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Amazon Just Banned the Sale of Google Chromecast and Apple TV

When competition heats up, you can expect somebody to get burned. Today, Amazon absolutely scorched Google and Apple by banning the two companies’ streaming TV products from its marketplace. Amazon says it’s “to avoid customer confusion.” Third party sellers just received an email from Amazon with orders to clear out their Google Chromecast and Apple…

What Killed the Dinosaurs Was More Devastating Than an Asteroid

For nearly 40 years, paleontologists have argued over what really killed the dinosaurs. Was it an massive asteroid impact, or a spate of volcanic eruptions? Or what if a powerful impact ignited volcanoes, walloping Earth’s biosphere with a deadly 1-2 punch? That double-whammy scenario has been around for a while, but new evidence to support…

WTF, HBO? Leaked Westworld Consent Form Makes Game of Thrones Look Like The Brady Bunch

HBO has received a lot of criticism for the insane sexual violence in Game of Thrones, especially the latest season. But the network seems determined to keep pushing the porn-envelope further, judging by a casting call that makes its new series Westworld look like porn with human furniture. The network is backpedaling furiously, but still—WTF?…

Playing Scrabble Changes the Way You Use Your Brain

Experienced Scrabble players know there’s more to the game than an expansive vocabulary. An effective player should also be able to quickly find words in a jumble of letters. Developing this skill, reports a team of Canadian researchers, will not only improve your game, it will change the way you use your brain. In Scrabble,…

The Future Will Be Full of Mushroom Batteries

The portabello mushroom: Great with grilled onions and ketchup, sure, but this fungus can do a lot more than console vegetarians at barbecues. In the future, the humble portabello mushroom might power everything from our smartphones to our cars. The anodes in the lithium ion batteries that charge our devices are made of graphite, a…

A tense action scene from the movie Everest with no SFX added is hilariously great

In a hilarious mix up, the movie studio behind Everest sent the BBC this clip of the movie that had no sound effects added. Which is really, really great for us because it is oh so goofy to see an impossibly tense scene of the movie with all the VFX added and everything looking right…

Remember When Carly Fiorina Made a Terrible Deal With Steve Jobs and Buried HP Even Deeper in Shit?

In American politics, there’s a formula for anecdotes that win over voters. Poor grandpas and religious awakenings alway play well, and so does invoking the name of capitalist saint Steve Jobs. GOP presidential candidate and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina mentioned Jobsduring the second Republican primary debate last month. Fiorina relayed an anecdote about how…

This Crazy Japanese Film Turns a Deadly Alien Invasion Into a Happy, Hilarious Romp

In recent memory, I can’t think of a more bonkers premise for a movie than the Japanese film Assassination Classroom. Which proves I’m a little out of the loop. The film had its U.S. debut at Fantastic Fest, but is based on a mega-popular manga—which was then adapted to an equally popular anime series. So…

Should You Feel Bad For Liking Crappy Superhero Movies?

Greetings, my mail minions! This week we’re trying to figure out if the superhero movie genre could survive without nerds, a possible misstep in the Agents of SHIELD premiere, and what you absolutely need to know before seeing The Force Awakens. (Answer: Nothing.) Shall we? Mass Effect Ralphie: Dear Mr. Postman: I am 67 years…

Sexual Attraction Varies from Person to Person More Than We Realized

People who use dating app Tinder judge possible hookups just by looking at faces, making instant decisions based on attractiveness. But apparently those decisions aren’t based on some evolutionary instinct — they come from personal experiences. Our ability to recognize human faces seems to be baked into our genetic code. But our perception of beauty?…

LG’s V10 Smartphone Is One Big Handful of Weird, But I Kind Of Love It

How do you make a smartphone different? Over the past decade, smartphones have evolved so that there’s little room for surprise anymore. Maybe a processor jump here, and weird camera set up there. But for the most part, smartphones across the board can feel painfully similar. But then there’s LG’s new V10. Despite the strange…

The LG Watch Urbane 2 Is Android Wear’s First LTE Smartwatch, And It’s Big As Hell

LG has hit the ground sprinting when it come to smartwatches. One of the first out the door with the original G Watch, followed by the G Watch R, and the Watch Urbane this spring. Now, they’ve got yet another smartwatch to sell—and this one is an Android Wear first. The LG Watch Urban Second…

Bask in the Glory of Charon, Pluto’s Largest Moon

You didn’t have anything you wanted to do today, right? Good. It’s time for an even more detailed look at Charon, Pluto’s outrageously enormous moon with bizarrely complicated geology. Charon is Pluto’s largest moon, and the largest moon with respect to its parent planet in the entire solar system. At just over 10% the mass…

Donald Trump Is Running for President of Our Dystopian Future

It’s all well and good to make fun of Donald Trump’s presidential run, but it turns out that you can put his words in the mouths of the classiest fictional dictators, and it really works. Edited by: Chris Person Contact the author at [email protected].

Why You Should Be Incredibly Excited To Get More Black Mirror

Last week, Netflix revealed that Black Mirror, the dystopic British anthology series that takes a dark look at the future of technology, was coming to the streaming service with a whole new batch of episodes. We’re huge fans of the series already—but if you’re not, here’s just a few reasons why you should be. It’s…

Beautiful video shows black and white imagery in stunning color

It sounds backwards but this video is completely in black and white but it was shot in color. As in, everything that you see in the video is actually black and white in real life and was captured to express the real colors in the colorless colors. And it works! Black and white ‘in color’…

Skype Translator is out of beta and headed to the Skype Windows desktop app. The tool supports six languages outloud as well as 50 messaging languages] We tried the service and found it promising, but not quite the Babel Fish of our hearts’ desire. No word on when the service rolls out to other platforms…

NASA Loves Sending Spacecraft Into Wild Tumbles in This Spin Tunnel

September 11, 1959: The Mercury Capsule dropped in free-flight within Langley’s Spin Tunnel so researchers could observe how it gyrated and tumbled during descent. The Spin Tunnel remains in use today to study aerodynamics during unconventional maneuvers. NASA’s Langley Research Center is home to the Spin Tunnel, a chamber designed to simulate descent conditions to…

There’s Finally an All-Electric Version of the GMC Sierra Denali—For Kids

One of the last horizons for electric cars are work horse vehicles like pickup trucks that would suck a battery dry in no time. There is demand, though, which is why GMC is tip-toeing into the market with an all-electric version of the Sierra Denali that’s only spacious enough to seat a couple of three-year-olds.…

The Most Epic Image of This Week’s Super Blood Moon Eclipse

What could be more awe-inspiring than a super blood moon eclipse? Oh, I dunno, how about a super blood moon eclipse over a lightning storm? That’s the jaw-dropping scene photographer Jose Antonio Hervás managed to capture this past Sunday over Ibiza, an island off southeastern Spain. The image above was digitally constructed from over 200…