Not surprisingly, when NPR’s This American Life program released a recipe for the drink earlier this week, it quickly captured the attention of the chattering class. A closer look, however, shows that real thing’s real secret i…
IBM’s supercomputer Watson racked up $5,000 in winnings on day one of the three-day Jeopardy! challenge Monday, but so did one of its human competitors. The human champs, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, face long odds — at least…
A fundraiser at Los Angeles’ Playboy Mansion earlier this month may have caused dozens of attendees to become ill with flu-like symptoms, respiratory problems and pneumonia, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday, citing Los Ang…
In a Q&A, Wolfe (pictured, left) recounts how he came to be the creator and star of The History Channel show, and he provides some behind-the-scenes glimpses into the life of a collector always hunting the next big discovery. A…
In the testosterone-laden enclaves of America’s business class, buzzwords tend to be a bit manly.
Perhaps the best example is “tent pole,” a term that refers to a company’s most promising, prominent or profitable product — ex…