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Abdel Magid al-Fergany/AP The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya. WASHINGTON — The State Department says the Libyan government is holding four U.S. military personnel. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said officials are trying to determine what occurred. Psaki said Friday night that the United States is in touch with Libyan officials to ensure the Americans’ release. The four were “augmenting ...

Mark Bonifacio/ New York Daily News Antrel Rolle has six interceptions and a forced fumble but is just a second alternate for the Pro Bowl.  Giants safety Antrel Rolle must have really been counting on the free trip to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl. The NFL announced its Pro Bowl selections Friday night, and Rolle was voted a second alternate ...

In a turn of phrase that seems designed to provoke headlines, the US Department of Defense this week said one of its primary goals is to “take the ‘man’ out of unmanned” combat. This quote and much more comes from the latest in the Department’s ongoing series of Roadmap to the Future reports, which seek to lay out both the ...

1 of 10 Next You are looking at a human retina that has been upgraded with a bionic eye implant. Cool. ExtremeTech, as you’ve hopefully noticed by now, deals primarily in bleeding edge technology and science. Technological advances are, as the French so eloquently say, our raison d’être — our reason for existing. When you spend every day reading about such ...

Who can you Belieb? Justin Bieber is tweeting mixed messages about his future a week after dropping his bombshell “retirement” announcement on a Los Angeles radio station. “My beloved beliebers I’m officially retiring,” the 19-year-old pop superstar tweeted to his 48 million followers on Christmas Eve.” PHOTOS: ‘JUSTIN BIEBER’S BELIEVE’ WORLD PREMIERE Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic Singer Justin Bieber claimed he’s ‘officially ...

CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/REUTERS A Chinese patient, known as ‘Elephant Man’ because of the horrific tumors that deform his face, underwent surgery on Wednesday. Here, Huang Chuncai before the operation. On Christmas day, a Chinese patient known as “Elephant Man” underwent another surgery to remove some of the unsightly layers of tumors that have deformed his face for decades. Doctors removed ...

Raymond Hall/FilmMagic Kanye West has vowed to not talk ‘talk s–t for a long time.’ Kanye West is taking the vow of silence in 2014. The outspoken rapper told fans during the “Yeezus” concert in Toronto on Dec. 23 that he plans to keep his opinions to himself for “six months, at least.” “Everything I’m saying that’s not allowed, soak ...

Courtesy of Benjamin Vermeulen A set of magnetic furniture from Benjamin Vermeulen. Magnetic furniture which snaps together without the need for a single screwdriver could be the future of the flat-pack interiors industry. The ‘MAG’ (Magnetic Assisted Geometry) range by Benjamin Vermeulen first debuted at Dutch Design Week in October this year and has been causing quite a stir within ...

Tumblr The since-pulled posters for ‘12 Years a Slave’ focused on the drama’s Caucasian stars, Brad Pitt (pictured) and Michael Fassbender. One of the stars of the critically acclaimed “12 Years a Slave” has dropped out of a film premiere in Italy after an ill-conceived marketing strategy came across as a throwback to a less enlightened era. Actress Lupita Nyongo’o, ...

Simmons, Howard/New York Daily News Knicks owner James Dolan tells head coach Mike Woodson (l.) and rookie Tim Hardaway Jr. that he isn’t planning on making any changes. James Dolan approached Tim Hardaway Jr. recently and assured the Knicks rookie that he is part if the team’s future and that he should ignore any trade rumors he hears. According to ...