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Oliver Brown: principality's love affair with Formula One has rich history but few dare to admit true source of affection.    

Yes, people, it’s true. Immigration reform has advanced in the Senate. At least the committee didn’t repeal anything.    

The Internet wasn't built with security in mind, and we're still dealing with the consequences of that. The next generations are going to be the ones who pay the true cost of the design decisions we make today.

A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon tweeted something thought-provoking: What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dystopian. I happened to be sitting in a movie theater waiting for Iron Man 3 to start, so I tried to come up with a good counter-example. It’s a lot harder than I...

http://vimeo.com/65576562 Here's a beautifully made video accompaniment to "This is Water," an excerpt from a David Foster Wallace commencement address to Kenyon College in 2005, in which Wallace exhorts his listeners to empathize with the people around them, using examples and languages so beautifully chosen that they just about break your heart. But most days, [...]    ...

Zac Efron is like our dream man, but apparently he's also Hollywood's dream frat guy!!! Hey, we're not complaining!!! Our imaginary BF has been cast yet again as a college student in Narc, but his next flick will have a little twist to it. Zac will star as "college Donnie Brasco" — a frat president [...]

It is not true that the Australian Academy of Science, of which I am president, treats women with disdain (Nature497, 7; 201310.1038/497007a). The absence of women elected as fellows in 2013 is of great concern, but it is an

50 Years Ago'Masters and Pupils' — The three books under review are approximately equal in price, but this is not true of their value. Two of them are hardy annuals; the third — the Transactions of the International Ophthalmic Optical Congress, 1961 —

Runscope launched at the Glue conference today with $1.1 million in seed funding from True Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz for its tools that monitor API traffic and address the problems with broken APIs. Also participating were Lerer Ventures, and a group of prominent angel investors.

Another photo sharing app bites the dust? Or is something with promise getting another chance? Either way you look at it, betaworks is adding more technology and team members to its arsenal, as photo sharing app Piictu has announced that the team will "join forces" with a betaworks company that has yet to launch.

‘El hormiguero’ recibe a Alejandro Sanz. Gran Premio de Mònaco de fórmula 1

May 22, 2013 (London, UK)  – LVS Ltd , a UK based specialist in sports betting and gaming software solutions, during a Press Conference held in its London premises, released 'ABP in a BOX', a new Sportsbook offer...

As Foursquare evolves, it wants to help you find either new places to check out or lead you to places where your friends have already been. Mixed in with that is recommendation technology to show you places that you might be interested in based on where you've been before. Today, Foursquare updated its iOS and Android apps with an advanced search option that lets you control...

Gifs, man! They're trending harder than Jennifer Lawrence right now, but that doesn't mean that finding them is the easiest thing in the world. That's why Giphy, a startup that launched out of betaworks last month, is rolling out new tools to build out its library of awesome, high-quality gifs. See, Giphy is a gif search engine. It lets you search by keyword for any...

Truecaller, the Sweden-based creater of a crowdsourced phone directory app and online white pages service, has opened its API to a select group of "handpicked" developers. Truecaller said its directory now contains some 600 million phone numbers, either contributed by individuals or harvested through partnerships with other directory services.

The last time we met with the folks from Scanadu, we had a very limited look its much buzzed-about line of gadgets that aim to bring vital sign monitoring beyond the realm of the hospital and available to anyone with a smartphone. This week, the company's CEO Walter De Brouwer stopped by TechCrunch TV with an update to allow us to demo an updated version of the SCOUT and...

Brace yourselves, New York City: Anthony Weiner officially wants to be your mayor. Weiner formally announced his candidacy in a YouTube video that first appeared late Tuesday night and was then shared with supporters in an early Wednesday email. The video puts an end to the will-he, won't-he speculation that has been surrounding the former Congressman for months: he has...

The antis in this week's vote think our sex lives are their business – yet Boris Johnson seems to escape without censureI am of the view that nobody's sex life is of concern to anybody else. OK, if you're cheating on your wife, that's of concern to your wife; if you're pregnant by someone other than your partner, that's a legitimate objection for your partner to raise,...

