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Tom Pinckney, co-founder of SiteAdvisor and founder of Hunch, is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In fact, his application was so impressive that he was accepted to MIT without ever completing high school.

Have you ever wondered what happened with those giant booster rockets once a shuttle is launched? ... seriously? Well, today's your lucky day, then!

It's official: "E-mail," the term used since the inception of the service, is dead. From now on, "email" will suffice.

Willis Tower in Chicago is poised to become the world's tallest solar farm. If successful, this could potentially lead to similar projects in other major cities.

The Florida Everglades, long thought to be just another side effect of Earth's ever-changing features, may now be a direct byproduct of ancient landfills.

In a test of the 4G services of all four major networks, Verizon not only beat out the competition -- their LTE service embarrassed them.

If you've ever wondered what 'Super Mario Bros.' would look like if it were rendered in a first-person perspective, two things: 1.) you should be ashamed of yourself, 2.) you're in luck!

Methane rain storms on Titan? A storm that has encompassed 2/3rds of Saturn's northern hemisphere? It's been an active few months out 740 million miles from Earth.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has again decided to give the ".xxx" domain a go. Workplaces everywhere scramble to block a whole lot of new URLs...

A team of researchers at Harvard have devised that putting a thin coat of a sticky substance on the body of a car could help prevent serious damage/injury in an accident.