As Alfred pointed out in The Dark Knight, some men just like to watch the world burn. To them, a day at the beach spent lounging in the sun isn’t particularly enjoyable. But a day at the beach spent terrorizing swimmers with this amazing animatronic shark suit? Now that’s an afternoon well spent.
The Olympics, particularly the summer Olympics, are a kind of festival for elite sports photography.
There's no two weeks in the year that produce a heftier haul of world-class images of athletic competition.
All the major agencies covering the games fight for an edge in the photographic shoot-out. And this year, Getty added a new weapon to its arsenal: a small army of underwater robots.
A slightly different, international trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has hit the web. With it comes a few seconds of new footage and one very intriguing reveal.
Olympian Sarah Robles just snagged Team USA's first weightlifting medal since 2000, winning bronze in the women's over-75-kilogram weight class for hoisting a total of 630 pounds in two separate lifts. She's also proving that women of all sizes can achieve athletic greatness.
In 1991, Microsoft founded Microsoft Research, a division for the company's army of PhDs and scientists to pursue the coolest, wildest, most science-fictional ideas they possibly could, with the very non-corporate goal of expanding human knowledge.
Bumble, the dating app that's previously dabbled in offering services beyond traditional swipe-based matching, is now offering a subscription model that offers three new features for just $9.99 a month.
OnePlus 3 software updates are fixing things and breaking other things. But that's OK.
I've been witness to a maelstrom of frustration and invective over the weekend as OnePlus rolled out yet another fix for its OxygenOS software for the OnePlus 3.
OxygenOS version 3.2.4 began trickling out in small waves over the weekend, with promises to fix a few of the OnePlus 3's nagging issues — many of which were introduced in previous updates. That's a problem, sure: it's never ideal to replace one set of bugs with another. But the reality is that OnePlus, free from the need to submit its software to carriers, can and is doing the right thing by unilaterally releasing regular fixes — even as it continues to roll up Google's own security updates into separate releases.
Taylor Swift dominated this year's Forbes Celebrity 100 list, making $60 million more than runner-up One Direction.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought more Apple shares in the second quarter, according to its latest 13-F filing.
The regulatory filing showed that the company bought 5.42 million Apple shares to bring its tally to 15.2 million, valuing its stake in the tech giant at $1.46 billion.
Berkshire sold 15 million Walmart shares, dropping its stake by 27% to a holding worth $2.94 billion, the 13-F showed.
The Department of Justice has found Volkswagen liable for criminal wrongdoing, CNBC first reported.
Peter Thiel has weighed in on the sale of Gawker Media.
The billionaire investor wrote an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times. He discussed why he chose to begin his battle with Gawker, which began when Gawker outed him in 2007.
Here's how Thiel describes it:
