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 …
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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 …
Apple Maps may finally start giving Google a run for its money
The launch of Apple Maps was famously plagued by a number of frustrating bugs, including inaccurate mapping directions, Salvador Dali-esque satellite photos, and completely misplaced landmarks. …
Burger King’s Halloween Whopper will be its first intentionally frightening burger
We’ve seen a lot of scary fast food over the years but now Burger King is reportedly coming out with a new Whopper that’s intentionally …
How to update your Apple Watch to watchOS 2
Unsurprisingly, Apple’s hardware announcements stole the spotlight during the ‘Hey Siri’ event earlier this month, but for many Apple Watch owners, the release date reveal …
Pizza Rat is New York’s No. 1 animal celebrity right now – check out his debut video here
Rats get a real bum rap but they’re really pretty remarkable creatures with a knack for surviving in disgusting conditions. YouTuber Matt Little posted a video on …
Here are the 26 states that make you pay taxes on Amazon purchases
Do you love shopping online but hate paying sales taxes? If so then you should know which states actually charge taxes for purchases off Amazon …
NASA is developing a space shotgun to shoot asteroids
NASA does so many cool things, but this might be its coolest project yet. The New York Post brings us word that a Brooklyn company called …
New Apple TV unboxing video and walkthrough shows an incredibly polished UI
A new Apple TV unboxing video from 9to5Mac provides us with an even closer look at what Apple’s upcoming set top box will deliver, both from a …
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Report says Samsung is copying Apple once again
We pick on Samsung at least once a month for parroting Apple, but we’d be more than happy to stop writing about it if Samsung would …
Apple is killing the open web and the media has only itself to blame
Ever since the release of iOS 9, the tech media has engaged in a collective cryathon over the software’s support for ad blockers that will …
Video: Man spent 6 months and $1,500 to make a sandwich completely from scratch
In today’s modern world littered with sandwich shops galore, it’s easy to take for granted how easily and quickly we can just pop into a …
Why is Apple seemingly stunting the Apple TV as a gaming console?
The soon to be released fourth-gen Apple TV undoubtedly represents Apple’s boldest play for the living room yet. In addition to a smattering of new TV …
Terrifying video shows a crocodile jumping at least five feet out of the water
There’s something fundamentally unnerving about an animal performing a completely surprising physical feat. After all, if you’re already on high alert when in the presence …
Watch: This amazing robot never loses at rock-paper-scissors
IBM has already built a robot that can school humans in Jeopardy! and now Japanese engineers have built a robot that can best us in another of …
