Salute to the 2014 MacAurthur 'Genius' Grant Recipients

An Oscar-nominated film director, a labour organiser for household workers, a physicist who specializes in the brain, a cartoonist chronicler of lesbian life and experts on nanotechnology and cryptography were among this year’s recipients of MacArthur fellows “genius” grants, announced on Wednesday.

The nine women and 12 men…

Microsoft Buys Minecraft Maker Mojang for $2.5B

Microsoft Corp said on Monday it has agreed to acquire Stockholm-based games developer Mojang and the company’s wildly popular Minecraft video game franchise for $2.5 billion.
Microsoft said in a statement it expects the acquisition to be break-even in fiscal year 2015 on a GAAP basis…

Obama Calls For Air Strikes In Syria

President Barack Obama told Americans on Wednesday he had authorized U.S. airstrikes for the first time in Syria and more attacks in Iraq in a broad escalation of a campaign against the Islamic State militant group.
Obama’s decision to launch attacks inside Syria, which is embroiled in a…

Apple's Next Big Thing. iPhone 6, Watch and Apple Pay

Apple unveiled its long-anticipated smartwatch Tuesday, introducing a device that aims to put many of the functions of a smartphone onto a smaller screen that’s never more than an arm’s length from the wearer’s eyes.
The Apple Watch, the company’s first completely new product in…

Home Depot Confirms Hacking Attack

Shares of Home Depot sank before the opening bell Tuesday after confirming that its payment systems had been hacked, potentially exposing millions of shoppers who used credit and debit cards at its more than 2,000 U.S. and Canadian stores.
The breach could turn out to be one of…