Last week, Twitter announced that it was shutting down the short video sharing service Vine amid its growing struggle to monetize. Now, the original creators of Vine have announced their next initiative, a live streaming video service called Hype. You can slip music, photos and videos into your stream, and customize the layout to suit your presentation. It doesn’t just …

Researchers created a robot that could produce energy by consuming living organisms. The robot has a ‘mouth’ created from a soft polymer membrane. Through this membrane, food – or rather water containing living organisms – is pumped into the robot’s ‘stomach’, which contains a microbic fuel cell filled with bacteria. The bacteria dissolves living organisms, producing energy for the machine. …

The details of the ongoing legal battle between Taylor Swift and a former Denver radio DJ David Mueller have been released in a deposition obtained by TMZ. The man she accuses of the assault, David Mueller, also known by his former Denver KYGO listeners as “Jackson,” lost his job after Taylor claimed that he groped her and retaliated by suing …

A video posted to Facebook by Alaska’s Bureau of Land Management appears to show a “strange thing” swimming in the Chena River in Fairbanks — and many are excitedly speculating that it is either the Loch Ness monster or an American relative of the creature. The Chena River is a favorite haunt of Craig McCaa. He often takes photos of …

The largest marine reserve in the world has been created through an agreement sealed by 24 nations and the European Union (EU). The Ross Sea, a deep Antarctic Bay 3,500 kilometers south of New Zealand spanning 1.55 million square kilometers, has been designated as off-limits from commercial fishing and mineral exploitation. “This decision represents an almost unprecedented level of international …

Downing too many energy drinks can cause hepatitis, doctors have warned. For three weeks, a construction worker drank four or five energy drinks per day to help keep up with his intense workload. Then his body went haywire. In a bizarre case Florida doctors describe in the British Medical Journal, the 50-year-old man started gulping down energy drinks on the …

A new opinion poll suggests that Donald Trump is just edging ahead of Hillary Clinton in the race to become America’s next commander-in-chief. A week from Election Day, an ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton nationally among likely voters, but only by 0.7% with a 3-point margin of error. Still, it’s Trump’s first lead in such …

This month – November 2016 – you’ll see why the word planet means wanderer. Venus will move away from the setting sun all month long, while Saturn will fall sunward this month. Saturn will fade from the evening sky by the month’s end, while Venus will remain an evening “star” for months to come. Thursday, offers up a nice conjunction …

Deaths caused by breast cancer are likely to rise to around 5.5 million per year by 2030, which is almost equal to Denmark’s population. This highlights an increase of 60 percent in less than two decades, says a study conducted by the American Cancer Society (ACS). The Global Burden of Cancer in Women presented on Tuesday at the World Cancer …

A new male birth control shot has proven effective in a new study, though side effects, including acne and mood swings, cut the study short. But according to researchers, the jab was proven 96 percent effective. Unfortunately, the study was halted back in 2012 because 20 of the 320 men stopped getting the injection due to its side effects. Six …

Kia has unveiled four new hand-built and heavily-customised concepts to this year’s SEMA show, exploring active and diverse lifestyles ranging from sports entertainment to business travel. Niro Triathlon Master craftsmen at LGE-CTS Motorsports went above and beyond in transforming the Kia Niro Hybrid from a normally boring hatchback into a hard-working triathlete training machine. Removal of the roof from the …