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Down 95-92 with five seconds left, Ray Allen made a miracle corner 3-pointer to force overtime in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. The video: The Heat were down 94-89 with 20 seconds left when LeBron James made a 3-pointer to make it 94-92. Kawhi Leonard was fouled for San Antonio, but he could only make one-of-two free throws. Out of timeouts, Miami came down the court somewhat confused. LeBron James missed a deep, deep three, but the rebounds was taken by Chris Bosh. Bosh kicked it to Allen, who f...

The Miami Heat are trying to make a comeback after being down 10 to start the 4th quarter of Game 6 of the NBA Finals. Mike Miller did his part by nailing a 3-pointer despite losing his shoe. The shot: Full video: One shoe (via @jose3030): Join the conversation about this story »

Jozy Altidore scored in the fourth straight game for the U.S. Men's National Team. It was a beautiful finish on a give-and-go that gave the U.S. yet another win in World Cup qualifying. The goal came just minutes after a controversial non-call on what appeared to be a handball against Honduras. In a mad scramble, a Clint Dempsey header appeared to be headed for the net when it struck the arm of a defender. No call was made... // Please enable Javascript to watch this video And here is the con...

Game 6 of the NBA Finals is off to a hectic start. The teams combined for 30 points in the first 5+ minutes, and both teams are executing well on offense. The definitive play of the first quarter came on this nasty Kawhi Leonard dunk. He sized up Mike Miller, went up over him, and slammed it home. He even gave him an extra forearm shiver to the face (via Guyism): Join the conversation about this story »

Milk & cookies . . . how do you eat them? If you grew up in my household, you likely had your fair share of cookies out of a package, because let’s face it, your mom wasn’t Paula Deen, she was a sweet Lebanese lady who bought enough packages of Chips Ahoy and Oreos to fill the minivan (oh, your mom wasn’t Lebanese?). Regardless, the years of pulling cookies out of plastic packages and dunking them into a variety of ill-fitting glasses led to a revolutionary finding. While I was pouring milk i...

By now you may have seen the YouTube video that shows Lil Wayne dancing on an American Flag after it was dropped at his feet on the set of his newest music video. If not, don’t worry, here it is below: The 30-year-old rapper was in New Orleans filming the video for his song “God Bless Amerika.” Wayne has said that he didn’t mean to step on the flag, even though the video depicts him looking down and dancing on it. No, seriously, look, that’s what he said: — Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) Jun...

One of Huawei's top execs thinks acquiring Nokia could help the Chinese company raise its profile in smartphones. "We are considering these sorts of acquisitions; maybe the combination has some synergies but depends on the willingness of Nokia. We are open-minded," Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's consumer unit, told the Financial Times’s Daniel Thomas. A Huawei spokesperson declined further comment, saying only that "Huawei has no plans to acquire Nokia." We've reached out to Nokia and will updat...

Disney's next animated picture will feature a talking snowman. The Mouse House released its first teaser trailer for "Frozen" the story of Elsa (Idina Menzel) whose icy powers have trapped a kingdom in winter. Based on the story of "The Snow Queen," Kristen Bell plays Anna, trying to find her sister Elsa. Jonathan Groff voices a mountain man Kristoff who is accompanied by a reindeer who will guide her on a journey along with a snowman named Olaf. "Frozen" comes after Disney's previous two ani...

Russell Brand is a pretty polarizing comedian, but no matter your opinion on this eloquent Englishman, you'll want to see him in action on the set of MSNBC program Morning Joe. Brand appeared yesterday as a guest on the show to promote his new comedy tour, Messiah Complex. After commenting on his attire early on, the anchors strangely turn on him during the interview. They discuss the comedian as if he weren't there, even ribbing him about his accent. But Brand's a seasoned comedy professiona...

