Tag: News

Some dads don’t instill the best values into their kids, and this is one of them. Police are looking for a man who got his toddler to crawl up inside of a BarBerCut Lite game machine at a Salem, New Hampshire mall in order to grab some expensive prizes, including a Nintendo Switch and a Nintendo 3DS.

If you want a robotic army to take over the world, you’ll need the ability to mass produce them. That’s why Boston Dynamics has announced it expects to be ramped up to build over 1,000 of its SpotMini robotic dogs per year by the end of 2019.

Domino’s pizza continues its world domination of the pizza delivery business, by unleashing a new set of pizza delivery drones. This time it is happening in Germany and the Netherlands. The company is using autonomous rovers developed by Starship Technologies, but they are still working on their own delivery drones.

Robots have officially begun their efforts to take out our offspring. A 300 lb. security robot at the Stanford Mall in Palo Alto, California recently knocked down a 16-month old boy before running over his foot and leg.

Robot attacks are on the rise and as technology continues forward, these incidents are only going to get worse. The latest victim is a woman in South Korea who recently called the fire department when her robotic vacuum cleaner tried to vacuum up her head.

I happen to think that one of the best fast foods on the planet is a hot, crunchy, salty, box of fries from McDonald’s. I think many people would agree they have the best fries. McDonald’s fries should be sold in giant buckets like fried chicken, me thinks.

You’ve probably heard by now that the computer network at Sony Pictures was recently hacked. A business being hacked certainly isn’t a good thing, but one interesting tidbit that came out of the hack was some leaked details that Sony Pictures is working on a Super Mario Bros. 

To become a licensed pilot, one needs a recent clean bill of health from an FAA-certified Airman Medical Examiner, to spend about $5,000 on pilot’s education, pass a test on the legalities and physics of airplane flight, log 30 to 40 hours in a plane with an instructor (although most do about 70), fly solo under an instructor’s supervision, and take a flight test.

At Wal-Mart, custonmers have started rolling back prices, not the company. Apparently some cheats scammed Wal-Mart into selling PS4 consoles for just $90. They were able to pull this off thanks to their price-matching guarantee with Amazon and the ability for anybody with a registered Amazon seller’s account to make “authentic-looking sales pages.”

We have known for a while that the Xbox One game console was going to go on sale in China. It is the very first of the next generation consoles to go on sale in the country.

Apple is in the spotlight once again after the announcement of the iPhone 6 and their upcoming smartwatch. The brand also made an appearance at New York Fashion Week, although it wasn’t Tim Cook doing the presenting.

Stirling Matheson is a California native and the son of a punk singer/guitarist and a painter/stylist, and proud owner of one of the world’s unlikeliest resumé. Since graduating from Butler University with a BA in Dance, he’s has worked as a classical ballet dancer and a writer, and is currently working for Complex Magazine, Technabob, and as the Artistic Director of Ballet Theatre of Indiana.

For many, Scribble seemed like the best thing since sliced bread. It was a pen that could copy the color of absolutely anything simply by pushing its built-in scanner against an object. The pen could then be used to write in the scanned color on paper or on a tablet, since a stylus and ink pen version were in the works.

If you go on Facebook, you have undoubtedly seen the satirical stories show up in your feed from places like The Onion and The Daily Currant. It’s very clear from the title of those stories to most of us that they are fake.

Remember those Google barges that had us all curious what Google was up to late last year? One of them was in San Francisco, and another was in Portland. The barge in Portland has reportedly been sold and will be moving across the ocean.

I mentioned yesterday that EA had rolled out a new subscription gaming service that was available for Xbox One gamers only called EA Access. I wondered at the time why it wasn’t going to land for the PS4 console as well.