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This Star Wars Casting News Changes Everything. Plus ANOTHER Wild Spider-Man Rumor!

Tatiana Maslany could still appear in a Star Wars film—and there’s one detail that could be huge. Game of Thrones is filming a huge scene from the books, minus one important character. There’s a shocking Walking Dead rumor. Star Trek Beyond reveals another new alien. Michael J. Fox is a robot dog. Spoilers ahead! Star…

The Best Cheap Mini Laptop Just Got Some Competition

If you’re looking for a cheap, no-frills laptop to carry everywhere, the $200 HP Stream 11 is the one we’d recommend. But soon, there may be an alternative pick: the Lenovo IdeaPad 100S. Oh, we can’t say for sure till we’ve put them both through their paces, but the Lenovo IdeaPad 100S is definitely shooting…

Lenovo’s Surface Pro Alternative Looks Like One Sweet Tablet

The new Lenovo Miix 700 is pretty much a straight-up clone of the Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3. Same size, same weight, same idea. I don’t care. The Surface was pretty great—minus a bunch of annoying flaws—and I can’t wait for someone to perfect it. The Lenovo Miix 700, hitting shelves this November for $700 and…

A Supercapacitor Stylus Is The Best Thing About Lenovo’s New Laptops

Lenovo has announced a couple new Thinkpad Yoga convertible laptops at IFA. Mostly, they’ve got the kind of upgrades you’d expect: thinner, faster, lighter. But as it happens, the most exciting thing is the decades-old tech powering the Yoga’s new Wacom stylus. Supercapacitors are kind of like batteries, insofar as both store electrical energy. But…

A Nixie-Powered Wall Clock Is the Ultimate Hipster Timepiece

Before dot-matrix displays took over the known world, Nixie tubes — glass lightbulbs containing light-up tubes for the digits 0-9 — were the best way of displaying changing numbers. One designer had the bright idea of taking the Nixie tube technology (and bulbs), and building a surprisingly beautiful analog clock. Whereas original Nixie clocks were…

A 4K Screen On a Convertible Laptop Is Wonderful, Beautiful Overkill

Toshiba is not a company normally known for pushing the bounds of laptop innovation and design. But change is afoot — first, with a surprisingly good full HD Chromebook, then a cheap-and-quite-cheerful Windows convertible, and now a fantastically bonkers 12.5-inch convertible laptop with a 4K Ultra HD display. The Satellite Radius 12 is being announced…

The Snap Is a Polaroid-Branded Camera That Prints Out Real Pictures 

Polaroid proper is no more, but its brand-name and identity are still around in various reanimated forms—and today at IFA in Berlin, the company that owns those assets is releasing a new rendition of the old Polaroid’s classic instant camera. It’s called the Snap, and it’s a 10MP camera equipped with an instant printer that…

A Successful Launch Means it’s About to Get Crowded on the Space Station

The latest trio of astronauts are safely space-bound after an early morning launch out of Kazakhstan. Soyuz will take the scenic route to meet the International Space Station, which is in a higher-than-usual orbit after avoiding space junk. After docking, the station’s crew will temporarily grow to nine astronauts. Astronauts Aidyn Aimbetov, Sergey Volkov and…

GoPro Just Made It Way Easier to Share Your Epic Moments

Remember: if you do something rad, but you don’t share a video of it instantly on at least three social media channels, it probably didn’t happen. Thankfully, the world’s leading purveyor of radness-capturing cameras has just made the whole process a lot easier. In an update to the GoPro smartphone app, and the GoPro camera…

This Light-Up Bottle Does More Than Just Hold Water

If you’ve ever wanted to try being invisible, cycling on a busy road at night is a good start. Adding front and rear lights is obviously a good move, but for side-on visibility, things get a little more tricky. Italian cycling company Elite is trying to solve that with something surprisingly simple: a light-up water…

Four Storms on the Move | NASA’s GOES-West satellite captured this image of four tropical cyclones all at once in the Pacific Ocean. From left to right, there’s Typhoon Kilo, Hurricane Ignacio, Hurricane Jimena and Tropical Depression 14E.

Los Angeles Is the New US Bid City for the 2024 Olympics

After a dramatic few months, Los Angeles has replaced Boston as the US contender for the 2024 Summer Olympics. I think you know what this means—JETPACK DUDE HERE WE COME! At at a press conference today that was spilling over with Olympians like Janet Evans, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the official awarding of the…

Which One of These Flags Should New Zealand Pick?

It’s down to four: These are the designs that will advance to the next round of New Zealand’s flag referendum. Now the public will rank these four designs in a November vote. But which fern will win? As you might remember New Zealand narrowed over 10,000 entries to40 contenders last month, and a panel of…

I Touched All Your Stuff Documentary Trailer Suggests True Crime at its Truly Weirdest

Chris Kirk is an American imprisoned for drug smuggling in Brazil. How he got there isn’t explained in the enigmatic trailer for Maíra Bühler and Matias Mariani’s documentary I Touched All Your Stuff, but reviews mention a “Hitchcockian chance-encounter with a femme fatale” and “Pablo Escobar’s hippos.” Needless to say, it sounds rather intriguing for…

A Hidden Figure in a Famous Rembrandt Has Been Uncovered Using X-Rays

Rembrandt’s An Old Man in Military Costume is a 380-year-old masterpiece with a secret. Beneath the famous figure in the feathered cap hides a much younger man, one that researchers are uncovering in color using advanced x-ray technology. Scientists first caught whiff of the hidden figure when scanning the painting with x-rays in 1968. But…

CBS Sports Will Stream Two of the Worst Football Games of 2015 For Free Online

CBS announced today it would stream a few regular season games online for free! That’ll probably cost ad revenue or something so it’s awfully kind of the network. Let’s see what games they are. First up: The October 4th matchup between The New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins. Seriously?!?! These teams won a combined…

Comcast’s New All-You-Can Internet Fee Sounds Like a Trick

Comcastis trying out a new fee that offers an all-you-can internet upgrade to customers with data caps. The so-called “Unlimited Data Option” allows you to use the internet as much as you want. The fee is $30, in addition to what customers are already paying for service. Wait, what? This is just a test. It’s…

Five-Foot-Long Sea Scorpion Proves the Ancient Oceans Were a Terrifying Place

Beach-goers often fret over sharks and jellyfish, but modern day oceans are downright tame compared to Earth’s geologic past. 460 million years ago, a five-foot-long, scorpion-like monster straight out a 1950s science fiction flick ruled the seas. Meet Pentecopterus, a fearsome predator of a bygone geologic period that paleontologists just unveiled in a new scientific…

In Jonathan Franzen’s New Novel Purity, the Internet Is the Villain  

Is Jonathan Franzen trolling us? The Great Literary Curmudgeon famously detests the internet, and in his latest novel, Purity, the internet plays a central role to the pulpy plot: It’s the villain. (Spoilers ahead. A lot of them.) Franzen’s protagonist is a capital-M Millennial called Pip. (Full name: Purity. I know.) She’s recruited to work…

The Co-Creator of Arrow Is Making A “Hot Gothic” Show About The Brides of Dracula

Are you ready for another sexy vampire soap opera? Just a couple years after its Dracula show crashed and burned, NBC is ready to try again. Greg Berlanti, producer of The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl will make a pilot called Brides, which follows three female vampires as they live in modern New York City. These…