Navy’s Tiny 5-Pound Missile Packs a Big Punch

• BY ALLEN MCDUFFEE
• 02.28.14
• 6:30 AM

If the Pentagon is going to increasingly rely on drones to carry out precision attacks, the military is going to need access to smaller munitions than one-ton JDAMs.

While most defense contractors are designing drones to accommodate the already-existing larger weapons, the Navy has taken the opposite approach with Spike, a five-pound, 25-inch mini-munition which it likes to call “the world’s smallest guided missile.”

Security Firm: Russian Government Makes Malware

I'm not saying the Russian government is making malware but I also wouldn't be surprised if they were.

G Data bases its case for Russian government involvement on the complexity of the malware and the presence of Cyrillic words in the malware sample. G Data blog author "MN" points to file names, encryption keys, and behavior of Uroburos as evidence that the Russian government played a role in the creation of the malware.

Computer Virus Stalls an F1 Team’s Car Testing

Getting a computer virus sucks, having something like this happen because of a virus sucks even worse.

The ex-Virgin squad completed only 29 laps during the four-day test, fewer than any other team, with the virus that the team spent Wednesday fixing effectively wiping out the day. "It started off with the first disaster, which was a computer Trojan-type virus in the racks, which cost us the best part of the day," team principal John Booth told AUTOSPORT.

Ocean super suit lets you travel the deep blue sans submarine

Weighing in at 530 pounds and standing 6.5-feet tall, the Exosuit could easily be mistaken for one of Iron Man's early prototypes. You'd also be forgiven if you thought this $600,000, one-of-a-kind creation was NASA's latest solution to surviving on the surface of Mars, but in reality this heavy hitter won't be flying to either infinity or beyond. Instead, starting this summer, scientists will begin hurling it off the side of a boat.

NASA and Google converting micro-satellites into real-life astromechs

Last August, Japan launched the world's first humanoid robot astronaut into space. The diminutive and adorable Kirobo now resides on the International Space Station (ISS) alongside its human counterparts — as well as a trio of other robot crew members who happen to have been there for years.

At least that's one way of thinking of NASA's Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES). The three odd little orbs have been aboard the ISS and taking part in dozens of microgravity experiments since September of 2010. In 2011, the final voyage of Space Shuttle Atlantis brought the SPHERES their first smartphone brains, increasing their processing power. Now, thanks to Google's Project Tango, the robot satellites are about to get another upgrade — one which could give them the smarts to actually become productive members of the station's crew.

No more needles: flu vaccines to come in patches

Every year, the flu kills thousands of Americans, and puts over 100,000 in hospitals. The best way to combat it is with an annual flu shot, administered via hypodermic needle (ouch) by a medical professional. But what would happen if vaccinations were simpler? What if there was a patch you could apply at home that would do exactly the same thing as those painful shots? A recent study done by Georgia Tech researchers suggests that not only would using a patch be more cost-effective and easier for everyone involved, but that more people would receive vaccinations if a patch were available.

Bitcoin's Mt.Gox Files For Bankruptcy

So all that money is gone, they lied about the reason behind not allowing people to withdraw their bitcoins and now they get to just file for bankruptcy?

Major bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox has lost nearly all the virtual currency held in its systems and has filed for bankruptcy protection at a Tokyo district court, lawyers for the company told a press conference Friday.

Stupid Things 'Experts' Try To Tell You About Microsoft

Ed Bott's list of 10 stupid things 'experts' try to tell you about Microsoft" is definitely worth reading.

Why would Microsoft pay €5 billion for what apparently is a troubled mobile devices company? Perhaps there’s a method to this madness. Let’s look at three facts that most of the critics never seem to mention. First, Microsoft gets to pay for the deal with cash that’s trapped overseas, where it’s free of U.S. taxes. As the Wall Street Journal noted last fall, $69.6 billion out of a total of $77 billion cash on Microsoft’s books is held overseas in low-yielding securities. If the company brought it back to the U.S., it would be taxed at corporate rates. Not having to pay that tax makes the effective price of Nokia’s Devices and Enterprise division a mere €3.25 billion.

What Comcast Really Thinks About You

*Warning* This video contains NSFW language. It is also hilariously accurate.

The Latest On Tor's Anonymous IM Service

Raise your hand if you have something so important to talk about that you would actually need this. Okay, you with your hand raised...stay right there...someone will be right over to talk to you shortly. 

