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The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist

With Apple Watch quickly approaching its April release month, app developers are giving us a better sense of the wearable’s capabilities than the designers at Cupertino. For instance, we know how the watch will work with your car or draw up a to do list. Now its health merits are getting some attention. With help…

Tech News Darren Orf

This is how the dragons of Game of Thrones are made

Pixomondois one of the digital imaging companies working on Game of Thrones’stunning visual effects. Among other things, they are responsible for bringing Khaleesi’s terrifying dragons to life. Here’s how they do it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Uh, Did FXX Just Secretly Air A Pilot For A Wheel Of Time TV Show?

Well, the FXX Network aired something related to Robert Jordan’s bestselling fantasy series last night. Subtitled “Winter Dragon,” no one seems to know what exactly it is. A failed pilot? A stealthy promo? Something else? As we investigate, ODeck’s Nicole has an excellent breakdown of… whatever it is.

Television Rob Bricken

How Do I Look in These Genes? The Science of DNA Dating

That sensation you feel when you meet someone you like—that visceral pull towards another human being—there’s biology behind that. And if there’s biology behind that, it can be measured, and controlled for, and used to help determine if two people will be attracted to each other before they ever even meet in person. That’s the…

Tech News Brendan O'Connor

Guy Totally Crashes Drone While Teaching Drone Safety on TV

It doesn’t take much to turn a drone from a gliding wonder-thing into a scourge of the sky—anyone’s dumb dad can get ahold of one and wreak havoc. Such is the lesson viewers of this

Tech News Michael Hession

Dairy Creamer, Water, And A Turntable Make Something Mesmerizing

Here we see scientists at the UCLA Spinlab having a good time and sharing it with the world. The experiment is as simple as throwing creamer into a tank of water on a turntable. The results are fun to watch and teach us about gyroscopic forces. Did you know that when half-and-half hits water it…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Out of Thermal Paste for Your PC? Just Use Nutella

If you’ve ever gone elbow-deep inside your computer to do some tweaking, you know all about the joys(?) of meticulously applying thermal paste or grease. Even if you’re a pro at applying the goop, there’s a trick that you probably don’t know about: You canjust use Nutella instead. Seriously. As CoolMaster demonstrates in this video…

Tech News Eric Limer

Ditch Your Shoulder Bag For This Felted R2-D2 Carry-all

Say goodbye to your current backpack, purse, or messenger bag because once you lay eyes on this amazing R2-D2 carry-all nothing else will ever satisfy your carrying needs again. Hand-made by the talented folks behind Krukrustudio, this Artoo is entirely made of felt and can be purchased on Etsy for $185. Compared to other designer…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Why Are Sea Levels Dropping In Places Closest To The Melting Glaciers?

Our dynamic planet has an apparent paradox: the more ice melts from landlocked glaciers, the lower the sea level gets in nearby areas. How does this happen? Through the physics of isostatic rebound, when the surface of the planet acts as an elastic sheet dimpling and rebounding under changing loads. Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina…

io9 Mika McKinnon

KickassTorrents Domain Seized, Site Back Up at Its Old Home

The ongoing legal drama of the world’s huge torrent trackers has just taken another turn. TorrentFreak reports that KickassTorrents, one of the most popular torrent trackers that had most recently taken up residence at Kickass.so, is down after an apparent domain seizure. The .so registry has banned Kickass’s domain, according to the domain’s Whois listing.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

A Supercut To Chart The Cinematic Evolution Of Batman

Batman has had almost as long a history of appearances on the big screen as he has had in his 75 years of comic book adventures – and this great supercut by video editor Jacob T. Swinneycharts the characterisation of the Dark Knight across decades of cinematic incarnations pretty succinctly. It’s cool to see the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

How Predestination Made Jumping Through Time Look So Damn Good

Predestination was a cool-looking, psychologically complex movie about time travel and shifting identities. And one of the best things about this film is how it dramatizes the toll that traveling through time takes on people. Here’s an exclusive clip from the Blu-ray special features that shows how they did it. Predestinationcomes out on Blu-Ray tomorrow,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Clean Out All Your Old Text Messages on iOS and Android

