Wow, videogames and the things they spawn! The industry produces everything from comics to vibrating mushrooms. You could listen to advertising, fanboys and Big Videogame’s secret infrared mind-control to find out what’s worth your money, but you’d end up buying two of everything. So how much of it is really worth paying attention to?
read more | digg story
5 New Markets Apple Should Corner
People will buy anything with an Apple logo. In fact, we’ve proposed a few new markets Apple should look into before calling all the big MacWorld announcements off…
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Drugs trigger dramatic weight loss in fat mice
Drugs currently on the market but used for other purposes helped plump mice shed pounds by upping their response to the appetite-suppressing hormone leptin, according to a new study. Researchers say the findings offer new hope in the search for weight-loss meds that exploit the hunger-dampening hormone, first discovered some 13 years ago.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Man Smashes Into Adult Sex Shop And Has Sex With Dolls
His method of entry is to smash through walls and squeeze through tight holes. The owner of the adult shop, who wished to be named only as Vogue, said that in a first unreported break-in, the man had stolen five dolls and had sex with one of them.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Meet the New Lara Croft - Photo Gallery!
Meet Alison Carroll, the new Tomb Raider Lara Croft. For the new Tomb Raider game, Carroll will be the face of Croft, joining the long list of ladies who have held the title, such as Karima Adebibe, Lucy Clarkson, Jill de Jong, Lara Weller, Nell McAndrew, Rhona Mitra, Ellen Rocche and Vanessa Demouy.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
How the Famous Tweeple Got Hacked
So how did the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Facebook, and others get broken into and littered with inappropriate messages earlier today? It wasn’t residue from this weekend’s phishing problems, but rather, a breach of Twitter’s customer support tools.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008
Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008. After decades of work, researchers made rat stem cells, built the first memristor, and watched a language evolve like an organism. But none of those accomplishments impressed us as much as the breakthroughs on this list. From stem cell therapy to finding ice on Mars.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Dead People Will Provide Heat to Crematorium Facilities
If you’re dead and worried about the carbon emissions created from your cremation, relax. The Swedish town of Halmstad has a solution. After an environmental review showed that Halmstad’s crematorium was pumping too much smoke into the air, the facility’s director decided to re-use heat from the cremations to warm up the crematorium’s buildings.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
10 Free Music Based Games for the iPhone & iPod Touch
Music-based games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band have become wildly popular, so it only makes sense that similar games are being created for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Both devices have a plethora of gaming apps, but only a handful of those are free and based around music.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Top 5: Moments of 2008
Wow. Hasn't 2008 flown by? It only seems like yesterday that we were tearing up tarmac in Burnout Paradise, settling into an hour long cut-scene in Metal Gear Solid 4 and putting our fists through walls over Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2. Yeah, 2008 has been quite a year, with some truly memorable moments.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
If a 13 year-old can launch a startup you have no excuse
My name's Scott. I'm 13 and have launched a web startup. So began an email exchange over last weekend which culminated with me ...
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Origin and history of the food we eat: Top 10
Today's fast food is a reality. Some like it; some dislike it. Some do it solely for political reasons. For instance, they would refer to MacDonaldisation or about the word ?French? in French fried. But where did they all come from? What about other staple which we are delighted with ? where did they come from?
