A man in Michigan was walking the woods recently when he had what could very well be called an adorable encounter with a rarely spotted wild animal. The Winter White Ermine is actually a fancy name for a stark white, short tailed weasel, but few can deny just how adorable this video is. It is […]
From the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC): Be Share Aware. We tell our children it’s good to share – but online it’s different. In fact sometimes it can be dangerous. That’s why we’re asking parents to be Share Aware – and keep children safe online. As a father of three […]
Netflix says it has not made any changes to the way it deals with users who try to access content from the version of the service in another country. But it’s reiterated that doing so is a violation of the terms of service. Several reports had claimed Netflix was cracking down on people who use […]
Rather than sit here and tell you the Pixel dancers (Pixel being the name of the troupe) will astound you with their seamless blending of dance with mind blowing hologram technology, I think it best if you just sit back and watch it yourself. If a picture is worth a thousand words, than these moving […]
A Pirate Party politician is writing an official review of copyright law for the European Parliament. However, reports that Julia Reda will be writing new rules aren’t quite the case. Reda was elected to the European Parliament last May under Germany’s proportional representation voting system. New rules that removed a minimum threshold meant that although […]
I think we can agree that J.J. Abrams treatment of the rebooted Star Trek universe has been pretty badass so far. He’s injected a youthful energy into the series that was always lacking, whilst also making it still appealing to old school fans. But where to go with the rebooted series next is the real […]
Artist Haruka Kojin had a surreal dream one night as a child, and it was so absurd, she decided she had to make it a reality. It involved the floating head of an old man, far larger than real life scale, and with the help of Utsunomiya Museum of Art in Japan and a bunch […]
One of the worst things about the web is the fact that the plethora of information you receive, be it visually or otherwise, is often not fact-checked or verified. Social media has only made this worse by someone finding a touching photo (like the one on the left seen above) and turning it into a […]
Concluding our look back at the stories we covered during 2014 and what happened next, we turn to November. The Unicode Consortium, which develops standards to make sure characters appear consistently across different software and systems, unveiled proposals for changes to emoji, a system of characters for expressing emotions. It suggested the option to choose between […]
Continuing our look at the stories we covered in 2014 and subsequent developments, we turn to September. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani argued that blocking Internet access to cut down political protest was harming the country’s scientific progress. He also lifted a ban on broadband providers offering fast speeds on fixed lines and cellphone networks, something seen as […]