The popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com has been taken down by the FBI as the Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging seven people associated with the site. The indictment, which is 72 pages long, was handed down by a federal grand jury in Virginia on January 5th, 2012. This document charges the seven people, including Megaupload’s [...]

Exoplanets, or planets in star systems other than our own, have been found in orbit around single stars, with one exception. Kepler-16b is defined as circumbinary, having two host stars in close orbit. Researchers working with data from the Kepler space-based observatory have identified two more promising exoplanet candidates orbiting binary stars, known as Kepler-34b [...]

Yahoo! was once the world’s dominant search engine. Its founders held talks about a merger with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation at one point, and they even managed to fend off a $44 billion takeover bid by Microsoft. However, Yahoo! has put itself up for sale after firing the CEO of 18 months Carol Bartz via [...]

One of the designers of Portal, Kim Swift, was at PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) and showed that she hasn’t emptied her mind of creative and unique ideas yet. Swift and her team at Airtight Games are hosting a PAX panel and giving fans the first glimpse at Quantum Conundrum, a first-person physics-based puzzle game coming [...]

Electronic Arts (EA) has purchased leading casual gaming company PopCap Games. This move was in order to solidify EA in the fast-growing gaming market, as well as to expand its gaming capabilities. EA, based in Redwood City, paid $650 million cash plus $100 million in stock to acquire PopCap Games. PopCap can earn up to [...]

This is pretty cool, a group of researchers have figured out what God’s Number for a Rubik’s Cube is. For those unfamiliar with the concept of God’s Number, it’s the minimum amount of moves required to solve a puzzle. The concept originated with the Rubik’s Cube and years after its introduction, God’s Number for the [...]