DC Superheros go steampunk in this wild cosplay pictorial

Here’s a collection of DC superheroes as you’ve never imagained them before – steampunked!

DC Superheros go steampunk in this wild cosplay pictorial

TV News Anchors cracking up after awkward Ryan Lochte television interview

A recent interview with eleven-time Olympic swimming medalist Ryan Lochte left news anchors in tears after an awkward TV interview. In the video, news anchors try to maintain a straight face while Lochte struggles with even the simplest of interview questions.

TV News Anchors cracking up after awkward Ryan Lochte television interview

Official Google Glass specs released

As Google Glass begins rolling off the production lines and the Explorer developer program kicks in, the Google Glass support documentation was released today so we now have the official specs in hand. The display is said to be equivalent to a 25-inch HD display viewed from 8 feet away. The...
Official Google Glass specs released

As Artic Ice melts, it has become a free-for-all gold rush - for mammoth tusks!

As the melting of the world’s icecaps accelerates, more and more land, which has been encased in ice for centuries, is slowly revealing hidden treasures. As the ice disappears, mammoth tusks are appearing all over the landscape and that means big business for some. In Siberia, the...
As Artic Ice melts, it has become a free-for-all gold rush - for mammoth tusks!

Paris Marathon installs kinetic energy "rubber tiles" that generate electricity from runners' footsteps

Brilliant Paris Marathon race organizers laid out 82-feet worth of rubber tiles along the route. These cushiony tiles weren’t meant to ease the pain on runners but rather are a special electricity-generating tile made by Pavegen Systems that convert kinetic energy from the runners’...
Paris Marathon installs kinetic energy "rubber tiles" that generate electricity from runners' footsteps

Differences in Chinese and Russian security philosophies and how the United States should counter

I enjoy hacking. The intrigue, digging through arcane protocol specs in order to discover some new architectural design flaw or idiotic programmer bug, and the excitement surrounding a mysterious hidden world that few are capable of experiencing, in my mind is akin to losing yourself deep in a...
Differences in Chinese and Russian security philosophies and how the United States should counter

Meet Compressorhead - all-robotic band is the heaviest heavy metal band on the planet

Meet Compressorhead, the heaviest heavy metal band on the planet. At a combined weight of nearly six tons and hailing all they way from Germany, members Stickboy, Fingers, and Bones crank out some the gnarliest hard rock music on Earth – and their unique anatomy is key to their phenomenal...
Meet Compressorhead - all-robotic band is the heaviest heavy metal band on the planet

Huge number of Wordpress bruteforce attacks reported in the wild

Security software firm Sucuri has announced the discovery of a massive WordPress brute force attack that is circulating in the wild. Analysis of security logs and monitoring via their operations center, has revealed a three-fold increase in WordPress bruteforce attacks over the past three...
Huge number of Wordpress bruteforce attacks reported in the wild

Witchblade cosplay (from Wondercon 2013)

Witchblade, an American comic book series published by Top Cow Productions, has been published from 1995 until present. The character of Sara Pezzini has been featured in many crossovers with characters from other franchises, including Lara Croft, Vampirella, and the Justice League. Witchblade...
Witchblade cosplay (from Wondercon 2013)

Jaw dropping Final Fantasy XII cosplay

Final Fantasy cosplay action is always great and this one is no different. Check the Final Fantasy XII cosplay pictorial below.

Jaw dropping Final Fantasy XII cosplay

Dubai police force equipped with Lamborghini police cars

When you’ve got tons of money derived from a limited resource that will one day run out, what do you do with it? Spend it like there’s no tomorrow! Dubai has equipped their police force with $400,000 Italian-made Lamborghini Aventador sports cars retrofitted with Dubai police insignias...
Dubai police force equipped with Lamborghini police cars

Catwoman cosplay pictorial

Catwoman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, partially inspired by Kane’s cousin, Ruth Steel, as well as actress Jean Harlow. The original and most widely known Catwoman, Selina Kyle, first appears in Batman #1 (Spring 1940) in which she is known as The Cat. She is an adversary of...
Catwoman cosplay pictorial

Scientists discover evidence of mind-bending "dark lightning" - invisible sprays of X-rays and intense bursts of gamma rays

