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This Is the New Spy Plane of the US Navy

The US Navy just got a new spy plane. It name is MQ-4C Triton, and it has been created by Northrop Grumman for “maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance data collection and dissemination capability to the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force.” The Navy says that their new drone will be used for sea “surveillance, collection of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Giant Balls, a Remote Truck Stop, Piles of Cash, and More

Apple kicked off the week with another epic keynote. Beautiful products, indeed. But we also eyegasmed while looking at bowls made of money, speakers that look like rocket engines, and a crack-pipe-chic lamp. Here’s a look at this week’s aesthetic porn. This Double-Handled Caraffe is Obviously Designed For Serious Dinner Hosts Do your friends talk…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

App in the Air, 30/30, and More

This installment of the week’s best iPhone apps contains plenty of fun. There’s a twist on a popular game, a travel tool, a music-sharing app, and plenty more.

Tech News Leslie Horn

Condition One, National Parks, and More

We’ve got a lot of wonderful things in this edition of the week’s best iPad apps. There are a couple of familiar iPhone titles with brand new tablet versions, a competitive eating game, and more. National Parks by National Geographic: Doesn’t matter if it’s Glacier, Yellowstone, Zion, or Yosemite—National Parks are awesome. This app, which…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Songkick Concerts, Qello, and More

This batch of the week’s best Android apps will keep you entertained until the next round. We’re giving you something to help you find concerts and something else to let you watch shows when you can’t actually go. There’s also an app for golf fans, something to scan your phone for viruses, and more. Songkick…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This Light Is Powered By Fireflies And Doesn’t Need Electricity to Glow

Can you imagine light that can glow without using electricity? That’s what these researchers from Syracuse University are trying to create and they’re using the bioluminescence of a firefly to make it happen. It means that perhaps sometime in the future, these firefly lights could replace LEDs and not need any power. How does it…

Tech News Casey Chan

High-res Ted photos show you how to party like a teddy bear

Looks as though the magically animated teddy bear gets his party on, big time, in Seth MacFarlane’s Ted, judging from a dozen high-res photos that just came out. There is something about the sight of a teddy bear in a suit, or a teddy bear on a couch with four hot babes, that leaves you…

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Mysterious Electric Blue Clouds Appear Again Over the Poles

Every year around this time, mysterious electric blue clouds appear over the North and South pole. They are called noctilucent clouds and they can only be seen in deep twilight, when the Sun is below the horizon. According to NASA, “their origin is still largely a mystery”: Various theories associate them with meteoric dust, rocket…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

At last, the secrets of bioluminescence could find their way into consumer products

Scientists from Syracuse University have found a way to mimic the bioluminescent qualities of fireflies, a development that could lead to products with multicolor strings of light that don’t require electricity or batteries to glow. Fireflies have drawn the attention of scientists for quite some time now. Unlike most bioluminescent creatures, their light is extremely…

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The 49 Bits of Booze Jargon Every Drinker Needs To Know

Jargon is technology. Language was created for communication, and sharing a set of slang makes it all the more efficient. A drink order to a bartender needs to be a particularly quick and clear statement. If not, you’re going to look like a novice, and you’re not going to get the drink you want. And…

Tech News Brent Rose

The Guy Who Invented Your Facebook News Feed Just Quit Facebook

The news feed, so ubiquitous that we don’t even need to capitalize it, is an internet staple. We stare at it daily—maybe too much—and it’s a fundamental part of Facebook. Today, the brain behind the feed is leaving. Bret Taylor co-founded a small company called FriendFeed—which was absorbed by the Zuck Mothership in 2009, making…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Study proves bears can “count” as well as primates

Most people readily accept that bears are smart animals. In fact, most wildlife biologists regard bears as some of the most intelligent land mammals on Earth; and yet, there’s very little formal research to support what everyone pretty much accepts as true. Now, in the first study of its kind, researchers Jennifer Vonk and Michael…

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Go to Church in a Chapel That Looks Like Noah’s Ark

