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We Finally Know What’s Inside Rosetta’s Comet

Scientists have long pondered what lies beneath the surface of comet 67P, but a study out in Nature this week has the answer: dust. Lots and lots of dust. I was hoping for space gremlins, but to planetary scientists this result is almost as exciting. Comets, frozen leftovers from the formation of the solar system,…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Feb 4 '16

Google Goes to War Against Annoying Fake Download Buttons

You know that fun game you play every time you wander over to Download.com and try to download an app? The game where you have to find the right download button in a sea of buttons or risk infecting your computer with malware until the end of time? Well, it’s game over man. Yesterday Google…

Tech News Alex Cranz Feb 4 '16

The Producers of Game of Thrones Lay Into the Show’s Disastrous Pilot

It’s not exactly uncommon knowledge at this point that the never-released Game of Thrones pilot wasn’t just totally different to what we got; it was a downright disaster. But it eventually got reworked into something that sparked a cultural sensation is a miracle… and hoo boy, do David Benioff and D. B. Weiss know it.…

io9 James Whitbrook Feb 4 '16

10 Movies That Secretly Hid Spoilers Inside the Movie Themselves

It’s always a nice wink at an unknowing audience when a movie reveals a huge spoiler during the movie itself. It’s harmless fun that most people don’t even catch because they don’t know enough about what’s happening in the movie yet. But on future watches it gives a little extra chuckle layer for people to…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 4 '16

The Inventor of Bop It Has Modernized the Classic Cup and Ball Game

Bop It, the memory game that has you recreating a pattern of actions, is one of those toys that feels like it’s been around forever. The same goes for the classic cup and ball game, which probably predates your grandparents, and is now being given a second life thanks to Bop It’s inventor. Instead of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 4 '16

Supergirl Could Be Confirming A Crazy Fan Theory About the DC Cinematic Universe

A new villain for Star Wars: Rogue One may have been revealed. The Walking Dead teases the arrival of Negan and Jesus. Greg Wiseman raises your hopes for a third season of Young Justice. Plus, new looks at the Ratchet and Clank movie, the Descender adaptation gets a writer, and a new Daredevil image. Spoilers…

Television James Whitbrook Feb 4 '16

Inside an Abandoned Socialist Textile Factory

There’s always a very special thrill in visiting silent and deteriorating industrial places where hundreds of men and women worked amidst loud machines decades ago. It was not a different feeling taking these photos in the abandoned power plant building of a long gone fabric factory. In 1922, the Elberfelder Textilwerke and the Leipzig Kammgarnspinnerei…

Tech News Attila Nagy Feb 4 '16

Use Bing Search to Tune Your Guitar

Google’s venerable (and profitable) search engine is well known for offering useful tools beyond its core functionality, and Microsoft has been tricking out Bing with a few extra features of its own—such as an app for tuning your guitar right from the search page. Here’s how to make sure you’re playing in tune using Microsoft’s…

Gadgets David Nield Feb 4 '16

A New Ceramic Film Promises Electronics That Fold Like Paper

Bendable devices may still be a little way off, but a new kind of ceramic that is flexible in the same way as paper could certainly help speed things along. A startup called Eurekite has created a new kind of ceramic that’s able to fold and crumple. That’s unusual: Ceramics are usually highly crystalline, which…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 4 '16

US LTE Speeds Rank a Dire 55th Fastest in the World

If you want fast 4G, you should live in Singapore, New Zealand or Hungary. But perhaps most importantly, you should definitely not live in the US. According to an updated report from Open Signal, the US ranks 55th in the world league table for LTE speeds. Its paltry average of 10Mbps places it just below…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 4 '16

BBC: UN Panel Believes Julian Assange Was ‘Unlawfully Detained’

It’s almost four years since Julian Assange took refuge in London’s Ecuadorian embassy. Now, according to the BBC, a UN panel has ruled that he has been “unlawfully detained.” Assange complained to the UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in 2014 that his living in 300 square feet within the Ecuadorian Embassy was unwarranted and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 4 '16

NSA Plans to ‘Act Now’ to Ensure Quantum Computers Can’t Break Encryption

The NSA is worried about quantum computers. It warns that it “must act now” to ensure that encryption systems can’t be broken wide open by the new super-fast hardware. In a document outlining common concerns about the effects that quantum computing may have on national security and encryption of sensitive data, the NSA warns that…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe Feb 4 '16

