Facebook was originally conceived of as a way to bring people together — reconnect with high school friends, join groups with similar interests, keep in touch with your family in different countries. Love it or hate it, you probably have much different relationships than you ever would have had without the social network. Now, one woman is... Read More
Leave it to the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, to bring us this bit of news: Someone invented a drone that can tase people. Or tase bros. Or, as the company behind the project explained, tase "ill-intentioned hoodlums." The CUPID (Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone) drone is capable of sending 80,000 volts of... Read More
The National Security Agency has a certain mystique. After all, it’s the agency that former employee Edward Snowden revealed was collecting massive amounts of metadata (which some people consider spying) on the American public. It’s the reason that Snowden was ultimately forced to flee the United States and seek asylum in Russia to avoid... Read More
Everyone has that one person in their group of friends who doesn't enjoy the same things most people do. Maybe that person doesn't like pizza. Or maybe he or she considers the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie terrible. These opinions would make that friend unpleasant, but it wouldn't make them unlikeable. However, if you have a... Read More