Just six months into his role as CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich announced today that the electronics giant hit a momentous goal in the world of corporate social responsibility: Starting right now, every microprocessor that Intel ships will be made entirely with conflict-free minerals.
Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help. A program launched Tuesday enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor through Facebook's chat messaging system.
A cancer-stricken New Jersey teen who yearned to take Taylor Swift to his high school prom has scored a dream date to a far more glamorous soiree. Swift couldn't make Kevin McGuire's prom, so she did him one better: She asked him out to the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Archaeologists have long held that North America remained unpopulated until about 15,000 years ago, when Siberian people walked or boated into Alaska and then moved down the West Coast. But a dark, tapered stone blade, found near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, turned out to be 22,000 years old, suggesting that its makers probably paddled from Europe and arrived in America thousands of years ahead of the western migration.
A trainee surgeon, who is also a self-confessed 'technology geek,' has figured out a way to save the U.K. National Health program a lot of money by taking advantage of 3D-printer technology.
After hearing the shocking figure that up to 40 percent of produce goes to waste in the fields, Christy Porter founded Hidden Harvest an organization that employs the working poor to rescue farmers' leftover produce to feed the hungry.
A gritty granny armed only with her handbag fought off six robbers who were smashing windows in a jewelry store on a busy UK street. Amateur video filmed by a passerby shows the courageous senior citizen swinging her purse with a ferocity seemingly brought on only by her shock at the thugs' mid-day audacity.
Half of all Alzheimer's disease cases could be prevented by lifestyle changes such as exercise, eating healthily and not smoking, claim researchers.
Not many folks change their own oil anymore. But, it would be nearly impossible to find another woman on the planet who continues to change her own oil at age 102.
Carmen Dell'Orefice has spent her life in front of the lens since gracing the cover of Vogue magazine in 1947, and as the world's first octogenarian model, she is still turning heads, most recently on the catwalk for Norisol Ferrari during New York Fashion Week on Monday.
Old guys everywhere have a little more swagger today. They're holding their heads a little higher. The reason? Major League Pitcher Jamie Moyer refuses to give up the ghost. This spring, he became the oldest pitcher in MLB history to win a game, and the oldest major league player ever to hit an RBI. And his athletic tenacity matches his generosity to the community.
Not wanting to be outdone by her 75-year-old paragliding son, Mary Allen Hardison of Ogden, Utah, took flight on her birthday, becoming the "Oldest Female to Paraglide Tandem" — an achievement described Tuesday by Guinness World Records as a "celebration of the official start of spring and life rejuvenated."