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How Much Would a Pumpkin the Size Of Your House Weigh?
Oct 31, 2:20PM
The wonderful world of genetic engineering has given us gargantuan pumpkins the size of compact cars. But don't think it's going to stop there. In addition to spreading Halloween cheer and giving local evening news something to cover, giant pumpkins could eventually be grown to the size of a house and used as a cheap and temporary place for someone to live.
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Victory! The FAA Approves Personal Electronics for All Phases of Flight
Oct 31, 2:13PM
After years of will they or won't they, the US Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finally given permission for airlines to allow passenger to use personal electronics for the entirety of their flights. Translation: You don't have to shut down your phone anymore. FINALLY.
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We've Finally Figured Out Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
Oct 31, 2:00PM
For centuries, scientists have puzzled over a counter-intutive observation: hot water, for some reason, seems to freeze faster than cold. Fortunately, now a team of physicists has worked out why it happens.
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Setting the Record Straight: Debunking All the Flu Vaccine Myths
Oct 31, 1:40PM
It's that time again — that time when dozens of spurious articles pop up all over the web touting all the dangers of the flu vaccine. Articles on unreliable, alarmist, misinformative sites like Natural News, Mercola, chiropractic blogs and other such sites rail against the "toxins" in the vaccine, or claim the flu vaccine doesn't work, or that it causes this or that horrible disease, or that the flu itself just really isn't all that bad. (I'm not going to link to any of them. They get too much attention as it is.)
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Panasonic confirms it's killing off its line of plasma TVs.
Oct 31, 1:39PM
Panasonic confirms it's killing off its line of plasma TVs. The company said today that production will stop in December, with sales ending in March 2014. [Panasonic via Cnet]
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Bloomberg Businessweek's Obamacare Cover Is Perfect
Oct 31, 1:29PM
In case you haven't noticed, it's been kind of a rough year in Washington. And it's especially rough for one guy in particular. Freshly inaugurated and Instagram-friendly, President Obama promised a new, tech-savvy future for America. The latest cover of Bloomberg Businessweek pretty much sums up how that's working out.
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There's Over Twice as Much Magma Under Yellowstone Than We Thought
Oct 31, 1:20PM
Everyone knows that Yellowstone is home to a super-volcano—but it turns out that the magma reservoir it sits atop is at least 2.5 times larger than we previously thought.
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How Many Horror Movie References Can You Spot On Bing's Homepage?
Oct 31, 1:08PM
Bing's still the underdog in the search engine wars; remaining in perpetual second place to Google. And while it's doubtful that Microsoft will ever win the overall search engine war, today Bing totally wins the Halloween makeover battle with a homepage that pays homage to countless horror movies.
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13 Wonderful Posters That Capture San Francisco In a Single Image
Oct 31, 1:00PM
San Francisco is not large, but it does contain multitudes. Though many have left their hearts in the seven-by-seven mile spot at the tippy-top of this Pacific Ocean-lined peninsula, each and every loyal local and on-the-road vagabond who's made his way through the beautiful Bay Area hub forms a highly personal take on the place.
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Google Chromecast continues to improve piece by piece; the streaming dongle added Pandora today to i
Oct 31, 12:35PM
Google Chromecast continues to improve piece by piece; the streaming dongle added Pandora today to its small but scrappy stable of apps.
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Nexus 5 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)
Oct 31, 12:33PM
The Nexus 5 has been leaked so many times, it seems highly likely that it'll be official soon—maybe even today. But why wait? Here's what we think we know about Google's next superphone:
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According to AP, Edward Snowden has secured a "technical support" job with a "major" Russian website
Oct 31, 11:56AM
According to AP, Edward Snowden has secured a "technical support" job with a "major" Russian website and will start work on Friday. Even big-time whistleblowers need to earn some dollar, right?
