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Watch Garry Kasparov and Alan Turing Play Chess

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a computer, but now it’s been coded up and who better to pit it against than… Garry Kasparov? Gulp. Turing’s algorithm wasn’t particularly exotic. It used some…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Yep, Kickstarter Is Pretty Much a Scam for Useless Crap

The Onion, as only The Onion can, exposed the cesspool of faux-inventions of Kickstarter by calling the folks who start Kickstarter projects, Internet criminals who “bilk friends and families out of terrible, ill-conceived and unnecessary personal projects”. Yep, pretty much. https://gizmodo.com/were-done-with-kickstarter-5897449 It’s a damn racket that’s been fooling the entire Internet! Enjoy it here:

Tech News Casey Chan

Atom Crash Produces Hottest Man-Made Temperature Ever

An atom-smasher called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has just snagged a Guinness World Record for reaching the hottest man-made temperature ever—250,000 times hotter than the center of the sun. The face-melting temperature was achieved when gold nuclei—the part of the atom made of protons and neutrons that has a positive charge—were set zipping…

Physics & Chemistry Leslie Horn

Beyoncé is a fairy queen in the first trailer for Epic

The first trailer for the woodland-warring-nymphs movie Epic is out. It looks like a North American Fern Gully. And the fairies ride hummingbirds, which is pretty adorable. The animated movie stars Peeta, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, Johnny Knoxville, Steven Tyler, Beyonce (as a fairy queen), and Aziz Ansari as a slug. How completely random: EPIC…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

This Leather Chainsaw Bag Cuts Down Fashion Critics

First, the bad news. This leather bag from Facetasm isn’t a stylish way to carry your chainsaw. So lumberjack fashionistas, we’re sorry to disappoint. But if plaid ever makes its way back onto catwalks, this bag will serve as the perfect fashion accessory. It’s available in a tan or black leather finish, and the blade…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Spend Your Summer Hiding in a Cold, Dark Room

The grass is bright and green, but, ew, it makes you sneeze. The nights are warm and balmy, but, ugh, there are mosquitos. The bars are filled with tempting flesh, but, harrumph, that flesh expects you to pay for its drinks. What’s an allergy-prone, bug bite-covered, misanthrope supposed to do in the summer? Well, you…

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Stress-Induced Depression Is Real

Stress breeds depression. Anecdotally, we all know that’s the case, but scientifically speaking it’s been a hypothesis that has until now remained unproven. A new study, however, reveals that chronic stress affects us at the genetic level, in turn creating very real brain changes associated with depression. A team of researchers from Yale University has…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The War Zone Cargo Copter That Lifts 6,000 Pounds Without a Pilot

Rugged doesn’t even begin to describe Afghanistan’s terrain. Delivering supplies to distant outposts over land through hostile territory is a difficult and deadly proposition—and even helicopter transports are not immune from RPG fire. So, to make essential cargo drops without risking the lives of American servicemen, Lockheed Martin simply removed the pilot. The Kaman K-Max…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hit-Girl, and Anthony Bourdain’s dystopian graphic novel hit comic shops this week

There are a ton of new bizarre reads on the spinner racks this Wednesday. First off, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill release the final chapter of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, 2009, which includes a guest appearance by a certain magical British adolescent: The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

These remarkable clouds look even more incredible from the ISS

Fifty miles overhead, higher than any other formation in our planet’s atmosphere, is where you’ll find one of the most enigmatic classes of cloud ever observed. They’re called noctilucent clouds, and they’re some of the most poorly understood meteorological phenomena on Earth. Noctilucent clouds (aka polar mesospheric clouds) are notoriously difficult to view from the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Here’s Proof Your Windows Phone Will Look Great Even if You’re “Screwed” Out of the Upgrade

Following Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 reveal, plenty of owners were salty over what they considered the ultimate betrayal: not a single WP on the market was eligible for the super upgrade. But please, don’t fret! The consolation prize is awesome. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-8-looks-great-but-it-screws-existing-use-5919915 If you can’t get Windows Phone 8, many of you can still upgrade to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This flying robot light show is the coolest thing you will see all day