Those long-winded SMS/iMessage/Hangouts conversations filled with emoticons and pictures and GIFs aren’t doing the storage space on your smartphone any favors. And the clutter in your messaging app isn’t too much fun either. Fortunately, you can get your iOS or Android-powered mobile to erase older messages automatically. Here are the settings to use if you…

Gadgets David Nield

Action-Packed Short About A Renegade Telepath May Become A Feature Film

POLIS is one of those short films that’s a wonderfully intriguing proof-of-concept, but leaves us wanting more. In this VFX- and action-filled short, a telepath is held prisoner in a government facility while technicians prod his brain in search of his mother. And fortunately, it’s on its way to becoming a feature film. POLIS was…

io9 Lauren Davis

DSCOVR Launch And SpaceX Barge Landing Attempt Delayed Until Tuesday

The launch of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) and second SpaceX barge landing attempt scrubbed yesterday have been delayed until tomorrow due to unfriendly weather. Along with launching a new NOAA satellite to monitor incoming cornal mass ejections and solar storms, the launch will mark SpaceX’s second attempt at soft-landing the Falcon 9 booster…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Watch This Hilarious Lego Homage To The 50 Shades Of Grey Trailer

The helicopter, the elevator scene, the hyper-articulated six-pack abs, the breathy dialogue … they’re all here in this meticulously detailed trailer for Fifty Shades of Bricks. For the full effect, check out the side-by-side comparison between live-action and Lego parody trailers here, and ask yourself: which version would you rather see? Lest we forget, this…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

The 10 Biggest Blunders in The History Of Espionage

In movies and books, spies are always debonair and brilliant, pulling off the most complex schemes without getting caught (too badly.) But in real life, espionage is a messy, complicated business, and sometimes people screw up. Here are the 10 most jaw-dropping screwups in the history of real-life spies. 10. The Chief of Counter-Intelligence Had…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Shopping for a Camera at This Amazing Store Is Way Better Than Ebay

If you’re into analog photography, most of the time the only way to shop is online. It is exceedingly rare to come across a physical store with a hearty stock of film cameras you can hold and touch. One such oasis is the Denton Camera Exchange in the fair city of Denton, Texas. The above…

Tech News Michael Hession

Welcome to the Robot-Staffed Resort of the Future

BitStream is like a Vulcan mind meld of tech news and rumors you may have missed over the weekend. Give it a read—it is only logical. Enjoy your stay in the Uncanny Valley Welcome to the Henn-na Hotel in the Nagasaki prefecture of Japan. Aside from its overly luxiourious exterior, this resort is no different…

Tech News Darren Orf

The Man Behind Iconic Video Game Music Finally Made a Chiptunes Record

Keiji Yamagishi isn’t a household name but if you were playing video games say, 25 years ago, you know the sound of his erratic musical madness. He’s the composer behind the music in classic games like Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo Bowl, and Captain Tsubasa. Now he’s finally released a record of his own. Retro-Active Pt.1 is…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist

This is how the dragons of Game of Thrones are made

Uh, Did FXX Just Secretly Air A Pilot For A Wheel Of Time TV Show?

How Do I Look in These Genes? The Science of DNA Dating

Guy Totally Crashes Drone While Teaching Drone Safety on TV

Dairy Creamer, Water, And A Turntable Make Something Mesmerizing

Out of Thermal Paste for Your PC? Just Use Nutella

Ditch Your Shoulder Bag For This Felted R2-D2 Carry-all

Why Are Sea Levels Dropping In Places Closest To The Melting Glaciers?

KickassTorrents Domain Seized, Site Back Up at Its Old Home

A Supercut To Chart The Cinematic Evolution Of Batman

How Predestination Made Jumping Through Time Look So Damn Good

Clean Out All Your Old Text Messages on iOS and Android

Action-Packed Short About A Renegade Telepath May Become A Feature Film

DSCOVR Launch And SpaceX Barge Landing Attempt Delayed Until Tuesday

Watch This Hilarious Lego Homage To The 50 Shades Of Grey Trailer

The 10 Biggest Blunders in The History Of Espionage

Shopping for a Camera at This Amazing Store Is Way Better Than Ebay

Welcome to the Robot-Staffed Resort of the Future

The Man Behind Iconic Video Game Music Finally Made a Chiptunes Record

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