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Dark Souls Streamer Gets Incredibly Lucky… Then Dies!
Dark Souls Streamer Gets Incredibly Lucky… Then Dies! Dark Souls is definitely a game that is pretty hard on you. Those new to the series quickly learn that you will die and die often. The game is not unfair, but it often punishes unwise actions. While playing the game, however,…
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Japanese Rocket Spectacularly Crashes Seconds After Launch
Japanese Rocket Spectacularly Crashes Seconds After Launch In the last 10 year, we have seen more and more ‘private’ rocket launches than arguably ever before. With the technology seemingly being more accessible you only have to look at Elon Musk’s Space X Project to see the potential. Unfortunately, however, a…
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Botched YouTube Stunt Gets Woman Jailed For Manslaughter
YouTube Stunt Goes Wrong Resulting in Death and Prison sentence Last summer you may have heard of a YouTube stunt that went very wrong indeed. You probably heard of several actually including an idiot who stuck a microwave to his head. That being said, a young couple in search of…
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Smartcard Maker Plastc Shuts Down, Screwing Thousands of Backers
It sounded like a great idea: having a single Smartcard to replace multiple credit cards; less cards to carry and manage. This was the idea of a startup company called Plastc Inc, who has raised more than $9 million in pre-order sales across 80,000 backers but as of Thursday, April…
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Tony Hawk Documentary Continues Despite Crowdfunding Failure
Failure is part of life and what counts is what do afterwards. The Tony Hawk game documentary, Pretending I’m a Superman, might have failed its crowdfunding goal by a long shot, but the project continues. The Indiegogo campaign only brought in about a fourth of the funding goal, and while…
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Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Security Reportedly Bypassed with Photo
Samsung has freshly launched their flagship Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus smartphones on Wednesday, touting new security features including a facial recognition and iris scanning system that unlocks the phone instead of the usual fingerprint and keypad code unlocking methods. These biometric systems are becoming more popular and are being…
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Man Spends 11 Hours Tweeting About Trying to Make a Cuppa With Wi-Fi Kettle
Have you ever had one of those mornings, where you absolutely need a nice cup of tea, but you can’t be bothered to get up and flick the switch to boil the water? Then get a Wi-Fi enabled kettle that you can turn on from your phone! Just… proceed with…
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Windows 10 Cortana Only Works If You’re American?
The launch of the much-anticipated operating system from Microsoft occurred at midnight two days ago. I installed it onto my laptop yesterday and so far, I have to be honest, I’m not overly keen. The OS seems much slower to boot and load applications than previous editions including Windows 8.1 but does…
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eBay Shuts Down Their 1-Day Delivery Service
Ebay has been running their eBay Now service since 2012 in selected cities, but not anymore. They are now closing the service and throwing they keys away. It originally started in San Francisco in 2012 and expanded to other regions later on and it was meant as a competition to…
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Apparently Microsoft has Never Heard of 4chan
It’s not uncommon for the business world and popular culture to clash, more often than not, it ends in hilarious consequences, but Microsofts’ latest gaff may be one of the best ones yet. It seems that no one at Microsoft has ever heard of a little thing called 4chan, legendary…
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Apple Livestream Hiccups Anger Viewers
It’s been the hype of news for the last couple of weeks and tonight was finally the time, or so we hoped with Apple’s big event and unveiling of the new iPhone. Sadly the event has run far from smooth this time, with reports popping up all over social media…
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Texan Briefly Becomes Worlds First Trillionaire Due To Bank Glitch
Can you image what might happen if you found the almost unimaginable amount of money in your bank account that Reggie Theus did? Four trillion dollars was sitting in Mr Theus’ bank account when he logged into his bank to check his account status, but I can bet he wasn’t…
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