While the average American home spends about 2.7% of their income on energy bills, more than one billion people live without power worldwide. So Microsoft and social media giant Facebook have partnered up to work together and fix this. Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. have partnered up with venture capitalists at Allotrope Partners in an…

While nearly 50% of the country’s 200 largest trade shows take place in Las Vegas, Chicago, and Orlando, every year, the city of Austin welcomes thousands of visitors to its South by Southwest trade show. Focused specifically on the latest in technical advancements and general health and wellness, this year’s trade show showcased vendors specializing…

A seven-year-old girl with alopecia celebrated her school’s “crazy hair day” with style — and plenty of sparkle. Gianessa Wride, who was diagnosed with the condition in January, arrived at her Utah school with gemstone scrapbooking stickers adorning her head, crafted into floral and owl designs, Teen Vogue reports. “She looked in the mirror and…

Garages in America have seen a major shift in their functionality in recent years. What was once used to store our cars has now become something else entirely. People are starting to pay attention to their garages, not as dirty, gasoline-stained rooms, but as extra space in the house that they can, and do, utilize.…

Maersk Line, the largest shipping company in the world, is teaming up with tech company IBM to implement blockchain software in their cargo tracking. This joint effort could make it possible to track the activity, such as documents and transactions, of millions of shipping containers around the world, Shipping Watch reports. The partnership was announced…

By adding an exercise routine and healthy diet to their intensive medical treatment, patients with Type 2 Diabetes may be able to enter full remission after just a few months. This is according to a recent study by researchers at McMaster University, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. This could…

Organizations across the U.S. are encouraging their employees to continue to read, study, and learn throughout their careers, but more could be done to help adult workers learn new skills. In a world often defined by technological change, it’s common for adults to require new training and education mid-career. Roughly 73% of adults consider themselves…

Local authorities report that a fire badly damaged a 15th century Ottoman mosque overnight. The mosque, located in the town of Didymoteicho in Greece had been undergoing renovations at the time. There was no work in progress at the time of the fire; however, officials suspect that the fire broke out in connection to a…

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have warned UK political party leaders of the serious threat that Russian hacking poses to democratic processes. As a result, political leaders have called an emergency summit to brief parties on cyber security threats that may affect the next election. The emergency summit comes after multiple accounts of Kremlin spies…

There is a new theory surrounding the infamous doomed ocean liner, the RMS Titanic. The ship, known to be “indestructible,” went down in the middle of the Atlantic halfway through its maiden voyage back in 1912. For more than a century historians (not to mention James Cameron) have believed that the captain traveled too quickly…