Washington - A full moon lit up the sky on Friday night and was one of the biggest in history as it got extremely close to the Earth.

Usually, the moon is around 238,000 miles from Earth, but on Friday night the full moon was only around 221,000 miles from Earth.

Due to the fact that it was about as close as it ever has been to Earth, it made it far bigger and brighter in our night sky.

NASA stated that the full moon was 30% brigher and far larger than any other full moon we are going to see in these 12 months.

This was a sight to be seen to say the least as the full moon also led to higher tides due to the gravity caused by the distance from the Earth to the moon and sun.

We have received reports from readers in Massachusetts, California, and other areas of the U.S. which have stated that the full moon wa ... Read more »

Some kid in his bedroom can make a million bucks just by writing a little application for the Apple phone.

By Daniel Lyons

Ge Wang never dreamed of becoming a high-tech Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He's an assistant professor at Stanford, a specialist in computer science and music whose biggest passion has been organizing nerdy "laptop orchestras" comprising 20 people each "playing" a notebook computer. But last summer his friend Jeff Smith—who'd run two successful high-tech companies before dropping out of the corporate world to take music classes at Stanford—talked Wang into trying to create applications for ... Read more »