Talk about overstuffing the pudding. One Epic Game features zombies, aliens, medieval knights, time travel, the apocalypse, evil masterminds, nazis, and the President of the United States of America. In fact, all of the cliches and tropes of every app you've ever played, thrown together into one classy package.
When you were a kid, did you dream of going into space? Maybe you had a colouring-book about a lunar voyage. Or maybe you and your best friend tried to create anti-gravity out of cleaning products and accidentally killed a tree in your front yard. Y'know, hypothetically. If any of this sounds even remotely familiar, it's a safe bet that NASA figured in your dreams.
Siri has been an accomplice to the comedy routines of everyone from Conan O'Brien to our very own Sam Biddle, but we hadn't seen her musical talents until the Flaming Lips enlisted her help on this new weirdness.
In a fun convergence of dumb social media behavior and bureaucratic ineptitude, two idiotic Brits were detained by armed guards at Los Angeles International Airport for incredibly dumb (but totally harmless) tweets about "destroying America" and "diggin' up Marilyn Monroe."
According to stats compiled for Carphone Warehouse, 87 per cent of kids between the ages of 8-15 are fully aware that their smartphones offer an unrestricted way into the dark worlds of the internet. What happens on the Orange San Francisco, stays on the Orange San Francisco.
Need an iPhone tethering app? For £1.49 (and likely a very limited time only), you can download QuasiDisk, a file viewing app that can also share a connection over a proxy. TheNextWeb says it takes a fair amount of tweaking to get it working, but it does work. [iTunes via TheNextWeb; Image via Preetam Rai
Researchers have been heaping more misery on lab rats, this time finding a way to interfere with their sexy parts. By firing ultrasonic waves at them, scientists managed to make the poor things virtually infertile.
Great news for timelapse video fans -- we should be seeing plenty more aurora borealis over the coming years, as solar activity is on the up, claim space weather experts such as University of Michigan's Tamas Gombosi, who said "the solar cycle is increasing, and so we are going to get more storms," with "at least" a day's warning for coming storms, which we should see monthly from now on.
BlackBerry maker RIM has issued a rather surprising boast, saying that it took the top spot for smartphone sales during December in the UK.
I'm very impressed by Finite Films. They're a band of filmmakers who produce one Hollywood-level quality short film every month—and each of their short films works within the constraints that people give them on the web.
...thanks to its new live road traffic monitoring web site. TfL's Live Travel News portal gives us a live, voyeuristic view through 170 of the city's traffic cameras, cleverly overlaid on top of the familiar Google Maps interface.
For purist photographers, there is no alternative to the optical viewfinder. Current LED screens are, by comparison, like looking though the bottom of a bottle. But could this tiny, high-res display change that?
When landing a helicopter, I guess there are a few basic rules to follow. Make sure you don't land on people likely comes first, but a close second is probably to avoid landing near things that stand a good chance of getting blown away. This pilot didn't remember that part.
Cooperation is a rare thing in the cut-throat world of technology, but some of the world's biggest email providers are teaming up to help cut the incidence of phishing scams.
A post on Facebook has received over a million comments, which is believed to be a first. Sadly, it was achieved by 107 fans of the game Frontierville who hit the 1,001,291 comment mark with a lot of two-letter posts. The record attempt has been submitted to Guinness for appraisal, but as yet there's been no response. [Fox40 via The Verge]