Thirty-one year-old penny stock trader Timothy Sykes spoofed Ben Affleck's famous speech from "Boiler Room" in a YouTube video promoting his trading education company. Here's Sykes' version: "I'm a millionaire. It's weird, right? I'll tell ya, it's a weird thing to say. I'm a f------g millionaire!...I made my first million when I was 22. You think I was just lucky? No, I was driven to become a millionaire. I became very f-----g good at trading and I've made several million dollars since.... A...

Exoskeletal body armor designed for protecting guards in prison riots. Infinitely gyroscoping bowls designed for spill-prone toddlers. High-powered pneumatic pogo sticks designed for … people who are really into falling from extreme heights. They’re the kind of instruments of miscellany you would expect to find in an MIT engineering lab or a Silicon Valley incubator. Turns out, they’re housed in a renovated grist mill on the outskirts of downtown Charlotte. Hop the ragged chain-link fence beh...

An enraged fast food patron lost it after his order was allegedly botched for the third time at a Wendy's. A video of the customer's rant is on YouTube and can also be found at guyism.com. In it, the customer sticks his head in the drive-thru window and demands a refund after his hamburger was not delivered to him as he ordered it. He continues to berate the employee inside the drive-thru window in a curse-laced tirade. This rant was rather short in comparison to the verbal attack on a Dunkin...

A technical fault is believed to have caused a large explosion at an ammunition depot in Russia’s Samara region, Ria Novosti reports. The blast is near the small town of Chapaevsk, and occured around 7pm local time. Russia Today says that 13 million shells are stored at the depot, and local people are being evacuated. A local police chief told RT that it was not possible to get close to the depot due to the explosions. One video posted to Russian social network VK appears to show the blast: O...

If you thought the only changes coming to iOS were what Apple showed off at WWDC, you were mistaken. Thanks to a post on 9to5Mac, we've gotten word that Twitter user Hamza Sood has found a ton of secret new features buried in the beta version of iOS 7. New features include gestures that enable faster multitasking, the option to hide apps that come pre-installed from Apple, and the ability to place folders within other folders and use pinch gestures to navigate between them. Here's a video sho...

Darrelle Revis of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have taken one of sports' strangest traditions to a new level when he paid Mark Barron $50,000 for the no. 24, according to Paul Lukas of Uni-Watch.com. Revis, who has worn no. 24 his entire career, was recently acquired in a trade from the New York Jets. Barron was a rookie in 2012. It is unclear if this is a record payment for a uniform number. In 1993, Rickey Henderson paid a new Blue Jays teammate $25,000, also for the no. 24. That is about $...

Brazil is currently gripped by its largest protests in 20 years — about 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday — driven by public frustration over poor public services, police brutality, economic instability, and government corruption. The turmoil, which has been simmering for months, arises as the country hosts the Confederations Cup soccer tournament (i.e. the preliminary for next year's World Cup) and prepares for a visit from the pope next m...

The Su-35 (NATO designation Flanker E), Russia’s latest version of the famous super-maneuverable multirole fighter jet has demonstrated its stunning capabilities during the first day of the 50th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget. During its display, the 4++ generation aircraft has showcased some almost impossible manoeuvres, demonstrating unbelievable low-speed handling authority. Ok, it’s not stealth (even if some sources say it can detect stealth planes like the F-35 at a distance of over 90 kil...

Disney released a mini-featurette of its new film "The Lone Ranger" that shows a scare the crew had on set. Near the halfway mark, star Johnny Depp (Tonto) is seeing falling from his horse and getting dragged alongside costar Armie Hammer before the horse tramples on the star. Depp wasn't seriously injured showing off a a hoof mark. The actor shrugged it off, joking with the crew. "I'd say the positive thing is, my coccyx didn't take it." Starring Depp and Hammer ("The Social Network"), the f...

