Of all the questions you might conjure for Apple’s coolheaded retail store employees, here’s one you (and they) probably haven’t considered: What does it take to get booted from an Apple Store?
Walking in with a dog? Ordering a pizza and having it delivered to the second floor? Taking your (very tall) wife on a “romantic” date? …
There are a few time-honored methods for settling disputes: Good ol’ fashion fisticuffs are a fairly noble method, but you get all hurt and bruisy and that’s usually not a wise career move. Then there’s always coin flipping, but that usually requires the presence of a coin, which can be annoying to carry around. And aside from arm …
If you can’t join ’em, try and beat ’em—that’s the gist of the reaction by notorious hacker group Anonymous to several of its members’ accounts feeling the banhammer from Google’s new social network site, Google+. But instead of hacking Google+ in retaliation for the bans, Anonymous says it’s launching its own social networking site, …
Imagine hurtling downward at nerve-fraying speeds while shooting slightly backwards before curving into a perfect vertical drop and out again, sort of like surfing the inside bottom-half of the letter ‘s’.
That’s how the world’s steepest rollercoaster brings it, and if you were silly enough to scarf down a plate of nachos and maybe a …
In an attempt to further tighten the national belt, the U.S. House moved this week to cut the James Webb Space Telescope from the budget, effectively threatening NASA’s follow-up to the Hubble, and the future of our eyes-in-space program. There’s something poetic (poetically dismaying, that is) about the timing, too: Space shuttle …
Could the final launch of a space shuttle be derailed by rain and thunderstorms? It’s looking like it.
We’re heading into the space shuttle program’s final lap, the last NASA-based launch of a shuttle in history via the Kennedy Space Center this Friday, so it’s somehow poetic that the weather—a frequent cause of prior shuttle launch …
Just how environmentally-friendly is Amazon.com?
Sure, the company has a page dedicated to how it’s “constantly looking for ways to further reduce [its] environmental impact,” boasting that “online shopping is inherently more environmentally friendly than traditional retailing” and linking to a study to back that up.
It talks about …
Ever wanted to tell Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber just how much you love them, but lacked the ability to do so in private? Well, a new move by Twitter that could be described as “almost as head-scratchingly bizarre as sending you emails everytime someone mentions you” will change that – until the celebrities of the world demand it changes …
Never mind digital bootlegging, the new wave of counterfeiting is all about 3D printing and the creation of replica props from movies and television. Don’t believe me? Then you’re obviously not lawyers for Paramount Pictures, and you’ve clearly never heard of Todd Blatt.
Blatt was served with a Cease & Desist letter by Paramount …
If you plan on driving through Nevada sometime in the next few years, be sure to keep your eye out for other cars missing a key component: their drivers.
Google has been pushing legislation to allow for self-driving cars in the state since earlier this year, and has admitted to testing robotic-driven vehicles on California highways …
We here at Techland have a love/hate relationship with machines. And by “hate” I mean sometimes we hyperbolize the thought of machines one day becoming our robotic masters.
Sometimes, though, machines are capable of doing wonderful, beautiful things, such as giving our furry friend in the above video a new set of legs to hop around …
Close your eyes and quietly repeat after me: “Om mani padme hum, om mani padme hum…” Feel anything unusual? You know, like a magnetic chill down your spine?
No? Don’t feel bad. I’m just teasing. That’s actually a popular Tibetan Buddhist mantra. And don’t be silly, you can’t really “feel” the Earth’s magnetic field, though according …