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A Galaxy S4 Active Mini Might Be on Its Way
Oct 31, 11:45AM
This phone here appears to be yet another miniature version of a popular full size model, with official filings revealing something we suspect might end up being known as the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active Mini. Could do with a smaller name, too.
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A Beautiful Illustration of the Evolution of Audio Equipment
Oct 31, 11:09AM
A lot's changed in the world of audio over the last 170 years. Gone are the days of cranking a handle to make noise, replaced instead by silicon and circuity to pump out digital tunes. This beautiful illustration walks you through how and when those changes happened.
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If you've a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display which has a temperamental keyboard and touchpad,
Oct 31, 11:03AM
If you've a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display which has a temperamental keyboard and touchpad, don't worry too much: Apple is working on a fix.
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A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers
Oct 31, 10:17AM
You'd think that given how pervasive the internet is, we'd be stuck with the fundamental architecture it uses: servers that many devices connect to for their information fix. But a team of Cambridge University scientists wants to shake things up—and remove servers altogether.
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Will There Ever Be More Dead People Than Living Ones on Facebook?
Oct 31, 9:22AM
Currently, there aren't many dead people on Facebook, which is largely because its user base is so young. But time marches on and death is inevitable, so will there ever be more dead than live people on the social network?
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Lavabit and Silent Circle have joined forces to form the Dark Mail Alliance: a spy-proof email servi
Oct 31, 9:01AM
Lavabit and Silent Circle have joined forces to form the Dark Mail Alliance: a spy-proof email service that applies peer-to-peer encryption to both the body of your message and its metadata (at least, between Dark Mail accounts).
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A Google Glass Accessory Store Is Here and Holy Crap It's Expensive
Oct 31, 8:38AM
Google is readying itself to churn out thousands of pairs of Glass, and now it's also preparing an accessory store to accompany it. But holy hell, those extras won't come cheap.
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The creepiest photographs of things you can only see under a microscope
Oct 31, 4:00AM
Nikon just announced the winners for its 2013 Small World Photomicrography Competition. It's basically a collection of the best images of things you can only see under a light microscope. Or better yet, it's the best photographs of things you can't actually see. Here are some fantastically creepy shots that were our favorites.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet: Ake-Vono
Oct 31, 4:00AM
See, the reason you spend the extra money on First Class tickets is so that when the airplane sloughs off its wings and transforms into an organic, hyper-dimensional rocket beast, you aren't jettisoned along with the rest of the schmucks in Economy. Plus you get to board first and clink champagne glasses together as poor people file past, which is always fun.
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DARPA wants drones to have lasers too
Oct 31, 3:11AM
Laser pods mounted on drones to shoot down missiles. Yeah, that's science fiction warfare, right there. And that's exactly what the US military wants. The US just gave Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman contracts to develop aircraft-mounted laser weapons to protect drones from getting hit by missiles. Or create a flock of drones that can form a shield with lasers.
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Awesome computer software magically turns Star Wars quotes into GIFs
Oct 31, 1:18AM
If you ever, for a second, wondered questions like what's the purpose of life or why the Internet exists or what are you going to eat for lunch today, the answer is simply this magical software tool created by GitHub user LindseyB. It automatically turns any Star Wars quote into an animated GIF, complete with caption of said quote.
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Amazing Lego Optimus Prime actually transforms from truck to autobot
Oct 31, 12:20AM
Lego builder Alex Jones, AKA Orion Pax, has constructed an amazing Lego replica of Optimus Prime. The detail and functionality are phenomenal. Jones has been working on his Lego G1 Transformers series for over 10 years. Cybertron would be proud.
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What it looks like to get hit in the face with a tank shell
Oct 30, 10:24PM
So this is completely terrifying. In a you will probably pee a little bit as you watch this GIF kind of way. In a holy crap wait a minute this isn't a video game right kind of way. No, no it is not. This is what it looks like to take a direct hit from a tank shell in real life. You can see it blast out of the barrel and head straight for your face.
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