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Shaquille O’Neal Dons Different Costumes and Goes Undercover as a Lyft Driver in Atlanta
Shaquille O’Neal donned different costumes and went undercover as a Lyft driver in Atlanta. O’Neal chatted with his passengers about basketball, his favorite movie Kaazam,…
Acclaimed Joey Skaggs Film ‘Art of the Prank’ to Be Featured at San Francisco and NYC Film Festivals
In September 2015, we wrote about Art of the Prank, a full-length documentary about legendary prankster Joey Skaggs and his hilariously glorious history of manipulating…
John Farnworth Sets Guinness World Record Controlling a Soccer Ball Dropped From a Drone
Guinness World Records has shared footage of soccer freestyler John Farnworth setting the world record for the highest soccer ball dropped and controlled. Farnworth had…
How Darth Vader’s Melted Helmet & Many Other Star Wars: The Force Awakens Props Were Crafted
Disney and Lucasfilm have released videos showing how the talented team at the Propshop of Pinewood Studios crafted Darth Vader’s melted helmet and many of…
How the Frustratingly Slow Process of Bureaucracy Came to be Known as ‘Red Tape’
In a new episode of the informative trivia series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains how the expression “red tape” came to describe…
Vocal French Bulldogs Squeal With Joy When Their Human Says That They’re Going to the Dog Park
A pair of adorably vocal French bulldogs named Ganon and Loki were barely able to contain their squealing excitement when their human informed them that…
Project Soli, A Small Sensor Device That Uses Radar to Control Electronics With Hand Gestures
Project Soli is a small sensor device developed by Google ATAP that uses radar to control electronics with hand gestures. The radar and antenna for…
Voltige, An Animated Short About Two Fumbling Mechanics Who Run Into High-Flying Car Trouble
Computer graphics student Léo Brunel of the MOPA college in France has created “Voltige,” a clever animated short film about a pair of fumbling mechanics…
How Researchers Program Robots to Make Moral Decisions and the Challenge That Presents
IEEE Spectrum explores how researchers program robots to make moral decisions and the challenge that presents. There is no clear guide that humans agree on…
Rock Climber Uses Two of LG’s Cordless Vacuums to Scale the Side a Skyscraper in South Korea
LG recently hired professional rock climber Sierra Blair-Coyle to pull off a crazy stunt while demonstrating the suction power of their CordZero vacuum cleaners by…