Samsung Still Doesn't Know What Made Note 7 Go Boom

After continued reports of the phones catching on fire when charged, Samsung finally put the Galaxy Note 7 out of its misery two weeks ago. But 2.5 million recalled devices and $2.3 billion in projected losses later, the company is apparently no closer to identifying what killed its flagship smartphone.
Apple Forgets to Celebrate the iPod's 15th Birthday
Today is the iPod’s 15th birthday, her Quiñceanera if you will. While some tech blogs celebrated—the International Business Times even coined it National iPod Day—the most important people appear to have forgotten: Apple, the iPod’s own daddy. No press release. No tweet from the Apple official account, or Apple Music…
What Does IMHO Stand For?
I always believed IMHO meant “in my humble opinion.” It has, however, come to my attention that many people think it stands for “in my honest opinion.” According to Slang.com, it could also stand for “in my holy opinion” or “is my hearing aid on?”
14 Real-Life Tech Horror Stories Scarier Than Black Mirror
Black Mirror season 3 warns viewers of a spoOooOoky technologically advanced future; its first episode depicting a society where everyone rates every person they interact with, no matter how minor, and your rating determines everything. The concept is similar to that of the failed Peeple app, which was supposed to be…
Watching a Slug Going Up a Wall in Timelapse Is the Only Way to Watch a Slug

Slugs should be so much cooler to watch. They have antennae that wriggle around and their method of forward motion is weird. But they are just so damn slow. You feel the slug’s pain and respect its patience but you don’t really want to look very long. Whether it’s moving at 20x or 40x, timelapse is truly the way to…
Sunday's Best Deals: Kindle Biographies, Alfred Hitchcock, PS4 Media Remote
Kindle biographies, the ultimate Alfred Hitchcock collection, and a gorgeous Shun knife lead off Sunday’s best deals.
Snakes Have No Legs Because of a Mutated Sonic Hedgehog Gene Enhancer
Snakes! Where are their arms and legs? It’s not ok! Over 100 million years ago, snakes did have four appendages, and then evolution stepped in to turn the reptiles into the creepy, slithering freak show that they are today. Now, researchers believe they’ve isolated what caused this change.
Disney Is Now Doing Marvel Superhero Cruises
Disney’s latest Marvel cash-grab shows they aren’t content with their superheroes dancing on ice, taking over the Tower of Terror, or being weirdly cross-promoted by General Hospital. They now want us to take treks out into the middle of the ocean with them.
Let's Celebrate SNL's David S. Pumpkins, the New Halloween GIF

Move over, random KXVO15 weather anchor with a pumpkin on his head, you’ve been replaced as the next online Halloween classic. That honor now goes to Tom Hanks as David S. Pumpkins.
This Is the Kind of Idiot That Congress Puts in Charge of Technology
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee stopped by Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room to drop some knowledge about Friday’s massive DDoS attack that affected large swaths of the internet. Blackburn managed to say a lot of techy-sounding things until her time was up. No one walked away feeling smarter.
Open Channel: Who's Dying Tonight on The Walking Dead?
The first episode of The Walking Dead season 7 will air Sunday night, after one of the series’ most sadistically ingenious cliffhangers. We’ve been waiting for months, tossing out fan theories left and right, and now we’ll finally find out who Negan killed with his “barbed bat of death” (trademark Beth Elderkin,…
Newest Superhero 'Farce' Confirms There Is No Justice in the World
Amy Smart and Shawn Michaels have joined the cast of the latest superhero spoof, Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars, and the described plot of this upcoming farce of a film confirms Thanos is already here and we as a species don’t deserve to be saved from his wrath. Basically, imagine if Superhero Movie was lazier and…
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Oh Good, MIT Made an AI Nightmare Machine

If Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking’s foreboding pronouncements about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence don’t have you spooked enough, MIT has deliberately launched a project that is designed to make AI scary. Or, at least, to make scary images using deep learning.
Rocky Horror Reboot Failed Because It Wasn't Live
The Rocky Horror Picture Show reboot (aka Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again, aka RHPS: LDTTWA, aka kill me now) aired Friday night, and it definitely looks like we might’ve seen the end of Fox’s foray into TV movie musicals. The Laverne Cox-led production got about 5-million viewers, which is…
