Monday is Memorial Day, and while its a solemn day celebrating our fallen veterans, it also marks the unofficial beginning of summer and brings with it some of the seasons best sales. To get your summer started right we've rounded up some of our favorite deals from online retailers around the web and included the Read more about Gear Up Your Home with These Appliance and Grill Sales[…]
Imagine a man with a Swiss Army knife for a body. His arms and legs can extend in any direction, bend into any shape, and move at extraordinary speeds. His spine can elongate into a helicopter, his hands can turn into an almost unlimited number of tools, and his feet can turn into ice skates, Read more about Transhumanism Is Tempting—Until You Remember Inspector Gadget[…]
In the 18 months since announcing its intention to build an electric car, Dyson has been quieter than a Cyclone V10 vacuum about the vehicle’s looks, cost, or performance specs. But three newly released patent applications offer an early glimpse at how Dyson is designing its vehicles and where it plans to diverge from mainstream Read more about Dyson Patent Applications Offer Hints at Its Electric Car[…]
Among the many things we humans like to lord over the rest of the animal kingdom is our complex language. Sure, other creatures talk to one another, but we’ve got all these wildly complicated written languages with syntax and fun words like defenestrate. This we can also lord over robots, who, in addition to lacking Read more about This Crafty Robot Can Write in Languages It’s Never Seen Before[…]
Makalu is the world's fifth highest mountain—an icy giant 14 miles west of Everest that straddles the border of northeastern Nepal and Tibet. Its four sharp ridges ascend almost vertically toward a 27,765-foot summit that's formidable to even the most experienced climbers. Since 1955, there have been fewer than 300 recorded attempts to scale it, Read more about A Harrowing Journey Up the World's Fifth Highest Mountain[…]
The contentious relationship between Kawhi Leonard and the San Antonio Spurs has, quite definitively, become the Toronto Raptors’ gain. Leonard, the two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, has keyed the Raptors’ charge into the NBA Finals, the first time in franchise history the team will play for the league title. It wasn’t that long Read more about Kawhi Leonard’s uncle reveals what really happened with Spurs[…]
A commercial flight in China was nearly forced to make an emergency landing when massive hunks of hail shattered the jumbo jet’s windshield, according to reports Monday. China Southern Airlines flight CZ3101 was headed from Guangzhou to Beijing when the hailstorm struck and badly cracked the Airbus A380’s front window as it soared at 37,000 Read more about Hailstorm shatters plane’s windshield during ‘roller coaster’ flight[…]
The New Jersey family involved in a fatal car crash near Niagara Falls had nine people, including three 4-year-olds, packed into a minivan without any car seats, authorities said Monday. Two of the dead were identified as Ondina Castro De La Cruz, 47, and Mayelin Brito-Castro, 32. Both women were in the van along with Read more about Family of 9 packed into minivan for fatal Niagara Falls trip: cops[…]
Not only did he fabricate the credentials of college applicants — he faked his own, too. College admissions guru William “Rick” Singer was a con man so brazen that he lied under oath about serving on admissions committees at a handful of schools, according to a new report. The sworn testimony came in 2016, when Read more about College scammer Rick Singer lied about serving on admissions committees[…]
His mood brightened the most, late Monday afternoon, when Manny Machado received a question about Yankee Stadium’s legendarily generous right-field porch. “I think everyone knows Yankee Stadium, how short right field is,” the Padres’ $300 million man said after he lost his Bronx debut in his new uniform, 5-2 to the Yankees. “You definitely saw Read more about Yankees\u2019 Manny Machado pass deserves only cheers[…]