Stop whatever you’re doing right now and watch this. At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, KMel Robotics — who previously worked on the James Bond theme à la quadrotors — and Marshmallow Laser Feast unveiled this live performance of whirring robots performing a dazzling light show. Words cannot describe how rad this is…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Website Is Telling the World Your Dirty Public Facebook Secrets

The notion of a private secret sounds contradictory, but in the Facebook Age, it makes sad sense. There’s a whole horde of uninformed FB users who broadcast their weed smoking and boss hating for the entire internet. Read it here. Due to years of simultaneously trying to simplify privacy settings and urging us to share…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Floating Balloon Coffee Table Is a Whimsical Way To Get Sued By Disney

Don’t get us wrong. We’re completely enamored with Duffy London’s new glass-topped coffee table that looks like it’s being supported by a cluster of helium balloons. We’re just not sure calling it the UP was the best idea. That mouse can be very litigious! Obviously inspired by the Disney/Pixar flick Up, the balloons under the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Scientists are working on a device to help Stephen Hawking communicate through brain waves

Iconic physicist Stephen Hawking’s condition is getting worse, prompting scientists to apply their research in brain scanning in an effort to help. Called the iBrain, it is hoped that the device will continue to allow Hawking to communicate by sheer thought alone. Hawking, who is now 70, suffers from a motor neuron disease which caused…

io9 George Dvorsky

Why Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is The Ultimate White Guilt Fantasy

K. Tempest Bradford is the main writer behind the Angry Black Woman blog, and also the author of that great list of stock science fiction TV plots we linked to a few years ago. Here, she explains why Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter isn’t just a weak genre mashup, but also the ultimate white guilt fantasy.…

Movies K. Tempest Bradford

Why Is There No Such Thing As A Really, Truly Good Universal Remote?

Seriously, I’ve used ’em all and nothing short of megabuck custom-install jobs ever works right all the time. You guys? Chatroom… #chatroom! Talk it out.

Tech News Joe Brown

Watch the MacBook Pro Retina Go Hot Red At Maximum Power

I love thermal imaging more than a Predator and almost as much as I love the new MacBook Pro Retina. So I made this little GIF animation with thermal images from Japanese blog IT Media, showing how hot Apple’s coolest computer gets under maximum stress. The verdict: it doesn’t get too hot at all. The…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

HBO gives George Bush’s severed head a facelift on Game of Thrones

George W. Bush’s Game of Thrones cameo is lost forever, except to the legion of viewers who own the first shipment of the show’s first season on DVD and Blu-ray. As you may remember, a behind-the-scenes commentary from the show’s creators revealed that one of the many heads spiked in King’s Landing was the forty-third…

Television Meredith Woerner

Surgery, Security and Sales: The Future of Closed-Circuit Television

It’s hard to imagine a world before the ubiquitous security camera. In major cities around the world, it’s just expected that we’re all being photographed maybe dozens of times a day. The CCTV camera has permeated popular culture and is an icon frequently used by artists who are concerned with the rise of the surveillance…

Tech News Matt Novak

Watch Garry Kasparov and Alan Turing Play Chess

Yep, Kickstarter Is Pretty Much a Scam for Useless Crap

Atom Crash Produces Hottest Man-Made Temperature Ever

Beyoncé is a fairy queen in the first trailer for Epic

This Leather Chainsaw Bag Cuts Down Fashion Critics

Spend Your Summer Hiding in a Cold, Dark Room

Stress-Induced Depression Is Real

The War Zone Cargo Copter That Lifts 6,000 Pounds Without a Pilot

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hit-Girl, and Anthony Bourdain’s dystopian graphic novel hit comic shops this week

These remarkable clouds look even more incredible from the ISS

Here’s Proof Your Windows Phone Will Look Great Even if You’re “Screwed” Out of the Upgrade

This flying robot light show is the coolest thing you will see all day

This Website Is Telling the World Your Dirty Public Facebook Secrets

Floating Balloon Coffee Table Is a Whimsical Way To Get Sued By Disney

Scientists are working on a device to help Stephen Hawking communicate through brain waves

Why Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is The Ultimate White Guilt Fantasy

Why Is There No Such Thing As A Really, Truly Good Universal Remote?

Watch the MacBook Pro Retina Go Hot Red At Maximum Power

HBO gives George Bush’s severed head a facelift on Game of Thrones

Surgery, Security and Sales: The Future of Closed-Circuit Television

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