Hot tech to watch: In the next 4 years, what will you use?

What is going to grow in popularity or improve dramatically in the next four years? From cloud computing to augmented reality, the possibilities are intriguing.

Key to All Optical Illusions Discovered

Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.

Seven Compliments That Won’t Get You Laid

No urban legends, no made-up magazine quotes—these are (sadly) the real deal… from the not-so-savvy sector of bad complimenters out there.

Living computers solve complex math puzzle

The mathematical problem imagines pancakes of varying sizes stacked in random order — each with a burnt side and a golden brown side. The solution requires using the minimum number of manipulations to stack the pancakes according to size, with their burnt sides all facedown. Each manipulation involves flipping one or more pancakes

Why Europeans Are Getting Taller and Americans Aren't

Over the past 30 years, a new breed of “anthropometric historians” has tracked how populations worldwide have changed in stature. Height, they’ve concluded, is a composite code for all the factors that make up a society’s well-being. Height variations within a population are genetic, but height variations between populations are environmental.

Adobe Launched The Free Public Beta Version Of Acrobat.com

The free beta version of Acrobat.com provides a good mix of services to help businesses share and collaborate on documents, with chat and conferencing features as well.

Gun T-shirt 'was a security risk'

A man wearing a T-shirt depicting a cartoon character holding a gun was stopped from boarding a flight by the security at Heathrow's Terminal 5.

Panama Canal Timelapse Video

Why spend hundreds to travel down there on a cruise, when you can watch the whole process of going from the Caribbean to the Pacific in less than 2 minutes?

BlackBerry Twice as Popular as iPhone

An IDC report found that RIM - the company who makes the Blackberry - grabbed 44.5% of the market for the first three months of 2008, up from 35.1% in the previous quarter. Apple's iPhone came in second place with 19.2% of the market in the first quarter, a drop from 26.7% the quarter before.

'Tank on Empty': Krameresque tales from beyond E

A year after launching "Tank on Empty" -- a site dedicated to collecting data and anecdotes about how far cars can drive once the fuel warning light goes on -- the project has managed to land Justin Davis in hot water with worrywarts, motorheads and statisticians … not to mention his own mother. It's also won him many fans and gotten him on 20/20.

America's Top 5 Cleanest Cities

What's the cleanest big city in America? How about the dirtiest? And what about the place where you live -- did it make the list?

Ladies And Gentlemen, Master Chief As Balloons (PIC)

We'll admit to not following advancements in balloon animal technology, so we were understandably blown away to see this nearly life-sized Master Chief inflatable construction—clearly not an animal. This is the stuff of dreams and nightmares...

Breaking Memo Shows McCain Campaign Playing Older Women

WikiLeaks has a leaked memo from Steven Schmidt, McCain's senior campaign adviser, laying out their plans to manipulate angry female Clinton supporters over 40 to express their anger by voting for McCain. Several specific techniques are described including organizing fake Clinton "meet-ups" and to push anger through "various media partners".

Does Space Tourism Have Enough VC Cash for Your Moon Vacatio

With the race between Virgin Galactic and XCOR in full throttle, the message at the year's biggest space conference was that the entire industry is moving fast, with plenty of cash—and a variety of business plans from the smaller players.

San Francisco To Build First City Grease-To-Biodiesel Plant

San Francisco will build its first pilot facility to convert as much as 2.5 million gallons of the city's restaurant grease into biodiesel. San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) received a US$1 million grant last month for the project from the California Energy Commission (CEC).

Unhuggables

probably the best Coke commercial so far...where do they get this creative? And I don't drink coke at all, I find it poisonous!

Astronomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star

Newly discovered extrasolar planet is the smallest known and has smallest host star.

Report: The Media Doesn't Just Love Obama After All

Barack Obama has not received better media coverage than Hillary Clinton, according to a new study by the research team at Pew/Harvard, the gold standard in nonpartisan media analysis. After reviewing coverage from January to March, when the majority of states voted, researchers determined that Obama simply did not fare better than Clinton.

NASA Is Already Drawing Up Plans To Put Man on Mars

One particularly important task, Kanas explained, will be picking a team of astronauts who can both work and get along with each other on a trip lasting at least two years, spent mostly within the confines of a not-so-big spacecraft sailing through the dark.

