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Remember when laptops were laptops and tablets were tablets? Well, those days are gone, replaced with acrobatic foldables, detachables, and liquid-cooled enigmas. Buying a new computing machine has never been such a strange decision as it is today, so we decided to round up the very strangest hybrid devices out there and see if they…
Minecraft fans, rejoice! The popular sandbox video game will finally be playable in virtual reality as soon as next week. Mojang employee Tommaso Checchimade made the announcement earlier today in a tweet. The exact release date of Minecraft VR is still unknown, but what’s now clear is that it will be made public sometime next…
This dude is crazy and awful and screwed up but also bold and daring and a freaking total savage. Armed with a handsaw and a sociopathic personality, he literally chopped down a tree in order to steal a bike. A tree no longer exists because this guy saw a bike locked up to it and…
A groundbreaking new experiment shows that brain-machine interfaces, when used in conjunction with exoskeletons and virtual reality, can trigger partial recovery in patients recovering from spinal cord injuries. “We couldn’t have predicted this surprising clinical outcome when we began the project,” noted Nicolelis in a press release. “What we’re showing in this paper is that…
Hillary Clinton just announced at a rally in Warren, Michigan that she wants to connect every American household to broadband internet by the year 2020. It’s a nice thought. But with 2020 just a little over three years away, how realistic is the idea? Not very. According to the FCC’s 2016 Broadband Progress Report, one…
If you’re counting on technology to radically extend your lifespan, you’ll want to pay close attention to what’s happening with the Greenland shark. According to a new scientific paper, this mysterious deep-sea dweller can live up to 400 years, making it the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth. Let that number sink in for a minute. Four…
The F-22 Raptor is one of the military’s most powerful weapons, but everything—man, woman, sentient rotted orange—has a weakness. For the fighter jet, that weakness is BEEEEEEEEEES! In June, one of the fleet was found with a massive swarm of honey bees—as many as 20,000, according to the Air Force, which described the incident this…
Have you ever wondered why you don’t see people wearing Rolls Royce’s hood ornaments dangling from a necklace? It’s because the Spirit of Ecstasy, as the hood ornament is obnoxiously called, is protected by a brilliantly over-engineered mechanism that causes it to retract and disappear if tampered with. It’s apparently a standard feature included on…
Bikers Martin Söderström and Dawid Godziek seriously just pop up out of nowhere in this video as they bust crazy tricks out in the field. The expert editing hides their jumps so it looks like they’re almost superhuman because they’re getting so much air. It’s especially cool because you have no idea where they end…
Donald Trump has said before that all he knows is what he sees on the internet. And that became crystal clear at a rally in Florida yesterday when he held up a sign that had clearly been printed from the web. The sign Trump is holding purports to show how much money the Clinton Foundation…
Today is not a great day for Twitter. BuzzFeed published a big exposé on the company’s failure to deal with abuse. But here’s a lil’ nugget of news that likely put a smile on Jack Dorsey’s face: A judge ruled that Twitter is not responsible for ISIS propaganda posted on the site. Yay! A class…
In October, the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission will land the Schiaparelli rover on the Red Planet. Here’s where the probe is scheduled to land, and why researchers chose this particular area. The 60 x 10 mile (100 x 15 km) elliptical target is located within the Meridiani Planum region in the southern highlands of…
Swinging over the bar was, and probably still is the dream of many a kid on the playground. (So much so that it become the backstory of a minor Nickelodeon character.) Lunatic inventor Colin Furze never quite grew up, and now he’s fulfilling his childhood fantasy at a terrifying scale with little to no safety…
Every year, the Perseids are a spectacular show. But this year, they’re something even more special than usual, and you shouldn’t miss it. Here’s how, when, and where to watch the Perseid meteor shower—and what you should be looking for when you do. The Perseids are an annual meteor shower that shows up right at…
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to create an algorithm to filter out abusive and hateful language during a company-sponsored Q&A with President Obama in 2015 according to a Buzzfeed report. The story cites one former senior Twitter employee who alleges Costolo ordered a team of employees to build a new algorithm, feed…
When your work requires you to be in an office and interact with other people, you owe it to your co-workers to keep up your personal hygiene. That includes ensuring you keep the insides of your ears neat and tidy, unless you want your co-workers to do it for you using a tiny Q-Tip crossbow.…
Billionaire douchebag Peter Thiel has plenty of crazy ideas, but his commitment to radical life extension isn’t one of them. Without question, Thiel clings to some rather obnoxious ideas. An ardent libertopian and admirer of the pseudo-intellectual Ayn Rand, the tech mogul believes that freedom and democracy are incompatible, and he questions the prudence of…
The recent hack that targeted Democratic officials and led to the resignation of Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was much bigger than initially suspected, according to a new report from the New York Times. Sources tell the paper that over 100 officials and groups had their private email accounts breached, and the primary…
When you hear “Best HP Laptop,” you probably think of the impressively thin Spectre 13 or maybe one of HP’s high-end hybrids. But sometimes greatness doesn’t come with an outlandish price tag. The HP Stream, maybe the best Windows laptop you can buy for just $200, just got a much deserved upgrade. https://gizmodo.com/hp-stream-11-review-200-and-worth-every-penny-1668809067 The biggest…
Look at the above image. Soak it in. Become one with the abomination. This chimeric nightmare was posted earlier this week to obtuse, anti-humorous Facebook group Wet and Soggy Memes. Contained therein is the face of the late ape Harambe, Arthur’s shaking fist, the torso of car-proof future man Graham, the cowl of “I’m gay,”…
