Jim and Janna have no debt and plenty of money in the bank, much of which will go to pay for their new condo in a desirable Toronto neighbourhood when it is finished in a year or so. They sold their house last fall and are renting downtown until their condo is ready, Jim writes in an e-mail. He is …

    It is Derby Day! Thousands of people, including the Queen, have flocked to Surrey. There is road closures around the Epsom Downs as police deal with increased traffic. However, officers say they are working with the racecourse to prevent crime and disruption to the local area. Following months of preparation and planning, in conjunction with Epsom Downs Racecourse, …

    Like our new logo? Just kidding: this is one of the many results you can achieve if you type a string of letters into Type to Design’s new site, which renders your text in carefully selected Instagram photos. The online app randomly chooses images to represent your typed characters from a curated pool of Instagram images. You get …

        In the world of online dating, nothing is as it seems. But that doesn’t stop many of us from leaping to the wrong conclusions about people. A recent paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association and reported on in the press suggested that when evaluating photographs from online dating profiles, men and …

        Narendra Modi’s concept of smart city may soon be redefining the living standards of people across the country. An ideal city enriched with niche of every possible thing is what it aims for. However, the notion being very topical, many organizations are working on intelligent solutions to make urban areas energy efficient, comfortable, environment-friendly, and physically …

    The Internal Revenue Service suspect that Russian hackers are the culprits who stole the tax records of at least 100,000 people this year, and-yep, you read that right. Russian hackers! If you’re getting déjà vu, that’s because this marks the third time in very recent history that US government websites have been preyed upon for their shitty security …

  The numbers are truly saddening and absolutely staggering. If you have time on your hands, sit through this illuminating data visualization video that details how many lives were cut short from World War II. It’s a lot. It’s not all bad though, Neil Hailoran, the maker of the video, shows how we’ve grown since then       [“Source-gizmodo.in”]

  What color are the thousands of USPS mailboxes in your city? What about the millions of stop signs in the US? They’re all the same, but not by chance. In fact, figuring out those colors has been a 70-year process. This week, the Washington Post published a quiz asking readers to identify the right hue for everything from highway …

        If anything in nature could be creepier than cockroaches, it would be zombie cockroaches, so good thing those don’t exist, right? Right? Actually, they do exist, thanks to the terrifying work of the dementor wasp. I’m never going outside again. The dementor wasp, properly called Ampulex dementor, is named for the soul-sucking guards of the wizard …

      The recent bug on iOS that caused the Messages app to continuously crash on iPhones when a certain text was received in an incoming message now has an official workaround until Apple releases a fix. To recall, if the phone is locked when the ‘offending’ message is received, the iPhone also supposedly reboots without notice. First reported …