Turns out that a very small percentage of a very, very large number is still significant. Your hand sanitiser is only as good as the number of decimal points the nines stretch to. [XKCD] Read More >>
The truly lazy are often the most creative. Like this developer, who was caught outsourcing his entire job to China so that he could spend his time at work... not working. Read More >>
Japan's two largest airlines have decided to ground all of their Boeing Dreamliner 787s after a Nippon Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing in southwestern Japan. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"Pretty new aircraft so some issues aren't beyond the realm of possibility, hopefully they will get it sorted out.
I actually went on the factory t..." More »
While Sony might currently be spoken about in TV circles for its blazing 4K sets, the future could hold something quite different. In fact, Sony's Next Big Thing — Triluminous displays — will be powered by quantum physics. Read More >>
Last night in Saltsjöbanan, Sweden, a young woman decided to try her hand at driving a train. It didn't end well: she careered off the end of line and straight into this house. Read More >>
Featured comment by gergy008:
"And also, the train has to sign into HQ for HQ to follow it, and that's pretty much all they can do. They can watch it crash into the house, and talk ..." More »
Apple pricing is unlike almost every other brand in consumer tech: consistent across each and every retailer, and rarely discounted. How do Cook and Co manage to pull that off? Read More >>
Featured comment by elevenses:
"Do any of you think ANY premium brand item is priced to please the sweaty masses?
It just doesn't make sense. Make a good product, and you CAN char..." More »
This isn't a cartoon tree or some strange piece of modern art. In fact, it's what researchers from the University of Texas at Austin saw when they managed to observe a virus in the act of penetrating a cell. Read More >>
When your computer freezes, clicking the mouse button furiously is definitely what solves the problem. Amazing, really, that repeating a single, simple, mechanical operation can rectify complex software problems so easily. You most have healing hands. [Mr Lovenstein] Read More >>
Featured comment by e_g83:
"I've learnt from watching colleagues that tutting and audibly sighing at your screen whilst clicking the crap out of your mouse achieves... Nothing." More »
Hundreds of sci-fi movies have depicted hyperspace travel, where stars appear as streaks of light as the spacecraft in question surges forward. But according to a team of physicists, that's bullshit — and hyperspace travel would look a whole lot fuzzier. Read More >>
Featured comment by bryan443364:
"I've just checked Sony's UK site and their 84" TV is £25,000 but sadly that does not make the Samsung any more affordable for me." More »
Featured comment by shadowmatt:
"Im not buying something thats going to look like the girlfriends car bumper after a few weeks. Jonny Ive needs to learn a thing or 2 about design and ..." More »
This picture, found in a Japanese Elementary School, depicts the mushroom cloud which formed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Read More >>
Featured comment by Will.King.London:
"Funny thing is they carried on fighting afterwards and it wasn't a factor in why they put their guns down. According to Oliver Stone and his historia..." More »
The idea of firing objects into space from a cannon was first hinted at by Newton, and has been seized upon by many a sci-fi writer since. But what's the science behind the idea like — and could we ever launch payloads into space using the technique? Read More >>
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