Scientists have discovered something mind-bending about lightning – sometimes its flashes are invisible, just sudden pulses of unexpectedly powerful radiation. Termed “dark lightning”, it is now clear to a growing number of lightning researchers and astronomers that along with...
Scientists discover evidence of mind-bending "dark lightning" - invisible sprays of X-rays and intense bursts of gamma rays

American version of Samsung Galaxy S4 performance far below alternative, international versions of the smartphone

Android Authority and Sam Mobile have released performance results of the various Samsung Galaxy S4 variants and their findings are surprising. Recall that Samsung released three versions of the new Samsung Galaxy S4 – an American and UK version sporting a 1.9 Ghz quad-core Qualcomm...
American version of Samsung Galaxy S4 performance far below alternative, international versions of the smartphone

U.S. government gets even dopier with new Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) - really?

The House Intelligence committee is currently working to amend the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) whose stated aim is to “help the U.S government investigate cyber threats and ensure the security of networks against cyberattack”. Yes, the government that has...
U.S. government gets even dopier with new Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) - really?

Wondercon 2013 - Best of Cosplay

This year’s Wondercon 2013, held in Anaheim, California last month, produced a great round of wonderful cosplay action. Here’s the best of the lot.

Wondercon 2013 - Best of Cosplay

Bored coffee-house employee makes crazy cool art in coffee using toothpick, milk, coffee foam, and of course, coffee

New York City barista Mike Breach creates beautiful portraits in coffee drinks using nothing more than coffee, milk, coffee foam, and a toothpick as a paintbrush. Breach said he was bored one day and began passing time drawing on coffee drinks. Over time, his skill grew and now he is able to...
Bored coffee-house employee makes crazy cool art in coffee using toothpick, milk, coffee foam, and of course, coffee

Scientists puzzled by fish discovered at bottom of Antarctica ocean - its blood is totally clear

Every animal with bones on planet Earth utilizes oxygen that is delivered in its blood via hemoglobin, which binds to the oxygen molecules to make the blood appear red. Every animal that is, except for a newly discovered species, the ocellated icefish (Chionodraco rastrospinosus). The...
Scientists puzzled by fish discovered at bottom of Antarctica ocean - its blood is totally clear

Attractive Convict (Meagan McCullough) meme going viral - and yeah, we're taking part in it

Back in 2010, Meagan McCullough, then a 25-year-old waitress, was arrested on July 25 in Florida for driving under the influence of alcohol. Her mugshot was posted on the Internet and drew quite a reaction due to her unusually photogenic appearance (despite the awkward circumstances). The...
Attractive Convict (Meagan McCullough) meme going viral - and yeah, we're taking part in it

Carrie, third installment of the Stephen King classic, promises to be a more faithful adoption of the book

At some point you gotta say, “enough is enough”. But not just yet! The third Carrie installment is looking like it could be the one that knocks it out of the park. Word is that this installment will be a much more faithful adoption of the original book by the master of horror, Stephen...
Carrie, third installment of the Stephen King classic, promises to be a more faithful adoption of the book

Anonymous makes good on threats - takes control of several North Korea websites, Twitter, and Flickr accounts

Today a Twitter and Flickr account belonging to a North Korean news agency have been hijacked by Anonymous just one day after they announced “war” against the North Korean government. The Twitter and Flickr accounts represent Uriminzokkiri (meaning “Our Nation”), a North Korean...
Anonymous makes good on threats - takes control of several North Korea websites, Twitter, and Flickr accounts

Google forks its WebKit browser engine - Blink is born

Yesterday Google forked its WebKit browser engine, the same engine used by Apple’s Safari browser and many other mobile browsers, and will now focus its efforts on “Blink”, which will gradually diverge from the WebKit project on which Google Chrome is based. Developers at Google expressed...
Google forks its WebKit browser engine - Blink is born

Ready for dark matter? International Space Station's AMS antimatter detector discovers first evidence of dark matter

Scientists at CERN today announced that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on board the International Space Station has detected its first hints of dark matter, the mysterious and as yet unexplained stuff that makes up the majority of the universe. The evidence presented is based on an excess in...
Ready for dark matter? International Space Station's AMS antimatter detector discovers first evidence of dark matter

Anonymous announces "war" on North Korean government - DDoS attacks and owns several servers

