Until researchers find a solution to mankind’s greatest challenge — namely, breeding bald poultry for easier cleaning — we’ll have to defeather our fowl the old-fashioned way: by rapidly tumbling their carcasses about a mechanised vertical drum while rubber fingers beat the feathers off. More »
I don’t know about you, but my brain hurts trying to keep all the different factions of hackers in line. After being booted off Google+, Anonymous started building their own site, AnonPlus – which has now been hacked by a group calling themselves “TURKIYE”. Or maybe that’s “AKINCILAR”. More »
Starting in Turkey, iPhone users will soon be able to use Visa’s NFC payment system at one of the 40,000 cash registers signed up to the scheme. For now those iPhones will need an iCarte dongle, plus the compatible app. More »
Turkish citizens can once again access the Internet’s plethora of cat videos thanks to a court ruling on Friday that eliminated a three-year YouTube ban. In 2007, YouTube was banned when disparaging remarks were made on the service about the country’s revered founder of state, Mustafa Kemal Atataturk. More »
Just like when photographers use a piece of white paper to calibrate their cameras, British scientists are using this dried-out Turkish lake to set the white balance of Earth observation satellites. More »
I had my wedding countryside party last Saturday – months after we eloped to India. Great food, beautiful setting. It was fun, partially because we said “Come in jeans, but no AK-47s, please” in the invitation. Unlike this Turkish couple. More »
In May 2007, Turkey began censoring the internet. It started out innocent enough – according to Al Jazeera, they just wanted to block child pornography, online gambling sites, information on recreational drugs and sites which insult the country’s founding father. Today over 6000 sites have been blocked, including YouTube and parts of Google. More »
For a while today, Twitter would let you force anyone to follow you. It was a hilariously simple trick and equally bizarre. Even better? This bug was discovered by accident, by a Turkish Twitter user. Here’s what happened. More »