The Tor Foundation is moving forward with a plan to provide its own instant messaging service. Called the Tor Instant Messaging Bundle, the tool will allow people to communicate in real time while preserving anonymity by using chat servers concealed within Tor’s hidden network.

eVGA GeForce GTX 750 "Maxwell" On Ubuntu Linux

After last week delivering the first NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti "Maxwell" Linux review, today at Phoronix we're looking at the GeForce GTX 750 (non-Ti) under Ubuntu Linux using aneVGA GTX 750 1GB model.

Aside from the launch-day review of the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, on Phoronix over the past week we also published more NVIDIA Maxwell Linux benchmarks and then a lengthy look at NVIDIA's mid-range Linux graphics performance going from the GeForce GTX 750 Ti to as far back as the GeForce 6600GT. In that long article, not only was the raw OpenGL performance looked at from the 6600GT to GTX 750 Ti but also the power efficiency, performance-per-Watt, and thermal data. Being curious how the GTX 750 graphics processor performs, I decided to pick up an eVGA GeForce GTX 750 graphics card for a look at Phoronix.

IBM Laying Off 25% Of 'Hardware' Division

Apparently IBM is laying off twenty five percent of its Systems and Technology group. The story quotes IBM as saying that "at any given time" the company has 3,000 job openings. Hopefully some of the people affected by the layoffs announced today we be able to fill some of those positions. 

"As reported in our recent earnings briefing, IBM continues to rebalance its workforce to meet the changing requirements of its clients, and to pioneer new, high value segments of the IT industry," IBM spokesman Doug Shelton told CNET in a statement. "To that end, IBM is positioning itself to lead in areas such as cloud, analytics and cognitive computing, and investing in these priority areas."

4-year-old Fashionista Kills It With Runway-Worthy Paper Dresses

What happens when you give preschoolers construction paper, scissors, and tape? For most, it turns into a messy art project, but for little "Mayhem" (a nickname dubbed by her mom), it means creating the most fashionable dresses. While many 4-year-old girls are mesmerized by their sparkly tiaras and pink tutus, Mayhem’s store-bought costumes didn’t pale in comparison to the colorful paper she’d repeatedly wrap herself in.

Remember that $60 million Texas prep football stadium built in 2012? It's closed

The voters in Katy, Texas, who recently rejected a $70 million high school football stadium proposal, must be breathing a sigh of relief after what has become one of the most expensive prep athletics facility in U.S. history built just 18 months ago by another football-crazed town four hours north on Route 45.

To put it mildly, the $60 million tax-funded Eagle Stadium that is home to the two-time defending Class 5A, Division I state champ Allen (Texas) High football program just became a disaster.

According to numerous reports out of Dallas, the state-of-the-art 18,000 seat facility has been closed to address "extensive cracking" in the concrete. The news comes less than two years after the stadium, which features a $1.3 million scoreboard and other extravagant features, opened to national fanfare.

This Ford Concept Car Shoots Lasers to Help It See

The spinning antlers on top of the Ford Fusion Hybrid research vehicle are more than just ornamental. And, in spite of appearances, they’re not there to fend off fellow hybrids during mating season.

They’re actually part of a futuristic detection system the company is looking to implement in self-driving vehicles. The technology is calledLiDAR — as in, light and radar. It’s similar to the echolocation found in dolphins, only with light in the place of sound.

Open Email Exposes Wife's Secret Weekend Rendezvous

DEAR ABBY: My wife of 45 years is having an online affair with a man who is a former business client. I found out when she inadvertently left an email message open on her laptop. Her phone records confirm daily long-distance conversations, as well. Although I know they have never met personally, they plan to meet during a weekend convention at a hotel in his hometown next month.

Despite problems in our marriage, neither of us has strayed, and I'm confident she doesn't want to lose me nor do I want to lose her. My dilemma is whether to tell her I know what's going on prior to her trip, or confront her when she returns with pictures taken by a private investigator. I can't let her betrayal continue. -- CONFLICTED IN THE SOUTH

Humans May Have Been Stuck on Bering Strait for 10,000 Years

The ancestors of Native Americans may have lived on and around the Bering Strait for about 10,000 years before streaming into the Americas, researchers argue.

In the new Perspectives article, published today (Feb. 27) in the journal Science, the researchers compile existing data to support the idea, known as the Beringia standstill hypothesis.

