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Nelson Peltz was an activist before the term was popular. Targets like Pentair are bigger, but his aim is the same: Cut costs, boost sales.

It was the jump of their lives. Two sisters took scary leaps from the second floor of their burning apartment building in Sandy Springs, Ga., and thankfully came away with...

Airplane food is known for being terrible, but nobody ever said anything about airport food. Earlier this week, Reddit user "spambox" posted a photo of a bacon and egg sandwich he was allegedly served in an airport in Ed...

OK, so first things first – as you know, I am partial to the odd ray of sun here and there, so...

Death toll from accident to Pakistan army train rises to 17 as divers recover more bodies

A man died in an industrial accident at a Volkswagen factory in Germany Wednesday. Normally, this would have been little noted — industrial accidents are unfortunately common, with an estimated 4,000 workplace deaths e...

In the mood for a DIY project this weekend, but it's too hot to move? Why not make your own air conditioner on the cheap? Some of the options are even solar-powered and portable. The post Cool it now: How to make your ow...

It's Independence Day, and that means it's time for controlled explosions in the sky. No, not Texas post-rock -- the great scientific display that is a fireworks show. "Fireworks are an application of chemistry and engin...

Explosion at a chemical plant in South Korea kills 6 workers

"The reactions ranged from blank horror and rage to despair and bitterness"

After Apple Inc. announced a new music app that will use people to create real-time song playlists, HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher joked that the company should be congratulated for "inventing radio."

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities say a Fort Bragg soldier has been charged with creating a panic at a North Carolina mall after appearing there with an assault rifle and other...

Euro-zone governments will have to cover some $370 billion in losses if Greece rejects a bailout.

This is the second such fatality in the U.S. to occur in the last year

We've seen 3D printing being used for all sorts of things, like creating fake animal parts to discourage poaching, to even 3D printing supercars, so what's next? Now we know that 3D printing a building, or at least part ...

In the recent years, companies have started to come up with new and innovative pays of protecting its users online. Some have turned to using one-time use codes that will prevent hackers from using your credit card if th...

Ideal for anyone that's looking for a 360 degree solution to shooting locations, the Shpericam 2 is a new device on Kickstarter that shoots 4K, Ultra HD video up to 60 frames per second. The post Shpericam 2 shoots 4K vi...

Superman Lives is one of those great projects that might have been, like Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune or Richard Stanley’s The Island of Dr. Moreau — like both of those films, Superman Lives now has its very own doc...

 Jason Kneen is a programmer and happens to own about a hundred domain names picked up over a sixteen year period. One of those, workbetter.com, he purchased in 1999 and it has been available on his site for years. In l...

In a world where everything that is connected to the internet can be hacked, perhaps the best security practice is to go old school and bring back pen and paper. That's exactly what the US government human resources arm,...

Nine-year-old Cash Cayen is fighting sexism with the power of the Internet behind her When Timmins Public Library in Ontario, Canada, denied the girl a spot in a robotics program advertised as "boys only," she and her mo...

Per the calculations of economist Mark Perry at the American Enterprise Institute, the Obama White House maintains a 15.8 percent wage gap, with women earning 84.2 cents for every dollar male staffers take home. Perry us...