Browsing Category: Tech News

  • This chain-smoking robot is taking one for the team.

    Researchers at the WYSS Institute at Harvard University developed a robot whose only task is smoking cigarettes. The smoke then goes through a tiny chip, lined with living human cells, that is used to study the effects of smoking on our lungs.  Read more… More about Mashable Video, Robot, Smoking, Harvard, and Cancer Research Source: …

    June 13, 2018 | by Raheel
  • This sneaker designer created one of the most valuable kicks ever

    Sneaker designer Jeff Staple is responsible for creating one of the most valuable sneakers ever with the Nike Pigeon Dunks. The shoes’ limited release caused a riot in 2005 that needed NYPD assistance. Read more… More about Fashion, Design, Mashable Video, New York, and Shoes Source: Mashable | This sneaker designer created one of the …

    June 13, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Steve Trevor is coming back for 'Wonder Woman 2' and we're not screaming, you're screaming. (We're screaming.)

    Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins announced Wednesday morning the game-changing return of Chris Pine as Steve Trevor for the film’s 2019 sequel. SEE ALSO: DC’s Geoff Johns drops big hint about ‘Wonder Woman 2’ Welcome to WONDER WOMAN 1984, Steve Trevor! #WW84 pic.twitter.com/BCLARdVuTu — Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) June 13, 2018 If you saw Wonder Woman …

    June 13, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Newly designed Pride flag is far more inclusive for 2018

    Most products from the 1970’s — green bean jello, lettuce molds— don’t deserve a reboot. The rainbow Pride flag might be the lonely exception. Portland designer Daniel Quasar recently launched a Kickstarter for his newly designed LGBTQ Pride flag.  Quasar has crafted a flag featuring multiple new colors, each representing a gender identity/sexual orientation, as …

    June 13, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Opendoor raises $325M to make buying and selling homes a near-instant process

    Investors are placing another huge bet on a startup looking to reinvent a decades-old process into something that’s near instant, this time pouring $325 million into Opendoor — a company that wants to bring the complex operation of buying or selling a home down to something similarly as simple as hailing a Lyft. The idea …

    June 13, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Ashton Kutcher and James Corden's rap battle gets very brutal, very fast

    This one really doesn’t pull any punches. In the latest episode of Drop the Mic, Ashton Kutcher goes head-to-head with James Corden in a fiery rap battle — and absolutely nothing appears to be off the table. SEE ALSO: Rap battle between Samuel L. Jackson and James Corden is 8 minutes of pure savagery In …

    June 13, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Nifty Spanish reporter gets around French-only rule with phone translator

    As the French national soccer team gears up for this week’s World Cup, speculation continues to mount over the playing future of one of the team’s star forwards, Antoine Griezmann. And journalists want to know what the heck is going on — in any language. SEE ALSO: La Liga spies on fútbol fans through its …

    June 13, 2018 | by Raheel
  • So, here's a wax figure of Ed Sheeran casually surrounded by cats

    Never thought we’d say this, but a wax version of Ed Sheeran is currently surrounded by felines in a London cat cafe. Help it? A wax model of the Grammy-winning artist, created by waxworks museum Madame Tussauds, took centre stage at Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium in London on Tuesday. The cat is LITERALLY out of …

    June 13, 2018 | by Raheel