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In His Fantasies—And In This Thor: The Dark World Deleted Scene—Loki Is Thor

As part of the marketing for the Phase 2 Box Set, Marvel released a deleted scene from Thor: The Dark World included in the set. In it, an imprisoned Loki uses his illusions to make him King of Asgard. Which means, basically, he makes himself Thor. Red cape and Mjolnir included. The thing that really…

Microsoft’s annualBuild developer conference will be held from March 30-April 1st in San Francisco, company exec Steven Guggenheimer announcedon Twitter. Expect news about HoloLens and Windows 10 plus a surprise or two. Read our recap of the best and worst of Build 2015 here.

Google Data Says We’re Ready To Talk About Gun Control, But We Probably Won’t

The Wall Street Journal picked up a hope-inspiring dataset from Google showing a swift change in gun-related searching habits from before and after the San Bernardino shootings. It showed a massive spike for “gun control” searches (blue in the image above) related to “gun shop” searches (red). Yes, maybe we’re finally ready to get serious…

An awesome movie trailer of all the awesome movies that came out in 2015

Was 2015 a good year for movies? Sure, there were a lot of duds like Tomorrowland and embarrassments like Pixels and money printing franchises that weren’t nearly as awesome as the movies that came before it like Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron but I’m going to consider 2015 a good year for movies…

It Is Time to Do Battle… With Your GIFs!

It’s Friday, it’s been a long week, and now it’s time to let out all your stress and frustration with a friendly fight club—I mean GIF party. Here’s one I made earlier from the new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer. I like to think of myself as Batman and responsibilities as Superman. As…

81-Year-Old Time Capsule Discovered Inside Artillery Shell (But It’s Missing Some Brandy)

People in Arlington, Washington, recently discovered an old artillery shell filled with treasures from 1934. But it seems someone beat them to it, sometime within the last eight decades. And whoever it was left a note: “Thank you for the brandy.” The shell was sitting in a memorial display at American Legion Post 76, where…

Watch This Bat Pounce On Its Prey in Infrared Slow Motion

Bats are small, generally harmless to humans, and eat a lot of insects that would otherwise infect our bodies or ruin our fruit. That doesn’t stop this air-to-leaf pounce from being kind of scary, though. We know that many bats find their food through echolocation, but for some time we didn’t know how far their…

The Voyager Probe Gets a Stylized Tribute

Artist Dave Murray decided to use the Voyager program as his inspiration for one piece included in the Toronto-based Nuvango gallery show “Objectify.” The result is one of the most advanced pieces of technology of its time, rendered in relatively simple shapes. Contact the author at [email protected].

The State Department Tried To Fight ISIS On Ask.fm, and It Didn’t Go Well

The United States government is willing to try some weird stuff to combat ISIS’s online influence—and that includes operating an insult-slinging account on a social network for insecure teens fishing for compliments. A panel of branding experts just conducted a review that doubted the State Department’s online anti-ISIS campaign tactics. A US official told the…

A Deadly Haunting Has Terrifying Results for Three Strangers

Intruders isn’t just one short, it’s three. All interwoven as the results of a deadly haunting, but each one could stand alone. In Intruders, Santiago Menghini effectively uses a bunch of horror techniques to create different kinds of dread. “5:45” is all atmospheric, almost mundane horror. “Jacov” uses suspense to terrify the audience with an…

Google Wants to Patent a Blood-Sucking Smartwatch

Just when you thought our data-driven lifestyles were getting a little weird, Google wants to make it creepy. The companyjust filed a patent application for a “needle-free blood draw” device that can be implanted in a wearable. It’s the vampiric smartwatch you never asked for. All jokes aside, the invention looks pretty interesting and possibly…

Gorgeous video shows just how incredible the Apollo missions were

The Project Apollo Archive on Flickr is truly one of the great treasures available on the Internet. You can easily get lost in the stunning imagery and wonder about what exists beyond our world. It’s also an incredible resource for artists to turn those static pictures into gorgeous videos with 3D effects. My jaw is…

A Rare Glimpse of a US Seaplane Lost In the First Minutes of the Pearl Harbor Attack

For the past 20 years, divers have unsuccessfully tried to explore and photograph a PBY-5 Catalina seaplane shot down during Japan’s opening salvo of the Pearl Harbor attack. Now, some 74 years after that fateful day, archaeologists have finally accomplished the task. Here’s what they saw at the bottom of Kāne‛ohe Bay’s murky waters. Just…

Michael Fassbender Plays Macbeth, in a Gorgeous Movie About the Horror of Surviving War

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most thrilling—and oft-quoted—plays, and it’s been turned into some really insane movies over the years. It’s a classic story of a good man who gets tempted with a promise of greatness. But the new film version delivers on the horror, but not on that operatic arc. Spoilers for a really…

Laundry Duty Is Probably Not How R2-D2 Pictured His Retirement

He helped the Rebels defeat an evil empire, but little did R2-D2 know his glory years were behind him, and ahead lay a lifetime of menial chores including gobbling up your laundry so that it doesn’t end up as a dirty pile on the floor. Bad news for the little astromech droid, but good news…

Watch This Enormous Floating Crane Lift a Giant Piece of an Offshore Gas Platform

As a fan of huge machineries I have watched this time lapse video at least five times in a row, and I am still speechless. It was produced by News On Request for Norwegian multinational oil and gas company Statoil, and you can watch how an amazingly huge section of the Aasta Hansteen offshore rig…

You Can Totally Sit On This Balloon Animal Furniture

Inflatable furniture isn’t a new idea. College dorms are filled with blow-up sofas and air-filled mattresses. But none of them look like designer Seungjin Yang’s inflatable pieces, which are created using the same balloons a birthday party clown relies on to entertain screaming children. The designer’s Blowing series is the most practical take on balloon…

How the gun turrets work on a B-29 bomber

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers were one of the biggest and deadliest aircraft used during World War II. They were the bombers used to drop the atomic bomb and were also used during the Korean war. Here’s a video from Bryce Richert showing how the gun turret system worked on the B-29. Like the…

The First Set Pictures From Luke Cage Reveal A Brand New Marvel Hero!

Plus tons more details on Civil War—including who’s in and who’s out. Batman v Superman toys give us a fleeting new look at Aquaman. A familiar Star Wars face is going to Rebels. Plus a new apocalyptic BBC series, pictures from the Arrow and Flash midseason finales, and another Force Awakens TV spot. Spoilers Now!…

British Astronaut Tim Peake Is Going to Run a Marathon—in Space

The British astronaut Tim Peake clearly likes a challenge. Not content with merely heading into space on December 15th, he’s also agreed to run a marathon aboard the International Space Station. It will be the first time any astronaut has run the distance while in space. He’ll undertake the 26.2 miles at 10:00am GMT on…