It's Friday! Friday! But the music video of Rebecca Black's song which celebrates the day is nowhere to be found.
According to Reuters, a legal battle between Black and Ark Music Records, whose studio was used to record the song, has led to Black's lawyers yanking the video from YouTube, claiming that it violates copyright...
United Airlines passengers across the country faced long delays Friday night because of a computer glitch affecting departures, officials said.
The airline experienced a computer outage that interrupted airport processing and reservation systems, according to United. The outage was first reported about 5:15 p.m. Pacific Time.
"Our...
The Ceglia v. Facebook lawsuit seems to keep getting stranger. Paul Ceglia, the upstate New York wood pellet salesman who says he was promised half of Mark Zuckerberg’s share of Facebook back in 2004, filed new papers in court today insisting he’s not the fraudster that Facebook maintains he is.
Two weeks ago, Facebook filed...
It’s easy to forget about summer skin care when you’re enjoying yourself outside. While spending time at the beach or poolside, on the biking or hiking trails, or playing pretty much any outdoor sport, regularly applying sunscreen is probably the last thing on your mind. However, summer skin care is something you should definitely...
Saudi Arabian women plan to start driving their cars Friday, one month after Manal al-Sherif — a key figure in a social media campaign against a ban on female drivers — was arrested when she posted a YouTube video of herself driving around the city of Khobar.
The mass driving campaign is the result of an online movement that...
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a R&D center in Taiwan that’s innovating for the sake of innovation but with the hopes that something they create will drive Taiwan’s technology ecosystem forward. Their booth at Display Taiwan 2011 was jam packed with cool demo’s but this one in particular we felt has...
On Thursday (June 16), that dress will join the "Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power'' exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, where it will sit on display along with Gaga's childhood piano and Armani Prive orbit gown, which she wore to the 2011 Grammys, until February 2012.
"I was talking to Lady Gaga's...
The trailer opens with a distraught Lily Potter (Harry's mom) speaking to her infant son. "Harry, be safe," she says in a strained whisper. "Be strong." Cut to the words "Every moment he's lived has led to this," before an eerie voice-over by evil Dark Lord Voldemort comes in over flashback scenes of key moments in several...
In a study that followed older French adults for five years, researchers found that those who regularly used olive oil were 41 percent less likely to have a stroke than those who never used the oil.
The findings, reported in the journal Neurology, hint that the well-known connection between olive oil and heart disease might...
PRINCE WILLIAM and Kate Middleton have “put on hold” plans to recruit servants – after no one wanted the jobs because the salaries being offered were too low.
The couple will move into Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace by the end of June.
And as the Mirror reported last week, adverts went up at Buckingham Palace for...
New technology is being developed at OSU to capture and use the low-to-medium grade waste heat that's now going out the exhaust pipe of millions of automobiles, diesel generators, or being wasted by factories and electrical utilities.
The potential cost savings, improved energy efficiency and broad application of such technology...
Natalie Portman gave birth to a baby boy, a source confirms to Us Weekly. It's the first child for the actress, 30, and fiance Benjamin Millepied.
Portman and French-born ballet star Millepied, 33, met and fell in love on the set of Black Swan, in which he served as choreographer and co-star.
"It was seductive to watch them,"...
When the fairer sex in a marriage doesn’t get her much needed beauty rest, it can lead to negative effects on marital bliss. According to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine, when wives are unable to fall asleep at night, marital interactions of both partners are impacted the following day, while...
A senior Pakistani intelligence official said Wednesday that he cannot confirm or deny a report by The New York Times that the nation's spy agency detained five informants who helped the CIA before the raid that left Osama bin Laden dead.
The official said the agency is actively searching for information about bin Laden's stay in Pakistan and his support network.
"We want to know how he could stay in that area and what kind of support network he had," the official told...
Google and rooftop solar power company SolarCity announced a $280 million investment deal Tuesday, the largest such deal for home-based solar power systems in the United States.
The investment will give San Mateo, Calif-based SolarCity the funding to build and lease solar power systems to a 7,000 to 9,000 homeowners in the...
If companies were valued by hype, then Facebook could certainly claim to be worth $100bn. But is it really worth that in cold, hard cash?
A report from CNBC overnight claims the site is preparing for an initial public offering early next year at an eye-watering valuation of at least $100bn.
A 2012 IPO has been expected for...
From basic word search to now Human Language Understanding, IBM has traversed this journey starting with Mechanized Encoding and Searching of Literary Information (1957) to the ultimate performance of Human Language Understanding in the game show Jeopardy by the computer system named Watson (2011).
No - IBM is not going on...
City leaders agree to allow DTE to install two charging stations in parking lots downtown.
If you need to charge your Chevy Volt, your options in Rochester may soon be expanding.
City leaders approved on Monday night an agreement with DTE Energy that would put two electric vehicle supply equipment charging stations in downtown...
Selena Gomez was back onstage and appeared to be in much better health on Monday (June 13). The Disney star spent the weekend recovering after being hospitalized last Thursday in Los Angeles for a combination of food poisoning and exhaustion.
The 18-year-old singer/actress took the stage for a performance at the Santa Monica...
During a recent interview with the Daily Mail, Bill Gates revealed some startling information about Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
While explaining that Zuck--like Gates--has pledged to donate most of his fortune, Gates mentioned offhandedly that Zuck may be engaged to girlfriend Priscilla Chan.
"I didn't say...
A pair of earthquakes with magnitudes of at least 5.0 struck within 90 minutes of each other near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, reviving vivid memories of a deadly quake that killed more than 180 people in February.
"Everyone is on edge here anyway," said Rhys Taylor, who said...
One of the many storylines in the NBA Finals won by the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night was Terry's bold tattoo. Terry said he had the Larry O'Brien championship trophy tattooed on his right bicep before the season began because he was confident the Mavs would clinch the title.
Losing would've been painful for Terry, literally, as he said he would have the tattoo removed.
The 105-95 victory was sweet for many Mavericks, especially Terry, who led the team in scoring with...
Officials said the organisation, which is searching for a new head after Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York last month and accused of sexual assault, has been hit before but the latest attack was more significant and sophisticated.
A spokesman said that the incident was being investigated and the fund was "fully...
Alternative vehicles are still "alternative" in part because fuel cell and battery technologies still have many hills to climb -- cost, efficiency, weight to name a few. A group of MIT researchers thinks they can pave the way. They recently combined the strongest aspects of traditional batteries and fuel cells to create a whole...
I understand that when married couples decide they don't like each other any more, they sometimes opt for extreme feelings and gestures.
No wife, though, has perhaps expressed herself in quite as socially networked way as Angela Voelkert.
Voelkert, according to court records obtained by the Smoking Gun, decided to use Facebook...
