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A Massive Eight-Feet Tall Mountain Marble Maze Is Better Than Watching a Movie

Don’t bother reading the news this morning, it’s just full of pranks and awful jokes. A much better use of your time would be spending seven minutes watching Ben Tardif’s eight-foot tall marble maze mountain that features 25 different themed sections that connect to create one massive kinetic sculpture. Look closely and you’ll spot a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The End of Star Wars Rebels Could Be Coming Sooner Than Anyone Expected

Joe Russo discusses Civil War’s darker tone. Jared Leto extols the virtues of playing the Joker in Suicide Squad. Gwendoline Christie promises more Brienne action on Game of Thrones this year. Plus Ewan McGregor is game for an Obi-Wan movie, new pictures from Arrow, and a new SHIELD clip. To me, my Spoilers! Justice League…

Television James Whitbrook

This Software Creates Vivid Color Pictures From Black-and-White Photos

Want to inject some color to your photographs in a hurry? Well, new software can take an alarmingly good guess at what a color version of your black-and-white photographs may look like. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new computer vision system that takes a grayscale image and then adds…

Artificial Intelligence Jamie Condliffe

North Korea Announces Ban on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter

North Korea’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has officially announced that it’s now blocking Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and South Korean websites. The Associated Press reports that the restrictions will make it harder than ever for visitors and foreign residents—who until now have been able to use the internet with few restrictions—to post online about what’s…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Nile Has Turned to Blood in This Satellite Image

There’s a passage in the Bible that suggests the Nile once turned to blood. But the red ribbon in this image isn’t quite so grizzly, because it actually depicts the vegetation growing around the river. This satellite image was captured by the European Space Agency’s new Sentinel-3A satellite. Its instruments collect data about the Earth’s…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Google Realizes It’s Not Okay to Prank 900 Million People

Sometimes, people don’t get your joke—and that seems to have happened to Google today. Its joke Mic Drop feature in Gmail, which muted the conversation and sent out a silly gif, seems to have caused more stresses than smiles. Now, Google has backpedalled and scrapped the prank. Yesterday, Google announced its fake new feature. It…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

More People Worldwide Are Now Obese Than Underweight

The world is getting fatter. But now a study by researchers from Imperial College London suggests we’ve reached a new milestone, with more people in the world being classified as obese than underweight for the first time. The finding is based on the study of BMI data from nearly 20 million people in 186 different…

Health Jamie Condliffe

A Rocket Launch Seen From the ISS Is as Spectacular as a Comet

Yesterday, Russia launched its autonomous resupply spacecraft Progress into space. The International Space Station passed over the launch site at about the same time, offering the astronauts on board this amazing view. NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams took a few photos of the launch vehicle climbing toward space. He explains in his Facebook post: Sunset occurred…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

StubHub Wants to Use VR to Sell Secondhand Tickets

Buying secondhand tickets online has always been a crapshoot, but eBay spinoff StubHub has been working for years to make the experience less painful. The latest idea: VR seat previews, so you can see in advance exactly how much your view will suck. The idea isn’t completely novel: seat preview websites, which crowdsource fan photos,…

Tech News Chris Mills

Kanye West’s New Album Finally Available Outside Tidal

After insisting rather strongly that his new album, Life of Pablo, would never be available outside of Tidal, it appears that Kanye West has finally backed down. Just in case you haven’t already torrented the hell out of the album already, Life of Pablo is now also available streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and Google…

Tech News Chris Mills

Tesla Just Received $115 Million For a Car That No One Had Seen

Tesla unveiled the new Model 3 tonight, and it looks damn cool. But before anyone had seen one lone hubcap, Tesla had already raked in $115 million in pre-order deposits, thanks to 115,000 people pre-ordering the Model 3. It says a lot about Tesla’s brand (and the allure of maybe-supervillain Elon Musk) that the mere…

Tech News Chris Mills

You’ll Probably Be Able to Buy ThinkGeek’s Clever April Fools’ Pranks Real Soon

April Fools’ Day is an insufferable nightmare. You should just spend the day hiding under your bed covers. There is a silver lining, though. ThinkGeek puts so much effort into its prank creations that they usually end up becoming real products before the year is out. Here’s the best of this year’s bunch, which, for…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Here’s How to Watch the Tesla Model 3 Unveiling Live

