue leg for upgrading their distribution. Proposal to kill off the 32-bit install (ISO) images after that point while support for 32-bit applications on 64-bit Ubuntu would still be supp ...

Andrej Kramarić has already scored 24 goals this season and has the potential to become the “next Robert Lewandowski” - Borussia Dortmund should definitely use the opportunity to sign the Croatian marksman in January.

Why do our bodies age at different rates? Why can some people run marathons at the age of 70, while others are forced to use a walker? Genes are only part of the answer. A trio of scientists from the University of North Carolina argue in a new paper ...

The HTML5 standard has been around for years and powers many of your favorite sites. Today’s news from W3C (the international standards organization for the World Wide Web) says that after all those years of use, HTML5 is ready for prime time.

Microsoft is planning to stop using the Nokia and Windows Phone brands this holiday season in its marketing materials. Microsoft is also planning not to use the Windows Phone logo in promotions and commercials, instead it will be replaced with just W ...

In games, we are hopelessly predictable. Spot this hidden behaviour to crush your puny-minded opponents in everything from the lottery to Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Makeup artist Laura Jenkinson has an unusual technique that brings fictional characters to life around a human mouth.

More and more websites, really popular ones at that, hosting auto-play content. They mute volume and play video and it’s up to you to find them. Auto-playing content is something that your browser ‘allows’ by default and if you think a little about t ...

Just weeks away from the World Cup, Croatia - not world renown for their television programming - has created a genius advert that is sure to bring excitement and increase the anticipation before the competition begins.

The weather is preparing to go wild, and will wreak havoc and death around the globe later this year. An El Niño, a splurge of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, is coming. It will unleash floods in the Americas, while South-East Asia and Australia fac ...

The future of Ubuntu for Android ever looked particularly bright, but we were enamored with the concept. You'd walk around by day with a standard-issue Android phone in your pocket, but when you docked it to a keyboard, mouse and monitor, you we ...

Russian photographer Alexander Kholov along with make-up artist Veronica Ershova and hair stylist Mikhail Kravchenko, transformed a model into a real life Marge Simpson, the beloved mom from the long-running Fox Network cartoon, The Simpsons. The cen ...

In a new study that seems to be participating in backwards day, it was discovered that some women might be faking orgasms during sex to turn themselves on. Published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the study focused on the reasons women fake it b ...

Microsoft charges the FBI hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for access to information about you. And their rates are on the rise. The Syrian Electronic Army says it hacked into the FBI's super-secret Digital Intercept Technology Unit (DIT ...