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How Ethan Hawke’s role in the new Total Recall changes everything

Len Wiseman’s Total Recall movie has a secret part plotted out for Ethan Hawke. If you go to the movie’s IMDB page Hawke is listed, but his character has no name. Suspicious! It looks like the secret might be out of the bag. UPDATED. Screenrant has highlighted this little gem from producers Neal Moritz and…

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iOS Apps Can Run on a PlayBook, Kinda

If you somehow happen to own a BlackBerry PlayBook: we’re very sorry for you. But still, don’t be too sad, because apparently it’s possible to port iOS apps so that they run on your awful piece of hardware! A user by the name of Businesscat2000 has posted a handful of videos which show iOS apps…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why are there spaceships in Medieval art?

Medieval art can sometimes surprise you, with its rich colors and expressive subjects. But sometimes, you’re also caught off guard by the shock of noticing the presence of a guy in a spaceship in a painting of the crucifixion. Find out why there are so many UFOs in paintings from hundreds of years ago. So,…

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RoboCop gets an awesome villain! Everyone yell “Bitches leave!”

Director José Padilha’s cast for the 2013 RoboCop reboot just keeps getting better and better. Pill-popping anti-hero Hugh Laurie from House joins Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Abbie Cornish and Joel Kinnaman. He’s the lead villain, and this news fills us with joy, Variety broke the news that Laurie is in negotiations for the part…

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Check out new looks for Charlize Theron in Mad Max 4 and Eddie Izzard in the Munsters remake!

Andrew Garfield explains why Spider-Man is a skinny icon. Charlize Theron is officially ready for Mad Max: Fury Road. Darren Aronofsky’s Noah may have found a suitably awesome villain. Plus secrets of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Huntier from director Timur Bekmambetov! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The Amazing Spider-Man…

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How to Make an Awesome Key Holder Out of Lego

If you’re always losing your keys, you need a regular place to put them. A bowl on a side table works, but is kinda boring, so why not make your own out of Lego? To be honest, it’s not a particularly challenging build: you just need a base plate—choose one big enough to hold all…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Thunderbolt Software Update For OS X Causes Boot Failure

Since Monday’s WWDC keynote, Apple has been pushing out a range of minor updates which ready OS X for new hardware. Among them is a fairly trivial 537 KB Thunderbolt update—which happens to be causing some massive boot issues. The update, Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2, provides support for Apple’s new Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why Smart Keyboards Are Just Embarrassing

If you’ve never used Swiftkey, you should give it a try: it’s a smart keyboard which uses some crazy intelligent algorithms not just to predict what word you’re typing, but what word you’re going to type next. It’s spooky. Just don’t, whatever you do, lend your phone to a friend. Because SwiftKey learns from what…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Windows RT Tablets Are Destined To Be Expensive

The Metro UI on Windows 8 looks amazing, and should be incredibly well-suited for use on tablets in its Windows RT guise. It will, however, cost you if you want to give it a try. VR-Zone is reporting that Microsoft is planning to charge OEMs an average of $85 per Windows RT install. Compare that…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Vintage Video Review of McDonald’s Breakfast Pre-Dates YouTube in the Most YouTubey Way Possible

Some of you may be surprised to discover that fastfood reviews weren’t invented by bored teens on YouTube (or bloggers at Gizmodo). In this 1984 video, Geek-Glasses Paul (who is perfect and brilliant) gives an on-camera review (using a now-ancient VHS camcorder) of his McDonald’s breakfast, like a time capsule straight to the core YouTube…

Reviews Molly Oswaks

Trolls and Haters and Baiters, Oh My! The Annals of the Internet

Racist jabs. Misogynistic and sexist bragging. Bullyish “kill ya’ self” comments. Political preachers. These all, according to Zoe Williams at the Guardian UK, qualify as legitimate forms of internet trolling. What is trolling not? Sending targeted hateful or threatening messages is not trolling, it’s hating. They’re not the same, though that does not make one…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Caution: This Tease of a Commercial May Cause You to Drool Over the Retina MacBook Pro Even More

Skinny. Shiny. Speedy. Want one. Ugh. Want one rill bad. [MacRumors]

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Samsung’s TecTiles Put NFC Anywhere You Want It

