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Where did Bruce Banner and Tony Stark go after they drove away together in The Avengers?

What happened to Bruce and Tony, after the two of them drove away in the climax of The Avengers? Robert Downey Jr. told us everything. Plus we asked Marvel’s Kevin Feige and director Shane Black whether Iron Man 3 will pick up right where The Avengers left off. Plus Downey Jr. talks about what happened…

How to Stretch $2 of Free Amazon MP3 Credit into 8 Top 40 Songs (If You Don’t Care About Music)

Amazon is giving away $2 of Amazon MP3 credit and if you really want to stretch those imaginary dollars, you could land 8 ridiculously popular, played out to oblivion songs for free right now. That’s right, Amazon is pretty much giving away music. Let’s call this mixtape, er, playlist “I’m no longer a Belieber but…

The FDA has approved the first drug to prevent HIV Infection

For the first time ever, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug proven to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Called Truvada, the drug’s approval marks a watershed in the fight to stem the continued spread of AIDS. “It really marks a new era in HIV prevention because in adding Truvada as…

Brewster: Merge All Your Contacts From Your Favorite Sites and Services

Between texting, calling, emailing, Facebooking, and tweeting there are at least half a dozen ways to get ahold of someone. Organizing all that info is pretty tedious, but Brewster will do all that legwork for you. What does it do? This personalized rolodex app pulls all of your contacts from all the places where you’ve…

Inspired by superhero Disney Princess fan art, these cosplayers made a real-life superteam

This group of cosplayers was taken with a piece of Disney superheroine fan art by Deviant Art illustrator Byron Bojengles III, so they boosted that sketch’s roster by over a dozen at Comic-Con 2012. There’s no shortage of devotion on display here, but it’s Belle’s literary war hammer that wins the day. You can see…

How An Alien Invasion Inspired Kevin J. Anderson to Start Writing Science Fiction

Kevin J. Anderson is the prolific author of over one hundred novels — 47 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print and has won numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula, SFX Reader’s Choice, and New York Times Notable Book. Anderson has also coauthored ten…

FDA Approves the First Preventative Drug for HIV

Truvada is is a drug already used to treat HIV, but recently, it has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Now the FDA is approving Truvada for preventive use against HIV. This is a huge deal, considering 50,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with HIV every year. Manufactured by San Francisco-area…

Do You Get Your News From YouTube?

YouTube has always been championed as an alternative platform for news and TV, but sometimes it seems more like like a playground for cat fanatics. But the Pew Research Center says that people getting their news from YouTube is a trend on the rise. And they’re not the only ones noticing, as more than half…

Experience Mars Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror With Your Own Body

On August 5, NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover team will live seven minutes of absolute terror. Until then, however, they are all playing this new Kinect-based Mars Rover Landing game. Or hopefully not, because that would probably make them even more nervous. https://gizmodo.com/why-nasas-mars-curiosity-rover-landing-will-be-seven-mi-5920588 Microsoft and NASA have collaborated to create this game in which you control…

It’s A Shame This Gorgeous Rocking Horse Is Just for Kids

A lot of parents who want their kids to grow up with an appreciation for great design, but that doesn’t make them any less disappointed that this minimal metal tube rocking horse is designed and sized specifically for the smaller set. Because most grownups would love to take it for a spin rock. Created by…

The Emergency Multi-Tool That Could Literally Save Lives

What looks like an elaborate gardening implement is actually a student-designed multi-tool prototype that could serve as an entire toolbox of rescue equipment. One that can be used to free trapped survivors after a natural disaster. Created by Bezalel student Tamir Niv, the multi-purpose tool can be used as a crow bar, a sledge hammer,…

Publicly funded British research will be freely accessible to citizens within 2 years

It’s been a big year for proponents of the open-science revolution. In January, an angry blog post quickly transformed into a clarion call within the scientific community over the exorbitant cost of academic journal subscriptions. In May, the British government announced it would be collaborating with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales to make publicly funded research…

You Can Now Get an iCloud.com Email Address

If you’re a heavy user of Apple’s iCloud service, you can now stake your claim for an email account ending in @icloud.com. If, you know, you’re bored (or incredibly and irrevocably spammed) on your Gmail or Hotmail or whatever else. Here’s how, straight from the iOS 6 Beta 3 Release Notes: icloud.com email addresses are…

The Biggest Winners and Losers of Comic Con 2012!

Comic Con is the pop culture Thunderdome. Every year, studios bring dozens of their massively expensive properties to the San Diego Convention Center, and only some will emerge with victory. Comic Con can’t make or break a project — but it can generate tons of buzz, which is a priceless commodity. So which movies and…

This Is How You Live at the Bottom of the Ocean

You can see it from the surface of the water: a blue outline 50 feet down. Aquarius. The last undersea base. Diving down to it is like falling slowly into another world. I wish I could live there. The fish would be my neighbors. The sky would always be blue—if a little wet. And, instead…

Aquarius Gallery

Deface Family Portraits with a Moustache-Making Photo Frame

Do you remember Wooly Willy? The simple kids’ toy, dating back to the 1950s, let you use a magnet-tipped stylus to place iron filings on a cartoon character’s face. It’s been 60 years, but apparently the technology needed to let you do the same photos has only just recently been perfected. The Fuzzy Face Photo…

One Final Load Of San Diego Cosplay Goodness

As the world’s biggest comic book convention wound down this weekend, I left the convention center to hit the streets of San Diego, trusty EVO 4G LTE phone in hand. And, thanks to Sprint’s truly unlimited network, no Bothans needed to die — or even waste data and minutes — for me to put together…

A Final Gallery Of San Diego Cosplay Goodness

As the world’s biggest comic book convention wound down this weekend, I left the convention center to hit the streets of San Diego, trusty EVO 4G LTE phone in hand. And, thanks to Sprint’s truly unlimited network, no Bothans needed to die — or even waste data and minutes — for me to put together…

And now, the most mind-bogglingly shitty Batman humor book ever printed

There’s been no shortage of shoddy, ill-conceived Batman ephemera churned out throughout history, but Leonard Goldstein’s 1966 blue gag book It’s Fun To Be A Batman trumps all the other Bat-crap out there. This novelty tome consists of two things: 1.) photos of people with hastily doodled Batman cowls superimposed over them; and 2.) jokes…