Huge Electric Shaver Sale, $10 Temperature Gun, and More Deals
If you need some easy gift ideas, Amazon has you covered with great deals on a number of popular electric shavers today.
The First Episode of Cheers is Sitcom Perfection
In her 2011 book Bossypants, Tina Fey explained the difficulty of writing a TV pilot. There are few things harder to write, since the objective is to introduce characters while maintaining both levity and humanity. Fey noted that Cheers might have one of the greatest pilots of all time. And she's absolutely right.
Honest trailer shows just how fun Guardians of the Galaxy was
Sure, it's basically The Avengers re-casted with characters that we never knew existed fighting bad guys in space and yeah, it's totally Marvel flexing their movie muscles and exploiting us sheep but man, Guardians of the Galaxy was fun. Even Honest Trailers admits how hard it is to make fun of this movie.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: Don't Leave Me This Way
The first week I was in college I had no friends. I went to school in Montreal, where the drinking age was 18, and there was a university-sanctioned and remarkably debauched introduction to campus life called "Frosh Week" where people got hammered, sang songs, and inevitably wound up at a full-contact strip club…
Guys hang huge hammock in the middle of 400-foot-high canyon void
Highliners from around the world gathered last Thanksgiving in Moab, Utah, and built this insane pentagonal hammock suspended in the middle of a 400-foot-high canyon. The "Mothership Space Net Penthouse"—as they called it—took 3 days to complete and more than 50 people.
The Sony Hacks Are Goddamn Terrifying
As more and more details from the Sony Pictures hack seep out into the internet, it's been easy—and to be honest a little fun—to take the voyeur's view. Dumb corporate powerpoints! Passwords in a folder literally called Password! Paul Blart 2 anything! But then you actually look at the full scope of what's out there…
Why NASA Put This Spacesuit Through a CT Scanner
Last year, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned in his own fluids during a harrowing spacewalk-gone-wrong. Now, NASA has teamed with the Houston Methodist Hospital's research institute to make sure that such a thing never happens again—using a CT scanner.
An Insurance Company Will Pay You to Use Your Fitness Tracker
Insurance companies aren't exactly known for their largesse, but one New York-based company has an initiative that'll give you extra money depending on how seriously you take preventive health. With a fitness tracker.
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You Can Learn How to Be a White Hat Hacker for $60
Do you or someone you love have ambitions to become a hacker for good? Well today you can buy a White Hat Hacker Bundle with over 40 hours of tutorials on everything from web scraping to penetration testing for just $60. The bundle normally costs over $600.
Hear the terrifying sound of the A-10 tank killer's gun in an attack run
This video contains one of the most terrifying human-produced sounds you can hear in the planet: The screaming noise from hell of an A-10 Warthog's GAU-8 Avenger gatling gun. Some of the very few who were on its reticle and survived say its banshee scream was the worst thing they have ever heard.
George Clooney Was the Only One Who Saw the Sony Hack Coming
The debilitating, often humiliating Sony hack has pretty much screwed over most anyone who's ever had anything to do with the company ever. But when the time comes to lay blame, lay it not on George Clooney. For as with everything else in life, George Clooney had the upper hand. His prophecy by email lies below.
This Artificial Skin Can Feel Pressure, Heat and Dampness
Skin is complicated. Our body's largest organ senses touch—but also temperature, pain, wetness, itching, and more. A new, stretchy artificial skin can pick up many of the sensations from the real thing, and it could someday cover a lifelike prosthetic hand.
Misconnected: A Personal History of Voicemail
I once played phone tag with a heartbroken stranger. She had the wrong number. She'd call late at night while I was sleeping, I'd miss the call, and she'd be greeted by the grandmotherly voice of AT&T's Pat Fleet, who I let be my generic voicemail message. The woman would leave long messages. I'd try to call back,…
10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Apple Maps Master
After a less-than-stellar start, Apple Maps is starting to establish itself on the desktop and on iOS as well. Despite its sleek and minimal interface, there are a number of useful features hidden away behind the surface. Here are ten tips for getting more out of Apple Maps that might even persuade you to make the…
That Time the Canadian Navy Accidentally Bombed an American Town
Remember that time in the 1960s when the Canadians accidentally launched exploding shells into an American town? Few people do. It's just one of those embarrassing Cold War flubs that both countries would rather forget.
Bill Gates' favorite books of 2014 are the smart gifts for the holidays
Watch Bill Gates—in Lego form no less!—tell you about his favorite books of 2014, an impeccable list that has a little bit of everything for everyone. I've included all his recommendations and short reviews below so you can easily buy any of them (I recommend getting all of them for yourself too. Good stuff.)
The Pirate Bay Raided By Police, Site Down
Swedish police have reportedly raided The Pirate Bay. The portal has been down for several hours. The site has long hidden behind the relatively lax laws of Sweden, but it appears it's exhausted the leniency.
Your Favorite Anonymous App Is Not Anonymous At All
Security researchers recently discovered a serious flaw in Yik Yak, the "anonymous" messaging app popular with teens. In surprisingly simple fashion, the flaw offered hackers a way to discover the identities of Yik Yak's supposedly unnamed users. It also provides a good opportunity to issue this very important PSA:…
What Happens When the Weatherman's Computer Fails
The weather team down at ABCNews4 just made the most of a horrific, live computer crash. Apparently, the computer that generates the graphics for the TV weather forecasts failed recently, but instead of just standing up there and talking in front of a blank screen, the team created some super half-assed chicken…
There Is Now An Office Where You're Forbidden From Sitting
Ever since sitting became the new evil, offices have sprouted all sorts of arrangements we would have once considered bizarre: bouncy balls, standing desks, treadmill desks. But none are perhaps as weird—and uncomfortable!—as the Dutch design studio RAAAF's "The End of Sitting" office, a labyrinth of hard slopes where…
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