Like you and a lot of other people in the Valley, I read the blogs snarking on the Valley, because nothing is funnier than making fun of people just like us, technology elite who download hot apps, ringtones and backgrounds all day and all night -- all on our separate phones reserved for daytime and nighttime.

The New York Times spent months and had an entire team working on the creation of Snow Fall, and it shows. But what if I told you that you could recreate the same interactive experience in just about an hour? You'd like that, wouldn't you? Well, the New York Times wouldn't.

Here's a short video that'll wrinkle your brain a bit. Like debunking 50 common misconceptions, this video shows 13 facts you might not know are true. Like how Neil Armstrong had to clear customs after going to the Moon. Or that Russia is bigger than Pluto. Learning is fun.Read more...    

You probably heard Microsoft mention that the new Xbox One controllers have 40 new features to make them easier to use. That's true! But a few really take the cake. And the rumbling triggers are going to be the biggest. Read more...    

While every small business owner goes into business knowing their website is their number one marketing tool, few consider the power each page has on potential customers and sales. They spend an exorbitant amount of time creating great home pages and...

"There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville" Darius Rucker laments t[...]

If I could only have one MacBook (which is usually the case for your average laptop-buyer), this is the one I'd pick, without hesitation. Fewer issues than its 15-inch cousin, which pioneered the Retina line, combined with a much lighter design with a smaller desktop footprint for a display that can still give you crazy amounts of screen real estate all adds up to a sure-fire...

The Xbox One was just unveiled at Microsoft's Redmond campus and, true to multiple reports that circulated before the official reveal, the new console will indeed come with a Kinect. And what a Kinect it is! The rumors of a vastly improved Kinect sensor array were right on the money -- this next-generation model is capable of tracking motions as minute as wrist rotations,...

While we don't have all of the details on the new Xbox Live features announced at today's Xbox One launch, it's clear that Microsoft is going all-in when it comes to social and multiplayer gaming. First, they are upping the number of dedicated servers for online play from 15,000 to 300,000 and nearly all of your content and game data will be store in the cloud.

It's a war for the seven kingdoms! It's a soap opera with romantic weddings and blood sacrifices!! It's the latest episode of Game of Thrones, and it's time to recap and discuss! When we last left Arya Stark, she'd gotten fed up with the fire-worshipping Brotherhood Without Banners and their gold-hungry ways and run straight [...]    

The true scale of the tornado that swept through much of Oklahoma was captured by a number of home-made videos that show the precursor for the devastation on Monday.

Change.org got its start in 2007 as a social network for non-profits. For years, growth was slow for the fledgling social action platform, but, over the last year, that changed dramatically. Change.org has grown from six million users in early 2012 to more than 35 million users today, and, as a result, has become one of the largest and fastest growing of its kind.

Last week we reported that MessageMe, one of the latest messaging apps to hit the smartphone market, had picked up a $10 million Series A round of funding, and today, the company is officially confirming the news, along with some more details on how it's been doing in the 2.5 months since it launched. It now has 5 million users across both iOS and Android -- a five-fold...

Initially, access to water defined where humanity could grow and develop. But now the opposite is true, and we're the ones directing the future of our global water system. Watching that transition unfold is as sobering as it is stunning.Read more...    

MessageMe, the mobile application that offers free text, photo and video messaging between smartphones, announced Tuesday that it had raised a $10 million round led by John Lilly of Greylock Partners -- who will join the board of MessageMe makers LittleInc Labs -- with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, True Ventures, Social+Capital and others....

Free-falling 40m into one of the famous Soweto cooling towers is the last thing I ever expected to do. I would like to say I did this for the thrill or for a sense of adventure. I suffer from vertigo, so neither is true.

The true scale of the tornado that swept through much of Oklahoma was captured by a number of home-made videos that show the precursor for the devastation on Monday.

Today TRAFFIC organizers announced the addition of two one-day pass options for the TRAFFIC Vegas show coming up next week. Their decision to offer these passes was based on requests from potential attendees who wouldn’t be able to make it for the entire show. I am definitely a fan of getting as many people to [...]

The true scale of the tornado that swept through much of Oklahoma was captured by a number of home-made videos that show the precursor for the devastation on Monday.

Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups). And that description certainly fits Hampton Creek Foods, a startup that wants to move the world from animal-based foods by creating alternatives that are genuinely tastier, healthier, and...

Michael Gove is the UK Secretary of State for Education, the subject of a vote of no confidence from the nation's head teacher's conference that ran 99% opposed to his ideas for educational reform. The major motif of Gove's reforms is an emphasis on rote memorisation and linear learning. Gove insists that he loves creativity, [...]    

Company suggests ICANN is only posting letters that “will advance its positions”. Verisign has sent a letter to ICANN questioning why it isn’t publishing certain correspondence on the ICANN.org web site. ICANN has a section on its web site where it publishes many letters it receives and sends. But Verisign says ICANN hasn’t published three [...]

Free-falling 40m into one of the famous Soweto cooling towers is the last thing I ever expected to do. I would like to say I did this for the thrill or for a sense of adventure. I suffer from vertigo, so neither is true.

Turns out that Beyoncé isn't pregnant after all husband Jay-Z says The rapper responding[...]

jones_supa writes "Google's YouTube is celebrating its 8-year birthday, and at the same time they reveal some interesting numbers. 'Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That's more than four days of video uploaded each minute! Every month, more than 1 billion people come to YouTube to access news, answer questions and have a little...

White House officials are relatively sanguine they will get Penny Pritzker past the GOP gauntlet and into the Commerce Department -- but they'll need to keep organized labor from making a federal case out Pritzker's controversial family history in running the Hyatt chain. The New York Daily News reports that Donald Taylor, president of the 270,000-member union of hotel...

NEW COUPLE ALERT! Michelle Williams might be chock full of post-relationship baggage these days, but the bags her ex-bf Jason Segel carried out of Whole Foods in WeHo yesterday were off a different kind all together! They're probably filled to the brim with almond milk, organic kale chips, and lambskin condoms — because it looks to us [...]

"I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts," says D'Angelo.

So much for Apple's "very painful and expensive" retail mistake ...

Central bank action and growing signs of economic revival lift UK shares closer to all time highAs leading shares hit heights not seen for almost 13 years, Royal Bank of Scotland was the day's biggest riser.The bank ended 15.1p higher at 351.9p after analysts at Numis raised their recommendation from hold to buy and their target price from 308p to 410p....

Free-falling 40m into one of the famous Soweto cooling towers is the last thing I ever expected to do. I would like to say I did this for the thrill or for a sense of adventure. I suffer from vertigo, so neither is true.

Nike claim their new kit stays true to the pure form so associated with jersey's down the years. 'Stunningly clean it takes the kit back to its roots,' they tell us.

Major Tim Peake, a former Army helicopter pilot, has said it will be a "true privilege" to be the first British astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS).    

Stay classy, Sookie! True Blood’s Anna Paquin was feeling rather sassy as she shopped in Abbot Kinney with her baby, and totes flipped the bird to some pesky paps that were trying to document her adventures! And let’s be honest, we love when celebs pull this move!! A celeb flipping off a camera is far more interesting [...]

Ann Curry and Angelina Jolie have built quite the rapport throughout their years in the industry. But that doesn’t mean Ann will be the first to interview the actress since the reveal of her double mastectomy… A source has revealed that the former TODAY Show co-host has been asked by NBC to “convince [Angelina] to give [...]

It's nice to see a startup trying something different and garnering some promising traction along the way. The UK's Bloom.fm is a mobile-first music streaming service -- it currently exists as an iOS app only -- that launched four months ago out of the ashes of the deadpooled music social network mflow.

Consumer minister, Jo Swinson, asks representatives of top 10 grocery chains to justify unclear and misleading unit pricingThe UK's leading supermarkets have been asked to explain their confusing and inconsistent use of "unit prices" on food and drink products in the first step of a new government drive to help cash-strapped consumers work out which are cheapest.The consumer...

Judge turns down cleric's bail request, saying he remains a threat to national securityThe radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada has been refused bail and will remain in Belmarsh high-security prison until he returns to Jordan to stand trial on terror charges, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) has ruled.Mr Justice Irwin said Abu Qatada, who has been repeatedly...

