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Of Course The Origins Of The Term “Serial Killer” Are Gruesome

Unsurprisingly, the two men credited with coming up with the term “serial killer” worked, together and separately, on some of the FBI’s most gruesome cases: John Douglas and Robert K. Ressler. Their careers were so extraordinary they influenced pop culture, and at least one Oscar-winning film. Ressler, who died in 2013 at age 76, authored…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

7 things you didn’t know about the funnest movie series: Fast & Furious

Depending on how fun you are at parties, the Fast & the Furious movie franchise got undeniably fun sometime during the 4th or 5th movie (or 1st for the furiously fast). And then they transformed into awesome heist movies with crazy special effects and a revolving door of big action movie stars. The 7th one…

Sploid Casey Chan

USS Ross guided-missile destroyer looks like it has its own force field

Here’s a really cool photo of guided-missile destroyer USS Ross ripping through the Mediterranean while under high wind conditions. To me, it looks like the warship has activated a force field around it and is impenetrable to everything. In reality, however, the destroyer is drenched. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…

Sploid Casey Chan

Keep Older Versions Of Your Documents On Google Drive Forever

Google Drive does a decent job of managing older versions of non-native files, automatically keeping them for 30 days or 100 revisions. You can access these older versions from within the individual file options, but there’s also the opportunity to keep a particular version of a file for all time if you know that you…

Gadgets David Nield

How to Change the Battery on the New Galaxy S6

You guys. The built-in status of the Samsung Galaxy S6’s battery doesn’t mean the battery is totally non-removable. All you need is your Galaxy S6, a hair dryer, tweezers, a micro Phillips head screwdriver, a spudger tool, an intimate knowledge of electrical engineering and about an hour to kill. Simple! https://gizmodo.com/your-new-galaxy-s6-will-have-a-built-in-expiration-date-1688853343 Our friends at iFixit…

Tech News Darren Orf

Check Out This Rare Smoke Ring Created By a Missile Launch

A US Air Force photographer captured a perfect smoke ring during a missile launch today, an awesome phenomenon I’ve never seen during a rocket launch before. The unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was launched at 3:36 a.m. PDT, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The missile was randomly selected to test and evaluate…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Iron Man’s Golden Moment Is Now A Wonderful Figma Figure

My word, Figma do love their Iron Man variants, don’t they? Next up is the turn of the blinged up Mk XXI ‘Midas’ suit, the sort of ostentatious ridiculous you can only expect from someone like Tony Stark. But ostentatiousness aside, it makes for a pretty figure! Okay so it’s merely golden paint rather than…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Every Meal’s a Picnic With Grass Placemats

Has winter’s long and drawn-out run this year completely destroyed your soul? Some of us still won’t be enjoying spring-like weather for quite a few weeks, so here’s a simple way to recreate that feeling indoors. The next time you sit down for a meal, swap in these faux grass placemats that make it feel…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Tell Us Your Nightmare Stories About Working In IT

A friend of mine once told a tale about his years at the Apple Genius Bar that I never forgot. It involved a customer, a Mac Mini, and a handful of cockroaches. Today I asked him for a refresher, and it turns out the story was even worse than my memories. Does your experience top…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Someone’s Trolling the Hell Out of Ted Cruz With TedCruz.com

Unfortunately for newly-announced presidential hopeful Ted Cruz, it looks like his campaign was a touch too slow in securing the Ted Cruz domain. Either that or Team Cruz has been doing some soul searching. It’s hard to believe that Cruz never bothered buy his domain name. But according to Mother Jones, an Arizona attorney with…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Musicless music video for Ghostbusters theme song gets creepy real quick

Oh boy. Looking back at the 80’s is almost always funny. Looking back at the 80’s through the prism that is a musicless music video for the Ghostbusters theme song? It is completely ridiculous. The chintzy special effects, the totally creeping Ray Parker Jr. and the hilariousness of the movie all get smashed together for…

Sploid Casey Chan

NASCAR’s Original Racetrack Is an Abandoned Ruin Today

The North Wilkesboro Speedway opened in 1947, nearly a year before NASCAR was founded. The short track near moonshine country was where the first NASCAR champion, Robert “Red” Byron, was crowned. Today, five years after being abandoned, the historic speedway is just a rotting pile of sticks, crooked chairs, and faded glory. The celebrated abandoned…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

