If you want to catch this year's transit of Venus without damaging your retinas, several sites will bring the astronomical event to your screen of choice.
For sky watchers, the transit is a big deal -- it happens when the planet Venus passes directly between the earth and sun. And, that doesn't happen that often. The spectacle comes in pairs that occur eight years apart about once a century.
Zola Books, a new social eBooks site to discover, buy and discuss books, just announced that it is launching its private beta today. The company also announced that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from prominent authors, including Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife), Josh Bazell, (Beat the Reaper) and Chandler Burr (
Abu Yahya al-Libi, the second most senior leader of al Qaeda, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
His death marks one of the most significant blows to al Qaeda since the U.S. military killed Osama bin Laden in a daring nighttime raid in Pakistan a year ago. Al-Libi was second-in-command behind al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took the helm after bin Laden's death.
SEE THE VIDEO OF LUKA ROCCO MAGNOTTA'S ARREST
Canadian fugitive Luka Rocco Magnotta is expected to make his first court appearance in Berlin today, a day after an international manhunt ended with his capture in the German capital.
The appearance is expected to start the potentially protracted process to extradite the 29-year-old porn actor back to Montreal, where he faces charges in the grisly slaying and dismemberment of a Chinese national who was studying at Concordia University.
President Barack Obama has been known to do things many leaders have never even thought to do. He's danced on Ellen, played basketball with US troops, and most recently it seems he's sang Carly Rae Jepson... or did he?
Check it out for yourself!
A page on YouTube, set to a user name "barackdubs", is a list of songs that are put together of his speeches and made to sound as though he is singing each song!
Updated. In the last few months, Nuance Communications(s nuan) has launched Dragon TV, Dragon Drive and even an Android version of Dragon Go, its Siri-like Semantic search app. Now we have a new Dragon to contend with: Dragon ID, a voice identification application that allows you to unlock your phone with your larynx.
While typical phone unlocking programs require tapping in a short code or tracing a pattern on screen, Nuance’s technology uses two layers of security: biometrics, which recognizes your unique “voice imprint,” and a password or pass phrase – which in this case is spoken not typed, said Kenneth Harper, Senior Product Manager, Nuance.
Mel Gibson's father, John Hutton Gibson, has filed for divorce from his second wife after more than 10 years of marriage. Gibson lists their date of separation as May 28th and asks both that the court terminate its jurisdiction to award spousal support and that she be responsible for all attorney fees. It seems that your never too old to get a divorce!
