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Hundreds of mourners filled the Great Hall at New York’s Cooper Union on January 19th to honor the life of Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who took his own life earlier this month at age 26. Swartz was well-known in technology circles for helping develop the RSS web feed format and the popular site Reddit,Read More …

Taking after the Gnomes on the animated series who ardently practice American capitalism, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have wooed investors and raised money to form their own production studio, which they plan to announce on Monday. The new company is to be called Important Studios and hopes to be just that. With an estimatedRead More …

Django Unchained opens in theaters today, but the big screen isn’t the only way to see the newest work by Quentin Tarantino. The issue of the Django Unchained comic book mini-series from DC/Vertigo Comics is available now in comic book stores (and online). The comic is an incredibly faithful adaptation of Tarantino’s movie script –Read More …

Police believe he was from Africa, probably from Angola, but they don’t know his identity. The mystery began in September when residents of a suburban street in the Mortlake neighborhood of West London woke up on a quiet Sunday morning to find the crumpled body of a black man on the sidewalk of Portman Avenue,Read More …

In case you haven’t heard, the Pope has joined Twitter. And, more importantly, you can now ask him anything. Well, almost anything. Just in time for the Advent season, the pontiff – known to Catholics the world over as Pope Benedict XVI – officially joined the social networking site on Monday. Using the handle @PontifexRead More …

Angry farmers protesting at falling dairy prices in the EU have sprayed fresh milk at the European Parliament and riot police in Brussels. Thousands of dairy farmers, accompanied by hundreds of tractors, descended on the Belgian capital on Monday for two days of demonstrations. Disruption has continued, with EU officials hindered from reaching their officesRead More …

Apple has taken a seat in Ferrari’s boardroom in a deal that helps both companies. Eddy Cue, the tech titan’s vice president of internet software and services, was named to Ferrari’s board of directors on the same day the Italian automaker announced record-setting sales for the first nine months of the year. “I am pleasedRead More …

A US man accused of smuggling 70 million year old dinosaur skeletons into the United States, including a toothy relative of the bigger Tyrannosaurus rex, was arrested on Wednesday in Florida, officials said. Eric Prokopi, 38, was charged with conspiracy to smuggle illegal goods, smuggling into the United States, and selling stolen goods, which carryRead More …

Felix Baumgartner and his Red Bull Stratos team were forced to abort mission Tuesday morning when gusty winds played havoc with the helium balloon as it was being filled on the tarmac. At 11:42 a.m. MDT, with Baumgartner in his pressurized space suit and inside the Red Bull Stratos capsule, mission control announced that hisRead More …

  Prolific session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, who played on hits by stars including Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and Dusty Springfield, has died. Sullivan, 71, was reputed to have played on more than 1,000 hits including 55 number one singles. His credits included Petula Clark’s Downtown, What’s New Pussycat by Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey’s GoldfingerRead More …