Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1B

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World’s most expensive Toyota: 45-yr-old Toyota 2000GT sells for $1.2m

The world’s most expensive Toyota has been sold for a staggering $ 1.2 million.

For the same price – around £80,000 – car enthusiasts could pick up a sleek brand new sports car like the British Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

But one buyer was more than happy to break the record for…

Blackberry set to launch BBM messaging service on iOS and Android

BlackBerry is to give its BBM software away to iPhone and Android users in a bit to boost its popularity and stop consumers switching to rival handsets.

Speaking at BlackBerry Live – a three-day annual event in Orlando – BlackBerry’s CEO Thorsten Heins said the firm’s popular BBM messaging software will be available on the iPhone and Android handsets for the first time.

The…

Meet RoboBee, World’s Smallest Flying Robot

The Guardian calls it the “smallest flying robot in the world,” DVice has it as the “world’s smallest aerial drone,” and USA Today settles for “electronic housefly.” By whichever name, the dime-sized device by Harvard scientists is amazing. (They call it “RoboBee,” for the record.) It has two tiny wings that flap 120 times per second…

Introducing the Condom of the Future

Our civilization has explored outer space. We have cars that drive themselves. We’ve created a world connected by computers. But despite the astonishing innovations of the last 100 years, the latex condom remains woefully old fashioned. It practically hasn’t changed since its invention in 1918. And I think we can all agree that condoms are universally hated—a…

Russian Billionaire Plans To Make Humans Immortal By 2045

A Russian billionaire has unveiled plans to make humans immortal by converting them into “Terminator-style” cyborgs – a creature that’s part human and part machine – within the next three decades.

Thirty two-year-old mogul, Dmitry Itskov has been pushing the project forward since 2011 when he founded the 2045 Initiative.

His ultimate goal is to transfer a person’s mind or consciousness from a living brain…

Internet ‘Bitcoin’ Worth More Than 20 State Currencies

There isn’t any national treasury backing the bitcoin, nor does anyone have great stores of physical bitcoins lying around. Yet more than $ 1 billion worth of this invented currency is in circulation—more than the entire currency stock of 20 countries, Fox News reports. A single bitcoin is currently worth more than $ 90 US. What’s the appeal?…

Facebook To Produce Its Own Smartphone

Facebook fueled fresh talk Friday about its own mobile phone after the leading social network scheduled a press announcement for next week.

Shortly after the Facebook invitation went out for the April 4 event, the technology news site TechCrunch reported the announcement would be a modified version of the Google Android operating system with “deep native Facebook functionality.”

Another report on “9 to 5 Google”…

Excite Had a Chance to Buy Google for $750K, But Turned It Down

Google is practically synonymous with “search” today. But back in 1999, Excite (better known today as Ask.com) was a bigger force in the online world. It was one of the most recognized brands of the 90s. In today’s digital environment, it’s almost unfathomable to think a company would pass up the chance to acquire Google. But to fully understand this story,…

YouTube: We’ve Reached 1B Hits Per Month

Five months ago, Facebook announced it had reached one billion views per month—now, you can add YouTube to that exclusive club, Mashable reports. The video-sharing site announced the milestone on its blog, which notes that “nearly one out of every two people on the Internet visits YouTube,” and “if YouTube were…