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Watching Tanks Racing Through the Beach Is Surprisingly Fun (If You’re Not There)

Apparently, if you go to some beaches on the Baltic Sea you will see this show quite often. Since the beach itself is not a virgin paradise, the local authorities make these armored columns go through sand instead of breaking the roads’ asphalt. I really need to go to Russia. [English Russia]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

What the hell is on this mysterious-looking piece of seaweed?

One look and you’ll notice it immediately: beautiful floral patterns, resembling white stencil tracings, seem etched on the outer surface of this piece of seaweed. It looks so out of place, you’d swear it was artificial. What is it? We’ve found the answer. The algae was originally spotted by redditor gyo80, who described the find,…

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Gernot Redecker Computer Brush Review: Brush Your Computer Like It’s Covered with Beautiful Hair

If you’re anything like us, your computer is covered with disgusting heaps of lint, dust, dirt, pita chip crumbles, and rainbow sprinkles. You could blow on it, or use compressed air—or you could use this gorgeous bristly brush. The Redecker brush was originally designed in 1992 by a German company that’s been making natural bristle…

Reviews Sam Biddle

Hellraiser concept art shows the many visions of Pinhead

Dimension Films has been trying to get a Hellraiser reboot up and running for ages, and various creative teams have apparently been pitching their own visual takes on the material. Shocktillyoudrop has featured three different sets of concept art in the past year — including the above vision by Paul Gerrard (Battle: Los Angeles) created…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Is Reddit going to replace college for people who can’t afford higher education?

In the United States, many people can no longer afford to get a four-year college degree — even though most jobs that pay a middle-class salary require it. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project: A March 2012 study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that 60%…

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Windows 8 May Force You To Boot Into the UI-Formerly-Known-As-Metro

Don’t like Windows 8’s new, currently-unnamed, obviously-tablet leaning interface? Too bad. Microsoft is apparently going to make you love it, and step one of the process is forcing you to boot into it, claims ZDnet. Citing Rafael Rivera, Windows enthusiast and co-author of “Windows 8 Secrets” Rafael Rivera, ZDnet says that Windows 8 users will…

Tech News Eric Limer

Why Apple Ditching Google Will Make Your iPhone So Much Better

After a frosty five-year relationship—and on the heels of the highly publicized Maps breakup— YouTube and iOS have filed for divorce. And you know what? It’s the best thing that could’ve happened for Apple, for Google, and most of all for you. https://gizmodo.com/apple-has-its-own-killer-maps-with-turn-by-turn-navigat-5917324 YouTube first fell into the iPhone’s sweet embrace back in the summer…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Ill teenager misses her family cat, so the internet builds her a virtual cathedral of felines

Because of her weakened immune system, 16-year-old cancer patient Maga Barzallo Sockemtickem has spent many months over the past year recovering in isolation at the Seattle Children’s Hospital. While waiting for a suitable bone marrow donor and receiving subsequent treatments, Maga found herself missing her beloved cat Merry. The hospital stepped in and created “The…

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Would You Rather Know the Origin of Life or Watch People Run Faster Than Others?

People are making a lot of comparisons between the cost of the Mars Curiosity Rover—incidentally, the cost was all spent in our economy not sent to Mars in a bag—and other events and projects. Among them, the cost of the olympics, as shown above. https://jalopnik.com/why-its-great-we-send-robots-to-mars-and-why-people-sho-5932213 Would you rather spend more money on the science that…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

SOG Dark Energy 214 Review: A Fistful of Daylight

Your toes are not sonar. Rather than pick your way through a darkened room by smashing them into every obstacle in your way, bring a flashlight. The Dark Energy 214 from SOG is bright enough to light any path and small enough to take everywhere. What Is It? A blindingly bright palm-size flashlight. Who’s it…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola

Pupil dilation could be “a subconscious indicator of sexuality”

Your pupils tend to dilate, or widen, when eyeing somebody that you find particularly attractive. Now, newly published research suggests that measuring pupil responses may be an effective way of assessing a person’s sexual orientation. Cornell Researchers Gerulf Fieger and Ritch C. Savin Williams summarize their findings in the latest issue of PLoS ONE: In…

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What Will iOS 6 Use Its New ‘Bluetooth Sharing’ Feature For?