Showtime has released the premiere episode for its new show "Ray Donovan" online nearly two weeks before its air date at the end of the month. The series features Liev Schreiber as Donovan who makes the problems of celebrities, athletes, and business mogels vanish. His father Mickey (Jon Voight) gets released from prison five years early and has a score to settle with his son. "Ray Donovan" premieres on Showtime June 30 at 10 p.m. after the final season premiere of "Dexter." SEE ALSO: 13 kill...

Cannes has only just begun and "Dumb Ways to Die," an Australian viral animation with a fun little ditty promoting public transport safety, is already sweeping the prestigious advertising competition. The three-minute long spot won the Grand Prix in the public relations and direct marketing categories — quite the feat for a local public service announcement for Melbourne's Metro system. "Dumb Ways to Die" captured the hearts of viewers when it was released last November. In nine months, it ha...

HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" was spotted filming Monday in the Flatiron District with cast members around Gramercy Park. The production company's Locations Department sent this letter, distributed on the Gramercy Park Block Association's Facebook page, to local residents saying crew would be filming interior scenes on June 17. Actors sporting backpacks and Prohibition era suits walked in the mid-80s New York heat. They entered from Irving Pl. and headed down Gramercy Park South into the National ...

Television is no longer the only game in town for distributing and watching video. The Internet and the social web have provided content creators and advertisers with a cost-effective way to distribute video. For audiences, discovery is no longer about flipping through channels or a TV guide, it's about listening to friends' recommendations and glancing at social media feeds. What is “social video?” For the purpose of this report, we’ll define it as video that is influenced — in any part of t...

Apple's iTunes Radio is coming out this fall for U.S. customers, likely around the same time as iOS 7. Apple's Pandora killer allows users to create their own stations based on artists, music genres, and song titles. Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac recently showed how iTunes Radio works as a standalone app on the Apple TV. Check out the hands-on video below. SEE ALSO: Listening To Ad-Free Music On iTunes Radio Will Be Cheaper Than Pandora Or Spotify Join the conversation about this story »

For the release of his sixth-studio album, Kanye West enlisted the help of Kourtney Kardashian's husband Scott Disick and pal Jonathan Chebum to make a short promotional film. Kanye released the short in full on his website as a tribute to the most memorable scene in "American Psycho." Check it out below: Here's the original: "Yeezus" is out today. You can download it at Kanye West's website.SEE ALSO: People are making bets on the name of Kanye and Kim Kardashian's baby Join the conversation ...

Swiss researchers have created an adorable cat-like robot, whose trot is based off the movements of the typical house cat. It runs about 5 feet per second, covering seven body lengths every second — the fastest small quadraped robot. It is even learning to cover obstacles and rough terrain. Though the robot is headless, you can tell from the video what it's supposed to be. They call it the "cheetah-cub robot" because it's like a smaller version of MIT's "Cheetah" robot, which looks much creep...

Baseball season is upon us and we thought we'd share with you the awesome physics of the curve ball. Here's a great video from Tetra Research of a curve ball in flight which will help us understand the forces acting on it better. The red areas are under higher pressure and blue are under lower pressures. Watch the clip: From F*ck Yeah Fluid Dynamics: Because the ball is spinning forward, pressure forces are unequal between the top and bottom of the ball, with the bottom part of the baseball e...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is really, really concerned about about the NSA spying scandal. Last week, Spanish tech news site FayerWayer did an impromptu interview with Wozniak in the waiting lounge of a Spanish airport, and posted it to Youtube. Asked to comment on the NSA spying case, Wozniak didn't hold back. The way he sees it, the NSA spying case is just the latest example of the US government trampling on citizens' Constitutional rights in the name of stopping terrorism. "All these t...

Boris Diaw's defense of LeBron James in Game 5 of the NBA Finals made him a trending topic last night, but just last season he was sent packing by the worst team in NBA history. Diaw opened last year with the Charlotte Bobcats before being cut midway through the season. He joined the Spurs one day later and became an important rotation player and even started all 14 of San Antonio's playoff games while the Bobcats finished 7-59, their .106 winning percentage, a record low. Diaw's 27 minutes o...

