Just TRY Not To Laugh At This Map Of Dirty-Sounding Places From Around The World
Finally, an interactive map designed for everyone’s inner 12-year-old. Geotechnologist Gary Gale compiled a list of dirty-sounding or crassly named places in the world and put them on a map, titled...
View ArticlePink Is the New Red
Recently I sat in on an energetic workshop for preschoolers at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, watching 15 "Tyke Explorers" assume ownership of the entire Solar System in a kid-sized...
View ArticleChina's Internet Giants' Lottery Apps Linked to Spate of World Cup Suicides
A 24-year-old surnamed Zheng ferried his ailing father to a hospital 100 miles from home in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua news agency reported on July 10. After paying the deposit for the...
View ArticleArtist Makes World Cup Infinitely More Beautiful With Country-Themed Paper Masks
Normally when we envision "team spirit," images of shirtless dudes covered in paint and beer holding large foam fingers come to mind. Spanish artist Sandra Suarez has provided a far more beautiful...
View ArticleChinese Man Accused Of Hacking Boeing For Military Secrets
SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities have charged a Chinese businessman with hacking into the computer systems of U.S. companies with large defense contracts, including Boeing, to steal data on military...
View Article'Stop Censoring Motherhood' Movement Takes Aim At Facebook And Instagram
Since starting the 4th Trimester Bodies Project in June 2013, Ashlee Wells Jackson and her partner Laura Weetzie Wilson have photographed about 450 women, created a documentary and reached a...
View ArticleBeing in Sync means your Data is safe
What is data synchronization? This technology synchronizes data between two or more computers and/or the cloud and automatically copies changes that are transacted between devices. File synchronization...
View ArticleWhat Type of Tech Job Applicants Offer the Best Performance
As the tech job sector continues to grow in the United States there is a constant competition going on between employers to get the best talent available. However, there is a true disconnect between...
View Article5 Essential Tools for the Solopreneur
Thanks to technology, living life on your own terms is easier than ever. In fact, technology has contributed to the rise of the solopreneur. Solopreneurs aren't interested in building the next large...
View ArticleBiggest Scorer In World Cup? Maybe Univision
Months before the first whistle of the World Cup, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, the president of Univision Communications’s sports division, presented his engineers with a challenge: Could they figure out how...
View ArticleBen Horowitz: The Pain and Passion of Fight Club Management
I just had a beer with Ben Horowitz. Actually we had a few. We sat in a dark bar, long into the night and swapped stories that only Startup CEO's can tell each other. The deepest, darkest, scariest...
View Article'TORSO' Documentary Series Examines Gay Online Dating
An award-winning queer filmmaker is producing a series of short documentary-style films that examine the dynamics surrounding modern day gay culture, particularly in terms of online dating and dating...
View ArticleThese Giant Merging Galaxies Shed New Light On Star Birth
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a strange celestial "string of pearls" wrapped around the hearts of two merging elliptical galaxies. The curly string is about 100,000 light-years long and...
View ArticleTiny Iowa County Takes on the King of Online Defamation
In Gunfight at the OK Corral, a U.S. Marshal from the prairie is called to Arizona to help his brother stand his ground against a band of cattle thieves. The character is an American archetype that is...
View ArticleLyft's New York Launch Is Delayed But Protesters Still Showed Up To The...
The delayed launch of Lyft did not stop its launch party from happening or stop the protesters from coming.
View ArticleGinormous iPhone Almost Definitely Getting Delayed: Analyst
An analyst with knowledge of Apple’s production schedule said Sunday that a rumored 5.5-inch “iPhone 6” probably won’t debut this fall. The analyst, KGI Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo, wrote in a research...
View ArticleThis May Be The World's Darkest Material Yet
It may not get any darker than this. Scientists at Surrey Nanosystems, a nanotechnology company in the U.K., have developed a new material -- dubbed "Vantablack" -- that just may be the world's darkest...
View ArticleWall Street Big Shot Tells Elon Musk To Stop Making Cars
Tesla CEO Elon Musk should get out of the car business, according to one Wall Street big shot. DoubleLine Capital founder Jeff Gundlach, considered one of the most influential people in the bond...
View ArticleKim Kardashian's Video Game Is On Track To Earn $200 Million
Brace yourselves: People are spending an ungodly amount of money on Kim Kardashian's mind-numbing iOS game, "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood." While the game is free to download, getting famous is not. At...
View ArticleHere's Why You Won't Fall Off The World's Tallest Waterslide
Standing taller than Niagara Falls, a new waterslide — appropriately named Verrückt, which means "insane" in German — opened on Thursday (July 10) in Kansas City, Kansas. The slide stands 168 feet 7...
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