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How chilled food is changing lives Before pooling savings from her extended family to buy a refrigerator, Sheela Naik, who earns $80 a month as a housemaid on the outskirts of Goa, had to shop daily at market stalls and ...

Renderings of this futuristic Floating City (via Dezeen) could very easily pass for the storyboard of a Hollywood sci-fi flick set in the distant future. But this design for a floating city, by London-based architecture ...

Steven Spielberg’s classic “E.T.” is heralded as one of the director’s best works today. It’s also one of the highest-grossing.  However, you may not realize the film about a friendly extraterrestrial was orig...

Every year, fans of Volkswagen's sporty GTI hatchback congregate in celebration at the GTI Festival in Wörthersee, Austria. As a gesture of gratitude towards its adoring fans, the German auto giant unveiled its videog...

Scott DeLong. Dong Nguyen. Amanda Hocking. All of those people found a way to create something and turn it into $1 million or more, quickly. Inspired by their stories, we found 11 unusual ways to make a relatively quick...

Jessica Shyba has captured the hearts of thousands of people across the country with her Instagram account, where she posts pictures of her son, Beau, snuggling with her dog, Theo.  So much so, that she was able to snag...

Samantha Stosur of Australia won her third round match at the French Open in straight sets. But what has sports fans buzzing is what may be the most sculpted body at this year's tournament. Stosur recently told ESPN the ...

Actor Mathew Perry has listed his modern Malibu retreat overlooking the ocean for $12.5 million. Known as the “Pier House," the architecturally gorgeous estate sits on 2.5 acres in the celebrity-studded neighborhood of...

Artist and filmmaker Richard Swarbick has turned some of the best highlights from this year's NBA Playoffs into really cool animations (via Deadspin). Here's Lebron James's reverse dunk from Game 4 of the Eastern Confer...

Talk about a Mexican standoff. Walmart is refusing to budge an inch after critics bashed the retail giant for overpaying its executives while they mishandled a probe into charges that...

Why everything you heard about fat is wrong. "Eating foods that contain saturated fats raises the level of cholesterol in your blood," according to the American Heart Association (AHA). "High levels of blood cholesterol ...

Sequoia Capital has raised a new $530 million tech-centric fund to focus on India and the region.

The Arkansas Department of Human Services has told Arkansas State University about a data breach in ASU's College of Education and Behavioral Science's Department of Childhood Services.

Ever wonder how much it costs to book your favorite band? Thanks to Degy Entertainment, a booking agency, we can give you a rough idea: an anonymous source passed along a list of the rates suggested by the artists' agent...

Take a page from companies like IBM, Nike, and Intel.

WASHINGTON -- House members early Friday blocked the Drug Enforcement Administration from using funds to interfere in state-legal industrial hemp research, a rebuke to the agency less than a month after it seized hemp se...

The retailer lost $23.7 million, or 32 cents a share, for the three-month period to May 3, but forecasts were lower than that.

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Whistleblower Justin Greenwell told regulators that his company, Armstrong Coal, was misreporting the dust levels in his mine, potentially putting miners in danger of black lung disease. (Photo: Dave Jamieson) The dust w...

Chinese billionaire real estate developer Ni Zhaoxing is a man with a long view of the market.  When I asked during a recent interview in his headquarters atop one of his towers in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial distr...

This week the Empact 100 meet in Washington DC -- 100 of the most successful entrepreneurs under 30, all of whom have businesses with over $100,000 in revenue. If you're looking for where new jobs are coming from, think ...

What are the top angel investor groups funding in 2014? Here's a look at the top ten angel funders of 2013, and their recent investments.