Remember Your Facebook Email Address? It’s Gone.

Did you know you have a Facebook email address? Neither does anyone else. And that’s why yesterday Facebook announced that it was retiring its public email system, which has been in existence since November 2010.

Users logging into Facebook will soon see (or have already received) the following message at the top of their screens.

Facebook offers further explanation here.

Asiana Airlines docked $500,000 over crash

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the first penalty of its kind, federal transportation officials on Tuesday docked Asiana Airlines $500,000 for failing to promptly contact passengers' families and keep them informed about their loved ones after a deadly crash last year at San Francisco International airport.

The U.S. Department of Transportation said it took the South Korean airline five days to contact the families of all 291 passengers. In addition, a required crash hotline was initially routed to an automated reservations line.

Never before has the department concluded that an airline broke U.S. laws requiring prompt and generous assistance to the loved ones of crash victims.

Dad Delivers Baby After Doctor, Nurse Flee

A Boynton Beach, Fla., hospital is staying mum after a maternity ward mix-up that left a dad to deliver his own daughter.

Zaheer Ali says he and his laboring wife, Indira, were abandoned by hospital staff when another patient needed an emergency C-section.

"My wife was screaming," Zaheer Ali told the Palm Beach Post. "The nurse says, 'You have to wait.'"

The Alis arrived to Bethesda Hospital East Saturday night and were given an induction drug to speed up the delivery, according to the Post.

Indira Ali's labor was moving along quickly. When a patient down the hall needed the C-section, her doctor stopped the induction drip to stall the birth until she could return, the Post reported.

A Metro North conductor wrote a letter apologizing to commuters after telling them to wait for an express train he didn't realize had been canceled.

"I told you, MY/OUR customers, to wait on the platform for the express behind us," Michael Shaw, the conductor, wrote in the letter. "It wasn't until later that day that I found out from a co-worker that [Metro North] had canceled the other train altogether."

Shaw explained that Friday's 6:52 a.m. train out of New Haven en route to New York's Grand Central Terminal was supposed to be an express, but was making local stops because an earlier local train was delayed due to brake problems. Unbeknown to Shaw, the "powers to be" decided to cancel the train behind him.

'Game of Thrones' First Look: Come Fly With Daenerys and Her Dragon

With just over a month until the Season 4 premiere of "Game of Thrones" on April 6, HBO has started amping up its teaser trailer/clip/poster game — a favorite time of year for "Thrones" fans like us.

Today's treat is the unveiling of this season's new character posters, and Yahoo TV is very pleased to present your first look at Daenerys Targaryen, her trusted advisor and companion Jorah Mormont, along with a brief-but-intriguing video clip, above, that basically puts you on the wings of a dragon.

How will the relationship between Dany and Jorah change now that Daario's influence over the would-be queen has grown? And speaking of growing, what do you feed dragons whose appetites have evolved?

Jorah addresses the subject in the teaser video saying, "Your dragons, Khaleesi, they can never be tamed. Not even by their mother."

Lesson learned here: Winter is coming, always, but so are dragons.

Game of Thrones Season 4 poster of Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen

So here is Dany, our Khaleesi and Mother of Dragons, deep in thought. What do you think she is thinking about? Or who? She doesn't seem particularly distressed or compromised emotionally in any way, so perhaps she is contemplating her next move in her quest for the Iron Throne.

Polio-like disease appears in California children

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — An extremely rare, polio-like disease has appeared in more than a dozen California children within the past year, and each of them suffered paralysis to one or more arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say. But public health officials haven't identified any common causes connecting the cases.

The illness is still being investigated and appears to be very unusual, but Dr. Keith Van Haren at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University warned Monday that any child showing a sudden onset of weakness in their limbs or symptoms of paralysis should be immediately seen by a doctor.

"The disease resembles but is not the same as polio," he said. "But this is serious. Most of the children we've seen so far have not recovered use of their arm or their leg."

