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Watch aliens rip apart Russian club kids in a new Darkest Hour featurette

Watch Emile Hirsch and his pack of twentysomething American buddies just get ripped to shreds by an electric alien army while trapped in Russia. What’s Russian for “You can’t beat the dredge!” Directed by Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door, which is totally awesome and you should watch it) The Darkest Hour is simple: aliens…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Google Chromebooks Are Now a Little Cheaper and a Little Prettier

Oh, hey, Samsung’s Wi-Fi Chromebook now comes in black. Oh, hey, Acer’s Chromebook is $50 cheaper. Oh, hey, Google made some UI tweaks to the ChromeOS. Cool. ChromeOS made some design tweaks to the Login and New Tab screens, to go with the recent redesign of the Chrome App Store. All of these news bits…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Semi-Legal Bluetooth Call Recorder: Did The Wire Teach Us Nothing?

Your smartphone can do many things, but because of legal restrictions, it can’t easily be used to record a conversation. This Bluetooth handset happily will, though, documenting over 340 hours of calls, whether or not the other party knows it. In most areas, the act of recording a phone conversation isn’t necessarily illegal. It’s when…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Week’s TV: You’ll never guess which science fiction show is having a musical episode!

Here are some things that might make this week’s television worth watching, in spite of the Thanksgiving lull: 1) Donald Glover playing an animated rapper named Alpha Dog. 2) A brutal look at how astronauts might survive crash-landing on Mars. 3) Two new Adventure Time episodes! 4) Lady Gaga takes over Thanksgiving! 5) There’s a…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Who Is Wikipedia’s Founder, Really?

You might recognize Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, whose mug is often plastered atop his online encyclopedia’s entries giving you puppy dog eyes for donations. Or are they serial killer eyes? Or Abe Lincoln eyes? Or anything, really? Web design 911 emergency! Gabe Rivera noticed this unfortunate bit of formatting puts Jimmy’s face squarely above the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Your Last Chance to Check Out the BlackBerry Holiday Hall of Fame

Just in case you missed last week’s BlackBerry Holiday Hall of Fame series, we’ve conveniently compiled it right here for you. Click through the gallery above to check out all of BlackBerry’s new devices, and find the one that’s perfect for your needs. Think of it as an early holiday gift. Really, it’s the least…

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The Mars rover Spirit’s entire five-year mission, in less than three minutes

It took almost 2000 days for the defunct Spirit rover to travel 4.8 miles across the surface of Mars, but thanks to this time-lapse by YouTuber Oisiaa, you can relive its entire journey in 3,418 frames. The ending is a tear-jerker. Here’s a still zippy ten-minute take. Hat tip to a_blackpanther!

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How to Weigh a Million Dollar Bills Without a Scale (Or a Million Bucks)

In physics, approximations are important. Developing a predictive model for how something will move/behave/react based on information from another object or scenario can provide a helpful frame of reference. To illustrate this point, the always excellent YouTube series MinutePhysics shows us how to weigh a million dollar bills without having a scale, a single bill,…

Physics & Chemistry Adrian Covert

Can you name all the new faces in the Game Of Thrones Season 2 preview?

HBO has released an amazing behind-the-scenes look at the second season of Game Of Thrones. Can you name all the new characters included in this video? We’ll get you started — up front is the sensational Natalie Dormer, who’s playing Margaery Tyrell. April seems so far away, but the nice thing about this show is…

Television Meredith Woerner

Strange law allowed Darth Vader to grab free land in the Ukraine

After Odessa city authorities okayed an initiative to parcel out land by the Black Sea to citizens, Darth Vader trotted down to the mayor’s office to capitalize on this opportunity to expand the Empire. Explains Reuters: An Odessite dressed as the Star Wars villain visited the mayor’s office [last] week to claim a free land…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Siri Hacked to Control Your Thermostat or Almost Anything Else

The video above demonstrates how Siri can be hacked to control your thermostat, but with a little massaging the hack could be used to make Siri perform a wide array of new functions. Let the games begin! As cool as it is to watch Siri text your friends or find you hookers—we can’t help but…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Bookies pick Chiwetel Ejiofor as the next possible Doctor Who

Even though the Doctor Who movie is a long way off, one thing is still for certain — the movie will need to cast a brand new Time Lord. But who shall it be? Gamblers have already started staking the odds in Chiwetel Ejiofor’s favor, but what about Helen Mirren? The Guardian rounded up the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Woman Gets Fix-A-Flat Tire Sealant, Cement, Mineral Oil and Superglue Injected Into Her Butt

