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Where’s the Wookiee? Has Kids Searching For Chewbacca Instead of Waldo

Martin Handford’s Where’s Waldo (or Where’s Wally if you were in the UK) were some of the most popular children’s books of the late ‘80s. Not surprisingly there have been countless knock-offs which are all worth ignoring, except now that Chewbacca the Wookiee has gone missing all over the Star Wars universe. Where’s the Wookiee?…

Watch Great Comics Artists Turn Their Favorite Supervillains Into Donald Trump

There’s something magical about watching a great comics artist at work. So when we went to New York Comic Con over the weekend, we headed straight for Artists’ Alley and gave some of the best artists a unique assignment. We asked some of the stars at the con, including Dick Tracy artist Joe Staton and…

21 Gorgeous Android Wear Faces for Your Wrist

One of the big benefits of strapping an Android Wear watch to your wrist is customizing your timepiece to suit your personality, current mood or sartorial taste. As Google’s wearable platform has grown, we’ve seen more and more Android Wear watch faces show up on Google Play—here are some of our favorites. 1. UsTwo Smart…

Playboy Nixes Nudity Because the Internet Has Enough Porn

It’s the end of an era, folks. Playboy, the magazine famous for its nude photos, will stop publishing nude photos because there are already plenty of those on the internet. Playboy will still feature sexy “PG-13” content, but you can kiss the nipples goodbye. Funnily enough, Playboy.com has been nudie free for months. The company…

How the US Air Force reloads the largest combat jet gun on the planet

When you got one of the biggest guns in the world, you can’t just pop in a new magazine and start firing again. Well, you can but the new ‘magazine’ for the GAU-8 Avenger is so ginormous it needs to be trucked in and requires multiple Air Force guys to get the gun reloaded. It…

On Gotham, Alfred Is Just Straight Up Hitting Children

Uh, spoiler alert, I guess. But there may be no scene that better sums up Gotham’s insanity than in last night’s episode, where Bruce Wayne’s butler slaps the hell out of the 13-year-old Catwoman when she comes over to say hi. Technically, Alfred has a reason, but the main reason is of course that Gotham…

Van Life: The Strangers I Met on the Road From Montana to Oregon

Connected States is a new series from Brent Rose about living a truly mobile life.

How To Find and Delete Everything You’ve Ever Said to Google Now

Google likes to keep all of your voice searches on its servers so it can more easily learn to recognize your voice, understand what you might be looking for in the future, and, of course, serve you ads. If you want to review this archive of Google Now searches and clear it out, here’s what…

Hasbro’s New Sentinel Prime Toy Turns Into a Goddamn Space Train

Sentinel Prime, the Autobot head honcho before Optimus, usually transforms into a big ol’ Cybertronian truck when in vehicle mode: but not the new Sentinel. He turns into two vehicles: one of which is a big, weapon-packed space train to the cosmos. The new Sentinel Prime is being released as part of “Titans Return”, a…

Are These The First Images of OnePlus’ Upcoming Mini Smartphone?

Rumors are quickly circulating about Oneplus’ upcoming smartphone—the second one of the year, currently thought to be called the OnePlus Mini. Now, we may even have one of the first pictures of the rumored smartphone. Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors and speculation — real and fabricated.BitStream collects all those whispers into one…

How Is It Possible That Galaxies Are Moving Away From Us Faster Than the Speed of Light?

According to Albert Einstein, the speed of light is an absolute constant beyond which nothing can move faster. So, how can galaxies be traveling faster than the speed of light if nothing is supposed to be able to break this cosmic speed limit? I’m a little world of contradictions. “Not even light itself can escape…

A Street Fighter Hadoken Cushion Takes Pillow Fights to the Next Level

The next time a pillow fight breaks out at a sleepover, don’t bother reaching for a heavy feather-filled cushion. No, if you truly want to dominate the battle, make sure you have this Street Fighter Ryu Hadoken Fire Ball cushion in your stuffed arsenal. Throwing this 14-inch pillow at your friends or siblings is only…

Luke Skywalker Has a Perfectly Good Explanation for His “Flub” in A New Hope

It’s a factoid years old that when Luke emerges from his X-Wing after the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope, the over-excited Mark Hamill accidentally cries “Carrie!” rather than “Leia!” when Carrie Fisher’s Princess comes running into his arms. But did he really? Not according to Luke Skywalker himself. The famous flub has been…

Jason Bittel is obsessed with what breasts can do, and he’s not ashamed to let everyone know it. Writing in Slate, he raves about the amazing flexibility of milk-making in humans, the so-high-fat-it’s-practically-cheese milk of marine mammals, and all sorts of nipples. Check it out! Contact the author at [email protected].

Apple’s New Magic Keyboard, Mouse, and Force Touch Trackpad Are All Rechargeable 

Apple’s wireless accessories for its iMac line got a much-needed update today alongside the new desktops themselves. Sure—the new 21.5-inch iMac will be 4K and beautiful, but more importantly none of the peripherals will require AA batteries anymore. That’s right! When Apple redesigned the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, the company decided the…

Warner Bros. Wants People to Consider Mad Max: Fury Road for Best Picture

Or, at least, Warner Bros. would like to people to be forced to mention Mad Max: Fury Road when discussing next year’s Academy Awards nominations for Best Picture–for a massive, free amount of publicity, even though it doesn’t really expect Fury Road to get nominated, let alone win. Film critic Mike McGranahan found the first…

Apple Upgrades Its 21.5-inch iMac With a More Colorful 4K Display

Now’s the time to finally upgrade that aging iMac sitting on your desk–because this morning Apple quietly announced an upgraded version of the popular 21.5-inch version featuring faster RAM, a beefier processor, improved graphics hardware, and a vastly-improved 4K display. The 21.5-inch iMac’s upgraded 4K display (that’s a resolution of 4096 x 2304 for those…

Canon G9X and G5X: Two Killer Cameras For Every Pocket Size

Canon’s G line of cameras are meant to offer better quality and controls than the typical cheap-o point and shoot. With two new members of the family, the G9X and the G5X, you have whole lot of options, depending just how much camera you want to carry. Last year with the G7X Canon introduced a…

We May Finally Know When The Hulk Will Show Up On The Big Screen Next!

Bryan Cranston allegedly wants to play a certain X-Men villain. Arrow’s latest villain will also appear in Legends of Tomorrow and The Flash. We almost had more of the X-Files revival than six episodes. Plus, new clips from iZombie and Agents of SHIELD, and David Duchovny talks Twin Peaks. Spoilers get! Thor: Ragnarok The Internet…

Mercedes-Benz Made Uncrashable Toy Cars To Show Off its Safety Tech

No consumer is ever too young to start fostering brand loyalty. So to help promote the anti-collision technology in its vehicles, and to seed the next-generation of owners, Mercedes-Benz created a couple of nifty toy cars that were impossible for kids to crash into each other. The not-so-secret enhancement that made the two tiny Mercs…