Among that evidence is genetic data showing that founding populations of Native Americans diverged from their Asian ancestors more than 25,000 years ago. In addition, land in the region of the Bering Strait teemed with grasses to support big game (for food) and woody shrubs to burn in the cold climate, supporting a hard-scrabble existence for ancient people. [In Images: Ancient Beasts of the Arctic]

Given the hypothesis, archaeologists should look in regions of Alaska and the Russian Far East for traces of these ancient people's settlements, the authors argue.

Genetic differences

A dominant theory suggests the ancestors of Native Americans crossed the Bering Strait about 15,000 years ago and quickly colonized North America, and then South America.

Wisconsin man gets three years for sexually assaulting stepsister

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Wisconsin man convicted of sexually assaulting his stepsister while she was held captive and starved for years by their parents in the basement of their house was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison, prosecutors said.

Joshua Drabek, 20, was convicted by a Dane County jury on February 21 of first degree sexual assault of a child without great bodily harm, second degree sexual assault of a child and child abuse-intentionally causing harm, according to court records.

Drabek was accused of forcing her to engage in oral sex and trying to have intercourse with her, according to a criminal compliant.

Apple Maps sends skiers down dead-end road to fed-up homeowner

For the past year and a half, a grandmother in rural Pennsylvania has been turning away drivers following directions suggested by Apple Maps to a local ski area.

According to the iPhone app, the best route to Roundtop Mountain is via Beaver Creek Road. One slight problem: It's a dead end. Judy Saltsburg, who lives at the end of the road, told WGAL-TV she comes out several times a day and explains to confused travelers that her driveway does not lead to the resort.

"I've had three in less than 24 hours," Saltsburg said. "Their big argument is that 'My app says this is the way to Roundtop.'"

The road is clearly marked as a dead end, and Saltsburg has put up several signs at her front gate ("Due to price increase on ammunition, do not expect warning shot" one reads), but that doesn't seem to deter the trickle of unwanted traffic.

Man's Star-Studded Selfie Collection

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Your information for sale: the illicit online marketplace

There’s a lot of information for sale on the Web's black market – and some of it might belong to you.

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Adding to an endless series of reports on Internet security breaches, cybersecurity firm Hold Security LLC revealed this week that it discovered stolen credentials from some 360 million accounts available for sale on the underground Internet. Although it’s unclear now where the attacks were focused, the information unearthed includes user names and largely unencrypted passwords that could lead to anything from online bank accounts to huge corporate networks. Hold Security last year uncovered a massive hack at Adobe Systems that surfaced tens of millions of email addresses and encrypted passwords; this latest breach reportedly includes one attack that alone yielded more than 100 million records.

And it's all available for a price. See graphic below.

Lessons Learned from CEO's Painful Email Meltdown

It's the golden rule and the core of allcommunications etiquette: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything. On Tuesday, Kelly Blazek, who runs the Cleveland Job Bank, learned that lesson the hard way when her email smackdown of a young job seeker named Diana Mekota, who contacted her through LinkedIn, went viral. "Love the sense of entitlement in your generation. And therefore I enjoy denying your invite," read Blazek's poison pen letter, in part. "You're welcome for your humility lesson of the year. Don't ever reach out to senior practitioners again and assume their carefully curated list of connections is available to you, just because you want to build your network."

More on Yahoo: 5 Ways to Use Social Media to Get the Job You Want

Mekota posted the complete email on Reddit, Imgur, and Facebook, along with these comments: "Guess us twenty somethings should bow down to senior professional because clearly we have nothing to offer," and "Let's call this lady out." From there, it was like a torch thrown into a desert of parched tumbleweeds. In the ensuing hours, three other similarly nasty notes to other job hunters from Blazek, who calls herself the "Job Bank Mother," surfaced. During the social media firestorm that followed, Blazek deleted most of the contents of her blog and her LinkedIn, and took down her Twitter account.

Drones help drought Crisis?

Communities suffering from extreme drought could eventually get help from drones. Scientists believe drones could help produce billions of gallons of additional water each month. VIDEO

5 'From Dusk Till Dawn' Posters: See the New Salma Hayek, Fez as a Vampire, More

Fans have been asking for 18 years and finally it's happening: the follow-up to Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's cult classic "From Dusk Till Dawn."

