Silly and Cruel Beauty Gadgets That Were Destined for Failure
You are ugly, and if you didn’t notice, perusing a history of American cosmetic marketing will point out all of your…
Marissa Mayer Set to Receive $186 Million for Failing Because This Is How Corporate America Works
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer continues to stack up piles of cash, despite her veritable failure to rescue the company from a…
'Supercard' Startup Plastc Goes Belly Up, Screwing Thousands of Backers
There are dozens of ways to pay for things, but apparently, the world was not ready for one more. Plastc, the company…
National Weather Service Data System Went Down During a Blizzard This Week
The National Weather Service warns us about potentially dangerous weather, so it would be pretty scary if their highly…
The 9 Most Disgraceful Crowdfunding Failures of 2015
Donating to a crowdfunding campaign is risky. You hand money to internet strangers who give you nothing but a promise…
Damn, This Fake Orca Sucks At Being a Fake Orca
The small fishing village of Astoria, Oregon, tried to scare off a pesky sea lion colony with a large fake mechanical…
15 Actors Who Tried To Become Action Stars And Failed Miserably
For every Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Daniel Craig, there are a dozen would-be action stars who tried to get…
The restored HD video of the Atlas missile explosion is amazing to watch
The guys at AtomCentral uploaded this video depicting the failed test of the Atlas missile back in 1961. The…
No, a Cryptocurrency Can't Fix a Broken Economy
Auroracoin, the digital currency given as a free hand-out to every resident of Iceland, was supposed to be a a salvo…
Fireworks launch malfunction causes massive explosion
The explosions caused by this malfunctioning fireworks launching mechanism were so big and the noise so deafening that…
The Wallops Island launch facility, viewed from the air the day after the Orbital Science Antares rocket exploded right…
Politician Proposes Hoverboard Lanes For DC By 2015
If the recent White House Correspondents Dinner has shown us anything, it's that politicians are the true masters of…
Video of Zenit-3SL Rocket Failure Over the Pacific: "Houston, We Got a Limp Dick!"
If you must fail while launching a rocket, you hope it gets destroyed in a fiery ball of fire. At least that makes…
Twitter Was Taken Down Yesterday By a "Cascading Bug"
Following yesterday's failure, Twitter has gotten to the bottom of what went wrong: it was a software issue known as a…
How Kickstarter Hides Its Failures from the Internet
We have our opinions on Kickstarter. But central to whatever Kickstarter claims to be is its ability to teach business…
How It All Went Wrong For Sony
Over the past decade Sony has fallen from tech giant to struggling underdog, with a series of mistakes and…
McDonald's Twitter Marketing Turns into Disgusting Customer Revolt
Somewhere in corporate Hamburgerland, an ad executive with a penchant for "social media" and "the Twitter" thought a…
This Is Lockheed Martin's New Amazing Fighter
Last December, Lockheed Martin assembled the last F-22 Raptor ever. It's the USAF's one and only fifth generation…
Builder Blames Navy as Brand-New Warship Disintegrates
The Navy's newest warship is slowly disappearing, one molecule at a time.
Ignorant Congressman Claims Apple, iPad Killing U.S. Jobs
With displays like this happening all too frequently on the House floor, there's really no wonder why Congressional…