Yes, head transplant surgery is something straight out of science fiction movies but one neurosurgeon believes it’s very close to becoming a reality. As Reuters informs us, Dr. Sergio Canavero last week pitched American doctors on his plan to conduct a full head transplant operation on Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old Russian man with a degenerative spinal condition. Canavero says he wants to perform the operation in December of 2017 and he thinks it has a surprisingly high chance of succeeding.

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Newly released data from a National Low Income Housing Coalition report shows how much one needs to earn per hour at a minimum in order to afford a two bedroom apartment across each state. Naturally, states like California and New York are particularly expensive, with individuals there respectively needing to earn $26.85 and $25.67 per hour in order to afford an average two bedroom.

The report, aptly titled Out of Reach, is particularly illuminating given the ongoing battle in some states to raise the minimum wage rate to $15/hr.

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These days, it appears as if no one is safe from hackers. Just a week after the security firm Kaspersky announced that they had been hacked comes word that LastPass, a password security company, has been hacked as well.

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Two down, two to go. Following Microsoft and EA, Ubisoft will hold the third press conference of the day in just a few moments. It’s been an exhausting day so far, but don’t worry – only a few hours left until all the big announcements have been made and we can all go back to sitting in our beds, rocking back and forth waiting for Star Wars Battlefront.

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It’s Monday again, or a terrible start of the new workweek for those of you who have seriously partied over the weekend on account of that hangover you swore you’d never get again. One of the most annoying side-effects of heavy drinking, the hangover, can’t be really cured, and it’s not even completely explained from a medical standpoint. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways of dealing with it, and the following infographic will give you a bunch of suggestions from across the world for dealing with it, but also for preventing the next one.

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There have been 3D-printed apartment complexes and cremation urns, and now one company out of The Netherlands is planning to “print” a bridge. MX3D, a 3D printing company, developed a robotic 3D printer to construct a steel bridge over a canal in Amsterdam, reports CNET.

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Microsoft’s Xbox One launch was nothing short of an absolute mess. Bad decisions, bad policies and bad public relations had gamers raging right from the console’s unveiling all the way up to its release. Sony’s PlayStation 4 took an early lead in the next-generation console war as a result, and the Xbox One hasn’t been able to make up the ground it lost in those early days.

Many of the Xbox One’s wrongs have been righted at this point. In fact, some of Microsoft’s biggest mistakes were corrected even before the console debuted. And now, Microsoft used E3 2015 to set to stage for the next phase in what could be a comeback for the ages for the Xbox One.

Here are the five most important things the company announced on Monday morning.

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In today’s age of viral video, it’s not too often that we come across something that’s truly jaw dropping. This is that something. The following video features singer David Achter de Molen, from the Dutch band John Coffey, crowd-walking during a concert when, out of the blue, someone slings a full cup of beer in his direction. Miraculuosly, he catches the cup right-side up, chugs it, and tosses it aside like it ain’t no thang.

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Sony will soon unveil everything there is to know about Project Morpheus’ launch, but the first details regarding gaming on the PS4 virtual reality headset have already been shared with some members of the media – and they paint a glorious future for VR gaming. A new piece in Wired tells the story of Sony’s secret weapon for VR: one of its partners is already working on first-person shooter games that would be played with a special gun accessory that nobody else has, and which will fix critical issues with such games, at least when VR is involved.

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If you tuned in for the Xbox E3 2015 event earlier today, you might find it hard to believe that other studios have to follow up one of the most impressive presentations in recent E3 history. But the show must go on, and EA is in the unenviable position of holding its own press conference right after Microsoft.

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