The series follows the same rough outline as the movie: Two bank-robbing brothers (here played by D.J. Cotrona and Zane Holtz) are on the run from the law (Don Johnson and Jesse Garcia). They abduct a family (Robert Patrick, Madison Davenport, and Brandon Soo Hoo) and use their RV to smuggle themselves across the border, where they find themselves in a strip club full of vampires (Eiza González, Wilmer Valderrama). The entire action of the season will take less than a day.

Google Considers Bulking Up On Its Broadband Fiber

Google is ready to throw down a few billion bucks on a much bigger fiber buildout: The company said last week that it’s in discussions with 34 American cities about the possibility of bringing Google Fiber to their doorsteps.

Even if its plans are fully realized — and there’s no guarantee they will be — the company would still be a small fry in the U.S. broadband market. But the timing of Google Fiber’s first expansion plans since its first three markets were announced is enough to revisit questions about the parent firm’s murky motives.

The company insists Internet service is a great business, and execs continue to position the project as simply one that delivers what consumers (and local governments) crave: mind-bending speed. “People are hungrier than ever for faster Internet,” said Milo Medin, VP of Google Access Services, in announcing the new initiative. The fiber-optic networks are designed to deliver 1-gigabit-per-second downloads—nearly 50 times faster than the average broadband connection in the country today.

Download Now: Apple Has Released a Fix for OS X Security Bug

Tuesday, Apple issued an update for its OS X Mavericks operating system (OS X 10.9.2) to address a critical SSL security flaw. This fix comes days after Apple released an iOS update to address the same bug. 

OS X 10.9.2 also adds new features, including support for FaceTime audio calls, call waiting for FaceTime, and iMessage blocking on the Mac.

Though the official description of this system update doesn’t mention a security patch, Apple confirmed to Forbes that it is a fix for “the recent SSL encryption issue for both Mavericks and Mountain Lion.”

Russell Simmons’ Key to Happiness Takes 40 Minutes a Day

For a man nicknamed Rush, and whose latest entrepreneurial venture All Def Digital shortens to A.D.D., Russell Simmons says only thing has calmed him: meditation.

“The idea of being still and operating from a calm place is one that I never would've thought would've suited my lifestyle or my goals or the way that I pursue life, 'cause I pursue everything with a vigor,” said Simmons.

After co-founding Def Jam Records, Simmons has had his hand in industries spanning film, television, fashion, digital media, video games and financial services. Simmons said before taking up twice-daily meditations about two decades ago, he was “frantic,” anxious and constantly worrying about what was going to happen the next day. Meditation allowed him to engage in the moment and let go of a feeling of neediness.

Longest Droughts

While the eastern half of the country battles more snowstorms this month, there’s a very different problem out west: drought. In California, 2013 was the driest year on record since it became a state in 1850. The dry weather has an especially strong impact on farmers, who consume about 80% of the water in California. The USDA has declared a state of emergency in parts of California, allowing farmers to receive emergency loans from the government. As bad as these conditions are, it could be worse. Parts of Australia recently suffered through a decade-long drought that didn’t end until 2012. But that’s nothing compared to a 240 year mega-drought that is believed to have once hit California. Studying tree rings patterns and sediment has provided scientists with evidence of a massive drought between the years 850 to 1090AD. But a drought doesn’t need to last that long to take its toll on human life. A drought in India in the 1770s lasted only around 4 years but led to a famine, which killed about 10 million people – a third of the country’s population at the time. And a drought in Africa between 1981 and 1984 is estimated to have caused over a million deaths. If the current California drought continues, one solution may be using desalinized salt water, as is done in parts of the Middle East. But desalinized water is about five times more expensive than the current water supply in California. So it’s much easier to enact water conservation laws and hope some of that wet, winter weather in the east finds its way to California soon. VIDEO

Man becomes first in China to sue government over dangerous air pollution

A Chinese man is attempting to make history by becoming the first person to sue his government over the country’s dangerous levels of air pollution.

Li Guixin submitted a complaint to a district court in Hebei province, asking the Shijiazhuang Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau to "perform its duty to control air pollution according to the law,” according to the state-run Chinese language publication Yanzhao Metropolis Daily.

On Tuesday, pollution levels in Beijing topped hazardous levels for the sixth straight day, according to the U.S. Embassy pollution monitor. The most recent ratings were literally “beyond index,” meaning they exceeded the already most extreme measurement levels of air pollution.

