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Amazon Is Reportedly Building a 3D Smartphone You Can Control with Your Eyeballs
The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.
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New Details About North Korea's American Prisoner Are Appropriately Crazy
United States citizen and "devout Christian" Kenneth Bae is set to spend the next 15 years in a North Korea prison camp for possessing a National Geographic documentary, among other things.
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An Olympic Gold Medalist Is Dead After His Boat Capsized During America's Cup Training
A familiar set of questions is being asked after a 72-foot catamaran belonging to Artemis Racing capsized in the San Francisco Bay, trapping a British sailor underwater for ten minutes on Thursday afternoon.
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The Space Station Is Leaking Vital Fluid But It's Going to Be Okay
If there's any phrase an astronaut never wants to mutter, it's "Houston, we have a problem." Calling from the International Space Station on Thursday evening, Commander Chris Hadfield did just that.
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Believe It or Not, the Electric Car Business Is Actually Profitable
Despite a contentious New York Times review, the crushing weight of the oil companies on its back, and ten years of hard work, Tesla says it finally managed to turn a profit in the first quarter of 2013.
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Up to Half a Million People Want to Spend the Rest of Their Lives on Mars
If you thought the Mars One mission (a.k.a. the one-way ticket to the Red Planet in the name of reality TV) sounded oddly appealing, you were hardly alone. Newly released numbers show that the contest has already garnered almost 80,000 applications.
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Kids Are the Only Ones Who Like Bolivia's New Cheesy Coca Puffs
As the world's third largest supplier of the plant, Bolivia's trying to shake itself free from coca's drug-addled past and turn the crop into nutritious food. There's only one problem: It tastes terrible.
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Benetton Finally Admits Its Role in the Bangladeshi Garment Factory Collapse
Over a week after multiple parties found condemning evidence, the Italian clothing company Benetton admits that it bought clothes from the garment factory in Bangladesh that recently collapsed and killed over 800 people.
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Even Stephen Hawking's Joining the Fight for Palestinian Freedom
Stephen Hawking is known for a lot of things — theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, general relativity — but being an an activist for peace in the Middle East is hardly one of them. Not any more!
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Police Apparently Missed Multiple Calls About Women on Dog Leashes in the Castros' Yard
The case of the three women held captive for a decade in Cleveland reaches a new level of absurdity with a Tuesday night report detailing the many warning signs that police appear to have ignored.
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Mark Sanford Is a Winner Once Again
The Associated Press and CNN have both called the special election for South Carolina's first congressional district for Mark Sanford, the once-disgraced former governor who's proven that even redemption has partisan leanings.
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The Dow Is Doing Historically Well
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15,000 for the first time ever on Tuesday. However, despite the record-breaking nature of the even, Wall Street seems sort of unimpressed.
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Ecuador Faces a Diplomatic Crisis After Its Envoy to Peru Brawled with Two Women at a Supermarket
The situation has turned from bad to worse to absurd in Peru, where the Ecuadorian ambassador is being forbidden from reentering the country due to an altercation at a supermarket in Lima two weeks ago.
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Meet the Man Who Rescued Three Women Missing for a Decade in Cleveland
Thanks to a 911 phone call and the help of an energetic neighbor named Charles Ramsey, three women who've been missing for years are now safe.
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Internet Sales Tax Passes in the Senate But That Was the Easy Part
A battle royale is brewing on Capitol Hill after a bipartisan coalition in the Senate handily passed the Marketplace Fairness Act, the controversial bill that would impose a sales tax on Internet purchases.
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Big Bad North Korea Is Retreating
Just over a month after moving its ballistic missiles to a launch site in the direction of the United States, the North Korean is pulling back and removing two Musudan missiles from launch ready status.
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Somehow, Mark Sanford Is Ahead in the Polls and Could Actually Win
Something strange and extraordinary happened to Mark "The Comeback Kid" Sanford over the past couple of weeks: He made a comeback — and a serious one at that.
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Turns Out British Spies Were Giving Bags of Cash to Karzai, Too
A week after we learned that the CIA delivered bags full of cash to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in exchange for his cooperation, the United Kingdom's MI6 admitted to doing the same thing this weekend.
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UN Sources Say Syrian Rebels — Not Assad — Used Sarin Gas
A member of the United Nations commission of inquiry announced on a Swiss-Italian television show that they believe the Syrian rebels have used chemical weapons on Assad's troops.
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Are You Ready to Pay for YouTube?
The Financial Times reports that the long-rumored paid subscription model is coming to YouTube as early as this week. The strategy will help YouTube compete not only with other online outlets but also with major networks like CBS.
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