190 diggsUS scientists say they have developed a cream which could for the first time prevent someone from becoming infected with genital herpes.

121 diggsFidel Castro praised U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for his ''noble intentions'' but said in his first opinion column in five weeks that the new American leader had many questions to answer. Castro's prolonged silence after months of prolific column writing had contributed to speculation that the ailing 82-year-old was on his death bed.

191 diggsThe “Little Ice Age” Argument: Too many scientists are either ignoring, or don’t understand, the well-established fact that Earth’s climate has changed rapidly in the past and could change rapidly in the future—in either direction.

340 diggsThe before shots are wow and the after shots are unfortunately omg and ugh.

93 diggsSony Corp and LG Electronics Inc stunned investors on Thursday, warning of big losses, underlining the deep pain in the consumer electronics market as demand crumbles in a brutal global downturn.

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240 diggsTV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?

260 diggsIt has been over a year since we published our feature "The 25 Best Financial Blogs." A great deal has changed. Some of the blogs on the list are gone or no longer have regular posts. Others have grown and become better.

113 diggsThis may be hard to believe: In 2003, no pro sports team in the world was worth a billion dollars. By the end of 2008, there were 24, led by European soccer powerhouse Manchester United.

115 diggsThe next major update to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system could arrive as late as May or June 2009, months later than originally expected.

247 diggsConstructed from an innovative cellulose-based material, the structures are light, cheap, well-insulated, and are remarkably strong, making them an incredible asset to developing countries, the homeless, and those displaced by disasters.

220 diggsSome Republicans are privately urging Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) to step down at the end of his term amid growing concerns that he can’t win reelection in 2010. According to two GOP sources, leading Republican fundraisers in Kentucky are hesitant to raise money for Bunning and have told him he should not seek a third term.

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430 diggsFor his latest school science fair project he has invented invisible warning signals that can be placed — discreetly — right in the middle of a window pane.

148 diggsThe Pittsburgh Steelers' AFC Championship celebration was nearly ruined Sunday when Baltimore Ravens running back and attention hog Willis McGahee refused to move his extremities following a fourth quarter tackle by safety Ryan Clark, making himself appear to be paralyzed or even dead.

157 diggsWhat would you give for a working lightsaber? Or, barring that, a pulse rifle from Aliens? Sometimes, though, weapons that look good on the screen are ones that you'd never ever want to use (unless you don't mind losing a few fingers).

555 diggsIt's said that a great piece of art reveals new facets of meaning each time you look at it. Since we're impatient and lazy, we asked you to open up some new facets for us. Specifically, we asked you to use photoshop to show us some things we might not have noticed the first time we looked at some of the world's most famous pictures.

166 diggsMatt talks about his story, why he decided to start sharing it and how he became homeless after his marriage fell apart and his employer became insolvent. We've all read his blog; this is the story behind it all.

189 diggsThe world has to confront a natural limit on something once considered virtually infinite.

234 diggs2009 Oscar Nominations complete list of nominations, Dark Knight not up for Best Picture!

91 diggsFormer Boston Globe writer Gordon Edes gives a run-down on the off-season of the Red Sox, which was notable for the lack of signing a slugger to hit behind David Ortiz. Read between the lines and you can see this is currently a third-place club in the A.L. East.

74 diggsMicrosoft, moving up its second-quarter earnings release from this afternoon to right now, said its financial performance took a major hit, with revenue up only two percent, to $16.63 billion, about $900 million below earlier guidance.

118 diggsPurchased by Art Rooney Sr. in 1933 the Steelers struggled for decades. But since the merger in 1970 no one's been better. No one. And now, after 7Super Bowls, 30 postseason wins, 7 championship games in the past 14 years, 19 Hall of Famers and the dynasty of the 1970s that includes probably the greatest, baddest football team ever assembled...