Number of hate groups in U.S. declined in 2013: Study

Southern Poverty Law Center finds 7% drop among hate groups, 19% drop in 'patriot' organizations

For the first time in several years, the number of hate groups and anti-government militia-style organizations in the United States is on a downswing, according to a newly released study from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The number of extremist groups rose considerably in 2008 following the election of President Barack Obama and the apex of the financial crisis, the report says. The number continued to rise over the past several years. However, in 2013, the number of hate groups fell 7 percent; the change within anti-government, or "patriot," groups was even more dramatic, falling 19 percent.

Show your love of Game of Thrones with 9 fabulous Westeros-inspired outfits

When we think of Game of Thrones, we tend to think of a high-stakes game of musical chairs--but instead of being "out," you, your wife and firstborn are killed, and your castle is burned to the ground. But we're not Black Milk Clothing. When they watched Game of Thrones, they thought, hey, wouldn't these Westerosi logos and patterns look great on a dress?

Below, we have thirteen of their coolest wearables for geek girls who pay their debts (and the men who love them).

Check out Colossus's steel rage in new X-Men: Days of Future Past footage

Bryan Singer loves using social media to promote his films. He's been all over Twitter and Instagram pushing this summer's X-Men: Days of Future Past. Tuesday, he released new footage from the sequel that features some of the property's favorite characters. There's a good mix of old and new faces such as Mystique, Magneto and Xavier, balanced with n00bz Bishop and Warpath.

LaMaserati concept is an alien spacecraft disguised as a hypercar

If a Maserati MC12 and a LaFerrari supercar hooked up, the LaMaserati hypercar would be its child. Inspired by the LaFerrari, designer Mark Hostler designed the LaMaserati to be the successor to the Maserati MC12.

Unlike his Lamborghini Ferruccio concept) from 2012, the LaMaserati sports a curvier, alien, and more organic design instead of the aggressive missile-like form. And check out those antenna-like side mirrors that hang out from the car's roof. Isn't that something?

Obama makes it official: U.S. planning for full Afghan withdrawal

After giving him the silent treatment for eight months, President Barack Obama on Tuesday called Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The message? A blunt warning that all U.S. troops will leave his war-torn country by 2015 unless Karzai or his successor sign a bilateral security agreement (BSA) with the United States.

The president had not spoken to Karzai since a June 25, 2013, video conference, and the two had had no contact since a Nov. 21, 2013, letter from Washington to Kabul.

Obama has said repeatedly that he hopes to leave a residual force of some 8,000-12,000 U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan to train local security forces and target extremists after most combat forces depart in 2014. But U.S. officials had warned that Obama would pull all American troops absent a BSA that gives American and allied forces immunity from local prosecution.

[H] Reader Rig of the Day - Feb. 26, 2014

If you are going to be bitcoin mining, you might as well do it with style. 

  

  

Dogs ripped kids to pieces in N.Korean camp: ex-guard

Geneva (AFP) - Ahn Myong-Chol witnessed many horrors as a North Korean prison camp guard, but few haunt him like the image of guard dogs attacking school children and tearing them to pieces.

Ahn, who worked as a prison camp guard for eight years until he fled the country in 1994, recalls the day he saw three dogs get away from their handler and attack children coming back from the camp school.

"There were three dogs and they killed five children," the 45-year-old told AFP through a translator.

"They killed three of the children right away. The two other children were barely breathing and the guards buried them alive," he said, speaking on the sidelines of a Geneva conference for human rights activists.

Man blows 0.00 on breathalyzer, gets arrested for DWI

Back in 2013, Texas resident Larry Davis ran either a red light or stop sign (reports vary) in his Buick in the city of Austin. Despite his insistence that he had had only one drink, he was put in handcuffs and arrested for driving while intoxicated. Then, when he was given a Breathalyzer test by the AustinPolice Department, he blew a 0.00. Nonetheless, as KVUE reports, Mr. Davis spent the night in jail.

Google Fiber’s potential Achilles’ heel

Everything we’ve read about Google Fiber suggests that it really is a beast of an Internet service that positively blows away every other service offered in the United States today. Jackdaw Research analyst Jan Dawson, who lives in Provo, Utah and who has been a Google Fiber subscriber for months, confirms early reviews suggesting that Google Fiber is the fastest service in all the land. However, he also identifies a potential Achilles’ heel for Google Fiber: Namely, most Wi-Fi routers aren’t powerful enough to push out data anywhere close to the rate that Google Fiber is pushing it out to your device via wireline.

