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Goofball Covered in Skis Cruises Down a Mountain on Every Limb

Jean Yves Blondeau’s ski suit conjures up a lot of images. It’s sort of like a Transformer. Or The Stig for winter sports. But mostly I’m concerned about if the person wearing it is able to stop. The suit has ski pieces that strap to the feet, ankles, hands, forearms, and chest, with a smooth…

Sploid Avery Ellis

How To Install Unauthorized Apps on Android and iOS

Google and Apple like to keep you safely inside the walled gardens of their respective app stores, but vaulting over those confining walls is actually pretty easy—as long as you know what you’re doing. In this guide, we’ll walk you through exactly how to install unauthorized applications in process otherwise known as sideloading. First of…

Gadgets David Nield

What Happens When You Pour Molten Tar on an iPhone 6s?

There is no shortage of gadget mutilation videos on YouTube. Especially videos of iPhones. And especially on TechRax’s channel: The dude’s run an iPhone over, shot one, boiled one, torched one, and more. This time, he’s pouring smoking black tar all over a shiny new device. As you watch the scorching liquid of doom cascade…

Sploid Bryan Lufkin

New Scans Made a Surprising Discovery in King Tut’s Tomb

Late last year, radar scans at King Tut’s tomb revealed the possible presence of a secret chamber. A more detailed analysis of this data shows not just the presence of a hidden room—but also unidentified objects that are comprised of metal and organic materials. As reported in National Geographic, the announcement was made earlier today…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Twitter’s New Timeline Is Now the Default—Here’s How to Opt-Out

Much to the chagrin of anyone who hates algorithms, it appears that Twitter’s new timeline—the one that displays tweets based on importance rather than chronology—is now the default setting for all users. Twitter rolled out the feature in February, but it was initially opt-in. Now, however, reports are emerging that the company has gone and…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

The Quest to Hear Echoes From the Big Bang Enters Its Next Phase

Back in 2014, physicists on a collaboration known as BICEP2 thought they had detected gravitational waves. Those claims quickly evaporated when it became clear that they had really seen patterns from cosmic dust. But they haven’t given up the hunt. An upgraded version of the experiment, BICEP3, began taking new data at the South Pole…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette

Drummer Backflips From One Drum Set to Another Mid-Solo

What’s more nerve-racking for a drummer: the prospect of falling onto a bunch of metal spears, or ruining a very expensive drum set? Aric Improta is the drummer for California band Night Verses (featuring the former singer of The Sleeping—whats good Long Island ex-scenesters?). And apparently he’s been practicing gymnastics in his free time, as…

Sploid Avery Ellis

Mystique Rallies the Troops In the Intense New X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer

The new X-Men: Apocalypse trailer is here, and although it gives us Professor X vowing to keep his students safe from the rise of a very angry Apocalypse—it looks like it’ll be Mystique that leads them into battle. It’s perhaps not quite so surprising that Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique gets the attention in this trailer, given…

Trailers James Whitbrook

SeaWorld Will Finally Stop Using Killer Whales… After Just a Few More Years of Exploitation

SeaWorld has announced that it’s ended the practice of breeding orcas in captivity. It’ll also stop running its theatrical shows, replacing them with what it calls “natural” encounters with the animals—but only by 2019. SeaWorld currently looks after 24 orcas. In a statement, Joel Manby, the company’s President and CEO, explained that these will be…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Daredevil Teases a ‘Sequel’ to Its Incredible Hallway Fight Scene

Charlie Cox also talks up a storm about Daredevil, and the path to The Defenders. The Crow reboot might well and truly be dead. Elizabeth Henstridge talks FitzSimmons’ romance on Agents of SHIELD. Plus, a new Batman v Superman clip, and behind the scenes on Preacher. Behold, Spoilers! The Crow The original Crow producers are…

Television James Whitbrook

Learn How to Survive a Plane Crash With This Free App

Prepare For Impact started life as an unsettling Oculus Rift virtual reality demo that simulated what it was like to be inside a plane during an emergency landing in water. But its creators have since expanded the project into a free app that simulates countless ways your next flight could go wrong. So why would…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

It Takes These Brazen Thieves Just Seconds to Install an Invisible Card Skimmer

This unsettling video, released by Miami Beach Police in Florida, shows just how little time is needed for thieves to install a card skimmer on an ATM or debit machine. In the video, two of the thieves first distract the clerks working behind the counter of this convenience store, so the third accomplice can quickly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Amazing Expanding Material Is Based on Islamic Art

