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Mother's Day  is annually held on the second Sunday of May. It celebrates motherhood and it is a time to appreciate mothers and mother figures. Many people give gifts, cards, flowers, candy, a meal in a restaurant or other treats to their mother and mother figures, including grandmothers, great-grandmothers, stepmothers, and foster mothers. Flowers and other gifts are given to mothers on Mother's...
The US government has long argued that the program is legal under the controversial Patriot Act, but a federal appeals court sees things differently. A US Appeals court has sent shockwaves through the government and security industry after ruling that the National Security Agency's wholesale collection of phone call data is illegal. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on Thursday...
Yahoo is going after a former employee the company claims was spilling its secrets. The lawsuit alleges that Cecile Lal, who was chief of staff to a vice president at Yahoo, leaked information about the company to journalist Nicholas Carlson for his book "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!" The suit was filed in Santa Clara County in California on Wednesday and was first reported by...
As cities continue to grow at a dizzying rate, commuters are constantly battling ever-increasing congestion on the roads and a lack of parking, just to get to work. But now a team of German engineers have come up with an ingenious solution -- a "flexible" electric vehicle capable of shrinking, driving sideways (think like a crab) and turning on a dime. The EO Smart Connecting Car 2 is...
The latest Lenovo LaVie Z 360 laptop won't work as intended in the Tent and Stand modes, but the company ships it anyway, offering a 5 percent refund off the purchase price, says Consumer Reports. The LaVie Z series at CES 2015.CNET If you've been eyeing Lenovo's latest ultraportable laptop, the LaVie Z series, since it was announced at CES 2015, this may make you think twice about purchasing...
Edwin Hubble first discovered in 1929 that the light from objects in space appears shifted somewhat toward the red spectrum, thanks to an increase in wavelength, and that the further away the objects were, the more shift in the light occurred. Later work by other astronomers confirmed this as direct evidence our universe is expanding — kind of like a ballon being slowly filled with air — which...
The launch of a new version of Windows used to be a major event Windows 10 is going to be the last major revision of the operating system. Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft development executive, said in a conference speech this week that Windows 10 would be the "last version" of the dominant desktop software. His comments were echoed by Microsoft which said it would update Windows in future in an "ongoing...
A team of Italian scientists turns ordinary spiders into super-spiders that can produce a web with fibers stronger than Kevlar. Hopefully the finding will also lead to a better Spider-Man movie. An experiment in Italy yielded spider webs that contain what are believed to be the strongest fibers in the world. For those afraid of spiders, we apologize in advance for the dreams you're going to have...
Share This Article The average selling price of a new car in the US these days is $33,500, according to Kelley Blue Book. That’s not chump change, but it buys a lot of value. It’s roughly the price of a loaded-with-tech Honda Accord, Honda CR-V, or Toyota Camry, a bit above top-level Civics and Mazda 3s, and the starting point for entry-level BMW, Mercedes, and Audi models — although...