Minecraft’s a pretty awesome game to play, but what makes it truly awesome- what makes the game truly enjoyable- is the online play. There’s something uniquely satisfying about logging in and seeing an entire city stretching out before you, with the knowledge that you helped build it. There’s something undeniably enjoyable about collaborating...

Patent troll. There are few words that inspire more ire, few phrases which provoke more disgust in someone who knows anything about copyright law. Patent trolls are the bottom-feeding scum of the industry. They purchase, acquire, or invent ludicrously general software patents- for example “a security solution which makes remote license check to a remote...

Here’s something in the arcade gaming world that nobody thought would ever happen: Pinball machines – which are still made new to this day as shown above – are actually more popular than arcade video game machines. Quite a turnaround, eh? Pinball has been around a very, very long time – as in since the 1700s. Yes, the technology is...

The way medicine is administered in the Star Trek universe is via a thing called a hypospray or “hypo” for short. Well, as you can see from the above video… that’s a hypospray. It’s not called that in the video, but it is a needle-less method of injecting fluids into the body. And the funny thing is that it even looks like a...

The game being played in the video above is called The Hidden if you want to check it out, but what makes this video a gem (at least for the first 45 seconds of it) is the spot-on impression of Morgan Freeman. You know, the actor from movies like The Shawshank Redemption and Driving Miss Daisy. This has been said before and will be said again – what makes...

You can tell a lot about a person through observation. How they dress, how they behave in public, how they talk, how they move…and apparently, how they surf. Well, sort of. According to a study which will be published in an upcoming issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, one’s browsing habits on the web are largely indicative of one’s...

On one of the crew t-shirts is seen “End of an Era”; that’s because Shuttle Endeavor in this video is getting prepared for its final departure – as in the last one it ever takes. America was at one point very “space crazy” where everyone was talking about it. Called the “Space Race”, it started in 1957 and ended...

The self-driving car. You’ve heard about Google making this a reality, but you’ve also heard that, well, the way they do it isn’t safe; the reason for that is that Google, as big as they are, just isn’t a car company and never will be. Volvo on the other hand is obviously a car company and has a very strong reputation on building some of...

Where we work is a lot more important than some people realize. If your workplace is a filthy, chaotic mess, your mind is going to suffer. You’ll be less happy, less energetic, and less productive- even if you don’t realize it. Proper posture, well-timed breaks and good sleeping and eating routines are only part of the equation. One’s...

The following quick-and-easy trick is something anyone can do with any digital camera that has an autofocus feature. Here’s a photo of an old beat-up USB pendrive I have:In the way I shot this photograph, I purposely put the left side in focus and the right side out-of-focus to give the photo some more depth. Did I take the photo with a ritzy camera?...