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You can remotely control this huge robot arm to sculpt a cube

Designers Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar have reprogramed this robotic arm so anyone can control it online. They claim the robot will cut a cube in the shape you desire. If you want to try it just go to robochop.com. You can make furniture, create abstract forms, or forget about all that and enjoy this…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

First Star Wars Spin Off Movie Is Titled Rogue One: What Does It Mean?

After months of rumors, we finally have official details about the first Star Wars spinoff. Felicity Jones will star in Gareth Edward’s Rogue One! Disney’s Bob Iger revealed the information to a shareholder meeting in San Francisco today. But here’s the official press release, which also confirms Jones’ involvement (but we knew that already): Rogue…

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The next Lego Simpsons Minifigs include Professor Frink and Willie

On its Twitter account Lego just revealed the lineup for the second series of its Lego Simpsons Minifigures that will be individually available in blind bags once again come May. These include fan favorites like Groundskeeper Willie, Professor Frink, Hans Moleman, and Comic Book Guy. But also extended family like Patty and Selma, and alternative…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Read the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Here

This is it. This is the day that your overly specific and impressively skeptical questions about the Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules can finally be answered. The agency just released the full text of the policy that will protect the open internet. The full 400 pages of the FCC’s policy and research on…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

I Saw the Future at New York’s Uncanny Smithsonian Museum

It’s weird to see a working Nest thermostat on display at a Smithsonian museum in Manhattan. It’s even weirder to tinker with the gadget, pushing buttons and changing settings. But touching and tinkering with technology is the Cooper Hewitt future museum’s specialty. You could consider the Cooper Hewitt to be the Smithsonian’s computerized crown jewel.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

There’s a Tiny Working Planetarium Inside This Pop-Up Book

Adobe recently posted a video profile of designer and paper artist Kelli Anderson that includes a sneak peek at a phenomenal new pop-up book she created. But instead of castles or magical forests rising from its pages, the book is packed full of functional 3D contraptions including a planetarium with real constellations powered by a…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

Wonder Woman’s New Uniform Is Badass! Kind of Ugly, But Badass.

Wonder Woman has gone through many, many costume changes in the day, but this new one might her most drastic fashion transformation yet. Debuting in June’s Wonder Woman #41, behold the new outfit DC’s goddess of war will be wearing this summer. Hitflix had the exclusive reveal: So! On the plus side, Wonder Woman is…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Rally drivers escape from flooding car in claustrophobic video

Driver Ott Tanak and his co-pilot Raigo Molder crashed on a river during the Mexico leg of the FIA World Rally Championship. Fortunately, they could escape before the water flooded the car completely. This insane video, shot from a camera place in the back seat, depicts pretty graphically one of my worst nightmares. SPLOID is…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

It Follows Proves That Horror Movies Don’t Need To Be Dumb To Scare You

Most contemporary horror films underestimate the audience’s intelligence, with jump scares and obvious “twists.” But It Follows refuses to dumb anything down. Its story about a girl who becomes infected with a mysterious, relentless curse is smart and original — not to mention scary as hell. And that’s not all. Writer-director David Robert Mitchell‘s film…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Spider-Man Makes Marvel Even More Money After Joining The MCU

We already know that Spider-Man is the biggest money making superhero on the planet, but get this: merely the announcement of being linked to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe has seen merchandise based on the webslinger skyrocket in popularity. In an interview with Variety, Paul Gitter, Disney’s senior VP of Marvel licensing, spoke about the company’s desire…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Say Goodbye to Nexus 5, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Google says goodbye to one of its best pieces of hardware, PlayStation Vue is finally coming, and the $10,000 Apple Watch gets some much needed ribbing. All news and rumors you might have missed in the last 24 hours, all on BitStream. The fate of the Nexus 5, Google’s ultra-cheap and ultra-great smartphone, has been…

Tech News Darren Orf

Golden Sunshine Over Fog Gave Astronauts A Beautiful Homecoming

Expedition 42 to the International Space Station is officially over with the safe landing of Barry “Butch” Wilmore, Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova in Kazakhstan. The decent featured a brief surge of drama when communications flickered out. Top image: Soyuz TMA-14M descending under parachute above Kazakhstan on Thursday, March 12, 2015. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Topps’ New App Lets You Trade Star Wars Cards With Anyone On Earth

