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First Footage From Spielberg’s The BFG Gives Us the Barest Glimpse of the Big Giant

We also see our protagonist, Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), be afraid of him. Which is all well and good, but “BFG” stands for “Big Friendly Giant,” so we know the hand reaching to grab Sophie probably isn’t going to do her harm. Spielberg adapting a Roald Dahl novel seems like a match made in heaven, it’s…

How Humans Can Engineer Wilder Cities With the Help of Animals

Look around your city. You’ll see pigeons, rats, maybe a few raccoons. But the typical array of urban wildlife is about to become incredibly biodiverse, thanks to efforts from humans to make their cities wilder and more sustainable places. Right now cities are experimenting with introducing more animals into their environments. These creatures will not…

Your Lego Is Probably Better at Decorating Holiday Cookies Than You Are

When he’s not recreating tragic Greek characters using Lego, Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks enlists his thousands of bricks to help out with the holiday chores. Decorating Christmas cookies is usually a mind-numbing task, but now when you pawn it off on a Lego Mindstorms creation. Baking up a batch of cookies is still left…

Install Infinity for Faster Access to Your Web Apps in Chrome

There are plenty of extensions out there for customizing Chrome’s New Tab page and Infinity is one of the latest ones to catch our attention. It creates a simple row of icons for speedy access to your favorite apps and sites, and you get convenient links to search and weather reports thrown into the mix,…

Everything Is Delightful in the First Clip From Agent Carter Season 2

We’ve got a little while longer to wait for Agent Carter‘s return, thanks to President Obama’s State of the Union address. But we can hold on a little while longer thanks to this delightful snippet featuring Jarvis and Peggy being their usual adorable selves. The clip was revealed on Twitter yesterday by iTunes TV, and…

Yahoo Is Spinning Off Everything Except Alibaba

Yahoo is reversing its plan to spin-off its huge stake in Chinese retail monster Alibaba. Instead it will spin off its core internet business, including names you recognize like Flickr, Tumblr, et al, into another business. It’s a riveting morning in Marissa Mayer’s empire. What does this mean for you right now, non-Yahoo investor? Very…

Roller Coaster Tycoon in real life would totally be the craziest thing

I wasted a ridiculous amount of my youth building fictional roller coaster parks on my computer with Roller Coaster Tycoon. It was so fun! Building new rides, dealing with your customers, handling demand, creating park layouts, it all made me want to work for Six Flags. This video from AndrewMFilms imagines a day at a…

A New Toy May Have Just Revealed the Fate of a Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character

Plus J.J. Abrams reveals why Leia didn’t choose to become a Jedi before the movie. Anthony Russo teases the levity Spider-Man brings to Civil War. Plus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan talks being faithful to the comic book roots of his Walking Dead villain. Spoilers now! Star Wars: The Force Awakens Unsurprisingly, George Lucas is diplomatic in…

A Live Cricket Steers Mattel’s New Autonomous Toy Car

Instead of releasing yet another smartphone-controlled RC toy car to the yawns of children everywhere, Mattel’s Bug Racer takes kids out of the equation altogether. They still get to watch it race around a room, but this toy car’s controlled by a live cricket scurrying around the vehicle’s cockpit. The Bug Racer doesn’t come with…

Confirmed: Akatsuki is in Orbit Around Venus!

After a year-long hiatus, we have a robotic explorer around our angry, overheated twin of a planet again! Early this morning the Japanese Space Agency confirmed their audacious plan to use manoeuvring thrusters worked, and now the spacecraft is already sending home new photos. When the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki attempted to go into orbit around…

Cygnus Has Safely Made It to the ISS

The Cygnus cargo vehicle that launched on Sunday has safely arrived at the International Space Station, where it was successfully captured via robot arm by NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren at 6:19 a.m. EST. The image above, which was tweeted by Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, shows Cygnus shortly before it arrived at the ISS. The unmanned…

Natural Ice Rinks Would Turn London’s Thames Into a Winter Wonderland

As we head towards the holidays, inner-city ice rinks spring up for young and old alike to fall over on. But this concept by architecture firm NBJJ envisions fold-away natural rinks that could turn London’s River Thames itself into a temporary place to skate. The concept, called Frost Flowers, uses foldaway structures that could be…

These $800 Lightning Headphones Make Your iPhone’s 3.5mm Jack Redundant

If you don’t like using the 3.5mm headphone jack on your iPhone but demand high-end audio, you’re a rare beast. But a rare beast whose dreams have come true, in the shape of Audeze’s new headphones, which combine audiophile luxury with an integrated Lightning connector. The Audeze EL-8 Titanium headphones are claimed to be the…

Watch How One Man Took the Internet to 60,000 People in Rural Nepal

This is Mahabir Pun. Fed up with the fact that he had to hike for two days whenever he wanted to check his email, he decided to connect his home town of Nangi to the Internet. This video explains how he did it. Produced by Clemens Purner, the video describes how Pun struggled, and succeeded,…

Google Claims to Have Proved That Its Quantum Computer Actually Works

A team of researchers from Google’s artificial intelligence labs has published results which it claims demonstrate that its controversial D-Wave quantum computer really works. Google bought one of D-Wave’s quantum computers back in 2013. Claimed to be the “world’s first commercial quantum computer,” the device sits at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California,…

Apple’s latest version of its Lightning to SD card adapternow supports USB 3.0 transfer speeds if you use it with the iPad Pro. It costs $30.

Watch YouTube’s Most Popular Videos of 2015

Have some time to kill? YouTube has just announced its most popular videos of 2015, which include everything from dance crazes to Justin Bieber doing karaoke in a car. You can watch them here. It’s worth noting that YouTube has chosen the most popular clips not just on the absolute number of views, but by…

Best Buy Has Cut $100 Off the Price of Every Apple Watch

Just in time for the holidays, Best Buy has slashed the price of the Apple Watch. The store is cutting $100 from the price of every model of the wearable, which means you can buy a 38 millimeter Apple Watch Sport for just $250. The retailer cut the price of the Apple Watch for Black…

Report: Apple’s Web TV Service is ‘On Hold’

The idea of an Apple live TV service has long lingered on the horizon, a mythical cord-cutting utopia just out of reach. But according to a Bloomberg report, work on the project is “on hold.” Bloomberg quotes both an anonymous source, and CBS CEO Les Moonves as saying Apple’s plans have been temporarily shelved. It’s…

L.A. and Chicago Are Up Next for Google Fiber

Just a day after AT&T announced that it’s bringing gigabit fiber internet to the L.A. metro area, Google has announced that it’s exploring L.A. and Chicago as the next possible locations for the expansion of its Fiber network. Google Fiber is currently available in some form or another in 18 metro areas, although only Salt…