Filling things with water to the point of explosion is a specialty of YouTube duo The Slow Mo Guys. In the past it’s been giant water balloons, but today it’s the turn of popular kids’ toy Stretch Armstrong, whose hand gets chopped off by Dan and fixed up to a hose pipe. Stretch Armstrong doesn’t…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
If there’s one person you really wouldn’t want to take on in the TikTok tortilla challenge, it’s Jason Momoa. Following a summer montage bit they filmed for The Late Late Show, Momoa and host James Corden squared off against each other, mouths full of water, and played rock, paper, scissors. Corden ends up losing so,…
The first time I ever attempted wax play was about six or seven years ago. I went about it all wrong, in a very teenage, expectedly naive sort of way. I had a random candle I’d found in the house — probably a Pumpkin Spice Yankee Candle — and I asked a partner in the…
The Rings of Power’s chief creative team “can’t say” how they’ll be impacted by the sale of The Lord of the Rings IP. Speaking exclusively to TechRadar at The Rings of Power‘s UK junket, executive producer Lindsey Weber revealed that she, as well as showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, were in the dark over…
The Apex Legends update for Season 14 is here, and the changes bring another facelift to the highly frenetic battle royale. Every drop in Apex Legends is a new experience: hunting every last chest for the best loot, scrambling to beat the other squads to your favorite spots, and trying to keep cool under fire….
Among the many IFA 2022 announcements, we’ve heard about five new products from HMD Global, the maker of Nokia handsets: three cheap phones, a tablet, and an intriguing subscription. Let’s start with the phones, and specifically the Nokia X30 5G, which you can see below. This in many ways sounds like a fairly standard cheap…
American Airlines planes. Robert Alexander/Getty Images Google Flights data shows passengers can save money by flying mid-week and getting layover flights. Tuesdays aren’t necessarily the cheapest day to book flights, Google Flights added. The best time to book flights for Thanksgiving or Christmas is 52 days before departure day, the data showed. Flying mid-week or…
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, preparing to visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on September 1, 2022. AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko International nuclear inspectors are due to visit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant on Thursday. The UN-linked agency says its staff are at risk from heightened military activity but will continue with…
A Lukoil gas station sits in Newark, N.J., Thursday, March 3, 2022. Seth Wenig/AP Photo A Russian energy oligarch whose company criticized the Ukraine war has died in suspicious circumstances. State media said Ravik Maganov fell through a hospital window, suggesting it was a suicide. Maganov is the latest in a string of untimely or…
DC’s attorney general is suing Michael Saylor for evading $25 million worth of taxes between 2005 and 2021. Joe Raedle/Getty Images MicroStrategy boss Michael Saylor evaded $25 million in District of Columbia taxes, its AG alleges. The bitcoin bull claimed to live in Florida, but Facebook posts showed homes in DC, according to a lawsuit….