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Apple has taken on a new Engineering Director: Jean-Francois Mulé, from CableLabs, who’s an expert in IP voice and video, and TV apps. He claims to be “part of something big” at Apple. Make of that what you will!
A recent study seemed to suggest that political ideology can have a profound effect on how good you are at math. But how accurate is that finding? In this video, Cambridge University mathematicians do a great job of breaking down the research and picking it apart. Turns out the findings are accurate—and they could be…
Imagine: your wife begins to think you’re a closet alcoholic, so she purchases a breathalyzer to test your blood alcohol content (BAC) throughout the day. Your doctors concur with her assessment, thinking you’re sneaking off into dark corners to imbibe without the judging eyes of the world to condemn you. The only problem, you really…
Hulu has finally added Chromecast support to its Hulu Plus app, which means you can gorge on Modern Family and Parks and Recreation to your heart’s content.
Rumors have been swirling which suggest that Apple is readying a new iPad mini with Retina display. Now, though, Reuters reports that supplies will be severely limited when the new tablet goes on sale. Citing a number of supply chain sources, Reuters claims that Apple will be “unable to widely roll out” the Retina display…
iMessage has been screwing up. Which, well, isn’t news to people who have been burned by iMessage before. But! It’s been screwing up more than usual. Enough that Apple has finally admitted that a “fraction of a percent” of iMessage users are having issues with the blue text bubble messaging service. Are you included in…
An adorable little ghost girl playing with an enchanted pair of tap shoes, what’s not to love? This delightful animated short is set to “Moses Supposes” from 1952’s hit musical Singing In the Rain. Check out the original, starring Gene Kelly and Donald O’Conor, below.
After pulling the same dirty trick with the Galaxy S4, Samsung has been caught rigging the Galaxy Note 3 to perform better in benchmark tests than it does anywhere else. It’s like all Samsung phones are on performance enhancing drugs or something. Ars Technica found that the Note 3 can inflate benchmark scores by as…
You can travel every inch of this world and probably travel every inch of the galaxy and you’d find very few places more beautiful than Iceland. Even alien paradises don’t look this good. Stian Rekdal covered over 3,000 miles and took more than 40,000 photos of Iceland over three weeks to cook this time lapse…
Seven new videos show that the group of idiots who attacked a Range Rover in New York City last week are even more obnoxious than anyone could have imagined. Look at these imbeciles riding their bikes in all kinds of dangerous and illegal situations just before the car incident.
As it seems to go every year, iPhone inventory is depleted from the Apple Store. You have to sift through wooden shelves for a single speck of a goldpagne iPhone 5S, pray to the angels for a white 5S and… well, you can actually get a ‘space gray’ iPhone anywhere you want. If you want…
Your computer can be hacked. Your phone can get hacked. Your e-mail account. Your Facebook account. And even… your brain. AsapSCIENCE explains how we’re coming up with ways to use technology—special lasers!—to hack our brains. It’s a little bit scary to think about but the possibilities could be amazing. [AsapSCIENCE]
I hate pacus. Look at those bastards’ teeth. They look like they have been retrofitted with four lines of human teeth, all ready to bite the testicles of any men swimming naked in a lake or river. Nobody is safe, my friends: The pacu was a native of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, but now…
That time human history was benevolently reset by a higher consciousness. C2C is a French quartet of master-class turntablists and kind of a big deal. They won the DMC World Competition four times in a row (2003-2006) without breaking a sweat, they blew through the 2013 French Grammy’s winning “Best New Artist”, “Best Music Video”,…
This fully automated drive-in food market held the promise of a leisurely, push-button future. But even people of the 1950s probably recognized it as a sleek re-imagining of a surprisingly retro idea. The drive-in market of the 1920s revolutionized how a lot of Americans shopped for food. For better and worse, the world was fast…
What’s the point of using a compact travel power bar that gives you extra outlets when it ends up using and blocking the pair already on a wall? With Quirky’s new Contort Power supply that’s no longer an issue, since its short plug is angled 45 degrees so the extra outlet and USB ports don’t…
The origins of this anti-gay propaganda film are unclear. The video is so gross — a mashup of Hitlerite hate-mongering and American attack ads — that it could be a spoof. But assuming its authenticity, here’s what’s so shocking: the utter lack of self-awareness. Take just three refrains from the subtitles: that gays die early;…
Incredible as it may seem, today 4chan turns a full 10 years old—hello tween years! But 4chan is, let’s say, advanced for its age. And the precursor to pretty much the entire internet as you know it has given us a whole lot to think about over the years. Some of it was fun! Some…
There comes a time in life when the cheap, watery beer ubiquitous at youthful keg parties and in not-quite-legally-sourced 24-packs just isn’t good enough anymore, when Natty Ice and Keystone Light are upgraded to… absolutely anything but Natty Ice and Keystone Light. For those who have developed a more refined taste for beer, the can’t-stop-won’t-stop…
If you go to Tanzania, don’t bathe in Lake Natron or you will end up like these animals: petrified for all eternity thanks to the water’s extreme alkalinity. The animals get confused by the lake’s reflectivity and stay there until they turn into statues. https://gizmodo.com/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone-1436606506
