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New art-house app lets you take just one picture, ever
Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:29 PM PDT
There are a lot of terrific camera apps out there. Most people prefer Instagram for its filters and ability to share your photos with others, while some prefer the more powerful set of tools Snapseed offers. One of the newest … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Congresswoman wants to protect you from silly internet laws
Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:26 PM PDT
Remember that one time when our internet freedom was about to be severely stifled by the government, but then pretty much the entire internet rallied against it? House Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) remembers, and she wants to make sure the … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Study: Female brains commonly flooded with male DNA
Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:56 PM PDT
We already know that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but there are a lot of similarities between the sexes, too. Earlier in the year, we learned that women are affected by testosterone similar to how men … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Facebook gets generous with new Facebook Gifts feature
Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:48 PM PDT
Most of us who have Facebook accounts are no strangers to wishing our friends a "happy birthday" on the site — after all, since the creepily omniscient site tells you who's celebrating what, it really is the least we can do. … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
U.S. responded to Benghazi attack as terrorism on 'Day One': Source
Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:56 PM PDT
When gunmen struck the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year, the response from American officials was almost simultaneous: They immediately set about collecting information about the attackers, some of whom were quickly identified as foreigners, and tracing links from them to known extremist groups, a knowledgeable source has told Yahoo [...] Full Story | Top |
Candidate's wife throws water on reporter
Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:45 PM PDT
One way to get rid of a pesky reporter: Throw a bucket of water on him. That's what the wife of a failed candidate embroiled in a campaign scandal did to Miami Local 10 senior political reporter Michael Putney. The TV journalist came away drenched but not any more enlightened than when he knocked on [...] Full Story | Top |
Netanyahu's 'red line' mocked on Twitter
Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT
During his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the completion of Iran's nuclear enrichment program threatens the stability of the Middle East, Europe and the United States—and urged world leaders to draw a "red line" to prevent Iran from continuing on. In a highly unusual [...] Full Story | Top |
Apple has its eyes on flexible iPhone screens
Thu,27 Sep 2012 12:57 PM PDT
Don't think the new iPhone 5 was enough of a leap over the previous generation of Apple's smartphone in terms of design? Well, a new patent by the Cupertino, Calif. tech powerhouse should have you very excited. The company has … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Nonpartisan D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics posts tweet against Scott Brown
Thu,27 Sep 2012 11:35 AM PDT
The Twitter account for the nonpartisan District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics posted a link to an editorial criticizing Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown on Thursday, an act the government agency tells Yahoo News was an accident. The link directed followers to a piece on the left-leaning Talking Points Memo website headlined "Really, [...] Full Story | Top |
Family fights highway off-ramp in their backyard
Thu,27 Sep 2012 11:32 AM PDT
When the Dodge family bought a modest home in Clark County, Wash., a decade ago it was tucked away at the end of a quiet dead-end street. Now a highway ramp is yards from the family's backyard. "Come here. Stand in our yard," Melissa Dodge told the Columbian newspaper as cars whizzed off Highway 500 [...] Full Story | Top |
Man goes street surfing through flooded British town (VIDEO)
Thu,27 Sep 2012 10:32 AM PDT
In the age of ridesharing, people are always coming up with new ways of getting to work. But Ryan Hart tried a unique approach, when he hitched a surfboard to the back of a pickup truck and surfed through the streets of a flooded English town. 'There were four of us and we thought we'd [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney slams Obama on defense cuts
Thu,27 Sep 2012 10:08 AM PDT
SPRINGFIELD, Va.—For the third straight day, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama campaigned in the same state, with Romney arguing before an audience of military veterans that potential cuts to the defense budget are "unthinkable and devastating." Speaking in the battleground state at an American Legion post outside Washington, D.C., Romney blamed Obama for planned [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama: NFL refs' return is 'great day for America'
