Around these parts — and by “these parts,” I mean the internet — we love to mock the always reliable “Florida Man” for blessing us with some of the most bizarre and unimaginable bits of news we’ve ever seen. Florida man has done everything from reporting the theft of his own illegal drugs to impersonating …
Discovering that someone had broken into your home while you were away is a terrifying thing. What did they want? What did they break, rummage through, or steal? These are questions that were surely running through the head of Nate Roman, a Boston man who returned home from work earlier this month to find that …
Boston residents who happened to be gazing skyward got an end-of-the-year surprise last night as a meteor sped through the sky, creating a “ball of light” visible for hundreds of miles. The tiny fragment of space rock produced quite a stir, with countless sighting reports flooding social media and attracting the attention of local news …
In possibly the most important piece of tech reporting to be published in 2017, the New York Times has discovered that the Boston Red Sox have been stealing catcher signals from the Yankees — and used an Apple Watch to do it.
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 fish off the side of his boat. He proceeded to completely lose his mind about the creature and he referred to it alternatively as a “giant turtle,” a “baby whale,” …
Interested in what’s going on outside the tech world this afternoon? Here are some news items that are rocking the web on July 27th, 2015.
Anyone who’s lived in Boston knows that we get very territorial about our parking spaces during blizzards, and with good reason. It takes a long time to properly shovel out and maintain a parking spot, particularly when the city’s plows create huge walls around your car simply because they have no other place to dump the …
How bored is one Boston resident right now? So bored that they’re willing to dress up in a yeti suit and send out pictures of themselves stalking the streets at night on Twitter.
AT&T just reported a solid third quarter that saw its total subscriber count pass 100 million for the first time. Of course that milestone will be crushed if the carrier’s $39 billion T-Mobile USA acquisition is approved, but for the time being it represents a solid strategy that is clearly working. A huge part of …
American Airlines is starting to offer Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 units to its first class passengers as an entertainment option during several flights, Mashable is reporting. Apparently the tablet will be an option on flights between Los Angeles and New York, San Francisco and New York, Los Angeles and Miami, Boston and Los Angeles flights …
