While this should seemingly go without saying, it turns out that âkill it with fireâ is not a great idea when it comes to ridding your home of pests. Nonetheless, there is no shortage of failed cases of people attempting to kill spiders or insects with blowtorches, and it doesnât often end well.
After years of on-and-off flirting, including a broken engagement in 2017, Sprint and T-Mobile have finally agreed to a $26.5 billion merger that will further consolidate a mobile carrier market already mostly devoid of competition.
With each passing year that the world fails to get a grip on its carbon emissions, the threat of climate change increases. For some, that makes geoengineeringâa technique to artificially cool the planetâan increasingly enticing opportunity. But while scientists have shown that blasting tiny particles into theâŚ
Will.i.am has had a hard time breaking into the tech market. In his latest entrepreneurial venture, heâs jumping into the smart home game. What could go wrong?
Remember Juicero? It was the darling of glass-eyed Silicon Valley investors just a year ago. But it turns out the the $400 juice-making gadget is very literally useless. You can actually just buy the juice packets and squeeze the goods into your glass with your bare hands, no gadget required.
As many of us prepare for holiday season travel, armed with headphones and Xanax, itâs incredible to realize that we can now watch TV on an airplane. On a recent JetBlue flight from JFK to SFO, I realized how modern marvels can be far from marvelous. The airline was broadcasting a show called Why Planes Crash.
Fancy computer phones are great. They let us communicate, work, document, learn, complain, order dinner, find consensual sex friends, and plenty of other fun things. If I could attach myself to my phone with some sort of strange, dystopian umbilical cord-like apparatus, I would.
On Monday, San Diego-based cybersecurity firm PacketSled announced that it had placed its CEO on administrative leave after he made a series of Facebook comments threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump.
In a deeply regrettable attempt to cash in on human tragedy using viral video magic, a company called Miracle Mattress decided to film and post a bizarre commercial promoting its âTwin Tower sale.â Welp!
Bad idea: trying to use a crane to lift a water tank before checking if itâs empty or not. You can see the craneâs arm begin to buckle under the weight of the tank and then watch it totally collapse as it drops the tank onto the side of the building and flips itself off the ground.
Please donât ever do this at home. Or do this anywhere, really. Mixing bullets with molten aluminum creates a helluva explosionâbut it sprays the hot liquid metal everywhere, and thatâs just a terrible idea. Plus, itâs guaranteed to end in fire and blood. Instead, watch the Backyard Scientist do it.
Rotten eggs, cat urine, bitter almondsâthatâs the delightful elixir of aromas comprising the BO of one comet 67P, also known as Rosettaâs comet. In a heartwarmingly nerdy yet mildly alarming development, members of the Rosetta mission team have commissioned scent firm The Aroma Company to turn it into a perfume.
Whatâs the best flavor of Bud Light Ritas? This is a trick question.
China, conceiver of large, ambitious, and often terrifying new infrastructure projects, has decided to build another opportunity for its citizens to stare into the abyss of mortality very tall glass bridge, despite the fact that the last one wasnât as strong as some people hoped.
In the latest salvo of the ongoing Apple vs FBI salvo, Florida GOP congressman David Jolly has introduced a (doomed) bill banning the federal government from purchasing unpatriotic, terrorist-loving iPhones. Taking this logic to the extreme, hereâs a more complete list of products that should be boycotted.
Not like this, Sonic. Not like this.
Predictive text and neural networks have gotten crazy good in the past few years, to the extent that I would actually consider turning them on from time to time. But should you let a computer that knows your writing habits make you a dating profile? Oh hell no.
Hey, remember Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark? The Spider-Man broadway show that someone somewhere thought was a great idea, before it turned out that no, oh God no it wasnât? Well, the company behind it are heading to China for a new venture: a live-action Transformers attraction that sounds similarly atrocious.
The morning and I have a hate-hate relationship that has seen more than one alarm clock shatter against an unyielding wall, so I donât really know why a Microsoft developer would feel the need to code an alarm app that forces you to play unnecessarily âquirkyâ and âfunâ games to turn it off.
Instagramâs most famous animal rescue foundation is beloved by celebrities and millions of fans, and completely and utterly terrifying. Scrolling through the Black Jaguar-White Tiger⢠feed is like seeing the beginning of Grizzly Man play out on social media.
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