Converse messes with perfection, gives Chucks their first redesign in 98 years
As a depressive Nirvana-loving teenager in the ’90s, Chucks were my shoes. What made them so awesome was that they were both fairly cheap and …
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Meet the app that fans are calling ‘the best thing that ever happened to Android’
We’ve written about the Nova Launcher Android app before but this in-depth review from Android Central made us want to plug it all over again. …
NASA: This planet could be ‘Earth 2.0’
Wow. NASA on Thursday announced the discovery of a planet that could be the first found outside our solar system capable of sustaining human life. …
Mutant flowers from Fukushima nuclear disaster are blowing up the Internet
The impact of the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima is still being felt and a new photograph that’s going viral on the Internet this week …
Meet the iPhone 7 that will never be
Since we don’t expect Apple will make any major changes to its iPhone lineup this year with the iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus, concept …
Comcast to start market trial of 10Gbps broadband tech in late 2015
Comcast later this year is going to start a market trial of an incredibly promising new broadband technology capable of delivering maximum download speeds of …
Apple announces details about its 2015 Back to School promo worth $200
Apple on Tuesday announced details of its 2015 Back to School promotion that will let qualified buyers get a free pair of $200 Beats headphones …
The science of making a perfect chocolate chip cookie
Baking, much more than other forms of cooking, is a science and not an art. Sure, there are plenty of opportunities to be creative and experiment …
What cord cutters? Comcast still has its head in the sand
Netflix-style content streaming is the future of television. The ability to binge-watch new shows the minute they come out is highly addictive, as Netflix fans …
Android M: 5 small but important features you’re going to love
Android M isn’t going to be a massive game-changer like Android 5.0 Lollipop was. However, it will have some small-but-important tweaks and improvements that will …
We can’t stop laughing at this video of a European stuffed into an exploding water balloon
The summer makes everyone a little crazy, but probably not as crazy The Slow Mo Guys, a pair of zany Britons who decided it would be funny to have …
Iconic Apple blogger declares Apple Music a ‘nightmare’ that he’s ‘done with’
The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple was not a fan of iTunes Radio, which was one reason he was looking forward to the launch of Apple Music …
Bill Simmons strikes gold with a massive new HBO deal
While Bill Simmons not-so-subtly pushed his way out of ESPN, he’s certainly landed on his feet after signing a big new deal with HBO. Per The …
Is Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow alive or not? What the evidence tells us
It’s been more than a month since the season finale of this year’s Game of Thrones aired and fans of the show are still reeling over the …
AT&T is about to raise fees for smartphone upgraders – everything you need to know
Surprise, surprise! Upgrading to new smartphones on AT&T is about to get more expensive. Droid Life this week broke the news that starting on August 1st, …
ISIS is worried beheading videos are hurting its reputation
Are we about to see a kinder, gentler Islamic State? Probably not but it seems the ruthless terrorist organization has decided that publishing videos of …
One week later, people are still ragging on Amazon for lame Prime Day deals
As we’ve said in the past, the plethora of lame Amazon Prime Day deals was the worst First World Crisis to hit North America since …
Terrifying: Hackers take over a Jeep driving down the highway at 70 mph
Driverless cars promise to be safer than cars driven by humans… but that’s assuming they don’t get hacked by malicious actors. Hackers Charlie Miller and Chris …
Apple releases iOS 9 beta 4 – click here for the full change log
Apple on Tuesday released its fourth beta for iOS 9, the new software platform that will launch alongside the iPhone 6s this fall. The new …
The Gawker train wreck is hilarious and I can’t get enough of it
I’ll admit it: I’ve spent the past several days gawking at Gawker. The online gossip rag, which has been in turmoil ever since it published a …
What it’s like to eat at Chipotle every day for 106 days straight
Chipotle is delicious and wonderful… but could you eat it every day? 30-year-old Colorado Springs resident Mark Rantal has now eaten at Chipotle every day …
10 awesome paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now
It’s that time of day again when we tell you about paid iPhone apps that are now free to download for a limited time. Following …
Airlines continue to make flying miserable yet made almost $40b in fees alone last year
There are days when you wonder when airlines are conspiring to make flying more miserable. When you combine the ever-decreasing leg room we get with …
Video: Solving a Rubik’s Cube in 5.6 seconds makes you feel like a total boss
Rubik’s Cubes were the annoying puzzles that parents used to use to keep their children busy before video games became a thing. However, some young …
Interactive website shows you why time flies by as you age
“And then one day you find ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.” –Pink …
Stephen Hawking joins a $100 million quest to find space aliens
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking wants to believe that we aren’t alone in the universe. And to find out if there really is other intelligent life …
Revealed: The speech Nixon would have given had Armstrong and Aldrin got stuck on the moon
In a depressing alternate reality, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed on the moon only to get stuck there after a critical equipment failure. …
Early adopters love the Apple Watch even more than the iPhone
The Apple Watch is apparently under performing many analysts’ expectations but people who have bought the device seem to love it. A survey conducted by …
Two Gawker editors resign, act like self-righteous turds on the way out
Last week Gawker helped an escort blackmail an executive at a rival media company when it published a story about his attempts to hook up …
Here are the favorite illegal drugs used by history’s greatest geniuses
If you grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, you were always told repeatedly that “winners don’t use drugs.” Except, of course, some of history’s …
