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Facebook co-founder among 679 who renounced US citizenship to avoid taxes
A quarterly publication by the Internal Revenue Service lists those citizens who voluntarily expatriate, or abandon their American citizenship — a growing number of whom are doing so to avoid taxes,...
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YouTube launches pay-to-watch subscription channels + 25 alternatives to YouTube
YouTube has launched a trial scheme for paid channels on its website. Under the pilot programme, a small number of content makers will offer the channels for subscriptions starting at $0.99 (£0.64) a...
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“Buycott” App Lets You Boycott Monsanto And More By Scanning Items in Your...
In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burner pitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former...
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Richter painting breaks record for living artist
A 1968 oil painting by German artist Gerhard Richter has set a new record in New York for the highest auction price achieved by a work by a living artist. Richter’s photo-painting Domplatz, Mailand...
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Flawless diamond sells for record $26.7m at auction
A flawless diamond has set a world auction record, selling for $26.7m (£17.5m). The rare Botswana-mined 101-carat diamond was sold at a Christie’s auction in Geneva. It was bought by the Harry Winston...
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Feds shut down payment network Liberty Reserve. Is Bitcoin next?
Federal prosecutors have shut downLiberty Reserve, an alternative payment network that they say was a $6 billion scam “designed to help criminals conduct illegal transactions and launder the proceeds...
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Solve a math puzzle, win $1 million
The Beal Prize was funded by Andrew Beal, a prominent banker who is also a mathematics enthusiast. An AMS-appointed committee will award this prize for either a proof of, or a counterexample to,...
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Florida woman claims massive Powerball pot
Somewhere, someone is kicking themselves for being nice to a little old lady. Gloria Mackenzie, 84, came forward to claim the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot, more than two weeks after the $590.5...
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‘Happy Birthday’: Who Owns the Rights?
Usually, “Happy Birthday” is a happy, celebratory song that often precedes cake and ice cream. But it might soon become part of a contentious legal battle. Jennifer Nelson, the president and owner of...
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PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion
When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off. The Pennsylvania PR executive’s account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800. That’s $92 QUADRILLION...
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Dubai offers gold to fight obesity epidemic
Dubai’s government will pay residents in gold for losing those extra pounds as part of a government campaign to fight growing obesity in the Gulf Arab emirate. … The 30-day weight-loss challenge was...
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Are the Rich Jerks? See the Science
The rich really are different from you or me. They’re more likely to behave unethically. That’s the finding of a group of studies by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The research...
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Study finds poverty reduces brain power
Poverty and the all-consuming fretting that comes with it require so much mental energy that the poor have little brain power left to devote to other areas of life, according to the findings of an...
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Opinion: Shutdown could be shock therapy
…Driven by a hard-line faction of conservatives, Washington is on the verge of doing something terribly stupid: shutting down the national government. Most of America is aghast. But it is also just...
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Microsoft shells out $100,000 award for Windows 8.1 exploit as bug bounty...
Back in June, Microsoft announced a bug bounty program, offering a variety of awards for those who found bugs and exploitations for its software. While the Internet Explorer 11 portion of the bounty...
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Oregon bartender gets $17,500 tip
One of Aurora Kephart’s regulars at Conway’s Restaurant and Lounge in Springfield often tips her with Keno tickets from the Oregon Lottery. On Tuesday evening, the man who wishes to remain anonymous...
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Companies will read your brain to set maximum prices you will pay
The price that companies set for their products is already a high-stakes game of psychology and competitive strategy. But there’s still a lot of guesswork and uncertainty. Would pricing be more simple...
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Farmer to become millionaire after 2 DINOSAUR skeletons discovered on his land
A farmer is set to become an overnight millionaire after stumbling across the 70-million-year-old bones of two dinosaurs on his land. The enormous 38ft long Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered just a few...
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US Government Being Sued for Tax Fraud
One private citizen in Georgia has reportedly filed a civil suit recently against the government for tax fraud. No attorney contacted has accepted an assistance request, saying, “[I] have never heard...
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