Everyone wants to fight ISIS. One member of Anonymous is doing it by hacking into their Twitter accounts and making them tweet porn. WauchulaGhost, who for some strange reason did not want to give his real name, told the Washington Post that ISIS “doesn’t like porn” and doesn’t like women in general. (He’s definitely right … Continued

The Federal Aviation Administration is fining Amazon $350,000 for not realizing it should take more precaution when shipping a product called “Amazing! LIQUID FIRE”. According to the FAA, Amazon shipped a gallon of the “liquid fire”—in reality, a corrosive drain cleaner—from Kentucky to Colorado in 2014. The company might have gotten away with violating the … Continued

It had to happen sometime. Snapchat may be one of the most popular apps, but millions of face swaps don’t exactly equal cold, hard cash. You know what does? Showing ads between friends’ stories. The good news: You can skip them (for now). The bad news: The video ads are full screen, with sound, and … Continued

PS VR, Sony’s super exceptional VR headset that competes with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has been in development for a while and we’ve been super impressed every time we’ve tried it out. But there’s been one major issue with the headset—no release date. Today in LA Sony announced that PS VR will be … Continued

The best part about flying on an airplane is that moment during the final approach: you look outside your airplane window and see the city where you’re about to land from way up above, and comment on why so many people have pools in their backyards and see how big the freeways are and delight … Continued

I’m not a huge toy collector. I generally exercise my nerd muscles in other ways, like re-watching certain films over and over, including 2001: A Space Odyssey. But this recreation of 2001’s iconic monolith may make me reconsider—though it’s $300, a sum that would probably buy an unlimited supply of bush babies. Technically, it’s not … Continued

Today Apple announced a host of new features for iOS, including more predictive software like QuickType and advanced spotlight search. In order to make these features work, Apple’s deep learning robots will need to analyze a lot of people’s data at once, so Apple announced the integration of a new feature called differential privacy. But … Continued

Van Gogh’s The Starry Night can be recreated in real life in two ways: one of them is to be on drugs, and the other, apparently, is to swirl paint on water like artist Garip Ay. It’s sort of illegal to do the first thing, but you can watch how Ay recreates Starry Night in … Continued

Apple, the perpetual copycat, introduced a ton of new ideas today that weren’t really new at all. Many companies have made the products and features Apple showed off today—and now Apple aims to destroy them with its own better versions. So here is our yearly roundup of the stuff Apple tried to kill at WWDC. … Continued

Not only is James Wan one of the most in-demand directors in Hollywood, he’s a comic book writer, too. Kind of. Wan co-created the comic Malignant Man, which Fox owns the movie rights to, and now a director is attached to the project… you know, besides James Wan. The project has been around for several … Continued

We know our food is incredibly well traveled, but just where does your food come from? A new set of interactive charts help you trace the often serpentine route from farm to table. Researchers at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture have completed an effort to trace just how far food travels across the planet. … Continued

The monster El Niño of 2015-2016 is finally gone, but scientists are still coming to terms with its impacts on the planet. Among those impacts: charging up the global carbon cycle and pushing atmospheric CO2 levels above 400 parts per million (ppm) for an entire year—a first in human history. Humans are constantly adding CO2 … Continued

In response to the deadliest mass shooting in American history, Spotify has created a music playlist, ostensibly to honor the victims and offer support to the communities that were affected. The playlist, called “Pulse” after the gay club in Orlando, Florida where the shooting occurred, includes a photo of a rainbow flag and the following … Continued