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What Was the Huge Flash of Light Over the Southeast U.S. Last Night?

Something lit up the sky over a whole swath of the lower Eastern states last night, catching eyes all the way from Florida up through West Virginia. So what are we looking at here? A meteor, perhaps, or a fireball? Nope, it’s actually something a lot stranger. NASA finished up the analysis of this footage…

io9 Ria Misra

The hypnotic cinema of turning rice into sake

Making sake typically looks like a beautiful ancient art, but the way this video is cut and edited, it looks like a chase scene from a movie or an intense spazzmastic sequence from a music video. It’s addicting, hypnotic and completely cinematic. Just watch rice turn into delicious sake in this stunning black and white…

Sploid Casey Chan

Marvel Just Revealed Its Entire “All-New, All-Different” Comic Universe

Whoa. We’ve been getting dribs and drabs of reveals for Marvel’s upcoming universal reboot over the past week, but it looks like the jackpot has just hit: Comics retailers across the world have received previews for 45(!) of Marvel’s new series, and it sounds like it’s a whole lot of crazy. The previews book leaked…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Sorry, Don’t Expect STD-Sensing Color Condoms Anytime Soon

When the TeenTech Awards announced their 2015 winners last week, news outlets far and wide swooned over the concept of color-changing condoms that detected STDs proposed by three teenaged students. The idea is brilliant as it is bizarre—but don’t expect to see these in stores anytime soon. This should not come as a surprise: The…

Tech News Diane Kelly

All RC Toys Should Wirelessly Charge While Parked Like This Race Car

If you think just dropping your phone on a desk and having it start automatically charging is neat, imagine the day when electric cars can wirelessly charge by just driving down the road. The technology exists, it’s just better suited to RC cars right now, as Qualcomm demonstrates. The company has long worked to make…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Apple’s Beats 1 Radio Just Started Its Never-Ending Transmission

This morning saw the launch of iOS 8.4, and with it Apple Music. And even if you’re not a Taylor Swift fan, there’s still some joy to be had in the world: the Beats 1 radio station, DJed by Zane Lowe and free for everyone with an Apple ID, started its broadcast at 12PM Eastern.…

Tech News Chris Mills

Hands-On With Apple’s OS X El Capitan: Tiny Tweaks Make a Big Difference

After the visual overhaul Apple gave to Yosemite, it’s perhaps no surprise that this year’s desktop and laptop refresh is altogether more muted. This is a step rather than a leap forward, but there are still a lot of little improvements that are worth the upgrade. I’ve been working with OS X El Capitan for…

Tech News David Nield

Ted Cruz Watched the Supreme Court Get an Internet Porn Lesson

“I was standing behind the chief justice of the United States and sitting right next to him was the court’s first female justice, Sandra Day O’Connor. We were in front of a large computer screen gazing at explicit, hard-core pornography.” Damn! Bow chicka-wow-wow! In his new memoir A Time for Truth, excerpted by Politico, GOP…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Are These “Double-Muscled” Pigs the Future of Meat?

By editing a single gene, researchers from South Korea and China have engineered pigs that produce about twice the amount of muscle as normal pigs. The goal is to produce leaner meat and at higher yields, but early results show it could be a long time before this jacked-up pork appears on your dinner plate.…

io9 George Dvorsky

These Two Great ’80s Toy Lines Are Even Better When Combined

The folks at Super7 have a soft spot for all the awesome-at-the-time toys that made the ‘80s so great. That’s why they teamed up with Funko for that Jaws play set, and why they’ve mashed up He-Man and M.U.S.C.L.E. figures for these San Diego Comic-Con exclusive sets. If you’re not familiar with the M.U.S.C.L.E. line,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Apple Music Is Here—Go Try It Now

Today, Apple is pushing out the latest update to iOS, and in this 8.4 version iPhones users will get some brand new Apple bloat Apple features, chief among them being the long-time-coming Apple Music streaming service. Yep. This is the Beats-powered, star-studded, Taylor Swift-yielding music service we’ve all been waiting for. It’s the supposed Spotify…

Tech News Darren Orf

Vampire Hunter D Starts Hunting Vampires Again in a New Animated Series

Before Alucard was hunting his vampiric kin on Hellsing there was Vampire Hunter D. A cult favorite among those people who knew the word “anime” back in the ‘80s, D spawned a sequel movie titled Bloodlust in 2000, and now will star in a new animated series! But note I said “animated” and not “anime.”…