Mom's Photo Series Spotlights Racist Comments Directed at Daughters

When Kim Kelley-Wagner adopted two little girls from China, now ages 13 and 7, she never imagined that her family would attract much attention. So the barrage of rude and ignorant comments she's received on a daily basis over the years has shocked her. But instead of dismissing her critics, Kelley-Wagner has created a controversial photo series starring her daughters, hoping to show others how words can hurt.

Though the 55-year-old  communications director at a middle school in Charlottesville, Virginia, never married, she had always known that she wanted kids. Her life changed thanks to a tiny photo accompanying a story about Chinese orphans in Time magazine. “It was an image of six babies sitting in a circle on the floor, and one had the most serious facial expression,” Kelley-Wagner tells Yahoo Shine. “That image stayed with me.” At the time, China was one of the only countries that allowed single people to adopt, so a few years later, in 2001, Kelley-Wagner adopted 10-month-old Liliana, and in 2008, she adopted Meika, then a 2-year-old special-needs child who had a bilateral cleft lip and palate when she was born. 

The Girl Who Fought Her School's Antigay Actions (And Won)

When Skye Wyatt, 21, was a high school student in Kilgore, Texas, she had a secret: She was a lesbian, and she had a girlfriend. Only 16, she hadn’t come out to her mom. So it was all the more painful when her softball coaches, who found out about the relationship (and were disdainful of it), took care of that for her. But in a surprise twist, their breach of trust led Wyatt’s mother, Barbara Wyatt, to sue the school for violating the girl’s right to privacy — and on Monday, six years later, the school settled for $77,000. National experts in LGBT rights are calling it a rare and encouraging outcome, with lawyer Jennifer Doan deeming it a “positive story” at the end of what was, for her client, “a horrific experience.”

Couple Makes Art From Potholes

A creative husband and wife figuratively made lemonade out of lemons: They turned potholes into works of art.

Davide Luciano and Claudia Ficca have collaborated on a number of projects. Luciano works as a photographer, while Ficca is a food stylist. The two have combined to shoot series such as Gourmet Mouse Traps (fitted with bait "for the pickiest mouse") and Meals Interrupted (dining tables disrupted by various events).

Galaxy S5 vs. iPhone 5s: How Does Samsung’s Newest Superphone Measure Up?

Samsung has just pulled back the curtain on its newest smartphone, the Galaxy S5, a device the company hopes will be your next smartphone — yes, even you, iPhone folks. So if you are an iOwner who’s always contemplated the switch to one of those shiny, big-screened Samsung phones, you may want to take a peek at our side-by-side measurable comparison between the S5 and the 5s — that is, the newest from Samsung and Apple (confusing, we know).

Here are the specs for the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Apple iPhone 5s. And then, we’ll explain what those differences actually MEAN below:

What Does Harold Ramis's Death Mean for 'Ghostbusters 3'?

Update to story originally published Feb. 24: According to The Hollywood Reporter, the "Ghostbusters III" script will be reworked following the death of Ramis.

First off, let's pause a moment out of respect for Harold Ramis, who died Monday at the age of 69. The director ("Groundhog Day"), writer ("Animal House") and actor ("Stripes") was a "brilliant, gifted, funny friend, co-writer/performer and teacher," and Dan Aykroyd, who posted that tribute on Facebook, would know.

Ramis and Aykroyd both came up on the stages of the Second City improv troupe, worked on seminal TV comedy shows in the 1970s — Ramis on "SCTV," and Aykroyd on "Saturday Night Live" — and went onto big-screen success. Together, they wrote and costarred in "Ghostbusters," the blockbuster 1984 special-effects comedy that may still be the only funny special-effects comedy ever made, outside of "Ghostbusters II."

I'm quitting my job. Thanks Obamacare!

Now that Karen Willmus can get health insurance through Obamacare, she plans to quit teaching 9th grade English at the end of the school year.

The 51-year-old found policies on the Colorado state exchange for about $300 a month. That's less than what she's paying now for employer-sponsored coverage and less than half what she paid on the individual market in 2007.

Like Willmus, millions of people could quit their jobs or cut back on their hours in coming years because of Obamacare, according to a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office.

