Two women and two men were killed while riding the Thunder River Rapids ride at an Australian amusement park.Read more...
Lees meerIf you’ve ever spent more than 5 seconds sorting through your mismatched food containers to find the right lid, it’s time to throw them all out and upgrade to the uber-popular Rubbermaid Easy Find Lid system.Read more...
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Lees meerGoogle doesn’t just want the Chrome browser dominating laptops and desktops of this world, it wants it on as many mobile devices as possible too. If you have Chrome installed on your iPhone or Android, there are a handful of ways you can make it eve…
Lees meerIn just a few short weeks, it will be the two-year anniversary of “#FriendsInNewPlaces,” Garth Brooks’ first Facebook video. To most, this milestone will likely pass by unnoticed, but those who know better will bow their heads in silence, rememberin…
Lees meerTobacco giant Philip Morris says it eventually wants people to quit smoking cigarettes, and is investing resources into high-tech smoking alternatives. Bloomberg reports the company wants to move away from cigarettes. CEO Andre Calantzopoulos says P…
Lees meerWhen it gave the Tesla Model S an unprecedented 103 out of 100 score last August, Consumer Reports looked like it might try to marry Elon Musk’s company and have its little electric car babies. But after a year of disappointments, trust violations a…
Lees meerRapper Gucci Mane proclaimed his love for pop science writer and sonofgawker.com creator Malcolm Gladwell on his Twitter account today.Read more...
Lees meerNetflix announced in a press release on Monday that the company would be taking on another $800 million in debt in order to create more original content. Netflix is already in $2.37 billion of debt to further Netflix’s vision of being 50 percent ori…
Lees meerYou worked hard today, and deserve to relax. Open up a bottle of wine, light up some reefer, and let your eyes be entertained by beautiful colors merging into something magical, perfectly viscous paints smoothly coming together. A beautiful union.Re…
Lees meerIn a groundbreaking precedent that will likely be felt for decades to come, a federal appeals court in the US has ruled that a species can be listed as “threatened” based on climate change projections.Read more...
Lees meerFor the first time in human history, atmospheric CO2 concentrations exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm) in 2015. They’re expected to do so again this year, and every subsequent year for many generations to come, according to a new report issued by …
Lees meerAdmit it. Deep down inside there’s a part of you that will always love watching people fall down, and it’s overjoyed that virtual reality is making a comeback. Even if the Oculus Rift and other VR devices don’t change the world as promised, at least…
Lees meerWhich means we can probably look forward to George Lucas throwing shade at Indiana Jones 5 after it comes out.Read more...
Lees meerScientists may soon be able to conduct experiments on hearts without needing once-living tissue and muscle from animals. In a new study published today in Nature Materials, Harvard University researchers announced they’ve created the first 3D-printe…
Lees meerIf you walk into any of Rent-A-Center’s 2,600 locations across the country, you can walk out with a laptop, a smartphone, or a couch under a high-interest payment plan. The Rent-A-Center business model allows people with low or no credit some access…
Lees meerBicycles with lights ringing their back wheels and expert visual editing basically turns regular mountain biking into light cycles on The Grid in Tron. It’s already a cool effect in real time because the lights start spiraling with the wheels bu…
Lees meerRemember how smartwatches were supposed to be the next big thing? About that...Read more...
Lees meerMaybe it’s just that Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” cover can make anything seem fantastically maudlin and filled with pathos, but mixing the worlds of the X-Men cartoon and the grim world of Logan really shouldn’t work. And yet, it totally does. It so, so do…
Lees meerAfter more than a month of public betas, Apple has released the final version of iOS 10.1. This update brings the much vaunted “Portrait Mode” feature to the iPhone 7 Plus.Read more...
Lees meerRecode’s Peter Kafka reported today that the New York Times has agreed to pay $30 million for The Wirecutter and The Sweethome, both of which were founded by Brian Lam, the former editor of Gizmodo. The paper later confirmed the all-cash acquisition…
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