Think you know the Marvel Universe? Well, your trivia knowledge probably can’t match that of this four-year-old girl.
From the God of Thunder’s common name to the substance that makes Captain America’s shield, to Iron Man’s girlfriend’s identity and…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a special envoy to Beijing, state media announces, amid cooling relations after weeks of tension.
In the run-up to Tuesday’s big Microsoft Xbox One reveal, many pondered the fate of the beloved Xbox 360 controller, perhaps the best gaming controller in the business. Would Microsoft make it radically different? Bigger? Unwieldy? Add a touchpad like Sony? Today we have our answer. It’s different and yet, based on what I now know and have experienced firsthand, it’s also somehow better.
Let’s start with the look and feel. Yes, it’s black (obviously, you could always get Xbox 360 controllers in a variety of colors). This is something I guessed at, as most modern-day gaming hardware favors the dark over the light. Despite the brushed finished, the controller is not rubberized. It’s hard plastic that feels good in your hands. It’ll be interesting to see how that finish responds to hours of game play. Will it make your hands more or less sweaty? Read more…
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Nymphomaniac, a movie directed by Lars von Trier (he did Melancholia), will use a groundbreaking digital editing technique to show graphic sex scenes on the screen. For the non-explicit portions of the sex scenes, you’ll see celebrities and actors you…
A “stocktake” of UK nature suggests 60% of animal and plant species have declined in the past 50 years – and one in 10 could end up disappearing.
Bailey’s has real cream. The alcohol prevents it from spoiling for at least 2 years!
Through a process that is only known by few, the liqueur and cream that make up Bailey’s Irish Cream are blended together so that they don’t separate during storage. Storage, can last up to 30 months after the beverage was first distilled.
The whiskey contains no added preservatives, because the liqueur is acting as somewhat of a natural preservative which keeps the cream from spoiling, even after two years of sitting on the shelf.
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Name: Alcohoot
One-Liner Pitch: Alcohoot is a breathalyzer that attaches…
My new Guardian column, “Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance,” discusses the way that the governments’ reliance on social networks for intelligence purposes means that they can’t intervene to help their populations get better at trading their privacy for services. That’s a crisis. If online oversharing is a public health problem, then [...]
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Here’s a lesson in what not to do online, straight from the Twitter for Dummies handbook.
Our story begins on Sunday in Norwich, England, where an organized cycling event called the Boudicca Sportive ride was taking place. Tensions between cyclists and automobile drivers are well documented the world over, but this Sunday tweet from a local driver using the Twitter handle @EmmaWay20 took things to a new level:
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Way probably thought her friends would get a good laugh out of how she put that road-hogging cyclist in his place — but she couldn’t possibly have expected this Twitter response from the Norwich police: Read more…
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If you weren’t excited from the explosions-filled Man of Steel movie trailer, after seeing this one that teases General Zod, you will be. It reveals the conflict of the film and shows even more awesome action sequences. Read more… &…
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen pays tribute to the man who killed himself in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, saying it was a “political act”.
Fifty five beaches in England meet tough new EU standards on water quality to achieve Blue Flag awards.
Data requests without a warrant. Government refusing to notify journalists they’re being spied on. Equating journalists and reporting to spies and espionage. Potential “conspiracy to commit espionage” charges. “Virtually every move made by the Justice Department against WikiLeaks has now also been deployed on mainstream US journalists,” writes Trevor Timm at Freedom of the Press [...]
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DeviantArt’s TommyFilth modded a KitchenAid mixer and gave it a perfect Boba Fett makeover: “I asked for a Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas, I pointed my wife toward a broken one on eBay so that I could refurbish it, as I was taking it apart I got some inspiration for the paint job and this is [...]
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Maeghan Hadley, of One Day Ranch pet rescue, checks over a kitten pulled from under the rubble of a mobile home destroyed by Sunday’s tornado in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, near Shawnee, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki / AP)
Four RAF rescue helicopters were out of service when a cargo ship ran aground off the coast of north Wales, an accident report finds.
In the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports on new outrage over the business of selling bile extracted from Asiatic black bears, a threatened species also known as the moon bear. The extraction process requires open wounds for “milkings” that take place three times a day. “The bears’ teeth are invariably worn down from gnawing [...]
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Compassion AU helps to release children from poverty by sponsoring a child.
