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Josephine Baker, a fascinating historical figure, will be the subject of an upcoming graphic novel written and drawn by C. Spike Trotman, best known as the publisher of the Smut Peddler anthologies. Black Pearl: The Grap...

"What goes up must come down," the old saying goes. Under the right circumstances, this applies even to the entire Milky Way, with spectacular consequences.

According to a new report out of Bloomberg, Apple is working to develop wireless charging technology that could make its way into an iPhone by 2017. The report claims that Apple is working in conjunction with partners in...

The Lakers lost their eighth-straight game, falling on Thursday night at Staples Center to the Chicago Bulls, 114-91. Pau Gasol made his lone, yearly visit to the Lakers, receiving a warm ovation from the fans. Gasol, wh...

It seems that a new kind of machine-learning algorithm that works in tandem with social media and remote sensing, has managed to successfully identify flooded areas, all without the need to fall back on the use of satell...

Paul Kantner, an original member of the 1960s rock group Jefferson Airplane who stayed with the San Francisco-based band through its transformation from hippies to hit makers as the eventual leader of successor group Jef...

After a rough 2015 that saw Madonna taking a scary fall off a platform during a London performance and her album "Rebel Heart" leaked before it was finished, the 57-year-old superstar must have thought she had finally ma...

Watchup wants to replace standard TV news with a personalized multi-channel news aggregator that runs right on your Apple TV. The developer promises that you’ll get a customized, on-demand news app right on your big TV...

Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images What's it like to be raised by a "Tiger Mom"? It's something that Amy Chua's kids, 19-year-old Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld and her 23-year-old sister, Sophia, know intimately well.  The Chua-Rubenfe...

Thomson Reuters The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has just stunned financial markets, taking official interest rates into negative territory. Voting 5-4 in favor of the measure, the bank stated that it will charge an interest rate...

"My message still remains: turn yourselves in"

Last year we reported on a concept plane called the Skreemr. According to its creators Ray Mattison and Charles Bombardier, the jet would be able to travel from New York to London in 30 minutes, meaning that traveling be...

Including new projects from Christopher Guest, Ricky Gervais and Angelina Jolie

Venmo, the PayPal operated peer-to-peer payment app, announced its new Pay with Venmo program that allows users to make purchases directly in merchant's apps.

Hollis Johnson 1. Panera Bread redesigned restaurants to fix its 3 biggest problems The popular fast-casual cafe implemented the Panera 2.0 model in response to frequent complaints from customers about long wait times...

The FBI has released video of the fatal traffic stop shooting of an armed occupier of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.

Four out of 10 teachers have experienced physical violence from pupils in the past year, a survey suggests.

It looks like Google's self-driving cars could see action in another quartet of US cities some time later this year, at least according to a filing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Apparently, a certain Ch...

Actress Kerry Washington has been feted with a parade through Harvard Square and a roast by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Workers were given water coolers after complaints about water quality

Oscar-nominated flick utilizes some honest-to-goodness old-school spycraft.          

Facebook now lets anyone with an iPhone in the U.S. stream live video directly to their news feed.  This direct competitor to apps like Periscope is pretty simple to use. Here's how to share your lunch and your life wit...