Tesla is taking the wraps off its $35,000 electric car for the everyman tonight, and as with all good technology launches, you can watch along naked, from bed, while drinking beer. The launch is supposed to start at 11.30PM Eastern, and Tesla has a livestream for the event on its site. You have to fill…

Tech News Chris Mills

Space Archaeologists May Have Found a New Viking Settlement in North America

There’s only one confirmed Viking settlement in North America, far north on the Canadian coast. But if a new team of space archaeologists and their satellite data is to be believed, that’s all about to change. A PBS program set to broadcast next week has the story of a potential Viking site much further south,…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

The Government (Probably) Requested Reddit User Data Last Year

Every year, Reddit publishes a transparency report detailing how many requests for information it received, along with more mundane things like copyright takedowns. What Reddit can’t say, by law, is if it’s been sent any National Security Letters, aka secret subpoenas. Nod nod wink wink. Reddit can’t outright say if it has received any NSLs,…

Tech News Chris Mills

The Producer of Star Wars Rebels Answers Your Burning Questions About That Epic Finale and Beyond

The second season of Star Wars Rebels just ended, with an episode that had huge ramifications not just for the show, but for Star Wars as a whole. Death! Deceit! New characters! Old characters! Twists! Mystery! It’s the kind of episode you just have to talk about—and we did just that, with the best person…

Television Germain Lussier

Game of Thrones Star Maisie Williams May Be Joining the X-Men Universe

There’s some very big news potentially coming out of the X-Men movie universe. Hot on the heels of this summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse, Hitfix is reporting that two actresses are about to be cast in New Mutants, which is being directed by Josh Boone: Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams and The Witch star Anya Taylor-Joy.…

Movies Germain Lussier

Amazing Photographs Capture the Microscopic Iridescence of Peacock Feathers

Male peacocks are justly admired for their brilliantly colored plumage. Canadian photographer Waldo Nell has captured the underlying microscopic structure behind those stunning hues in extraordinary detail in his latest photographic series. It all comes down to a phenomenon called iridescence, which can also be seen in the wings of butterflies, dragonflies, cicadas, and in…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Awesome Animation Imagines the Nightmare That’s Happening Around You When You Sleep

The scariest place to be when you’re a kid? Alone, at night, in your bed, right before you sleep. You just know right when you close your eyes, all the stuff of nightmares is going to come alive and scare any chance of sleep out of you. And it’s probably all true! Who knows what’s…

Sploid Casey Chan

6 Electric Car-Sharing Programs Better Than a Billion Teslas on the Road

Tesla is finally taking the wraps off the Model 3, its first mass-market electric vehicle priced at an affordable $35,000. The car is expected to push EVs into the mainstream and reduce carbon emissions around the world. The only downside? Many cities don’t have enough charging stations to support widespread adoption of such vehicles. Thankfully,…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

A Massive Eight-Feet Tall Mountain Marble Maze Is Better Than Watching a Movie

The End of Star Wars Rebels Could Be Coming Sooner Than Anyone Expected

This Software Creates Vivid Color Pictures From Black-and-White Photos

North Korea Announces Ban on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter

The Nile Has Turned to Blood in This Satellite Image

Google Realizes It’s Not Okay to Prank 900 Million People

More People Worldwide Are Now Obese Than Underweight

A Rocket Launch Seen From the ISS Is as Spectacular as a Comet

StubHub Wants to Use VR to Sell Secondhand Tickets

Kanye West’s New Album Finally Available Outside Tidal

Tesla Just Received $115 Million For a Car That No One Had Seen

You’ll Probably Be Able to Buy ThinkGeek’s Clever April Fools’ Pranks Real Soon

Here’s How to Watch the Tesla Model 3 Unveiling Live

Space Archaeologists May Have Found a New Viking Settlement in North America

The Government (Probably) Requested Reddit User Data Last Year

The Producer of Star Wars Rebels Answers Your Burning Questions About That Epic Finale and Beyond

Game of Thrones Star Maisie Williams May Be Joining the X-Men Universe

Amazing Photographs Capture the Microscopic Iridescence of Peacock Feathers

Awesome Animation Imagines the Nightmare That’s Happening Around You When You Sleep

6 Electric Car-Sharing Programs Better Than a Billion Teslas on the Road

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