If you are looking for a very unique Audi R8, try to get your hands on this special edition ‘Selection 24′ based on the 2016 Audi R8 V10 Plus. This ultimate limited edition R8 is presented by the German automaker to celebrate the success of the Audi R8 LMS that won the 24 Hours Nürburgring on its debut last year. …

Carlie Trent, the 9-year-old Tennessee girl who was allegedly kidnapped by her uncle last week, has been found after two local residents discovered her and her uncle on their property, officials said Thursday. And the uncle, 57-year-old Gary Simpson, is in police custody. TBI agents said residents Donnie Lawson and Stewart Franklin went searching for her on Lawson’s property. When …

New imaging technology suggests clumps of a protein called tau could be an important marker of the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain. While much Alzheimer’s research has focused on accumulation of the protein amyloid beta, researchers have begun to pay closer attention to another protein, tau, long associated with this disease but not studied as thoroughly, in part, …

Theranos president and chief operating officer Sunny Balwani is leaving the embattled blood-testing firm amid a broader restructuring which includes the addition of three members to the board of directors, the company announced on Wednesday. Balwani was the top associate of founder Elizabeth Holmes. His exit from the firm follows last month’s news that the Securities Exchange Commission and the …

A mother goose knocked on the door of a Cincinnati police cruiser in her search for help for a gosling tangled in a Mother’s Day balloon string. Sgt. James Givens said the mama goose got their attention by pecking at their cruiser door. “It kept pecking and pecking and normally they don’t come near us. Then it walked away and …

IBM, the world’s largest multinational technology and consulting corporation, has big plans for its Watson computer system, asking eight world-class universities, including three from Canada, to help them teach it how to fight impending cyber threats. Watson, a technology platform made by IBM that uses natural language processing and machine learning, will need to first be taught key terms and …

Even after officially demoting it to a dwarf planet, scientists still aren’t quite sure what to make of Pluto. A recently published study makes categorizing the former planet even more difficult. In a research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research last week, space physicists revealed that Pluto behaves less like a comet and more like a planet based on …

Hartley Bushell, A stubborn Canadian is defying the raging wildfire that’s been devouring the northern Alberta town of Fort McMurray. Hartley Bushell didn’t do it alone, either. He said he had his wife, Chalinee, at his side. “My wife was in tears and wanted to leave, but I wouldn’t do anything that would endanger her, ever, so I assured her …

Audiosocket, seattle music-licensing firm sues Ted Cruz campaign over songs in ads. Audiosocket filed the complaint in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday and is seeking damages against the Cruz campaign and its advertising firm. The complaint alleges that the campaign used two songs, in television and online ads, without permission. Those two songs: Lens by Sarah Schachner and …

Google is expected to unleash a standalone Android VR headset at the Google I/O 2016 event that will be held next week. Recently, a reference to Android VR was found mentioned in the release notes of recent edition of Unreal Engine 4.12, a suite of tools designed for developing games. A former technology journalist, Peter Rojas, has managed to get …

A new study suggests a possible link between high levels of folic acid in pregnant women and an increased risk of their children developing an autism spectrum disorder. Co-researcher Daniele Fallin, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, said the new research aimed to understand the optimal dose as some folate is a good …