Books, magazines, comics, even photographs have already all made the move to digital. And finally, 65 years after coming up with a clever way to boost gum sales, Topps is bringing its iconic trading cards into the digital world with a new Star Wars app that lets collectors trade cards with anyone else on earth…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

RIP Sir Terry Pratchett, Author of The Discworld Series

Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved Discworld fantasy novels and countless other bestselling books, died earlier today at the age of 66. Terry Pratchett was one of the funniest, cleverest and most human authors in the world; although he wrote primarily fantasy, his keen observations also made him one of the world’s foremost satirists.…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

A Warm Seafloor On Enceladus Makes It A Prime Candidate For Life

A new analysis of Cassini spacecraft data points to the distinct possibility that Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus exhibits hydrothermal activity on its seafloor. It’s a discovery that significantly bolsters the moon’s status as a potentially habitable object. Enceladus has been an intriguing object of study ever since plumes of escaping water vapor were discovered in…

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Powdered Alcohol Is Approved for Sale in the U.S. (Again)

Last year, a form of powdered alcohol called Palcohol was cleared for sale in the United States—and then immediately banned again by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Now, it’s perfectly legal once more. The Associated Press reports that powdered alcohol has regained approval by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Invisible Gas Floating This Boat Might Get Injected In Your Eye

This video shows you a fun and popular demonstration of the power of sulfur hexafluoride. The gas makes a tinfoil boat float, seemingly on nothing. It’s a reminder that the substance we think of as “thin air” can exert pressure. Which is why this gas might get injected into your eyeball. Sulfur hexafluoride is a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What From Your Own Life Would You Put Into A Time Capsule?

Two hundred years from now, we will all be gone. But our stuff will live on far past our own expirations dates. What would you want to leave for future generations to shake their heads over/marvel at/pity? Make your selections (something technical? something cultural? some sort of confusing futuristic easter egg?) for what you would…

io9 Ria Misra

How Understanding Probability Could Save Your Life

The laws of probability seems simple at first thought, but scratch the surface and their inner truth can be rather more counterintuitive. This video describes one of those situations—and the answer might prove more useful than you think. In this alternative to really nice new recasting of the Monty Hall problem by New Scientist, the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Springfield, IL., Just Gave The Key To The City To Cobra Commander

No. Really. In a decision that can’t possibly have any negative repercussions for the city’s helpless residents, Springfield, Illinois mayor J. Michael Houston has given the key to the city to noted terrorist leader and snake enthusiast Cobra Commander. Ostensibly this was done as a promotion for the upcoming JoeCon, the G.I. Joe collector’s convention…

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You can remotely control this huge robot arm to sculpt a cube

First Star Wars Spin Off Movie Is Titled Rogue One: What Does It Mean?

The next Lego Simpsons Minifigs include Professor Frink and Willie

Read the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Here

I Saw the Future at New York’s Uncanny Smithsonian Museum

There’s a Tiny Working Planetarium Inside This Pop-Up Book

Wonder Woman’s New Uniform Is Badass! Kind of Ugly, But Badass.

Rally drivers escape from flooding car in claustrophobic video

It Follows Proves That Horror Movies Don’t Need To Be Dumb To Scare You

Spider-Man Makes Marvel Even More Money After Joining The MCU

Say Goodbye to Nexus 5, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Golden Sunshine Over Fog Gave Astronauts A Beautiful Homecoming

Topps’ New App Lets You Trade Star Wars Cards With Anyone On Earth

RIP Sir Terry Pratchett, Author of The Discworld Series

A Warm Seafloor On Enceladus Makes It A Prime Candidate For Life

Powdered Alcohol Is Approved for Sale in the U.S. (Again)

The Invisible Gas Floating This Boat Might Get Injected In Your Eye

What From Your Own Life Would You Put Into A Time Capsule?

How Understanding Probability Could Save Your Life

Springfield, IL., Just Gave The Key To The City To Cobra Commander

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