This Mesmerizing Graphic Shows Which Cancers Are The Most Common And The Most...
Which cancers affect the most people in the U.S.? And which ones are people most likely to die from? Biotechnologist David Taylor created the visualization below for his blog and gave us permission to...
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This $10 Billion Company You've Never Heard Of Is The Reason Your Internet Is...
If you've been watching the Olympics online, you've got one company to thank for the quality of your stream.It isn't NBC or your cable provider. It's a company based out of Massachusetts with a...
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A Bunch Of Cisco's Products Have A Defect That Will Cost $655 Million To Fix...
During Cisco's quarterly financial report, it slipped in this bit of bad news: it expects to spend $655 million to fix a problem with a defective part for a product that is widely installed in lots of...
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Instagram Thinks These 10 Photo Communities Are So Great Advertisers Should...
Late last year, Instagram made the much fretted-over decision to start introducing ads into users' photo feeds. The first few ad campaigns that we spotted–like the first one, from Michael Kors–looked...
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Now Facebook Wants To Put Its Valley Employees On Commuter Boats, Too
First we had the Google buses. Then we had the Google ferry. And don't forget the Microsoft buses. Now it looks like Facebook wants to join the fun.The social networking giant launched a ferry service...
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The Sexiest Curlers Alive
There's a popular consensus that curling is a lovably lame sport that requires no skill or athleticism.People like it, but only ironically.In reality, though, curling is a highly technical game that...
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Bob Costas Explains Why His Eyes Are Keeping Him From Broadcasting The...
Bob Costas won't host NBC's primetime Olympics coverage for the second night in a row, he announced on the Today Show this morning.Costas has been battling through an eye infection since the games...
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These Are The 11 App Developers You Need To Watch In 2014
Some critics say that 2013 was a lost year for tech, citing that there was a serious lack of innovation.But that could only mean good things for 2014. Developers are looking for ways to correct 2013's...
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Google And VMware Just Joined Forces To Gang Up On Microsoft
There's been a lot of good news about Google's Chromebooks lately.This holiday season, Chromebooks were the best-selling laptops on Amazon, beating both Windows PCs and Macs.This year, every major PC...
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How P&G, AT&T And 4 Other Major Companies Were Duped Into Running Ads On...
A tongue-in-cheek "calendar" is being passed around at a major auditor of online video advertising. The months depict pinups of ads from major companies like Procter & Gamble, Unilever and...
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Why They Gave Out Two Gold Medals In Downhill Skiing Instead Of Measuring To...
Switzerland's Dominique Gisin and Slovenia's Tina Maze tied for gold in the women's downhill on Wednesday, the first time in Olympics history that an alpine skiing event awarded two gold medals.They...
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A Perfect Photo Of The Skiers Who Shared Gold After A Historic Tie At The...
For the first time in Olympics history, we have a tie for gold in an alpine skiing event.Switzerland's Dominique Gisin and Slovenia's Tina Maze both finished with a time of 1:47.57 in Wednesday's...
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COMCAST TO BUY TIME WARNER CABLE FOR $159 PER SHARE (TWC, CMCSA)
Comcast is set to buy Time Warner Cable in an all-stock deal that values Time Warner at $159 per share, CNBC's David Faber reports on Twitter.At $159, Comcast would be paying an 18% premium to today's...
View Article35-Foot Shot At The Buzzer Keeps Top-Ranked Syracuse Undefeated
Syracuse's hopes for a perfect season remained intact thanks to a 35-foot shot at the buzzer by Tyler Ennis to give the Orange a 58-56 win.Despite being 23-0 entering the game, Syracuse was actually a...
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Dropbox Poaches Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside To Be COO (GOOG)
Dropbox has landed former Google employee Dennis Woodside as its first COO, Douglas MacMillan at the Wall Street Journal reports.Woodside was most recently CEO of Motorola. Google sold Motorola to...
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Surprising Twist Leads To Huge $5.4 Million Judgment Against A California...
Two sales people formerly employed by Masimo just won a huge multimillion-dollar judgement against the company, according to their lawyer, Scott Bonagofsky.A California arbitrator awarded them the $5.4...
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A Classic Photo Of The Moment A Figure Skater Realized He Set The World Record
At age 19, Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu set the world record in the men's figure skating short program with a perfect performance at the Olympics.No one had even scored more than 100 points in a short program....
View ArticleChina says 'several terrorists' shot dead in Xinjiang
BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang shot dead "several terrorists" during an attack on Friday, state news agency Xinhua said, in the latest violence to hit a...
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Italy PM Letta to tender resignation today
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta will meet with President Giorgio Napolitano at 1 p.m. (0700 ET) to tender his resignation a day after his own party voted that he should step down...
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America's Bipolar Winter In One Map
America's winter has been particularly mild or nasty, depending on which coast is closer.Anchorage, Alaska, in January was warmer than New York and Philadelphia.California had its third-driest January...
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