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“I Can’t Afford Not to Have That Money”: The Worst PayPal Horror Stories

Yesterday, PayPal agreed to pay customers $15 million for ripping them off over the past few years. After I wrote about it, reader horror stories started flooding my inbox and comments. Here are some of the worst cases of frozen funds, scams, and skeevy collection agencies: Secret credit lines I made a five dollar purchase…

Skrillex Made Some Expensive, Pointless Phone Cases With Google

Skrillex and Google have “teamed up” to bring a new line of Live Cases that juice your phone with new features. The new Live Cases have gaudy sci-fi designs straight from the mind of the electronic musicstar. The cases have built-in NFC chips that talk to your phone and unlock new features: “live wallpaper” that…

Motorcycle surfing at high speeds looks like a crazy way to have fun

Riding a motorcycle isn’t enough. Surfing waves isn’t enough. Sometimes you have to surf your motorcycle to get your thrill on. That is you have to gun your motorcycle to over 50MPH and then try to stand on the deathcycle while balancing yourself as if you were on a tightrope, only if the tightrope was…

Apple Prophet Says New iPhone Is Coming

We are apparently so desperate as a civilization for news of the next iPhone that there are Apple diviners who specialize in predicting when it will come. Now the best of these diviners, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, says he’s convinced the new iPhone is coming in August. Over at Business Insider, they are taking…

Read Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Emails Right Here

Since the State Department’s taking its time making public information public, The New York Times just released about a third of Hillary Clinton’s private, Benghazi-related emails. Read up because it’s transparency America’s been denied—plus it’s just fun to read politicians’ private correspondence. Below you’ll find 349 pages from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s old inbox, pages…

It’s Too Bad the Stocks Of This Plush Falkor Aren’t Neverending Too

The wonderful ‘80s flick The NeverEnding Story wasn’t exactly a blockbuster when it hit theaters decades ago, and that means that finding memorabilia from the film these days isn’t easy. There’s an army of crafters on Etsy that are happy to scratch your nostalgic itches, though, it’s just too bad that GameGuardians only opens orders…

The LHC Just Shattered Its Previous Record For Energy Output

Late yesterday, CERN scientists made history by using the most powerful particle accelerator in the world to hurl beams of protons together at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV (tera-electronvolts) — a full 5 TeV higher than the previous standard. Top image: Protons collide at 13 TeV sending showers of particles through the ALICE detector.…

How America’s First Female Detective Helped Foil An Assassination Plot

History isn’t certain if Kate Warne, America’s first female detective, had that career path in mind when she walked into the Pinkerton Detective Agency. It’s possible she was applying to be a secretary. But she so impressed Allan Pinkerton that he hired her as an agent — a job she proved unusually well-suited for. This…

What’s The Best Book To Read On Vacation?

Summer’s coming up, and with it, hopefully some time to settle into the sunshine with a good book. But which book? Tell us in the comments about your favorite summer vacation read (whether or a beach, in the mountains, or just in your room with the a/c on high). And, of course, let us in…

Find Out Which Android Apps You’re Really Addicted To

You know you spend a lot of time on your smartphone, but what are you doing with it? It’s a question QualityTime (Android 4.0+) attempts to answer, monitoring activity on your handset and revealing the apps that you just can’t pull yourself away from. Here’s how to get the app up and running on your…

You Might Not Even Notice This Wallpaper Is Made From Images of Space

One of the wonderful things about our nation’s Copyright Act is found under Section 105, which stipulates that the stuff government agencies—like NASA—create is free for anyone to use. Which makes projects like this space-plastered wallpaper possible. If you walked by a wall decorated with this wallpaper designed by Calico Wallpaper and BCXSY, you probably…

The Wrong Drug Reaction Could Literally Make Your Skin Peel Off

Good morning, and get ready to get a bad case of internal shivers! This morning’s body horror is provided by toxic epidermal necrolysis, which can be induced by… so many things. So many things. Toxic epidermal necrolysis begins when angry red patches erupt on the skin on your face. And your chest. Also your genitals.…

Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Kill Jobs, and Not Just for Drivers

The first road-legal autonomous truck made a splashy debut earlier this month. The Freightliner Inspiration Truck is shiny and new, but it will not be good for everyone. Autonomous trucks will destroy jobs, Scott Santens points out at Medium, killing the truck stop as we know it. Even if you reserve no particular nostalgia for…

Bandai’s Figuarts Hulkbuster Is Insanely Awesome

They’ve teased it for a very long time, but it’s finally here: Bandai have revealed their Figuarts Hulkbuster, and they’ve really pushed the boat out. Scaled in line with the other Avengers: Age of Ultron Figuarts, the Hulkbuster stands at around 10 inches tall, and is packed with the amount of crazy hyper-articulation you’d expect…

How do you spot—and then stop—scientific fraud? Simple, you just follow the math. Nautilus has a pieceon how the researcher with the most retractions ever (183!) was finally caught. The story not only includes plenty of sick science burns, it also details a statistics-based procedure to catch future frauds.

Pebble Apparently Can’t Keep Up With Its Own Growth

The crowdfunded watch, Pebble, which became a darling of Kickstarter success stories, may be facing serious financial problems, despite raising a staggering $20 million on the site. Sources say that the company is getting a bit too big and can’t support the success. It has supposedly taken out a $5 million loan with an additional…

The One Actor You Never Expected To See Again In The Flash Season 2

James Gunn’s new horror film casts one of its leads. See Captain America and Crossbones duke it out in new Captain America: Civil War set pictures. Plus, Steven Moffat discusses The Doctor and Clara’s relationship and his most challenging Doctor Who script yet. Spoilers Now! Top image: The Flash. Independence Day 2 Vivica A. Fox,…

2015’s Top New Species Include Two Animals with Cool Breeding Habits

Let’s hear it for newly-discovered species with interesting sex lives! A pufferfish that builds complex circular spawning nests and a frog that gives birth directly to live tadpoles have been picked as two of the the International Institute for Species Exploration’s “top 10” new species of 2015. Top image: A spawning nest (mystery circle) of…

Build This Brass Stirling Engine To Keep You Hypnotized At Work

Not every building set has to be made from colorful plastic bricks. If you’re looking for something a little more challenging—and rewarding—than Lego, Hermann Böhm has created this gorgeous stainless steel and brass stirling engine kit that will take you about three satisfying hours to build. And of course it’s fully functional once assembled. The…

Here’s One Way to Stop Being Ticklish

For some of us, being tickled by so-called “friends” and “family” is a nightmare. But can we use the fact that we can’t tickle ourselves to stop being ticklish when other people come at us, grinning? According to Dr. Emily Grossman, yes. Yes we can. Of course, the method presented in this video does presume…