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Smallville and Stargate Universe come to an end, and Neil Gaiman writes Doctor Who!

This week’s television sees the last ever episodes of Smallville and Stargate Universe. Will Clark become Superman in time to save the Destiny? Plus season finales of Adventure Time, Vampire Diaries and Community. Orc Bikers! Daffy Duck’s social climbing! Ghost-angst! But quite possibly the most interesting bit of television this week is the premiere of…

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If Only More Civil War Reenactments Involved Vampires

Not every book is special enough to merit its very own moving picture trailer, but then again not every book is about our 16th president butchering vampires with an axe. Fortunately for history lovers and gore fans alike, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is such a book. Now is your chance to not only read about…

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Someday your existence may be condensed into 27 cubic meters

We’ve seen some tiny houses before, but the University of Hertfordshire’s Cube Project pushes the limits of how much ecologically sound living space you can cram into 27 cubic meters. Is this eco-home a harbinger of a boxy future? https://gizmodo.com/in-the-future-you-will-live-in-a-tiny-little-house-5701745 Here are the Cube’s specs: Constructed from a variety of sustainable materials, the Cube provides…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

If Ikea Made Flat-Packed Shoes Inspired by Space (and Suspension Bridges…)

Would the stereotyped man build these flat-packed United Nude shoes for his laydee, just like he did their Ikea wardrobe? And just like that Ikea wardrobe, would he refuse to follow the instructions, instead relying on know-how, common sense and just a dollop of arrogance to get him by? I don’t know about any of…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

Everything Old Is New Again

On the left, HP’s new ProBook. On the right, Apple’s old PowerBook. [This Is My Next] P.S. The most interesting thing about the ProBook, aside from its very familiar two-tone, aluminum/magnesium alloy design, is that HP is directly reselling wireless data to customers through Peregrine Network, so users never deal with the phone companies themselves.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Here’s What That FBI Tracker Looks Like When You Tear It Apart

Last year, a Redditor found this ominous log concealed in his car. Turned out it was the FBI’s favorite little stealth GPS tracking device. iFixit got its hands on the one—and busted it open. Behold the guts. https://jalopnik.com/want-to-know-if-the-fbi-is-tracking-you-look-for-one-o-5655514 First off, this ain’t your typical teardown—because the FBI sure doesn’t want anyone sticking their curious fingers…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Why zapping the brain is sometimes a good idea

Electroshock therapy has been featured in many movies, usually as a total nightmare meted out by sadistic doctors on an innocent patient for no reason and with no benefit. And it’s still used today. But why? Because, despite its depiction on film, it’s painless and effective. Electroshock therapy has a bad reputation, and in some…

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Japanese university can’t stop building robotic babies

Researchers at Osaka University previously brought us Affetto, the disembodied baby head who was supposed to teach us empathy (or something). Now roboticists at Osaka’s Hosoda Lab have built Pneuborn-7II and Pneuborn-13, pint-sized robots that emulate infants’ movements. https://gizmodo.com/this-robotic-infant-head-was-designed-not-to-scare-baby-5755349 The robots get their names from their tiny pneumatic muscles — Pneuborn-7II mimics the movement of…

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GrouponLive: Ticketmaster Sinks Its Claws into Your Favorite Deal Service

Looking to broaden their respective reaches, Groupon and Live Nation have huddled close in some small, dark corner of the internet to spawn GrouponLive, a new “online ticketing deals marketplace.” There’s no real meat to the press release in terms of what kind of deals we can expect to see out of the pairing, but…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The mind-controlling infection that makes ants always bite at noon

There are several kinds of fungus that infect the brains of insects like ants and crickets. Each fungus controls the mind of its host, eventually killing it and sprouting from the bug’s brain. Probably the creepiest killer of all is a fungus called Ophiocordyceps. But first, some background on the whole zombie ant phenomenon. We…

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Oops: Japanese Gov Didn’t Send out Fukushima Radiation Spread Map

After the devastating quake rocked the rads out of Fukushima’s reactors, the Japanese government took over eight hours to deliver an atmospheric map showing where radiation was likely to spread—an action that should have been immediate. Failing to deliver the data in the midst of the crisis—where hours are a long, long time—likely held up…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Why Do People Try to Open Airplane Doors During Flights?