328 diggsIn just 60 minutes, you could earn enough to pay for a tank of gas, the cable bill, gym membership, or dinner out. Thirty dollars still covers some of life's essential costs. Earn that much in just one hour on the job, and you have enough to build a comfortable life.

150 diggsHave you ever watched a comedy or even a drama that clearly doesn’t give off the vibe that a dance scene is about to come on? It’s almost like you say “what the hell is going on here?” Or not even that. Here are 10 random dance sequences in Non-Dancing movies.

259 diggsLedger, who died at age 28, became the seventh actor to earn a posthumous nomination in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciencest

162 diggsI bet he was really dizzy after that move.

279 diggsEvery so often, a comic actor goes through a crisis of faith. Maybe they feel they’re being pigeonholed into roles that involve fart jokes and being hit in the balls too often, or maybe they just want to see what else they’re capable of. Sometimes this can be a trainwreck, but for these eight actors, it’s gone pretty well at least once.

196 diggsDuring Apple's earnings conference call yesterday, Apple COO Tim Cook fielded a wide variety of questions, but two answers in particular helped shed a bit of light on the likelihood that Apple would enter the netbook market or release a lower end iPhone.

102 diggsNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said in an interview Wednesday that his rehabilitation from season-ending knee surgery was "going really well," but he did not offer any timetable for a return to the football field.

248 diggsHere is the e-mail that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent to employees this morning, as the company announced poor earnings and major layoffs.

348 diggsA Palestinian medical official says an Israeli gunboat off the shores of Gaza City has opened fire on Gazans, wounding a man and a girl.

185 diggsWomen who have succeeded in technology deserve recognition: They are an inspiration for everyone, demonstrating what can be achieved through creativity and hard work.

173 diggsWe'd really harshed on this phone prior to its release, because... well, when you're used to flip phones looking a certain way, it looks kinda funny. In the flesh, though, the LG Lotus looks just fine -- once you get past the fact that it's basically a perfect square when closed -- and anyone who does a lot of messaging should probably take note.

300 diggsApple executives hinted Wednesday that the company might legally contest the multitouch technology found within the Palm Pre.

158 diggsThe day after America's biggest yard party was all about the cleanup.

229 diggsThe Democratic Republic of the Congo has ended 65 logging contracts in order to stamp out corruption and to enforce legal and environmental standards. While ending huge concessions to almost untaxed logging companies, the move will reduce the rainforest's exploited timber by almost half and pave the way to real development for local communities.

140 diggsReleased in 1985, the Dustbot is claimed to be the first robot to feature a built-in vacuum cleaner (that broom was just for show) and featured edge detection to turn away from obstacles.

210 diggsAdvanced Micro Devices cuts the prices of some of its processors for high-end desktops and gaming PCs.

353 diggsDear Mainstream Media: Obama's new phone isn't a BlackBerry, might not be a phone, and he might not be getting it.

248 diggsIf there's one thing that should be made painfully clear to every living person it's that the economy just plain sucks these days. Here's a top 10 list of game characters that can hurt the economy. From physical destruction to problematic insurance costs, these are the characters that should steer clear of the US of A for awhile.

269 diggsA two-time Miss World finalist has had her hands and feet amputated after being struck down with an infection. Brazilian model Mariana Bridi, 20, had her hands and feet removed in emergency surgery.

209 diggsUnlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't have to convince users to buy its operating system; that happens automatically when they purchase a new PC. Microsoft only has to keep users from removing Windows 7 and backing down to Windows XP, which typically runs faster on the same hardware due to a variety of factors.

162 diggsMicrosoft assigns "taksforces" to fight GNU/Linux adoption (Wal-Mart in this case)

182 diggsA man's search for his lost dog ended in funny disaster on Tuesday, as he managed to lose a borrowed car in a frozen river.

329 diggsIn the 1980s, climate scientists in Russia & U.S. theorized that all-out nuclear war between the superpowers would result in a "nuclear winter," blackening the sky and sending temperatures plummeting below freezing, killing crops and eventually starving everybody. While there is no regional nuclear war, the climate effects are still sobering.

