Three YouTube stars died after falling 100 feet off a waterfall
Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh, and Megan Scraper are three YouTube stars who died on Tuesday after falling off a waterfall in Canada. Gamble, Lyakh, and …
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Scientists just discovered that spiders can fly using electricity, spawning fresh nightmare fuel
Some animals were born to fly, but most were not. Humans have no business in the air but we’ve come up with a number of …
Johns Hopkins evacuated after staff accidentally drops deadly tuberculosis sample
Scientists studying the world’s deadliest diseases got more than they bargained for yesterday when a sample of tuberculosis was accidentally dropped in a closed sky …
Experienced Navy SEAL diver dies during Thai cave rescue operation
Thai authorities are preparing for a daring rescue of the 12 boys and their football coach who ventured into a system of caves some two …
Surprise: Android fanboys aren’t like iPhone fanboys
Samsung this year tried to replicate Apple’s iPhone sales success. And that’s not a surprise, considering that Samsung has copied the iPhone extensively over the …
Your call is very important to Google’s robot and will be answered in the order received
Google knows none of us particularly enjoys dealing with customer service phone calls. Which is why the tech giant thinks its Duplex AI — which …
EU lawmakers decide to not ruin the internet
The future of the beloved meme is in danger, reports revealed a few days ago, and it was all because of a proposed law in …
Against all odds, NASA may have actually found a meteorite on the bottom of the ocean
Three days ago, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with NASA in the hopes of finding leftover chunks of a meteorite …
Incredibly rude nearby star system is firing particles at Earth like a ‘cosmic ray gun’
Our Sun is obviously the most intense place in our Solar System, but it’s actually pretty chill when compared to many other systems. Eta Carinae, …
Man, space is huge
Size is relative. A carpenter ant is huge compared to a regular ant, but it’s still tiny when compared to, say, your foot. The challenge …
Daring plans to save the boys trapped in that Thai cave are underway – and none of them involve Elon Musk
You probably heard about the soccer boys trapped in that Thai cave by now, as the story is all over the news. The boys are …
Insiders say they designed social media to be ‘behavioral cocaine’
One of the recurring quotes often delivered with humorous resignation by a member of the Bluth family on Arrested Development was the perennially meme-able line, …
eBay’s summer sale is designed to be the opposite of Amazon Prime Day
Amazon earlier this week announced its Prime Day 2018 sales event, its fourth annual Black Friday in July shopping festival. Amazon rivals, of course, will …
NASA is about to test ‘quiet’ sonic booms over Texas
Humans have already mastered the art of going really really fast in the sky, and modern technology has made topping the speed of sound a …
T-Mobile Sprint merger could be a threat to national security, lawmakers say
There’s plenty of reasons why you wouldn’t want T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint to go through with zero restrictions, but if concerns about reduced competition, higher …
Why did cord-cutting just get more expensive?
People are ditching cable and signing up for live-streaming services at an unprecedented rate right now. It’s a mixed bag for the industry: Although the …
Outer space has way better fireworks than we ever will
Well, it’s the Fourth of July, which means sunburns, cookouts, and lots of questionable fuses being lit from coast to coast. But whether you’ll be …
How to watch the 2018 Hot Dog Eating Contest live
The July 4th holiday is upon us and people around the country are gearing up to watch one of America’s most storied traditions. No, we’re …
Happy Fourth of July from the International Space Station!
The International Space Station is, as its name implies, a common ground for astronauts from many different countries, but that doesn’t stop them from having …
Amazon could start selling cheap drugs ‘right away,’ experts think
Hot on the heels of #disrupting the grocery world by purchasing Whole Foods, Amazon is dipping its toes into the US healthcare market with a …
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft just got closer to dwarf planet Ceres than ever before, and here’s what it looks like
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is one that we don’t hear from very often these days, mainly because it spent seven years on its way to dwarf …
The US ban on ZTE has been temporarily lifted
It’s been a rollercoaster few weeks for ZTE, one of China’s biggest telecommunications firms. First, the company was slapped with a seven-year ban for its …
NASA’s latest photo of Jupiter is pretty enough to be your desktop wallpaper
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System by a pretty wide margin, and while it’s not exactly the most welcoming to human visitors, …
Amazon Music Unlimited and Kindle Unlimited Prime Day promos are already live, and they’re awesome
Ladies and gentlemen, Prime Day 2018 is official… and it’s more than a day. Amazon announced on Tuesday morning that Prime Day 2018 will begin …
If this rumor is right, Apple’s 2019 iPhones will get 5G before almost anyone else
After years of hype, we’re approaching the final stretch before 5G networks are going to stop being a bluster and start being a deliciously gigabit-speed …
Hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our Solar System were born from a few now-dead planets
It’s tempting to imagine that the asteroids that litter our Solar System have been there from the start, circling the Sun for ages while the …
A massive object devastated Uranus a long time ago and it never fully recovered
Our Solar System is a pretty calm place these days, all things considered, but that wasn’t always the case. In the period when the planets …
Amazon Prime Day 2018 starts July 16th – here’s everything you need to know
A few days ago, Amazon UK mistakenly leaked a marketing image that revealed Prime Day 2018 would start on July 16th, a day after this …
Top government lawyer blames judge, CNN, and AT&T’s army of lawyers for court loss
The Department of Justice was handed a rare defeat in court when it tried to contest the AT&T Time Warner merger. The judge approved the …
Class-action lawsuit accuses Comcast of failing to prevent fraud
Comcast has grown its wireless reseller Xfinity Mobile at speed by leveraging its existing cable and internet customer base, but a class-action lawsuit spotted by DSL …
