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Have you ever really thought about just how well you know the planet we live on? Well one Reddit user did and in a recent project they found that most people aren't as good as they think at remembering what Earth's face looks like!

CNN recently ran an article that questioned whether the abundance of technology today has ruined handwriting for current and future generations. This is an interesting question and one that deserves a little attention. According to the article published by CNN, “a 2012 study found that 33% of people had difficulty reading their own handwriting.” The truth is that even those ...

Have you ever seen a news headline that made you do a double take? We have seen plenty of them, take a look at 10 of our favorite unbelievable news headlines.

Unfortunately for owners of Blackberry mobile phones and the Blackberry Playbook tablet, Netflix will not be providing support for a mobile application.

This coming Thursday, 50 million people could lose personal data, according to recent progressions in the federal case against file storage site Megaupload.

After several months of animated protests by the online community, Lamar Smith, the sponsor of the "Stop Online Piracy Act" has decided to withdraw the bill.

It looks like we'll be getting a chance to witness history -- on January 18th, Wikipedia has announced that it's going to "black out" its US site for 24 hours.

If you had any doubts about the popularity of the newly released Playstation Vita handheld console in Japan, Sony has just released some sales figures that will make you think otherwise.

Researchers at MIT, Harvard and Northeastern University have created an incredible new robot prototype that actually simulates a pretty high level of intelligence. The robot uses an Android phone for its "brain", which is connected to a virtual cloud.

Astronomers have an exciting announcement -- a planet about 600 light years away has been discovered in a "habitable zone", which means it could potentially support life. The planet has a 260-day orbit, which puts it right in the middle of the "habitable zone" around a distant star.