There has been a slew of news today about the newly released Apple iOS 6 beta, and here’s another interesting if mysterious, bit. There’s a new tab called “Bluetooth Sharing” under the iOS privacy settings. It seems the new OS will allow apps to share more types of data over Bluetooth than before. What are…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Toilet Paper: A Brief and Sometimes Painful History

Seinfeld excelled at criticism of the everyday. A few months ago, in a fine essay in the NY Times, Sam Anderson suggested that Roland Barthes was the father of pop cultural criticism and that we are all now cultural critics in the Barthian vein, “decoding everything.” Perhaps. But if Barthes gave us serious criticism of…

Tech News Mike Sacasas

Deepest, Darkest Coming of Age Stories from Science Fiction and Fantasy

When it comes to discovering strange new worlds, there’s nothing like a young protagonist venturing out into a world where it feels like absolutely anything can happen. Many of science fiction and fantasy’s coolest stories are about coming of age — but coming of age, in the end, means losing your innocence and confronting the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s Exactly Where Mars Curiosity Landed—And the NASA Engineer Who Won That Bet (Updated)

A friend at NASA has sent us this funny document that reveals two things for the first time. One, it shows exactly where Curiosity landed yesterday. The accuracy of the actual landing site compared to the target is impressive!* And two, the NASA guys had a pool on where it would land, called Mars Madness…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Apple Is Removing YouTube from iOS 6

Apple has removed the YouTube app from the latest beta of iOS 6 and has confirmed to the Verge that the native app will not exist at all when iOS 6 officially releases to the public. The YouTube app, if you’ll remember, has been on the iPhone since the original iPhone first released. Right now,…

Tech News Casey Chan

Should the World Be Scared of Huawei?

China’s Huawei is growing fast, quickly rising to a strong position in the mobile market. But as it pushes abroad, it’s facing a lot of skepticism from other governments and from direct competitors, in part because of its ties to its the country’s People’s Liberation Army. But are those legitimate fears, or are western companies…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Google street view is now available for NASA Kennedy Space Center

We promise today isn’t going to be all about space, but this was just too cool to pass up. NASA recently unveiled Google Street view for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in recognition of the launch center’s 50th anniversary. Comprising 6,000 panoramic views of the KSC facilities, this location is Google’s largest special collection…

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Bryan Singer claims his Battlestar Galactica movie can connect both BSG TV series

It’s been a long time since we had an update on the long-delayed Battlestar Galactica movie. And the latest bit of news is a whopper. Bryan Singer is claiming that his movie’s script, penned by John Orloff (Band of Brothers, Anonymous) will be able to fit in with both the 1978 original, and the reboot…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Computer for the Apollo Program Used Rope Memory Woven by Little Old Ladies

If you thought the fact that an iPhone was four times as powerful as the on-board computer of the Curiosity Rover was unbelievable, take a look at the meager tech the Apollo Program used to get into space. The computer was so pitiful that the software of the Apollo guidance computer was literally hand woven…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

Watching Tanks Racing Through the Beach Is Surprisingly Fun (If You’re Not There)

What the hell is on this mysterious-looking piece of seaweed?

Gernot Redecker Computer Brush Review: Brush Your Computer Like It’s Covered with Beautiful Hair

Hellraiser concept art shows the many visions of Pinhead

Is Reddit going to replace college for people who can’t afford higher education?

Windows 8 May Force You To Boot Into the UI-Formerly-Known-As-Metro

Why Apple Ditching Google Will Make Your iPhone So Much Better

Ill teenager misses her family cat, so the internet builds her a virtual cathedral of felines

Would You Rather Know the Origin of Life or Watch People Run Faster Than Others?

SOG Dark Energy 214 Review: A Fistful of Daylight

Pupil dilation could be “a subconscious indicator of sexuality”

What Will iOS 6 Use Its New ‘Bluetooth Sharing’ Feature For?

Toilet Paper: A Brief and Sometimes Painful History

Deepest, Darkest Coming of Age Stories from Science Fiction and Fantasy

Here’s Exactly Where Mars Curiosity Landed—And the NASA Engineer Who Won That Bet (Updated)

Apple Is Removing YouTube from iOS 6

Should the World Be Scared of Huawei?

Google street view is now available for NASA Kennedy Space Center

Bryan Singer claims his Battlestar Galactica movie can connect both BSG TV series

The Computer for the Apollo Program Used Rope Memory Woven by Little Old Ladies

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