277 diggsWanted to reach out to folks with an update on Digg and our priorities for 2009 as well as address some of the recent speculation about our business.

387 diggsDigg CEO Jay Adelson this morning is announcing that the social media site is laying off a "very small" portion of its workforce, but will also be hiring a new direct sales force and head of sales to drive the company to profitablity this year.

794 diggsPresident Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It's perhaps not surprising, then, that he's been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source.

200 diggsThere is fierce debate over the direction humanity should take when exploring the solar system. Plans for human exploration of the solar system and beyond often polarize opinions among the public and scientific communities.

182 diggsThe Washington Post today is launching Who Runs Gov, a site primarily made up of a database of personalities in the United States government. If you're looking for info on your state's senator or representative, or details about a cabinet or high-ranking military official, it looks like the site could be a valuable resource.

149 diggsIn a revealing example of what she says the average homeowner faces, a California Congresswoman spent more than two hours on the phone trying, without success, to find someone at the Bank of America who could help a struggling constituent modify his mortgage payments. ABC News "Nightline" cameras were rolling as Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Ca.)

80 diggsThis is a time lapsed video of some dude blowing 30 hours building a picture of Cal Ripken out of nothing but colored thumb tacks.

239 diggst wasn't supposed to be this way for Joe Biden. President, maybe. And if not, at least he would remain an independent-as-hell senior senator. But vice-president? No way. Unless...

132 diggsJohn Mozeliak (St. Louis Cardinals GM) from the chatroom: First I rather live in my world then yours...it is sunny out today??? No you're right it is 30 something degrees, my girl friend dumped me, and my car won't start.

196 diggsFrom pop culture (Star Trek! Robert Downey Jr.!) to science (Aliens! Robert Downey Jr.!) and everything in between (Sound-blocking wallpaper! Robert Downey Jr.!), get ready for the future to bring the happy.

264 diggsROME - Italian and British scientists want to exhume the body of 16th century astronomer Galileo for DNA tests to determine if his severe vision problems may have affected some of his findings. "If we knew exactly what was wrong with his eyes we could use computer models to recreate what he saw in his telescope," said Paolo Galluzzi.

205 diggsThough no one ever said the reptile look was going to snag any dates, it’s just one of the six most bizarre ways people are altering their appearance for better or worse… I’d say for worse.

161 diggsAnother week brings yet another BlackBerry Storm OS leak. This time the version is 4.7.0.90 for the 9530 and 9500—a version CrackBerry claims is "a step in the right direction."

211 diggsTrees in western North America are dying at faster and faster rates, and climate change is likely to blame. The mounting deaths could fundamentally transform Western forests because tree reproduction hasn’t increased to offset losses, according to a new study published Thursday in Science.

149 diggsNot all three-quels are created equal. For every Bourne Ultimatum, there are a dozen films of the quality of X-Men 3. True, there are bad three-quels and then there are those that never should have happened either because the film before it sucked or all the talent had moved on. This article discusses the ten most useless three-quels.

133 diggsA 46-year-old man has been arrested 190 times in Florida, most recently for carjacking, police say. So much for 3 strikes you're out...

58 diggsInstead, 1970s cutting-edge skateboarding, in the popular consciousness, belongs not to Salt Creek but to Santa Monica—Dogtown, and yes, the Z-boys, or the Zephyr skateboard team. While they boast their own impressive archive of achievements, the flamboyant, long-haired bad-boy antics of Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Stacy Peralta, Jim Muir...

159 diggsLocated in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

162 diggsStephen Colbert interviewed Lawrence Lessig about remixing and some resourceful nerds made remixes of that interview. Well, Remixgate heated up even more last night, with Stephen showing his disapproval for the remixes by creating a video for one of them.