Thu,27 Sep 2012 09:14 AM PDT
President Barack Obama warmly welcomed the breakthrough deal that will see the NFL's regular refs return to work. Their temporary replacements angered and baffled football fans coast-to-coast with controversial calls. Obama thinks "it's a great day for America," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One, as the president headed to [...] Full Story | Top |
Boy Scouts promise to review suspected sex molester files
Thu,27 Sep 2012 09:13 AM PDT
Under mounting pressure to explain the past handling of sex abuse allegations, the Boy Scouts of America will now double-check 50 years of secret member records to see if they missed anything. "The first thing is that we make sure anything in those files that law enforcement needs to know, we tell them," Scouts spokesman [...] Full Story | Top |
Team Obama: Romney's 'Pinocchio' nose reaches from VA to OH
Thu,27 Sep 2012 08:59 AM PDT
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign mockingly suggested Thursday that Mitt Romney's campaign has been so dishonest that if the Republican were Pinocchio, "his nose would be reaching from Virginia to Ohio." Romney's campaign immediately shot back, using the Democrat's own observation that sometimes his ads go "overboard." Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki's comments came when [...] Full Story | Top |
Teen bitten by 'world's most venomous snake'
Thu,27 Sep 2012 08:16 AM PDT
A 17-year-old Australian boy is in serious condition after being bitten by what most reptile experts believe is the world's most venomous snake. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the boy was admitted to a hospital in the town of Kurri Kurri with a snakebite on his left hand. He was later transferred to Calvary [...] Full Story | Top |
Stingray photobomb goes viral
Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:57 AM PDT
A photo of three seemingly terrified women being greeted by a giant stingray is making the rounds online. The "photobomb," posted to Reddit.com on Wednesday, appears to show a man in the water behind the women lift the stingray onto their backs just as the photo was taken. Several commenters pointed out that the undated [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama: Time for 'new economic patriotism'
Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:35 AM PDT
Forty-one days before Election Day, President Barack Obama made what sounded a lot like his closing arguments for a second term in a new two-minute television ad in which he criticizes Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and calls for "a new economic patriotism." "If I could sit down with you, in your living room or [...] Full Story | Top |
Thursday in politics: Obama and Romney campaign in Virginia, and more
Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:36 AM PDT
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both campaigned in Ohio — a state where Obama is leading in the polls. Today, they're both campaigning in Virginia — another state where Obama has an edge in the polls. Obama will be in Virginia Beach, and Romney will be in Springfield, which is only a [...] Full Story | Top |
MS-13 and the Threat of Transnational Gangs
Wed,26 Sep 2012 07:58 PM PDT
El Salvador is a small country in Central America with the unfortunate distinction of a big number. It has one of the highest murder rates in the world, an average of 18 killings every day. That's in large part because of the country's ruthless street gangs. So when the two biggest rivals called a truce [...] Full Story | Top |
Comet due in 2013 could be brighter than the full moon
Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:48 PM PDT
Late next year, there will be a new object in the night sky nearly 10 times brighter than the full moon. This temporary attraction, called C/2012 S1, is a comet that has likely never passed through our inner solar system … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Google president arrested in Brazil over YouTube videos
Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:46 PM PDT
Here in the United States, Google's YouTube has taken up arms in defense of the First Amendment, refusing to take down a highly controversial anti-Muslim video in the name of free speech. In countries where free speech does not apply, … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Russian dash-cam captures lightning striking SUV roof
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:47 PM PDT
The National Weather Service reports that a person's odds of being struck by lightning are around 1 in 775,000. Meet the unfortunate "1" in that statistic. A driver captured footage of lightning striking the roof of another car on a rainy Russian day. In the video, an unidentified driver cruises along with a dashboard camera [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney: 'I'm going to win Ohio'
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:42 PM PDT
TOLEDO, Ohio—Mitt Romney projected confidence Wednesday that he's going to win Ohio, in spite of a recent spate of polls showing him trailing President Barack Obama in this crucial swing state. "I'm going to win Ohio," Romney told NBC's Ron Allen in an interview. "I'm going to become the next president." In a separate interview [...] Full Story | Top |