The VAIO Phone Biz Is a Sleek Windows Phone That Nobody Needs

As all around it realize that Windows phones might be on the way out, the Sony off-shoot VAIO has proudly unveiled a new handset that runs Windows 10. Announced today in Japan, the Phone Biz—what a name!—is certainly more stylish than the middle-of-the-road black slab that constituted VAIO’s first stab at a smartphone. Beneath the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 4 '16

Facebook Wants to Show You a Supercut of Your Friendships

To celebrate its 12th birthday, Facebook wants to remind you of all the friends you’ve forgotten about, through the medium of an automatically created supercut. The clips—which you can actually edit if they don’t meet your approval—will show up at the top of your feed. You can go right ahead and watch it from there.…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe Feb 4 '16

London Is Finally Winning Its War Against The Car

London is a city that was barely designed for horse and cart, let alone the automobile. Cars are still a big part of life in central London, but they’re about to be outnumbered by cyclists. Transport statistics are normally eye-wateringly dull, but Transport for London’s latest report makes for surprisingly good reading. The number of…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 4 '16

GoPro Will Slim Down Its Lineup to Save Itself

GoPro’s revenue and stock prices are going off a cliff right now, thanks to quarterly results that are in the tank. Company financials are not usually interesting in the slightest, but when they might spell the end days of a vastly popular camera company, it’s worth paying attention. We don’t normally cover quarterly earnings calls,…

Gadgets Chris Mills Feb 3 '16

The Closest You Can Get to a Lightning Strike Without Actually Getting Struck by Lightning

Well, damn. That’s a heck of a close call. This footage of a thunderstorm is from South Sydney Australia and you can see how close the people taken the footage were to getting struck by lightning. Like this is very probably the closest you could get without actually getting blasted with a bolt. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 3 '16

Forget Fingerprints, Brain Scans Could Be the New Passwords

A new system will set aside fingerprints and facial recognition, and start doing brain scans as positive identification. Using brain imaging and a series of words and images, it will scan your mind to figure out if you’re really you. Facial recognition sounds sweet in theory, but in practice it has some problems. It requires…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 3 '16

Video: The History of Japan Explained in the Most Fun Way Possible

If we canceled history classes in high schools across the world and replaced them with YouTube videos about history, kids would learn so much more. I just sat through this wonderful 10-minute video on the history of Japan by Bill Wurtz without even skipping ahead because it was so riveting and funny and fast paced.…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 3 '16

Bryan Singer Confirms He’ll Soon Begin Work on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

On his 50th birthday in September, director Bryan Singer posted an Instagram photo of a script he’d co-written for a new adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, dubbing it “a story I’ve wanted to retell since childhood … an adventure very dear to my heart.” And now, it’s happening. The 1954 Disney…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Feb 3 '16

We Finally Know What’s Inside Rosetta’s Comet

Google Goes to War Against Annoying Fake Download Buttons

The Producers of Game of Thrones Lay Into the Show’s Disastrous Pilot

10 Movies That Secretly Hid Spoilers Inside the Movie Themselves

The Inventor of Bop It Has Modernized the Classic Cup and Ball Game

Supergirl Could Be Confirming A Crazy Fan Theory About the DC Cinematic Universe

Inside an Abandoned Socialist Textile Factory

Use Bing Search to Tune Your Guitar

A New Ceramic Film Promises Electronics That Fold Like Paper

US LTE Speeds Rank a Dire 55th Fastest in the World

BBC: UN Panel Believes Julian Assange Was ‘Unlawfully Detained’

NSA Plans to ‘Act Now’ to Ensure Quantum Computers Can’t Break Encryption

The VAIO Phone Biz Is a Sleek Windows Phone That Nobody Needs

Facebook Wants to Show You a Supercut of Your Friendships

London Is Finally Winning Its War Against The Car

GoPro Will Slim Down Its Lineup to Save Itself

The Closest You Can Get to a Lightning Strike Without Actually Getting Struck by Lightning

Forget Fingerprints, Brain Scans Could Be the New Passwords

Video: The History of Japan Explained in the Most Fun Way Possible

Bryan Singer Confirms He’ll Soon Begin Work on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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