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The only way Juicy J would have been on TV 20 years ago would have been as part of an obscenity trial. As a member of the darkly comic horrorcore...

Gold medalist Sven Kramer apparently didn't stick around to watch the rest of the field finish. Bad sportsmanship? Eh, seems borderline douchey (though we're not exactly up to date on speed skating etiquette). Al Michael...

Olga Graf, a Russian speed skater was very excited after her run that won her a bronze medal in the 3,000-meter. Graf was so excited that she forgot she had nothing on under her tight suit and started to unzip it on the ...

On Saturday, Yulia Lipnitskaya made everyone's jaws drop to the floor with her first Olympic performance. The 15-year-old wowed the world with an absolutely flawless routine, and on Sunday night, she did it again. After ...

A parody coffee shop mocking Starbucks opened this weekend in Los Angeles and is quickly becoming a sensation on social media.  The shop, "Dumb Starbucks," looks nearly identical to the real Starbucks—with the excepti...

Fugitive ex-contractor Edward Snowden took at least 200,000 top-secret documents from NSA servers using a process that was "quite automated," according to a new report from David Sanger and Eric Schmitt of The New York T...

Shaun White caused quite a stir this week when he pulled out of the slopestyle snowboarding competition because he deemed the course to be unsafe. While some have doubted White's claims, it remains true that the Winter O...

Star Oklahoma State point guard shoved a fan in an ugly incident during Saturday's game against Texas Tech. Down 63-61 with six seconds left, Smart found himself in the stands getting taunted by fan Red Raiders fan Jeff ...

Many Winter Olympic sports generate little revenue or sponsorship interest. As a result, a lot of the athletes you'll see in Sochi have day jobs. Some athletes take odd jobs to get by, while others have full-blown career...

NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals. Initial proposals are due tomorrow for the Lunar Cargo Transportation ...

Last week was a busy one with your favorite TUAW writers posting some excellent How-To guides, commentary and other useful articles. Here's a quick roundup of our recent feature worthy posts you may have missed: Attack o...

Music surround formats never really caught on, and now the appeal of listening to five or more speakers for movies is fading fast.

It's safe to say American figure skater Ashley Wagner was expecting a better score than that. Her face--along with all pretense--dropped after seeing the judges' thoughts on her short program in ladies team competition.

(Reuters) - Janet Yellen's first test as chair of the Federal Reserve comes on Tuesday when she faces U.S. lawmakers, some hostile to the central bank, who will want to know how committed she is to winding down the Fed's...

Tehran, Iran (AP) -- Hard-line Iranian lawmakers are accusing President Hassan Rouhani of halting a scheduled missile exercise, the state news agency said Sunday.     

An anonymous reader writes "My boyhood hero, actor Leonard Nimoy, has developed lung disease. To those still smoking and in the grips of marketing induced denial, he says 'quit now.' Small acts of goodness make the unive...

Indiana's rapidly expanding voucher program, which funnels millions of taxpayer dollars into private schools, now funds some Christian schools that teach creationism or intelligent design.

Lehtonen has 26 saves, Stars beat Coyotes 2-1 move into 8th seed     

A product made of bamboo and charcoal that Eric Rubin originally launched as a car deodorizer has become a best-selling, all-around household item. Rubin, 36, who in 2010 founded Moso...

If there is one thing about YouTube, it would be this – all of the videos are free to watch as there is no subscription fee for the masses (generally speaking, of course), although certain videos do require you to key ...

American figure skater Ashley Wagner provided the viral catnip for a hungry internet after she received disappointing scores in the women's short program yesterday.     

AOL reverses plan to withhold matching 401(k) funds until the end of the year amid complaints