ROCHESTER, NY — Bulls aren’t the only ones that get excited when they see red. According to a new study, the sight of a woman wearing red inspires amorous emotions not merely in Chris De Burgh by most men in the viewing public. Red has long been the color of passion and...

WASHINGTON, DC — A new consumer watchdog group led by a former AOL exec and sponsored by AT&T promises to hold internet companies accountable for the ways in which they collect, store, use and share consumer data.The Future of Privacy Forum (FutureOfPrivacy.org), which...

PORTLAND, OR — An internet pornographer who pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the strangulation death of his 18-year-old live-in girlfriend was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday.According to court documents and family statements, 38-year-old Paul Eugene...

CHINA — Publish or perish may be the motto of academics hoping to gain tenure, but when you’re a factory working sending smutty messages to co-workers, it might be something best left for leisure time. Or so one now-unemployed Chongqing factory worker discovered.It must...

SCOTTS VALLEY, CA — Seagate has begun shipping “self-encrypting” hard drives for use in portable computers, apparently having decided the general public’s reluctance to employ aftermarket software solutions is not in society’s best interests.Seagate’s new Momentus FDE...

LOS ANGELES, CA — It was a battle of titans the Ninth Cirucuit Court of Appeals just couldn’t ignore: strip club and video game developer locked in mortal combat over trademark infringement.On November 6th, the court dismissed a three-year-old lawsuit in which East Los...

MARSHALL, NC — Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey aren’t welcome at the Marshall Depot community center. Or maybe it’s just Rebecca Willis and her dirty dancing ways. However one slices it, the center’s decision to ban Willis for the way she dances is going to cost big. “Big”...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — It seems like only yesterday that Lorena Bobbitt drove through the Virginia country side and tossed half of her husband’s severed penis into a field. Who knew that a bit of sensational domestic violence would lead the never-overly-endowed male Bobbitt to...

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA — Asia has been making headlines lately, what with its enthusiastic embrace of the automobile and its sadly lacking oversight when it comes to the nation’s food supply – but there are many reasons beyond commerce that have made Asia famous...

LOS ANGELES — Spurred to action by California voters’ passage of Proposition 8, a GLBT civil rights group has called for a peaceful nationwide protest on Saturday.Beginning at 10:30 a.m. PDT, members of the GLBT community, their families and supporters will take to the...