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18 Quick Photoshop Tips for Beginners

Photoshop is a vast program, packed with all kinds of sophisticated tools and functions to keep the professional photography world turning. Whatever your level of experience with the software, though, there are some quick and easy tips you can take advantage of to improve your Photoshop experience—here are some of our favorite ones. 1) Rotate…

Gadgets David Nield Apr 13 '16

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence’s New Scifi Film Looks Absolutely Amazing

When a studio decides to release a scifi movie during Christmas, they think it has both commercial and awards potential. Both certainly seem possible for Passengers, starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. Sony Pictures debuted the first footage from the film at CinemaCon, and it looks amazing. Written by Jon Spaihts and directed by Morten…

Movies Germain Lussier Apr 13 '16

Hawking’s Interstellar Starship Would Revolutionize the Search for Alien Life

Yesterday, Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner made the mind-blowing announcement that they want to build a fleet of interstellar spacecraft that can travel at relativistic speeds—up to 20 percent the speed of light. But it’s not just about reaching our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, although that is the new Breakthrough project’s moonshot. The technology…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Apr 13 '16

The World’s Largest K’NEX Ball Contraption Was Built From Over 126,000 Pieces

The K’NEX Big Ball Factory was so loved by fans of the building toy that the company decided to bring it back last year, 20 years after it first hit toy stores. But with just over 3,000 pieces going into its construction, it doesn’t even begin to come close to Austin Granger’s record-setting K’NEX creation.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 13 '16

Could There Be Even More Batman in Suicide Squad Than We Thought?

Anthony Russo teases a major sequence for Tony Stark in Civil War. The Kingsman sequel may have landed a crazy new cast member. Sophie Turner teases Sansa’s vengeance in Game of Thrones. Plus, an update from Finn Jones on Iron Fist, details on Rogue One’s big cameo role, and more on The Vampire Diaries’ future.…

Television James Whitbrook Apr 13 '16

What You Need to Know About Amazon’s Weird Ass New Kindle Oasis

I didn’t think I could be surprised by a new Kindle, but, well, Amazon got me with the Kindle Oasis. In more than one way. It’s weird-looking, and the $290 price tag is shocking. That leak earlier this week was bang on, and Amazon’s latest e-reader has an unusual design that’s different from any other…

Commerce Mario Aguilar Apr 13 '16

We Know the Title of the Men In Black/ 21 Jump Street Crossover

No, for real. A crossover movie joining Men in Black and 21 Jump Street is really happening. Sony put it in its huge CinemaCon 2016 presentation to theater owners and, to make it seem even more real, even gave it a title: MIB 23. MIB 23! MIB 23! It has a nice ring to it,…

Movies Germain Lussier Apr 13 '16

Watch Daredevils Land Skate Tricks While Their Boards Are on Fire

These guys may have melted the soles of their shoes a bit, but it was worth it to capture these jaw-dropping tricks in stunning slow motion. Skateboarders Christopher Chann, Mike Davis, Gabe McCoy, Blake Jossi, and Merari Paz teamed up with BeyondSlowMotion, and the first order of business was lighting everything but themselves on fire.…

Sploid Avery Ellis Apr 13 '16

Laser-Powered Balls Can Haul Heavy Loads Across Water

They don’t look much, but these little black balls harness the power of bright light to zip across the surface of water—pulling up to 150 times their own weight in the process. New Scientist reports that these little dots have been developed by researchers from the Osaka Institute of Technology in Japan. While you might…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 13 '16

Scientists Finally Made Carbyne—a Material Stronger Than Graphene—That Lasts

Several years ago, scientists calculated the properties of an exotic form of carbon—called Carbyne—and found that it promised more strength and stiffness than any other known material. Now, it’s finally been made in a stable form inside an Austrian lab. Researchers from the University of Vienna in Austria report in Nature Materials that they’ve managed…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 13 '16

Data Centers of the Future Could Be Towering Skyscrapers

Data centers are usually vast, cavernous warehouse-like spaces rammed full of computers and cooling systems. But a pair of Italian architects has imagined a sustainable alternative that would meld server farms with skyscrapers. Marco Merletti and Valeria Mercuri have sketched out a vision for what they call the Data Tower. And if the name doesn’t…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 13 '16

Play With the Inner Workings of a Neural Network on This Neat Website

Neural networks are a fundamental part of Artificial Intelligence: Software systems that train themselves to make sense of the human world. But if you want to understand how they work at a basic level, a cool new website allows you to get under the hood. The site is based on Google’s new TensorFlow software library,…