142 diggsAbout 3,800 years ago, residents of Supe Valley in Peru’s coastal desert, 120 miles north of Lima, had just created a flourishing society complete with tall pyramids (thousands of years before the Maya). They were fishing and growing cotton and vegetables, when disaster struck and the forces of nature wiped them out. Just like that.

115 diggsDespite having the most critically acclaimed commercial blockbuster Oscar hopeful since 2003's "Return of the King," academy voters refused to give "The Dark Knight" a nomination for best picture this morning.

229 diggsIf you’re not tattooed, here is a short guide to some mistakes to avoid. Before you go under the needle, have a look to see what the following might say about you.

122 diggsWith broadband stimulus plans in the works over in Washington, Pew's Internet & American Life project reminds us that plenty of those without broadband don't actually seem to want it.

135 diggsMarvel vs. Capcom, Earthworm Jim, Space Harrier and so on... what happened to all of these awesome franchises? We're going back again to better days and counting off 14 more video game series that have little to no hope of getting another crack at a new title. What treasured franchises got left by the wayside that you're still carrying a torch for?

161 diggsPhotographer: Ilia Shalamaev

75 diggs1. Taylor Swift 2. AC/DC 3. Lil' Wayne 4. Coldplay 5. Metallica and more.

135 diggsBehind the scenes with the special effects team. Benjamin Button has swept the Oscar nominations. And while we may not agree with all of the noms, Button should be a lock for Visual Effects. Check out this new behind-the-scenes video.

204 diggsGuantanamo Bay isn't the only thing on the chopping block. President Barack Obama will close a secret network of CIA prisons immediately.

173 diggs"How much is community service worth to you? How about prison-like-wages of 35 cents per hour? That's the cost of giving five hours to community service in exchange for one free tall coffee from Starbucks ($1.75)."

265 diggsBy now you have probably heard many reports of the health benefits of green tea. However, many people who are unaccustomed to green tea find its vegetal flavor difficult to drink. Here are some easy ways for the uninitiated to learn to love green tea.

128 diggsRight now it is a mystery, but given the widespread nature of the same symptom that started today it is looking like AT&T may be filtering out the Orb traffic. It could be a technical glitch, but I can find no announcement of technical issues or server problems with AT&T to explain it.

190 diggs"My girls never quit," he said. "They played as hard as they could to the very end. They played with all their hearts at 70-nothing, 80-nothing and 100-nothing.

160 diggsA spectacular, that's-gotta-hurt, cycle-crash photo snapped by Daniel Bayer at the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia.

217 diggsPredicting the future isn't easy. That's why astrologers and fortune tellers tend to keep their forecasts as vague as possible. But in the high-stakes world of high technology, the future belongs to those who see it coming well in advance. Of course, even the most successful tech prognosticators make their share of foolish predictions.

104 diggsThe Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, theUbuntu 8.04.2 LTS released second maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

184 diggsWhich Super Bowl teams were the worst of the bunch?

169 diggsWhich Super Bowl teams were the best of the bunch?

279 diggsGoogle, the internet search engine, sees profits fall in the final quarter of last year as advertising revenue is hit by the economic downturn.

138 diggsFeedBurner has recently been trying to move its feeds over to Google. This prompted other bloggers and me to finally get around to moving our feeds onto Google. What myself and others did not know was that Google FeedBurner had us bloggers losing 100’s if not 1000’s of subscribers overnight.

197 diggsMars and Mercury were formed from the scraps of Earth and Venus, according to a radical new theory of rocky planet formation. The model could explain some characteristics of Mars and Mercury that have long puzzled scientists, said Brad Hansen, an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles.

277 diggsA man murdered his estranged wife after becoming "enraged" when she changed her marital status on Facebook to "single". Edward Richardson, 41, of Mayfield Road, Biddulph, was found guilty of stabbing 26-year-old Sarah Richardson to death.