A “tall, burly” and “unruly” passenger on a Houston-to-Chicago Continental flight scared the shit out of his fellow passengers after trying to open one of the airplane’s front doors. Maybe he just wanted to know what would happen, if he did that. What ended up happening was that the plane made an emergency landing in…

Tech News Lauri Apple

First True Blood season four trailer slathers on the vampire glamour shots

A brand new promo for True Blood season four has been released. So does it show Bill’s solo misery, or the beginning of a human-vampire war? Nope. Instead we get vampire and werewolf slo-mo glamor shots. Imagine our disappointment when the first ever extended True Blood promo is just a collection of moving profiles with…

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This Slingshot of Mass Destruction Can Fire Six 20mm Steel Balls at the Same Time

This giant slingshot can fire six 20mm steel balls at the same time, hitting its target with an energy of about 60 joules each. That’s enough to destroy a few human heads in a row, but thankfully they tried it with watermelons. It’s called The Avalaunche and, for those keeping the score, it’s the first…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A totally insane Avengers plot synopsis claims to reveal just what Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will be up against!

We’ve got tons of Avengers plot details…assuming we can believe any of it. J.J. Abrams talks Star Trek 2, while Colin Farrell discusses the Total Recall reboot. Plus a potentially massive Green Lantern spoiler, and is The Dark Tower doomed? Top image from Immortals. The Avengers Who’s up for a supposed plot synopsis from that…

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Windows Phone 7 Mango Update Even Tastier than We Expected

As you know, we want WP7 to be good. Really, really good—because it’s got the potential to be really great. Leaked details reveal that WP7’s next step (codenamed “Mango”) will be a sweet, delicious bite of update fruit. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-you-were-supposed-to-be-great-so-what-5791744 We already knew that Mango was going to deliver some seriously-needed multitasking and background service boosts—but…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Wire Prison Keeps S’mores In For 20 Bucks

“Don’t let your schmoooores end up on the floooor” says the promo video for the S’more to Love racks, which promises to “bring the schmoooores indoooors” for $20. You don’t have to be as nauseating as the family in the video, but y’know, it does help: If my keyboard looked like this, I’d be eating…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The War on Christmas, Photographed

What better metaphor for the war against Christmas, than a photography series showing baubles filled with synthetic objects, being shot to pieces and caught on camera? Photographer Alan Sailer is doing a fine line in pellet rifle photography, and this bauble series is one of my favorites. Over the past three years he’s uploaded over…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

A Hybrid Car This Beautiful Will Cost You $1.1 Million

Our brothers at Jalopnik have some good news if you were eyeing up last year’s C-X75 concept hybrid car from Jaguar: it’s being put into production! Now some bad news: it will cost $1.1 million. https://jalopnik.com/jaguar-c-x75-a-1-1-million-hybrid-production-pussycat-5799270 It’s the first truly exclusive hybrid and will be able to rev up to 200mph, and while Jaguar hasn’t…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Lost In the Cosmos? You Are Here

Next time you plan on finding a good coffee shop around the universe, bring with you this giganormous 3850 x 1925 pixel You Are Here map. Zoom in to see where are you in the immensity of space. Zoom in! Click here to see the image big It’s not as simple as the Milky Way…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Smallville and Stargate Universe come to an end, and Neil Gaiman writes Doctor Who!

If Only More Civil War Reenactments Involved Vampires

Someday your existence may be condensed into 27 cubic meters

If Ikea Made Flat-Packed Shoes Inspired by Space (and Suspension Bridges…)

Everything Old Is New Again

Here’s What That FBI Tracker Looks Like When You Tear It Apart

Why zapping the brain is sometimes a good idea

Japanese university can’t stop building robotic babies

GrouponLive: Ticketmaster Sinks Its Claws into Your Favorite Deal Service

The mind-controlling infection that makes ants always bite at noon

Oops: Japanese Gov Didn’t Send out Fukushima Radiation Spread Map

Why Do People Try to Open Airplane Doors During Flights?

First True Blood season four trailer slathers on the vampire glamour shots

This Slingshot of Mass Destruction Can Fire Six 20mm Steel Balls at the Same Time

A totally insane Avengers plot synopsis claims to reveal just what Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will be up against!

Windows Phone 7 Mango Update Even Tastier than We Expected

Wire Prison Keeps S’mores In For 20 Bucks

The War on Christmas, Photographed

A Hybrid Car This Beautiful Will Cost You $1.1 Million

Lost In the Cosmos? You Are Here

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