Anonymous has announced a new initiate “Operation Free Korea” that is targeting North Korea in an effort to install a free democracy in that country. Anonymous is demanding controversial leader Kim Jong-un resign, that North Korea abandon its nuclear ambitions, and for the government to...
Anonymous announces "war" on North Korean government - DDoS attacks and owns several servers

Check out this ultra-modern German house shaped like a dinosaur head

This newly constructed house, built near Stuttgart, German by German studio J. Mayer H., is shaped like a giant dinosaur head with glazing and railing designed to emulate teeth. The three-story home sits on a sloping site in a suburban area of Stuttgart facing a neighborhood of smaller, older...
Check out this ultra-modern German house shaped like a dinosaur head

Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) memory standard promises 15 times better performance than traditional DDR1/2/3 SDRAM

The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium finished hammering out the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) 1.0 standard this week. With a max bandwidth of 320GB/sec to a nearby CPU or GPU (compared to 24GB/sec for DDR3 SDRAM), HMC offers up to 15 times the performance of DDR3, while using 70% less energy. Rather...
Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) memory standard promises 15 times better performance than traditional DDR1/2/3 SDRAM

Seagate ships world's first 4TB Hard Drive - priced at less than $200 per unit

Today, Seagate began shipping what it claims is“the world’s first 4TB Hard Drive”. The new technology will utilize four 1TB platters giving the drive 800,000 times more storage space than the first desktop drive it introduced way back in 1979. According to Seagate, “There’s...
Seagate ships world's first 4TB Hard Drive - priced at less than $200 per unit

Archaeologists discover Pluto's "Gate to Hell" in southwestern Turkey

Known as Pluto’s Gate, the famous “Gate to Hell” cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition. It was said to be located in the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, now called Pamukkale, and described as filled with lethal mephitic...
Archaeologists discover Pluto's "Gate to Hell" in southwestern Turkey

Wily South Africans clean up scenic landscape with clumsy attempt to disguise cellphone towers as trees

South African photographer Dillon Marsh’s latest photographic series tipped us on to some hidden gems that we most likely would have never noticed – cellphone towers disguised as trees. The cellphone infrastructure often provides an incompatible fit with our typically scenic landscapes but...
Wily South Africans clean up scenic landscape with clumsy attempt to disguise cellphone towers as trees

NASA tweets nearby floating "debris" photos from ISS which clearly shows saucer-shaped UFO

NASA and ISS may be slowly loosening their tight lips with regards to the normally hush-hush UFO phenomenon. Today, Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut and the commander of Expedition 35 on the International Space Station, tweeted pictures of a huge piece of debris that he captured on film...
NASA tweets nearby floating "debris" photos from ISS which clearly shows saucer-shaped UFO

Amazon improves Cloud Drive - new version allows file synchronization (but doesn't support Android or iOS yet)

Amazon today announced the availability of their improved Amazon Cloud Drive cloud storage service. The new version of Amazon Cloud Drive allows file synchronization via a desktop app for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8, and Mac OS 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8. No word on when support for Android, iOS, or...
Amazon improves Cloud Drive - new version allows file synchronization (but doesn't support Android or iOS yet)

Two-ton Mantis hexapod robot machine powered by 2.2L diesel engine

Meet the Mantis, a two-ton all-terrain hexapod built by Matt Denton of Micromagic Systems. Looking like something out of a Sci-Fi horror movie, the robotic machine is powered by a Perkins 2.2L Turbo Diesel engine and can be operated with onboard controls or via a remote Wi-Fi controller. ...
Two-ton Mantis hexapod robot machine powered by 2.2L diesel engine

Thieves caught after police track their footprints in the snow

Thieves were caught after police tracked footprints they left behind in the snow. Two men held up a store in Whitnash, Warwickshire last Saturday morning (March 23, 2013) and left with money and lottery scratchcards. Authorities showed up to investigate and taking advantage of the snowy...
Thieves caught after police track their footprints in the snow

Google announces shutdown of online video service - YouTube [UPDATE]

Lots of interesting geek news today and vendors, retailers, and manufacturers kick off the 2nd quarter of 2013. With the interesting slate of new products and technologies, we’re sure to see some big hits come out of this roundup. Google reminded us today that YouTube was and has always...
Google announces shutdown of online video service - YouTube [UPDATE]