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Escaped horse bursts into cinema
The horse walked down a corridor before turning round and fleeing through the exit as movie-goers looked on.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
The Meaning of Dreams
Many dream researchers think that understanding your dreams can lead to significant improvements in your waking life.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
13 Predictions of 2009
Like every year, John Battelle makes 13 Solid Prediction of 2009 surrounding Technology, Social Media & the World Economy.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Our 12 (Or So) Favorite Techy Cartoons of 2008
If it seems like technology and cartoon humor don't fit as well together as crusty old millionaires and big-boob gold-diggers, it's probably true.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Facebook Sues Social-Network Aggregator Power.com -
Social-networking giant files claim against start-up that gives users access to several social networks and messaging clients at once.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Huge Sonic Fan gets Ban on Hedgehogs overturned
11 year-old Judson King became so enamored with the blue video game character Sonic the Hedgehog, he decided he needed a real one.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Rhys Millen's Truck Backflip - New Year's Eve 2008 (VIDEO)
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Soulja Boy's House Robbed at Gunpoint
Remember the Soulja Boy video where he was hanging out at his house, and six thugs armed with pistols and AK-47s busted in and robbed the place? Wait...that really happened. The incident took place at Soulja Boy's home Dec. 30. No one was injured. In a video released the next day, two masked dudes took credit and said there was only one weapon.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Beautiful Moon Photography from Russia (PICS)
Back in 2005, two Russian artists, Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov, created their own “Private Moon” and used it to take these breathtaking photographs.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
The state of free software
25 years on from the birth of GNU, we pick the brains of three Linux luminaries.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
The state of free software
25 years on from the birth of GNU, we pick the brains of three Linux luminaries.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue'
A university professor who is an expert in sound and a part-time DJ believes Stonehenge was created as a dance arena for listening to "trance-style" music.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Trojan Blocks The Pirate Bay and Mininova
A new trojan popped up at several torrent sites a few weeks ago, one that blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova, while informing its victims that “downloading is wrong.” The trojan edits the hosts file on Windows machines, and redirects the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Music sales boom, but albums fizzle for '08
Is anyone surprised that album sales - the music industry's main source of revenue - dropped for a fourth year?
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Why We Take Risks? It's the Dopamine Dummy
If risk-taking behavior looks like addiction, there may be a biological reason for that: both behaviors involve the brain's feel-good chemical, dopamine.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Friended by Mom and Dad on Facebook
The Facebook group entitled "For the love of god -- don't let parents join Facebook" has 5,819 high school and college-aged members who want to stop the growing number of parents who are joining Facebook, the massively popular social networking site, from "spying" on them.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Top Ten Simpsons Travel Destinations
Today Springfield, tomorrow the world - and everyone should fear when Homer leaves home.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Man's last lotto ticket wins $10 Million for his widow
On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family. Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker passed away.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Gaming addiction: a symptom hiding the real problem?
The National Institute on Media and Family releases an annual report card for the gaming industry, and this year's report painted a very rosy picture indeed. Unfortunately, those findings were somewhat tainted by the knowledge that the NIMF accepted a cash donation from the Entertainment Software Association. Next year's report card could be very i
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Best Buy Rolls Out Video Game Vending Machines at Airports
"For gamers who travel, handheld systems like the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable are lifesavers. A boring, lengthy flight is the perfect excuse for a focused gaming session."
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
10 Promising Free Web Analytics Tools
Web analytics is the process of gathering and analyzing your web content’s data in order to glean meaningful information about how your site is being utilized by your users. There are plenty of Web analytics applications out there, and you probably already know the big guns such as Google Analytics, Crazy Egg, and remote-site services such as Alexa
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Unlocked iPhone Market Gets 3G, But No Threat To Apple
Want an iPhone 3G but hate AT&T (T)? Or want to plug in another carrier's SIM card to use your iPhone with abroad? That's now easy to do with Apple's newest phone: The iPhone 3G unlock is now available, and Gizmodo has instructions.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Meteorite Triggered Ancient New York Tsunami?
According to new study, a meteorite impact off Long Island 2,300 years ago may have set off a huge tsunami that flooded the New York City region.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy
The music industry has taken some extreme measures to counter piracy, but it hasn’t found the silver bullet yet. The key is to come up with a service that will fulfill the needs of music lovers, and one that would even be embraced by the most hardcore pirate. With Spotify, this might just become possible.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Five File-Sharing Predictions for 2009 | TorrentFreak
What will happen to BitTorrent users and their favorite sites in the new year? What will happen to the music industry’s new efforts to combat piracy with the help of ISPs, and what about efforts to legalize file sharing? We asked guest columnist Janko Roettgers for his predictions for 2009.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Shouting at Hard Disks Increases Latency?!