Pollution-eating clothing coming to a retail store near you
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:32 PM PDT
What happens when you mix science and fashion? Aside from some bad sweaters and pocket protectors, you get clothing that is coated in nanoparticles designed to eat pollution. First introduced in March of this year, the concept revolves around the … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Hints of consumer confidence emerge, but finances still shaky for many
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:14 PM PDT
Women carry shopping bags through Times Square in New York on July 27. Consumer confidence in the economy is at its highest level since February and topped economists' expectations. (Andrew Burton/Reuters) For some Americans, clues of confidence in the economy are unmistakable: • In Davis, Calif., Jennifer Wolfe's family is seeing renewed curiosity in its [...] Full Story | Top |
Man disguised as car seat busted by Spanish border authorities
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:10 PM PDT
A Guinean man was caught trying to cross the border into Spain while disguised as a car seat. We first spotted the news over at the U.K.'s Telegraph. The two-image video above is from African Movie Reporter. Apparently two Moroccan men attempted to sneak a third man into Spain by removing the foam from the [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama campaign: Romney's White House path 'narrowing'
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:20 PM PDT
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign said Wednesday that recent polls have shown Mitt Romney's path to the White House "narrowing" but flatly denied that it was spiking the ball on the 30-yard line. "We're running this race in every single swing state like we're five points down," campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. The Obama [...] Full Story | Top |
With superior ground operations, Obama widens his lead in Ohio
Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:21 PM PDT
BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio—For Mitt Romney's campaign, the location was nothing more than a friendly business that had agreed to host a rally to promote the candidate's policies toward small businesses and manufacturing. But it was hard not to view Romney's midday appearance at American Spring Wire, a company that makes wire that bounces back into [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama sees Libya attack as 'terrorist' act: Spokesman
Wed,26 Sep 2012 12:13 PM PDT
President Barack Obama regards the Sept. 11 assault on the American Consulate in Libya as a terrorist attack, the White House said on Wednesday, as Republicans questioned why the commander in chief has not said so publicly. "It is certainly the case that it is our view as an administration, the president's view, that it [...] Full Story | Top |
Viral photo helps 19-year-old arthritic dog recover
Wed,26 Sep 2012 11:09 AM PDT
A photograph of a man wading in Lake Superior with his 19-year-old arthritic dog captured the hearts of millions when it was posted online last month--an outpouring that inspired the dog's owner to launch a foundation to help low-income families care for their aging canines. John Unger says Schoep's Legacy Foundation has raised more than [...] Full Story | Top |
Google maps goes underwater
Wed,26 Sep 2012 10:34 AM PDT
Google Maps is taking a deep dive. Underwater, that is. The mapping giant, which has scoured the earth with its Google cars and cameras for its Street View tool, now can take users into the ocean. Note: Please get out of your car before you do this. Actually, diving equipment is not required. You can [...] Full Story | Top |
007-like squirrel jumps from third-floor window, lands safely
Wed,26 Sep 2012 10:26 AM PDT
You can't stop this squirrel; you can only hope to contain it. And even that's pretty difficult. In a video that's sweeping the Web for obvious reasons, a squirrel runs around a third-floor apartment, climbing walls, and generally looking as if it has had too much Red Bull. Then, without warning, it takes a flying [...] Full Story | Top |
Ahmadinejad addresses U.N. General Assembly amid protests
Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:58 AM PDT
Amid warnings from other world leaders—and planned protests outside—Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, his last speech in front of the world body as president of Iran. The outspoken Iranian leader called for a "new world order," criticizing capitalism and the United States and Europe for "trampling on the rights of [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich offers free debate advice to Mitt Romney
Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:54 AM PDT
Newt Gingrich, who was once Mitt Romney's chief rival during the Republican primaries, is offering the Republican nominee free advice before he debates President Barack Obama next week. Writing in Human Events on Wednesday, Gingrich relayed four suggestions for the upcoming debates: Newt's advice: Relax and be prepared I tell the stories to make the [...] Full Story | Top |
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