Did you know that Apple Computer was a foreign entity? Did you know that it's more Irish than anything else, at least as far as taxes are concerned? Or that it pays very little in income tax, even though its products wouldn't exist if it weren't for projects funded by U.S. taxes?

Apple products were designed in the United States by U.S.-educated individuals and entrepreneurs. (Even Steve Jobs, who famously dropped out of college, said he came up with essential elements of Apple's product design by auditing courses at Reed College.)

It was only a matter of time. Now that there is more than one 3D-printed gun, a 3D-printed bullet couldn't have been too far behind.

On Sunday, 48-year-old industrial technician Jeff Heeszel uploaded a video of his friend shooting a 3D-printed bullet from a shotgun. As you may have guessed, the bullet worked. Not as well as a regular bullet, but, remember, it was made at home on a machine.

Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition.

About two months ago, I discovered the popular Words With Friends app. Yes, this probably makes me the last person on the planet to do so, but I quickly made up for my delayed discovery by playing the game constantly in those small time gaps of my day. It became my go-to time-filler app while waiting in the supermarket line, soccer practices, doctors' offices and, yes, even while I'm waiting for the beets to roast in the oven. Beets roast slowly and my family has noticed that we've been eating them a lot lately.

In the last month I have had to double check whether or not I still live in New York, because the horrific headlines I have awoken to lately have been hard to reconcile with the image of the tolerant, open-minded mecca I have grown to love. Yet the heartbreaking stories of alleged hate crimes have been right here in the Big Apple, not in the deep South or Midwest or any other place where stereotypes dictating intolerance makes more sense. Not that intolerance ever makes any sense.

Lego and Superman are natural partners - more so than any of the Danish brick maker's other DC or Marvel superhero franchises.

That's because Superman can have a playtime role in virtually any product Lego has made. He can save planes, help the police, go back in time to battle pirates and travel to space. He can survive underwater, battle alongside Batman and probably even turn up in Minecraft, if you like.

Think our spring weather is bad?

Nasa says it's also spring on Saturn's moon Titan - and by comparison a bit of hail and drizzle is nothing.

The seasons take about seven years to change on Saturn's largest moon. The strange alien world was dark when Nasa's Cassini spacecraft arrived in 2004, but the sun has now crossed Titan's equatorial plane at equinox, and the northern hemisphere of the moon is starting to warm up.

Astronomers have pictured a "missing link" galaxy collision in deep space which might explain what happened in the first few billion years of the universe.

The picture shows a ridiculously massive collision between two galaxies, which formed together into a single mass more than 10 times the size of the Milky Way 11 billion years ago.

Inside the furnace of this galaxy pair - known as HXMM01 - stars form at a rate of more than 2,000 suns a year.

A new gadget able to chill a bottle of beer from the inside may have just reinvented, or at least refrigerated, summer parties.

The Chillsner is a slim, metal device which is designed to be frozen and then inserted into a bottle of beer.

The user then drinks through the cooling straw, enjoying a beer which is cold all the way through and isn't warmed by your hands.

WASHINGTON -- Republicans at a House subcommittee hearing this week objected to a 2010 law that targets conflict minerals from Central Africa, saying it places too many regulations on U.S. businesses and hasn't accomplished enough since it went into effect.

"Some of us may pat ourselves on the back and say, 'Well, we're making sure we're not using their minerals,' but we're only hurting the people of the Congo," said Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.), who called the law "a massive paperwork burden on U.S. companies."

A group assessing China's role in stealing trade secrets from American companies wants the U.S. government to consider a controversial method for protecting those firms from Chinese hackers: Let them hack back.

Modern technology has led to a virtual fast food line for anything the modern gay man desires. Whether it's take-out, a new pair of shoes or an late night guest we are in search of, all it takes is a few clicks of a finger. Whereas with shoes and take-out, our favorite phone app has only changed the way we order our latest craving. But dating and hook-up apps have all but revolutionized the approach we take with sex and dating in general. Of course, these apps have their rightful place and there are plenty other more "traditional" approaches that gay men can take when dating.

Two years ago, 2-year-old Nathan Spring was coming out of a bad winter full of colds, bronchiolitis and ear infections. He then started to develop random food allergies -- one, for example, was to cinnamon.

His parents, Michele and Erik Spring, did a lot of research and decided to try the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) diet on Nathan. The theory behind the diet -- which eliminates grains and refined sugars -- is that certain starches and sugars feed bad bacteria in the intestinal tract.

As Michele Spring puts it: "If you remove those, the whole ecosystem of the gut goes to the good side."