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According to Forbes, the average value of a NFL team has dipped 2 percent to $1.02 billion, marking the first time that data point has declined since the magazine started tracking NFL team valuations in 1998.

Carl Bosch, a chemist whose work would transform agriculture and industry — and eventually enable the Green Revolution — is born.

I'm always on the lookout for the latest edge-defining interactive trends, so when I read a blog post that pointed to a tweet referring to a Facebook group that referred to a thing called a "get together," I was intrigued.

AP - Before hitting the streets, Ahmed reaches for his two essential protest tools: a scarf to mask his face and a cell phone camera to show the world what is happening.

It could be possible to harvest "hygroelectricity" from lightning the air in regions that experience high humidity, such as the tropics.

A prehistoric man whose naturally mummified body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps may have been toted up the mountain by his comrades, a new study suggests. The Iceman, also nicknamed Ötzi, lived between 5,350 and 5,100 years ago as part of a genetically distinct European population. Hikers noticed the Iceman poking out of a glacier in 1991.

Dutch sci-fi fans will stage the world's first Klingon opera next month. They've even beamed a message into space inviting the Klingons to attend, but they have yet to receive any RSVPs.

On Aug. 22, airport security officials in Bangkok detected something suspicious in an oversize suitcase. X-rays indicated that along with stuffed animals, the bag contained bones. Indeed, they belonged to a tranquilized 2-month-old tiger. The bag, which had been checked by a 31-year-old Thai woman, had been en route to Iran.

Reuters - Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco was fined $25,000 by the NFL for using an electronic device to post messages on Twitter during a preseason game, the Bengals said on their website (bengals.com) on Tuesday.

Reuters - Internet firm Yahoo Inc said it has completed the transition of its U.S. and Canadian English-language search capabilities to Microsoft Corp's Bing platform.

PC World - If you have an iPhone, this experience may be familiar:

If this ain't the Droid you're looking for, we're not sure what is. The Motorola Droid 2 makes some modest improvements in hardware and software to make for a (mostly) winning follow-up to the original.

AP - Craigslist should remove its adult services section because the website cannot adequately block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking, attorneys general in 17 states demanded Tuesday in a joint letter.

PC World - Model Metrics, a company that helps enterprises implement cloud services, is now offering to build mobile applications that draw on cloud-based software.

Apple is reportedly in a deal to add 99-cent TV show rentals to iTunes, which already dishes up music, movies and apps.

PC World - Apple has released a security update to its Mac OS X operating system, fixing a number of critical security issues in the software.

Investor's Business Daily - Mobile phone giant Nokia and chipmaker Intel (NMS:INTC) said developers are embracing their plans to create a new cell phone operating system called MeeGo. Nokia hopes MeeGo will help it in its battle vs. Apple's (NMS:AAPL) iPhone and Google's (NMS:GOOG) Android. Nokia's MeeGo is a merger of Nokia's Linux Maemo software platform with Intel's Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-source software. Nokia fell 1.7% to 8.76. Intel slid 1.6% to 18.41.

Yet another large web company has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that re-creating deleted user cookies violates federal privacy laws.

AP - A catchy but expletive-laden new song from Cee-Lo has quickly gone viral.

AP - Dell Inc. said Tuesday its Aero smart phone is now on sale in the U.S. for $99 with a two-year AT&T contract.