BOGOTA, Colombia — The drug scopolamine is also known as “the devil’s breath” or “burundanga.” The late salsa diva Celia Cruz sang about it. In a recent documentary, Vice called it “the world’s scariest drug.” That’s because scopolamine provides a potent weapon to Colombian criminals. The drug puts people into a zombie-like state in which they lose both their memory and free will and can be convinced to empty their bank accounts or hand over the keys to their apartments and cars. “They go out...

The video above of a man running across a molten lava flow was taken by Marc Szeglat after some recent activity at Mt. Etna, an active volcano in Sicily, Italy. It's not clear why the daredevil was tempted to run over the lava flow in the first place, but he got very lucky. The man could have easily slipped and burnt himself on the hot surface of the lava. You can see at the last step how his shoe catches on fire just the slightest bit, when he stepped where the crust was less thick. Erik Kle...

The iconic children’s television program has recently launched a new campaign called “Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration,” which, according to sesamestreet.org is geared toward helping children ages 3-8 cope when a parent is incarcerated: The website contains a number of techniques and tools that will help families deal with the challenges that result from this situation. Among the online resources featured in the program are videos, printable brochures, cellphone apps, and illust...

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that it is "troubling" that "half the American people don't think the President is trustworthy and honest," responding to a new poll showing President Barack Obama's approval rating had dropped eight points since May. Appearing on the premier of CNN's "New Day" Monday, Cantor suggested that the poll numbers were justified in light of consistent "abuses of power" in Washington that have overshadowed focus on the nation's most pressing problem: unem...

Warning: Spoilers follow. "Superman: Man of Steel" is soaring at theaters. Since its opening Thursday, the film has earned a remarkable $125 million in the U.S. Warner Bros. has been trying to find a way to bring a Superman reboot back to the big screen for a while. There are plenty of reasons why they got it right this time. After an early screening last Tuesday, we left thinking the film was good — not great. After seeing the film a second time over the weekend with excited moviegoers in a ...

Skype has launched its video messaging service today on Windows 8, Mac, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. Though video calling has been available on these platforms for some time, the ability to record a quick message and send it off to a few friends is a new addition, undoubtedly inspired by the success of Snapchat, which also lets you send video messages. With that said, this isn't meant to be a direct competitor to Snapchat. The videos don't automatically delete like on Snapchat and recorde...

Before gay marriage became legalized in France last month, the folks at Google found a way to allow same sex couples to legally exchange vows: via a Belgian mayor conducting ceremonies in Google Hangout. Gay marriage is legal in Belgium. The Belgian mayor has married Chilean couples on the Google video meeting platform as well. Google made a tear-jerking ad about two French men, Marc-Antoine and Sebastien, who met in 1976 and have at last — thanks to Google — found a way to make their relatio...

Microsoft may be on to something in its new campaign for Windows 8, which features various Windows tablets alongside the iPad and a Siri-like voice complaining about Apple's inadequacies. More than 600,000 people have viewed this new commercial in the last couple of days. The ads hark back to the days of Apple's "Mac vs. PC," campaign, the long-running and much beloved ads featuring Jon Hodgman and Justin Long as the cool and dorky personifications of Apple and Microsoft, respectively. Only t...

The Confederations Cup kicked off in Brazil this weekend. Three minutes into the opening match of the tournament between Brazil and Japan, Brazilian striker Neymar showed the world why Barcelona spent $76 million to acquire him this summer. Neymar was standing just outside the 18-yard box when a pass was chested down to him. He took the shot one-time, and rifled it into the back of the net. The Confederations Cup is a warm-up tournament for next summer's World Cup in Brazil. It's not the most...

