The Scariest Game Of The Year Is Only 7 Bucks Right Now
“Outlast” is also one of the best. In September, I wrote about Outlast, the first person terror game from the ten-person Canadian Studio Red Barrels: Still, the game frightened me into near tears....
View Article"Tutting" Is A Really Weird And Hypnotic Hand Dance That's Super Popular On Vine
It’s stupid but I can’t seem to take my eyes away? So this is tutting. This kid is really good at it. vine.co This type of hand dance thing actually comes from the '70s funk community. vine.co But...
View ArticleYour Basic Snapchat Info Just Got Leaked
Last week, researchers warned that Snapchat’s username and phone numbers were vulnerable to hacking. On New Year’s Eve, someone made millions of them public. A sample of usernames and numbers: Last...
View ArticleWhy Is Mindy Kaling On Tinder?
The same reason as everyone else: desperation. One of the small joys of the Tinder — the popular lightning-round dating app — is seeing a familiar face in the sea of sad, scary, unbalanced and/or...
View ArticleOne Theory Behind Nest's Jaw-Dropping Valuation
The smart thermostat company is raising a big pile of cash that values it at $2 billion, according to Re/code. That’s because there’s a lot more work to be done, say industry insiders. Nest Labs is...
View ArticlePS4 Owners Are Watching Three Times As Much Porno As Xbox One Owners
The latest console war may have just begun, but the PS4 is winning at streaming hardcore porn. SugarDVD is the Netflix of porno—the largest online renter of porn DVDs—and the only company that makes a...
View ArticleTwitter's Biggest Problem Illustrated In One Chart
Signing up users is the easy part. Enders Analysis / Via endersanalysis.com Twitter: @IanMaude Twitter has publicly admitted it has a problem with its "onboarding" process. This chart by the European...
View ArticleDoes Twitter Know Ezra Klein's Next Move?
What to read in the Twitter’s “following” tea leaves. Could we see a WonkVox in the near future? Matt Roth / Via mattrothphoto.com According to a New York Times report, Washington Post columnist and...
View ArticleThe Chrome Extension That Bans The Word "Millennials"
And replaced it with “pesky whipper-snappers.” Finally. A sample of a de-millennial-ized webpage: LINK: "Millenials Begone" Chrome Extension Are you sick of the word "millennials"? No? If not, please...
View ArticleNintendo 64 Vs. Xbox One
Should you buy the console that just came out, or the one from 1996?
View ArticleIf You Ask Siri About "Her," She Throws Some Serious Shade
The intelligence may be artificial, but the rivalry is very real. In writer-director Spike Jonze new film Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays a depressed man named Theodore Twombly who falls in love with the...
View ArticleDid You Know That If You Google The Word "Freezing" The Results Are Full Of...
Be careful if you’re looking for news about the polar vortex … nothing is safe from Internet porn. Warning: This post is obviously NSFW. If you search the word "freezing" on Google right now you'll...
View ArticlePinterest Just Bought A Visual Search Startup
Pinterest’s search potential could definitely use the boost from VisualGraph. Handout / Reuters Pinterest has acquired a small two-man shop called VisualGraph, which specializes in image recognition,...
View ArticleCES 2014 Is Turning Into A Funeral For 3D
For some technologies, the Consumer Electronics show is like a hospital. The place you’re born, and the place you’ll die. Journalists take photos of a Panasonic television with Panasonic "Life Screen"...
View ArticleThere Is A Videogame That Looks Like "Steamboat Willie" And It Is Going To Be...
Cuphead is out late 2014.
View ArticleWhat Videogames Would Look Like Without Outsourcing
Studios in the developing world build huge chunks of the games we play. Removing their work leaves surreally bereft 3D worlds. John Gara/BuzzFeed Last month, Michael Thomsen, writing for the New...
View ArticleT-Mobile's CEO Crashed An AT&T Party In Vegas And Was Thrown Out
John Legere, who was recently called the most exciting telecom CEO ever, was booted out of AT&T’s CES party after showing up to see Macklemore perform. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were performing at...
View ArticleFinally There Is An "Alien" Game That Is Actually Like The Movies
Announced today, Alien Isolation is out late this year . The announcement trailer is slow, quiet, and terrifying—everything we love about the series.
View ArticleI Nuked My Twitter Feed And You Should Too
Reaching for “Twitter Zero.” 1:00pm 5:00pm Yesterday I did what for me qualifies as the unthinkable: I nuked my Twitter feed. For the better part of five years, Twitter has been the dominant internet...
View Article21 Google Book Scans That Bring Surprising Intimacy To The Digital Book World
Just when physical book lovers were losing hope in a world of Kindles and iPads, Google Book Art emerged. Since 2011, this tumblr has collected the detailed, often beautiful, images that lay not in...
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