Wikipedia has released a redesigned and updated app for iOS that brings with it a number of improvements, including a speedier experience while researching topics on the go. The re-designed official app also brings with it a cleaner UI to make content the highlight of the experience. In addition to... Continue reading

A team of researchers from the University of Virginia just made scientific history: They figured out how to turn stem cells into full blown fish embryos. In other words, scientists can now control embryonic development, a key to being able to grow organs and even entire organism from stem cells.... Continue reading

Steve Wozniak just sent this fun stunt caught on video a few years ago: Watch him deliver a Mac to Emma, a girl who freaks out when she realizes her idol is at the door carrying her new computer. As Emma's father says in the video: "This is like having... Continue reading

After enabling the feature for just a month, Twitter's decided it doesn't want you to receive messages from any follower without the need to follow back. The Next Web reports that the company has silently removed the checkbox in user settings that enables the option, which we've confirmed in at... Continue reading

November 15, 2013 By Agam Shah | IDG News Service Dell has started selling a thin and light touchscreen laptop called the XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux OS and Intel's fourth-generation Core processors, code-named Haswell. The laptop, code-named Sputnik, has a 13.3-inch touchscreen and will run... Continue reading

A woman who was abducted in Louisiana last week is recovering from her ordeal, after family members and others found her in an abandoned house. Her alleged captor was shot and killed in the confrontation that followed. Bethany Arceneaux was allegedly kidnapped last Wednesday by her child's father, Scott Thomas,... Continue reading

Azarkant—a 3D short by Andrey Klimov—doesn't have much of a plot, but it's delicious computer generated eye candy for lovers of spaceships, robots, dead cosmonauts and Haloesque things in general. Read more... Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/BQHq72YgDig/@jesusdiaz Related Topics: Google Glass aapl clemson football carrie Sydney Leathers Continue reading

Messaging luminary David Gurle has launched Perzo, a new free-to-use cloud communications and collaboration system he believes will appeal to consumers and business users looking to beat surveillance with high levels of security and confidentiality. Gurle's career has been defined by his work on messaging systems including for Thompson Reuters... Continue reading

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says she isn't in a hurry to make a decision about running for president again. Her former Senate colleague, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, isn't waiting for her to make up her mind. Schumer endorsed Clinton for president during a speech... Continue reading

Just five days after UFC president Dana White announced a light heavyweight bout between Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Alexander Gustafsson for the promotion's return to London, England on March 8, the UFC has been forced to change its plans. "Minotouro" has withdrawn from the fight due to a lingering back... Continue reading

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch museums have identified 139 pieces of art, including dozens of paintings — one by Matisse and many by Dutch painters of varying renown such as Impressionist Isaac Israels — as likely having been taken forcibly from Jewish owners. The review of Dutch art acquisitions from 1933... Continue reading

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2013 file photo, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. In the midst of a double-barreled re-election fight, Mitch McConnell is earning praise back home _ and from some of the most unlikely of corners _ for brokering... Continue reading

Al Gore, the former vice president and de facto leader of the climate change movement, is opposed to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. “It’s an atrocity,” Gore insists. That may not come as a surprise but his prediction for what happens next in the Keystone battle... Continue reading

Matt Bevin speaks during the 133rd Annual Fancy Farm Picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky., on Aug. 3. Bevin, a Louisville businessman, is challenging Sen. Mitch McConnell in the 2014 Republican Senate primary. Stephen Lance Dennee/AP Matt Bevin speaks during the 133rd Annual Fancy Farm Picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky., on... Continue reading

David Lozano (left) and Kevin Kreinbring stand in front of a painting created by Lozano. The couple says they get tested for HIV together every six months. Courtesy of David Lozano David Lozano (left) and Kevin Kreinbring stand in front of a painting created by Lozano. The couple says they... Continue reading

The Sonic Transducers are a Rocky Horror shadow cast located in Washington D.C. Brendan Passell/Courtesy Leandra Lynn The Sonic Transducers are a Rocky Horror shadow cast located in Washington D.C. Brendan Passell/Courtesy Leandra Lynn The cult following behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been largely underground, but has been... Continue reading

Former ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ star Camille was diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer, and she is in recovery after undergoing surgery on Oct. 11. Camille Grammer, 45, is “expected to make a complete recovery” after undergoing a “radical hysterectomy,” according to her rep, Howard Bragman. Read on for... Continue reading

A comedy produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon has found a home at CBS, EW confirms. Titled More Time With Family, CBS has ordered it for put pilot commitment. Comedian Tom Papa is set to star in the multi-camera comedy, as well as co-write with Cathy Yuspa and Josh... Continue reading

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Pakistan's army troops gather at the site following a militant attack on an army post in Serai Naurang town, near Lakki Marwat, Pakistan on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. Militants attacked an army post in northwestern Pakistan with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and suicide vests before dawn on Saturday, killing several... Continue reading

A man suspected of being a Jihadist, arrested by Malian forces in Lere, sits at the police station where he is being held in Timbuktu, Mali, Friday Feb. 1, 2013. French President Francois Hollande is scheduled to visit the fabled city Saturday. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore) A man suspected of being... Continue reading

"I'M HONORED PEOPLE APPRECIATE WHAT I'M DOING" All right, stop: Vanilla Ice is back with a brand new invention. Within the world of music, he?s often labeled a one-hit wonder. But beyond his famed break-dancing and parachute pants, Rob Van Winkle has made a new name for himself ? in... Continue reading

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) ? Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day. The man identified by multiple neighbors and witnesses as 65-year-old retired truck driver... Continue reading

Jan. 30, 2013 ? Big Data computation at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech reveals that over the past two decades funding agencies may have awarded millions and possibly billions of dollars to scientists who submitted the same grant request multiple times -- and accepted duplicate funding. An analysis... Continue reading

Courtesy of PlanktonPaddy Moloney is coming off a late night with the Japan Uilleann Pipers Club. But that doesn?t stop the chipper 74-year-old from pulling out his whistle to illustrate a few of the songs The Chieftains will perform in their 50th anniversary concerts later this month. ?People say there?s... Continue reading