Impressive demonstration that shows the concrete effect even a little disk vibration has on latency!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Redneck Joke Goes Postal
Annis and his wife, Juanita, were surprised to receive a Christmas card, mailed from the United States, that was addressed to "Hick in the Woods." Not only that, but the envelope went on to give their address as: 1 tree past the squirrel's hole, 3 runs past the deer lick, 1 leap over the felled oak tree.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
7 Classic Disney Movies That Taught Us Terrible Lessons
Maybe we're too hard on Disney. After all, they simply remake classic stories in cartoon form. What's not to like? Well, as you'll see, it all depends on just how much thought you apply to it. Here's seven pretty terrible lessons that Disney films taught us, whether they meant to or not.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
5 Top Songs You Didn’t Hear on the Radio in 2008
These are all great songs that were not covered by radio play last year, but are all worthy of your attention. Included are songs by The Kelly Affair, Supergrass, Al Green, Kate Nash and more. You can watch all the video here and vote too. Cool!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Due Out This Summer
As a Quentin Tarantino fanboy this is great news: Inglourious Basterds, a World War II epic about a group of Jewish-American soldiers, will open August 21st. Word has it that this film is more of a mainstream epic than a cult flick, and the cast includes Brad Pitt which should help at the box office.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Wikipedia saved! Surpasses fundraising goals!
A late Christmas present for Wikipedia: It has now enough money to fund its 2009 operations. What a nice way to start the new year! Congrats, guys!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Yahoo, Intel have high hopes for Internet TV
Yahoo and Intel built their success upon widespread use of personal computers, but the two companies hope products to be shown at next week's Consumer Electronics Show will mark the beginning of their Internet-fueled expansion to the world of TV as well.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
'World's biggest' software pirates jailed
The Futian People's Court in Shenzhen, China, handed down sentences to 11 ringleaders of the world's largest software counterfeiting syndicate today.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
How To Create A Disposable Webpage
We've got disposable email accounts, phone numbers, login details, fake names, and file sharing tools. Disposable services are good for cases where you need something to exist for a limited amount of time and not reside in cyberspace forever, for example files you want to share with your friend, or in this case – a webpage.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Pepsi and David Beckham End Partnership After 10 Years
After 10 years, Pepsi and soccer star David Beckham agreed to part this week, a decision both sides described as mutual in statements. But Pepsi's decision to walk away from Mr. Beckham, which comes on the heels of a disappointing, injury-riddled second season with Major League Soccer, raises some questions
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Ten Stories that Defined Broadband in 2008
A round-up of this year's top broadband stories, and one heartfelt wish for the New Year
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Coke-Sniffing Dogs and the Fourth Amendment
Any time an appellate court hands down a ruling involving drug-sniffing dogs, I pay attention. Not for personal reasons, mind you—strictly a political junkie here—but because I've long been interested in the unique (or sui generis, as the courts prefer) legal status of the dog-sniff.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
TimeWarner Cable May Lose Viacom Channels MTV, Nick, CC, VH1
What an awful way to ring in 2009. It turns out that Viacom claims it has been trying to negotiate a "fair" renewal of its prized cable channels for months and months, but reputedly Time Warner Cable has been unresponsive and "unreasonable". The nation's 2nd largest cable system operator, in turn, claims Viacom is asking for "exorbitant" increases
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
25 of the Most Anticipated Video Games of 2009
Before we head into 2009, we're bringing you a full month of exclusive previews on some of next year's biggest games (and a few smaller ones).
