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How to Use One of iTunes’ Best Features in Google Play Music

One great feature we lost in the transition from iTunes to all-you-can-eat streaming services is the smart playlist. When you have 30 million tracks to choose from, queueing up everything you’ve not heard for six months makes less sense. Thankfully, you can bring the feature to Google Play Music with a simple Chrome extension. It’s…

Daredevil Actually Looks Like a Comic Book on LG’s $8000 OLED TV

Television, despite what the manufacturers are saying, is in a pretty boring place at the moment. The jump to color from black and white, to high definition from standard—even the unmitigated failure that was 3D—those were moments in TV history. What we’ve currently got is gentle, natural leaps in picture quality: wider color gamuts and…

This Is How Drones Will Deliver Blood and Drugs in Rwanda 

Forget your Amazon package arriving beneath a drone: In Rwanda this summer, urgent deliveries of blood and drugs will be dropped by drones to help save lives. ABC News reports that a company called Zipline International showed off the delivery service in San Francisco over the weekend. It will use 22-pound fixed-wing drones to drop…

iPad Pro 9.7 Teardown: This Thing Is Very, Very Full

The new small iPad Pro was announced last month and now iFixit has taken a look inside. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this thing is full to the brim with components. It should perhaps come as no surprise that the 9.7-inch iPad Pro is jam-packed, squeezing in as it does pretty much the same contents as its larger…

Watch Blue Origin’s Successful Launch and Landing

Over the weekend, Blue Origin successfully launched and landed its rocket for the third time. Now you can watch the whole thing in this lovely video. The company claims its New Shepard rocket reached an altitude of 339,138 feet during the flight, safely managing its controlled decent to Earth without a hitch. It certainly looks…

NASA’s Made 2.95 Million Amazing Images of Earth’s Thermal Emissions Public

Since 1999, NASA’s Terra spacecraft has been capturing amazing images of thermal emissions and radiation across the surface of the planet for Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Now, those images have been made publicly available. The images—all 2.95 million of them—reveal some amazing scenes. In particular, the satellite’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and…

The White House Finally Got Color Printers

Everyone loves an upgrade—even POTUS. The New York Times reports that the White House has recently undergone a technological transformation, though it may not sound too impressive to many of us: Its employees are now equipped with modern laptops, iPhones and even… color printers. It’s not easy to overhaul technology in governmental organizations, of course,…

2.6TB Data Leak Reveals Corruption Among World Leaders

An international team of journalists has obtained what it’s referring to as the “biggest leak in history”: A 2.6-terabyte stash of data about offshore savings and tax havens from Panama-based legal firm Mossack Fonseca. It’s claimed that 370 reporters from 100 different media organizations have worked on the project—being referred to as the Panama Papers—over…

Hijacking People’s Browsers Is the Latest Way for Copyright Owners to Get Money

One of the dumbest viruses around is the FBI MoneyPak, which displays a message saying your computer has been locked by the FBI, and you have to pay to unlock it. If Rightscorp, a copyright enforcement company for movie studios has its way, that virus is about to basically become reality. Rightscorp’s business model is…

Airbnb Says It’s Cracking Down on ‘Unwelcome Commercial Operators’ in SF

Airbnb has always claimed it’s a benevolent part of the sharing economy, simply helping homeowners get a little extra vacation cash, rather than a parasite driving up long-term rental costs. To prove that it’s serious, the company has announced a crackdown in San Fransisco. In a long statement posted on Saturday, Airbnb revealed the breakdown…

Tesla’s Model 3 Preorder Numbers Are Way Bigger Than Anyone Expected

Given that people camped out in line for a chance to pay a deposit on the Model 3, a car they won’t see for at least a year, it’s no surprise that the pre-order numbers are big. But 276,000 pre-orders in 72 hours is still a shockingly high number. Mathematically, 276,000 is going to be…

New Drone Footage Shows the Progress of Apple’s Pile of Mud

Construction is continuing at pace on Apple’s new campus, and a new 4K drone video shows off the construction work (and Apple’s shiny new hill) like never before. The scale of the new headquarters is difficult to grasp, but high-quality aerial footage does go a long way to showing what $5 billion will buy you.…

Tom Kartsotis made a fortune by tapping into a sense of nostalgia with Fossil watches, and has now created a new company, Shinola, which has grounded its sense of manufactured nostalgia in Detroit. Inc. has an in-depth profile of the company. h/t Tod Rathbone.

Pluto Is Still Extremely Weird in the Latest Image From NASA

NASA has released a new image of Pluto’s Tartarus Dorsa, the ‘bladed’ region to the east of the heart-shaped formation known as the Tombaugh Region. The 3D image reminds us of how weird the dwarf planet is. You can use regular 3D glasses to take a look at the image, which shows off terrain unlike…

Loki Drops in to Local Weather Update To Blame Thor For Tornadoes

Chicago’s Fox 32 was reporting on some extreme weather that was headed their way, and had a guest stop by to lend them a hand: Tom Hiddleston. Hiddleston put the blame for the storms squarely on co-star Chris Hemsworth, who “brought his skillset to bear” on the local area. Brotherly love.

The FBI is Providing ‘Technical Assistance’ to Local Law Enforcement With iPhone Problems

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is widening their help to local law enforcement officials across the country by offering “technical assistance”. According to Buzzfeed, the FBI has issued an advisory stating “we will continue to do everything we can to help you consistent with our legal and policy constraints.” The Bureau has already assisted an…

Will a Bowling Ball Survive a Hydraulic Press? Spoiler: Not a Chance. 

The hydraulic press guys have been compressing all types of things lately, and they’ve turned their attention to some bowling equipment. The Hydraulic Press Channel is another one of those enormously satisfying online shows where we watch stuff get destroyed. Their latest targets are a bowling ball and some pins, neither of which survive very…

Giant Faces Stare Back In Nathan Smith’s Series of Retro Oil Paintings

They’re enormous: giant faces that peer at you over the horizon or from under ocean waves. They’re the subject of Nathan Smith’s fantastic series of oil paintings, which call back to the classic covers of sci-fi paperbacks. Nathan told us that these paintings were inspired by a dream: “As horribly clichéd as it may sound,…

Peter Dinklage Showed Off Some Behind the Scene Drama of Game of Thrones 

Saturday Night Live had to do a Game of Thrones sketch while Peter Dinklage was hosting. It looks like the motion capture actor behind Drogon is causing a bit of drama. [Mashable]

Tony Stark Is Doing What Needs To Be Done in the Latest Civil War Teaser

Now that Batman v Superman is out of the way, the deluge of promotional material for Captain America: Civil War is coming. There’s a bit of new footage in the latest teaser spot. This trailer highlights a couple of things: Steve Rogers believes that the “safest hands are still our own,” while Tony Stark is…