But doctors are not sure if it's a virus or something else, he said. Van Haren said he has studied five cases from Monterey up through the San Francisco Bay Area, including two that were identified as the disease enterovirus-68, which is from the same family as the polio viruses. He said there have been about 20 cases statewide.

Beyond 9/11: President Bush’s new initiative to help the vets he sent to war

Nearly 13 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, that terrible day continues to shape the work of President George W. Bush.

The former president sat down exclusively with “On the Radar” to discuss his new Military Service Initiative to help post-9/11 veterans integrate back into the workplace. And he grew emotional remembering the attacks and the nation’s response.

“I don't think about the day as much as I used to,” Bush said. “I think about the circumstances that enabled and encouraged kids to attack us, and I think about the decisions that need to be made to protect the homeland a lot. I really think about our vets a lot. I mean, I've developed a kinship with a remarkable group of people.”

California 'lifers' leaving prison at record pace

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly 1,400 lifers in California's prisons have been released over the past three years in a sharp turnaround in a state where murderers and others sentenced to life with the possibility of parole almost never got out.

Since taking office three years ago, Gov. Jerry Brown has affirmed 82 percent of parole board decisions, resulting in a record number of inmates with life sentences going free.

Brown's predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, authorized the release of 557 lifers during his six-year term, sustaining the board at a 27 percent clip. Before that, Gov. Gray Davis over three years approved the release of two.

This dramatic shift in releases under Brown comes as the state grapples with court orders to ease a decades-long prison crowding crisis that has seen triple bunking, prison gyms turned into dormitories and inmates shipped out of state.

Cancer Risk in Fukushima Area Estimated

For people living in areas neighboring the Fukushima nuclear power plants, the worst of the radiation exposure may have passed. New research suggests that any increase in cancer risk due to radiation exposure after 2012 is likely to be so small that it is not detectable.

Researchers found that people living in three areas located about 12 to 30 miles (20 to 50 kilometers) from the power plant received a radiation dose of between 0.89 and 2.51 millisieverts from their food, soil and air in 2012, one year after the explosions at the nuclear facility caused by a tsunami.

This dose was similar to the 2.09 millisieverts of radiation per year that people in Japan are exposed to on average from natural sources. The researchers then used their data on radiation exposure to estimate how much residents' cancer risk increased. [Fukushima Radiation Leak: 5 Things You Should Know]

Few Army women want combat jobs

FORT EUSTIS, Va. (AP) — Only a small fraction of Army women say they'd like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preliminary results from a survey of the service's nearly 170,000 women.

That survey and others across the Army, publicly disclosed for the first time to The Associated Press, also revealed that soldiers of both genders are nervous about women entering combat jobs but say they are determined to do it fairly. Men are worried about losing their jobs to women; women are worried they will be seen as getting jobs because of their gender and not their qualifications. Both are emphatic that the Army must not lower standards to accommodate women.

Less than 8 percent of Army women who responded to the survey said they wanted a combat job. Of those, an overwhelming number said they'd like to be a Night Stalker — a member of the elite special operations helicopter crews who perhaps are best known for flying the Navy SEALS into Osama bin Laden's compound in 2011.

This Video Will Make You Think Twice Before You Judge A Parent

Parenting is hard enough without having to face snap judgments from others. This video is a fierce reminder of how important it is to withhold those critiques until you know someone's entire story.

Baby Acting Crazy? It's Probably a Case of JBBB

When you become a parent, you spend a lot of time filling your head with strange acronyms and code. VBAC, for instance, means delivering a baby vaginally after you've already had a C-section. The 6 S's is some B.S. that's allegedly guaranteed to make your kid sleep like an angel. DH (when used on message boards) means "dear husband" (I assume sarcastically). And a good one that's made the rounds recently is the CTFD method of parenting (as in, Calm the F Down, and that applies to parents, not kids).

