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25-minute Game of Thrones documentary explains everything you need about Westeros

What does it mean if a character’s last name is Snow? What’s a Kingslayer? What’s beyond the great wall? The cast crew and author George R.R. Martin explain everything you need to know about HBO’s Game of Thrones. Beware spoilers…

Television Meredith Woerner

Why Google Searches the Entire Internet Faster Than They Do Your Gmail

So here’s a question I wish I’d thought to ask first: why is it that Google can return near-instantaneous search results from the entirety of the internet, but takes forever to find that recipe your Aunt Mildred emailed you two months ago? Let’s let Quora user Adam D’Angelo explain: • The total contents of the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The villains of Star Trek 2, Doctor Who season 6 and the Superman reboot could surprise you

Chris Hemsworth explains that Thor will be taking some advanced hammer wielding courses between now and The Avengers. Roberto Orci drops the most cryptic Star Trek hint ever. Plus the latest insane Superman rumor reveals a surprising possible female villain! Spoilers from here on out! The Avengers Thor star Chris Hemsworth says the movie starts…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Finally, a Decent Honeycomb Tablet For Less Than the iPad 2

Okay, maybe it’s a little too early to say for sure just how good the 10.1-inch Acer Iconia Tab A500 is, but the specs—1GHz Tegra guts, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage 1280×800 LCD screen, 2MP and 5MP front and rear-facing cameras, etc.—put it up there with the elite guard of Android tablets. And its price tag…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Charge Base Gives 3DS The Extra Juice It Needs

Let’s face it. The onboard battery for the 3DS stinks. It gets around 3 to 5 hours on a single charge, depending on the settings. Those numbers aren’t anywhere near the DSi XL or DS Lite. Too bad there isn’t… [Kotaku]

Reviews Kotaku

The World’s Oldest-Surviving Nikon is Going Under the Hammer

The ultimate sin would be if a Canon-user bought the oldest-surviving Nikon camera (from 1948) at auction. As bidding starts at 70,000 Euros (around $100,000), you’d have to really want that slice of photography history. [Nikon-Rumors via PetaPixel]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Farnsworth House Becomes Latest Lego Architecture Set to Store Away From Sticky Fingers

We thought Lego would never bring out another set in its Architecture series, but here we go—the beautiful Farnsworth House, which you may recognize thanks to its mid-century modernism design and National Historic Landmark seal-of-approval. https://gizmodo.com/lego-micro-scales-frank-lloyd-wrights-fallingwater-hous-5263558 Designed and constructed between 1945 – 1051 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the house is located in Illinois.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Einstein’s Pedometer App Measures Your Aging (or Lack Thereof)

In case you need a science class reminder, Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity partly concerned the process of ageing—specifically that a stationary person actually ages faster than someone in motion. Using the iPhone’s GPS, along with the Lorentz Transformations, this app will details exactly how much “life” you’ve won yourself by being active. The app…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Jailbreaking is Netting Nerds a Tidy Annual Salary

Jailbreaking phones has been legal for just under a year now, and unsurprisingly nerds are making good money off the back of time-poor, money-rich people. The Washington Post has reported on how one Washington student is earning $50,000 a year simply by jailbreaking and unlocking 30 – 40 iPhones a week. https://gizmodo.com/why-legal-iphone-unlocking-and-jailbreaking-doesnt-matt-5596671 Advertising on Craigslist…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Did Apple Really Blacklist Best Buy for Withholding iPad 2s?

Apple loves those big-sales stories, where they can announce they sold X million units over the first weekend. But if one of their biggest retail partners, Best Buy, withheld iPad 2s as they’d already reached their internal sales quota for that day, how would Apple react? My guess is not very well. That tallies with…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Timelapse of Flight Between San Francisco and Paris Captures Northern Lights

After watching this timelapse video of 2,459 photos stitched together, you’ll be bowled over by the photographer’s sense of adventure—not to mention Air France’s passengers’ willingness to allow a tripod and DSLR set-up to click away every 30 seconds. At the end of the video you get a glimpse of how this video was shot…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This American Life Finds a Home on That Apple iPad

