Boko Haram Kidnapped 20 More Women This Week
The jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped twenty more women in a remote corner of northeastern Nigeria earlier this week. The group is still holding 270 girls it abducted from a primary school in early...
View Article23 Photos Of The World Cup Host City That's In The Middle Of The Jungle
A lot of people didn't think World Cup games should be held in Manaus.The Amazonian city is 1,700 miles from Sao Paulo and surrounded by 2.1 million square miles of rain forest.National team coaches...
View ArticleA Step-By-Step Guide To How McDonald's Fries Are Made
McDonald's sells 13 billion servings of fries every year. And the fast food giant has the system for the signature item down to a science. McDonald's Canada has a great video that breaks down the...
View ArticleA Design Company Has Invented A Way To Drink Cocktails In Zero Gravity
In case you get bored while taking in the sights of the universe, The Cosmic Lifestyle Corporation has created a spirited solution.The group developed "The Zero Gravity Cocktail Project," a 3D-printed...
View ArticleHere Is The Simplest Advice For Anyone Trying To Lose Weight Or Eat Healthy
Every few years, another diet seems to be all the rage. Food fads come and go every day. Go ahead, try to follow all of the advice that has proliferated: eat low fat, cut out all sugar, eat like a...
View ArticleAn Austrian Teen Discovered The Vulnerability That Set Off TweetDeck's Outage
TweetDeck was down for about an hour Wednesday while the company was fixing a vulnerability allowing cross site scripting attacks (XSS) that caused a tweet with some code and a little heart in it to be...
View ArticleWill Georgia's Senate Race Follow The Eric Cantor Upset Script?
Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s shocking loss to his Tea Party-backed challenger Dave Brat Tuesday has given hope to all GOP candidates trying to score wins as outsiders. One race where...
View ArticleBLACKROCK: Here Are 3 Reasons For The Disconnect Between Stocks And Recent...
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.Three Reasons We're Seeing A Disconnect Between Stock Markets And News Headlines...
View ArticleLowe's Made A Star Trek-Style 'Holoroom' To Test Home Improvement Projects...
Two Lowe's Home Improvement stores in Toronto will soon host an installation that is straight out of science-fiction — sort of.Ad Age reports that the hardware store employs a team of science-fiction...
View Article3 Major Improvements In Skype’s Big iPhone Update (MSFT)
As promised, Microsoft finally rolled out a new version of Skype in the iOS App Store on Thursday — with plenty of design tweaks and new features that improve all aspects of the app.Android users have...
View ArticleThe 25 Coolest Cars In Jay Leno's Garage
There are few people in the world with a car collection that can rival Jay Leno's. Now that his 20-year stint as host of the "Tonight Show" has come to an end, Leno will undoubtedly be spending more...
View ArticleApple Opened A Gorgeous — And Exclusive — New Cafeteria In Cupertino This Week
Apple's brand-new Caffè Macs finally opened this week, after more than two years in the making.The new cafeteria is located at the corner of Bandley and Alves Drive in Cupertino, about half a mile from...
View ArticleHere's How Big An Impact Quizzes Had On Buzzfeed's Facebook Virality
Earlier this year, Buzzfeed editors created a lot of quizzes that went viral on Facebook. The quizzes greatly increased Buzzfeed's overall shares, likes, comments and interactions on the social...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Beautiful Starbucks Stores In The World
With more than 18,000 stores in 62 countries, Starbucks is a force in the coffee world. The typical Starbucks storefronts are easily recognizable to the masses.But some locations of the coffee shop are...
View ArticleWhat Happened Inside Twitter That Led To The COO Leaving The Company (TWTR)
Twitter COO Ali Rowghani is out of the company in something of a surprise.Although Kara Swisher at Re/code reported Rowghani could be out last night, there wasn't much chatter about it before...
View ArticleThe Unsettling Truth About Iraq That Obama Doesn't Want To Hear
The government in Baghdad has lost control of Iraq.Extremists from the al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS have blurred the border to Syria, captured Iraq's second largest city, and advanced toward the capital....
View ArticlePCs Are Selling So Well That Intel Says It Is Going To Bring In More Revenue...
Intel just gave investors some good news. It expects to reporter higher revenues than it previously promised.Intel just upgraded its outlook for its next quarter to an expected $13.7 billion in revenue...
View ArticleIt Now Looks Like Q1 GDP Was One Of The Worst Quarters In Decades
The U.S. economy may have just experienced one of its worst quarters ever.New analyst estimates of Q1 GDP have now all coalesced around a reading of -2%, meaning the U.S. economy contracted.Since 1947,...
View ArticleThe First Goal Of The World Cup Was A Stunning Own Goal By Brazil
The World Cup got off to a shocking start when Croatia took an early 1-0 lead over the host-nation Brazil with what seemed like a harmless crossing pass that was deflected into the net by a Brazilian...
View ArticleCrude Had A Huge Day
London-traded Brent crude rallied 3% to $113 today as the security situation in Iraq continued to deteriorate. The Wall Street Journal reported Iran had deployed Revolutionary Guard units to Iraq to...
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