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The Incredible Housing Value Across the U.S., Mapped

The cost of housing in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area is cripplingly expensive. But what does housing value look like across the whole of the country? This animated map wascreated by Max Galka. It breaks down the total housing value held within each country across the U.S. using data taken from…

To Cut The Hair Of Beasts

Since before even the Roman Empire, a small town in Spain has played host to an annual ritual that sees young men and women wrestle wild horses into submission, then trim the flowing hair along their mane and tail. This year, we were there. All I could see in the darkness were the shapes of…

IBM’s New Chip Is Four Times as Powerful as Today’s Best Silicon

IBM has announced that it’s designed a new kind of ultra-dense chip, which squeezes in four times as much computing power as the best silicon currently available. The ability to squeeze ever more processing power into the same small processors is a result of shrinking the fundamental transistors that make up chips. Until recently manufacturers…

Why Is This Bizarre Illustration Taking Over The Internet?

Back in 2011, illustrator Erica Glasier created this artwork for a Forbes article titled ‘The Bank of Facebook: Currency, Identity, Reputation’. For reasons that no-one can find out, that image now makes up one in every 120 images on Imgur, the internet’s leading photo repository. The phenomenon seems to have been first spotted by a…

Three Telescopes Worked to Create This One Amazing Image of the Sun

Thanks to the Solar Dynamics Observatory, humanity keeps a 24/7 unceasing watch on our friendly neighbourhood star. But to get a better appreciation of what’s going on on the Sun’s surface, SDO has to rope in some friends. The image above is a composite from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), Japan’s Hinode spacecraft, and…

iOS 9 Now Explicitly Encourages Selfies

If you needed further proof that 2015 is the Year of the Selfie, look no further than the latest beta of iOS 9, which among other things, has brought a dedicated selfie folder to your iPhone. The folder is tucked away in the regular Photos app, where it amalgamates any pictures taken with the front-facing…

If you’re a Chromecast user suffering from the terrible 21st century disease of poor Wi-Fi coverage, help is at hand: Google just released a clever $15 Ethernet adapter for Chromecast, which will let you hook it up to a wired network. Pair it with a powerline adapter, and say goodbye to crummy Wi-Fi extenders. [Google…

This Statue is Our Best Look Yet at Batman v Superman’s Armored Batman

Comic-Con has begun, and that means one thing: Oodles and oodles of new toys and merchandise to look at. First up is a new range of DC statues based on Batman v Superman—inadvertently giving us our best look yet at the heavily suited-and-booted version of Batman from the movie. Revealed by Yahoo today, the line…

Experience a Day on Pluto From Right Here on Earth

Pluto may be three billion miles away, but we can still imagine what it’d be like to stand on the icy dwarf world’s surface. That’s because it’s always Pluto Time somewhere. In fact, here on the East Coast, it’s Pluto Time this very minute. Pluto Time is a special moment of interplanetary kinship that happens…

Duncan Jones Wants To Make Two Warcraft Sequels 

Speaking at the Legendary booth during San Diego Comic-Con this evening, director Duncan Jones revealed Warcraft is about 10 VFX shots from being complete, he’s confident it’s good, and would love to come back to direct a sequel. Maybe even two. Jones also unveiled WETA-designed sculptures of several main characters in the Warcraft film, as…

Get Creeped Out By These Crimson Peak Mondo Posters

Who isn’t excited for Guillermo Del Toro’s return to horror Crimson Peak? The team at Mondo is and they just revealed three brand new posters that’ll be available at San Diego Comic-Con. Two are by artist Daniel Danger and the other is by Guy Davis. They’ll exclusively be available at the Mondo booth, #835, at…

Hulk Meets Hulkbuster in Awesome LEGO Display

You saw the Tweet earlier, now see these big fellas in action! Sorta. This giant LEGO Avengers sculpture is attracting quite a lot of onlookers on the San Diego Comic-Con floor.

It’s Comic-Con Time! Here’s How to Follow Us the Whole Weekend.

Comic-Con … I can’t believe I’m still at Comic-Con. This year’s show starts tonight with a preview of all the goodies on the floor, and goes through Sunday. We’ll be here, bringing you news, reviews and videos of all the sights and sounds from this nuclear explosion of pop culture geekery. Here’s how to find…

Behold Martin Freeman’s Glorious Sherlock Moustache

Shown: Martin Freeman and his awe-inspiring moustache, who will combine to reprise the role of Dr. Watson in the upcoming Sherlock Christmas special, which will be at least partially set in the London of the late 1800s. Also pictured: An unidentified gentleman, presumably of no importance. [Via Metro] Contact the author at [email protected].

What Would An Actual “Cyber Apocalypse” Look Like?

The media, social media and some in the U.S. legislative branch went wild speculating about the tech failures that plagued the New York Stock Exchange, The Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines today. The confluence of events felt a little like a disaster movie, if you were watching from a Twitter seat. But how would…

Inside the small shop that makes fantastic headphones the old school way

For such a quaint shop that hasn’t advertised their headphones since 1964, Grado Headphones is a total powerhouse. Hypebeast took a tour to find out the story behind Grado and it’s fascinating to see how these old school makers of headphones compete with the excessive beaten industry of today. It’s also great to find out…

You Can Now Tweet From Atop Mt. Fuji Using Its New Free WiFi

Getting on the Internet from your phone can still be next to impossible on New York subways, but now, even Mt. Fuji offers free wifi, up to 12,000 feet above sea level. Starting Friday, Japan’s iconic peak will give climbers wifi access at eight hotspots on the mountain, including three cottages on the summit, Asahi…

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Best Look Yet at the Heroes of BvS and Batman’s Anti-Superman Armor  

The suits for the heroes of Batman V. Superman are on display at the San Diego Comic-Con, and this time, WB has brought the power armor Batman will use to take on Superman along with them. Check ‘em out! I gotta say, seeing the power armor in the light like this, I really dig it.…

I Can’t Wait for This Doc on Drug-Guzzling Antivirus Mogul John McAfee 

Tech mogul and legit crazy person John McAfee is the subject of an upcoming six-part documentary by Spike TV, and I cannot wait. The series will be filmed this summer, and centers on interviews with the disgraced drug connoisseurand former anti-virus tech magnate, who was once the subject of a manhunt on suspicion of murdering…