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?
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 brains that will power your next laptop are here. Intel’s just taken the covers off the high-powered versions of its new Broadwell architecture. That is to say, the 5th generation Intel Core i3-i7 chips that will make your next laptop better than ever. Read more…
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Intel Broadwell: The Badass Brains That Will Power Your Next PC
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
With 4K slowly but surely making its way to the mainstream, it was only a matter of time before the Ultra HD format hit Roku—perhaps the most promising streaming device on the market . Now, not only will Roku be hooking up with Netflix to start streaming in 4K, but it’ll be teaming up with Best Buy’s Insignia and Haier to offer Roku-powered TVs for all your content-streaming needs. Read more…
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Future Roku Devices Will Stream Netflix in 4K
Right now in Hamburg, Germany, the largest European hacker association, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), is holding its 31st annual congress that’s a four-day fest of all things hacking. Other than having a pretty rad name , CCC is well-known for detailing all the crazy (and sometimes scary) shit they can do. They’ve just added another one to the list. Read more…
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Hackers Say They Can Copy Your Fingerprint From Just a Photograph
Gmail has been blocked in China , following months of disruption. Reports suggest that China’s Great Firewall is to blame, with large numbers of users being cut off from their email since last Friday. Read more…
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Gmail Has Been Blocked in China
Yet another new restaurant with robot servers has opened in China. And the owners seem determined to test Disney’s patience with intellectual property laws. Why? The name of the restaurant is apparently Wall.e — just like the cute little robot worker from the 2008 Pixar film. Read more…
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Wall.e Restaurant Staffed With Robots Opens in China
How hard can it be to blow up a building? My childhood experience with knocking over waist-high towers of cardboard blocks leads me to say “not hard, ” but this botched job by a demolition team in Sevastopol suggests otherwise. I mean, come on guys. Read more…
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Worst Demolition Team Screws Up Same Explosion Twice
When the Miami’s Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science opens in 2016, it’s going to have an absolutely bonkers aquarium—imagine a giant camera lens, tilted on its side, that lets visitors walk below the tank and look up into it. Building it, as you might expect, entailed a feat of perfectly-timed engineering. Read more…
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It Took 25 Hours of Continuous Concrete Pouring To Build This Aquarium