Television Rob Bricken

Video: A small printing shop is such a magnificent place

Because the world we live in is now filled with pixels—on our phones, our tablets, our computers, our watches—it’s easy to forget how simply wonderful the idea of a printing press shop making words come to live could be. Here’s a look behind the Printext, a printing shop in Australia, works. It’s a beautiful endeavor.…

Sploid Casey Chan

Photographers Are Shooting The Moon With This Camera’s Insane Zoom

Trust us, you really don’t need a camera with a built-in telescope. But in the right hands, the insane 83x optical zoom on the new Nikon P900 is mindblowing. Let’s take a look at a few examples, shall we? The Moon When was the last time you took a trip to space just by looking…

Space & Spaceflight Sean Hollister

This Is What the New Ghostbusters Will Wear

Director Paul Feig is getting understandably excited about the release of Ghostbusters 3. Due to hit theaters July 22, 2016, the long-awaited follow up to the 80s classic will star Kristin Wiig and an all-star, all-female cast. And based on Feig’s recent tweets, this is what they’ll wear. First, you’ve got those jumpsuits. You know,…

Movies Adam Clark Estes

Which Book Do You Read the Most Often?

Is it a reference book? A work of fiction? Tell us about the book you’re rapidly wearing out, and why you keep going back to it. Maybe it’s something you use for work or a hobby. Or maybe it’s just a book that you love to re-read. Whatever it is, tell us about it, how…

Books & Comics Ria Misra

James Cameron’s Plan to Fix Solar Panels

When Avatar came out, James Cameron boasted that it would be the first solar-powered movie franchise in history. Now the director, deep-sea explorer, NASA advisor, and all around badass has turned his attention to designing cinematic-quality solar panels for the rest of us. Cameron himself was an early adopter of solar tech: Besides switching to…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Wheels on Your Car Could One Day Recharge It As They Roll

Regenerative braking systems are already used in electric cars to help recapture energy that’s wasted while the vehicle is stopping. But researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have also found a way to generate power while a vehicle is actually driving. The gold foil you see wrapped around this remote control Jeep’s back tires is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hot Toys’ Latest Toy is the Ultimate “Old Arnold Schwarzenegger” Figure

It feels like it’s easy to forget that Hot Toys makes figures for things that aren’t Marvel or Star Wars, but this latest reveal is an excellent reminder—and also means NECA’s own “Old Man Arnie” figure has to step down from is position as the ultimate plastic Schwarzenegger. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-terminator-genisys-figure-is-basically-old-arno-1696246753 Yes, it looks like Hot Toys…

Tech News James Whitbrook

How One of My Favorite Childhood Literary Heroines Poisoned a Child

Anne of Green Gables is a children’s classic and deservedly so. In one dramatic scene its heroine, Anne Shirley, uses ipecac to save a dying child. Here’s what ipecac would actually have done, and why it fell out of favor. Anne Shirley, the orphan girl taken in by a couple of curmudgeonly old siblings, has…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What Was the Huge Flash of Light Over the Southeast U.S. Last Night?

The hypnotic cinema of turning rice into sake

Marvel Just Revealed Its Entire “All-New, All-Different” Comic Universe

Sorry, Don’t Expect STD-Sensing Color Condoms Anytime Soon

All RC Toys Should Wirelessly Charge While Parked Like This Race Car

Apple’s Beats 1 Radio Just Started Its Never-Ending Transmission

Hands-On With Apple’s OS X El Capitan: Tiny Tweaks Make a Big Difference

Ted Cruz Watched the Supreme Court Get an Internet Porn Lesson

Are These “Double-Muscled” Pigs the Future of Meat?

These Two Great ’80s Toy Lines Are Even Better When Combined

Apple Music Is Here—Go Try It Now

Vampire Hunter D Starts Hunting Vampires Again in a New Animated Series

Video: A small printing shop is such a magnificent place

Photographers Are Shooting The Moon With This Camera’s Insane Zoom

This Is What the New Ghostbusters Will Wear

Which Book Do You Read the Most Often?

James Cameron’s Plan to Fix Solar Panels

The Wheels on Your Car Could One Day Recharge It As They Roll

Hot Toys’ Latest Toy is the Ultimate “Old Arnold Schwarzenegger” Figure

How One of My Favorite Childhood Literary Heroines Poisoned a Child

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