Creator Donald Bellisario Has Written a Quantum Leap Film Script
This is far from a guarantee of a reboot. But if anybody with the purse strings is interested, the material’s definitely there.
Apple Reportedly Fires Engineer After Daughter's iPhone X Video Goes Viral
Apple is very protective of its trade secrets, particularly unauthorized leaks of information about upcoming products. Case in point: The tech giant reportedly fired an engineer after his daughter recorded a video showing off features on a pre-release iPhone X at Caffè Macs, the company’s high-end employee cafeteria…
Sunday’s Best Deals: Instant Pot Mini, Refurb Macbooks, Philips OneBlade, and More
Get some scary-good deals this Halloween weekend on the Instant Pot Mini, some refurbished Macbooks, the Philips OneBlade, and more
Is Antarctica’s Scarred Seafloor a Harbinger of Trouble to Come?
The Earth contains hints about its past everywhere. And as we hurtle toward a much warmer future, those clues can tell us a lot about what we face.
The Newest Instant Pot Is Perfect for Apartments And Just Got Its First Discount
If you don’t own a pressure cooker, today’s a great day to fix that. The newest, pint-sized 3Qt Instant Pot Mini wants a permanent home on your kitchen counter, and it just got its first ever discount down to just $60.
Watch the Complicated Smart Home of the 1980s in Action
Have you ever fantasized about having a house completely and totally managed from the comfort of your desk chair? Or are you just too lazy to bother flipping switches, but inexplicably willing to devote hours and hours to figuring out a computer program that does it for you? Today’s smart home tech makes all of this…
Roger Stone, President Trump's Attack Dog, Banned From Twitter For Harassing Journalists
Roger Stone is one of President Trump’s most vicious attack dogs, whose bark has always been worse than his bite. But the dog has been muzzled, at least by Twitter. Stone has been suspended from using the social media platform, and according to Buzzfeed it’s a permanent ban.
Here's A First Look at the Upcoming Stargate Web Series
When Stargate: Origins was first announced at Comic-Con this past summer, the news was a little underwhelming. A prequel series? Ten minute episodes? Exclusive to a new proprietary streaming platform? Now we can at least get a look at what’s coming.
Puerto Rico Is Investigating How It Screwed Up Restoring Power After Maria So Badly
The Puerto Rico Energy Commission has launched a probe into why its efforts to rebuild the commonwealth’s electrical grid after taking a direct hit from Hurricane Maria in September are proceeding so slowly, with less than even a third of the electrical grid back online to date.
Small UFO Obliterated By Oklahoma City's Chartered Plane
Following their loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves Friday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder flew from Minneapolis to Chicago for the second leg of a back-to-back. En route, their team plane seems to have wiped out a very tiny UFO:
Carry Away This Portable Crock-Pot for $32
With a locking lid, this 6-quart Crock-Pot is ultra-portable and can serve up to 7 people, all for $32. You can even program it start cooking while you’re away at work so you can come home to a warm meal. It’s part of Amazon’s Gold Box deals today which means, although it’s a slow cooker, this deal will go fast.
Rumors That Facebook Is Secretly Recording You Refuse to Die
Is Mark Zuckerberg spying on you? Oh, yes, absolutely. Is he secretly recording your voice like, all the time? Probably not.
Dubai's Newly Opened The Hunger Games Theme Park Does Not Get the Irony
The Motiongate Dubai theme park, the largest Hollywood-themed park in the world, has recently opened up “The World of the Hunger Games,” a lavish section of the park devoted to the dystopian world of Panem in all its garish, high-fashion glory. Because when I hear dystopian horror, I think theme park.
Scalped iPhone X Pre-Orders Are Predictably Going for Huge Premiums on Ebay
Pre-orders for Apple’s wallet-busting, $1,000 iPhone X went live this week, and initial signs were that even those customers who stayed up until the 3am ET (12am PT) opening were given shipping delays placing their orders weeks past the November 3rd launch date—possibly well into December. So it’s not surprising that…
The Post-Apocalyptic Stop-Motion Animated Film Junk Head Just Got a Trailer
Though I’m not sure if anyone will ever get to see the insane film I saw last month called Junk Head, there is some good news. First up, there’s a trailer for the film. Second, a prequel is in the works.
Amazon Echo Has Come a Long Way Baby
The original Amazon Echo was an ugly black tube—a speaker meant to be set back in the corner, hidden from view. It was a cheap imitation of the computer from Star Trek. The new Amazon Echo is a much prettier device. It’s not suddenly faster or smarter, and your old Echo will do the exact same thing as before, but this…
This 15 Pound Blanket Helped Rewire My Brain
Anxiety is like an incredibly annoying little brother. It is antagonistic, frustrating, and overwhelming 90% of the time. The other 10%, you forget it exists until you’re reminded of it with a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when you walk through your front door.
$1,000 Tea Infuser Heavily Discounted as Company Crashes and Burns
Teforia was touted as the only “machine-learning tea infusion device,” on the market, and soon, the market will have a Teforia-shaped hole in it. As recently as last week, the device would run you a cool grand. Today, you can make algorithmically-infused tea for $199. All sales are final because the company is dead.
Don't Bother Handing Out Full-Sized Snickers Bars, This Guy Already Won Halloween
You know how you were planning to impress trick-or-treaters this Halloween by handing out full-sized Snickers bars? If you live in San Francisco, don’t bother, because nothing you can do on October 31st will ever best Tom BetGeorge’s incomprehensibly over-the-top Halloween light show.
That Viral Story of an 'Awakened' Vegetative Patient Serves as a Cautionary Tale
Medicine is perfect for heartwarming stories. Some close relative is facing the most hopeless prognosis, such as being in a vegetative state. Someone tries a wild treatment, and boom, people are crying, the relative is awake, and the headlines go viral. But science doesn’t really work this way.
