Kim Dotcom is a character. Giving the finger to the government that took his site down by setting up a new one. Throwing a press conference complete with a fake FBI raid, pyrotechnics, and dancers. Demolishing cheap lawn furniture. [...]
They Might Be Giants are well-known for their crazier themes and lyrics, and also for that totally-annoying-in-its-entirety Malcom in the Middle theme song. But occasionally, there's a little dark sincerity poking out of [...]
Smartphones. The more you think about it, the more the term just seems antiquated. A relic that just stuck around, sort of like the word "rewind." With hulking phablets coming out more frequently and in larger sizes, it seems [...]
We've all broken our share of phones, and generally the only day-to-day danger they face is a three or four foot fall, or maybe the odd puddle of water. Norwegian X-Games competitor PK Hunder's phone had a [...]
In addition to protecting itself from your pirated content with its see-no-evil encryption, Kim Dotcom's Mega service aims to stay on the law's good side by playing nicely with copyright takedown requests and keeping that super important DMCA safe [...]
Sure, your phone can take a decent picture, but it's not even in the same universe as the best camera the government's got. At 1.8 gigapixels, the DARPA-developed ARGUS-IS the highest resolution surveillance ... [...]
Joerg Sprave specializes in absurd slingshots with absurd ammunition, but now he's reached what might be the pinnacle of abnormal ammo: chainsaw javelins. Where can you go from here?
Launched from a mammoth s... [...]
46 years ago today, veteran astronaut Gus Grissom, first American spacewalker Ed White, and rookie Roger Chaffee were killed in a cabin fire during an Apollo 1 launch pad test. The first majorly fatal acciden... [...]
Whenever something sketchy happens to your favorite social network's TOS, there are always folks who say they're packing up, taking their data and leaving. But backing up your social data doesn't have to be a last resort. After all, [...]