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Bloomberg: For almost a century, Kellogg defined the American breakfast: a moment when people would be jolted out of their drowsiness--often with a stupendous serving of sugar.The sales of 19 of... Kellogg's top 25 cereals eroded last year, according to Consumer Edge Research, a Stamford (Conn.) firm that tracks the food industry. Sales of Frosted Flakes, the company's No. 1 brand, fell 4.5 percent.Kellogg executives don't expect cereal sales to return to growth this year, though they hope to slow the rate of decline and do better in 2016. But some Wall Street analysts say cereal sales may never fully recover. In Battle Creek, so-called Cereal City, that would be the equivalent of the apocalypse. I haven't sat down to a bowl of breakfast cereal in more than a decade but my favourite was...

Sharbat Gula, the subject of the iconic June 1985 National Geographic cover at age 12, has resurfaced after it was revealed she was living illegally in Pakistan. The new photo comes from Gula's... Pakistani national identity card, a document that a foreign national like Gula should not be able to obtain. See also: Photos from Afghanistan: Longest war in U.S. history comes to an end Gula's card has since been cancelled by the Pakistani government and, according to the Indian Express, the four officials suspected of taking bribes to grant her and her two sons the documents have been suspended. The image gracing the June 1985 cover was called the most recognized photograph in the history of the magazine. Image: National Geographic

If you like to get beaten, a new app can't be beat. It's called Whiplr, and it's described as being a Tinder for people into BDSM.

YouTube accounted for about 6% of Google's overall sales last year, but the video website doesn't produce a profit--despite a billion monthly users.

Your stove can steam, sear, sauté, simmer... basically any cooking technique that starts with an "s." KitchenAid's new Multi-Cooker can do all that, too, but it also is a self-stirring slow... cooker to boot. The post KitchenAid's Multi-Cooker stirs the pot and can handle just about any task a stove can appeared first on Digital Trends.

Working with colleagues from Deakin University and CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), researchers from Australia's Monash University have created the world's first... 3D-printed jet engine. While they were at it, they created the world's second one, too. One of them is currently on display at the International Air Show in Avalon, Australia, while the other can be seen at the headquarters of French aerospace company Microturbo, in Toulouse...

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" sounds like a dark-arts incantation in a new video version of the song from YouTuber Andy Rehfeldt.

Paris has an unusual (and rather nerve-wracking) flying robot problem on its hands. Residents have spotted drones illegally flying over city landmarks over the past two evenings, including hotspots... like the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides military museum...

(Reuters) - Chinese computer and smartphone firm Lenovo Group Ltd said its website was hacked on Wednesday, its second security blemish days after the U.S. government advised consumers to remove... software called "Superfish" pre-installed on its laptops.

Nerval's Lobster writes: The dreaded term "fragmentation" has been applied to Android more times than anyone can count over the past half-decade. That's part of the reason why game developers often... build for iOS before Android, even though Android offers a bigger potential customer base worldwide, and more types of gaming experiences. Fortunately, new sets of tools allow game developers to build for one platform and port their work (fairly) easily to another. "We've done simultaneously because it is such a simple case of swapping out the textures and also hooking up different APIs for scores and achievements," London-based indie developer Tom Vian told Dice. "I've heard that iOS is a better platform to launch on first, but there's no sense for us in waiting when we can spend half a day and...

Wardrobe malfunctions can happen with every style of clothing. It’s just a little terrifying when it happens to an astronaut on a spacewalk. NASA astronaut Terry Virts reported a floating blob... of water inside his helmet Wednesday after completing a…

Scientists at MIT have developed an Ebola test that only takes 10 minutes. In the field it could help detect the highly contagious disease quickly so that doctors can contain an outbreak faster.

Attempting to avoid paying more than half a billion to a patent company, Apple will appeal a recent decision that found patent infringement issues related to features within iTunes. The post Apple... will appeal $533 million patent infringement verdict appeared first on Digital Trends.

Pebble has announced the Pebble Time, saying that it is gearing up to take on the likes of the Apple Watch. But how exactly does the Pebble Time compare to the likes of the Apple Watch?

Surgeon Sergio Canavero will be embarking on a project to implement the world's first human head transplant.

Valery Rozov is running out of mountains off which to jump. The Red-Bull-pedaling daredevil added Mount Kilimanjaro to a recent jump in a wingsuit, traveling a horizontal distance of nearly two miles... in a minute-long free fall before pulling his…

Color e-paper smartwatch with up to 7 days of battery and a new timeline interface that highlights what’s important in your day. We’re announcing a new watch called Pebble Time with a new... timeline interface. Pebble Time features a new color e-paper display and microphone for responding to notifications. No compromises on what you love about Pebble: up to 7 days of battery life, water resistance and customizability. Pebble Time is fully compatible with all 6,500+ existing Pebble apps and...

FCC chief wants strong rules to protect open Internet.          

If you are abstaining from sweets for Lent this year, here's what you can expect over the next 40 days.

Consumers are tired of shelling out relatively high figures for slow Internet speeds, and Google Fiber has long been the glimmer of light on the horizon promising better things for the digital... generation. Still, its launch has been metered and to those waiting for it to come their way, every aspect of the rollout appears to be painfully slow, from …

Chappie director Neill Blomkamp says his Alien sequel will be set after James Cameron's 1986 sequel Aliens and ignore the previous third and fourth films. The post Chappie director’s Alien... sequel will be set after Aliens and ignore the previous sequels appeared first on Digital Trends.

America’s oldest surviving robot no longer smokes cigarettes. Long lines of people no longer wait to see him, topless women haven’t danced around him in years and his legs have been broken... since that amusement park gig. But Elektro is…

An English charity called this week for the country to ban the sale of energy drinks to children after its research found they contain up to 20 teaspoons of sugar per can. Action on Sugar wants... vendors to stop providing kids under 16 with products like Rockstar because they may not know how the drinks actually affect their bodies.

With over a billion users, Facebook plays an important role in keeping people connected. It serves as a place to share good news, but also provides a platform for users to request support from their... digital peers. The company is keenly aware that it ...

We all know and love the moon. We're so assured that we only have one that we don't even give it a specific name. It is the second-brightest object in the night sky, and amateur astronomers take great... delight in mapping its craters and seas. To date, it is the only other heavenly body with human footprints. What you might not know is that the moon is not the Earth's only natural satellite. As recently as 1997, we discovered that another body, 3753 Cruithne, is what's called a quasi-orbital satellite of Earth. This simply means that Cruithne doesn't loop around the Earth in a nice ellipse in the same way as the moon, or indeed the artificial satellites we loft into orbit. Instead, Cruithne scuttles around the inner solar system in what's called a "horseshoe" orbit.