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White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer battled with Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday in a contentious three-minute segment over President Barack Obama's whereabouts on the night of last September's terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Wallace pushed for details on what Obama was doing the night of the attack and how he tried to manage the situation. Pfeiffer said that Obama was kept up to date by his national security staff, and charged Republicans with a ...

Nobody knows who invented the digital currency Bitcoin. The developer used a pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto, and since then there's been a lot of inconclusive internet sleuthing. Ted Nelson, a computer scientist, has posted a video to the web claiming that he's figured it out, and that it's Kyoto University math professor Shinichi Mochizuki. Shinichi Mochizuki gained fame last year for figuring the famous ABC Conjecture. Our Walter Hickey explained what this was all about last year. In short, th...

It's been exactly a year since we've seen the first teaser for "Anchorman 2." Paramount released the second teaser for the anticipated sequel to the 2004 film, and they're really not giving anything away. The trailer is premiering ahead of "Star Trek Into Darkness." "Anchorman: The Legend Continues" hits theaters December 20. Here's how the official Ron Burgundy Twitter account revealed the trailer online: Here's our new "teaser trailer." I remember when teaser trailer meant getting a lady to...

This week Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke‘s "A Touch of Sin" screened at the Cannes Film Festival, where it is being considered for the ”Golden Palm,” the highest prize at the festival. The film is already creating buzz at home after the trailer was uploaded to Youku on Wednesday, the Hollywood Reporter writes. “Judging from the trailer, it contains a lot of critical scenes based in reality that were created with no fear of the censorship system," one Weibo user commented. Of particular note is...

Today's Ad Of The Day is as pleasurable to watch as aluminum foil is to chew on. In other words, it is completely irksome. Comedic duo Rhett and Link's latest ad for the Ryan Lee Chiropractic Center in Los Angeles is basic infomercial fodder. The only difference is that the sound effects produced by the chiropractor adjusting his patients are way too realistic and much too frequent. The repeated crunching sound is nauseating. Yes, we want to know that Ryan Lee is a competent chiropractor. But...

If you've ever gotten tripped up trying to pronounce the names Louis Vuitton, Hermès, or Ermenegildo Zegna, you're not alone. Bomoda, a Chinese luxury fashion newsletter and e-commerce site (think DailyCandy for Beijing) recently put out a video teaching its users the correct way to pronounce luxury brand names. It also stopped by Union Square to see if New Yorkers had any clue how to correctly say the names of major luxury brands. The results are not pretty. SEE ALSO: The Most Valuable Luxur...

In eight months since an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi left four Americans dead, a Republican-led investigation has focused on potential missteps by the White House — and come away with nothing significant. There has been little attention given, however, to covert actions by the Central Intelligence Agency that were partially uncovered during the September 11, 2012 attack. That may be changing. CNN's Jake Tapper argued this week that we should give more scrutiny to the CIA's presen...

A new ad for Getty Images uses video content in Getty's video bank to string together an 85-second-long love story worthy of a Lifetime special. The commercial is by BBDO. The ad is comprised entirely of stock video clips. It follows a couple from birth through childhood, college, and beyond. When the couple parts ways for a number of years, we see their development as individuals, their major life events documented by the stock footage. Watch the whole video to see what happens and brighten ...

On November 6th, 45-year-old "Precious" actress Mo'Nique began a weight loss journey that she has since documented daily on her website and Twitter account. After nearly seven months of lifting weights, running, doing yoga, playing basketball and other activities, the Oscar-winning actress has lost 80 pounds. Mo'Nique told The Cipha Sounds & Rosenberg Radio Show that she currently weighs 218 pounds after "tipping 300" when she starred in the 1999 sitcom "The Parkers." "My goal is between 190 ...

