Sunday’s rare supermoon eclipse: What you need to know
Stargazers are in for a treat Sunday when a supermoon combines with a lunar eclipse for the first time since 1982. The supermoon eclipse will …
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Insane video: Daredevil jumps off a mountain and flies through a forest in a wingsuit
You need to drop everything you’re doing and watch this video immediately. Daredevil Graham Dickinson recently took a jaunt over to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, jumped off a cliff, …
Reminder: Get a year of Amazon Prime for just $67 today only
Amazon Prime is about much more than just free two-day shipping. Amazon’s special Prime membership also includes unlimited streaming of thousands of movies and TV …
FTC reportedly launches antitrust investigation over Google’s Android practices
It looks like Google isn’t out of the antitrust hot water just yet. Bloomberg’s sources claim that the Federal Trade Commission is in the early stages of …
The 9 most common dreams and what they might mean
We often wonder whether there’s a connection between the dreams we have and what goes on in our lives while we’re awake, particularly if we …
Giving iPads to young kids akin to child abuse, doctor says
Giving an iPad, or any other tablet, to kids under two is akin to child abuse because the digital world presented on the screen may distort …
Google Photos helps exonerate man assaulted by cops
We’ve seen several instances of police misconduct recorded on smartphones. But what happens if you get arrested and the cops seize and conveniently “lose” your …
Innovation of the week: Gel-filled touchscreen morphs to add buttons when you need them
The device pictured in the image you see above might look a bit primitive, but it’s actually a prototype built to showcase technology that may …
Jeb’s plan to woo Silicon Valley: Gut net neutrality, kill encryption, bulk up NSA
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush — or just “Jeb!” as he’s called in his campaign signs — probably won’t win the endorsement of the Electronic Frontier …
Watch this now: Google Deep Dream turns a simple trip to the grocery store into a surreal nightmare
We’ve already seen plenty of nightmare-inducing photos that have been put through Google’s Deep Dream software… but what happens when you put a video through …
An RPG vs. 16-inches of bulletproof glass: Which do you think prevails?
Leave it to the Russian YouTube channel Crash Zone to come up with an answer to a question no one ever really thought to ask: …
Wicked funny video: Bostonian has epic freak out after seeing a ‘sea monstah’
There’s nothing better than a Boston townie who completely lives up to every stereotype. Bostonian Michael Bergin went fishing last week when he spotted a large sun …
Following widespread outrage, drug CEO will make AIDS pill more affordable
Following widespread condemnation, Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli on Tuesday night announced that he would make the AIDS drug Daraprim more affordable than the originally …
Video: Watch as a plane makes a crazy emergency landing on a street in California
If you haven’t noticed from our frequent postings about them, we find odd airplane landings to be completely fascinating. It’s a terrifying kind of thrill, seeing …
Volkswagen CEO resigns after massive emissions scandal uncovered
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Volkswagen had engaged in widespread cheating of emissions tests using special software designed to fool testers. Now VW …
The 10 highest-paid CEOs in the tech industry
Exorbitant CEO salaries is an issue that has increasingly come under microscopic scrutiny in recent years. While many believe that CEO compensation packages have inexplicably skyrocketed, …
Apple has hidden a hilarious Easter Egg in the Apple Watch support page
A seemingly unremarkable photo of an Apple Watch taken from an Apple support page is making the rounds today. It would appear that Apple, in a subtle …
Tim Cook calls kid whose life was saved by his Apple Watch
Call us crazy, but we’re pretty sure Apple secured a fan for life this week. 17-year-old Massachusetts resident Paul Houle this past weekend was finishing …
Watch a sickeningly smug CEO justify raising the price for an AIDS pill by 5,500%
Have you ever heard of the drug Daraprim? Probably not. Nonetheless, it’s a drug that’s used by people with HIV to help fight off potentially deadly …
Facebook is working on its creepiest way to track you yet
Facebook and Google seem like they’re in a contest to see which can come up with the creepiest ways to keep track of its user …
This link can crash your Google Chrome browser
Because Google Chrome doesn’t have enough issues already, a security researcher has discovered that a specific string of text is capable of crashing the browser …
Watch the world’s largest passenger airliner make a scary crosswind landing
We’ve seen a bunch of airplane pilots making heart-stopping, death-defying crosswind landings, but that doesn’t make watching similar experiences any less scary, especially if you …
Netflix and YouTube continue to steal market share from BitTorrent
With an easy to use interface and an abundance of $0.99 songs, Apple’s iTunes Music Store famously helped phase out illegal file sharing networks. In a …
New Gmail feature makes it easy to block annoying people – here’s how to use it
Email filters have existed forever. In fact, a few particularly annoying PR flacks probably would have driven me insane years ago had it not been …
Selfies have caused more deaths this year than shark attacks
Early this week, a tourist tragically fell to his death while posing for a selfie at the Taj Mahal in India. Earlier in the month, …
Great deal: Amazon Prime will be available at a discounted price of $67 for one day only
Amazon is excited about the five Emmy wins that Transparent hauled in over the weekend. So excited, in fact, that it’s going to give customers …
Big cable companies are fighting to stall new tech that would improve cellular service
Google Fiber is hardly the only threat to ISP mainstays like Comcast and Time Warner Cable these days. There are three times as many wireless …
Breakthrough medical discovery: 3D printing might be used to regenerate nerves
Having significantly damaged nerve tissue is bad for a lot of reasons because it doesn’t regenerate easily and it can lead to various serious medical conditions …
JPMorgan CEO explains why he’s totally worth $20 million a year
Does the CEO of JPMorgan Chase really deserve to make $20 million a year even as his bank has been in the center of multiple …
Target plans to test robot workers at its upcoming concept store
Ever since I was young, I’ve only ever known one way to find an item at a big brick-and-mortar retailer like Target — wander around until …
