To those of us who experienced its genesis, the Internet seemed at first to exist apart from an unfortunate status quo; a brave new blueprint for a thriving peer-to-peer society that spurns corporate branding and advertising culture in lieu of actual, genuine human connections. But Isaac...

Domino’s pizza has announced plans to conquer the final frontier by opening the first pizza restaurant on the Moon Domino’s Japanese arm has proposed a branch on Earth’s nearest galactic neighbour is the latest escalation in a pizza publicity war. Rival chain Pizza Hut set...

The rainforest is the world’s last frontier. Everyday, thousands of acres are being destroyed to suit the world’s living needs. Without taking into consideration what may happen to the world and our future. People are stripping away a place where special plants and animals live....

Olivia Wilde selected nipples for scene Actress Olivia Wilde had to odd task of choosing the digitally enhanced nipples that would appear on her character in upcoming comedy The Change-Up – because she never actually went nude for the cameras. The Hollywood beauty had to strip down to...

One day in 2009, Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student, opened his mail to discover a fine for $675,000. That was the sum total in damages the record industry reckoned he owed them for sharing 30 songs on the peer-to-peer website Kazaa. The amount was eventually reduced to...

Google told partners in its News Archive project that it would cease accepting, scanning, and indexing microfilm and other archival material from newspapers, and was instead focusing its energies on “newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass, a platform that enables...

While information is where the money is should be a venture booster, creators of social networks do a better job of mimicking offline social relationships, and that they represent a new wave of social networking that revolves around specific tasks, like sharing photos or coordinating plans for...

Long before Watson and Crick famously uncovered the structure of DNA in 1953, people envisioned with both horror and hope a day when babies could be custom designed — free of inherited disease, yet equipped with superior genes for good looks, intelligence, athleticism, and more. Now the...

Computer networks that can’t forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University have found. The researchers used a...