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1 of 5 Next All of the snowflake photos on this page, believe it or not, were captured using a six-year-old point-and-shoot Canon camera and a standard 58mm SLR lens that was produced in the USSR sometime between 1958 and 1992. Such photography ought to be impossible without a microscope or other expensive gear, but it just perfectly illustrates the ...

We haven’t had backwards compatibility in our game consoles for very long — around just two generations. The desirability of the feature is so widespread, though, that people are willing to follow questionable instructions on the internet to “unlock” the capability on their Xbox Ones. Believing that the feature is intentionally hidden away not only shows just how much we ...

Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Rebecca Black has released her second music video and song, which is titled … wait for it … ‘Saturday.’ Rebecca Black‘s endless weekend party continues in her new single “Saturday,” the appropriately titled follow up to her first calendar-friendly hit, “Friday.” The 16-year-old YouTube viral sensation’s new video picks up where the last party left off – the ...

Beck Starr/WireImage Actress Meredith Baxter (l.) and her partner, Nancy Locke, have been an item for more than a decade. Meredith Baxter is a married woman. The “Family Ties” stars wed her longtime partner, Nancy Locke, Sunday, reports People. The newlyweds reportedly celebrated their union with an intimate ceremony in Los Angeles. The romantic event took place with close friends ...

AVAVA/Getty Images/iStockphoto Children aged 3 and under should always be supervised while sitting in a high chair, said Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The number of toddlers taken to hospital emergency rooms with high chair-related injuries jumped 22% between 2003 and 2010, according to a new study ...

Apple The iPad Air has a sleek exterior that borrows from the iPad Mini and a new processor — and it’ll be hard to beat this holiday season. It’s no longer revolutionary, and it’s no longer alone. But, somehow, Apple’s newest iPad, the iPad Air, remains the finest tablet in an increasingly crowded, increasingly confusing market. The company that began ...

Eskil Ronningsbakken via YouTube Eskil Ronningsbakken perches on his handlebars and RIDES BACKWARD down the mountain. A daredevil cyclist has been caught on camera speeding BACKWARD at 50mph down a slippery mountain road. Eskil Ronningsbakken danced with death as he sped down the snaking half-mile path on Norway’s Trollstigen mountain. RELATED: CITI BIKE IN QUEENS? NOT SOON Eskil Ronningsbakken via ...

Scott Levy/NHLI via Getty Images The Rangers have no answers against the Capitals Sunday night at the Garden. CAPITALS 4, RANGERS 1 Expect Alain Vigneault’s rotating wheel of healthy scratches to keep spinning until the Rangers stop spiraling. Sunday night, veteran center Dominic Moore was the latest Blueshirt to watch his teammates from the luxury boxes, but Benoit Pouliot’s return ...

Kristoffer Tripplaar /SIPA USA-KT POOL/EPA Billy Joel was one of five stars to receive a Kennedy Center honor at Sunday event in D.C. The entire performance will be aired Dec. 29 on CBS. Billy Joel was bestowed one of the nation’s top awards Sunday as a star-studded crowd at the Kennedy Center in Washington let him know they love him ...

Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News Susan Scott is shopping for an affordable health care plan under Obamacare. Picking a healthcare plan is rarely a picnic. Susan Scott, a freelance greeting card and textile designer, has spent hours checking out new plans available through New York State’s healthcare exchange, comparing copays, deductibles and premiums. But Scott, 59, has found the work ...