Ashley Feinberg

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Illuminating Brain Tumors With Scorpion Toxins Could Save Lives

Up until now, removing brain tumors has been a fairly imprecise—and thus highly dangerous—art. Cancerous tissue in the brain looks almost exactly like healthy tissue, and being just one millimeter off is enough to permanently affect a patient’s quality of life. Plus, it’s almost impossible to tell if any post-surgery neurological damage is from the…

The Wright Brothers First Took To The Skies 109 Years Ago Today

Today marks the anniversary of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first successful flight near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. With Orville as pilot, they were the first to give man the heavier-than-air, self-powered wings that allowed them to soar 120 ft in 12 seconds and tear Icarus a new one in the process. After their groundbreaking achievement,…

Have You Noticed A Change In Your Commercials’ Obnoxious Volume?

Finally, after being in the works for about a year, the FCC has enacted a ban on unbearably loud television ads. You know, ads like this, or even this. While the FCC actually adopted the law, called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, about a year ago, cable and satellite providers have had the time…

This Adorable Dog Can Smell Your Diarrhea Before It Happens

Cliff, the canine Diarrhea Oracle of VU University Medical Centre, may just have the worst job in the world: sniffing out hospital patient’s infected feces. Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a potentially deadly bacterium, is a highly contagious form of infectious diarrhea. So in places like this hospital in Amsterdam, it can spread between wards fast.…

Hey last-minute shoppers, good news: Apple just brought back the ability to gift apps from your iOS devices.

This Banded Furniture Has a Place for All Your Keys—And Then Some

Take the rubber band balls of your childhood, add some clean lines and functionality, and you’ve got Korean designer Dong-yeop Han‘s No Stereotype furniture series. Perfect for chronic key-losers, woven elastic bands cover the bulk of the pieces in the collection, accommodating all sorts of easily misplace-ables. The beauty of the set lies in a…

If you live in one of these seven markets, congrats! AT&T just flipped on your LTE switch.

Last.fm’s desktop radio will become paid-only come January. Fortunately web radio is still free—but so are its ads.

This Clever Christmas Tree Is The Answer to Your Cramped Holiday Woes

Christmas ain’t Christmas without the tree. But what if there’s a lack of space cramping your holiday cheer? Fortunately for you and your elfin apartment, redditor MickolasJae had the ingenious idea to construct his own makeshift monument to Christmas with nothing more than a blank wall and some lights. The more indolent of hall-deckers might…

A Lawsuit Wants to Keep Your Humiliating Mugshots Off the Internet

Some potential good news for delinquents, hooligans, and convicted felons alike: your mugshots may no longer have to haunt you ’til the End of Days. A suit representing over 250,000 previously-arrested Ohioans is attempting to take down the Internet’s abundance of privately-owned mugshot publication websites. And they may just have a case. An Ohio man,…

Now that Republic Wifi is out of beta, unlimited data is just a monthly $19 and Wi-Fi signal away.

What Do You Think Belongs in an Internet Museum?

Today, The Big Internet Museum is opening its figurative doors to, well, the Internet. Just like any museum, “wings” are divided into sections like Audio-Visual, Social Media, and Gaming, and temporary exhibits will be springing up from time to time. Entries range from logical (the invention of HTML) to the absurd (double rainbow guy seems…

Twitter just updated its iOS app, so now you can add all kinds of new Insta — er — retro filters.

Holiday Shipping Deadlines: The Complete Guide

Holiday shopping online has long been the saving grace of agoraphobes and procrastinators alike. But unfortunately for the latter, even the internet comes with a ticking clock. So please, if you must wait until the last minute, at least know when the last minute is. Here’s a handy list of holiday shipping deadlines to ensure…

Though 88% want to keep Facebook’s guidelines, Zuckerbug’s axing them anyway —RIP Democracy.

Researchers Have Found the Universe’s Very First Stars

We already knew that the universe had a distinct starting point, and now researchers at MIT have actually seen the very first stars born from that beginning. https://gizmodo.com/mathematic-proof-that-the-universe-had-a-beginning-5904714 Scientists generally accept that, just minutes after the Big Bang, protons and neutrons collided into each other in the nuclear fusion reactions that produced hydrogen and helium.…

Google+ is rolling out its “Communities” interest-based discussion pages to all users today — all dozens of you.

Killer Catfish Have Figured Out How To Hunt Down Pigeons

In Southwestern France, a group of European catfish — which can get between 1 and 1.5 meters long — have taught themselves the art of fowl hunting to satisfy their discerning paletes. As unsuspecting pigeons often wander towards the shore, the fish have learned how to lunge out of the water, capture a bird, and…

Your Next Cell Phone Could Come From Blockbuster

Dish Network reportedly plans to begin selling mobile phones out of Blockbuster’s brick-and-mortar stores. Even more shocking, Blockbuster still has brick-and-mortar stores. Blockbuster had recently started selling phones on its website under the name “Blockbuster Mobile,” partnering with Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile amongst other carriers. The online venture must have been somewhat successful since, according…