A man who fell in between a subway platform and a train and was crushed 167 times by the platform extender was granted $10 million by a jury yesterday.Read more...
Lees meerWhenever I go to the gym, I immediately plug in my headphones. Last year, I graduated to wireless headphones, and while I'm happy with my current Bluetooth buds (more on those later), I was intrigued by Jabra's latest refresh of its Sports …
Lees meerToday on In Case You Missed It: Disney figured out a way to make digitally generated faces in a fraction of the time it used to take with a head-worn camera rig. Designers in the Netherlands created a stilt-like elevator that relies on hu…
Lees meerYesterday, Sony announced that MLB The Show 17 will launch on PS4 next March -- but it won't be coming to the PS3. As the previous year's edition of the sports game was the last first-party title to come to the aging console, this probably …
Lees meerStepping away from fossil fuels is incredibly important, but our move toward a sustainable future will invariably leave countless workers unemployed by no fault of their own. The White House knows this and this week, the Obama administratio…
Lees meerYesterday, Twitter announced that it will effectively kill off the struggling short-form video platform Vine in the coming months. The news did not go over very well with the service's fanbase, many many of whom took to Twitter to express t…
Lees meerTall buildings often have tuned mass dampers hidden inside their structures to stabilize them against the wind. Those tuned mass dampers are huge and heavy and help limit a building’s movement by swaying in the opposite direction of the building…
Lees meerEarlier today, an American Airlines plane with 170 people aboard caught fire at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Everyone was evacuated alive, though there are some minor injuries. But now a second plane, this one operated by FedEx, has exploded at the Ft…
Lees meerOff-road racing is going electric with the announcement that Red Bull is adding an EV class to its Global Rallycross events. The United States Auto Club will help serve as the governing body for the circuit, but aside from that bit and news…
Lees meerOn Thursday evening, food replacement startup Soylent halted sales of its Soylent 1.6 powder amidst reports that it was making customers sick. Two weeks prior, the company paused sales of its latest product, the Food Bar, after Gizmodo reported that…
Lees meerThere’s a lot of weird stuff happening on Facebook, and our readers often send us tips and screenshots of strange happenings from their News Feeds. This week, we received an unusual one. It was sent to us in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report …
Lees meerAt Universal Studios in Los Angeles Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off the company's solar rooftop panels and new Energy initiative. It also showed off its new $5,500 Powerwall 2 high-capacity residential batteries and Powerpack 2 for businesse…
Lees meerOnce Twitter announced that links, pictures and usernames would no longer count towards a tweet's 140-characters, it also started testing changes to how @ reply messages look. This week my account was included in that test, and as a longtim…
Lees meerChances are you don’t have a 5000 watt light bulb lying around your house but if you do, here’s a nice Halloween decoration idea for you: stick that bright ass bulb in a pumpkin and watch it glow this awesomely eerie red. Read more...
Lees meerMaven, General Motors' car-sharing service, is finally coming to the City of Angels. Though Maven has been around in other cities for awhile now -- Ann, Arbor, Mich., Boston, New York City and San Francisco to name a few -- its move to Los …
Lees meerSix top staffers have left the Chinese-backed, Silicon Valley-based startup car company Faraday Future in recent months, the automaker confirmed to Jalopnik following an inside tip. The alleged reason for their departures does not look great for the…
Lees meerLooks like the most common complaint about Netflix’s superhero TV adaptations won’t be applying to The Defenders.Read more...
Lees meerThe New Horizons probe had just one shot at gathering as much data from Pluto as it could, a process that took more than a day. But it's taken the past fifteen months to actually receive all 50-plus gigabytes of data that it captured. NASA …
Lees meerEver since Phil Schiller brought up the issue while introducing the second-generation MacBook Air, Apple has made a point of publicly resisting the pressure to introduce touchscreen Macs. Computers need a fundamentally different interface t…
Lees meer“Can injustice survive transparency?” is the tagline of a new app called Vigilante, that purports to empower its users to stop crimes in progress, turning each of us into Daredevil or Luke Cage. In practice, though, Vigilante could end up being the …
Lees meerMeetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai, 18, was arrested on three counts of felony computer tampering after allegedly sending out a link on Twitter that forced people’s phones to call 911 repeatedly. Authorities were not amused.Read more...
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