This week at the multiplex, we've got racing renegades ("Fast & Furious 6," starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson); the Wolfpack on the prowl ("The Hangover Part III," starring Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms): and a fantastical forest ("Epic," with voice work by Amanda Seyfried and Beyoncé Knowles).
Just heard a new song on the radio called “I hate being sober” I now have serious doubt for the world. — Katy Perry (@katyperry) May 21, 2013 It all [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department said on Friday that officials up to Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose report on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.
“If we win, we will not be the best team in the world – we will have beaten the best team in the world.” So said Jurgen Klopp, manager of Borussia Dortmund, ahead of his squad’s Saturday showdown against rivals Bayern Munich in the final of the European Champions League, the world’s preeminent club soccer competition. Show More Summary
The Obama administration fought to keep secret the search warrant for Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal emails even as two judges said the Justice Department was required to inform him, the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza reported on Friday. Prosecutors argued they may have needed to monitor the account over a lengthy period of time.
The Boy Scouts of America have voted to allow gay Scouts to join the ranks. According to multiple media sources, the scouting organization decided, by a 61-38 vote, to eliminate sexual orientation as youth membership criterion. Under...Show More Summary
Since it's release last Monday, 20th May, Daft Punk’s album ’Random Access Memories’ has already set a number of records on Spotify including the single ‘Get Lucky’ being streamed over 27 million times. If trends hold, ‘Random Access Memories’ will top Mumford & Son's ‘Babel’ as the most streamed album ever in the week of release for the US. Show More Summary
AT&T’s GoPhone brand will reportedly be adding support for AT&T’s LTE and HSPA+ networks today, allowing iPhone users to use cellular data. Three service plans will be offered — a $65 per month plan offers unlimited calls and texts and 1 GB of data. Show More Summary
Netflix has debuted five clips from "Arrested Development" in anticipation of Season 4's May 26 premiere.
Marion Cotillard flashes a smile as she attends a photo call for her new film The Immigrant during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival held at Palais des Festivals on Thursday (May 23) in Cannes, France. The 37-year-old actress was joined by her co-star Jeremy Renner and director of the film James Gray. PHOTOS: Check out [...]
Ding, ding, ding: This feud has graduated to a full-blown cat-fight. Two days after the late Kurt Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean slammed reality star Kendall Jenner on Twitter —… READ ON
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cruise has exited as the lead in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the remake of the classic TV series that Guy Ritchie will direct for Warner Bros. Cruise was scheduled to star in the film with Armie Hammer, but he has stepped...Show More Summary
What will the world look like when more people have Google Glass? This parody video imagines what a Google Glass viewer will look like shooting footage at a flower garden, rock concert or even a wedding. One reader disagreed with the...Show More Summary
Ouch! At a University of Virginia symposium in late April, Paul Tudor Jones responded to a question about why the panel only featured “rich, white, middle-aged men.” Tudor responded by saying that trading requires intense focus, which he believes many women lose when they have children. The panel featured (from left to right) U-Va. professor...Read More
Yesterday's decision by the Boy Scouts of America to lift the ban on gay youth was a historic step, but didn't it stop the prohibition on adult Eagle Scouts, scout leaders or parents, a move that left many civil rights activists unsatisfied.
Similar to their funny “Ship My Pants” ad campaign, Kmart has now launched an ad for “Big Gas Savings,” a discounted service so their members can save 30¢ per gallon on gas after spending $50 or more. The ad was created by DRAFTFCB. via Hypervocal
Dancing Robot iPhone Stand
If you’ve got $116,000 to spare, you might have a shot of getting an Apple computer with 4k of memory to play with. A rare working Apple I computer from 1976 is up for auction this weekend in Cologne. The auction house is inviting starting bids of 90,000 euros, though it has an estimated [...]
If you go searching for Fahamu Pecou on Wikipedia like I randomly did several months back, you'll find that his page was deleted for reasons including a failure to "assert the importance or significance of its subject." Besides confirming...Show More Summary
U.S. investors have anxiously awaited even a small correction, yet the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) and the S&P 500 have nevertheless powered higher to all-time record levels on nearly two dozen occasions so far this year. Yet, for international investors, last night’s plunge of 7% for Japan’s NIKKEI 225 (Nikkei Indices:NI225) index represented [...]