The Galaxy Note 7 isn’t so great as a phone, mainly because of its propensity to explode. Read more...
Lees meerJapan’s birth rate has been on decline for some time now, so engineers at Toyota have come up with an ingenious solution to help people apparently feel the companionship of kids: an annoying robot. Read more...
Lees meerFor the past sixteen months or so , it’s felt as though our planet has been shaking us by the shoulders, trying to wake us up to the fact that we’ve kicked the thermostat into overdrive. The good news is, America finally seems to be liste…
Lees meerTo celebrate reaching a million subscribers on YouTube, the internet’s favorite slingshot-building madman, Joerg Sprave, has engineered his largest creation to date: a massive elastic-powered weapon that turns bowling balls into flying projectiles.R…
Lees meerCane toads are poisonous, and in Northeast Australia they’re absolutely everywhere. So what’s one to do with a surplus of toads?Read more...
Lees meerRemember how your heart skipped a beat when you swung just a little too high on your local playground swingset as a kid? Imagine what your heart would be doing if you rode a swing suspended from a 400-foot-long tether hanging beneath a hot air ballo…
Lees meerThis year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi for furthering our understanding of autophagy, the biological process wherein the body eats some of itself in order to survive.Read more...
Lees meerFacebook just launched Facebook Marketplace, the social network’s latest attempt at being Craigslist.Read more...
Lees meerSunbeam heating pads are great for soothing your sore muscles after (or during) work, and two different models are on sale in today’s Amazon Gold Box.Read more...
Lees meerThe GoPro brand is synonymous with the action cameras. Whether you use it daily or occasionally, many of you probably have one model or another sitting around the house. Even though GoPro’s point-and-shoot simplicity makes it easy to use, there ar…
Lees meerLast year Hasbro wowed, and saddened us a little, with a new line of toys targeted at seniors in need of a companion, but without the need for all the mess that comes along with a pet. The first addition to its Joy For All line was a robotic cat, bu…
Lees meerWhile almost nobody needs a panini press that can sign into Twitter, the powers that be clearly believe otherwise, adding internet connectivity to many of the pleasantly dumb devices that used to populate our homes. This raises a number of obvious s…
Lees meerJack Sparrow is a no-show in the first trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, but he casts a large shadow.Read more...
Lees meerGoogle did a whole fancy hush-hush thing about a new phone the company is birthing that is totes not a Nexus. It rolled out a cryptic website the other week with little information except for that the release date would be October 4. But the world i…
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Lees meerNASA has dubbed its RASSOR rover “a blue collar robot.” This thing may get down and dirty but its design and purpose are quite elegant.Read more...
Lees meerA 44-year-old man in England is possibly the first person in history to be cured of HIV. Scientists working on an experimental new therapy say that the virus is now completely undetectable in his blood.Read more...
Lees meerWhile Netflix has made news recently with its plan to make 50% of its content original, its library of titles has gotten that much smaller in the past few years.Read more...
Lees meerIn a fine example of vintage journalism, New York Times reporter Susan Craig landed a scoop that every newshound in the world wanted—a copy of Donald Trump’s tax returns from 1995. For that, we have old fashioned mail and an IBM Selectric typewriter…
Lees meerIt wouldn’t be ‘tis the season of Luke Cage without some Sweet Christmas songs. Marvel has released Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s dynamic track, “Bulletproof Love” (featuring Method Man), but the thirst has not been quenched. We need a fu…
Lees meerSince August, “TheShadowBrokers” have been claiming that they had acquired NSA hacking tools through a breach of the Equation Group, which is believed to be an offshoot of the NSA. After offering what appears to be proof of the tools’ legitimacy, th…
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