Toddler dead, two others hospitalized by hoverboard explosion
An explosion believed to be caused by a hoverboard claimed the life of a three-year-old girl in Harrisburg, PA, on Saturday morning. Two other young girls …
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Do you live in Boston or New Jersey? Pornhub will plow you for free
Never one to pass up an opportunity for some sex puns and great PR, Pornhub is using Winter Storm Stella as an opportunity to give …
Here are the cities getting the absolute worst of Winter Storm Stella
After over 48 hours of anticipation, warnings, and constant forecast updates, Winter Storm Stella is currently slamming the East Coast of the United States with …
Elon Musk has a crazily ambitious plan to fix Australia’s electricity
For the last few months, South Australia has been hit by rolling blackouts due to electricity spikes from heatwaves. The supply in the nation is …
Florida lawyer’s pants burst into flames while defending client against arson charges
In a story that quite honestly could only come out of Florida, a Miami defense lawyer was defending his client against arson charges when his pants …
Feast your eyes on over 150 photos that, incredibly, were not Photoshopped at all
There’s nothing worse than seeing what you believe to be a really gorgeous photo only to find out that it’s been heavily altered in Photoshop …
Real-life Mario Kart crashes into police station
Remember that quirky Mario Kart-inspired tour service in Japan we told you about last week? Well now in addition to being sued by Nintendo, the company — …
Watching an eagle take down a fox through a GoPro is as awesome as it sounds
GoPro is good at capturing unique experiences from unique perspectives. Sometimes, it requires a bunch of high-tech solutions like a custom drone or a team …
This brilliant website tells you what to make for dinner based on what’s in your fridge
How much do you hate coming up with dinner ideas after a long day of work? If you answered anything other than “I hate it …
These pictures show exactly how the Oscars catastrophe went down
The Oscar best picture set a new high bar for live TV screwups. Even though we’ve had an explanation for what happened — an accountant …
Swedish ISP forced to block The Pirate Bay after years-long battle
The Pirate Bay has had a years-long running battle involving rightsholders and ISPs in Sweden, and things just took a bad turn for the pirates. …
Spoiler Alert: Subway chicken sandwiches are only 50% chicken, but they’re still 100% delicious
As a sandwich aficionado, I’ve always hated the fact that Subway tends to get a bad rap. Because the company has franchises everywhere, and because most …
Watch: Extremely low-speed police chase is streaming live from Los Angeles right now
When car chases happen in Los Angeles it’s typically on the highway with lots of fast moving cop cars ferociously pursuing a suspect doing everything …
Incredible ping pong-playing robot earns Guinness World Record
Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the “first robot table tennis tutor.” The contraption, …
Nintendo is suing a ‘Mario Kart’-inspired tour service because it hates joy
Nintendo, noted inventors of playthings and haters of Bluetooth headsets, is taking a Tokyo-based sightseeing company to court in the hopes of forcing the employees …
This Kickstarter pen looks so good, I actually backed it
I have a bit of a Kickstarter problem. I’ll go on Kickstarter for a couple minutes, as per usual, to hunt for any interesting new …
A swirling liquid portal to Hell is Brooklyn’s latest hipster attraction
I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes I don’t “get” art, so perhaps the true meaning of Brooklyn, New York’s, latest artistic attraction is …
This futuristic ATM means you’ll never have to go into a bank again
Fifty years ago, the ATM was one of the first robots to start down the long path of stealing jobs. Even the name — Automated …
Man’s plan to bomb Target stores to buy cheap stock totally backfires
Get rich schemes come in all shapes in sizes, but leave it to the always creative “Florida Man” to come up with perhaps the worst …
Is Elon Musk actually building a fallout shelter in the SpaceX parking lot?
In the past few months, Elon Musk has very publicly and rather abruptly embarked on a project to build tunnels to solve LA’s traffic problem. …
Tesla owner sacrifices his car to save driver having a stroke
On a highway in Munich, Germany, a Tesla owner recently sacrificed his car to rescue another driver having a stroke. According to Muenchner Merkur, the Tesla …
Actually, you can live a long healthy life eating nothing but McDonald’s
There’s no way to put this gently: America is fatter than ever before. Thanks to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and an abundance of unhealthy fast …
No one actually reads it for the articles, so Playboy is porn again
Last year, Playboy decided to stop doing what made it great in the first place: it stopped publishing nude photos and instead focused on other …
New iPhone app guarantees your sex tapes will never leak
If Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, had an app that could guarantee his sex tape would never leak, Gawker Media might still exist …
Digitally desirable: Dating app lets users upload face pics they find attractive
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and as people’s thoughts turn to love, chocolate, and dating, a new app has been announced with a simple …
Winter Storm Niko: Over 3,000 flights have already been cancelled
After a relatively mild winter in many parts of the Northeastern United States, a massive winter storm hit the region on Thursday morning. While the …
Barack Obama goes kiteboarding on a private island, and there’s video to prove it
Since leaving the White House, former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have been living the good life. Making good on his promise …
2017 wasn’t bad enough, so Merriam-Webster added all these cringeworthy words to the dictionary
So far, 2017 is turning out to be… not so great. Tensions are running high at home and abroad, and there’s no end in sight …
If you have a 9 to 5 job, you’re working exactly one hour too many
For a huge percentage of the workforce in the United States and abroad you need to put in 40 hours per week to be considered a …
Experts uncover 38,000-year-old engravings
Thirty-eight thousand years ago, someone in southern France carved the image of a wild cow surrounded by rows of dots into a slab of limestone. …
