A program rumored to launch as soon as next week will allow customers to lease Apple hardware, but financing companies can lock down those devices for missed payments. The Apple… Read the rest of the article: Apple's upcoming leasing program may come with a big caveat
The latest addition to LEGO's Ideas is a gorgeous dose of nostalgia. The upcoming X-Files set was introduced by none other than Gillian Anderson herself. When a mysterious black box… Read the rest of the article: Gillian Anderson reveals X-Files LEGO set
China's humanoid robots continue to improve their kung fu and have expanded into MMA cage fighting. The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend tournament is a showcase for EngineAI's humanoid robot, the… Read the rest of the article: Humanoid robot keeps fighting, even after his block was knocked off!
Everyone in Seattle and beyond is obsessed with a raccoon with a spinal condition. Kiana Hall recorded a video of a ball-shaped creature with long legs, resembling a cryptid or… Read the rest of the article: Jimothy is the weird little raccoon we need in these dark times
Riot Fest has packed its lineup for 2026, with the Pixies, the Sex Pistols (sans Johnny Rotten), Patti Smith, and… William Shatner? The 95-year-old actor/space tourist/horse semen owner/singer and his… Read the rest of the article: William Shatner's metal band is playing Riot Fest
Tesla is finally selling a bicycle, something the company's fans have apparently been speculating about excitedly for years. This bike, however, is not an e-bike and is not for adults.… Read the rest of the article: Tesla's latest offering is a $225 bike for toddlers
To celebrate what is somehow the tenth anniversary of Stranger Things, Netflix is turning up the nostalgia to 11 with Stranger Things: VHS special edition. According to a Netflix press… Read the rest of the article: Watch the first season of Stranger Things in full 1980s pan and scan VHS glory
Yellowstone tourons, AKA tourist/morons, regularly get stomped, gored, and launched into the air by bison when disregarding the rules and disrespecting wildlife. In a rare turn of events, a man… Read the rest of the article: Tourist yeeted by Yellowstone bison not at fault, for once
Streaming services and Plex are both great ways to spend a lot of time scrolling through options without actually watching anything. A new app takes all your Plex content and… Read the rest of the article: Turn your Plex library into live cable with Bunny Ears TV
Since North Carolina's famed 11-foot-8-inch can-opener bridge was raised to 12 feet and 4 inches, the bridge's steady flow of victims has slowed to a trickle. Thanks to a major… Read the rest of the article: Louisville's Can Opener gives 11foot8 a run for its money, peeling open trucks at a rate of about 1 per day
The journal Nature has posted a simplified but surprisingly entertaining and informative Mars terraforming simulation. For each of the five steps in the process: heat the planet, make a water… Read the rest of the article: Nature's Mars simulator scores your terraforming skills
A dispute in Lower Manhattan resulted in the evacuation of a hotel when one of the participants responded with bear spray. The altercation spilled out into the hallway, and the… Read the rest of the article: Bear spray incident prompts evacuation of NYC hotel
NASA will soon embark on a first-of-its-kind rescue mission, sending a robot to save a space observatory falling to Earth. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a space observatory that… Read the rest of the article: NASA's robot rescue of the Swift space telescope launches June 30
Not content with being a writer, podcaster, comedian, science educator, and YouTuber, Hank Green released a gamified productivity app last year. Focus Friend encourages you to stop touching your phone,… Read the rest of the article: Pick the hub word last in 4×3 and you lose 100 points
An eccentric dentist with the ear of the President had a plan to win the war against Japan. In a letter to FDR, Lytle "Doc" Adams suggested that bats, the… Read the rest of the article: The dentist who convinced FDR to bomb Japan with bats
Landing somewhere between a smartphone and a dumbphone, the upcoming Commodore Callback 8020 breaks the social media addiction. Commodore went from selling the best-selling computer of all time, the Commodore… Read the rest of the article: The Commodore Callback 8020 is a retro cool audio-centric flip phone that blocks social media apps
The massive consulting firm KPMG had to pull a lengthy report on the use of Agentic AI after it was found to be riddled with AI-generated fabrications and mangled citations.… Read the rest of the article: Report on AI use in business rife with AI hallucinations
Pemba, a modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot, is on an expedition slated to culminate with a summit of Mount Everest. Unitree's robots can pull off impressive kung fu and parkour,… Read the rest of the article: Robots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest?
The Playdate is a one-of-a-kind game console with a 2.7 inch screen, not a device on which one might expect to play an MMO. It has everything you would expect… Read the rest of the article: PointlessQuest puts a full MMO on Playdate's 2.7-inch screen
The public's desire for a handbag made of leather created in a lab using cells from a T. Rex was vastly overestimated by the auction house tasked with its sale.… Read the rest of the article: T-Rex leather handbag failed to sell at auction for $500k