As the story goes, Noah was tasked by God to wrangle up a pair of every animal and bring them aboard a giant Ark, which was equipped to survive a flood intended to wipe the Earth clean. And looking at the Kamppi Chapel of Silence, built by K2S Architects in Finland, you can’t help but…

Tech News Adrian Covert

A Muslim Hacker and the Secrets of the Jinn, in Alif the Unseen

Alif the Unseen is the debut prose novel by G. Willow Wilson, author of the critically-acclaimed graphic novels Cairo, Air, and Vixen. This is a breezy yet thought-provoking blend of techno-thriller and urban fantasy, set in an unnamed Arab emirate. It will whisk you away to the new vistas of wonder and wisdom, then return…

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Neil Degrasse Tyson joins the Wu-Tang Clan!

Neil Degrasse Tyson and Wu-Tang Clan founder GZA (Gary Grice) are teaming up to make a album about space, which will no doubt bomb atomically throughout. Two geniuses in a room together, rapping about the cosmos? Our minds are blown. Updated. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal GZA elaborated on Neil Degrasse Tyson’s…

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Western Digital My Net N900 HD Lightning Review: A Router You Might Actually Get Excited Over

What if a router could make sure streaming movies and online games always get the bulk of your bandwidth, even if everyone else in your house is downloading a zillion porn movies? That’s exactly what hard drive kingpin Western Digital claims to have done with its first router, the My Net N900 HD. What Is…

Reviews Kyle Wagner

This Chaotic Mess of Boxes Will Organize Your Desk

At first glance, the idea that Bram Boo’s Overdose Desk Tidy can help you pull your desk into order seems preposterous. But at closer glance, one realizes that the helter-skelter design still allows for everything to be put into its right place, with room for documents, office supplies, and anything else that lacks a proper…

Tech News Adrian Covert

HBO pulls Game of Thrones episode from iTunes in rush to bury George Bush’s severed head

If you’ve been thinking of rewatching the first season finale of Game of Thrones this weekend, in hopes of freeze-framing the bit where the severed head of Dubya appears on a spike, then you may have some bad news. HBO has pulled the episode from iTunes and HBO Go, and stopped shipment of DVD copies,…

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This beautiful anatomical art is made of paper, not flesh and bone

We’re absolutely blown away by the work of Sarah Yakawonis, a Maine-based artist who uses a technique known as quilling to create intricate anatomical models like the ones you see here. The meticulously positioned strips of coiled paper look so much like the folds of a brain, or the sinewy striations of human muscle, I…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Just Bite the Bullet and Buy Your Dad a Real Belt

For most men, it takes a long time to buy a real belt. The first belt, you just have. Who knows where it came from. Dad? Then, you outgrow it. You shop for a real belt, and realize they cost at least a hundred bucks. You balk. You turn to canvas, nylon, and other odd,…

Tech News Harry Sawyers

This Is the New Spy Plane of the US Navy

Giant Balls, a Remote Truck Stop, Piles of Cash, and More

App in the Air, 30/30, and More

Condition One, National Parks, and More

Songkick Concerts, Qello, and More

This Light Is Powered By Fireflies And Doesn’t Need Electricity to Glow

High-res Ted photos show you how to party like a teddy bear

Mysterious Electric Blue Clouds Appear Again Over the Poles

At last, the secrets of bioluminescence could find their way into consumer products

The 49 Bits of Booze Jargon Every Drinker Needs To Know

The Guy Who Invented Your Facebook News Feed Just Quit Facebook

Study proves bears can “count” as well as primates

Go to Church in a Chapel That Looks Like Noah’s Ark

A Muslim Hacker and the Secrets of the Jinn, in Alif the Unseen

Neil Degrasse Tyson joins the Wu-Tang Clan!

Western Digital My Net N900 HD Lightning Review: A Router You Might Actually Get Excited Over

This Chaotic Mess of Boxes Will Organize Your Desk

HBO pulls Game of Thrones episode from iTunes in rush to bury George Bush’s severed head

This beautiful anatomical art is made of paper, not flesh and bone

Just Bite the Bullet and Buy Your Dad a Real Belt

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