Obama signs the cell phone unlocking bill into law
President Barack Obama has signed a bill into law, the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which will once again make it legal to
Staples has launched a crowdfunding-powered design contest
The world’s largest business crowdfunding platform, Fundable, has teamed up with Staples to launch the first ever Crowd2Shelf Contest. The contest, which was created by
One of Reddit’s most popular users has been banned for vote manipulation
The Reddit user Unidan, known affectionately by his fellow redditors as the “excited biologist” and known as biologist Ben Eisenkop in real-life, has been banned
Amazonian tribe makes first contact with the outside world
The Brazilian government has announced that it made a rare contact with members of a rare, isolated tribe in the Amazon, not far from the
CIA director apologizes for spying on the Senate
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has admitted that a few of its officers accessed Senate computers improperly, read the emails of the Senate staff, and
Israel and Hamas have agreed to an unconditional ceasefire
Both the United Nations and the United States have announced that an unconditional 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has been agreed upon by
Ebola-stricken doctor gives “experimental serum” to his coworker
Kent Brantly, an American doctor who is being treated for Ebola in Liberia, has “taken a slight turn for the worse overnight,” according to Samaritan’s
Peace Corps begins removing volunteers from West Africa due to Ebola
Two Peace Corps volunteers have been moved into isolation and kept under strict observation after having been exposed to a person who later died of
California is getting its first openly gay governor… for around 8 hours
For about eight hours today, until Governor Jerry Brown returns from a trade mission in Mexico later tonight, California will have its first openly gay
Hamas continues to hide weapons in UN schools
The last two nights have seen the most intense bombardments of the Gaza Strip since the offensive began three weeks ago. Palestinian health officials located