If you’re a fan of the public radio storytelling show This American Life and own an iPad, I’m sure you’ll be thrilled the show now has an app of its own. You can stream the ENTIRE archive of shows (which goes back to 1995), listen to new episodes live, and cache three at a time…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Picnics on Mars in the Year 2012 (1962)

We’ve looked at a lot of the ways in which advertisers have positioned themselves as being in touch with “the future.” The future’s been used to advertise appliance stores, power companies, airlines, phone companies, aluminum, TVs, beer and refrigerators, refrigerators, refrigerators; pretty much any consumer product or service you can think of. By associating their…

Tech News Matt Novak

New Thor clip features blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Hawkeye cameo

Marvel just uploaded a new clip from Thor, in which a certain bow-and-arrow-toting Avenger can be seen dangling from a crane (at about 24 seconds.) Not to mention, Thor getting down and dirty in the mud!

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Government Turns to Facebook and Twitter To Get Terror Warnings Out

How will the government get the word out the next time there’s a serious terrorist threat? The same way you tell everyone what you had for lunch and how much you like that video of that baby that did that stupid thing: social networking! In addition to streamlining terror alerts from a soothing color-coded rainbow…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Urban decay causes ethnic prejudice

In a study that screams to be wildly misinterpreted, people subjected to chaotic and disordered environments were shown to be more likely to discriminate against and stereotype others. The study took place in the Netherlands, and looked at the way people interact with other ethnicities when in situations with high amounts of litter or signs…

io9 Tim Barribeau

How This 20-Year-Old Israeli Entrepreneur Sold an Army General on His App

A few months ago, Shai Magzimof found himself in the pitch meeting of his life. Of course, tech entrepreneurs like Magzimof are pitching venture capitalists all the time on their ideas. Magzimof (center, in the image above, with colleagues) had recently spent several months at Y Combinator, the seed funder for startups, so he knew…

Tech News David Zax - Fast Company

How the Japan Tsunami’s Massive Debris Plume Will Hit California and Hawaii

If you live in Hawaii, California, British Columbia, Alaska or Baja California, here are some bad news: According to computer models made by scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, all the debris washed out by the Japan tsunami is coming your way. This is how the trash will spread…

io9 Jesus Diaz

Yelpers Try To Review A Sex Club

Want all the fun times of a shady sex club but none of the hassle of talking to people to determine what’s out there? Look no further than Yelp NYC’s adult entertainment section. [Jezebel] https://jezebel.com/yelpers-try-to-review-a-sex-club-5789616

Tech News Jezebel.com

Your Highness’ evil wizard explains the dangers of magical erectile dysfunction

It’s not always easy being an evil wizard — just ask Justin Theroux, who plays the villain of Your Highness. His character needs to have sex with Zooey Deschanel to create a giant dragon, only to run into performance anxiety. We talked to Theroux about the pressures a wicked magic user has to deal with…

Movies Meredith Woerner

25-minute Game of Thrones documentary explains everything you need about Westeros

Why Google Searches the Entire Internet Faster Than They Do Your Gmail

The villains of Star Trek 2, Doctor Who season 6 and the Superman reboot could surprise you

Finally, a Decent Honeycomb Tablet For Less Than the iPad 2

Charge Base Gives 3DS The Extra Juice It Needs

The World’s Oldest-Surviving Nikon is Going Under the Hammer

Farnsworth House Becomes Latest Lego Architecture Set to Store Away From Sticky Fingers

Einstein’s Pedometer App Measures Your Aging (or Lack Thereof)

Jailbreaking is Netting Nerds a Tidy Annual Salary

Did Apple Really Blacklist Best Buy for Withholding iPad 2s?

Timelapse of Flight Between San Francisco and Paris Captures Northern Lights

This American Life Finds a Home on That Apple iPad

Picnics on Mars in the Year 2012 (1962)

New Thor clip features blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Hawkeye cameo

Government Turns to Facebook and Twitter To Get Terror Warnings Out

Urban decay causes ethnic prejudice

How This 20-Year-Old Israeli Entrepreneur Sold an Army General on His App

How the Japan Tsunami’s Massive Debris Plume Will Hit California and Hawaii

Yelpers Try To Review A Sex Club

Your Highness’ evil wizard explains the dangers of magical erectile dysfunction

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