This one is a quickie. A man in Sydney has been working on renovating a property. When getting around removing the stationary phone, the man took off its lid. What he found inside was, well... there is no way getting round it... a thick layer of sticky, long-dead cockroaches. See it for yourselves - do not let me be the only one who had to endure it.

Another piece of CES 2019 news. This time IBM has presented us the first commercially available quantum computer. While the device will hardly be available to an average user and will probably cost an arm and a leg (we do not know the exacy price), it will still be finally available outside the laboratories' walls. Quantum computing is based on qubits, ...

Perhaps you remember a story from few weeks ago about how some idiot/s with a drone have locked one of London airports for 36 hours. Well, a similiar, albeit much lighter, story have repeated itself. Flights from Heathrow have been called off around 17:05 due to sightings of a drone flying in the area of the facility. We do not know the details of the actions ...

Yusaku Maezawa, the owner of the online fashion store Zozotown, has recently announced that he will pay 1 million yen to the 100 people who retweet his message. The message states that Zozotown has made 10 billion yen during the new year's sale-off - no wonder Maezawa feels like splurging a hundred million on some PR :D. His message has been retweeted ...

Wanted a proper sequel to Alien: Isolation? Well, you will have to wait. Still, Alien: Blackout may be a cool game, even if it is just a mobile one. Judging by info available online, A:B is a variant on the ”Five Nights at Freddy's” gameplay, with added element of friendly NPCs which have to be helped in navigating the map and who in turn ...

Italy is the first country where the phone is available. Its price is set at 549 euro, although it will be only 499 if you buy it from the official store on January 9th. We do not know when will Mi Mix 3 reach other countries. Specs: - 6,39' AMOLED display, Full HD+, 19,5:9, - 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 CPU, GPU Adreno 630, - 6, 8 or 10 GB RAM, ...

... so, yeah, smart shades. We are currently living in an era of smart devices; smart windows, smart fridges, smart TVs et cetera. IKEA looked upon this and thought ”why not shades?”. In response, TRÅDFRI manufacturers, known largely for their smart lighting systems, have come up with the aforementioned smart shades. KADRILJ and FYRTUR ...

And people wonder why I take care when typing... Two young criminals from the US, Luke Rance (19) and Brandon Kerrison (21), have been caught by the police when attempting to sell their product. Interestingly, their selling spot was located next to the public library - look what all those books do to people. When searching through Rance's living place, ...

Zuckerberg's company has just filed a patent for a tech that might allow them to correctly foretell our future actions. The goal of this rather dark-sounding technology is to be able to give us more personalized ads (want to buy a book? Maybe this one. Want to go out? Maybe there), but it is difficult to not think of any other, less benevolent ways ...

American space probe New Horizons has recently sent NASA the pictures of a very particular space object. Dubbed Ultima Thule, it is the most distant space body found yet. The rather atypical thing, which official name is a ”contact binary”, has also been given a nickname ”Snowman” for its shape. It is placed 6.5 billion kilometers ...

Evan Blass strikes again, this time delivering us a video depicting an alleged folding Xiaomi smartphone. Blass himself has stated that he is not assured of the video's authenticity, but who would pass such an opportunity? Worst case scenario, we will all get disappointed and go on; best case scenario, this is our first look at the upcoming foldable ...

Bird Box is the latest, and seemingly very popular, Netflix production (as well as a blatant ripoff of Quiet Place, but shh). Popularity of the flick with Sandra Bullock as the main cast gave birth to a brand new Internet craze. Called ”Bird Box Challenge”, its gimmick is easy to figure out - it has people trying to go about their daily ...