Is Red Wine the Absolute Best Thing You Can Drink?

Is red wine a cure-all? The notion could easily be dismissed as fantasy if not for numerous studies trumpeting its benefits. The latest: a study to be published in the journal “Cancer Cell International,” which suggests that red wine slows the spread of lung cancer. Tell us more of what we want to hear!

Co-author Evangelia Litsa Tsiani told us that her team examined the effects of red and white wine on six culture plates, which each contained millions of human lung cancer cells. The experiment was duplicated four times to ensure the results were not a fluke.

Whale's tail smacks woman right on the ol' noggin

"That's for being part of the species that created the "Free Willy" trilogy." -- Whale's inner monologue as it uses its tail to smack an innocent bystander across the head.

Whale watching can be a contact sport, according to a video making the viral rounds. A group of students took a trip to the Baja Peninsula on the Pacific coast to observe some whales up close. Maybe a little too close.

What happened? The video's description doesn't sugarcoat it: "Unfortunately, Chelsea got smacked in the head by a whale's tail."

Indeed she did. The uploader wrote that Chelsea was "fine" following the slap, which means you don't have to feel too bad about laughing at her mild misfortune. VIDEO

Panic in Indian city with leopard on the prowl

MEERUT, India (AP) — Forestry officials and police armed with tranquilizer darts searched for a leopard that injured six people in a northern Indian city, creating panic and driving people indoors, police said Tuesday.

The leopard has wandered through a hospital and a crowded market in Meerut city, setting off a minor stampede in which two more people were hurt, said police superintendent Abhiskek Singh.

Authorities ordered schools and colleges closed on Monday and asked people to stay indoors as police teams scoured the city. Shopkeepers lowered their shutters and the city streets emptied out.

Soldiers also joined the hunt.

Teen Invents Flashlight That Could Change The World - Ann Makosinski

Ann Makosinski was just another teenager with another science project when she joined her local science fair in Victoria, Canada, last year. Her invention, a flashlight that is powered solely from hand heat, took second place at the competition.

Ann, 16, and her parents, both of whom are HAM radio operators and like to fiddle with electronics, were satisfied with that result.

“It’s a very simple project,” said Arthur Makosinski, Ann’s father. “It has four electrical components. Let’s move on and do something different.”

But had Ann left her project in Victoria, situated just 25 miles north of Washington State, the world may have missed out on a light source that doesn’t use batteries, solar power or wind energy.

Think about that for a moment: a flashlight that shines for as long as you hold onto it. No more scrambling for and chucking away AA batteries. It could have an immediate impact on more than 1.2 billion people -- one-fifth of the world’s population -- who, according to the World Bank, lack regular access to electricity.

New 'Godzilla' Finally Revealed: How Latest Radioactive Reptile Stacks Up to the Original

Ever since the Japanese original "Godzilla" (first titled "Godjira") took the horror genre to all new heights, literally and figuratively, with its larger-than-life reptilian beast, there've been a number of very varied attempts to capitalize on the creature's fear potential. The latest of which — director Gareth Edwards's upcoming release starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, and Bryan Cranston — just released a new trailer that is bigger in scale than any previous incarnation, smashing up everything from San Francisco to Las Vegas

While some installments have been more favored than others, from the looks (and sounds) of this newest iteration it seems that Edwards's take might just be hearkening back more to the roots of Godzilla's movie magic — especially within the latest round of materials released from the pic.

But does this new remake of the monster pass muster with fans of the classic version? VIDEO

8 simple makeup tricks for a flawless look

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Religious Book Saves Bus Driver's Life From Gunshots

A bus driver in Dayton, Ohio, survived a shooting Monday, thanks to a religious book in his shirt pocket that stopped two bullets, authorities said.

"This is almost unheard of for us," Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority Executive Director Mark Donaghy said in a statement. "The last time we had a gun incident involving a bus was almost a decade ago."

The bus driver, Rick Waggoner, 49, is recovering and is doing well, Donaghy said.

Police said Waggoner, who was shot at 5:07 a.m. Monday, would not have survived if the book, a devotional book titled "The Message," wasn't in his pocket, according to local ABC affiliate WKEF.

"I had a book in my pocket - at first I thought it had went through, but it just feels like I've been hit by a sledgehammer in the chest, and I've been cut on the arm," Wagoner told the 911 dispatcher, WKEF reported.