In the wake of David Beckham's retirement today, here's his best moment ever. England was down 2-1 to Greece in the 93rd minute in 2002 World Cup qualification. If they lost, they would have had to play Ukraine in a tricky playoff to qualify for the tournament. If they won, they would have automatically qualified. Seconds from the final whistle, England won a free-kick 30 yards from goal. With the crowd on its feet, Beck stepped up and bent it into the top left corner. The goalie had no chanc...

We could tell you this story, but we can assure you that you would rather watch the video. This is a bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. According to the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, the driver was cruising along Goucher Street yesterday evening when he hit a deer. That sounds like a sad story. But that's because you haven't seen the video yet. Along with the star of the film, who somehow appears to be unhurt, note the flying coffee cup. And the polite driver who opened the doors just a second too...

Google CEO Larry Page surprised the attendees at the company's I/O developers conference today, capping off the lengthy keynote presentation with a speech about the future of technology and how negativity in the press and between rival companies is hurting innovation. He also took questions from the audience, a rare move from a CEO of company as big as Google. It's really good. You should watch it. We've clipped Page's speech and Q&A session from today's keynote presentation for you below. (Y...

Greg Karber was bothered by our story about Abercrombie refusing to make clothes for large women since CEO Michael Jeffries apparently doesn't consider that group to be part of the "cool kids." So Karber, an LA-based writer, decided to give Abercrombie a "rebranding" by giving away its clothes to homeless people. The Huffington Post tipped us off to his video, which is quickly going viral. Karber scoured thrift stores for Abercrombie clothes. Then, he went to Los Angeles' Skid Row and began g...

Terry Crews, our favorite shouting shirtless Old Spice guy, is back in a new series of Wieden + Kennedy ads for Old Spice shaving gel. Muscles popping, Crews is simply crazy about how NEW Old Spice shaving gel is. The two new ads are as bizarre as the brand's previous spots. In fact, we think it's safe to say they are weirder than anything that came before. Speaking solar panels, a ripped baby, a giant hospitalized beard man — it's pretty clear that there isn't much more we can say about thes...

There are a couple of wigs, a glum looking fellow, and dudes speaking Russian. The shaky video below supposedly shows Russia's Federal Security Service capturing Ryan Fogle, an American diplomat, whom it accused of being an undercover CIA agent and trying to pay a Russian official for information. But it seems like something from a homemade sketch comedy show on YouTube rather than a high-visibility bust. As you can see from the video, which first appeared on Russia's RT, there's lots here th...

On June 7, a new comedy will be released that is sure to be a hit in Silicon Valley. "The Internship" is about two older guys who become interns at Google. Naturally, it's filled with techie humor. We first saw a clip of the movie on Google's jobs site. In that scene two unemployed dudes, Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) interview with Google over Google Hangouts, which they never quite get the hang of. Movie critic Chris McKittrick of Movie Buzzers calls it "The Wedding Crashers c...

Consumer Reports gave Tesla a major boost last week when it gave the Model S a 99 out of 100 score in its review, the best score it has ever doled out. Once the testing was complete, the consumer-oriented magazine turned to answer another big question: Can the Model S drift? With traction control turned off, driver Jake Fisher took the electric sedan onto the Consumer Reports test track. The answer is a resounding yes: Driving a Tesla Model S is like having your own private amusement park. No...

The Memphis Grizzlies took a 3-1 series lead over the Oklahoma City Thunder with a 103-97 overtime win tonight in Memphis. The key play came with 23 seconds left in OT and the Grizzlies leading 100-97. OKC had the ball and needed either a three-pointer or a quick score. Derek Fisher — the veteran who has played in countless playoffs games over the last decade — was in-bounding the ball. Instead of simply finding a guard in the backcourt, Fisher tried a risky pass to Kevin Martin on the low bl...

Trailing by three goals in the final period, the Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs in game seven of their opening round playoff series. The Leafs pushed the lead to 4-1 early in the third period. But after a Nathan Horton goal pulled the Bruins with two goals with ten minutes remaining the Bruins were in position to complete their comeback with less than 90 seconds remaining in regulation. A pair of goals within 30 seconds of each other by Milan Lucic and Patrice Bergeron tied the ga...

