For anything you’ve got going on in your life, there’s an app for that. Apps are becoming the next big thing in accomplishing small, menial tasks that we do everyday. Having said that, quite a few of these apps aren’t so bad. There’s a fast food app that provides you with the nutritional breakdown of…
Taking inspiration from Japan (duh), children’s action figures (aww), and even the Transformers movies (no comment), researchers at MIT and Harvard have actually created machines capable of transforming themselves from little more than a sheet of paper into a fully-fledged walking automaton. That’s right. These robots are self-assembling. Imagine how useful that technology would be…
Noticing that when you browse there are tons more advertisements on the pages you visit? Maybe there are more pop-ups, banners to questionable sites, and underlined key-words that promise coupons? Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you’ve been infected with the Browser Shop virus. Oh joy. Common Symptoms The web pages you visit…
As The Legend of Korra book 3 begins to speed up into its final chapters, each episode leads directly into the next. So, we begin where we left off, with Korra and Asami captured by the Earth Queen’s forces and Mako and Bolin taken by the red lotus. Both are headed straight for Ba Sing…
As cars become more and more reliant on their computer chips, consumer groups and security experts have begun to worry about their vulnerability to cyberattacks. It could be a simple hack like using the car’s computer system to unlock a car, or more serious like actually hijacking a car even from a distance. Non-profit Hacking…
Kickstarter has opened up an opportunity to any and all aspiring creators, artists, directors, and people who need crowd-funding to push their project from dream to reality. Since launching in 2009, over 6 million people have joined this popular crowd-funding site, pledging over a billion to 67,000 projects. In 2012, it expanded to cover the…
Livestreaming play sessions has been one of gaming’s biggest trends in recent years. Tackling dungeons and braving team deathmatches all while thousands of internet spectators watch and comment on your play has created much notoriety for streamers and freshly popular games and more and more people look to the internet for their entertainment. Much of…
Although the reasons why hackers do what they do are unknown, it is becoming a rising trend to look for security flaws and amass as much information as possible. The result is a sadistic library collection, and this time, the people who are declared to be the perpetrators come from the sort of groups that…
Ever since the rise of e-readers, Barnes & Noble has been in trouble. Their Nook is not nearly as popular as Amazon’s Kindle, and the same-day delivery service provided by Amazon also poses a threat to their shipment of online purchases. In attempt to take back the online market, Barnes & Noble is uniting with…
Nigerian princes emailing the elderly for wire transfers and credit card info are no longer the main online security threat. Malware has gotten better at hiding and tricking you or a company’s servers into revealing bits of personal info that can be bought and sold. This is no longer a paranoid scare tactic — this is how…
Fans of HBO’s long-rurnning vampire soap opera “True Blood” may not be in mourning over the show’s ending (which occurs later this month) for long. Actor Stephen, who plays droopy-eyed vampire Bill Compton on the show (and who has also slipped into the director’s chair for a few episodes), recently let drop a delicious little…
This summer, FX brings Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s The Strain to TV for some creepily delicious vampire horror. We’re here to bring you our weekly take on just how well the adaptation holds up. Last episode, the series actually reached an unexpected height, ditching its more convoluting elements in lieu of telling a complete story, bringing the CDC team…
Movies based on comic books have been hitting theaters since the ‘90s, but not quite as relentlessly as those in the last decade or so. It’s only August and five—that’s right five!—comic-based blockbusters have hit the silver screen somewhere near you, and there are only sure to be more. For publishers, movies allow them to…
Over the years, Marvel has made a name for itself in several ways. Contrasting the teen angst and melodrama that is DC, Marvel has established itself as the jovial and more adventurous of the two. They’re known for their loveable heroes and inferior villains, a reciprocal of DC’s model. They’ve accumulated merit for their illustrious…
Primetime hit “The X-Files” ended its nine-season reign as the quintessential sci-fi program over a decade ago. Since then, we’ve heard little from (former) Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, save for a Playstation 2 video game and a modestly budgeted (and modestly earning) theatrical release by the name of The X-Files: I Want…