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DJI’s New Crash-Proof Drone Can See and Avoid Obstacles

Drones crash into shit. It’s an expensive and dangerous problem that threatens every drone you launch into the sky. Now the company behind the most popular consumer drones you can buy has a solution. More specifically, DJI has part of a solution with its new Matrice 100. It’s a $3200 developer drone that lacks the…

Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Active Will Save You From Waterlogged Nightmares

The Galaxy S6 was one impressive piece of smartphone, but not everyone was stoked on some of the features Samsung sacrificed for a more eye candy design—chief among them being waterproofing. That’s why the new Galaxy S6 Active exists. Jointly launched by Samsung and AT&T, the S6 Active is just like the normal Galaxy flagship…

The Future Is Here! First Look At Tor.com’s Brand New Novellas!

Tor.com has been publishing short fiction on its website for years, but now Tor’s online publisher is moving into books in a big way, with short novels. And we’ve got the first look at their four launch titles. Nnedi Okorafor goes into space! Paul Cornell writes witches! And more! Check out the covers and synopses…

How Anti-Vaxxers Manipulate Twitter To Spread Their Dangerous Message

At Wired, Renee Diresta and Gilad Lotan present an interesting analysis of “Anti-Vax Twitter,” a small, loud, and highly organized group of antivaxxers using Twitter to maximize their impact on policy and public sentiment. To take a closer look at how anti-vax Twitter organizes its attacks, specifically against the California legislation, we analyzed the hashtags…

Orphan Black‘s Crazy Bioweapon Actually Exists In Nature

This season, Orphan Black introduced a line of genetically male clones to its tale, and with them came a scary new twist in the Orphan Black biology. How scientifically realistic is this weird new development? Well, something like it does happen in the real world — but only with fruit flies, not humans. Spoilers for…

What We’re Wishing for in iOS 9

No one’s quite sure what to expect from iOS 9. And with WWDC only a few days away, this week we asked you what you’d wish for in a perfect iOS 9 release. Here are a few things we heard again and again—along with what we know about whether we’ll get them. So, what do…

Last week, Showtime jumped on the HBO Now bandwagon and started offering standalone Showtime on Apple devices. We were promised more platforms would be announced soon. So here are a few more: Youcan get it on Roku and Playstation Vue, too. $11 per month. No cable. Ring the alarum bell!

Airbus Wants To Build a Reusable Rocket That Uses Propellors to Land

We’ve watched SpaceX try (and fail and fail) a rocket on a drone barge. But for the past five years, Airbus has taken a different tack for a reusable rocket of its own. The French company is building a system that makes the rocket itself more like a drone. It’s called Adeline, and Airbus just…

What in the monster hell is this scary bright green and pink gooey worm

It’s just not right. Adult humans should not have to fear monsters. But how in the world will the world ever sleep again after knowing that this terrifying radiator fluid-looking worm goo thing exists? Can humanity survive after seeing this? Just look at the sludge bug shoots out its pink dart and you’ll only dream…

The 7 Most Unbelievable Jailhouse Weddings Of All Time

Earlier this year, Charles Manson called off his engagement to a 27-year-old woman named “Star” when her cunning plot to display his corpse after his death was revealed. (Hey, even Manson has standards.) But a surprising number of other famous criminals have made it to the altar while behind bars. There’s a term to describe…

Sentinel Shows Off A Whole Legion Of Awesome Iron Man Figures

Ah, Sentinel. The company’s line of “Re:Edit” toys based on the Iron Avenger are beautiful enough that even seeing one new one is a treat. Getting a look at 3 in action, even in various states of completeness? Yes please. These things look great! Although we’ve seen two of them before, the War Machine and…

Oh Crap, Fungus Can Grow In Your Brain

Here’s a good reason not to get out of bed. A common fungus can sometimes get snorted up into your nose, contaminate your blood vessels, and grow in your eyes and your brain. Feel like going outside? I didn’t think so. Above is a picture of the spore of a group of fungi called Mucoromycotina.…

This Captain America-Style Shield Makes Wind Turbines More Powerful

The larger you can build a wind turbine, the more power it can generate. But you can only build them so large before they’re impossible to transport across the country. So GE’s engineers have found a better way to improve their efficiency: a giant 20,000 pound dome strapped to the front of the blades. It’s…

Lard Lad Donuts should be the next Lego Simpsons set

The Kwik-E-Mart and the Simpsons’ house are two of the most detailed sets Lego has ever produced. But which Springfield locale should the company consider next? Moe’s Tavern? The nuclear plant? Neither. It should definitely be Lard Lad Donuts, as recreated by Matt De Lanoy here. That Lego donut doesn’t just look edible, it looks…

Scientists Use AI To Solve A Long-standing Genetics Mystery

For years, biologists have sought to understand how the genes of planarians, a group of free-living flatworms, direct growth in specific body parts. An artificial intelligence tasked with the problem appears to have cracked the code, a breakthrough that demonstrates the incredible potential for “robot science.” An artificial intelligence system devised by Daniel Lobo and…

Something Apple This Way Comes: Everything We’re Expecting at WWDC

Hello Apple fanboys and fangirls. Gather round once again, and join us as we take a speculative spelunk into the dark chasm of Cupertino’s software recesses to see what the future holds for Apple. New music streaming service! A new and improved Siri! An Apple Watch that sucks significantly less! And hopefully a few other…

Doughnut or donut? The debate over the difference (and just what it might be and where it came from) is settled handily in this look from Fusion at the tangled American history of the two words and where they split.

This Sturdy Drone Takes Aerial Shots of Your Outdoor Conquests

There’s nothing like gazing upon the Rockies or looking out into a sunkissed desert to remind you that nature is beautiful—or that you’re a puny speck of carbon aimlessly drifting through the universe. Now, there’s a Kickstarted drone specially-designed to help capture those landscapes. Called Sprite, it’s an unmanned aerial vehicle you can throw in…

Create a YouTube Playlist as a Modern-Day Mixtape

The art of mixtape making has sadly been lost in our transition to a digital era of on-demand music, but there are still places where you can practice this lost skill, and one of them is YouTube. Here are the steps to assemble your group of songs and share them with a special someone or…

Scores of Marvel Fans Cosplay For Better Black Widow Representation

If you’ve been following the long saga that is Black Widow’s place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’ll know that everyone’s favourite assassin has been getting a short shrift, both on the big screen and on toy shelves. Fans have been angry for a while, but now they’re taking their grievances to the streets. Over…