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These Surrealist Nightmare Photos Are Real—But Tiny

Frank Kunert’s photographs are crazy. They show surreal places that don’t exist, exquisite photos of tennis courts shaped as skating half-pipes or slides for kids that end on highways. Kunert creates his tiny detailed models and then captures them in a realistic way. I like to think about them as anti-tilt-shifting images. And I wish…

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Cars Powered With Coke and Mentos Battle For Mileage Supremacy

Car A is powered by 108 bottles of Coke Zero and 648 Mentos mints. Car B is powered by just 54 bottles of Coke Zero and 324 Mentos mints. Which car do you think would win this race? Some times power isn’t everything. The Coke & Mentos Mark I car only gets 217 feet compared…

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Microsoft Is Nuking Internet Explorer 6 With Worldwide Automatic Upgrade

At last! Microsoft is killing the last vestiges of that dreadful, obsolete program known as Internet Explorer 6. They are going to force the upgrade and that’s a good thing—the web needs to get rid of this crap. Right now its usage is at 8.3 percent, which means that millions of users out there are…

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Steve Jobs: The Complete Story of the Billion Dollar Hippy In Sixty Minutes

“How did a drug-taking college dropout create one of the largest companies of the world?” That’s the question that this one-hour documentary on Steve Jobs by the BBC. I just saw it and it’s nice. It’s better than the rushed and boring Isaacson book for sure. It has a load of old photos and videos.…

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This Will Be the Best View of New York City

The best views of New York aren’t in Manhattan. They are on the East River side of Brooklyn or Long Island City. And when this new hotel by the Williamsburg Bridge is finished, it will be the very best view of all. By far. Check out how it looks from outside. Designed by Oppenheim Architecture,…

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This Beautiful Pre-Fab House Has the Same Price of a Family Car

Looking at it, I wouldn’t mind living in this Mimahouse, a pre-fabricated home that can be easily customized by the owner. Knowing the price, I’d seriously consider it—if I lived in Portugal, where it is made. [Mimahousing via Dezeen]

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This Is Comet Lovejoy (or The Silver Surfer) About to Plunge Into the Sun

Space is crazy today. Supermassive gas-guzzling black holes, celestial angels and now the Silver Surfer on collision course with the Sun: it’s comet Lovejoy approaching our home star. It will pass behind the solar limb on December 15, around 7pm Eastern Time. The Helioviewer Project says that there “is a chance the comet will survive…

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NASA Says There Is An Angel In Space

Technically, this is a bipolar star-forming region called Sharpless 2-106. Not technically, NASA says that it “looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel.” I think those image people at NASA are hitting that rocket fuel punch to heavily, but I like it. The glowing blue wings of the angel are twin lobes of super-hot gas,…

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Watch the Supermassive Black Hole In the Center of Our Galaxy Eating Breakfast

We knew there was a gigantic black hole in the middle of our very own Milky Way. Now we have images of how this monster eats. This video shows it devouring a massive gas cloud. What is this supermassive black hole? Called Sagittarius A star (Sgr A*), this black hole is at the center of…

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The Mighty United States Air Force Summarized in Two Minutes

The F-22 may have not been a resounding success, but this video gives a good idea of the power of the US Air Force, complete with some pseudo-Wagner(ish) music that makes me want to invade Poland That or watch a Ridley Scott movie with a really angry Gene Hackman. Skip to 15 seconds.

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Newbie Teen Drivers Are Even More Useless Than Most Teen Drivers

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has used hidden cameras to prove what everyone already knew: most newbie teen drivers are pretty bad drivers. As their videos show, they are also impossibly obnoxious. No surprise there either. They also like Twilight. According to a new study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, teen drivers…

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iMessage Keeps Texting Stolen iPhones Even After Wipeout

Beware: if your iPhone gets stolen, it will keep receiving messages sent via iMessage even after a remote wipe out and deactivation. The thief—or whoever buys the stolen terminal—would be able to read whatever is written to you. Users in Apple support board are reporting this problem which has no solution for now. The iMessages…

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This NASA Space Harpoon Will Hunt Comets Down

NASA is readying a new kind of space device: a harpoon designed to rapidly fire against comets, easily taking chunks of its surface with surgical precision. It’s now being tested by scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center. This is the rationale: you can’t land a spacecraft in a comet. It just travels and rotates…

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These Strange Light Effects In the Arctic Sky Are Not UFOs