I've been using one with my friends that I invented that is in a somewhat similar vein. I used it yesterday and someone said they wished it was Googleable, so here it is: JBBB. It stands for Just Babies Being Babies. Why does my son sleep for 20 minutes one nap and three hours the next? JBBB. Why does he love grapes one week and then scream and throw them on the floor the next week? JBBB. Why does he say the word "thank you" so cutely 3,000 times in a row and then stop when I take out my camera? JBBB. Why does he act like I'm trying to slowly torture him when I'm just trying to get him three blocks home in the car? JBBB. JBBMFGDB, man.

4-Month-Old Baby Dies After Being Sexually, Physically Abused: Cops

An infant girl died in Albuquerque after suffering sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her mother's boyfriend, New Mexico cops said.

Angelique Montano's 4-month-old baby, Izabellah, died Sunday, after two weeks on life support, according to KOB-TV.

Montano's boyfriend, Elijah Fernandez, 19, is accused of causing serious brain and sexual trauma to the child while high on synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as spice.

Doctors had allegedly referred the child to the state's Children Youth and Families Department three times before the deadly incident because of past injuries, according to KOB-TV.

Man Accidentally Kills Self With Gun During Demonstration On Gun Safety

A man from Independence Township, Michigan, accidentally shot himself to death on Monday while teaching his girlfriend about gun safety, the Oakland Press reports.

The 36-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was showing his girlfriend how his three handguns are safe when they aren’t loaded, according to the Detroit Free Press. He was attempting to demonstrate the safety of the handguns by holding them to his head and pulling the trigger.

The third gun fired, and the man was struck in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Three children ages 7, 10, and 12 were in the home, but did not witness the shooting, according to reports. The man's girlfriend told authorities he had been drinking most of the day before the incident took place.

This Insane Burger King Receipt Left A Grandmother In Tears (PHOTO)

Way to go, Burger King. You made a grandma cry.

A receipt allegedly given to a Virginia grandmother and her daughter-in-law at the drive-thru of a Richmond, Va., Burger King on Saturday called the pair "b***h a** hoes," according to photos published by CBS affiliate WTVR-TV. A manager on duty apologized when he heard of the vulgar note, but he didn't refund the meal, said the distraught grandmother, who was in tears over the incident.

Calif. couple strike $10 million gold-coin bonanza

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree.

Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service of Santa Ana, which recently authenticated them. Although the face value of the gold pieces only adds up to about $27,000, some of them are so rare that coin experts say they could fetch nearly $1 million apiece.

"I don't like to say once-in-a-lifetime for anything, but you don't get an opportunity to handle this kind of material, a treasure like this, ever," said veteran numismatist Don Kagin, who is representing the finders. "It's like they found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow."

Two photos 20 years apart show how time stood still in North Korea

A recent satellite photo of the Korean peninsula at night taken by astronauts on the International Space Station reconfirms what the rest of the world already knew–North Korea disappears at night because the country can’t afford electricity.

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'Consumer Reports' says to avoid these new cars

Consumer Reports' annual auto report doesn't just recommend the best new cars to buy, based on its data. It also tells you the new cars it thinks you should avoid — no matter the deal or the bit of styling that appeals to you.

And it's perhaps a more interesting list than the menu of good cars. At least it can be a good place to start an argument.

N. Korea patrol boat violated maritime border: South

Seoul (AFP) - A North Korean patrol boat repeatedly crossed the disputed Yellow Sea border with the South in an apparent show of force at the start of South Korea-US military drills, Seoul's defense ministry said Tuesday.

The incursion took place three times overnight Monday and at one point the North Korean naval vessel had reached two nautical miles inside the South side of the border.

No shots were fired and the patrol boat eventually retreated after warnings from the South Korean navy, defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok said.

"We suspect this is aimed at testing our military preparedness", Kim told reporters, saying it was apparent that the vessel had "intentionally violated" the boundary.