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Best Apple Spoof of 2008 - Grand Theft Auto IV
As 2008 comes to an end, we thought we’d look back at one of the best Apple spoofs from the last year. And the winner, hands down, is Grand Theft Auto IV which did a great job of mocking both Apple the company, and its users.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Lessons Learned from the Worst Movies of 2008
Unbearable romantic comedies, star vehicles with the parking brake stuck, sequels that nobody asked for, and careers that should have ended years ago - 2008 was head-scratchingly bad when it came to the bottom of the cinematic barrel. Here are lessons that NEED to be learned from 2008's year in film AND the ten absolute worst movies of the year.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
TimeWarner Cable May Lose Viacom Channels MTV, Nick, CC, VH1
What an awful way to ring in 2009. It turns out that Viacom claims it has been trying to negotiate a "fair" renewal of its prized cable channels for months and months, but reputedly Time Warner Cable has been unresponsive and "unreasonable". The nation's 2nd largest cable system operator, in turn, claims Viacom is asking for "exorbitant" increases
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Scientists to explore beneath an Antarctic glacier
A team of British scientists are to venture into the unknown by becoming the first to explore beneath an Antarctic glacier.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
How to: Tap a Phone
THERE are many ways to tap a phone; most of them against the law. This little gadget, however, is quite legal and can be used to great advantage at home or in the office. Basically, the unit consists of a pickup coil, an amplifier and a speaker.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Eleven Gadgets To Rock Your New Year's Eve
What better way to welcome the new year than with a collection of bright and shiny party gadgets? Wired's Gadget Lab has got the electronic tools you need to make this a truly 21st century event - whether you are going to live it up on Times Square, throw your own block party, or merely make a drunken nuisance of yourself in a subway car.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
1998 vs 2008: How has gaming changed in 10 years?
Seeing as it took almost 40 years for movies to learn how to talk, gaming hasn’t exactly shuffled its feet. It hasn’t even been 40 years since Computer Space became the first commercial game, and what began as little more than dandruff on a black screen is already threatening photo-, audio- and physical realism. So let’s look closer at how times ha
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Social media overload? [PHOTO]
Whiteboard sketch about the internet, the future of social media, the opportunities and goals of communities.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
The 12 Most Embarrassing Photos ... of 2009
On Monday we showed you The 12 Most Embarrassing Photos of 2008. Today, as we prepare to enter a New Year, we asked our readers to show us what next year's list might look like.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
$900 Million Suit Filed Over Illegal Use Of Website!
Ever used a friend's account to sign on to a Web site instead of paying its subscription fee? One realtor is facing down a $900 million suit in for allegedly doing more or less the same thing.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
New Years Wisdom: Hunter S. Thompson Motivational Posters
A man who graciously documented the uncharted depths of the binge unlike any other in history, HST provided us with nuggets of wisdom and encouragement all along the way. So instead of merely sharing a list of my favorite quotes from the author, I have placed them in their proper environment, the pervasive motivational poster.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Man Tries to Fool Cops by Calling 911 During Stop
Officers said they were following a 28-year-old man's car Monday to make a traffic stop when they got a 911 call for an armed robbery happening several blocks away.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Sharks have weak bites, say scientists
Steven Spielberg's Jaws instilled the fear of sharks deep into our psyche but scientists have revealed that the film may have been misnamed after discovering the predators have a surprisingly weak bite.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
The 8 Best and Worst SF Comics of 2008
Whether it was aliens invading or heroes dying, 2008's comics definitely aimed for bombast - but how many of them were actually great?
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
88 year-old woman yanks nude intruder's testicles
A naked intruder, Michael Dick, was scared away by the 88 year-old woman whose home he invaded. The woman yanked Dick's testicles to fight him off.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
20 Useful USB Gadgets That Don't Suck
I think that anyone that even has a little bit of geek in them will appreciate any of these. Some have practical uses and some are just fun, but all twenty of these gadgets are awesome.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
F*MyLife Offers A Glimpse Of Others’ Screwed-Up Lives
If you enjoyed visiting DMFail, which surfaced Twitter messages intended as private messages on a public website but ultimately failed, you’re bound to get a kick out of this: F*** My Life is a service in beta where registered users are given a public platform to complain about just how screwed up their lives are and why.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Zune 30GB Bug: The Official Fix is to Do Nothing
The bug was caused by a leap year handling issue. Just wait til Jan 1st and it'll fix itself. Happy New Year, bitches.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
The 6 Tech Marvels We Had Better See In 2009
As 2008 comes to a close, here are the six tech marvels that are ready to explode into ubiquity. And after a year of almost-breakthroughs -- fast-but-spotty 3G; cheap-but-slow netbooks -- we deserve them. After all, this is the future, isn't it?
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Spearfisher Faked His Death And Got Caught For It .. Idiot!
Friends reported John Sung Park missing after a spearfishing outing in September, just days before he was to appear at a sentencing hearing on felony charges.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
