In most large cities there are tons of great, free activities. We asked you for your recommendations for New York , now let’s focus on Los Angeles. What free activities have you done in and around LA? Read more…
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The Best Free Things to Do in Los Angeles
Gogo’s inflight Wi-Fi service is pretty much your only option when it comes to surfing the internet in the skies above. Which means that they are free to give you shitty service at even shittier prices all they want. And now, according to one Google engineer , they’re also playing fast and loose with your online security. The question is—why? Read more…
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Gogo Wi-Fi Is Using Man-in-the-Middle Malware Tactics on Its Own Users
Instead of waiting for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit next week to finally unveil what the new Chevy Volt looks like, General Motors pulled back the curtain on its new electric hybrid at CES just now. No details, no other specifics, just our first full look at the vehicle. Read more…
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The New Chevy Volt First Look: Less Concept, More Sedan
It’s been a long time coming, but the state of California is finally building its long-promised high-speed rail link. The new line, which will see trains travel at up to 220mph, will finally start construction this week. Read more…
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California’s 220MPH High-Speed Railway Is Finally Being Built
Other than ingesting alcohol and narcotics in sufficient doses to induce a state of analgesia, for most of its history, people in the West got through surgery with the aid of little more than forcible restraint and grit. Read more…
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What Did People Use to Mask Surgical Pain Before Modern Anesthesia?
There’s no point in keeping a stash of emergency flashlights around your home if the batteries inside them just end up getting stolen for TV remotes and the kids’ toys. So the folks who created the original LUCI, a dirt-cheap inflatable solar-powered rechargeable lantern , have tweaked its design for the new Luci EMRG so that it produces a more intense focused beam and can now double as an emergency flashlight. Read more…
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The World’s First Inflatable Flashlight Never Needs New Batteries
This gigantic car transporter has been run aground—on purpose—after it began to list just off the coast of the UK. It weighs 51, 000 tonnes, is laden with 1, 400 cars—and now needs to be righted. Read more…
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A 51,000-Tonne Cargo Ship’s Been Deliberately Grounded Near the UK
The people at the beautiful Woods Hole Inn* have snapped these photos of Steve Jobs’ yacht in the wild. It’s the first time we have seen Venus open like this, offering a peek at its interior design. It looks like a summer home from this angle. Here are two more views of the starboard and the bow. Read more…
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First peek into Steve Jobs’ luxury yacht interior
Copyright holders were not shy about asking Google to remove pirated content in 2014. Last year, there were over 345 million requests to take down infringing content, according to a Torrent Freak summary of Google’s weekly transparency reports . That’s a 75 percent increase from 2013. Google honored most of the requests. Read more…
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Copyright Holders Asked Google to Remove 345 Million Links Last Year
Just a few days after reports emerged that the infamous Mt. Gox meltdown was an inside job , one of the biggest , oldest, and most trusted bitcoin exchanges—Bitstamp—just went offline after a security breach. Bitcoin exchanges come and go all the time , but this is different. Bitstamp is supposed to be the reliable one . Read more…
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One of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchanges Just Went Dark After Getting Hacked