A Colorado woman is recovering after being stranded in her car for five days after crashing off a rural highway south west of Denver. Passersby who happened to stop on scenic US Highway 285 near Fairplay spotted the car about 80 feet below in an aspen grove. They hiked down to the vehicle and called authorities.

Stephen Hawking has warned that artificial intelligence has the potential to be the downfall of mankind. The physicist has written an article in the Independent warning about an uncertain future where technology learns to control itself. Discussing Jonny Depp’s latest film Transcendence, which delves into a world where computers can surpass the abilities of humans, Hawking said dismissing the film …

A Cape Cod shark safety flier has some people concerned for not only local business, but also for the safety of the animals themselves. According to the Boston Herald, 415,000 brochures were printed and distributed to the public to inform visitors and locals alike about sharks, but some are now questioning how much good the brochures will do.

Eddie Andreini, a veteran stunt pilot was killed after his vintage civilian airplane crashed onto the tarmac during an air show at Travis Air Force Base in California on Sunday, forcing a shutdown of the show.

An accident at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus in Rhode Island left nine acrobats in critical condition Sunday afternoon. Authorities stressed that the injuries were not life-threatening.

With California in the grip of persistent drought, officials in the coastal city of Santa Barbara are thinking about firing up a desalination plant that has been in storage for more than two decades. The city built the plant in the 1990s during the last drought, but activated it for only three months after heavy rains eliminated the need for …

A man has been arrested in connection with the apparent murder of a woman in a Richmond apartment building, investigators say. The Integrated Homicide Investigation launched a murder probe after a body was found just before 2 p.m. in the 7000-block of Granville Avenue Sunday.

Two women are dead and a third is injured in hospital after a stabbing spree at a home in the city’s southeast Sunday night.

Foursquare is now splitting its main app into two distinct apps–one for local search and another for checking in. Unarguably the check-in feature gets most of the revenue for the Foursquare, and separating it from the main app is probably putting more competition in the market of local search. It is unclear whether the users would be loving the new …

University of Oxford researchers have become successful in developing new high-efficiency solar cells at lower costs than at what they are currently manufactured. The trick that helped them achieve this is by replacing the lead by tin. lead in solar cells based on lead halide perovskites can be replaced with tin. Called “Perovskite solar cells” by the research team at …

A 4-year-old boy is dead and three people, including two other children, were hurt in a one-vehicle rollover on southbound I-55 early Sunday near Bolingbrook, Illinois State Police said.