The video game “Guitar Hero,” once believed to be helping revive rock a few years ago in the hip-hop era, will jam no longer. Activision Blizzard Inc. announced Wednesday it will cease publishing the game this year. “Due to continued declines in the music genre, the company will disband Activision Publishing’s ‘Guitar Hero’ business unit […]
Who wasn’t watching the Super Bowl last night? The ratings are in, and the battle between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers has made Fox the first network to draw more than a 100 million viewers for a night in primetime. There were 111 million viewers tuning in to Fox Sports’ broadcast, making […]
Britney Spears announced today that her new album, due March 15, is titled “Femme Fatale” — but the superstar singer and her Los Angeles producers are still choosing songs and determining the final direction of the overall sound. “It’s not done,” Dr. Luke, co-producing the album with longtime Britney collaborator Max Martin and Montreal dance-pop […]
Gwyneth Paltrow and Cee Lo Green are planning to make beautiful music together at the Grammys. The actress and the singer, who performed together on “Saturday Night Live” last month, will also be calling on some famous friends for help: the Jim Henson Company Puppets, PEOPLE has learned. It’s not yet known what song they’ll […]
Will Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon paint their twins’ nursery pink or blue? Possibly both. They’re expecting a girl and a boy, a source close to the couple confirms to CNN. The couple announced that 41-year-old Carey was carrying twins back in December, despite being wary of revealing too much about the pregnancy. Though the […]
Here’s another reason to get some good sleep in the week leading up to a major test or presentation: Sleep selectively enhances memories that you expect to need in the future, a new study suggests. Researchers in Germany tested a group of 141 healthy adult participants on tasks involving recalling words, locating a two-dimensional object, […]
Republican political heavyweight and reality-TV star Sarah Palin will sign copies of her new book at a Houston Borders store on Monday. The former Alaska governor will autograph America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag starting at 11 a.m. at the Borders located at 3025 Kirby. KRIV-Channel 26 reported that fans […]
Thomas Sawyer, a cancer survivor, has worn a urostomy bag for the past three years. Yet, he says, little could have prepared him for his recent airport pat down, when an officer broke the bag’s seal and urine spilled out “onto my shirt and down my pants.” “I’m a good American. I know why we’re […]
The number of Americans fighting off hunger stayed level last year, though food insecurity rates remain the highest they have been since the federal government began keeping track 15 years ago, a Department of Agriculture report released Monday found. About 14.7 percent of U.S. households were “food insecure” in 2009, meaning they had difficulty feeding […]
The federal government unveiled new proposed regulations Wednesday mandating “bolder health warnings” on cigarette advertisements and packages, according to a news release from the Department of Health and Human Services. The proposed requirements, characterized as the biggest change in tobacco health warnings in 25 years, include “nine new larger and more noticeable textual warning statements […]
U.S. authorities have discovered about 30 tons of marijuana that were part of a smuggling operation using a tunnel under the California-Mexico border, officials said Wednesday. The 600-yard tunnel — which features a rail system, lighting and ventilation — connects a warehouse in Tijuana with one in the Otay Mesa industrial area of San Diego, […]
The United States no longer owns the world’s fastest supercomputer. A computer called Tianhe-1A, unveiled on Wednesday at a conference in Beijing, China, can run calculations faster than the previous speed leader, a computer at a U.S. lab in Tennessee. The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once. […]
