tragedies
Business
Rumour: iPhone Leak Interrogations Drive Foxconn Employee To Suicide
9:10PM John Herrman | The security team for Foxconn, the company that manufactures the iPhone for Apple, is said to have subjected employee Sun Danyong to “unbearable interrogation techniques,” leading him to commit suicide. He was under investigation for losing a prototype device. More »
Vehicles
Did a Meteor Take Down Air France Flight 447?
12:45AM Adam Frucci | Could a meteor strike be the reason behind the crash of Air France flight 447? The math geeks at Discover crunched some numbers and it turns out that it’s not as implausible as you might think. More »
Gadgets
Fear the Pant Zipper
5:20AM Jack Loftus | My childhood was active enough. I was as fearless as any toddler. I frolicked in the mud and climbed on now-banned metal jungle gyms. I was rambunctious. Then I met the pajamas with the feet. More »
Games
This Is What It Was Like to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
4:40AM Matt Buchanan | The historical rupture of the atomic bomb makes the moment it was dropped almost ahistorical—Hidezaku Furuya’s videogame documentary forces you to inhabit it as a crewmember of the Enola Gay. It’s quite startling. More »
Phones
