In a ground-breaking 5 year experiment, scientists hook up a robotic arm controlled by a computer game to a monkey’s brain. In training the monkey to move the arm by ‘playing’ the game with a joystick. Researchers wanted to learn more about the output of the brain and the individual brain-cell signals. However the monkey […]

Hackers stole the bank card details of millions of British and American shoppers in what is thought to be the world’s biggest credit card heist, it has been revealed.
The crooks stole 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers from the US and British-based computer systems of the American retailer that owns bargain chain TK Maxx.
The […]

This movie mashup shows how The Terminator Versus Robocop battle would play out.

Late Night with Conan O’Brien slowly turns into a comic book.

The owner of a villa isolated in a 30ft./40m. construction pit in China has moved back into the long deserted property. Yang Wu moved back in to the house in Chongqing city to protest a court decision allowing developers to demolish it in three days.
“We will never move out. The court’s decision is biased, and […]

These zoo bears are acting as if they were in a circus act. They’ll do pretty much any trick to beg for some food.

North Korea told delegates at international nuclear talks on Saturday that it is preparing to shut down its main nuclear facility, South Korea’s chief nuclear envoy said, a key step promised in a landmark pact last month.
North Korea’s delegation told a working group meeting that it has “begun preparations to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear […]

Christmas Island red crabs are famous for their annual Q4 migration to the sea in order to lay their eggs in the ocean. During their invasion, the crabs cover the routes to the coast so densely that they can be seen from the air. Volunteers shovel the crabs off the roads and, although no harm […]

An eight-year-old boy has got his own postbox because he loves sending letters.
Gareth Scott, who is autistic, now has his own postbox in his garden in Gatley, Greater Manchester.
His mum Denise wrote to Royal Mail to see if they’d supply a box. They couldn’t but put her in touch with company Romec.
Company boss Paul Carr […]

A spoof shows how Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest should have ended if it had made any sense. No doubt things will get patched up in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End on May 25 when the trilogy ends.