Tank Defense

Not quite tower defense, and not quite your average shooter. However you want to classify it, I had fun getting through the first 15 levels and I think you will too.

7 Super Heroes We Can Live Without

For every bad ass super hero that's been created, even more forgettable heroes have been forced into existence as super-filler. Whether they're just downright lame or hokey, they're out there. Whether they're dead, gone, or cancelled, they might be back. Here's a good list of seven superheroes we can live without.

Anti-Feministing: Debunking The Argument Against GTA IV

Is Grand Theft Auto IV an expression of hate towards women? Are those who enjoy it misogynists?Feminist interest blog Feministing certainly thinks so. Before we address an argument to her statement, it’s necessary first to pick out a few serious flaws in her opinion of the game.

GRAYSKULL: THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - Script Review

He reformed VOLTRON, put the Green Arrow in SUPERMAX, and now Justin Marks has the power of GRAYSKULL: THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!

Movistar Nabs iPhone in Spain

Apple's relentless quest to spread the iPhone to every corner of the universe has officially nabbed yet another carrier. Movistar has been announced as an official partner for Spain, though no clues have been given about the launch date

New Superlattice Lithium Battery To Boost Electric Car Range

The biggest hurdle facing widespread adoption of the electric car industry has been battery technology. Now, North Carolina-based Superlattice Power Inc. says its new Lithium Ion Polymer battery would allow electric vehicles to be driven over 200 miles, compared to the current 120 to 140 mile range.

NASA's Phoenix probe discovers ICE on Mars

NASA scientists have said they have found ice on Mars - a step towards finding evidence of life.

Newsweek: Clinton's Popular Vote Claim? Close--But No Cigar

"Seventeen million Americans have voted for Hillary Clinton," says the narrator in the new Clinton campaign ad, as adoring Clintonites--blacks, whites, toddlers--clap and cheer. "[That's] more than for any primary candidate in history." The only problem? That's not quite, you know, true.

What Joost Really Plans for Linux...

For all of you Linux users who've been demanding a version of Joost, demand no more. This is what Joost really thinks of Linux.

Larry Johnson's alleged Michelle Obama "whitey" video

This guy is about to have a really bad fucking week. He claims to have a shocking tape of Michelle Obama ranting in some anti-white diatribe. He promises to produce this tape tomorrow at 9am.We need a big push back to make this tape into a mockery of what it is. Clinton is really scraping the bottom of the barrel in desperation.

McCain official: President has "near dictatorial powers"

McCain reaches into the most deceptive propaganda organ in America to staff the highest level of his communications apparatus

What Do Japanese People Really Think of Eric Clapton? (PIC)

Not the best sales pitch

60 Minutes: Pentagon raygun demonstrated on mock protesters

The Pentagon has been developing a raygun which can harmlessly repel enemies by causing a burning sensation in the top layer of the skin. However, according to CBS's 60 Minutes, the military is unwilling to actually trust this weapon enough to deploy it in Iraq. "We are now stepping into the Buck Rogers scenario," explained Colonel Kirk Hymes.

Chick Gets Revenge On Construction Workers

This chick is tired of getting squawked at when she walks by the construction site so she gets revenge.

Google: Android will be 100% open source

Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android “Android”, including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google.

America's House Prices Falling Faster Than Great Depression

America's house prices are falling even faster than during the Great Depression

The World's Most Impressive Subways

Subways are as much a part of big-city living as high-rises and gridlock, and they get about as much love. For many people, subways are crowded, noisy places only marginally better than being stuck in traffic -- and most of them are.

Obama Faring Well Against McCain in States Won By Bush

This year's electoral battlegrounds are emerging, and they're all states that were won by Bush in 2004. But they're also states where Democrats did well in 2006. Barack Obama is poised to snatch a few of these away from John McCain, potentially securing the White House for himself in November.

Gallup: meeting with hostile leaders is extremely popular

Large majorities of Democrats and independents, and even half of Republicans, believe the president of the United States should meet with the leaders of countries that are considered enemies of the United States. Overall, 67% of Americans say this kind of diplomacy is a good idea.

Evil Bunny [PIC]

4 Reasons You're Going To Hate The New Mike Myers Movie

Mike Myers does his part for the environment by creating a movie of completely recycled material.