236 diggsWith the trial starting in only a few weeks, some have pictured dark clouds above the world’s most popular BitTorrent tracker. The Pirate Bay team doesn’t seem to be bothered by it though, as they prefer to look ahead. For the first time in years there are plans to redo the design of the site, and it’s looking bright.

253 diggs"Linux is great. It's a free, open-source operating system (OS) based on work done by Linus Torvalds in the early '90s. Again, it's free, powerful and easy to ... Oh wait, it's a pain to use."

164 diggsToday, Microsoft is announcing its biggest layoff ever and Sun is quietly laying off the first of what may turn out to be an additional 6,000 employees. Red Hat? Total year-over-year up 17%. Novell? Its Linux sales in 2008 were up by 38%. Which companies do you think are doing better?

93 diggsJust as Chrysler LLC announced a sequel to its ownership saga, the struggling automaker also unveiled plans to help underwrite the fourth installment of the "Terminator" movie series. Chrysler, which has received $4 billion in emergency aid from the U.S. government, has a deal to place its vehicles in cameo roles in "Terminator Salvation."

200 diggsWASHINGTON – Researchers believe they have solved the puzzle of three seemingly different fish, one all males, one all females and one all juveniles. They're the same fish, and undergo remarkable changes as they mature. "You can imagine it was a pretty exciting discovery," said an ichthyologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural...

294 diggsDigg announced today that it's going to be chilling out on growth plans, and maybe even reducing staff. I caught up with Digg founder Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson last week at the L.A. Diggnation meetup, and asked them about the state of the San Francisco company, features in the works, the power-user problem and their take on the media landscape

57 diggsTop 13, no one received 100%.

344 diggsThe Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board released Coast Guard footage today of the U.S. Airways passenger plane as it conducted an emergency landing into the Hudson River Jan. 15, 2009.

178 diggsIn addition, the following table provides a state-by-state breakdown of structurally-deficient bridges in 2007.

140 diggsThe following is an article that appeared in the December 1983 issue of Byte magazine. When I first created this site there was very little information about early versions of Windows on the web and no references to this article. It was almost as if there was some conspiracy to hide the truth about the age of Windows.

139 diggsLooks like the Cubbies have been sold!

181 diggsA family in Georgia were burned out of their home. Hate messages about Obama were sprayed on the fence.

164 diggsVideo included after the jump.

196 diggsSpotted during Season 1 Episode 12, the KnightPhone pulls just enough iconography from the iPhone to make people think (oh, it's an iPhone!) but simultaneously changes enough details so that people subsequently realize (oh wait, it's not really an iPhone, it's just kinda sorta an iPhonish thing).

120 diggsOrdering the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay was the easy bit. Working out what to do with the 245 or so inmates who are still there will be much harder.

51 diggsThe East squad consists of Howard at center, forwards LeBron James (Cavaliers) and Kevin Garnett (Celtics) and guards Dwyane Wade (Heat) and Allen Iverson (Pistons). Lakers guard Kobe Bryant headlines the West team that includes fellow guard Chris Paul (Hornets), forwards Tim Duncan (Spurs) and Amar'e Stoudemire (Suns) and center Yao Ming (Rockets)

172 diggsEver since Digg launched it’s Recommendation Engine, it has been looking for ways to use the data it is collecting.

105 diggsMath teacher attached a McDonalds application to a failed maths test.

181 diggsMexico inaugurated one of the world's largest wind farm projects Thursday as the nation looks for alternative energy, in part to compensate for falling oil production.

201 diggsThe Army has decided to cut off retirement pay for veterans of a largely Native militia formed to guard the territory of Alaska from the threat of Japanese attack during World War II. The change means 26 surviving members of the Alaska Territorial Guard — most in their 80s and long retired — will lose as much as $557 in monthly retirement pay,

140 diggsThe somber, elegiac tones before President Obama’s oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the National Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording, made two days earlier by the quartet.

