There are tools available to break virtually every device running iOS, from the iPhone and iPod touch to the Apple TV2. But up until recently there was no way to jailbreak an iPad 2 tablet. Now a leaked beta version of JailbreakMe 3.0 is making the rounds and some users are saying they’re able to jailbreak the second generation...
An anonymous hacker used phony Bitcoins (BTC) last month to drive down the price of the online currency from $17.50 to a penny within the span of 30 minutes, Bitcoin exchange firm Mt.Gox has revealed. The hacker was able to create 2 million fake BTC by manipulating the company's trading database after gaining access to a compromised...
A single ticket matching all six numbers in this week's Mega Millions jackpot worth an estimated $105 million was purchased in Virginia, lottery officials said.
The winning numbers from Friday's drawing were: 12, 17, 30, 35, 47, and mega ball number 26.
The winning ticket was purchased at a Giant Food store in Herndon,...
While they typically offer discounts, most of us still don't want to play test dummy to dentists-in-training.
But since they do have to learn, not just dental basics but how to deal with live patients it can pose a problem.
Dental students across the globe could be using a very life-life robot called Showa Hanko 2, who...
You can’t buy love, but can you engineer it? A project at the National University of Singapore with all kinds of somewhat unsettling implications is trying to create the means for human-robot love by giving robots all the emotional and biological tools that human have.
That means artificial hormones--dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin,...
The Finnish game designers at Rovio, the studio that developed Angry Birds, have created 15 new Rio-themed levels that will be available to buyers of the DVD and Blu-ray versions of the Fox film, out Aug. 2 for $17 to $25.
Fox and Rovio's earlier teaming on a special version of the game for the movie's theatrical release...
A Texas teen is mistaken for a British socialite. With Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester. Director: Thomas Bezucha. (1:49). PG: mild language. At area theaters.
If you can believe that gorgeous Disney superstar —- and Justin Bieber gf -- Selena Gomez might ever be an insecure outsider, you are the perfect audience for "Monte...
Google+, the search company's new social network Yesterday afternoon, the search company's new social network, and I've been scratching my head ever since. In press reports "see Steven Levy's Wired account of the making of Google+" people at Google shy away from the term "social network," and they bristle at the idea that Google+...
Why is it still so shocking to see gay people in mainstream ads? At a time when every other demographic is practically shoehorned into marketing for the sake of diversity, gays and lesbians are still all but invisible in the TV advertising landscape. But while you might not have seen many yourself, gay-themed TV ads are definitely...
That’s So Raven star Raven Symone has been in the news recently for her dramatic weight loss (35 pounds!) as well as those pesky rumors that she was pregnant and had a secret baby. The star opened up about her 35-pound weight loss and the "really funny" pregnancy rumors.
Symone appeared on The Wendy Williams Show and told...
Gaga greedy?
A Michigan law firm is suing Lady Gaga, accusing her of wrongfully keeping some of the proceeds of the “We Pray for Japan” bracelets she has been selling to raise money for earthquake victims.
Gaga’s website promises that all proceeds go to charity. But the federal class-action suit, filed Saturday, charges that she inflated the shipping charges and also kept some of the $5 she charged for them.
Sales of the bracelets have helped Gaga donate $3 million to...
Your next job: Mobile app developer? As market demand surges for apps to run on iOS, Android and whatever operating system will power the next wave of smart devices, companies are facing a dearth of mobile development talent. a website for freelancers, reports comparable demand: In the first quarter of 2011, there were 4,500...
The simple answer is sex selection - typically, an ultrasound scan followed by an abortion if the fetus turns out to be female - but beyond that, the reasons for a gap half the size of the U.S. population are not widely understood. In India, where women have achieved political firsts still not reached in the United States,...
Some people are natural-born speakers. They were those eager young souls who volunteered to read aloud in grade school and now welcome any opportunity to present in front of a group. For the rest of us, public speaking is a real-life nightmare. The very thought of standing up in front of a group, all eyes on you, is a terrifying...
In an auction featuring memorabilia from the Beatles, Madonna and Elvis Presley, it was Michael Jackson who proved to be king.
The red and black jacket, winged shoulders and all, that the late pop star wore during his zombie-ridden "Thriller" video fetched a $1.8 million bid at this weekend's Julien's auction in Beverly Hills,...
Insomniac Inc., promoter of the largest electronic music festival in the U.S., is trying to build its reputation.
The festival’s representatives have long been trying to get people to stop calling the events “raves,” which are often associated with drug use. Controversy about whether raves should be allowed in public venues,...
“I’m CEO, Bitch.”
While the story of this title appearing on Mark Zuckerberg’s early Facebook business cards has been around outside the company since at least 2009, when Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires was released, it really exploded into legendary status last year. That’s when the Acadmey Award-winning film, The...
Selena Gomez flashes her string-of-pearls smile and black-olive eyes as 3,000 fans give her a rock-star welcome Monday at the King of Prussia Mall. Gomez, the recording sensation, star of the Disney TV series The Wizards of Waverly Place, and anchor of the Fox mistaken-identity comedy Monte Carlo (opening Friday), is buoyed...
Six people were killed when a tractor-trailer truck slammed into a Chicago-to-California Amtrak passenger train at a railroad crossing east of Reno, Nevada, authorities said late Saturday.
The death toll was released just as federal authorities said they were trying to account for passengers missing from the passenger train...