On Xbox One, Titanfall Will Take Up 40 GB

We can only imagine what this would have been if the game had a single-player campaign. The fine print for Microsoft’s upcoming Titanfall Xbox One bundle contains a little tidbit, buried there at the end: the new shooter from Respawn entertainment will require “up to” 40 gb of hard drive space. This puts it on par with the PS4′s Killzone: Shadow Fall, which made headlines when it first announced its download size months ago.

As Paul Tassi notes, the 500 GB that both the Xbox One and PS4 came with is starting to look small awfully fast. Modern games are much larger than their counterparts of the last generation. With both companies emphasizing digital downloads, deciding what you want to keep on your disc will have a real impact on how you play.

Military wants to zap soldiers’ brains with electricity

We’ve known for a long time that the brain runs on electricity. Our brains have neurons charged with electrical energy, and these electrical impulses tell the body’s nervous system what to do. But what happens when the body grows tired and the brain starts functioning at less-than-optimal levels?

This lower brain performance often happens when people spend long hours doing dull things like their jobs, resulting in substandard performance. Coffee and other caffeinated beverages can offer short boosts of energy, but aren't sustainable, and wear off very quickly. The Pentagon, though, believes it has a solution: zap soldiers’ brains with small amounts of electricity to keep them alert and focused for longer periods of time.

Personal all-terrain mini-tank eats winter for breakfast

With much of the U.S. staring down yet another polar vortex event, it seems like we're in the midst of a winter worthy of a George R. R Martin novel. But even if winter is coming (or winter is already here), these are not the dark ages, because we've got the tech to beat even the worst of nature's wrath into submission. This is the MTT-136.

At Last, a Google Glass for the Battlefield

Walking around Silicon Valley with an augmented reality display on your face makes you a glasshole. On the battlefield, though, similar technology will soon turn U.S. soldiers into a lethal cross between the Terminator and Iron Man.

Q-Warrior, the newest version of helmet-mounted display technology from BAE Systems’ Q-Sight line, is a full-color, 3D heads-up display designed to provide soldiers in the field with rapid, real-time “situational awareness.”

With a high-resolution transparent display, Q-Warrior overlays data and a video stream over the soldier’s view of the world. Q-Warrior also includes enhanced night vision, waypoints and routing information, and the ability to identify hostile and non-hostile forces, track personnel and assets, and coordinate small unit actions.

New Jet-Powered Drone Can Kill 1,800 Miles From Home Base

The U.S. may be forced to withdraw troops completely from Afghanistan by the end of the year. That’s bad news if you’re the CIA and your lethal drone flights over neighboring Pakistan rely on the close proximity of Afghan airstrips.

Not surprisingly, the defense industry has already produced a solution: a new jet-powered drone that can range 1,800 miles from the nearest base.

The Avenger (formerly Predator C), whose prototype flew its first flight in 2009, is operationally ready after a new round of tests completed last month, according to its maker, General Atomics. Based on the company’s more well-known MQ-9 Reaper drone, Avenger is designed to perform high-speed, long-endurance surveillance or strike missions, flying up to 500 mph at a maximum of 50,000 feet for as long as 18 hours.

Microsoft's CEO On His New Role

The New York Times has a short but interesting interview with Microsoft's new CEO posted today that is worth reading.

Q.) What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?

A.)I remember asking him: "What do you think? How am I doing?" Then he said: "Look, you will know it, I will know it, and it will be in the air. So you don’t have to ask me, ‘How am I doing?’ At your level, it’s going to be fairly implicit." I went on to ask him, "How do I compare to the people who had my role before me?" And Steve said: "Who cares? The context is so different. The only thing that matters to me is what you do with the cards you’ve been dealt now.

'Wolfenstein': 5 ways it's being reinvented

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the upcoming video game "Wolfenstein: The New Order," players will be doing only one thing — killing Nazis — but the creators at MachineGames, who have never before taken on a "Wolfenstein" game, have added several updates to make the 32-year-old first-person shooter franchise feel modern.

"New Order" is celebrating the kamikaze style of the "Wolfenstein" series, which essentially launched the first-person shoot-'em-up genre, while reinventing it with a story line reminiscent of "Inglourious Basterds" and "Captain America."

