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A Crazy New Rumor Adds Another Batman Character to the DC Movie Universe

And another seemingly reveals the entire guest cast of Batman v Superman. People are already throwing their hat into the ring for Deadpool 2 roles. Chandler Riggs eyes up Carl’s future on The Walking Dead. The cast of Young Justice want to get your hopes up again. Plus, new Allegiant footage. To me, my Spoilers!…

Nerf’s Newest Rival Blaster Fires Two 70 MPH Rounds With Every Pump

Originally unveiled at last year’s Toy Fair, Nerf is expanding its Rival line this year first with the fully-automatic KHAOS MXVI-4000 we brought you back in January, and now the pump action ATLAS XVI-1200 that fires two rounds at your target with every squeeze of the trigger. Where as the $70 KHAOS MXVI-4000 is Nerf’s…

Explore Every ‘Foreign Body in Rectum’ Reported at US ERs Between 2009 and 2014

There’s a lot of data in national records. And, if those records are anything to go by, there’s a lot of things inside the people of the US, too. Nathan Yau of the usually high-minded Flowing Data has turned his attention to records held in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. Specifically, he’s taken a…

Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Reply to the Gettysburg Address

Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked to provide a response to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The result, animated by by Loaded Pictures, is a rousing, heartfelt speech about the country and the science it undertakes. Take a watch. [Vimeo]

Optical Data Storage Squeezes 360TB on to a Quartz Disc—Forever

Want to make sure you back something up indefinitely? Then you could do worse than a digital data storage technique that uses laser light to store 360 terabytes of information on nanostructured quartz for up to 14 billion years. Developed by researchers at Southampton University in the UK, the technique uses femtosecond laser pulses to…

Vaio Is Planning to Merge With Toshiba and Fujitsu to Create a ‘PC Giant’

The Sony spin-off Vaio has announced that it plans to merge with the computer divisions of its rivals Toshiba and Fujitsu as early as next month to form a Japanese “PC giant.” With the PC market in decline, Hidemi Moue—the chief executive officer of Japan Industrial Partners which controls Vaio—has announced that it expects to…

A Brand New 2D Semiconductor Could Put Silicon in the Shade

A new kind of semiconductor is the first material with a 2D geometry to provide the electrical properties of silicon—but its shape could mean that it’s actually able to outperform the reliable old material. Like graphene, the new semiconductor is a 2D layer that’s just a single atom thick. Made up of tin and oxygen—or…

Google’s Project Loon Will Be Tested By Real Carriers This Year

Google’s Project Loon is an ambitious plan to float internet into the life of anyone who is currently without. But after a series of setbacks, the service is finally going to be tested by carriers this year. Re/code reports from the annual TED conference in Vancouver that the project has come out the other side…

Samsung Just Posted a Bunch of Details About the Unannounced Galaxy S7

Samsung’s next flagship smartphone has already been given the full leak treatment, but in case there was any doubt left, Samsung Indonesia has an unlisted teaser page and video. I assume this is a dumb leak, and not a desperate PR effort. The page and YouTube video, spotted by Phone Probe look like they’re meant…

Huawei Made Yet Another Surface Tablet Ripoff

Last year saw some high-profile Surface tablet ripoffs, so it’s only logical that the trend will continue in 2016. Huawei, best known for its line of affordable Android smartphones, just teased the image above in advance of Mobile World Congress next week. The details aren’t really clear, but do they need to be? https://gizmodo.com/the-world-finally-admits-microsoft-surface-was-the-shit-1730622015 From…

The New Alice Through The Looking Glass Trailer is Begging for Some Strong Acid

For a number of reasons, the story of Alice in Wonderland has always had a strong connection to drugs. And yet, it’s weird to see it manifest so overtly in the latest look at the Disney sequel, Alice Through The Looking Glass. Complete with Pink’s rendition of “White Rabbit,” the trailer really makes you want…

Swallow This ‘Audiopill’ At Your Own Risk To Get Your Rave On

Here’s something for all you hardcore party animals: when you can’t get to the rave, you now have the option of the “Audiopill.” It’s a miniaturized sound system housed inside a plastic microcapsule that you can swallow to groove internally to those sweet beats. And yes, it’s as crazy dangerous as it sounds. According to…

Kanye Continues Trying to Make Tidal Happen

We’re Bummed That This Killer Friday the 13th Reboot Won’t Be Happening

In Hollywood, a lot of great ideas never make it to the big screen. (See: Jodorowsky’s Dune, then shake fist at sky, screaming “Whyyy?”) Slasher movie fans will be especially disappointed to hear about a never-made new Friday the 13th film that—unlike most other horror reboots—actually sounds cool as hell. This particular Friday film was…

‘Chopsticks of Light’ Reveal What Makes Spider Silk So Stretchy

Spider silk is nature’s Kevlar. It’s stronger than steel, it’s waterproof, and you can stretch it as much as 30 to 40 percent before it snaps. Now biophysicists at Johns Hopkins University think they know the secret to spider silk’s remarkable elasticity: protein threads that serve as stretchy “superstrings.” The researchers describe their work in…

You’ve Never Seen Fairytale Art Like THIS Before

Santiago Perez’s art is a weird mash-up of cartoons, the Renaissance paintings of Hieronymous Bosch, classic alternative comics by R. Crumb, mythology, and other stuff. But his work reminds me of nothing so much as really weird fairytales. Perez started making these weird paintings when he was in the U.S. Air Force, and he did…

This New Predator Image Could Be the Start of Something Big

Years after battling Arnold, Aliens and Danny Glover, there’s a new Predator movie in the works. If you weren’t aware, that’s because very little has been made official about it outside of a few insider quotes. Then today, a new image popped up on Facebook which seems to be teasing some kind of announcement… and…

Biking Ridiculously Fast Down a Bobsled Track Is a Crazy Thing to Do

It’s like this whole bike race is in fast forward or something. But it’s actually just on an abandoned bobsled track on the mountain Trebevic in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The speed that the bikers reach and the angles at which they are riding are totally insane so it’s best for us mere mortals to stay…

Hail Satan, Afterlife With Archie and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Are Back This Summer

You might be almost incredulous to hear that Archie Comics are behind two of the best horror comics in recent memory, but it’s true. Unfortunately, both Afterlife with Archie and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina have been missing from comic shelves for nearly a year… but that’s not going to be the case for much longer.…

Get Your Ass To a Pacific Island for Next Month’s Total Solar Eclipse

Total solar eclipses are marvelous quirks of nature that occur once every 18 months or so. But unless you live in, or are about to travel to, the middle of the Pacific, you’re going to be sitting the next one out. On March 9th, a new Moon will sweep across the Pacific in the ecliptic…