Artificial Intelligence Jamie Condliffe Apr 13 '16

This Flexible Sheet Camera Captures Images of What It’s Wrapped Around

Bored of taking photographs from a single point in space? This experimental new camera can be wrapped around objects to capture images in completely different ways. A team of researchers from Columbia University’s Computer Vision Laboratory has developed this new device which shuns the conventional form of the camera to create a thin and deformable…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 13 '16

Rocket Launches Are Way More Intense in 360-Degree VR

If you stood this close to a rocket launch, your face would probably look like deep-fried Swiss cheese. Luckily, 360-degree cameras and a VR headset can put you in the action a little more easily. The video below was shot at the launch of a Delta-IV rocket from Vanderberg Air Force Base in California. The…

Sploid Chris Mills Apr 13 '16

Marvel’s Spider-Man Movie Is Going to Be Called Spider-Man: Homecoming

Marvel made a historic deal to put Spider-Man in its cinematic universe and now, out of CinemaCon, we know that his solo movie will officially be called Spider-Man: Homecoming. Yes, it is a pun. The title references both the high-school age of Peter Parker and that the character has “come home” to Marvel. Unfortunately, it…

Movies Germain Lussier and Katharine Trendacosta Apr 13 '16

Wireless Payments Will Finally Come to the NYC Subway By 2021

The MTA’s MetroCard system is a source of frustration for regular commuters and presidential hopefuls alike. A plan to replace the magnetic cards with a modern contactless system has been in the works forever, and now the MTA is finally taking bids on the project. The public bid details a system that would let bus…

Tech News Chris Mills Apr 12 '16

Watch Stephen Strange Become Doctor Strange in the First Trailer

Here it is, the first trailer for Doctor Strange. We see the accident that ends his medical career and hear him get a rousing pep talk from Tilda Swinton’s Ancient One. Life just gets better and better for him, doesn’t it? We’ll obviously have more information once we have time to comb through every frame,…

Trailers Katharine Trendacosta Apr 12 '16

5 Fascinating Film Scenes That Show So Much with So Little

When you’re looking at movies directed by Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love) and Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather II), you know you’re watching true masters of their craft at work. Everything matters, every detail is important. Even if you’re not well versed in filmmaking, your eyeballs are being led…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 12 '16

Report: The FBI Paid Some Dodgy Hackers for a Zero-Day to Unlock the San Bernardino iPhone

I was kind of tired of the FBI vs. Apple story, but now it has a secret collective of morally ambiguous hackers, and I’m into it again. According to a report from the Washington Post, the Federal Bureau of Investigation paid a group of hackers a one-time fee to pinpoint a zero-day security flaw, which…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Apr 12 '16

A Software Fix Might Eventually Stop Bad USB-C Cables From Destroying Devices

USB-C is a fantastic new standard for almost everything, unless you have a crappy cable, in which case you might accidentally fry your laptop. The people behind USB-C understandably see this as a problem, so a fix is in the works. The solution is reasonably simple: when you plug in a USB-C cable that’s been…

Gadgets Chris Mills Apr 12 '16

18 Quick Photoshop Tips for Beginners

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence’s New Scifi Film Looks Absolutely Amazing

Hawking’s Interstellar Starship Would Revolutionize the Search for Alien Life

The World’s Largest K’NEX Ball Contraption Was Built From Over 126,000 Pieces

Could There Be Even More Batman in Suicide Squad Than We Thought?

What You Need to Know About Amazon’s Weird Ass New Kindle Oasis

We Know the Title of the Men In Black/ 21 Jump Street Crossover

Watch Daredevils Land Skate Tricks While Their Boards Are on Fire

Laser-Powered Balls Can Haul Heavy Loads Across Water

Scientists Finally Made Carbyne—a Material Stronger Than Graphene—That Lasts

Data Centers of the Future Could Be Towering Skyscrapers

Play With the Inner Workings of a Neural Network on This Neat Website

This Flexible Sheet Camera Captures Images of What It’s Wrapped Around

Rocket Launches Are Way More Intense in 360-Degree VR

Marvel’s Spider-Man Movie Is Going to Be Called Spider-Man: Homecoming

Wireless Payments Will Finally Come to the NYC Subway By 2021

Watch Stephen Strange Become Doctor Strange in the First Trailer

5 Fascinating Film Scenes That Show So Much with So Little

Report: The FBI Paid Some Dodgy Hackers for a Zero-Day to Unlock the San Bernardino iPhone

A Software Fix Might Eventually Stop Bad USB-C Cables From Destroying Devices

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