For the first time, Army Ranger protagonist William "B.J." Blazkowitz is illustrated as a real person and not another action hero. "New Order," set for release May 20 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PC, is giving Blazkowitz a back story, moral choices and a love interest.

Samsung Announces the Galaxy S5, Its Latest Attack on Apple’s iPhone

BARCELONA — The Samsung Galaxy S5 has arrived, and it wants you to give it the finger. 

On Monday, Samsung announced the Galaxy S5, its premium smartphone followup to the Galaxy S4, and a challenger to Apple’s iPhone 5s for the top smartphone in the world. The Galaxy S5 features a crisp (and large) 5.1-inch display; new health tracking features, including a physical, finger-based heart rate monitor on the back of the phone and a built-in app to log meals; and a fingerprint sensor, which, like Apple’s latest iPhone, will let you unlock the phone with the touch of your finger.

Dutch scientists flap to the future with 'insect' drone

Delft (Netherlands) (AFP) - Dutch scientists have developed the world's smallest autonomous flapping drone, a dragonfly-like beast with 3-D vision that could revolutionise our experience of everything from pop concerts to farming.

"This is the DelFly Explorer, the world's smallest drone with flapping wings that's able to fly around by itself and avoid obstacles," its proud developer Guido de Croon of the Delft Technical University told AFP.

Weighing just 20 grammes (less than an ounce), around the same as four sheets of printer paper, the robot dragonfly could be used in situations where much heavier quadcopters with spinning blades would be hazardous, such as flying over the audience to film a concert or sport event.

'I’m never going to be able to retire.'

At age 58 and less than a decade away from retirement, Nancie Eichengreen, found herself having to start over from scratch.

It was 2012 and she had been laid off for the second time in 10 years from her job as a legal secretary. She spent a few years collecting unemployment benefits and dipping into her meager 401(k) savings to fill in the gaps.

“It’s kind of scary because I don’t envision a retirement for myself,” Eichengreen told Yahoo Finance. “I’m just going to have to keep working.”

Two years ago, she decided to start over completely, going back to school for a Masters degree in social work at Yeshiva University in New York. Today, Eichengreen now 60, is living off of student loans and says it’s unlikely that she’ll be able to pay off her $200,000 student debt, which includes what she borrowed for her first Masters studies in broadcast management.

Sierra Leone unearths $6-million diamond

Freetown (AFP) - Sierra Leone said on Saturday it had discovered a diamond worth $6.2 million, declaring it one of the most precious finds of the past decade.

The stone, dug up last week in the eastern district of Kono, was measured at 153 carats, making it significantly bigger than the largest find of 2013, a 125-carat diamond unearthed in the same area, the state-run National Minerals Agency said.

"This 153.44-carat diamond is one of the finest diamonds to be found in Sierra Leone in the last 10 years," the agency said in a statement.

Some California almond farmers decide to rip out high-value trees in face of record dry year

FIREBAUGH, Calif. (AP) -- With California's agricultural heartland entrenched in drought, almond farmers are letting orchards dry up and in some cases making the tough call to have their trees torn out of the ground, leaving behind empty fields.

In California's Central Valley, Barry Baker is one of many who hired a crew that brought in large rumbling equipment to perform the grim task in a cloud of dust.

A tractor operator drove heavy steel shanks into the ground to loosen the roots and knock the trees over. Another operator, driving a brush loader equipped with a fork-like implement on the front, scooped up the trees and root balls and pushed them into a pile, where an excavator driver grabbed them up in clusters with a clawing grapple. The trees were fed into a grinder that spit wood chips into piles to be hauled away by the truckload and burned as fuel in a power plant.

Noose closed on Mexican drug lord as allies fell

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — For 13 years Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman watched from western Mexico's rugged mountains as authorities captured or killed the leaders of every group challenging his Sinaloa cartel's spot at the top of global drug trafficking.

