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NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge, Wants Your Help in Stopping Them
Hop into your triangle-shaped spaceship and start shooting dots at drifting polygons, because NASA wants you to do your part in stopping asteroids from destroying the planet. On Tuesday, the space...
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Four Quarks Good, Two Quarks Bad: Scientists Detect New Kind of Subatomic...
Researchers at two different particle accelerators have discovered what looks like evidence of the existence of particles composed of four quarks. Don’t know what that means? Don’t worry, the...
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Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Pulled From Sale While Publishers And...
The Enhanced Edition of the classic RPG Baldur’s Gate has been removed from digital shelves at the Apple App Store and on the website of its developer, Beamdog. According to Beamdog’s president Trent...
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Jim Carrey Decries Violence of Kick-Ass 2, Mark Millar Responds by Defending...
Jim Carrey, who is playing Colonel Stars and Stripes in the upcoming Kick-Ass 2, spoke out on Twitter saying that he isn’t happy about the level of violence in the film. The film, which, again, is...
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TV Networks Tell FCC That Indecency Rules Are Obsolete Because No One Watches...
The major broadcast networks’ revolt against the FCC’s regulation of indecent content on broadcast television has taken a weird turn courtesy of the TV provider’s latest argument against the fines. Is...
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Talking Robot to Fly to Space With Japanese Astronaut
A 13.4 inch-tall humanoid robot named Kirobo will be launched into space in August. Kirobo, which has the capability to speak and carry out conversations, will join Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakada...
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Last-Minute Delay Means Nvidia Shield Won’t Release Until Next Month
The Shield, Nvidia’s Android-based handheld gaming console which was supposed to be released today, will be pushed back to an unspecified date in July. According to the company the delay proved...
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Netflix, Arrested Development, and the Growing Prevalence of Binge-Watching
The concept of watching a bunch of episodes of a TV show at once is either called ‘binge-watching’ or ‘marathoning’ the show. Those terms describe two ways of looking at something that’s becoming...
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PayPal, SETI, and Buzz Aldrin Team Up to Launch Interplanetary Payment Service
Ever tried to buy something, only to realize your wallet is sitting on your kitchen counter a billion miles away on another planet? No need to worry. PayPal has decided now is the perfect time to...
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Ousted Groupon Founder To Release Album Of Motivational Music
Good news, fans of music that inspires career success! Groupon founder Andrew Mason is due to release an album of motivational songs on Tuesday, July 2nd. The album, called Hardly Workin’, will come...
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Nintendo Fails to Snag WiiU.com From Cybersquatter
As if trouble with low sales and lack of third-party games weren’t making the first year of the Wii U unpleasant enough for Nintendo, there’s more bad news. Nintendo of America‘s complaint to the...
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Homeowner Finds Anti-Tank Missiles In Garden Shed
Though your weekend sucked because it was like a trillion degrees pretty much wherever you were in the U.S.? Well, you’re not wrong, but at least you didn’t have to leave your nice, air-conditioned...
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Stephen King Cool With Under The Dome TV Changes
The TV adaptation of Stephen King‘s novel Under The Dome on CBS got off to a cow-slicingly good start last week, and the author himself spoke out on his website in defense of the many changes the TV...
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Failure to Launch: Russian Rocket Crashes Moments After Liftoff
A space-bound rocket carrying three navigational satellites crashed back to the ground only seconds after its launch from Russia’s space launch facility near Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Tuesday. No...
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Heart Attack on a Hook: The Unhealthiest Restaurant Meal in America
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has determined through lab tests that Long John Silver’s “Big Catch” meal is the “Worst Restaurant Meal in America.” The meal of fried fish, hushpuppies,...
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Human Liver Buds Successfully Grown From Stem Cells
Researchers at Japan’s Yokohama City University have reported in Nature this week that they have used stem cells to create human liver buds that continue to grow and perform the organ’s normal...
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Buried Lake Vostok May Support a Thriving Ecosystem Two Miles Beneath the...
Lake Vostok, a body of water located about two miles beneath Antarctica‘s icy surface, may be home to a viable ecosystem in spite of intense cold, complete darkness, lack of nutrients, and possible...
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Dragon*Con Finally Cuts Financial Ties With Co-Founder and Accused Molester...
The organization behind Dragon*Con, the Atlanta-based multi-genre geek convention that will reach its 27th year when it’s held at the end of this August, has announced that it has bought out the...
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Donald Glover Will Only Be In Five Community Episodes Next Season
CRISIS ALERT! Donald Glover is only going to be in five of Community‘s thirteen episodes in the upcoming fifth season. Vulture is reporting that according to “sources familiar with the matter”, this...
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Garmin Reveals Windshield Navigation Heads-Up Display
GPS navigation device and app maker Garmin has announced its first portable heads-up display for vehicle windshields. The heads-up display, known by the incredibly original name HUD, connects to...
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