Genius on hold: Meet the man who invented much of the modern phone … and maybe even Apple

February 26, 2013 3:30 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Editor's Pick Walter L. Shaw is someone you've never heard of. But he invented big chunks of your world, and then died, almost penniless, living on the charity of his international jewel thief son, a made man in John Gotti's New York mob.

Senate passes bill requiring “Black Boxes” for cars, but you may already have one

April 19, 2012 3:14 PM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

The U.S. Senate just passed a bill requiring all new cars in America to come equipped with a black box-like data recording device starting in 2015, InfoWars reports. Similar to the tell-all black boxes on airplanes, event data recorders (EDR) …