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There have been some high lottery jackpots in the past, but we are reaching rarified air.  It’s been awhile since someone won the Powerball, and the number keeps getting higher and higher.  There’s a new record Powerball jackpot of $600 million waiting to be won, so make sure you pick up your tickets before tonight’s [...]

It’s one of the worst feelings you can have.  You go into a store, do your business, and come out of the store to find a ticket on your windshield.  It’s enough to drive some people to commit vandalism, and no one is safe from meter maids, not even Batman.  Well, a group of six [...]

When Cody Wilson, the 25-year-old crypto-anarchist and University of Texas law student behind Defense Distributed, helped create the world’s first 3D-printed plastic handgun (called The Liberator), one of his more audacious ideas was to release the blueprints online to allow anyone with a computer and a 3D printer to make their own gun.  Turns out, [...]

Not content to rest on the success of the Kindle family of tablets and ereaders, Amazon has continued to look for ways to expand their offerings to the public.  Once a company gets a taste of being a device creator, they’re rarely satisfied with continuing to resell the stuff made by others.  Hence, Amazon is [...]

Last month, Wrigley rolled out a brand new product called Alert, a caffeinated chewing gum with the equivalent of half a cup of coffee in every stick.  Sounds pretty good, right?  Well, enjoy it while you can, because Wrigley is pulling Alert caffeine gum off the market.  The move comes after discussions with the Food [...]

Sexual harassment is entirely too common, but it seems to be most prevalent in the United States military.  Even with volumes of laws on the books to prevent and discourage sexual harassment, you still hear about it happening.  It can destroy careers and turn workplaces hostile, and that’s if the victim is lucky.  You would [...]

KFC has embarked on a new campaign to sell its chicken to America by eliminating the necessity to actually pay attention while you eat.  Some call it a marketing stunt while others call it a food revolution, but KFC is calling it an important step in the evolution of the company, and you can try [...]

People get tattoos for a lot of different reasons, but the primary reason is probably passion.  People get tattoos to remember lost love ones, celebrate their passion, or show off their pride in their culture.  Workers at a New York City brokerage must be pretty passionate about their jobs, because there’s a lot of company [...]

Taco Bell is known for a lot of things.  Specifically, acceptable Mexican food at cheap prices done with a creative twist.  From Taco Bell’s faux street tacos to the legitimate hit that is the Doritos Locos Taco, The Bell is riding a winning streak right now, but the menu can always get more creative, the [...]

In February 2002, Brenda Heist’s life was on the rocks.  She was in the process of getting divorced from her husband Lee Heist, applying for housing assistance, and struggling to make ends meet as a bookkeeper at a car dealership near her home in Lititz, Pennsylvania.  That’s when she decided to leave everything behind and [...]

Once upon a time, it was the highest honor that a citizen of the Soviet Union could receive.  It went to weapons designers, famous cosmonauts, and the best of the best that the people of Russia.  However, since the fall of the USSR, the medal has been out of commission.  Thankfully, or perhaps not thankfully, [...]

When it comes to gay athletes, the door has been slow to open.  Gay people are everywhere and in every industry, even the US military, but a gay, active professional athlete?  Not exactly a trail that’s been blazed.  Until now, that is.  Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran, is the first professional basketball player to [...]

They say that football games are won not by the quarterback or the running back or the wide receivers, but in the trenches.  If you can control the line of scrimmage with your offensive line or defensive line, then you can control the football game.  That axiom has found renewed traction in the NFL if [...]