The Incredible Rise of Mind-Controlled Limbs
A few years ago the thought of a robotic limb controlled by a person's mind was the stuff of science fiction. Today, it seems like there's a new breakthrough in bionic technology every week.
In the last few weeks, market analysts have ratcheted up fears about a run on Greek banks. Now, some experts say those fears are beginning to materialize.
A few years ago the thought of a robotic limb controlled by a person's mind was the stuff of science fiction. Today, it seems like there's a new breakthrough in bionic technology every week.
The last time House Speaker John Boehner hosted a nail-biting debt-ceiling fight, it didn't go so well for him. The Tea Partiers who wanted a fight thought he caved and everyone else thought the House Republicans looked reckless. But Boehner's figured out a better way to play brinksmanship: imagine you're fighting about the debt limit long before you have to.
We had some fun Monday with The Washington Post's report that Henry Kissinger, wheelchair bound and unrecognized by TSA security guards, underwent a "full Monty" patdown, but ever the Realpolitik practitioner, Kissinger himself didn't take too much issue with the incident
Today brought strange news about France's new prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault: His surname means "penis" in Arabic.
We have reached the end of the end of unlimited data, with Verizon CFO Fran Shammo announcing that the grandfathered in unlimited 3G data holders will have to relenquish their wealth of data when they migrate over to the 4G network.
We love to talk about relationships, good and bad, and probably always will. Most especially, we love it when we think people are doing them wrong.
Players: James Franco, Hollywood actor who's made a name for himself for being a jack of all trades and the ultimate professional student; The New York Observer, a weekly paper suffering from Franco fatigue.
Over the next few days, you may notice a lot of changes on your Google search pages.
Herman Cain hosted a somewhat random press conference Wednesday to announce (for the second time!) that he's endorsed Mitt Romney, a man who has no Republican competitors in his race for president.
Microsoft now offers a program that charges $99 to basically move items to the recycle bin for you.
Attempts by Mitt Romney's campaign on Wednesday to limit reporters' access to the presumptive GOP nominee provoked a litany of complaints from the reporters.
What to Expect When You're Expecting, a movie with an ensemble cast of celebrities each depicting different versions of mommy-and-daddyhood, comes out in theaters Friday. So, this is a date movie, right?
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a lawsuit filed against the New York Police Department can become a class action suit, possibly creating a class of potential victims in hundreds of thousands.
History will remember May 16, 2012 as a day the Internet felt cold and empty without one of its most prominent political journalists. That's because Politico's Mike Allen took his first day off in nearly three years.
We wouldn't be so disappointed that John Edwards' defense team had rested its case without him or his mistress being called to testify if that possibility hadn't been teased so hard in the news, but as it is, this is such a letdown.
Are you done feeling sorry for shafted Facebook founder-turned-Singaporean resident Eduardo Saverin? By renouncing his U.S. citizenship, the new non-American will save at least $67 million in taxes from Facebook's IPO.
Given Aaron Sorkin's biopic track record and Steve Jobs' personality type, it makes perfect sense that Sorkin would sign on with Sony to do an adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography of the late Apple founder.
British provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen has been so committed to his various characters — Ali G, Borat, Bruno — that he's done almost all of his press interviews in character. But after just his third interview as himself, it turns out that his real self is a normal, smart, English guy.
It took a month and work from Forbes writer Edwin Durgy, but we now have the best estimate for just how rich Mitt Romney is: the wealth-counting magazine pegs the Republican presidential candidate's net worth at $230 million.
New York's state legislature is notoriously dysfunctional, but its response to a court's finding that viewing child pornography was actually legal in the state shows it can move fast when it wants to.
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