Unscathed and his legend growing, the stocky son of a peasant farmer grabbed a slot on the Forbes' billionaires' list and a folkloric status as the capo who grew too powerful to catch. Then, late last year, authorities started closing on the inner circle of the world's most-wanted drug lord.

Lotus enters motorcycle business with stunning "hyper bike"

Ever since firing its CEO Dany Bahar in June 2012 and reporting a near $200 million loss, Lotushas sought to find solid footing. One way the British marque planned to achieve this was by entering the motorcycle business, promising to deliver a Lotus "hyper bike," built by German race team Kodewa and the Holzer Group, by the turn of the year.

And here it is, the Lotus C-01. A true stunner that isn't really a Lotus at all.

The storied sports car maker has become more of a branding company than the automotive innovator it once was, enlisting others to do the heavy lifting while licensing the Lotus name for the sheet metal. This was evident in the 2010 IndyCar season, slapping Lotus logos on the carbon body that covered the Honda powerplant (they did enter an engine in 2012, although I'm not sure Lotus wants to be reminded of that). In Formula One, the Lotus F1 team is powered by Renault, and according to Lotus' most recent press release, the C-01 bike "is not designed, engineered or produced by Group Lotus" at all.

Adelina Sotnikova hugs judge moments after winning gold

It is now the hug seen 'round the world. When Russian Adelina Sotnikova dramatically ran through the hallways of the Iceberg Skating Palace after winning gold, searching for family and friends with whom to celebrate, cameras caught her hugging and receiving warm congratulations from many people, including a woman who had just been judging the event minutes before, Russian Alla Shekhovtsova (circled above in red).

Document shows surveillance of US law firm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency was involved in the surveillance of an American law firm while it represented a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States, The New York Times reported in a story based on a top-secret document obtained by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden.

The February 2013 document shows that the Indonesian government had retained the law firm for help in trade talks, the Times reported in a story posted on its website Saturday. The law firm was not identified in the document, but the Chicago-based firm Mayer Brown was advising the Indonesian government on trade issues at the time, according to the newspaper.

Leonardo DiCaprio: Titanic Is "a Huge Part of My Life," I'm "Incredibly Proud of it"

Don't worry, Jack Dawson lovers! Leonardo DiCaprio has only good things to say about his 1997 blockbuster hit Titanic. In an interview with CBS This Morning, the actor revealed he's "proud" of the film that made him a household name -- contrary to what fans may have assumed as schmaltzy or overblown from the actor's perspective.

"You know, it's been such a long time, but it was such, you know, a huge part of my life," DiCaprio, 39, told CBS This Morning co-hostGayle King. "And people maybe think I have a reaction to that film. But the truth is, I'm incredibly proud of it. And not only that, the movie has really made me be in control of my career."

DiCaprio starred in the James Cameron-directed film alongside now longtime friend Kate Winslet. (The film grossed a then-record breaking 343.6 million worldwide, and won the Oscar for Best Picture.) But before he came face-to-face with an iceberg, theWolf of Wall Street star snagged his first Oscar nomination in 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Gilbert for his portrayal as a mentally handicapped boy. The Hollywood hunk has famously never won an Oscar to this day, but admitted that he didn't want to win for the early '90s film anyway.

"No, I -- I didn't," he said. "All I remember is being paralyzed with fear that I'd have to actually get up on that stage because somebody told me a billion people watch that show. And that's the only thing that I really remember."

Ukraine protester tweeted after being shot in neck

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — "I am dying," Olesya Zhukovska, a 21-year-old volunteer medic, wrote on Twitter, minutes after she got shot in the neck by a sniper's bullet as deadly clashes broke out in the center of the Ukrainian capital between protesters and police.

The tweet, accompanied by a photo of her clutching her bleeding neck and being led away under fire, went viral, as social media users around the world presumed she had died and shared their grief and anger.

But Zhukovska survived.

New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant

TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that 100 metric tons of highly contaminated water had leaked out of a tank, the worst incident since last August, when a series of radioactive water leaks sparked international alarm.

