What Makes You Block Someone?
People have varying thresholds of tolerance for putting up with ignorance, dickishness, and other crap online. What does it take for you to head straight for the 'Block' button on social media?
People have varying thresholds of tolerance for putting up with ignorance, dickishness, and other crap online. What does it take for you to head straight for the 'Block' button on social media?
One guy is making a living off of ghost hunting apps, and his story from homelessness to app entrepreneur is actually pretty extraordinary.
For many years, Ivory has maintained that the discovery of its trademark floating soap was a complete accident, but exactly how true is this?
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We can't travel back to that simpler age, but we can re-create the experience using 3D printing.
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Amazon.com's Top 100 book list changes hourly, but there are a few mainstays right now: two colouring books for grownups.
After years of speculating about possible futures in his writing, William Gibson recently tried out one the world's contemporary science fictions come true at TED.
A suspended, living arrangement of 2,300 flowers which rises and fall around viewers as they move.
So you replaced the letter "e" with "3" and capitalised a random letter, and now you think your password is secure? Nope. Hackers (and the NSA) know those tricks, too.
We though we'd seen the best of the solar eclipse images, but it seems that the absolute best has been saved for last. Passing through that shadow looks terrifying. Read More >>
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Sony dropped the first trailer for Spectre in the early hours of this morning, and we'd like to know what the denizens of Giz UK thought of it.