If this woman told you she was a doctor and you wanted butt implants, would you let her inject a mixture of cement, super glue, mineral oil and Fix-A-Flat tire mender into your buttocks? But of course you would! The woman is actually a 30-year-old transgender legally named Oneal Ron Morris. Morris was arrested for…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Parrondo’s Paradox: Winning Two Games You’re Guaranteed to Lose

JM Parrondo is a casino and con artist’s worst nightmare. In the 1990s, he invented two games that are sure to lose you everything. They’re both mathematically designed to make you go broke, but play them one after another and you are guaranteed to win. Parrondo’s Paradox was dreamed up in the 1990s by physicist…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Who Said iPhones Couldn’t Have Multiple Lenses?

There’s no doubting the quality of this iPhone Lens Dial case, which packs a telephoto, fisheye and wide-angle lens onto an aircraft-grade aluminum case. But given the un-pocketable heftiness and $250 pricetag, wouldn’t you rather put that money towards a DSLR? [Photojojo via Wired]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Twice-Weekly “Smart Bomb” Mouthwash: The Laziest and Most Wonderful Dental Development Yet

Complaining about dental work is kind of like complaining about airplane food or your wife’s cooking—best to just avoid it unless you’re feeling Dangerfieldian. And UCLA’s got an experimental new “smart bomb” mouthwash it says might keep you out of the dentist’s chair with just one rinse every four days. The new mouthwash specifically targets…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Nook Tablet Teardown: A Kindle Fire by Any Other Name?

A new ebook reader, another teardown by iFixit. But what did they find lurking beneath that oddly shaped plastic case of the Nook Tablet, and just how different is it to the Fire? https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-review-the-ipad-finally-has-serious-compet-5858779 We’ve already reported that a mere 1 GB of the Nook’s 16 GB of storage can be used for content from…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Einstein’s brain is now on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia

When Albert Einstein died in 1955, Princeton pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey performed the autopsy. Against Einstein’s wishes, and without seeking permission from his family, Harvey preserved the brilliant physicist’s brain and sectioned it into hundreds of thin slices…for science. https://gizmodo.com/the-stolen-preserved-and-eventually-cubed-brain-of-al-5836056 Now, more than five decades later, a box of 46 brain slides has made its…

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Amazon Kindle May Be Damaged By Airport Scanners

Multiple users are reporting Kindles broken after going through airport x-ray scanners. Amazon is denying that x-rays can affect their electronic ink readers, but they are replacing the damaged units. The explanation may be another, according to Professor Daping Chu: I don’t think the radiation used in an airport scanner would ever be strong enough…

Commerce Jesus Diaz

Hezbollah Captured American Spies by Tracking Cellphone Data With Commercially Available Software

The latest story seeping out of the Middle East claims Hezbollah has recently tracked down, arrested and outed a significant, but undislosed, number of American spies working for the CIA. And their techniques for discovering the cloak and daggar operatives? Disconcertingly simple. Citing anonymous sources, the AP says that the terrorist organization, whom the State…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Watch aliens rip apart Russian club kids in a new Darkest Hour featurette

Google Chromebooks Are Now a Little Cheaper and a Little Prettier

Semi-Legal Bluetooth Call Recorder: Did The Wire Teach Us Nothing?

This Week’s TV: You’ll never guess which science fiction show is having a musical episode!

Who Is Wikipedia’s Founder, Really?

Your Last Chance to Check Out the BlackBerry Holiday Hall of Fame

The Mars rover Spirit’s entire five-year mission, in less than three minutes

How to Weigh a Million Dollar Bills Without a Scale (Or a Million Bucks)

Can you name all the new faces in the Game Of Thrones Season 2 preview?

Strange law allowed Darth Vader to grab free land in the Ukraine

Siri Hacked to Control Your Thermostat or Almost Anything Else

Bookies pick Chiwetel Ejiofor as the next possible Doctor Who

Woman Gets Fix-A-Flat Tire Sealant, Cement, Mineral Oil and Superglue Injected Into Her Butt

Parrondo’s Paradox: Winning Two Games You’re Guaranteed to Lose

Who Said iPhones Couldn’t Have Multiple Lenses?

Twice-Weekly “Smart Bomb” Mouthwash: The Laziest and Most Wonderful Dental Development Yet

Nook Tablet Teardown: A Kindle Fire by Any Other Name?

Einstein’s brain is now on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia

Amazon Kindle May Be Damaged By Airport Scanners

Hezbollah Captured American Spies by Tracking Cellphone Data With Commercially Available Software

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