We've written about our experiences with Google Glass. We've posted big, beautiful images of what the device can do. And we've even recorded video of Business Insider reporters trying Glass for the first time. But now it's time to reveal what it looks like to actually see through Glass. Google Glass and Android game developer Laura Ockel recently recorded a video of the user interface shown through the Glass device. Ockel and her company, Tesseract Mobile, are also the developers behind the u...

Self-tanning brand St. Tropez's summer campaign features a bikini-less Kate Moss. Advertisers often try to avoid stars who are over-exposed — in the media sense — but Moss's ubiquity in beauty brands was part of the reason St. Tropez wanted to work with the model. Moss has appeared in campaigns for Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Topshop, Rimmel, Bulgari, Mango, Agent Provocateur, Virgin Mobile and Burberry. The company said that Moss's "growing number of beauty campaigns proves...

JCPenney has spent billions of dollars remodeling its stores into modern boutiques. While most stores are still under construction, Wall Street analyst Brian Sozzi took a quick video inside a Long Island JCPenney with completed stores. The result looks great: modern, clean, and chic. Sozzi uploaded the video to the website of his firm, Belus Capital. Check out the new shop-in-shops here: SEE ALSO: Incredible New JCPenney Ad: We Screwed Up > Please follow Retail on Twitter and Facebook.Join th...

The first trailer for season 4 of "Arrested Development" has finally been released. All 15 episodes premiere on Netflix May 26 at 12:01 a.m. SEE ALSO: The first trailer for ABC's "Avengers" spinoff series > Please follow The Wire on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story » <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/businessinsider/~4/TCFjyiO... height="1" width="1

Earlier today, ABC teased the first promo for its "Avengers" spinoff series, "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Now, the full promo for the series is online. Check it out below: The show will feature Clark Gregg reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson from "The Avengers" film last summer. Meet the entire cast of the series > Though the series hasn't revealed any plans to incorporate superheroes from "The Avengers" film, it appears the series will incorporate them in a different way. Heading to the web...

Here's an awesome clip of Twitter Star and Canadian Space Agency Commander Chris Hadfield covering David Bowie's "Space Oddity" from the International Space Station. Hadfield is coming back to Earth tomorrow. It's worth watching the whole thing to see him jam out on the song's guitar break. Bonus: here's a list of all the songs NASA ever played to wake up American astronauts in space. Let's just say it starts with Beethoven and ends with U2. Please follow Science on Twitter and Facebook.Join ...

Nokia released a teaser for its upcoming smartphone today, showing off a device with a metal body and a 41 megapixel camera. The video was obtained by The Verge's Tom Warren, who says this will be the next-generation Lumia Windows Phone that Nokia plans to unveil at a press event in London on May 14. On Friday, Nokia unveiled another Windows Phone, the Lumia 928, which is similar to the Lumia 920 that launched last year. The Lumia 928 will be a Verizon exclusive in the US and will launch on M...

In these days of frivolous entertainments and frayed attention spans, the people who become famous are not necessarily the brightest stars. One of the biggest hits on YouTube, after all, is a video of a French bulldog who can’t roll over. But in amongst all the skateboarding cats and laughing babies, a new animated video, featuring the words of a dead theoretical physicist, has gone viral. In the film, created from an original documentary made for the BBC back in the early Eighties, the late ...

If not stealthy, at least it is capable to fly. Iran displayed the “Hamaseh”, the “reconnaissance and combat drone” on May 9 during a ceremony attended by Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi. The following video proves has already conducted flying testing. Although it can fly, something that was never doubted, and painted in a less fashionable manner, it remains unstealthy. SEE ALSO: America's deadliest infantry division has an Instagram > Please follow Military & Defense ...

