Alaska Airlines has taken cruise control to completely new heights. As part of a June pilot project (see what we did there?), the airline will debut testing of satellite technology that will manage the descent of airplanes when …
Not only can it prove tough to avoid peanuts at a Major League Baseball stadium, it also can be dangerous for those so allergic that airborne peanut residue causes intense reactions. But just because fans can’t always embrace …
Partly in an effort to quell pro-Hitler pilgrimages and also because she says she is too old to care for it, an unnamed descendant had the tombstone signifying the grave of Alois and Klara Hitler, Adolf’s parents, removed from …
If you want all the nitty-gritty details of peoples’ lives from 1940, then today is your day. The National Archives and Records Administration has unveiled the 72-year privacy restrictions on the details of the 1940 Census, …
In an effort to avoid artificial additives in its drinks, Starbucks got vegetarians peeved by using a new ingredient in its strawberry products, ABC News reports. That ingredient? Extract from dried, crushed cochineal beetles, as …
If you look really closely, Paul Sturgess did put a tiny bit of air between his size 20 shoes and the floor before dunking the basketball in a recent Harlem Globetrotters game. Not that he needed to.
Sturgess, with a jersey …
It took multiple airline passengers to subdue the captain of a JetBlue flight from New York’s JFK airport en route to Las Vegas after he was kicked out of the cockpit by the co-pilot and started slamming on the door and …
If the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport mimics a small city, then why not have small hotel rooms to match?
Atlanta-based Minute Suites LLC has created its own solution to airport stress, creating mini-rooms within …
Experts knew debris from the Japanese tsunami would meander toward North America’s west coast at some point. While smaller bits and pieces started hitting the shores of Western Canada this year, the first major item, a 150-foot …
Alec Baldwin may have the money to disturb a flight, but the average flyer may think twice before playing Words with Friends.
Since we all need a little more connection to our cell phones and other electronic gadgetry, Nokia has developed a plan to send phone alerts right to our bodies.
In an application filed with the U.S. patent office, Nokia has …
Online dating will hopefully get a little safer now, since three major sites have agreed to background checks for prospective dating clients. Match.com, eHarmony and Sparks Networks (operator of JDate and ChristianMingle) will …
