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Pizza Hut’s new hot dog pizza crust pizza is here to murder food forever

Hot dogs and pizza are an underrated combination so Pizza Hut decided to Frankenstein the two together with a new ridiculous pizza: a pizza with a crust made from 28 mini hot dogs. Like 28 pigs in a blanket surrounding a pizza. Like a hot dog moat around a pizza castle. Like two pizzas in…

Keep Your Chromebook Screen Awake With This Add-On

Part of the appeal of Chromebooks lies in their lightweight minimalism, but that does mean you miss out on some advanced OS features—such as being able to set a display time-out interval. If you want to stop your Chrome OS screen from dimming then there’s an extension that can help. The extension in question is…

KRE-O’s Transformers Class of 1985 Includes Grimlock and Devastator

The KRE-O building toys are Hasbro’s answer to Lego, but with retro properties like G.I. Joe and Transformers at their disposal, they’re even more effective at luring in nostalgia seekers. So following up on last year’s San Diego Comic-Con exclusive Class of 1984 set of KREON figures, Hasbro is returning to SDCC this year with…

Tiny Electric Backup Engine For Planes Kicks In When All Else Fails

A commercial airliner with multiple engines can limp to a runway if one of them fails. But a small plane, driven by just a single propeller, is in more serious trouble when its engine stops. So researchers have created a tiny electric backup that kicks in during an emergency, ensuring the craft can safely get…

Apple’s New Selling Point Is Privacy

Apple got caught up in a game of “me too” during this year’s WWDC keynote address, but if you listen closely, you notice that it’s starting to pitch products not just on their design or their power, but on how they protect a user’s privacy. Meet Apple’s new competitive point of difference. If you go…

The Danube Delta Looks Gorgeous Through Radar Eyes From Space

This so called interferogram was created by combining two Sentinel-1A radar scenes from over the Danube River Delta, which covers more than 4,180 square kilometers in Romania. European Space Agency’s Hydro-SAR project monitors wetlands, such as Danube Delta, playing an important role in sustainable water management with the help of satellite radar data. ESA explains…

10 of the hardest movie scenes to shoot

When a movie does an epic scene right, it leaves your mouth gasping for air, sends your brain in a tizzy, flips your idea of reality on its head and makes you wonder just how in the hell they did that. Watch Mojo lists 10 scenes that do just that, 10 movie scenes that they…

The Troubled Ouya Console May Soon Be Under New Management

Ouya, the little Kickstarter Android console that was pretty popular until people actually started using it, has had a quiet year. But a new report says that Razer, who’s had there own troubles breaking the Android-based gaming market with Forge TV, might be joining forces with the little console that couldn’t. Technology is filled with…

For $125,000 You Can Buy Your Kid a Miniature Monster Truck

We all know what spoiled means, but for the truest definition of the word you don’t need to look any further than this miniature monster truck designed for kids that’s powered by a real four-cylinder Ford engine pushing it to a top speed of 25 miles per hour. It’s roughly half the size of real…

Why Do Other People’s Farts Smell Worse?

In 2005, two researchers published a series of articles investigating the subject of other people’s smelliness. They examined how much disgust people would feel and show after smelling a variety of odors, including armpits, garbage and farts. Among the stinks examined, farts elicited the strongest negative response, and across all body odors, people consistently rated…

The Surface Texture of This Material Is Tuned With a Simple Squeeze

This lump of polymer may look nice and smooth right now, but given a shove it can form complex pasterns of ridges or bumps on its surface—the result of 3D printing the harder, black material within a softer matrix. The material’s been created by a team from MIT using a 3D printing process to accurately…

Watch This Beautiful Short About an Old Lady Struggling to Text Message

Here’s an amusing and emotional short film about an old woman in a nursing home who struggles to send a text message to her daughter. You should watch it. In case you need convincing, the video—produced by Mick Andrews and Brett O’Gorman—has won plaudits at film festivals around the world, snatching title of Best Short…

iPhone users will be able to block ads in Safair running on iOS 9.

Amazon’s Building a Solar Farm in Virginia to Green Its Data Centers

If it’s good enough for Apple, it’s clearly good enough for Amazon. Bezos & Co. has announced that it’s channeling money into the construction and running of an 80 megawatt solar farm in Virginia. The plant—enough to power 15,000 U.S. homes each year—should be up and running by 2016. The energy it creates will be…

These Math Secrets Will Make You Love Times Tables

Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes. There might be patterns in some of them (the simple doubling of the 2 times table) but others you just learnt by rote. And it was never quite clear just why it was necessary to know what 7 x 9 is off the…

This Innocuous Key Hides a Knife

Carrying around a small folding knife for everyday use certainly isn’t a bad idea, but it’s also another thing to potentially forget (or get taken by the cops). This tiny locking folder won’t do more than the basic tasks, but it’s small and discrete enough that you’ll probably forget you’re even carrying it. The Porter…

Apple’s Great New Developer Program Screws Over Safari Devs

During the last few days of the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple announced major changes to its developer programs. Gone are the different programs — and different fees — that developers for iOS, OS X, and watchOS previously had to pay. And that’s great! Except, one of the most under-appreciated dev communities got a…

Pornhub Wants Your Money To Make A Porno In Space

There are videos of people boning whilst skydiving. There are videos of people boning in scuba gear (I’m just assuming here). And if Pornhub and Indiegogo have their way, soon you might get to see sextronauts (yup!) making zero-gravity love. Pornhub’s NSFW vision is to send up two actors and a crew in a shuttle…

Android’s Upcoming Camera App Might Choose Your Best Shot Automatically

The latest incremental update for Android’s Camera app, version 2.5 is out, and according to Android Police, the most exciting stuff — a burst-fire mode that automatically finds the best image — is hidden under the hood. According to a (non-conclusive) teardown of the app’s code, the 2.5 update is paving the way for a…

Doctor Who In A 1989 Notebook Ad, And 12 More Wacky Hungarian TV Spots

Do you love old television ads? Preferably from ex-socialist countries? Then this is the right stuff for you! YourTuber Hol van Ato has just uploaded more than one hundred funny, weird and grotesque Hungarian TV advertising spots from the 80s and 90s, and believe me: this collection is one of the most entertaining segments of…