Fiber broadband provider Ume.net had four volunteers feel what Internet latency might be like if experienced in real life by using a pair of Oculus Rift devices.

Burger King announced they are relaunching the widely successful "Subservient Chicken" website, which made waves back in 2004 for its bizarre video feed of a man in a chicken suit performing actions based on commands from the user.

Last week, two French skydivers Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet reached a new height in daredevilry by BASE jumping from the tallest skyscraper in the world, Dubai's Burj Khalifa. The duo set a new Guiness World Record for the tallest BASE jump from a man-made structure.

The long-standing urban legend that the American video game publisher buried its overstock at a New Mexico landfill site back in 1983 has been finally confirmed, after numerous copies of Atari titles, including the ill-fated adaptation of the 1982 blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terristrial, were recovered from the site as part of an ongoing excavation project.