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Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find 25 funny images, 10 interesting articles and 5 entertaining videos from the last 7 days of sifting

Comparing the iPhone 6S and iPhone SE reveals big differences and even bigger surprises...

While games like Warcraft and StarCraft are pretty great games on their own, sometimes people tend to forget that they both offer the ability to make mods and custom games using the map editor. In fact one of the most po...

Citee is a collection of t-shirts printed with maps from all over the world. Each Citee is individually made to order, and carries a highly detailed printed all over the front of American Apparel’s super-soft, 100% pol...

A cam girl and a hacker combined to improve the camming experience for users everywhere.

NovaCast a device that prevents infections, ulcers and even amputation of limbs, is 10 times lighter than traditional materials and allows good ventilation.

Finding anything on the App Store is kind of a nightmare, but Apple apparently has a way to fix that. And the Cupertino company is considering taking a page from Google to do it: paid search results, according to a repor...

The Department of Homeland Security has advised that PC owners uninstall Apple's QuickTime for Windows, after two vulnerabilities were discovered in its code. Because Apple is no longer updating the Windows version of th...

Apple may soon be radically changing the way it deals with developers in its App Store. The company is considering plans that would allow developers to pay for sponsored search results in the App Store, according to a ne...

Imène Goumiri, a Princeton University graduate student, has worked with physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to simulate a method for limiting instabilities that...

An analysis comparing the individual differences between over 40 strains of Zika virus has identified significant changes in both amino acid and nucleotide sequences during the past half-century. The data support a stron...

Sales of vinyl records have reached their highest level for 20 years and could be on track to return to the glory days of the Long Player in the late 1980s.

French police have targeted hundreds of websites suspected of "inciting or glorifying acts of terrorism" after the Paris attacks by ordering content removals, delisting sites from search engines or blocking access.

The research scientists at INM have succeeded in manufacturing circuit paths on thin, elastic foil made of silicone. Since these are relatively insensitive to compression and elongation strain, the electrical circuits ca...

Stephen Dorff is apparently more influential than we all thought -- if the youth of America even know who he is. Last year 3 million middle-schoolers and high-school students used e-cigarettes as their preferred method o...

Texas is banning the use of social media in prisons for inmates and their friends or family members that run accounts in their names. The rule, which has been criticized by some as "unconstitutional," is set to be enforc...

Samsung Display Co. will begin supplying Apple with OLED display panels starting in 2017, reports The Korea Herald. According to the terms of the deal, which is worth $2.59 billion, Samsung will provide Apple with 100 mi...

These three-layered nanobots are a triple threat: Their graphene oxide exterior absorbs lead, their nickel middle allows researchers to control their movement via a magnetic field, and a coating of platinum on the inside...

Twitter experienced a temporary breakdown on April 13 when the users met with an error message citing technical problems upon trying to access the site. Coincidentally, the outage happened when Laker's basketball superst...

 Annual performance reviews are often more like an annual headache for both managers and employees. Impraise, a startup that wants to streamline the process with a mobile app, just raised $1.6 million in seed funding. I...

After May 25th, you'll have to come up with an alternative arrangement for your kids' iTunes purchases. Apple is killing iTunes allowance that day and even already stopped allowing new users to sign up for the feature on...

Stacy Brown-Philpot is one of the few black women leading a high-profile tech start-up in Silicon Valley.