I Used a 56K Modem for a Week and It Was Hell on Earth

In 1998, the year the first 56K modem was available for purchase, I was in the 8th grade. The 90s At that age anything that was not a video game was useless to me. Most of my reading material was still on paper. Porn was still the occasional nipple floating beneath a scrambled TV miasma.…

Tech News Andrew Spaulding - Hopes&Fears

Making a real life version of Link’s shield from The Legend of Zelda

Making a real life version of Link’s iconic Hylian Shield from the Legend of Zelda may be the most impressive weapon Man at Arms: Reforged has ever made. It required a perfect design, a lot of grunt work in curving the metal sheet, expert embossing and basically melting pieces of metal together to form the…

Sploid Casey Chan

Instagram’s New “Layout” App Lets You Cram Your Feed Full of Collages

Instagram is the photo-sharing app that also created the timelapse-creating app, too. Now, Instagram is looking to conquer another corner of the mobile photography world with Layout, an app for making Instagram-friendly collages. Launching today for iOS (and for Android in the coming months, as per usual), Layout basically does what third-party collage apps have…

Social Media Darren Orf

The Navy’s New Diving Suit Is Straight Out of G.I. Joe

The United States Navy recently announced a futuristic new diving suit that’s designed to use less helium. There’s only one problem: They made it look just like Cobra Eel, the mortal enemy of Wet-Suit, a G.I. Joe Navy SEAL. Images via U.S. Navy / Hasbro Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint:…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A DIY Classic Game & Watch Handheld Made With an Old Nokia Cellphone

Before the Game Boy came along, handheld gaming consoles were limited to just a single title, played on a low-quality segmented LCD display. At the time it was cutting edge stuff, but by today’s standards they kind of suck. So to scratch his nostalgic gaming itch, Instructables contributor Andrew Hannay built his own Game &…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Closer Look At Play Arts Kai’s New Batman Reveals The Swishiest Bat-Cape

Last week we got a few teaser images for Play Arts Kai’s latest Batman figure, and while it wasn’t up to the usual craziness levels we’ve come to expect from Square-Enix, it looks great. However, new pictures reveals there is one, slightly kooky and fun aspect to the toy: a rotatable cape for maximum swooshiness.…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Math explains the best way to shuffle a deck of cards and why

Everyone who has played poker or even Go Fish knows the basics of shuffling cards. There’s the riffle shuffle (combining two halves of a decks and making a bridge), overhand shuffling (quickly splicing cards from the deck back into the deck) and regular ol’ mixing all the cards up on a table. Which way is…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Trick to Hacking Top-Secret Computers: Just Add Heat

Security researchers just found a way to hack into specially secured computer systems by sending messages using blasts of air. This is another example of how even the most walled-off systems can still get hacked. By messing with a computer’s thermal sensor, researchers at Ben-Gurion University were able to hack into air-gapped computers. Air-gapping is…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Of Course The Origins Of The Term “Serial Killer” Are Gruesome

7 things you didn’t know about the funnest movie series: Fast & Furious

USS Ross guided-missile destroyer looks like it has its own force field

Keep Older Versions Of Your Documents On Google Drive Forever

How to Change the Battery on the New Galaxy S6

Check Out This Rare Smoke Ring Created By a Missile Launch

Iron Man’s Golden Moment Is Now A Wonderful Figma Figure

Every Meal’s a Picnic With Grass Placemats

Tell Us Your Nightmare Stories About Working In IT

Someone’s Trolling the Hell Out of Ted Cruz With TedCruz.com

Musicless music video for Ghostbusters theme song gets creepy real quick

NASCAR’s Original Racetrack Is an Abandoned Ruin Today

I Used a 56K Modem for a Week and It Was Hell on Earth

Making a real life version of Link’s shield from The Legend of Zelda

Instagram’s New “Layout” App Lets You Cram Your Feed Full of Collages

The Navy’s New Diving Suit Is Straight Out of G.I. Joe

A DIY Classic Game & Watch Handheld Made With an Old Nokia Cellphone

Closer Look At Play Arts Kai’s New Batman Reveals The Swishiest Bat-Cape

Math explains the best way to shuffle a deck of cards and why

The Trick to Hacking Top-Secret Computers: Just Add Heat

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