We live in a wonderful world indeed. And in places like Greenland, the skies are wonderful too, full of spectres, ringed glories, sundogs, coronas, lunar halos and cloudbows. These weird atmospheric optical phenomenons are common there. This one is a lunar halo, photographed by Ed Stockard. Here are some more. While lunar halos can be…

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The First US Army Cyber Brigade Can Beat the Crap Out of You In Real Life Too

Check out all these badass dudes carrying blue flags. They are the new U.S. 780th Military Intelligence Brigade. The US Army says it’s the first cyber brigade in its history. They don’t look like your usual hackers. Apparently, these guys will be able to fight the enemy on the internet and also kick the crap…

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The Most Expensive Computer Bugs of 2011

Earlier this year a man lost a $57 million jackpot when a casino alleged a “software glitch” on the slot machine. Well, that’s nothing compared to the backlog of $9 billion in unprocessed payments that happened in Japan in March. Here are the top five worserest, most expensive computer glitches of 2011, according to SQS,…

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This Holiday Choir Is Made Of 64 iPhones—and It’s Pretty Good

This is pretty stupid but kind of funny too: Deck the Halls sung by 64 iPhones. It’s kind of amazing that they got them singing in sync. But you know what’s even better? They are donating $0.05 per view to charity. I say: let’s pass this around and break their bank account.

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This Is the Last F-22 Raptor Ever

AK 4195. That’s the tail number of the last F-22 Raptor ever, which you can see here fully assembled and about to move into the flight line to get ready for delivery. That assembly line is now closed. Done. Forever. I say forever because I doubt they will ever open it again. The Raptor was…

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We Live In a Wonderful World Indeed

The sequences of this video would marvel anyone with a pair of eyes. Couple it with the lyrics of What a Wonderful World recited by Sir David Attenborough and you would make our wonderful world even more wonderful. [Thanks Nick!]

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This Pyro Board Display Uses Tiny Flames as Pixels

Phosphorous pixels, liquid crystal, LEDs, lasers, electronic ink and now little flames used as pixels of a display. It works by transmitting “sound waves through a flammable gas creating alternating high and low pressure zones.” They call it the Pyro Board and it’s pretty neat. It’s also the first display that can grill some burgers…

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These Surrealist Nightmare Photos Are Real—But Tiny

Cars Powered With Coke and Mentos Battle For Mileage Supremacy

Microsoft Is Nuking Internet Explorer 6 With Worldwide Automatic Upgrade

Steve Jobs: The Complete Story of the Billion Dollar Hippy In Sixty Minutes

This Will Be the Best View of New York City

This Beautiful Pre-Fab House Has the Same Price of a Family Car

This Is Comet Lovejoy (or The Silver Surfer) About to Plunge Into the Sun

NASA Says There Is An Angel In Space

Watch the Supermassive Black Hole In the Center of Our Galaxy Eating Breakfast

The Mighty United States Air Force Summarized in Two Minutes

Newbie Teen Drivers Are Even More Useless Than Most Teen Drivers

iMessage Keeps Texting Stolen iPhones Even After Wipeout

This NASA Space Harpoon Will Hunt Comets Down

These Strange Light Effects In the Arctic Sky Are Not UFOs

The First US Army Cyber Brigade Can Beat the Crap Out of You In Real Life Too

The Most Expensive Computer Bugs of 2011

This Holiday Choir Is Made Of 64 iPhones—and It’s Pretty Good

This Is the Last F-22 Raptor Ever

We Live In a Wonderful World Indeed

This Pyro Board Display Uses Tiny Flames as Pixels

NASA Rover Finds Glowing, Ruby-Like Crystals on Mars for the First Time

Anker Prime Docking Station Hits Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Winds Down (14 Ports With 160W Output)

Google TV Streamer 4K Drops to an All-Time Low, Final Hours in Amazon Spring Sale to Turn Any TV Smart on a Budget

The New ‘Masters of the Universe’ Trailer Brings Eternia to Life

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

UGREEN Bluetooth Tracker 4-Pack Now Just $7 Each With iOS and Android Support, While AirTag Stays at Full Price

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

Forget Tower Desktop, GMKtec Mini PC Drops to a Record Low as Amazon Clears Out Final Spring Sale Stock

‘Fallout’ Season 2 Was a Hit Despite That Unsatisfying Release Strategy Change

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It