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Exclusive Featurette: Why “You Can’t Do A Terminator Without Arnold”

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been playing the Terminator for over 30 years now. But he’s clearly still having fun with the role. Just check out our exclusive featurette on the making of Terminator Genisys — including a collection of the T-800’s craziest moments in this movie. Watch for yourself: This is the latest in a series…

Of Course Comcast Is Interested In Buying T-Mobile

Can this list get any longer? The number of eligible suitors—including AT&T, Sprint, and foreign telecoms—have all expressed interest in acquiring T-Mobile, the company that prides itself on being the rebellious teenager of the phone carrier world. Now only weeks after a rumor of a Dish Network merger, Comcast has come knocking. According to a…

The World’s Thinnest 4 TB External Drive Doesn’t Need Extra Power

Chances are if you’ve opted for an ultra-portable laptop, you’ve made a few compromises when it comes to on-board storage. So an external hard drive for archiving your mountains of media is a must, and Samsung’s now squeezed four terabytes of storage inside a housing that matches your computer’s svelte dimensions. It’s not the first…

Air Force Will Cut Drone Flights Because Operators Are Too Stressed Out

The Air Force is planning to cut back its drone flights from 65 a day to 60 a day because drone operators are “burning out,” reports the The New York Times. The key problem is that the Air Force is having trouble retaining its drone operators. According to the Times “a significant number” of the…

What’s The Best Thing A Book Ever Taught You How To Do?

Gather round, cookbook aficionados! Come forth, DIY home improvers! Hide yourselves no longer, quilting manual collectors! Today, we speak unto you. Sure, stories are great, but there’s also plenty of great books out there who have just one simple goal: To teach you something. We want to know about the things you learned how to…

Video proof that the view from above is always better

Though Earth and humans and nature and buildings look great down here, things almost always look more epic and beautiful and just plain better from above. Here is a quick cut of videos from Dissolve that shows off what the birds can see, what the drones can shoot and what things look like from above.…

This Massive Solar Farm Shows That Some Things Can Grow In The Desert

China began construction on its first large-scale solar power station in August 2009. These striking before-and-after satellite images show the extent to which this solar farm has expanded in the Gobi Desert over the course of that time. These solar farms are located on the outskirts of Dunhuang in northwestern China’s Gansu Province. The image…

How This Simple Landscaping Project Quiets an Airport’s Roar

Two years ago in the Netherlands, artist Paul de Kort designed an 81-acre park near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. His assignment? To use nothing but landscaping to dampen the noise of airplanes. Such a project had never been attempted—and a crucial element of the design was discovered almost by accident. I live about 15 miles from…

The Portal gameplay in Lego Dimensions has those mind-melting puzzles

Besides an excuse to buy more building sets, the most exciting thing about the upcoming Lego Dimensions game is the gameplay caters to whichever characters you’ve chosen. Yesterday, at E3, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released a new trailer for the game revealing its Portal level, and it looks like it includes the same kinds of…

A Life-Sized Terminator Can Be Yours, For Just $7,000

A while ago, Chronicle unveiled a life-sized severed Terminator head for you to put on your shelf. Naturally, they thought the next best step would to be to attach an entire body to that head and go nuts, which is why they’re now selling you an actual life-sized Terminator for a mere seven grand. https://gizmodo.com/heres-a-severed-terminator-head-perfect-for-your-mantl-1686732686…

Why Police Need a Warrant to Track Your Cell Phone Location Records

Across the country, a vigorous debate is taking place in federal and state courthouses about how privacy protections should apply to modern technologies. One of the most spirited issues in this debate is whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to get a warrant to track a person’s location via their cell phone. This week…

This Fungus Was A Medieval Mass Murderer

St Anthony’s Fire was one of the things that made the Middle Ages a horrible time in which to live. People would feel a pricking sensation in their arms or legs. This would turn to burning pain, and the arm would swell and redden before turning gangrenous and dropping off. You were lucky if the…

Watch Humidity Power a Miniature Car

Summer is upon us, so it’s cool to know that humidity could weirdly be a force for good: Scientists have powered a tiny vehicle by using humidity as their fuel. That means evaporation could be an energy source for gadgets in the future. According to a study published yesterday in Nature Communications, a team at…

Watch a pilot eject from his fighter jet during a crash landing

Whoa. Foxtrot Alpha says that this pilot ejected from his Hungarian Air Force JAS-39C single seat Gripen jet as it crash landed. The nose gear in the fighter jet had failed the pilot and he was forced to belly land the plane. When the plane hit the runway, the pilot ejected himself before things got…

Noted Artist Pleads Guilty To Bank Robbery He Filmed Himself Committing

A desperate man driven to crime, an experimental filmmaker gathering material — or both? This week, acclaimed avante garde artist and former MIT lecturer Joe Gibbons pled guilty to robbing a New York bank, a heist he captured on film with the apparent intention of using the footage in an upcoming project. Reports the Boston…

One Actor Is A Hot Favorite To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond

Robert Downey Jr. Wants the Hulk In Captain America: Civil War. Aquaman and The Flash may make cameos in Batman v Superman. Plus, the first clip from Terminator Genisys, Grant Bowler talks Defiance, more Fear The Walking Dead and Shadowhunters casting, and X-Files set pictures. So many Spoilers! Captain America: Civil War Mark Ruffalo says…

This Heart-on-a-Chip Uses Gravity to Mimic a Human Pulse

This small, clear block may not look much, but it uses some of the world’s most basic physics to accurately recreate the rhythms of the human heart in the laboratory. This certainly isn’t the first heart-on-a-chip to be created. But microfluidic devices like it have in the past required mechanical pumps or hand-driven syringes to…

Human Experiments: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Research involving human subjects is littered with a history of scandal that often shapes people’s views of the ethics of research. Often the earliest cited case is English physician Edward Jenner’s development of the smallpox vaccine in 1796, where he injected an eight-year-old child with the pus taken from a cowpox infection and then deliberately…

You can now order an Apple Watch online then pick it up in-store using the company’s “Reserve & Pickup” system.

Showtime’s renewed Penny Dreadful for a third season. The third season will be nine episodes long. [Variety]