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How Did They Squeeze a Camera Into This Tiny RC Helicopter?

We’ve been flying tiny helicopters around our living rooms for years now, but Silverlit, the company who created the world’s smallest flying toy, has somehow found a way to squeeze a video camera into its miniature RC choppers now. The NanoFalcon DigiCam features a double-rotor design to keep it from spinning out of control while…

First Plot Details For The All-Female Ghostbusters Reboot!

Jessica Chastain discusses some changes from the original book for The Martian. There’s already going to be sequel to The Last Witch Hunter. Dan Aykroyd talks about the need for female Ghostbusters. Plus, Rob Thomas talks up iZombie season 2 as the “Season of Dads”, and new Ant-Man footage. Spoilers Get! The Martian Matt Damon…

This Could Be Best Way Yet of Turning Your iPhone Into a Kickass Camera

Product designers have been trying to find a great way of combining the power of your smartphone with an attachable souped-up camera. So far, designs have been awkward and less than user-friendly. DxO thinks it has a better solution with the new One camera. The One looks like an action cam in size and shape.…

HP Fixed Everything Wrong With Its Budget-Friendly Detachable Notebook

It’s hard to build a cheap two-in-one PC that doesn’t have something fundamentally wrong with it. Believe us, we’ve looked—lower end convertibles usually have bad screens, flimsy hinges or sell essential accessories separately. Then something like the new 10-inch HP Pavilion x2 comes along. It’s small, costs only $300 and, at first blush, seems to…

Reddit is to start encrypting all of its traffic using HTTPS by the end of the month.

The Blue Angels Look Totally Suicidal in this Photo

As the Blue Angels rip through the sky above the Ocean City Air Show in their F/A-18 Hornets, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were a single aircraft. They’re just so. Amazingly. Close. It’s partly a trick of the angle, of course, the perspective fooling our brains into thinking that they’re sitting atop each other.…

Skype’s real-time translator now understands French and German—along with the existing English, Italian, Mandarin and Spanish.

Scientists Image a Shock Wave Pulsing Through Diamond for First Time

Even the hardest of materials react to immense pressures. In this image, x-ray imaging reveals how a laser-generated shock wave propagates through a piece of diamond. The shock wave was created in the three-centimeter piece of diamond, which was just 0.3 millimeters thick, by a high-intensity laser pulse. It provided 12 trillion watts of power…

What is the most popular work fanfic on Archive of Our Own? Tumblr user Touka-Tokyo used the site’s “kudos” system — basically a “like” — it’s the masterpiece of hardcore Guardians of the Galaxy erotica story “I Am Groot” by sherlocksmyth. Sometimes the simplest jokes really are the best.

The BBC Is Testing Mind-Controlled iPlayer

The BBC is testing a version of the iPlayer that can be controlled WITH YOUR MIND. Seriously. In a blog post, the BBC’s Cyrus Saihan explains how the corporation has teamed up with a user-experience company called This Place to create the experimental application. The way it works is by using an EEG-brainwave reading headset,…

Send This List of Alternative Internet Acronyms to Clueless Friends

Go on, it’ll be funny. (Full version, created by Doghouse Diaries, below.) [Doghouse Diaries]

Experience the Jurassic World Ride Narrated By a Jimmy Fallon Cameo

In Jurassic World, the kids Zach and Gray take a ride on the Gyrosphere, which lets them drive through dinosaur habitats at their leisure. The only downside is that the wondrous technology that allows them to do this is explained to them by Jimmy Fallon. As someone who has gone on Universal Studios a lot,…

Sprint Halts Data Throttling Thanks to New Net Neutrality Rules

With the Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules in place, Sprint is already feeling the effects: it’s no longer throttling the speeds of its wireless internet connections. The carrier has been limiting the speeds of data connections for years now, reducing the flow of data for the heaviest users when its networks were particularly…

Who Will Really Benefit From the Internet Space Race?

In the film Elysium, the ultra-rich have left an apocalyptic Earth ravaged by global warming and overpopulation. Their utopian colony orbits high above Earth which festers below. Science fiction, but Silicon Valley techno-utopians also dream of rising above the planet’s problems. The Seasteading Institute, for example, seeks to create floating cities far enough from land…

The First Creepy Concept Art From Starz’s American Gods

We only just got word that Starz had officially greenlit and adaption of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods with Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) running the show. And from the first art, tweeted by Fuller, it certainly seems like he’s bringing his trademark sense of style to the project. Here’s the tweet from Fuller, naming Jim Carson as…

Sony’s Robotic Dogs Are Dying A Slow And Heartbreaking Death

Back in 1999, Sony released a robotic dog called Aibo, a canine companion that didn’t crap everywhere and only ate electricity. It sold pretty well — 150,000 units, despite the $2,000 price tag. Some owners became remarkably attached, which makes it even more sad that Sony has stopped repairing Aibo. Slowly but surely, they’re all…

Titan’s Lakes Captured In All Their Methane-Filled Glory

Despite the obvious similarities, this isn’t another satellite shot showing the Droughtpocalypse engulfing California. Instead, it’s a radar scan of methane-filled lakes on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The images were taken by the international Cassini mission, as part of a study into what forms depressions on Titan. Although scientists have a handle on why the…

Matthew Vaughn Hopes to Revitalize Kick-Ass With a Hit Girl Prequel

Matthew Vaughn isn’t done with the characters of Kick-Ass, not by a long shot. He’s not just working on another sequel, but also on a prequel. A Hit Girl and Big Daddy prequel that he hopes will smooth over any lingering bad taste Kick-Ass 2 left. Speaking to Yahoo!, Vaughn said gave his plan for…

Canon G3X: My Zoom is Longer Than Your Zoom

Back in February, Canon teased the development of a new premium superzoom camera aimed at enthusiasts. They have finally taken the lid off completely with the announcement of the Powershot G3X. It looks neat, but may lack some important features of its competitors. The G3X, which will cost $1000 when it ships in July, is…

A Russian Official Wants To Investigate The Apollo Missions

Calling for ‘international investigations’ into the ‘murky’ details surrounding the Apollo Moon missions is normally the preserve of 4chan and tinfoil hat-wearers. But now, you can add Russian Investigative Commission spokesperson Vladimir Markin to that illustrious list. Markin penned a column for the Izvestia newspaper, arguing that U.S. officials have made themselves the ‘supreme arbiters…