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Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk’s Con Man Satirizes Comic-Con at Comic-Con

Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk’s Con Man, the first webseries to pack Hall H, premiered this hilarious trailer of the funnier side of con life to a room full of con goers. It was also host to a packed panel of science fiction faces: Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica), Seth Green, Alison Haislip, Nolan North, Casper…

The Martian Surface is Looking Pretty Rad in Rainbow 

Everybody’s been waving their rainbow flag recently, so it was only a matter of time before Mars got in on the fun. Admittedly, this image was painted in rainbow colors to highlight elevation changes. But I’d like to think that the progressive Martian societies of the future would agree with the color scheme. The images…

Tell Us Your Nightmare Stories of The Apple Genius Bar

We want to hear from both sides of the bar. We know it’s not easy to work at an Apple Store, facing an endless line of customers, some of whom act hugely entitled. The infamous “Lady Goes Crazy At An Apple Store” video is the third autofill result if you start typing “woman screaming” into…

WikiLeaks Published a Searchable Directory of Hacking Team’s Emails

Want dirt on one of the dirtiest tech companies ever? WikiLeaks published a searchable database of over a million leaked emails from Hacking Team, the nefarious Italian spyware company that was massively hacked this week. There’s all sorts of messed up information in this emails, even aside from confirmation that Hacking Team actively worked as…

Marvel Is Putting Naked Superhero Bodies in ESPN Magazine‘s Body Issue

Huh. Every year, ESPN magazine releases a special “Body Issue”, celebrating the peak physical form of the world’s finest athletes with oodles of nude and semi-nude pictures. This year’s issue will get a special helping hand from some of Marvel’s mightiest men and women. The 2015 Body Issue will come with a special insert titled…

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A recent study found that bears protect their bones from degrading during hibernation by suppressing the release of calcium from bones into the blood. “This could be the basis for a new therapy for astronauts, or people with a bone-related chronic illness,” study co-author Meghan McGee-Lawrence told The Guardian. Contact the author at [email protected].

Watching a person write calligraphy is basically therapy

This whole short, Ink by Ryan Couldrey, focuses on Tanja Tiziana and the journey of rediscovering the long lost (okay, not quite long lost but soon/almost/eventually) art of calligraphy and just handwriting in general. Though dripping in a little too much ink at times, it’s always so nice to see someone write. The effect—hearing the…

Streamline the System Preferences Dialog in Mac OS X

The System Preferences dialog controls just about everything on your Mac OS X machine, from trackpad behavior to screen timeout delay. If you’ve never really delved into the menus though, you might not realize you can hide the settings you don’t regularly use, making it easier to find the ones you do. Launch the System…

An R2-D2 Bluetooth Speaker Is Obviously the Best Bluetooth Speaker

Does it really matter how this R2-D2 dome Bluetooth speaker sounds? Or how good its battery life is, or how easy it is to pair with your mobile device? If you’re a diehard Star Wars fan you’ve already decided this is the wireless speaker for you, so head on over to ThinkGeek to pre-order one.…

The Statue from the End of Avengers: Age of Ultron Is Real and Gorgeous

During the end credits of Age of Ultron, you may have noticed a giant statue of the Avengers fighting Ultron’s hordes (well, we hope you did, because it was the only thing shown then). But it turns this statue wasn’t just CG! It’s real, it’s beautiful, it’s at Comic-Con, and you can check it out…

These Toads Grow Spiked Mustaches and Use Them to Duel

Male Emei mustache toads usher in the mating season with a new look. They grow a long ridge of spines along their mouths, and use those spines to slash the hell out of other males. Learn about the fine art of mustache dueling. Leptobrachium boringii are, for most of the year, gentle souls. They spend…

Peter Capaldi: “The Doctor Is Not a Guy”

Steven Moffat, Michelle Gomez, Jenna Coleman, and Peter Capaldi—in his first ever Comic-Con—packed Hall H to talk the aftermath of season eight and to preview what’s ahead for the Doctor, Clara, and Missy in season nine. But Capaldi also explained what makes the Doctor different from human characters. “We sort of live in a world…

Chromebook Flip: The $280 Google Laptop You Didn’t Know You Wanted

Remember when cheap laptops were crap? Not anymore—because you can buy this amazing new transforming Asus Chromebook for just $280. Oh, and did I mention it’s the first Chromebook that doubles as a tablet? What Is It? The Asus Chromebook Flip C100 is a Chromebook, which means it’s a laptop with a glorified web browser…

We Don’t Need This

The workplace messaging platform Slack has prided itself on sassy design—a cute logo that animate into a bursts of colors as it loads, a screen that reshuffles like a deck of cards when you change teams. Fine. But now, Slack is outdoing itself, and emojifying the crap out of its chat interface. We don’t need…

Ben Affleck Will Direct The Batman Movie, and Geoff Johns Will Write It

It’s been rumored for a while, but now Warner Bros. has finally managed to roll a big enough wheelbarrow full of cash convinced Oscar-winning director Ben Affleck to direct and star in the first new stand-alone Batman movie of the new DC cinematic universe, from a script by DC Comics’ Geoff Johns. Johns is of…

The wreck of a 13th century Mongolian ship that sunk during a failed invasion of Japan has been found. It’s one of two confirmed ships that date to invasions in 1274 and 1281 when armadas of over 4,000 ships were sent by Kublai Khan to conquer the Yuan Dynasty in Japan. Both invasions were thwarted…

Why I Suddenly Care About Blackberry

For the last month or so, I’ve been reading lots of stories about a Blackberry smartphone running Android. Today, a Blackberry/Android partnership seems even more certain. Blackberry has seen better days, so we can expect a last-ditch effort. What I didn’t expect is having so many feels about it. Like many before me, I wrote…

There Are 12 Versions of Doctor Who To Play With in Lego Dimensions

We’ve known for a while that Lego Dimensions will include levels based on the seemingly never-ending British series Doctor Who. But at San Diego Comic-Con, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment revealed that every time the Doctor is defeated in the game, he’ll actually re-spawn as one of the 12 other versions. The game will feature actual…

The Largest Government Hack Ever Is Way Bigger Than We Thought

When the Office of Personnel Management began investigating a data breach, it was already a dire situation, with 4.2 million federal workers’ information stolen. Then things got worse. And worse. During the investigation of the hack, the OPM found a second theft, the existence of which was first reported back in June. But today, we…