Apple is the most valuable public company in the world, now worth over $400 billion. Earlier this week, Apple’s first quarter earnings were released to the public. The amount of cash at their disposal is truly staggering. A technology company with $97.6 billion in cash on hand? It’s more than enough to change the world. [...]

Members of the Polish parliament are not taking the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) lying down. They’ve protested by appearing in parliament, holding cut-outs of the notorious Guy Fawkes mask in front of their faces in an obvious tribute to the hacktivist group known as Anonymous. Unfortunately for Poland, most members of the the European Union [...]

You know it’s a sad state of affairs when the Sweathogs start dying. Robert Hegyes, the actor who played Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the ’70s sitcom Welcome Back Kotter has died. He was 60 years old. Hegyes was appearing on Broadway in 1975 when he auditioned for Welcome Back Kotter, a show [...]

President Barack Obama and his attorney failed to appear in a Georgia courtroom yesterday for a hearing on a complaint that says that Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen and cannot be president. Obama has thus been hit with a “Failure to Appear”. Orly Taitz, the California attorney who brought the legal challenge to Obama’s name [...]

Twitter will now be serving up the latest breaking news and information about what you find interesting – as long as your government allows it. The social networking giant has announced that it will begin censoring tweets in certain countries. “Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ limits was to [...]

Despite what you may have read on Twitter, Cher is not dead. Rumors were flying fast and furious last night and into this morning on Twitter, where “RIP Cher” had become a trending topic. It seems a user who goes be @Lorraine_Star “retweeted” a fake CNN tweet: “RT @CNN: American recording artist Cher dies at [...]

State officials in Kansas are inspecting what’s left of the Eggner Ferry Bridge after a cargo ship carrying aviation parts struck it, causing a partial collapse. Inspectors began checking out the bridge at daybreak this morning. The three-story-high Motor Vessel Delta Mariner struck span “E” of the bridge around 8:00 p.m. last night. The Kentucky [...]

Actress Fran Drescher claims to have been abducted by aliens while she was in junior high. She also says that the aliens implanted a chip inside of her hand and programmed her to meet her ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, who inspired her TV series Happily Divorced. “You know, it’s funny because Peter and I both [...]

The reopening of an Australian museum has been a real thrill for visitors, and it’s scared some visitors senseless. Some of the delighted (and rather frightened) guests think the partially-animatronic creatures greeting them at the entrance are “a little too realistic.” The Queensland Museum of Natural History in Brisbane chose to mark its reopening after [...]

Don’t look now, but we’re going to have a pretty close shave in about an hour. Asteroid 2012 BX34 will be blowing past Earth today, but it doesn’t pose much of a threat despite the fact that it will be closer than our moon. The newly-discovered asteroid, which is about the size of a bus, [...]

Here are your top stories for this Friday, January 27, 2012: – President Obama continues western energy tour – Building collapses in Brazil – Man charged in New Jersey arson attacks – Australian Prime Minister rushed away from angry protesters