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Camera Benchmarkers DxOMark Say the Nikon D800 Has the Best Sensor Ever… For Now

Benchmarks don’t always tell the whole story of a gadget or device, but they can be quite handy as support for those gut instincts and intuitions people have while using a device. And in the case of the Nikon D800, whose sensor DxOMark called the best ever after benchmarking it, it will need all the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

These Male Ants Are Copulating With a Dead Queen While a Spider Eats Her

These winged ants are copulating with their queen. Apparently, they didn’t notice the big spider who is eating it from the top. Ants are really really really stupid or really really really perverted. In any case, it’s a macabre orgy. One that I can’t stop looking at, even if it grosses the hell out of…

Tech News Alan Smithee

Internet debates over evolution vs. creationism summed up in one hilarious video

Over at Beatrice the Biologist, our intrepid biologist/comedian Katie has created possibly my favorite video ever about debates over evolution vs. creationism. I especially like the way she represents internet fighting. Anyone who has ever battled these issues out in forums will recognize themselves and their adversaries immediately. Also, kudos to Katie for figuring out…

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The Most Intense Firefighter Helmet Camera Videos

Helmet cameras have a tendency to capture inherently cool stuff. You’re probably wearing the helmet for a reason, after all. But firefighter helmet cams are especially incredible because they aren’t just some staged event, but a real situation with real people putting themselves in actual danger. If you want to feel bad about what you…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Could giant asteroid Vesta actually be a planet?

For years, scientists have been calling Vesta an asteroid. Granted, it’s a big asteroid — at 330 miles across, it’s the second biggest in the solar system — but NASA’s Dawn spacecraft recently got its closest look at Vesta yet, and according to Dawn’s principle investigator Christopher Russel, astronomers have been finding it hard not…

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First Official Picture of Doctor Who‘s New Companion

You’ve seen the unofficial snaps of Jenna-Louise Coleman, the new Doctor Who companion. You’ve watched her sex tape. But now, the first official publicity photo of the Doctor’s new best friend has been released. And the sweater… is epic! [BBC America Tumblr]

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A Glitch Accidentally Told 300 People They Won the Lottery When They Really Didn’t

In what has to be one of the biggest Indian giver moves ever, Danish state run lottery company Danske Spil notified 300 people via email that they just won billions in the lottery… only they really didn’t. They were only notified because of a glitch in the system, meaning for half an hour 300 people…

Tech News Casey Chan

Mysterious Giant Titanium UFO Fragment Falls In Siberia

The Russian Federal Space Agency and NASA are saying that this mysterious titanium structure is not a part of any of their satellites, rockets or spacecraft. The Russian agency seized it and they are trying to determine its origin. According to the villagers of Otradnesnky, in Siberia, Russia, the 440-pound (200-kilogram) titanium object with a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows That Were Ahead of Their Time

Television is a cruel mistress. People bring fresh, original concepts to its glowing altar, where they are ruthlessly sacrificed and their entrails are strewn across Burbank. And yet, somehow, television does get better — smart, interesting shows do get on the air, and they sometimes even become hits. Sometimes you look back, and realize that…

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How Lab Coats Became a Dying Breed

Lab coats: they’re white, mostly plain, boxy. Functional, and ultimately sartorially boring. But ask any doctor or lab tech about their lab coat and they will chat up a storm. Often about how they can’t wait to ditch them—if they haven’t already. Lab coats were never meant to be pretty; doctors started wearing them around…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

The electricity demonstration that got someone executed. Again.

Over the years, there have been plenty of inhumane tests and displays of electricity. People have electrocuted monks, and tortured street urchins, but only one electricity display has resulted in an execution. Find out about the dastardly dance of Giovanni Aldini. Electricity has been seen as a magic phenomenon for centuries. Although its properties and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Devious, Unstoppable Way to Stalk People on Facebook (Updated)

Your girlfriend dumped you. She’s probably going to unfriend you on Facebook next. But don’t you want to keep an eye on her page, just for a little while? Here’s how to stealthily stalk anyone on Facebook. Invincibly. Forever. This week, two researchers at University College London put out a formal study exposing what they…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Tomorrow’s Mobile Home

