Collaborate Disseminate
The platform can’t keep us from driving while blindfolded, but at least it can remove videos that glorify our more brainless moments. Continue reading YouTube bans dangerous and harmful pranks and challenges
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news! Continue reading News in brief: Alexa as wiretap; Prankster fools White House; Amazon suspends Blu
Did you ever commit any pranks in your time at high school, college, or university? Maybe you moss-painted a rude word on the wall somewhere, or put a design in a sports field with herbicide, or even worse, slow-release fertiliser. [Roman Kozak] and his friends went far further than that last summer when they replicated some of the most famous student pranks; they put a Jaguar S type car on the roof of their school. And now the dust has settled, he’s posted an account of how they did it.
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There are only two ways of creating two perfect copies of a person: 3D printing and twins. 3D printing magician [Simon] the Sorcerer 3D-printerer uses his secret knowledge to create the perfect illusion: A 3D-printing-real-people prank.
You may have become skeptical about claims made by the marketing campaigns behind new 3D printers, but non-tech-savvy customers of department stores believe anything. [Simon] tells them he can scan a real person and 3D-print a life-sized copy in minutes. Moreover, the copy is almost indistinguishable from the original. It also responds to simple voice commands, walks around and does the robot.
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Clamp your phone safely into a vice grip, get a 3.5mm drill, and then bore a hole into your hard drive so you can’t jump onto YouTube and tell other people “It WORKS!” Continue reading Don’t drill a headphone jack hole into your iPhone 7! It’s a hoax
The student who formerly hacked a rival school is now getting $300,000 worth of air miles from United Airlines’ Bug Bounty Program. Continue reading Student cybervandal earns $300,000 for hacking US Airlines
The hardest part about an internet hoax is timing the reveal. Continue reading How to Convince People Your Fake Website for Thigh Gap Jewelry Is Real
It used to be a lot earlier to pull one over on the internet. Continue reading An April Fools’ Joke from 2007 Taught Me to Be Wary of the Internet for Life