In a really creative spot for Delta Faucet, Glenn Kotche, the drummer of the alt-rock group Wilco, performs a Motown classic entirely on automatic touch faucets. Kotche stands surrounded by a contraption of faucets and other kitchen pieces. He kicks off a cool beat using a toothbrush, running water, and some copper pots. Deftly maneuvering his way around the faucets, Kotche uses running water to string together a familiar melody — the chorus of the Four Tops' 1966 hit "Reach Out (I'll Be Ther...

We've been waiting for "Gravity" for a long time, but the first trailer for the film is finally here. The Alfonso Cuaron-directed space adventure was originally set to debut last November, but was pushed back last May. The film was originally set to feature Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Instead, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star as two astronauts stranded in space. Last year, Bullock said she and Clooney won't be wearing any makeup in the film. Here's the description for the film ...

As far as sports-related beer ads go, Heineken has nailed it with this spot for the European club rugby tournament the Heineken Cup. A village in southern France gathers in the main square. A valuable Heineken rugby ball, kicked at a clock tower to start the Cup festivities, goes on an errant bouncing spree. The dude who kicked it is guilted into chasing it down. The ad follows the ball's journey through the town, with rugby references scattered throughout — a scrum of sheep; an underhand tos...

Earlier this month, US citizen Kenneth Bae was sentenced to 15 years of "hard labor" by the North Korean regime. Exactly what Bae did to deserve this is unclear. When his trial was announced, North Korea said he had "admitted that he committed crimes aimed to topple the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with hostility toward it." Finally, more details are coming out. North Korean news agency KNCA said today that Bae had smuggled in "inflammatory literature" into he country and tried to cr...

We've been waiting a long time to see "The Great Gatsby" on the big screen. Last year, Warner Bros. pushed director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the classic novel back six months to avoid clashing with Christmas releases. Since then, numerous excellent trailers for the film have debuted, the film has helped boost sales for the book immensely, but "Great Gatsby" reviews are sounding like Luhrmann's latest could be one huge Hollywood disappointment. The most critical reviews say it's too flashy...

Star Trek fans will love this new ad for the 2013 Audi S7, in which the original Spock — actor Leonard Nimoy — drives a Mercedes in a race against new Spock actor Zachary Quinto, who drives the Audi. The ad kicks off with a Star Trek reference — the two Spocks battling it out in a 3D chess match. Quinto, who plays Mr. Spock in the new film 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' loses, and challenges Nimoy to a race to the golf course. Nimoy drives the Mercedes, Quinto drives the Audi. Not surprisingly, Q...

They called him an "ultra-modernist" and dismissed his books as overrated and forgettable, just "so much unnecessary evanescence travelling first class". When his third novel was published, on 10 April 1925, a characteristic review complained: "The boy is simply puttering around. It is all right as a diversion for him, probably … But why he should be called an author, or why any of us should behave as if he were, has never been satisfactorily explained to me." At the last minute, he had asked...

Jodi Arias was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder after a trial that turned into a cable TV spectacle. The 32-year-old killed her Mormon motivational speaker ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander back in 2008. Arias said she killed him in self-defense, but prosecutors alleged she carefully plotted his demise. During her 18 days of testimony, Arias revealed raunchy details about her sex life with Alexander to try to show he was abusive and sexually controlling. Other details about her life ...

The first trailer for "Ender's Game" is here, and it's full of gorgeous landscape shots, Harrison Ford narration, and Ben Kingsley—fresh out of his "Iron Man 3" role—covered in facial tattoos. The film, based on the 1985 novel from Orson Scott Card, is set in a futuristic Earth preparing to undergo battle with an alien race (Formics) for a third time. Director Gavin Hood ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine") brings us the adaptation ripe with Oscar nominee talent in Ford, Viola Davia, Abigail Breslin,...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has doubled down on his criticism of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her response to the attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, saying that her handling of the incident should disqualify her from ever holding public office ever again. “I think her dereliction of duty and her lack of leadership should preclude her from holding any office,” Paul said in a speech to the Missouri Republican Party last week. Paul also noted that during a Senate hearing e...

