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10 Facts You Didn't Know About the Super Bowl
15,000 tons: That's the average amount of potato chips Americans consume during the Super Bowl. In its latest video, Hoopla Ha rounded up 10 intriguing facts about the country's biggest sporting...
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Bitcoin Exchange CEO Arrested for Connection to Silk Road
Federal law enforcement officials have arrested the CEO of a Bitcoin exchange platform and an alleged co-conspirator in connection with Silk Road, the online black market for drugs. Charlie Shrem, CEO...
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Pierre Omidyar: First Digital Magazine to Launch in 'Coming Weeks'
First Look Media — the newly formed media venture from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Glenn Greenwald — is beginning to take shape, with the first of a series of digital magazine to be launched in...
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Sochi Mayor: My City of 343,000 Has 0 Gays
Add one more entry to the growing list of tensions over gay rights at Sochi for this year's Winter Olympics. Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov told the BBC that his town of 343,000, which will host the...
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What Would YOU Ask Barack Obama?
It's a big week for President Barack Obama, and he plans to punctuate it hanging out. Obama is set to answer questions submitted by Americans in response to his fifth State of the Union Address in a...
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India Takes Down Its First Cyber Criminal
One tip from the FBI is all it took for India to catch its first cyber criminal. Until he was taken down in a raid by India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday, Amit Tiwari was the head...
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Inside Mavericks, Big-Wave Surfing's Gnarliest Contest
PRINCETON-BY-THE-SEA, CALIF. — Every winter, the world's best and bravest big-wave surfers wait for the call. And most years, the call comes The waves, the weather, the wind — everything's perfect,...
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What Google Autocomplete Says About Super Bowl Advertisers
With the Super Bowl now less than a week away, advertisers are in full attention-seeking mode, buying up searches, dropping their ads on YouTube and trying to get their hashtags into circulation. All...
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The Grammy Awards' Most-Mentioned Moments
LOS ANGELES — The 56th Grammy Awards featured its fair share of the usual funny photobombs, questionable fashion choices and electrifying performances. But this year's music fest also showcased a...
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Squarespace Brings Internet to Life in First Super Bowl Ad
The words "Super Bowl ad" were usually uttered as more of a joke than a true marketing strategy among the team at Squarespace — at least until recently. Anthony Casalena launched Squarespace in early...
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Report: NSA Snoops on Angry Birds and Other Apps
You can tell a lot about a person based on her smartphone apps — but probably not as much as the National Security Agency can deduce. The NSA, along with its British counterpart the Government...
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Macklemore to Kendrick Lamar on Grammys Win: 'Sucks That I Robbed You'
During Sunday's 56th Annual Grammy Awards, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis picked up four awards, including Best New Artist. They also swept the rap categories earning Best Rap Album for The Heist Not...
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Facebook Hiring Editors for Secret Mobile Newsreader App, Report Says
Facebook has been on the prowl for editors to curate its Flipboard-like mobile news aggregator, according to a report from Re/code. The editors would be tasked with hand picking the best stories for a...
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Lana Del Rey Casts a Haunting Spell Over New 'Maleficent' Trailer
In a match made in movie trailer heaven, Disney villain Maleficent stalks victims as Lana Del Rey's haunting vocals play ominously in the background. A 90-second trailer for the new movie Maleficent...
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London Students Discover Exploding Star in Nearby Galaxy
What started out as a 10-minute telescope lesson turned into something much more exciting, as a group of astronomy students at the University College London raced against encroaching cloud cover to...
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The Answer to Affordable Housing Could Lie Within a 3D Printer
Forget waiting weeks or months for your new home to be ready. Researchers from the University of Southern California created a 3D printer that can build a 2,500 square-foot house in 24 hours. Since...
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Revealed: Peter Capaldi's Doctor Who Costume
The title role of Doctor Who is handed from actor to actor on a regular basis, and along with the new man comes new clothesPeter Capaldi, who briefly appeared as the 12th Doctor in the last minute of...
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The Outrageous Cost of Broadcasting the Winter Olympics
NBC paid $775 million to secure the U.S. broadcasting rights for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, which begin Feb. 7. The TV network and its affiliates have scheduled 539 hours of coverage, and...
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Mr. Freeze Covers 'Let It Go' From Disney's 'Frozen'
Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a Disney princess. YouTube movie reviewers 2chinsTV prove that the former Governator should never join the likes of Ariel and Belle. Their cover of Frozen's "Let It Go"...
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Third Marlboro Man Actor Dies of Lung Disease
From 1978 to 1981, actor Eric Lawson portrayed the iconic Marlboro Man in print advertisements, conveying the image of rugged masculinity the cigarette industry wanted to project for customers and...
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