Tokyo Electric Power Co told reporters the latest leak was unlikely to have reached the ocean. But news of the leak at the site, devastated by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami, further undercut public trust in a utility rocked by a string of mishaps and disclosure issues.

"We are taking various measures, but we apologize for worrying the public with such a leak," said Masayuki Ono, a spokesman for the utility, also known as Tepco.

US warship deployed near Sochi runs aground

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of two U.S. warships dispatched to the Black Sea before the Sochi Winter Olympics remains in a Turkish port after running aground last week, the Navy said Wednesday.

The frigate USS Taylor is being inspected for damage after it ran aground Feb. 12 while preparing to moor at Samsun, Turkey, about 230 miles (370 kilometers) southwest of Sochi. A Turkish official said it may be repaired in a day or two.

Lt. Shawn Eklund, a Navy spokesman in Europe, said that even with the Taylor sidelined, the U.S. would still be able to respond, should Russia ask for help with any crisis. The Taylor and the USS Mount Whitney were sent to the Black Sea after an uptick in security threats around the Olympics, although the Pentagon said the U.S. warships were deployed as part of normal military planning and could perform any required missions, including communications or evacuations.

Why Is Social Security Stockpiling Bullets?

Granny, get your gun? The Internet rumor mill has been buzzing in full force after the Social Security Administration posted notice of a recent ammunition purchase. Why would the agency responsible for pension and disability benefits need 174,000 hollow-point bullets?

Don’t worry: The SSA isn’t readying a militia. It is not — as the website Infowars.com suggested — preparing for “civil unrest,” nor hatching plans to turn on America’s senior citizenry. The bullets, it turns out, are for agents who investigate Social Security fraud. In a blog post, the agency noted:

Our investigators are similar to your State or local police officers. They use traditional investigative techniques, and they are armed when on official duty.

According to Jonathan L. Lasher of the SSA’s inspector general office, these agents make arrests, execute search warrants and carry .357 caliber  pistols. Most of the bullets — about 590 per agent for the upcoming fiscal year — will be used on the firing range.

Arizona toddler with 160 IQ admitted to Mensa

She's not even in kindergarten yet, but a 3-year-old Arizona girl has been accepted into an exclusive global society known for its brain power.

With an IQ above 160, Alexis Martin, of suburban Queen Creek, is now the youngest member in the Arizona chapter of Mensa, a Phoenix television station reported.

Alexis, who reads at a fifth-grade level and taught herself Spanish using her parents' iPad, qualified by scoring among the top 2 percent of the general population on a standardized intelligence test, her father said.

Ian Martin told local ABC15 in an interview that the family began noticing that something about their daughter was different when she was just a year old.

'Godzilla' Poster Reveals the Biggest-Ever King of the Monsters

Godzilla's always been rather large. But now he's, like, really rather large.

The King of the Monsters is set to make an ultra-sized comeback this summer in director Gareth Edwards' reboot, which boasts the mighty cast of future "Avengers" co-stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen, living legend Bryan Cranston, Ra's al Ghul stand-in Ken Watanabe and even French actress Juliette Binoche, finally making good on that "Jurassic Park" gig she couldn't do over 20 years ago.

As impressive as they are, the humans aren't what's got us psyched for the newfangled "Godzilla." It's the big beast himself that guarantees our attendance on opening night, and for the most part Legendary Pictures has so far been keeping the star of the show behind the curtain, offering only the vaguest glimpses through the dusty rubble in the film's teaser trailer.

25 Most Brutal Torture Techniques Ever Devised

Ever since man has been in the business of seeking vengeance, torture has been a reality for war criminals, prisoners, and other less than fortunate individuals. In fact, the most unsettling thing about torture isn't its existence, but the way people have injected a perverted sense of creativity into the creation of devices designed to create pain. To prove our point here are the 25 most brutal torture techniques ever devised.

16 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing — Including WhatsApp's Co-Founder

The American Dream is alive and well.

