Apple Acquisitions

"Apple buys a company every three to four weeks"

Iceberg Misconceptions

"You're Drawing Icebergs All Wrong"

Juanita Moody And The Cuban Missle Crisis

"The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who Helped Avert a Nuclear War"

Fry's Gone

"Fry's Electronics is shutting its doors for good"

The Bayesian Trap

Video: "The Bayesian Trap"

3D-Printed Firearms Update

"3D-Printed Guns Are Getting More Capable and Accessible"

Bad Prison Software

"Software bugs reportedly keep Arizona inmates jailed past release dates"

Ice Cycling

"This guy replaced his bike wheels with circular saws so he could ride on a frozen lake." (Via H.R.)

Queen's Gambit Re-Imagined

"The Queen's Gambit, but for Children's Board Games".

My favorite:

 

Art Heists

"The 25 Greatest Art Heists of All Time"

Mammoth DNA

"Oldest DNA Sequenced Yet Comes From Million-Year-Old Mammoths"

Ten Years Ago

See what the Internet looked like 10 years ago.

SawStop Explained

"The Table Saw That Won't Cut Your Fingers Off".

Includes an informative video:

xkcd On mRNA Vaccines

xkcd explains mRNA vaccines using Star Wars.

Chicxulub Update

"Did Jupiter kill the dinosaurs?"

Ransomware Is A Growth "Industry"

"Ransomware gangs made at least $350 million in 2020. The figure represents a 311% increase over ransomware payments recorded the previous your, in 2019."

Untrustworthy Watchers

"A Home Security Worker Hacked Into Surveillance Systems to Watch People Have Sex":

Telesforo Aviles, 35, pleaded guilty to a count of computer fraud in federal court this week, confessing that he inappropriately accessed the accounts of customers some 9,600 times over the course of several years. He is alleged to have done this to over 200 customers.

Authorities say that the IT technician “took note of which homes had attractive women, then repeatedly logged into these customers’ accounts in order to view their footage for sexual gratification.” He did this by adding his personal email address to customer accounts, which ultimately hooked him into “real-time access to the video feeds from their homes.”

 

Simpsons Intro Remix

"The Simpsons Intro Recreated Using Stock Footage".

 Actually, quite well done! 

Gaming Pigs

"Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find".

 

Deception Detection

"Humans Are Pretty Lousy Lie Detectors"