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Drug dealers got scammed out of $12 million on dark website

ByStarcasm Staff

After the fall of Silk Road, Evolution had become one of the major illegal marketplaces on the dark web. Over night the black market site shut down completely, with reports that it’s admins took off with the $12 million of Bitcoin in their accounts. Evolution was apparently the best coded and easiest to use of…

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Ashley Judd is pressing charges on abusive Twitter users

ByStarcasm Staff

Twitter, and social media in general, can be an extremely unfriendly environment. It can get so negative that some celebrities feel the need to step away for their own sanity. Lena Dunham deleted the app from her phone, and now only tweets via proxy, and Iggy Azalea just quit it entirely. Ashley Judd is taking…

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Study shows more people are taking Facebook vacations

ByEmily

For the longest time, every story about Facebook seemed to be along the lines of “It’s Taking Over the World.” Then the craziest thing happened: People stopped caring as much about what “friends” were eating, wearing or ranting about. Now, according to a study from the Pew Research Center, more than 60 percent of adult Facebook users have decided to log-off for an extended period of time.

DNA May Make Genetic Matchmaking Possible
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Is genetic matchmaking the future of love?

ByEmily

Wish you could be loved for who you are? Thanks to modern science, that may be possible. Scientists have pinpointed three pairs of genes that may be able to gauge satisfaction in various aspects of a relationship. The gene pairs, referred to as the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), can predict the health of a couples’ children, sexual satisfaction and even whether someone will find a mate’s bodily scent appealing. But, is it really as simple as it sounds?

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PHOTO – The very first Apple computer, Apple-1

ByStarcasm Staff

Last week the world lost a true visionary when Steve Jobs left the planet, and it’s been an interesting time of reflection and inspiration as the world contemplates what it is about Jobs that made him so great. To help that along, we dug up a photo of one of the 200 very first Apple computers (tagline: “take a byte out of Apple”) called Apple-1. These babies were hand built by Apple partner co-founder Steve Wozniak in 1976, and were sold from Steve Jobs’s parents’ garage for $666.66. (Wozniak says he likes repeating numbers.)