In Bing Maps, a street view at the corner of Pennington Avenue and Hazel Street in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood shows a single police car, two officers, and what appears to be a man in the middle of the street bleeding from the skull. Read mo…
Lees meerFriday’s DDoS attack on Dyn’s domain name servers was unprecedented. The attack utilized a botnet made up of “internet of things” (IoT) devices (think: smart TV’s, DVRs, and internet-connected cameras) to take down a major piece of internet infrastr…
Lees meerIf you’re tired of your Settlers of Catan hexagonal tiles sliding all over the place, that’s just one of countless improvements that artists Amy Wang and Fuzzy Wobble made when they created Deep Space Settlers, a new, and much improved, version of t…
Lees meerXiongmai, the Chinese company whose webcams were at least partially responsible for Friday’s massive DDoS attack, is recalling some of its products in the US.Read more...
Lees meerWe really shouldn’t have to say this, but the next time a massive storm churns up towering waves in the ocean, it’s probably a good idea to head for cover, instead of suiting up and heading out for some death-defying windsurfing.Read more...
Lees meerWe’re in the midst of an opiate epidemic, and it’s killing Americans at an alarming rate. In John Oliver’s latest report, he unpacks the alarming history of the epidemic, and how the drug companies we entrust with our health helped create it.Read mo…
Lees meerThe Walking Dead had a major obstacle to overcome in last night’s season seven premiere. After leading up all of season six to the arrival of Negan and the promise of a main character’s death, the show decided to postpone the reveal of who died to s…
Lees meerSamsung is offering its South Korean Note 7 owners a cheaper upgrade for the yet-to-be-released Galaxy S8 or Note 8.Read more...
Lees meerJust in time for Halloween, researchers have uncovered a new species of millipede that boasts an impressive array of features guaranteed to make you squirm.Read more...
Lees meerWicked Lasers is known for its handheld lasers and flashlights that redefine what it means to be bright. A few years ago it released a flashlight that was intense enough to start a fire, and now the company has managed to dramatically shrink its des…
Lees meerWhether you’re gaming, watching movies, or streaming Spotify, there are likely to be times when your laptop’s default sound setup doesn’t quite hit the highs and lows you’re looking for. If you don’t want to settle for subpar audio any longer, there…
Lees meerIf you ever have to deal with power shortages and brief outages, Amazon’s offering all-time low prices on a pair of CyberPower UPS battery backups, today only.Read more...
Lees meer“Work smarter, not harder” should be everyone’s mantra. Marek Baczynski certainly abides by it. Why else would he spend hours of trial and error figuring out how to get a drone to change a lightbulb? We can finally add ladders to the list of things …
Lees meerAfter continued reports of the phones catching on fire when charged, Samsung finally put the Galaxy Note 7 out of its misery two weeks ago. But 2.5 million recalled devices and $2.3 billion in projected losses later, the company is apparently no clo…
Lees meerToday is the iPod’s 15th birthday, her Quiñceanera if you will. While some tech blogs celebrated—the International Business Times even coined it National iPod Day—the most important people appear to have forgotten: Apple, the iPod’s own daddy. No pr…
Lees meerThe answer to the year’s most irritating (and, to be fair, biggest) pop culture question has arrived. This is who the victim of Negan’s bat Lucille was:Read more...
Lees meerI always believed IMHO meant “in my humble opinion.” It has, however, come to my attention that many people think it stands for “in my honest opinion.” According to Slang.com, it could also stand for “in my holy opinion” or “is my hearing aid on?”Re…
Lees meerBlack Mirror season 3 warns viewers of a spoOooOoky technologically advanced future; its first episode depicting a society where everyone rates every person they interact with, no matter how minor, and your rating determines everything. The concept …
Lees meerSlugs should be so much cooler to watch. They have antennae that wriggle around and their method of forward motion is weird. But they are just so damn slow. You feel the slug’s pain and respect its patience but you don’t really want to look very lon…
Lees meerDisney’s latest Marvel cash-grab shows they aren’t content with their superheroes dancing on ice, taking over the Tower of Terror, or being weirdly cross-promoted by General Hospital. They now want us to take treks out into the middle of the ocean w…
Lees meerCongresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee stopped by Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room to drop some knowledge about Friday’s massive DDoS attack that affected large swaths of the internet. Blackburn managed to say a lot of techy-sounding things until …
Lees meer