The Fed claims that quantitative easing has helped create or save almost 2,000,000 jobs since 2008, and while that may be true, the people could probably find a much better way to spend $40 billion a month and create and save far more jobs.

Prime Minister David Cameron explains how the UK should take the lead on tax information exchange and beneficial ownership.

PM urges havens to 'get our own houses in order' before G8 summit in June, where he claims tax avoidance will be a priorityDavid Cameron has written to the leaders of Britain's offshore tax havens stressing the need to "get our own houses in order" as he pushes for international action to tackle avoidance schemes.In a message to 10 crown dependencies and British overseas...

“An area which avoided the traps of the tiger and stayed true to itself”    

Everyone loves a steamy reality TV show. And everyone loves a cute kid. Jimmy Kimmel combined the two with a reality show starring a cute kid: Baby Bachelor. In the genius sketch for Jimmy Kimmel Live, the adorable toddler Wesley (Kimmel's nephew) meets other adorable toddlers in hopes of finding true kiddy love. The kid version of the show promises...

Sometimes, more medical information is a bad thing. The influential United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends against most women getting genetic screenings for their susceptibility to breast cancer. Why? Because the tests are imperfect: for every woman who gets tested for genes associated with onset breast cancer, even more will falsely test positive,...

It's hard not to be curious about the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, since he or she basically just stuck around on the internet long enough to introduce Bitcoin/get everyone all riled up and then disappeared. But Ted Nelson, the sociologist who invented the term "hypertext," thinks he knows who Nakamoto really is, and in the video below he calls out...

Her voice had a rough texture to it, like the sort a nail makes when rubbed against sandpaper. She laboured with each word she spoke with an equally-sagging will. She struggled to cope with the excruciating pain associated with old age and malady. And, when she spoke of a son who talked “so rudely to her that she’d get scared and cry for days on end,” she looked...

Rep. Paul Ryan said Sunday the IRS targeting of conservative groups "is arrogance of power, abuse of power, to the nth degree" and vowed the investigation into the misconduct will continue. "Look, people have no trust that their government is being impartial," the Wisconsin Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." "This is arrogance of power, abuse of power, to the nth degree,...

Saturday Night Live's season finale was full of surprises, goodbyes and guest stars. While it was hosted by Oscar-winner Ben Affleck, the show-stealer was a tribute to eight-season cast member Bill Hader, who announced last week that he would be leaving the cast The Saturday Night Live cast paid appropriate homage to Hader and his beloved character Stefon...

First published in Publishers WeeklyThis week, waking up in an asylum, the randy side of WWII, and an electrifying, true plane crash story. Plus: Khaled Hosseini's latest.Read More...More on Best New Books

Simon Burns, the transport minister, and his top civil servant have been accused of misleading Parliament and campaign groups in an effort to boost the controversial HS2 rail scheme.    

Fake news funny man Stephen Colbert was true to form in his speech to the 2013 graduates of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Tennessee State University Howard C. Gentry Complex Nashville, Tennessee 1:24 P.M. CDT  MRS. OBAMA:  Yes!  (Applause.)  Wow.  Good afternoon, everyone!  Yes.  I am thrilled to be here.  And go, Royals.  You all are awesome.  (Applause.)  So proud of you.  This is very touching.  This is the only high school graduation I’m doing this year,...

The BJP on Saturday alleged that Pakistan was not giving the true picture over the number of Indian prisoners lodged in jails there.    

David Beckham burst into floods of tears as he played his final ever game as a professional footballer in Paris this evening.

This is just so, SO EXCITING! Although the only two folks confirmed to be returning to the X Factor judges panel for the reality competition's upcoming third season are Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato, it appears that this will all change on Monday afternoon - as that's when the two latest recruits will be announced! Simon took [...]

NASA may have retired the space shuttle, but that doesn't mean amateur explorers need to stay grounded, right? The Kua Fu Initiative is a photo project raising funds through Kickstarter to send a payload capsule into the lower stratosphere to capture HD photos and videos. Doug Cambron, the project's founder and a safety system supervisor from Perryville, Mo., said the...