NFC (that’s near field communication) is a slick mobile technology that’s in its infancy. To grow it up in a hurry Samsung will be selling sets of little NFC stickers called TecTiles along side the Galaxy S III. What can they do? A lot, actually. TecTiles are innocuous little stickers (about one square inch) that…

Tech News Brent Rose

The Stoner Channel: Joe Rogan on Weed, THC Fighting PTSD, and a Soap Maker Stands Up to the Man

“Little Quentin” By Albert ‘t Hooft And Paco Vink It’s like Sin City meets Harvey with some My Little Pony thrown in for good measure. Quite Possibly the Single Most Coherent Argument for Marijuana Decriminalization The guy is a Superior Court judge, so yes, I’d be willing to bet he knows what he’s talking about.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Oof! Sonja From Sweden Pulled a Blodget, Asked About the Jews

Top meatball and lingenberry exporting country Sweden has pioneered a new stunt in social media democracy, each week granting one arbitrary citizen the proverbial keys to the kingdom, by which I mean the account info for the national Twitter account @Sweden. This week brings us Sonja: “Holy mother of two. Grew up side by side…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Check Out How Insane This Tiny New Detail in iOS 6 Is

We’ve shown you the big guns of Apple’s newest software tiara. We’ve showed you the subtle, overlooked features. But this? This is just a crazy addition—so small and precise I had to double check my phone. Giz reader Zach wrote in after noticing something strange going on in the new Music app: I noticed today…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Flirting App Under Fire, After Three Children Are Raped

Skout, a fast-growing and free flirting app for iOS, has come under fire recently, after it was discovered that a third child was raped by a man posing as a teenager in the app’s separate section for 13- to 17-year-olds. The NY Times reports: In one case, a 24-year-old man was accused of raping a…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Watch This Immense Housing Structure Explode on Google Earth

Glasgow’s Red Road tower block housing complex was constructed by the Glasgow Housing Associating (GHA) between 1964 and 1969, with the intention of providing a modern housing community for a whopping 5000 residents. Under the leadership of architect Sam Bunton, the simple housing blocks were built up to 25 and 31 stories high—the tallest residential…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Apple’s New Maps App Wants You to Drive Off a Bridge

Apple finally has turn-by-turn navigation. Great, sort of. Except that its new Maps icon wants to murder you. Noted cartography blogger John Herrman at FWD points out that the path that the icon sets out denoting turn-by-turn is actually off of an overpass and will kill your dumb ass. Not the most hospitable introduction from…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Cafe Set Lets You Enjoy Your Normal Morning Routine in the Wilderness

If you don’t want to sacrifice style next time you trade your home for a weekend in a tent, you might like this swank titanium cafe kit. For $125, you won’t be stuck drinking crappy instant coffee made over a camping stove. Instead, you’ll be sipping on Stumptown java out of a French press, and…

Tech News Leslie Horn

How Ethan Hawke’s role in the new Total Recall changes everything

iOS Apps Can Run on a PlayBook, Kinda

Why are there spaceships in Medieval art?

RoboCop gets an awesome villain! Everyone yell “Bitches leave!”

Check out new looks for Charlize Theron in Mad Max 4 and Eddie Izzard in the Munsters remake!

How to Make an Awesome Key Holder Out of Lego

Thunderbolt Software Update For OS X Causes Boot Failure

Why Smart Keyboards Are Just Embarrassing

Windows RT Tablets Are Destined To Be Expensive

Vintage Video Review of McDonald’s Breakfast Pre-Dates YouTube in the Most YouTubey Way Possible

Trolls and Haters and Baiters, Oh My! The Annals of the Internet

Caution: This Tease of a Commercial May Cause You to Drool Over the Retina MacBook Pro Even More

Samsung’s TecTiles Put NFC Anywhere You Want It

The Stoner Channel: Joe Rogan on Weed, THC Fighting PTSD, and a Soap Maker Stands Up to the Man

Oof! Sonja From Sweden Pulled a Blodget, Asked About the Jews

Check Out How Insane This Tiny New Detail in iOS 6 Is

Flirting App Under Fire, After Three Children Are Raped

Watch This Immense Housing Structure Explode on Google Earth

Apple’s New Maps App Wants You to Drive Off a Bridge

Cafe Set Lets You Enjoy Your Normal Morning Routine in the Wilderness

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