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North Korea Made Its Own Time Zone to Tell Japan to Fuck Off

North Korea is going rogue again. On August 15, the DPRK will institute a one-time-only, death-to-imperialists version of “Spring Ahead,” setting the country’s time zone back by a half hour. The new GMT +8.30 time zone will be called “Pyongyang Time.” The impetus for the change, like most things the North Korean government does, is…

Thermos’ New Smart Bottle Tells You When Your Water’s Warm and Gross

There’s no shortage of smart water bottles on crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. But when a brand like Thermos enters the game with a new smart lid for its bottles that tracks hydration and even monitors the temperature of your water, you better pay attention. Thermos’ expertise is safely storing and preserving foods and…

Holy Cow: Micro Machines Are Returning For The Force Awakens

If you were growing up in the ‘90s and riding the new wave of Star Wars mania, then one of the stand out toys to accompany the films were Micro Machines, awesome miniature vehicles and playsets to use them in. Micro Machines had vanished by the mid 2000s, but they’re back for The Force Awakens—and…

The 10 Famous Scientists You Would Most Want on Your Side in a Bar Brawl

It’s two in the morning, you’re in a dive bar, and shit, as they say, is about to go down. You needn’t turn to action heroes to find a group that will help you take out the trash. The sciences offer a few heavy hitters. Here are ten scientists you’d want with you in a…

Write and Draw on Web Pages With Microsoft Edge

Windows 10 brings with it a brand new browser called Microsoft Edge (though Internet Explorer is still hanging around like an awkward kid in the background). Here’s how to get started with one of its most interesting features—annotating websites. These digital ink annotations are officially known as “web notes” and they make most sense when…

These Drone Videos Make Extreme Sports Look Even More Extreme

We’re all fans of jaw-dropping movies filmed by drones, but throw jet skis and dirt bikes into the mix and you’ve got sports footage that makes ESPN look like camcorder home videos. SportsByDrone.com wrangles aerial films of different athletic pursuits. Drones really add scope and scenery we can’t capture otherwise. Here’s a sampler platter of…

NFL Replays Are Going To Be Packed With Juicy Player Data This Year

This season, every NFL player will wear a motion tracking chip—and we’re now getting a look at how the data these chips collect will be shown to fans in instant replays. This is the beginning of something beautiful. Earlier this year we learned that the NFL was teaming up with a company called Zebra to…

This Is the Closest Doctor Who Will Get to a Paternoster Gang Spinoff

Fans of Doctor Who’s Victorian-era “Paternoster Gang”—Silurian and human couple Madame Vastra and Jenny, alongside their Sontaran butler Strax—have been clamoring for a spinoff since they first appeared. While that may not happen on TV, a new audio drama is the closest thing you’ll get to one anytime soon. …that is, if you don’t mind…

This Luxurious Yarn Is Made From Bones, Ligaments and Tendons

This yarn is soft, cozy and wool-like—maybe you’d even be forgiven for confusing it with merino or cashmere. But, surprisingly, it’s made from parts of animals that are left over when they’re slaughtered and butchered, like skin, bones and tendons. In fact, as Wired reports, the yarns have been spun by researchers at the Functional…

It’s Our Party and We’ll GIF If We Want to

Get it together, GIFs. There’s only a little summer left, in which for us to party. How are you and your gang of ragtag but lovable GIFs wrapping up the end of the season? Tell us what all you’ve got going on using the willfully obtuse, yet somehow still lexically complete, language of the GIF.

Amazon’s New Car Show Has a Rumored Budget of $250m

Rumours surrounding the Top Gear rival being assembled by Amazon suggest it may end up being one of the most expensive TV shows in history, with an apparent budget of $250m being handed to the production team to make 36 episodes. The news comes via an interview producer Andy Wilman gave to Broadcast, a trade…

Birds Figured Out How to Cure Malaria a Long Time Ago

Over the years, different groups of humans have learned how to prevent or treat malaria by using quinine. It seems, though, that none of us are as advanced as sparrows, which have been regularly using quinine to treat themselves during malaria outbreaks for thousands of years. Quinine is an alkaloid, one of a wide variety…

There’s a Firefox Exploit in the Wild—You Should Update Right Now

Mozilla has published a blog post explaining that a Firefox exploit is running in the wild that can search for and upload files from your computer—but you can install and update to solve the problem right now. Mozilla expalins that the vulnerability “comes from the interaction of the mechanism that enforces JavaScript context separation (the…

A Live-Action X-Men TV Show Is In The Works!

Doctor Strange will be dark and psychedelic, according to its Director of Photography. Sleepy Hollow will try to bring the focus back on Abbie and Ichabod this season. Plus, Clark Gregg teases Coulson’s prosthetic hand on SHIELD, and the new Nightmare on Elm Street reboot gets a writer. So many spoilers! Doctor Strange Director of…

Tumblr user Vermin Disciple bought a used copy of Diane Duane’s Star Trek novel The Romulan Way, only to discover that the previous owner had done a bit of censorship. The results areamazing.

This App Will Tell You If Your Phone Has the ‘Stagefright’ Bug

Worried about the security of your Android? You probably should be. But the guys that discovered the Stagefright vulnerability have now released an app that that will tell you if your phone is at risk. While Google has already created a fix—with some fanfare—currently only Nexus devices have been updated. If you use any other…

New Study Reveals Just How Sick Families With Kids Get

If you have kids, you invariably get sick more often—but how often, exactly? A new study by scientists at the University of Utah School of Medicine reveals that big families have viral infections for an amazing 87 percent of the year. The Utah Better Identification of Germs-Longitudinal Viral Epidemiology study — or BIG LoVE to…

New Software Lets You See the World Through Animal Eyes

If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to see the world as a lizzard or a bumble bee or some other animal, you’re in luck: a new peice of open access software allows you to see how other creatures see the world. Humans can only see the visible spectrum, but many animals see…

It’s “Cats In Space” Week!

The blog WTF Bad Science Fiction Covers has declared Cats in Space Week, and these are just a few examples of the riches awaiting you over there. Although nothing can be better than the cat sitting in a space command chair that has a hole for its tail. Awww.

Award-Winning Designer Picks Some of Science Fiction’s Best Book Covers

Australian book cover designer WH Chong has won numerous awards for his book designs. And speaking to Spook Magazine, he singled out some of his favorite book cover designs for classic science fiction. (Which also happen to be for some of the best books ever written.) About the book cover above, Chong writes: There is…