New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum wants your pictures for a new exhibition on the Space Shuttle Enterprise. Yes, you heard that right. One of your photos or Instagrams of the famous shuttle has a chance to go on display at the new exhibit "...
An Arizona energy provider is enacting a small fee to compensate for low energy sales. Why? Its customers are conserving too much.
The NYPD has unveiled a new "weapon" in its arsenal to fight illegal guns: a radiation scanner that can spot concealed guns from a distance -- no need for controversial stop-and-frisks. NYPD commissioner Raymond Kelly announced Wednesday that the pol...
As Facebook is expanding its footprint in Washington, D.C., Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has picked a seemingly unlikely beneficiary of his good graces: Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Zuckerberg, along with his wife Priscilla Chan, wi...
The older, smaller cousin of NASA's huge Mars rover Curiosity is quietly celebrating a big milestone today -- nine years on the surface of the Red Planet. NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars the night of Jan. 24, 2004 PST (just after midnight EST...
Pakistan has banned both Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Medal of Honor: Warfighter for their reported portrayal of the south Asian country as a haven for terrorists. Pakistani shop owners have complained that the games suggest the country's Inter-Ser...
After a high-school student from Shenzhen, China, died earlier this month, some netizens speculated that over-sharing online led to the young girl's death. Lai Zengyutong frequently shared her locations to Sina Weibo, China's Twitter clone, which has...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent Wednesday in Congress, splitting her time between Senate and House hearings on the September 2012 attack against an American consolate in Benghazi, Libya. Her treatment in both hearings was split along party l...
A giant black hole lurks at the center of the Milky Way, but it has never been directly seen. Now astronomers have an idea of how it will look on camera.
The 2013 Inauguration in Washington D.C. was an anticipated event, with many guests lining up hours in advance to wait for the president in below-freezing temperatures. Check out our selection of the best photos from the inauguration of the 44th Pres...
The year 2013 may someday be known as "the year of the comets." If all goes well we may see two of the brightest comets in many years, and possibly one of the brightest in history.
Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., who's become an Internet legend for his Twitter antics and real-world heroics, added another act of valor to his resume Thursday: He saved a freezing dog left in the cold during a below-zero night. The dog was ...
Deep-sea footage offers a glimpse, but scientists still want to see how they hunt, travel and age.
A NASA space telescope revealed magnetic braids of super-hot matter in the sun's outer atmosphere, a find that may explain its mysteriously hot corona.
Vice President Joe Biden pushed for tighter gun restrictions in a Google Hangout Thursday. The event, dubbed a "Fireside Hangout" in reference to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, brought Biden together with Guy Kawasaki, one of the o...
North Korea announced Thursday it is planning separate tests of a nuclear device and long-range missile systems in defiance of American-backed United Nations sanctions that were approved following North Korea's recent satellite launch. The country's ...
Video courtesy of ThoseCrazyTexans The pilot behind the controls during a daring airborne stunt seen in a YouTube video gone viral is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, according to local media reports. Stunt pilot Jason Newb...
Banning sex offenders from using social media networks like Facebook is unconstitutional, according to a federal court. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago struck down an Indiana law passed in 2008 that prohibited certain sex offenders f...
Global law enforcement requests for Google user data are up more than 70% since 2009, the company said in a blog post revealing its latest Transparency Report posted Wednesday. Google has also for the first time in this edition of its report broken d...
Vice President Joe Biden will discuss the Obama administration's position on gun control in a Google Hangout on Thursday at 1:45 p.m. EST, Google and the vice president's office announced Wednesday. Biden's hangout will be a resurrection of the so-ca...
As technology progresses, sometimes science fiction becomes reality. Soon, lasers could leave the realm of imagination and a galaxy far, far away. Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the futuristic arm of the U.S. militar...
The hacktivist group Anonymous hacked the U.S. federal sentencing website early Saturday, using the page to make a brazen and boisterous declaration of "war" on the U.S. government. The group claims mysterious code-based "warheads," named for each of...
A petition submitted to the White House demands the Librarian of Congress to rescind his recent decision which removed the unlocking of cellphones from the exceptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Due to the Librarian's decision, the...
On Jan. 27, 1967, the crew of Apollo 1 was killed when a fire broke out in their pure oxygen-soaked capsule during a routine pre-launch test. The dangers of an oxygen fire should have been obvious to NASA. It was obvious to the Apollo spacecraft’s bu...
Twitter's popularity among lawmakers has been meteoric. Three years ago less than half of the Senate and House of Representatives were on the platform, now every senator and 90% of representatives are tweeting away. Twitter use is particularly heavy ...
Should Twitter be forced to reveal anti-Semitic and racist users? That's exactly what a court in France is asking the company to do. Several French groups demanded in a recent lawsuit that Twitter identify anonymous users posting anti-Jewish messages...
Victims of a so-called "revenge porn" website, which allows users to upload naked pictures of other people, identifying them by their name and hometown, have sued the site as well as its hosting company, GoDaddy. Last week, a class-action lawsuit was...
The "largest and oldest" collection of natural sounds in the world is now digital and available online, Cornell University announced. The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology houses a scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video r...
Scientists with NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft have revamped the mission's online archive of alien worlds, opening up the database for the entire world to see.
The robotic planes more commonly referred to as drones have gone from a secret, rarely covered military and CIA program to a regular fixture on the national media as well as technology websites. As one of the leaders behind the U.S. drone program, Wh...