Pull this small tile outwards and it doesn’t shorten in the other dimension like a normal piece of material. Instead, its Islamic-inspired pattern twists and deforms so that it can grown in both directions. Creating structures that unfurl when pulled apart isn’t anything particularly new: There are all kinds of exotic deployable structures that are…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

American Express Admits to Theft of Customer Data Three Years Late [Updated]

American Express has warned its customers that they may have had their personal information stolen during a data breach—which happened in 2013. The company explained to California’s attorney general in a letter sent on March 10th that a merchant suffered a data breach. The first version of the letter sent to the attorney general incorrectly…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Experimental Dengue Vaccine Protects Every Participant in Small-Scale Trial

An experimental vaccine for Dengue fever has been tested on participants who were all exposed to the virus—none of whom went on to show any signs of illness. The new vaccine, known as TV003, was developed by National Institutes of Health. During a double-blind trial each participants received either a placebo or the vaccine. When…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

These Self-Assembling Nanowires Could Grow Into the Computer Chips of the Future

Imagine if instead of painstakingly creating computer chips using complex nanoscale engineering you could simply let raw materials assemble themselves into the same structure from the molecule up. These self-assmebling nanowires could be first step in that direction. Try to get past the fact they look a bit like something you may have stumbled across…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Cheap 3D-Printed Antenna Works Just as Well as Its Expensive Siblings

This light pink plastic dish may look like something from your grandmother’s china collection, but in fact it’s the European Space Agency’s first 3D-printed dual-reflector antenna. And it works surprisingly well. The antenna, with a corrugated feedhorn and two reflectors, was printed as a single unit using a plastic polymer then given a thin lick…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

Apple’s iCloud Will Apparently Partly Run on Google’s Servers

It’s not just you that needs to upgrade your iCloud storage. A new set of reports claims that Apple has had to sign up with Google’s Cloud Platform to help power its own cloud storage service. The Financial Times and CRN both report that Apple has signed a deal to run parts of iCloud on…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Intel Could Be Bringing Always-On Voice Assistants to Laptops

Always-on digital assistants like “Hey Siri” and “OK Google” add an important layer of simplicity, but thus far they’ve not made it to laptops, mostly due to battery reasons. A new Intel partnership with Sensory is hoping to solve that. The problem with always-on voice recognition is that it requires the device to always be…

Artificial Intelligence Chris Mills

Why Cocktail Glasses Really Matter

I will freely admit to being one of the twentysomething wasters who will throw a cocktail in anything that isn’t a Solo cup. But if you have more style and class, you may have wondered if there’s science behind the bewildering array of glassware. PBS Idea Channel sat down with Ivy Mix at Leyenda, to…

Sploid Chris Mills

Goofball Covered in Skis Cruises Down a Mountain on Every Limb

How To Install Unauthorized Apps on Android and iOS

What Happens When You Pour Molten Tar on an iPhone 6s?

New Scans Made a Surprising Discovery in King Tut’s Tomb

Twitter’s New Timeline Is Now the Default—Here’s How to Opt-Out

The Quest to Hear Echoes From the Big Bang Enters Its Next Phase

Drummer Backflips From One Drum Set to Another Mid-Solo

Mystique Rallies the Troops In the Intense New X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer

SeaWorld Will Finally Stop Using Killer Whales… After Just a Few More Years of Exploitation

Daredevil Teases a ‘Sequel’ to Its Incredible Hallway Fight Scene

Learn How to Survive a Plane Crash With This Free App

It Takes These Brazen Thieves Just Seconds to Install an Invisible Card Skimmer

This Amazing Expanding Material Is Based on Islamic Art

American Express Admits to Theft of Customer Data Three Years Late [Updated]

Experimental Dengue Vaccine Protects Every Participant in Small-Scale Trial

These Self-Assembling Nanowires Could Grow Into the Computer Chips of the Future

This Cheap 3D-Printed Antenna Works Just as Well as Its Expensive Siblings

Apple’s iCloud Will Apparently Partly Run on Google’s Servers

Intel Could Be Bringing Always-On Voice Assistants to Laptops

Why Cocktail Glasses Really Matter

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