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Social monitoring startup DataSift is releasing an open source, embeddable version of its Query Builder today, allowing anyone to customize and embed the company's tool for conducting social media searches. Co-founder an...

An artist strips all of the fancy colors from superheroes, and the results impress.

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Darling, you know I love you. Our 22 years of marriage have been nothing short of bliss. And before I say anything else, I want to emphasize how much I've valued our time together. But I have something to tell you. I hav...

Professional athletes have it all: fame, money, success, good looks, and amazing bodies--basically everything you would want in a significant other. You're in luck. Some of the sexiest athletes alive are single and in ne...

A height difference which bucks the trend is no obstacle to love in celebrity circles. We take a look at the famous men who date taller women. Mick Jagger has a history of dating Amazonian beauties, from ex-partner Jerry...

Georgia State Representative Earnest Smith has a problem: he doesn't take too kindly to images with his head Photoshopped onto the bodies of male porn stars, and he's introduced a bill to ban the practice. "Everyone has ...

Yesterday saw the first nuclear test since 2009 and North Korea's largest detonation to date, over six kilotons of force generated from an underground site 20 miles west of the town of Hoemun. It's a powerful reminder th...

South African police and news media reports said that Oscar Pistorius, a Paralympic gold medal sprinter, was being questioned after his girlfriend was fatally shot at his home.

When the 150-foot wide asteroid DA14 passes ridiculously close to the Earth on Friday, this is what it will see. A computer generated video has...

While most of you were watching re-runs of Miracle On 34th St over the holidays, my partners and I were fundraising. In thirteen days we raised three million dollars. Sound like a fairy tale? That's because it is. The fo...

It will come as no surprise to anyone engaged in stock markets these days that the last two weeks have been incredibly slow. What may come as a surprise (as it did to us) is that the over the past two weeks, the Dow Jone...

A security flaw in Apple's iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a co...

Online learning site lynda.com has purchased video2brain, an Austria-based company that provides online courses in web design, programming and other computer skills in multiple European languages.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sure loves his slates. "Yes, I believe in tablets. I believe in tablets wholeheartedly," he told investors this afternoon. The company co-founder has good reason to say so: Nvidia's Tegra line o...

Jawbone, a prominent maker of Bluetooth headsets and other audio devices, warned customers Wednesday that a data breach had led to the theft of account information, including email addresses, encrypted passwords and cust...

Facebook co-founder retains status as company's largest shareholder.

Jayme Lamm--freelance sportswriter and proprietor of TheBlondeSide.com--is currently stranded aboard the Carnival Triumph, a cruise ship that has been without power for four days after an engine room fire. We've received...

A view of the day in sports, including a busy schedule of Europa League play.

Last weekend, employees of the Godiva company gave out chocolate bars at a gun range in Texas. "They came out and set up a table, and allowed people to preorder chocolate-covered strawberries," said Brandy Liss, the chie...

It's not always easy to choose the right Valentine's Day music, and on a day (and night) when there are so many important decisions to be made (where to eat, what to wear, how many sprays of cologne/perfume, whether to b...

The rebel gains in Hasaka Province, if confirmed, would be at least the third significant gain by the insurgency this week.