This post is sponsored by Constellation.To most of us, zero means (literally) nothing. But for executives concerned with energy use, zero is a magic number. Reaching "net zero," or producing more electricity than you use, isn’t easy: Costs are rising, and energy policies and regulations are complex. Yet flavor company McCormick & Company managed to achieve net-zero electricity status for its 363,000-square-foot distribution center in Belcamp, Maryland. A factor in meeting this goal was the in...

Spurs guard Danny Green set the record for 3-pointers in a single NBA Finals last night. He's now shooting 65% on 3-pointers in the Finals, and 76% on catch-and-shoot 3's. The NBA average is ~36%. It's one of the most amazing hot streaks in playoff history, and Green would probably be the Finals MVP if the series ended today. The big question going into Game 6 is this: Why the heck are the Heat leaving him so open? Tony Parker answered that question last night after the game. He said, "I can’...

Jay-Z announced his new album "Magna Carta Holy Grail" in a 3-minute-long Samsung ad that aired during the NBA playoffs last night. In less than a day, the video has accumulated more that 1.2 million views on YouTube. Jay-Z teases bits of the album's sound in the commercial, but he also gives Galaxy owners an exclusive opportunity. The first million users to download an app for the album June 24 will get the tracks for free on July 4, which is 3 days before the album actually drops. Watch the...

Miss Utah Marissa Powell, who looked stunning in a white strapless evening gown at the Miss USA pageant, bombed her final onstage question last night at the Planet Hollywood Casino & Resort in Las Vegas. "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star/Miss USA judge NeNe Leakes asked Powell, who was named the most photogenic at the pageant, to answer the following question: "A recent report shows that in 40% of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less t...

Gatsby won't be the only wealthy lord Leonadro DiCaprio plays this year. DiCaprio returns to the big screen this fall as overly wealthy New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort in "The Wolf of Wall Street" throwing parties that look bigger and badder than those he threw in "The Great Gatsby." Back with director Martin Scorsese ("The Departed," "Shutter Island"), DiCaprio stars with Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey in the biographical crime drama based on the memoir by Belfort. The trailer is pla...

Danny Green is still white-hot for the San Antonio Spurs. Tonight in Game 5 he set the all-time record for 3-pointers made in an NBA Finals. Amazingly, he did it in just over four and a half games. The previous record was 22, held by current Miami Heat player Ray Allen. Allen's reaction to Green's historic three was epic. Here's the record-breaking shot: Allen's face afterward sums up how filthy Green is right now (via @cjzero): Join the conversation about this story »

Not surprisingly, President Obama's weekly address focused on Father's Day — but he also spoke candidly about his own father that he barely knew. "I want to take a moment to talk about the most important job many of us will ever have, and that's being a dad," Obama said. Speaking about technological advances that allow us to connect instantly with anyone in the world, Obama told viewers there would never be a substitute for the "love and support, and most importantly — the presence of a paren...

New Yorker? Own an electric bicycle? You're probably pretty angry right now, since the city has just banned the use of electric bikes on its streets. Which would be fine, had you not just bought one, still entirely legally, from a shop. It's okay though, we have a solution--turn it into a flying machine. It's doubtful the illegality of electric bikes is what spurred three Czech companies to invent the unusual contraption you see above (discovered viaTreeHugger), but it would certainly elimina...

If I had a penny for every time I had been asked by somebody to create them a viral video or how to get millions of views on Youtube I would be a very rich man indeed. People think they produce a video (usually of a corporate office setting with a new product announcement), put it on Youtube and all they have to do then is sit back and watch the video views roll in. As anybody who knows anything about online video will tell you the chances are your video will get a couple of hundred views at ...

A parody Cheerios advert has appeared on YouTube in response to the racist backlash the original sparked. Last month Cheerios brought out an ad, directed by Saatchi and Saatchi New York, innocently showing a mixed-race family talking about the benefits of the cereal for the heart. The ad, however, ignited a fierce racial backlash with people calling the family depiction “disgusting” with numerous references to Nazis, troglodytes and racial genocide, eventually forcing YouTube to close the com...