For everyone at Facebook, the company’s IPO is a moment to take stock of the tremendous value that’s been created –- for customers, for…

In a long-awaited decision, the U.S. Commerce Department has issued a preliminary decision to apply tariffs to Chinese-made solar modules being imported into the U.S. The tariffs range from 31 percent to 250 percent. The preliminary tariffs were issued after a lengthy investigation by the Commerce Department into whether Chinese companies are “dumping” solar panels [...]

A woman in Orange County, California discovered that rock collecting can be a dangerous hobby, when the rocks she’d collected from the beach earlier that day suddenly ignited in her pocket! Here’s the scoop: Orange County Fire Authority officials tell the newspaper that the woman collected the rocks on a nearby beach, returned home and [...]

BriefMobile got their hands on a new back shot of the LG Eclipse 4G LTE. The Sprint phone, rumored to have a 4.67 inch display, a 1.5GHz S4 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 13 megapixel camera with flash, 16GB of internal storage, and a 2,100 mAh battery, appears to be coming with NFC capabilities. That’s nothing [...]

Ed Klein, the author of a new, thinly-sourced book attacking President Obama and Michelle Obama with gossip and innuendo, went on far-right talk show host Dana Loesch’s radio show today to suggest to listeners that the president is a secret Muslim. The comments came during a discussion about Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose inflammatory rhetoric and [...]

Your desk job can kill you. At the very least, it will likely make you fatter, sicker and more stressed out than a job that doesn’t require sitt…

The Environment Protection Agency’s landmark mercury and air toxics standards, announced in December, would reduce pollutants from coal power plants, saving 11,000 lives, prevent 130,000 asthma attacks and avoid 4,700 heart attacks. But Sen. James Inhofe has found the required 30 Senators to bring the rule to a Senate vote. In an event with FreedomWorks, [...]

Remember the Harvard men’s baseball team that danced to Carly Rae Jepsen’s "Call Me Maybe" while on a road trip? Well, the Southern Methodist University Women’s rowing team did one better. They wrote on their YouTube page: “Ball’s in your court, Harvard Baseball” Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] As a parent, all I [...]

Congressional Republicans have promised to “repeal and replace” President Obama’s health care reform law, but they still have not agreed on what that should look like. Today, Speaker John Boehner said every part of Obamacare needs to be removed: “We voted to fully repeal the president’s healthcare law as one of our first acts as [...]

Samsung’s making nice on their promise of expanding their retail presence. Their plan is to create more pop-up areas inside existing stores and have a nice collection of retail stores of their own. Welp, it looks like their first Samsung-only retail story in Canada has been confirmed. Burnaby, British Colombia, Canada is the first town [...]

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denied Thursday that he renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Singapore to avoid paying capital gains…

If you’ve wondered where rock god Prince has been hiding out for the last few years, it appears that he has been undergoing some radical anti-aging treatments. But now he’s back and looking even more youthful than when he started his career in the late 70s, ready to hit the stage complete with scooter and [...]

Patrick Gonzalez, a student at Woodlake Hills Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, really likes the San Antonio Spurs. Indeed, he likes them so much that he shaved Spurs’ player Matt Bonner’s image into the back of his head. Seriously: Unfortunately for Gonzalez, his school principal apparently does not share his love for Mr. Bonner, [...]

Twitter wants to make new users feel more at home on the microblogging network, so it’s changing how it recommends who you should follow w…

[YouTube Clip] If you think completing the triathlon is hard, try doing it while juggling the entire way (yes, even while swimming). That’s what Joe Salter did* last month. This 31-year-old public school counselor from Pensacola, Fla., pulled off the incredible achievement on April 21 when he swam a quarter-mile while juggling three balls, then [...]

As ThinkProgress has reported, American income inequality has skyrocketed over the last three decades. The wealthiest Americans have captured a large share of the nation’s economic prosperity, and their incomes continue to rise even as middle class wages remain stagnant. This income inequality has serious repercussions for the middle class, jeopardizing their economic ability and [...]

Student loan debt is the cause of plenty of headaches in this country, from aspiring nuns to the families of those straddled with a deceased loved one’s payments. So it’s a bit unsettling that a new study says many students are underestimating how much they owe — and some don’t even know they have debt in the first place. Shudder. A financial literary study conducted by Iowa State University faculty and staff found that almost 40% of their students underestimated how much they owed, and one in eight didn’t even realize they had debt, reports the Des Moines Register. The…

by Michael D. Lemonick, via Climate Central The sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean each winter peaked in early March this year, as usual, and is now in retreat, en route to its annual minimum extent in September. How low it will go is something scientists worry: Ice reflects lots of sunlight back into [...]

Today, the Pan American Health Organization, the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, condemned ex-gay therapy in a new position statement, calling it a “serious threat to the health and well-being — even the lives — of affected people.” Not only does the PAHO statement identify the therapies as ineffective and a threat [...]

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — who is rumored to be on Mitt Romney’s vice presidential short list — told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto Thursday afternoon that he disagrees with the former Massachusetts governor’s support for a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as union between one man and one woman. “Ultimately marriage is regulated by [...]

A simple yet effective visual device in photography is the reflection. Images can be completely transformed when seen through the mirror of another…

A Louisiana Senate committee approved two anti-choice bills yesterday. One bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks based on the disputed claim that a fetus can feel pain at that point. That bill would make an exception for instances where the mother’s life was at risk, but doctors who violate the measure could face two [...]

Yesterday, the CFO of Verizon Wireless kicked the hornet’s nest that is the Internet by unofficially announcing that VZW would be killing off currently grandfathered unlimited data plans as customers made the shift from 3G to 4G LTE. Judging by the company’s response since then, he probably wasn’t supposed to let that particular cat out of the bag just yet. In a statement that the L.A. Times labels "backpedaling," but which we would call "slapping a band-aid on a gut wound," Verizon Wireless posted this last night: As we have stated publicly, Verizon Wireless has been evaluating its data pricing…

Small businesses on the West Coast of the U.S. are far more social-media savvy than those on the East Coast — with companies in San Franci…

Two more lesbian couples were denied marriage licenses in North Carolina on Tuesday. The requests came as part of the week-long “We Do” campaign, organized by the Campaign for Southern Equality. The first couple to request a marriage license, Alice Phelan and Sally Young, have been together for 29 years. The other women, Laurel and [...]

According to a poll by the Marijuana Policy Project, nearly three quarters of respondents believe that the federal government should defer to a state’s decision to legalize marijuana for certain uses, even when federal law calls for stricter enforcement: QUESTION: Currently, 16 states plus the District of Columbia have made the medical use of marijuana [...]

Following the recent news that Comcast would not count any of its own Xfinity streaming video services against Internet customers’ 250GB data cap, the folks at Kabletown have announced they is doing away with that cap — and replacing it with tiered data plans. The good news is that the tiers will actually begin above the 250GB level, with everyone bumped up to a 300GB cap. The bad news is that those who go over that limit won’t be throttled — as Comcast currently does to cap-busters — but will instead be hit with fees for additional blocks of GB….

Still Film of an Oak, by Noel Myles Photographer Noel Myles does collages like nobody else – I’m particularly fond of this one of an oak tree, composed of shots taken at different seasons. Check out the rest of Noel’s portfolio here: Link