256 diggsBeijing proposes spending $124 billion to subsidize basic medical coverage and overhaul hospitals.

212 diggsIt has begun.

127 diggsUsing security software is more important than ever. Our tests of the latest all-in-one security suites show that good protection can shut down the nastiest viruses, spyware, and adware.

107 diggsGood news for you Heroes fans missing the now-deceased Elle, Kristen Bell. It looks like Kristen's heading for the big screen as that other alter ego who's even more kickass: Miss Veronica Mars.

85 diggsThe Eye-in-the-Sea camera will allow marine biologists Erika Raymond and Edith Widder, pictured, to unobtrusively observe organisms in the deep ocean. In this gallery, you can watch as the system is flawlessly installed in the bay, and within a week, you'll be able to use their camera to peer into the deep.

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107 diggsOf three objects prominent in this thoughtful telescopic image, a view toward the stealthy constellation Lynx, two (the spiky ones) are nearby stars. The third is the remote globular star cluster NGC 2419, at distance of nearly 300,000 light-years. NGC 2419 is sometimes called "the Intergalactic Wanderer", an appropriate title considering that...

144 diggsSpacey developed the film with his TriggerStreet production company, with Jonas Pate directing Thomas Moffet's script, and Spacey part of an ensemble cast that includes Robin Williams, Saffron Burrows, Mark Webber, Dallas Roberts and Keke Palmer.

163 diggsThe Swedes have a simple message to the Americans: Bite the bullet and nationalize. With Sweden’s banks effectively bankrupt in the early 1990s, a center-right government pulled off a rapid recovery that led to taxpayers making money in the long run.

130 diggsRising temperatures and the resulting drought are causing trees in the Western U.S. to die off at more than twice the pace they did a few decades ago, a study found.

108 diggsDaniel Tammet: "Our world is generating more information with more resources and technology now than at any time in history: through TV and radio programs, cell phones, magazines, email, websites, blogs, and other media... Being overwhelmed by a continuous maelstrom of information can be just as damaging to our minds as having too little of it..."

87 diggsA U.S. biotech company says it plans to start this summer the world's first study of a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells — a long-awaited project aimed at spinal cord injury.

115 diggsIt's the "other" ivory. And this week, conservationists in London stepped in to stop its sale. It might not be as well known as the stuff that comes from elephants, but the ivory from the narwhal, the tusked whale of the northern seas, is just as much in demand – and with that demand comes a threat just as severe as the one elephants face.

345 diggsState Senator Robert Ford is hoping to outlaw lewd language and is pushing for a bill that would prohibit profanity. Under the pre-filed bill, profanity could land you in jail for up to 5 years and/or cost you up to $5,000 in fines. Debra Gammons says, that the First Amendment is not absolute. You cannot say whatever you want whenever you want to.

75 diggsA U.S. biochemist says he has uncovered the secrets of the unique sound of original Stradivarius and Guarneri violins. Joseph Nagyvary, a professor emeritus of biochemistry at Texas A&M University, has spent 33 years trying to prove his theory that chemicals used on the instruments are responsible for the distinctive sounds of the violins.

201 diggsBRUSSELS/LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Rich nations could raise $200 billion in climate funds through a levy on their greenhouse gases from 2013-2020 to help poor countries prepare for global warming, the European Union will say next week.

243 diggsTech-savvy Pres. Barack Obama quickly revamps the chief executive Web site, but finds that when it comes to technology at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, change (such as laptops for his staff) will come more slowly

213 diggsMost films are about transformation in some way. We have to get characters from Point A to Point B, and to make it interesting, they’d better change somehow. In this list, the guy next door is more likely to turn into a blood-thirsty beast who could rip your throat out at the first sign of the full moon.

91 diggsGov. David A. Paterson has selected Representative Kirsten Gillibrand, a 42-year-old congresswoman from upstate who is known for bold political moves and centrist policy positions, to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to a person who spoke to the governor early Friday.