Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., left, announce new climate legislation, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. At right is Sierra Club President Aaron Mair. … [Read more...]
Anoto Group AB Acquires Smartpen Maker Livescribe
California-based smartpen maker Livescribe has a big announcement today: it’s being acquired by Swedish digital-writing solutions company Anoto Group AB, which operates globally in such industries as consumer, healthcare, banking and finance, transportation and logistics, and education. … [Read more...]
Son Charged With Murder of Parents
Medical examiners say a Connecticut couple whose remains were found last week, three months after they disappeared, died from gunshot wounds. … [Read more...]
Charlie Hebdo Cartoon Outrages Russians
Moscow is outraged over a cartoon in France's Charlie Hebdo that mocks the Russian plane crash in Egypt. "This has nothing to do with democracy, self-expression or whatever. It is pure blasphemy," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Russia's TASS news agency. … [Read more...]
A Look at Wonder Woman 40 Years Later
Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman. Especially when it comes to superheroics. Last week, Supergirl became fall's highest-rated debut series, proving to the world that skirts go with capes as well as spandex tights. … [Read more...]
Incredibly Strong Glass Invented by Japanese Scientists, Almost Unbreakable …
Rumors of a truly unbreakable glass breakthrough are greatly exaggerated. In late October, scientists in Japan revealed that they had successfully developed a new form of oxide glass that is as strong as cast iron and, by one metric, even stronger than Corning’s Gorilla Glass 4. … [Read more...]
Mysterious Kayak Death on the Hudson, More Details Revealed
Angelika Graswald, a 35 year-old Latvian native, has been charged with murder and is being held in the Orange County Jail in New York on a $9 million bond for allegedly killing her fiancé, 46 year-old Vince Viafore while kayaking on the Hudson River on April 19. … [Read more...]
Latest Episode of American Horror Story: Hotel Totally Screws Darren Criss
"It's ironic. I never knew how to live until I died." So speaks Iris, the all-but-invisible receptionist of the Hotel Cortez, minutes after she takes her first life — well, lives, more precisely. … [Read more...]