Google Is Asking Kids To Design Their Own 'Google Doodle'
Google is giving K-12 students the opportunity to have their artwork splashed across the front page of the largest search engine in the world. Google's seventh annual contest asks students to submit...
View ArticleThe 8 Most Romantic Restaurants In New York City
Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and it's about time to make dinner plans. Once the day arrives, you want to be sure you make a good impression with your restaurant choice. Our friends at...
View ArticleRichard Branson Rode The 'Vomit Comet' To Prepare For His Trip To Space [PHOTOS]
Richard Branson is getting ready to visit suborbital space later this year on the first commercial flight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.To prepare, Branson took a trip on the ZERO-G Experience,...
View ArticleRussian TV Doctored The Opening Ceremony Video So It Looked Like The Olympic...
Rossiya 1, the Russian state television station that broadcasts the Olympics, used a doctored video during the Opening Ceremony that didn't show the Olympic rings malfunctioning, producers admitted to...
View ArticleThere's A $43,000 Fee For Planes That Show Up Late To The Sochi Airport
The Winter Olympics have begun in Sochi, and the city's small airport is preparing for an influx air traffic by taking a few unusual steps.One of those is a remarkably large penalty for jets that show...
View ArticleStudio May Digitize Philip Seymour Hoffman To Complete 'Hunger Games' Films
Philip Seymour Hoffman did not finish filming the last two installments in the blockbuster "Hunger Games" series before his death -- but digital technology may help filmmakers complete the job.Computer...
View ArticleSocial Media's Big Data Future — From Deep Learning To Predictive Marketing
The world's largest social networks are storing massive amounts of never-before-analyzed data that could reveal lucrative information about consumers — from how people are influenced, to what triggers...
View ArticleContractor Tasked With Checking Out Edward Snowden's Background Completely...
The Wall Street Journal has obtained a federal government report on the most recent background check of Edward Snowden by U.S. Investigations Services LLC, and the limited scope with which the company...
View ArticleSochi Hotel Changes A Man's Locks During The Opening Ceremony, Travel...
Sean Fitz-Gerald, a sportswriter from Toronto for the National Post, experienced one of the craziest travel nightmares we've seen out of Sochi.After getting back to his hotel after the Opening Ceremony...
View ArticleMeet Shingy, AOL's Self-Proclaimed 'Digital Prophet' Who Has The Internet...
The Internet went bananas earlier this evening, as people began spreading a picture from an interview that was on MSNBC featuring a man with quirky-looking hair. This is happening on MSNBC...
View ArticleFrance Threatens Uber With Possible $2 Million Fine
French authorities said Friday they are going after for-profit car-sharing services such as that operated by US firm Uber, warning they risked a 1.5-million-euro ($2 million) fine under a new law being...
View ArticleGARY SHILLING: Amid The Current Pessimism, Here Are 9 Investments I Like
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.GARY SHILLING: Here Are 9 Investments I Like Amid The Current Pessimism (A. Gary...
View ArticleHere's What Exploding Natural Gas Prices Mean For The American Consumer
Supply bottlenecks combined with an unusually cold winter have cause natural gas prices to explode by nearly 50% since the beginning of the year. It's by far the hottest commodity in the market."About...
View ArticleThere's A Disturbing Theory About Who Killed These 8 Women From One Tiny...
The unsolved murders of 8 Louisiana women are getting new attention because of a long and shocking article in Medium suggesting the police may be involved in their murders.A Louisiana TV station ran a...
View ArticleEU Ambassador Has A Clever Reaction To US Diplomat Saying 'F— The EU'
Yesterday the State Department's top official for Europe, Victoria Nuland, was allegedly caught on tape saying, "F— the E.U.," apparently in frustration over the European Union's failure to solve the...
View Article6 People Have Paid $250,000 In Bitcoin To Ride This Rocket Ship Into Space
We were talking recently with an executive in the adtech startup scene and got onto the subject of Bitcoin, and how much money was pouring into — and coming out of — the online cryptocurrency in the...
View ArticleThis Awesome Map Helps You Find The US Cities With The Best Weather
Bad weather have you bummed? Kelly Norton, a designer and software engineer living in Atlanta, Ga., has created an interactive map that makes it possible to find U.S. cities with the most "pleasant"...
View ArticleHow Sexual Equality Increases The Gap Between Rich And Poor Households
IN “MAD MEN”, a series about the advertising industry in the 1960s, women are underpaid, sexually harassed and left with the kids while their husbands drunkenly philander. Sexual equality was a distant...
View ArticleA New Report Warns That America May Lose The Nanotechnology Race
VACUUM TUBES, semiconductors and the internet have changed how we live; now nanotechnology promises a similar revolution. Nanocoatings that make it impossible for liquid to even touch a treated surface...
View ArticleGoldman Explains How Economic Weakness Has Spread Across The World In Recent...
In recent weeks, fears of economic weakness have resurfaced as a bout of risk aversion has swept across global markets.Economic data surprise indices have turned decisively lower, indicating that...
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