A not-close-enough view of ‘Hawking’
Stephen Hawking celebrated his 72d birthday this month, marking a little more than half a century since the British physicist was diagnosed with a degenerative...
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Humans controlled fire at least 300,000 years ago, new study says
Archeologists know that early humans discovered fire over a million years ago, but when they learned to control it–to use it for cooking and for...
DOJ: Google, Microsoft Allowed NSA Request Transparency
The Justice Department announced Monday tech companies, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, will be allowed to disclose more information on data requests about user accounts...
3D-printed false nails are freaky cool
Forget those normal stick-on nails, you can turn your fingertips into bizarre works of art with 3D-printed nails. False nails have been around a long...
Alibaba growth slows ahead of IPO
Alibaba saw annual growth in revenue and profits decelerate sharply in the latest quarter, denting confidence as the Chinese e-commerce group prepares to launch an...
Bitcoin entrepreneurs Charlie Shrem and Robert Faiella charged with money laundering
Two Bitcoin entrepreneurs have been arrested and charged with money laundering by US authorities. Charlie Shrem, chief executive of New York-based BitInstant, and Robert Faiella,...
Porsche’s first car, in 1898, was electric
The first Porsche-designed car was unveiled in Stuttgart, Germany, on Monday. It had been sitting in an old shed in Austria since 1902. The car...
Bitcoin Exchange CEO Arrested For Laundering Drug Money With Bitcoins
BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem has been charged with laundering money for customers of online drug bazaar Silk Road. U.S. government agents have arrested BitInstant CEO...
Google Glass to Be Covered by Vision Care Insurer VSP
SAN FRANCISCO — Google and VSP, the nation’s biggest optical health insurance provider, have struck a deal to offer subsidized frames and prescription lenses for...
Black hole theory my ‘biggest blunder,’ Stephen Hawking says
Stephen Hawking now says light and information may be able to escape from black holes, doing an about-face on the objects that helped cement his...