If you use a personal hotspot or tether your phone , you need to keep an eye on your data usage. Windows 8 lets you set a connection as “metered” to avoid unnecessary data usage. Read more…
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Tell Windows 8.1 You Have a Metered Connection to Restrict Data Usage
Starfish can re-grow arms; lizards can sprout fresh legs; and hell, flatworms can essentially rematerialize from barely nothing. So why can’t humans do the same? Read more…
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Why Humans Can’t Re-Grow Limbs (Yet)
Facebook appears to be offline, internationally. The social network isn’t working on web or mobile, and even its developer platform is down. Facebook is yet to offer an explanation on its own site or via Twitter. Read more…
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Facebook Is Down (Updated: It’s Fixed!)
Ever visit web site that won’t let you read the article until you fill out a survey? Many of them are byapssable—you just need to modify the source code a bit. Read more…
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Bypass Pre-Roll Surveys with Your Browser’s Inspect Element Tool
Priceline is buying restaurant reservation platform OpenTable for $2.6 billion. That’s some delicious added value for the travel-booking site. Read more…
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Priceline is buying restaurant reservation platform OpenTable for $2.6 billion.
The Lick Me I’m Delicious laboratory is the brainchild of food inventor Charlie Harry Francis, who invented a portable nitro ice cream parlor in 2011. Now he has invented an awesome machine that produces edible mist in more than 200 flavors, including mango, chocolate, apple pie, and smoked bacon. Read more…
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This machine produces edible mist in 200 delicious flavors
In yet another crushing blow to Comic Sans, pen-maker Bic is currently soliciting handwriting samples from anyone on Earth who wants to participate in its Universal Typeface Experiment . The goal is to create a universal font that will presumably supplant Comic Sans as the go-to typeface for amateur designers making birthday cards, lunch room signage, or business cards for toddlers. Read more…
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Bic Is Trying To Make a Font Based on All the World’s Handwriting
NASA’s real life interstellar Enterprise concept ship may look straight out of Star Trek, but their Orion crew module for Exploration Flight Test-1 looks chrometastically cool, like the alien spaceship in Flight of the Navigator. Read more…
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NASA’s Orion crew module looks like a liquid metal alien spaceship
I never imagined I was going to see something like this: A video of a star bursting in space, illuminating the interstellar dust around it at the speed of light. This is not a computer simulation. It’s an actual time-lapse video taken over four years by the Hubble—and scientists don’t know its origin yet. Read more…
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I can’t believe this Hubble’s star explosion time-lapse video is real
Dr. Harold “Sonny” White is still working on a warp drive at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Their work is still in the experimental stages but that doesn’t mean they can’t imagine already what the real life Enterprise ship can look like. You’re looking at it right now. Read more…
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NASA’s real life Enterprise concept may take us to the stars one day