This is so incredible that I think I’ve seen this in a movie before.* And if I didn’t, it should be put in a movie immediately. Genius bank robbers dug a 100 foot tunnel from a parking garage across the street to the bank’s safe deposit room and walked away with over $15,000,000 in goods. More »
We have our own history of weird food reviews, but man, we’ve got nothing on YouTube. Here are 14 of the weirdest we could find, but let us know if we’ve missed any standouts. More »
You’re working on the farm, you’re planting corn, you’re checking up on your Excel docs. How do you do it all? Easy, just pop a USB drive on the end of your trusty shovel. Genius multitasking. More »
Imagine yourself sleeping at 3:00 AM on a Friday night. You probably wanted a little peace and quiet before tomorrow’s picnic at the park. You’re deep in a dream about running barefoot on the beach when SMAAASSSSSHHHH GUNKDAGUNK BOOOM. A drunk man drives a freaking tank inside your house and destroys it. More »
This practical joke could have turned into tragedy: watch as some “friends” throw a guy out of a boat after seeing a shark in the distance. As they approach it, the animal turns around and goes straight to get him, just a fraction of a second before he gets back into the boat. 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. More »
Las Vegas, the amazing place that sucks souls, wallets and dignities, is also really good at swallowing cell phones. Drunk, partying, WHOOPS. And whenever a phone is lost, people who use location services to find their lost phones always seem to track it back to the same place: Wayne Dobson’s house. But the thing is, Wayne Dobson never stole a phone. Instead, a glitch with Sprint is making it appear as if their phone is inside Dobson’s house—even if it’s not. More »
Going into this year’s CES, Qualcomm had a hell of a problem on their hands — how would a company that planned to talk about mobile chipsets of all things make its big keynote one to remember? As it turns out, its answer was to make said keynote as equally hilarious and cringeworthy as possible.
Qualcomm was absolutely all over the place, and believe me, it was a sight to behold. It started off innocuously enough with three of the most obnoxious stereotypes that have ever graced a keynote stage. My favorite? This guy, the “gamer” who repeatedly got in his partners’ faces and loudly proclaimed his proclivity for pwning people.
Then, like a bolt from the blue, none other than Steve Ballmer took the stage and spoke passionately about all the Qualcomm chips that have found their way into Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 devices. Oh, and he made plenty of faces like this one:
Lest you think there was news to be found there — Qualcomm revamped its Snapdragon series mobile chipsets after all, and Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul Jacobs was clearly enthused by the news:
Then shit got real. Then Big Bird showed up. Sure, it was under the auspices of talking about a new Vuforia-powered augmented reality app, but the image of a six-foot tall Muppet and a very smart man dressed as a “birdketeer” isn’t the sort of thing that’s easily driven from one’s mind. (Side note: I had a nightmare about that very scenario last night. Couldn’t sleep a wink.)
And then, for reasons passing comprehension, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (you know, one of the most prominent anti-apartheid activists South Africa has ever seen) greeted us all via pre-recorded video. Thanks, I guess!
Finally, just when it seemed like that hour-long roller coaster had finally come to an end, Adam Levine came out on stage to croon at a sea of writers, analysts, and vendors. Welcome to CES, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, you may be wondering why I wrote this in the first place. Regardless of how you feel about how the event played out (my personal reaction was to bury my face in my hands and mutter every so often), one of Qualcomm’s biggest quandaries is that it’s perceived as an “ingredient” brand — that is, its products are important components of other more notable ones. Sure, I’m the sort of person who religiously follows Snapdragon news, but the same can’t be said for the rest of the folks in attendance here.
Qualcomm’s big objective here was to make a big splash and prove itself as an interesting company worth keeping tabs on — its methods may have been, well, kooky, but there’s no question that Qualcomm opened a few eyes.
If rain on your wedding day is a bad sign than what is having your wedding ceremony interrupted because your hot air balloon crashed? That’s what happened to poor Jonathan and Kerin Narcisse, who exchanged their vows in a hot air balloon, and then had a strong gust of wind slam their hot air balloon into the ground. More »
A supposedly “faulty” iPhone landed a man in severe financial trouble, after the phone racked up an astonishing $30,000 data bill—and UK network Orange tried to take the money from the bloke’s account. More »
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