The world has started paying attention to an escalating clash between entrepreneur Pavel Durov and the Russian government — wondering what the implications are for the founder of Europe's largest social network. Durov, 28, the founder of VK.com, is also a libertarian who has often clashed with the government — but never like this. The official story is that Durov is being investigated in regards to an April 5 incident where a traffic cop was allegedly injured by an unidentified driver in a wh...

Visit any household in America and chances are you'll find a tower of toilet paper stashed somewhere. It's the kind of staple product we never really stop to think about. But the reality is that those little sanitary rolls are one of the most costly items in the world –– both to our wallets and to the environment. People use at least 57 sheets of toilet paper per day and 27 rolls per person annually, adding up to 384 trees in a lifetime. In an eye-opening video, the brains behind InsuranceQuo...

The San Antonio Spurs beat the Golden State Warriors 129-127 in the best game of the NBA Playoffs so far Monday night. In double overtime, the Spurs were down 127-126 with 3.9 seconds left when Manu Ginobli drilled a WIDE open three-pointer with 1.2 seconds left. The shot came off an in-bounds play, and there's really no excuse for Golden State to leave him that open. Here's the shot (more on how he got so open below): The Warriors just got totally lost when Boris Diaw set a screen for Tony P...

Google's cushy shuttle buses that transport its employees to and from San Francisco are fueling gentrification, some San Francisco residents say. Last Sunday, a group of San Francisco residents put on an anti-gentrification block party in the Mission District. As part of the demonstration, some people smashed pinatas in the shape of Google's shuttle buses. We first saw the news over on AllThingsD. "In the last several decades, thousands of people have been displaced from the Mission District ...

John Battelle, the founder of Web 2.0 Summit, Federated Media, and many other companies and conferences, has launched a new kind of business conference: OpenCo. Billed as a cross between a business conference and a music festival, OpenCo takes the typical conference model--in which companies present to auditorium full of attendees--and reverses it. With OpenCo, the attendees troup around town and visit the companies. OpenCo debuted in San Francisco last year, and now it's coming to New York. ...

The world's first-ever 3D printed gun is available for download. Below are two videos of it being fired made by the Defense Distributed, the non-profit that developed the gun and is putting the file online for anyone to grab. Forbes reporter Andy Greenberg was given access to the development and testing process for the gun. The gun is called The Liberator, an homage to guns that were air-dropped into France to help it fight Nazi invasion. Defense Distributed sees its guns as a way for people ...

Keystone Sporting Arms, the company that makes Crickett rifles for kids — one comes in hot pink for girls — has taken down the web site, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages it used to target its gun marketing at the under-10s. The ads have been yanked following the death of a 2-year-old girl who was shot by her 5-year-old brother. Crickett's marketing is controversial because, as Mother Jones reported, the company had a "Kids Corner" on its site, and also carried customer photos of children a...

The way most people eat apples wastes a lot of the fruit. This according to Elie Ayrouth at Foodbeast, who says a coworker tipped him off to a better way to approach the food. Most people eat apples from the side like this: Eating the apple from the top down ensures that you get some of the soft, desirable fruit in every bite. Just rip out the stem: Ayrouth estimates that you get 15 to 30% more of the apple by eating it this way. Here's a video Foodbeast made explaining the method: SEE ALSO: ...

Another sad plane crash video, this time at an air show in Madrid where a vintage stunt plane crashed into a hangar. Please follow Getting There on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »

The Memphis Grizzlies took a double-digit lead on the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second half of Game 1 this afternoon. But Kevin Durant took over late, scored 12 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter, including two huge jumpers in the final 37 seconds to give OKC a 93-91 win. The Thunder were down 90-89 point when Mike Conley lost control on his way to the hoop. Kendrick Perkins scooped it up and dished to Durant, who dribbled down and nailed a 18-foot pull-up jumper to put them ahead for ...