Recently we looked at a 1946 prediction for a gigantic atomic-powered sphere that would traverse the country as a kind of hamster-ball land cruise for humans. About a decade earlier there were predictions of a similar looking ball — but for use as homes. The September, 1934 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics imagined the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Why Some of the Best SNL Sketches Don’t End Up on Hulu

Thanks to Hulu, you don’t have to stay up past your bedtime on Saturday nights just to catch SNL. You can get all the goodness online for free whenever you feel like it. Wrong! Splitsider points out that some of the best sketches aren’t ever posted online for legal reasons. When SNL is posted online…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Breakthrough: A cloaking device that could conceal weapons from magnetic security scanners

A group of electrical engineer working in Slovakia and Spain have prototyped a device that could become a cheap way to hide objects from magnetic fields. This is an interesting innovation because many security scanners and other devices use magnetic fields to detect hidden objects, whether a concealed weapon or a piece of metal lodged…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This Voice Recognition Alarm Clock is Your I’ll-Never-Be-Late-For-Work-Again Deal of the Day

Last summer, after getting back from a friend’s birthday close to six in the morning, I set my alarm clock, determined to get to work on time. I passed out. Then I woke up. The clock said 11. I panicked. Rushing, I showered and ran out the door, sprinting three blocks in 100 degree heat,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Last night’s Touch may just be the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever seen

When Touch premiered in January, I wondered how the pilot’s interlocking, coincidence- and contrivance-driven formula could possibly support a weekly series. Well, if last night’s big bag of ridiculousness is anything to go by, it can’t. It really, really can’t. As a general rule, I don’t think it’s fair to write off a TV series…

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21 stunning Game of Thrones photos introduce a whole new cast!

With Game of Thrones season two, the worlds of Westeros and beyond are getting a lot bigger. The show is adding a slew of new characters, and some of your favorites from season one will look quite different. Grab a sneak peek at the new, expanded cast, with a big batch of newly released photos.…

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Are GPS Signals the Key to Predicting Earthquakes?

Earthquake prediction is a mystery that has stumped scientists for centuries. But it just might be that the same signals giving us directions to the nearest Starbucks could clue us in to upcoming tremors. https://gizmodo.com/why-earthquakes-are-so-hard-to-predict-5789856 Professor Kosuke Heki of Hokkaido University discovered that while measuring electrons in the ionosphere using GPS signals during the Tohoku…

Tech News Michael Hession

World’s Most Powerful Offshore Turbine Catches Wind Gusts Two Soccer Fields Wide

While it may not be the overall most-powerful wind turbine ever built, the multi-megawatt monstrosity that has just been installed off the coast of Belgium is certainly the most powerful to ever be caressed by a sea breeze. https://gizmodo.com/650-feet-of-wind-catching-fury-5813896 The turbine, with a rated capacity of 6.15 megawatts, is part of a 48-turbine expansion at…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Camera Benchmarkers DxOMark Say the Nikon D800 Has the Best Sensor Ever… For Now

These Male Ants Are Copulating With a Dead Queen While a Spider Eats Her

Internet debates over evolution vs. creationism summed up in one hilarious video

The Most Intense Firefighter Helmet Camera Videos

Could giant asteroid Vesta actually be a planet?

First Official Picture of Doctor Who‘s New Companion

A Glitch Accidentally Told 300 People They Won the Lottery When They Really Didn’t

Mysterious Giant Titanium UFO Fragment Falls In Siberia

Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows That Were Ahead of Their Time

How Lab Coats Became a Dying Breed

The electricity demonstration that got someone executed. Again.

The Devious, Unstoppable Way to Stalk People on Facebook (Updated)

Tomorrow’s Mobile Home

Why Some of the Best SNL Sketches Don’t End Up on Hulu

Breakthrough: A cloaking device that could conceal weapons from magnetic security scanners

This Voice Recognition Alarm Clock is Your I’ll-Never-Be-Late-For-Work-Again Deal of the Day

Last night’s Touch may just be the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever seen

21 stunning Game of Thrones photos introduce a whole new cast!

Are GPS Signals the Key to Predicting Earthquakes?

World’s Most Powerful Offshore Turbine Catches Wind Gusts Two Soccer Fields Wide

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