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Twitter Is Replacing the Fav Star With a Stupid Fucking Heart

Whyyyyyy, Twitter? Why are you messing with a good thing? Today, Twitter replaced the age-old favorite star with a heart. A heart! Clicking the new heart feels disgusting. It’s not even representative of how people use the fav: In addition to the concept of liking things, a fav can be a form acknowledgement, a way…

The Golden Compass Resurrected as a British TV Series

You can’t keep a best-selling young adult fantasy novel trilogy down! The BBC has announced it’s making an eight-part miniseries based on Philip Pullman’s best-selling, critically acclaimed His Dark Materials book series. In 2007, of course, New Line made a big-budget film adaptation of the trilogy’s first volume, The Golden Compass (which is known in…

Google’s Neural Network Can Now Reply to Gmail Messages For You

If you’ve ever wanted a robot to respond to your emails, you’re in luck. Today, Google is announcing a new featureto its ambitious Inbox app that will enlist the company’s artificial neural network to craft automatic replies to incoming Gmail messages. You’ll never need to type again! Just kidding, you will. The so-called Smart Reply…

Theranos CEO Admits Her Blood Test Company Has a Communication Problem

Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum yesterday, embattled Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes defended her company’s blood test technology, while promising to become more transparent in the future. Theranos came under fire several weeks ago when a Wall Street Journal investigation questioned the company’s alleged use of outside diagnostic equipment to perform its innovative, needle-free blood…

How a Crazy Space-Vampire Comic Like Interceptor Could Be the Next Big Comic Book Movie

There’s been a bit of a running trend of comics getting picked up for movie adaptations even before they release an issue—and Heavy Metal’s next big creator-owned series, Interceptor, is joining that trend. We sat down with writer Donny Cates to discuss the wild new series, and what it’s like having your comic turned into…

Tidal Will Stream Original TV Shows, Sure, Why Not? 

Tidal failed to beat Spotify. Now it’s taking on Netflix. Jay Z’s streaming app is launching two original television series. On to the next one! The first series, Money and Violence, is about criminals in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Creator and star Moise Verneau is a self-funded, self-taught showrunner, and it became a cult YouTube hit during…

May The Queue Times Be Ever In Your Favor At The Hunger Games Theme Park

Look, I’m just spitballing here, but maybe turning a franchise about an enforced violent battle to the death among teenagers isn’t really the best idea for a theme park? Admittedly, that is apparently a problem Lionsgate had when it first began developing the idea for a theme park based on the smash-hit franchise shortly after…

MakerBot Is Stumbling, But Hopes Faster Printing Will Help

MakerBot has seen better days. It’s now cut 20 percent of its staff twice as it struggles to fulfill founder and former CEO Bre Pettis’ vision of a 3D printer in every home. Now, with a software update, MakerBot machines can print 30 percent faster. Hopefully, it will help sway the impatient toward additive manufacturing.…

NASA is Sending a Robot Geophysicist to Investigate the Interior of Mars

What lurks beneath the dusty red surface of Mars? NASA’s InSight Lander is launching next spring to go delving deeper than ever before as the first Martian geophysicist. Propulsion and leak testing 0n October 31, 2014. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin Where the Curiosity Rover was NASA’s first true robotic geologist, the InSight Lander is branching…

Superhero Roundup: Rumors and Hints For Punisher, X-Men, Jessica Jones and Dr. Strange!

X-Men: Apocalypse could add a lot more Wolverine. Get a look at the heroes of the Warcraft movie. Jessica Jones’ entire first season gets some teasing descriptions. Plus, new looks at this week’s Doctor Who and iZombie, a bizarre theory about Game of Thrones’ delay, and a new Hunger Games clip. Behold, Spoilers! Doctor Strange…

How Ta-Nehisi Coates Inspired a Book About the Hunt for Vulcan

The hunt for a hypothetical planet called Vulcan near Mercury fascinated author Tom Levenson for years. It took some tough talk from Ta-Nehisi Coates to get him to finally write a book about it. It was just a day or two, but sometime between the twelfth and eighteenth of November 1915, Albert Einstein lost his…

A Tiny Hot Wheels Drift Track on Your Desk Is a Deadline Destroyer

Using a combination of ramps and a low-friction surface, tyotoys’ Phil Foss figured out how to get Hot Wheels cars to drift earlier this year. Ever since that revelation he’s been selling his Diecast Driftpads on his site, including a new ultra-compact version that can fit on the smallest of desks. At just 18-inches across…

David Cameron Embroiled in Remembrance Scandal Over Photoshopped Image

British Prime Minister David Cameron is struggling to catch a break at the moment. Though he (probably) wasn’t actually at fault, his representatives certainly were: they uploaded a very-obviously-doctored picture of the PM to the official 10 Downing Street Facebook page, and caused more than a bit of a stir. Unfortunately for Cameron, rather than…

The New Home of the Most Exotic Bomber Ever Built Is Aerospace Heaven

The National Museum of the United States Air Force is the world’s largest military aviation museum—and it’s also home to the world’s only remaining North American XB-70 Valkyrie, which was moved to a new hangar a few days ago. Thankfully the spectacle that was the October 27th relocation of the aircraft was thoroughly photographed, so…

Scientists Built This Molecular Playground in Minecraft to Teach Kids Chemistry

Minecraft welcomes millions of young players every day and is home to all kinds of nerdery. Now, a team of chemists hope to bring the two together by helping children take their first blocky steps into the world of biochemistry inside the virtual building environment. Researchers from the University of Hull in the UK have…

India Is Training ‘Quacks’ To Do Real Medicine. Here’s Why

Aditya Bandopadhyay has treated the sick for more than twenty years. He works in the village of Salbadra, in the state of West Bengal, India. He has no degree in medicine. Bandopadhyay was trained in the rudiments of clinical medicine by a homeopath who also happened to practise modern medicine on the side. Bandopadhyay charges…

You’ll Only Be Able to Buy a Windows 7 or 8.1 PC For One More Year

Microsoft has announced that from October 31st 2016, PC manufacturers won’t be able to sell new computers sporting the ageing Windows 7 or 8.1 operating systems. Instead, they’ll have to come pre-installed with Windows 10. Microsoft usually puts such restrictions in place, but, as ZDNet points out, it typically leaves two years of breathing room…

Edward Snowden’s favored encrypted chat app, Signal, is now available for Android. Take that, NSA.

Sennheiser’s Built Probably the World’s Best Headphones—But They Cost $55,000

In the ‘90s, Sennheiser asked it engineers to make the best headphones ever and the result was 300 sets of the legendary Orpheus, each pair of which sold for $16,000. Now, Sennheiser has created an ever better-sounding successor to those luxurious cans—but they’ll set you back $55,000. The reboot of the 25-year-old audiophile’s wet dream…

Microsoft Scraps Unlimited OneDrive Storage and Cuts Its Free Offering

Microsoft has announced that it’s scrapping its unlimited OneDrive cloud storage plan which it launched last year, as well as introducing a lower cap on its free offering, too. Complaining that subscribers were using too much of the unlimited storage, there will now be a 1TB limit placed on the subscription service. Microsoft explains the…