What do you do with a decommissioned Boeing 747? If you’re the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, the answer’s as awesome as it is unexpected: You turn it into a water slide.
The 747, which spent 39 years in the air before coming to its final resting place south of Portland, will sit on the roof of the …
The official number on the front cover of this week’s issue of Journey Into Mystery is #622, but it’s effectively the first issue of a new series by Kieron Gillen and Dougie Braithwaite. It’s yet another event-driven revival of an old title, the kind of trademark-protecting gesture that big publishers have to do all the time. What Gillen …
Bummed you can’t make it out to Indio for Coachella this weekend? Lucky for you it’s 2011, and nothing of cultural significance ever happens that’s not instantly livestreamed on the Internet.
Coachella’s YouTube channel, sponsored by Wrigley’s 5 Gum, is probably the easiest place to watch the performances live. With three different …
By the close of summer, NASA’s Space Shuttles will fly no more. The program that began with the launch of Columbia on April 12, 1981 is due to close with the launch and return of Atlantis on June 28, 2011. The program’s total missions when 2011 ends will be 135. Next steps: Official retirement, sendoff parties, and plans to dismantle …
If you tend to “accidentally” break copyright with YouTube videos, beware: If you keep it up, you’ll end up in YouTube Copyright School.
The new oddly-similar-to-anyone-who’s-been-to-traffic-school rule comes as a result of YouTube re-examining its approach to copyright infringement, according to the site’s official blog:
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One of these days, News Corp may get some good news from ailing social network MySpace, but today’s not that day: The media monolith’s being sued for sharing user data with third parties without consent. This, despite claiming it told users access to such information was restricted.
The class-action lawsuit, Virtue vs. Myspace Inc., …
Plastic brains are kind of boring, and creepy, and impenetrable (hey, they’re plastic!). Real brains are so messy. Why not something you can poke and probe with a digital scalpel on your computer?
Wait no longer: The world’s first fully computerized brain map (note: not brain–still working on that) hit the grid yesterday after …
Jerry Lawson, the man widely-credited with inventing the video game cartridge and its complimentary console, died of a heart attack this past Saturday at his home in Mt. View, California. He was 70-years old.
A native of Queens, Jerry moved to Silicon Valley in the ’70s to become a pioneer of its early tech scene. Digital Trends …
Heads up on a recently revealed vulnerability in the popular Skype app for Android. While the app itself hasn’t been exposing anyone’s personal information, various rogue Android apps could theoretically exploit a weakness in how Skype handles things like your username, phone number, e-mail address, chat logs and more.
Apparently the …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Douglas Wolk, Matt Peckham and Graeme McMillan talk about a handful of books that were nominated for this year’s Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards that we didn’t review when they were originally released: …
No business likes to get bad reviews on websites like Yelp, but one profession may have worked out a way to make sure those bad reviews don’t stick around for long: Copyright infringement.
Around 3,000 doctors in the US use the services of a company called Medical Justice which, for just $1,200 a year, will protect its customers from …
For passionate literature fans, one of the more stifling limitations of eBooks (well, eReaders) has been their inability to capture the precious autographs of a book’s author. At least until now.
At a signing for his book “Hyperformance,” author and senior consultant for United States Special Operations Command, T.J. Waters, was …
