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Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

Ryan Tate · 06/09/10 03:50PM

Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.

Now That 'Top Kill' Failed, How Do We Stop the Oil Leak?

Max Read · 05/31/10 02:30PM

So, "top kill," BP's last-ditch effort to seal up their oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, has failed. Now that our best chance for stopping the leak didn't work, what's next? And what sexy nickname will it have?

Getting a Parking Ticket on Live TV

Matt Toder · 05/26/10 11:51AM

While filming a live news segment about road trips, this reporter for KTLA gets multiple parking tickets. Obviously, the claim of proper permits and the news crew, would not deter the cop. That's the LAPD, always hard at work.

A Guide to Subway Safety

Hamilton Nolan · 05/18/10 11:15AM

In the last six months, three New Yorkers have died after hopping down onto the subway tracks to retrieve something they dropped. Subways are not funhouse playlands! Are you being unsafe underground? This easy guide should help.

Detroit Cops Shoot and Kill Seven-Year-Old Girl in Raid

Max Read · 05/16/10 11:38PM

Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was killed early Sunday morning when Detroit police conducted a raid while searching for a murder suspect. Apparently, the officer's gun accidentally discharged during a confrontation. According to Jones' family, the suspect wasn't in their apartment.

From the Sky, Detroit Looks Like Sarajevo

Matt Cherette · 04/18/10 10:37PM

Chris Hansen traveled to Detroit, Michigan for a Dateline special that aired tonight on the state of what is probably America's most desolate city. And in aerial footage—devastation porn at its best—Detroit's grim plight was revealed. Video inside.

Fire Lane

Brian Moylan · 04/13/10 06:04PM

[Is this what happens when a temperamental passenger realizes a cabbie has been price gouging? Nah. But this taxi did suddenly burst into flames on Ninth Ave in Manhattan today. Image via Splash]

Mythbusters Takes on the Spycar

Robyn Caplan · 04/08/10 01:49PM

The concept of the spycar has been around since the invention of the car so the guys from Mythbusters decided to play a little game of chase to find out whether the techniques shown in movies work out on the road.

This is What Competing Sperm Looks Like: Race Cars

Maureen O'Connor · 03/28/10 11:58AM

Studying sperm competition in fruit flies, scientist Mollie Manier color-coded their junk and made videos of sperm "racing around the female's genital tract at high speed, like miniature formula-one cars," according to one awed science writer.