News reporters can be as professional as they come, but sometimes life has a funny way of turning what should otherwise be a serious segment into a comedic blooper. While we’ve covered news bloopers before (this compilation of 2015 missteps is certainly worth taking a look at), News Be Funny recently came out with an entirely fresh batch of bloopers that should be good for more than a few laughs ahead of the weekend.
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A Barbie doll sits innocently atop a workbench, unaware of the 100 tons of terror that are about to close in on it. Off camera, we hear a man with a Finnish accent say ominously that the doll is “beautiful… but [for] how long?” A motor starts whirring up and within seconds a hydraulic press closes in on the iconic toy and then… SQUISH.
This is the kind of wanton destruction that occurs on a regular basis at the Hydraulic Press Channel, a YouTube channel that popped up last year and has since become a smash hit on social media sites like Reddit. As of this writing, the channel has more than 450,000 subscribers and its videos have been watched collectively more than 36 million times.
This week, BGR talked with the channel’s founder Lauri Vuohensilta about his newfound Internet fame and his ambitions to take crushing things with hydraulic presses to a whole new level.
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If there’s one thing and one thing alone that you learn from the BGR Deals team, we hope it’s this: your cable company is ripping you off. Seriously, if you don’t purchase your own cable modem then you’re paying up to $120 (more, including taxes) per year in bogus modem rental fees that serve no purpose at all Your ISP doesn’t want you to know that you can save all that cash with one single purchase, but that’s why we’re here.
And right now, the Linksys Advanced DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem (DPC3008) is back on sale for just $49.95 with free express shipping.
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A new report says that Apple was more willing to comply with the government in the past when it came to unlocking iPhones tied to criminal investigations, having gone as far as to help prosecutors draft the documentation that would force it to unlock a device.
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Earlier this week, Sony unleashed system software update 3.50 for the PlayStation 4. The addition of Remote Play for PC was certainly the highlight of the update, but given a few days to tinker with their consoles, gamers have found several other new features that weren’t announced before the update went live.
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This… is a pretty crazy deal. Samsung makes the best TVs in the business, hands down, and you’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to upgrade your old set. Well, we’re not sure it gets any more perfect than this. For a very limited time, both Amazon and B&H are selling the Samsung UN50JU7100 50-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2015 Model) for just $748 with free shipping.
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We’ve reached the end of another long work week but before you slip away into the darkness and escape for the weekend, we’ve got one last list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for you to enjoy. Today’s list features 11 premium iOS apps that are all free downloads for the time being, and they span a wide range of categories. You’ll also find even more freebies in yesterday’s post if 11 isn’t enough for you.
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For a long time I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Chrome. I love how it opens pages more quickly than any other browser I’ve used but I hate all the resources that it gobbles up to make that performance happen. I like Microsoft’s Edge browser but there’s still something missing for me there that I can’t quite put my finger on.
However, for the past couple of days I’ve been playing around with the new Vivaldi browser and it looks like I may have finally found the browser that will allow me to comfortably ditch Chrome.
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before… dozens of times. A very serious security flaw has been discovered in Adobe Flash and millions of users are impacted. The zero-day vulnerability allows hackers to exploit the flaw and crash a user’s system, or even take control of the system and steal private data.
It’s one of the most serious types of flaws out there and in this case the vulnerability is being actively exploited by hackers. In other words, this isn’t some tiny bug discovered by researchers and handled privately with Adobe behind closed doors. Hackers are using the security hole to attack users as you read this — and now Adobe has released an update to patch the flaw.
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Happy Friday, bargain hunters! It’s been a great week of deals so far and we’re finishing things off on a high note with 13 solid daily deals. A few of them are limited-time Lightning deals though — like this 128GB microSDXC card with adapter for just $28 — so you had better hurry if you want to snag any of them.
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