September 12 is the National Video Game Day. On this day, we celebrate video and the countless hours of fun they give us. Did you know that? We sure didn’t, but it’s an excellent excuse to continue our series of articles on strange video game stuff. So far, we’ve covered: 6 of the Most Bizarre …
Florida has a problem. Alright, several, but we’re talking a particularly big one. A 16-foot-long problem that weighs about 165 pounds and looks like a giant snake. Invasive Burmese pythons have been rampaging through Florida’s wild parts over the last few decades. The Sunshine State is apparently a python paradise, and the snakes are multiplying …
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These are the dog days of summer — quite literally. August 26 is National Dog Day. On this day, we appreciate our best friends, the dogs (as if we didn’t do it every day of the year). It’s also a day to raise awareness of dog adoption, so that all pooches could find a forever …
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On December 17, 1903, the clumsy and unwieldy Wright Flyer soared through the air for 12 seconds, covering 120 feet. It doesn’t sound like much, but it marked the first time humanity had achieved sustained, powered flight. Today, on August 19, we celebrate National Aviation Day. Coinciding with Wilbur Wright’s birthday, this day commemorates the …
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Are you one of those people who always seem to get pulled out of the airport security line for a pat-down even though you made perfectly sure to empty your pockets? Have you wondered why that is? Well, not to be rude, but it could be because things are a bit swampy down south. A …
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Japanese gaming giant Nintendo made its long-awaited Switch 2 console available to ravenous gamers in early June. The system has been a smash hit and stores can’t keep them on the shelves no matter how hard they try. That’s partially because it seems they can’t even keep the consoles in the trucks that are supposed …
The Cold War might as well have been called the Spy War because, really, that’s what it was. The CIA and its Soviet counterpart, the KGB, were constantly coming up with new, sneaky ways to find out what was happening on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Some spying techniques the CIA developed were …
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If you have a computer powered by disembodied human brain, is it a man or machine? That’s a question that comes up in many science fiction stories where combining human biology with computers is possible. Soon, we may have to start asking that question in real life as well. An Australian biotech company Cortical Labs …
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Do you remember the Xbox Kinect? The motion capture device released in 2010 for the Xbox 360 game console, and a second-generation version came with the follow-up Xbox One machine. The Kinect was part of the motion control craze that also spawned the Nintendo Wii. This thing was supposed to revolutionize playing video games by …
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Looking at things from the ground level, we can only see so much about what’s around us. Thanks to map services, like Google Maps, it’s easy to get a bird’s eye view of your surroundings. Sometimes, however, that view can reveal some strange things. People scrolling around the world on Google Maps have spotted many …
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