Facebook's recent announcement that it would buy messaging app WhatsApp for a staggering $19 billion minted new billionaires, including co-founder and CEO Jan Koum who was once dirt poor. Koum's family immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine two decades ago and lived on food stamps. Today, he's worth an estimated $6.8 billion.

All from humble beginnings, these 16 people not only climbed to the top of their industries but also became some of the richest people in the world.

These rags-to-riches stories remind us that through determination, grit, and a bit of luck anyone can overcome their circumstances and achieve extraordinary success.

LG’s New Phone Redefines What It Means to Be Mini

Last week, LG announced a new smartphone, with an enormous 5.9-inch display, called the G2 Pro. This week, it’s following up with a smartphone that’s decidedly smaller, with a 4.7-inch display.

Fittingly, LG has dubbed this new phone the G2 Mini. Mind you, the 4.7-inch display on the G2 Mini is still 0.7 inches larger than the current iPhone’s display. Up until the iPhone 5, Apple considered 3.5 inches an acceptable size for a smartphone screen.

Giffffr Is A Really Simple Tool to Turn YouTube Videos into GIFs

YouTube is home to dramatic chipmunks, weird Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen remixes and almost every single Simpsons scene you can imagine. In other words, it’s a treasure trove of GIF-able material. With the new website Giffffr, you can transform your favorite YouTube clips into animated clips, edit them and then share them with the rest of the Internet in a few quick steps. It’s one of the simplest methods for creating GIFs on the Internet that we’ve come across, and it’s totally free.

Here’s how it works.

1. Go to Giffff.fr. (That’s four F’s, by the way.)

Google Reinvents the Way Phones See - Project Tango

For the past year, Google has enlisted universities, labs and hardware partners to build a new kind of phone — really new, not just the next Moto X. The project video shows a phone that rethinks the way mobile devices interact with their environments.

Google’s Project Tango takes advantage of robotic and computer vision advances, the company says. Tango devices are capable of taking more than a quarter of a million measurements a second to track orientation and position in real time. The implications of such technology, according to Google, could impact everything from mapping to mobile games.

U.S. Postal Service to Commemorate Apple Founder Steve Jobs with His Own Stamp

Need to send a piece of snail mail to an Apple fanatic? Soon, there’ll be a stamp for that. 

The United States Postal Service will honor the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs with his own stamp next year. According to a report from The Washington Post, which apparently acquired a secret list of future honorees, the Jobs stamp will be released in 2015 as a collectible. 

8 Reasons Why "Dark Horse" Is Katy Perry's Best Video Ever

Katy Perry has made a lot of silly music videos in her life. But her latest for "Dark Horse" might just be our favorite. After checking out her stunning wardrobe, adorable guest stars, delicious snacks, and man-zapping abilities, being a modern Egyptian queen might just be our new teenage dream.

There have been plenty of comparisons to Michael Jackson's Egyptian-themed "Remember the Time" music video, right down to this clip's unimpressed queen. But none of the overlapping ideas are that original for either video. Still, we think Perry did Egypt in a way that only Katy can.

Why is this Katy Perry's best music video ever? Let us count the ways:

Mythbusters: Who needs space in relationships?

The cliché is that men are the ones who need their space, but Match.com’s annual Singles in America study finds that more women than ever are seeking out their own “me time” in relationships — so said a staggering 77% of approximately 2,000 female respondents across all age ranges (21-65+). In addition to wanting more quality time to spend alone, we also want more nights out with our (girl) friends and to take separate vacations. 

Related: The ideal age for women to get married is…

What’s driving the trend? “This is generally a natural progression of the Woman’s Movement,” suggests Lee Bowers, a Villanova, PA-based psychologist and author of Divorce Proof Your Marriage Before You Say “I Do”. “Since World War II, women have been increasing their numbers in the workforce. This brings more economic and social autonomy. We want to be equals in the decision making, and we want to make the decisions about our own lives — including how we spend our time.”