Articles tagged "viral"

Flying drones: also good at jumping sharks.

One chapter in a long and sticky saga about the visual jokes, references, and ideas that fly around the internet--and the laws designed to stop them dead in their rainbow-colored tracks.

A composite shot of a day's worth airplanes taking off from a single airport, planes wobbling cross the sky, and 747s landing in the crosswinds. You will never look at air travel the same way again.

Here’s one to fire up on the old laptop when Thanksgiving’s exciting first hour of family chatter turns into six more hours of drudging malaise and careful conversational dancing around who’s in the White House: a mustachioed man, presumably a fully-…

Christopher Walken’s enduring brilliance has been the result of his prodigious ability to make you question whether he knows he’s actually hilarious. That ability is on full display in this cooking show, in which he improbably invites the equally-dea…

Dr. Justin Wilkinson narrates a guided tour from the ISS as it flies over the Americas, Middle East, and Europe.

If the LIFX meets expectations, it could be the best light bulb ever built. The app-controlled wunderbulb that received an avalanche of Kickstarter support — 13 times its initial goal of $100,000 — is now slated to make its debut in March 2013.

Loathe would we be to give that music video – the one that’s about to be the most watched video on YouTube ever – or any number of its remixes, another mention. This is not that

Never before has the internet seen such wanton gluttony.

In 2006, a Yale undergraduate named Aleksey Vayner was looking for a finance job after college. So he made a video about his rules for success.

A successful political campaign relies on memes that can capture the hearts and minds of the people and turn them into voters. Words like "hope," "change," and "poor people" work, but in Russia, where campaign season is in full swing ahead of electio…

A few weeks ago, "Yury Lifshits":http://yury.name/, a young scientist at the Web-obsessed data den "Yahoo! Labs":http://labs.yahoo.com/, quietly published the "Like Log Study":http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/4/7/what-you-like-isn-t-what-you-re-like-th…