Latest

Huge Hack Hits 4 Million British Broadband Customers

British broadband provider TalkTalk has admitted that all of its 4 million customers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and bank details may have stolen by hackers. The telecommunications company was attacked on Wednesday, and says all of its customers could have been affected by the breach. The police, who launched an…

Pandora Has to Stump Up $90M For Its Use of Pre-1972 Songs

Earlier this year, the Record Industry Association of America began to pursue Pandora on behalf of record labels to seek royalties for the use of tracks recorded before 1972. Now, it’s reached a settlement that will see Pandora stump up $90 million for using the songs. Federal copyright law covering music actually only applies to…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Is Giving $200M of His Twitter Stock to Staff

Twitter’s new CEO Jack Dorsey has enough cash to go round. So much so, in fact, that he’s announced that he’s giving one-third of his stock holdings in the social media company to his employees. In a tweet, Dorsey announced that he’ll be giving back one-third of his approximately 22 million shares of stock to…

Good news for multi-taskers: Chrome for iOS now supports Apple’s split-screen feature.

Are We Recycling Too Much of Our Trash?

A recent credible study suggests the amount of waste Americans dispose in landfills each year is over twice what the EPA had been estimating. Although this news may not surprise the country’s disposal facilities (who already knew the quantity of waste they take in), the study may strike an old nerve for many Americans –…

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg already got people reading Iain M. Banks’ The Player of Games for his “A Year of Books” challenge. Now he’s picked another science fiction book: The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. And translator Ken Liu is hanging out in the comments! Contact the author at [email protected] and follow her on…

You Can Hear The Most Insane Moment From Pan Right Now

Pan was kind of a letdown in general. But the Peter Pan origins movie does have one totally bonkers moment that’s worth checking out—when Hugh Jackman leads all the captive boys in a singalong of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Hear it for yourself! It’s even better with the video, and at some point we’ll…

Michael J. Fox Tries On His Self-Lacing Nike Mags for Jimmy Kimmel

As a species, we may have overdone it with yesterday’s rapture-like celebration. But no one can deny that the best moment of October 21, 2015 was when Nike delivered the first pair of self-lacing Mags (AS PROMISED) to one Michael J. Fox. Fox posted a video of the shoes as well as a handwritten note…

Watch These Parachuting Beavers Spread Across Idaho

The footage, once believed lost, will brighten your day as only a beaver can. In the 1940s and ‘50s, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game was overrun with beavers in certain regions of the state. In order to confront the overpopulation problem—and because beavers can do so much good—a pretty wild scheme was enacted:…

Some 150 years after his death, a man is being pardoned for helping slaves escape. Samuel Burris, a free black man, was tried and found guilty in 1847—but spared his sentence (being sold into seven years of slavery) by an anti-slavery group who bought him and freed him, after which he returned to his post…

Crocs Keep an Eye on You While They Sleep

Sleeping with only half your brain sounds like a great way to become a zombie in no time, but for certain marine mammals and birds, it’s a way of life. A new study suggests that crocodiles, too, may be “unihemispheric” sleepers, a finding which makes humans and other full-brain snoozers look more and more like…

Which Movie Did You Walk Out Of? 

Most of us are committed to our entertainment—when we start a thing, we see it through. Maybe you put down a book sometimes, but when you see a movie, you stick it out. Except. Some movies, you just can’t get through. So which movie did you just walk out of? Please include the name of…

The Surprising Effect That Space Radiation Had on Mouse Brains

It’s one thing to send a rover to Mars. It’s another to send a biologically fragile human body. We don’t know much about how space will affect us–and recent findings involving mice suggest it could change our brains in unexpected ways. Would the trip to Mars damage astronauts indelibly? And will certain factors predispose some…

The 8 Types of Expository Beards

Since movies, television shows, and comics are visual mediums, sometimes you need a visual cue to a character’s identity or motivations. And although you can use costumes or props for this purpose, there’s no better storytelling device than facial hair. We’ve covered the wigs used in flashbacks to hammer home “this is the past!”—now here…

The Simpsons‘ Latest “Treehouse of Horror” Opener Is a Ghoulishly Retro Delight

Halloween season means a new “Treehouse of Horror” episode from The Simpsons—at least, it has for the past 26 years. Here’s the wonderfully surreal couch gag from “Treehouse of Horror XXVI.” Frank Grimes makes an appearance, looking quite unlike we’ve ever seen him before. [FOX]

Before and after photos show how glaciers have totally melted over the years

Global warming is melting the world. Here are photos collected from the USGS that shows how Glacier National Parks—once home to 150 glaciers in Montana and now down to only 25—has changed over the years. Ice basically disappears in these before and after photos. In fact, you can see serious change from just two years…

Meet Kerberos, the Fifth and Final Moon of Pluto

Oh, hello there! Are you the tiniest moon of Pluto, Kerberos? It’s so lovely to finally meet you, and complete our family portrait of all of Pluto’s little moons. The smallest moon of Pluto is Kerberos, this lumpy little mess of rock that looks like two moons got stuck together and now go by the…

How To Make Your Own Venison Sausage At Home

Homemade sausage is so good and so cheap to make that you’ll never buy it from a store again. Here’s my take on a super healthy hot Italian. Warning: I’ll keep it gore free, but there’s going to be pictures of a dead animal and its subsequent parts below. It’s nothing you won’t see wrapped…

The Strange Odyssey of an Oklahoma Outlaw’s Long-Lost, Long-Dead Mummy

Elmer McCurdy lived his life with one foot in the grave. A schemer and heavy drinker, he saw himself as an outlaw. Problem was, he kept botching the job. A train robbery in 1911 went up in smoke after Elmer applied too much nitro to the safe—destroying the strongbox and the loot. After lifting a…

Artist James Turrell “Truly Flattered” That Drake Ripped Off His Work in New Video

The works of artist James Turrell have been described as mind-altering experiences that contort reality and change people’s ability to perceive truth. Apparently this happened to Drake, who after seeing Turrell’s art in person, copied it almost exactly in a new video. “Hotline Bling” features the Degrassi alum dancing inside glowing geometric environments that slowly…