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Apple Halts Online Sales in Russia Due to Seesawing Rouble

The wildly fluctuating worth of the Russian rouble currency has lead iPhone makers Apple to halt online sales in the country, as the tech giant cannot set stable prices for its wares. The rouble has dropped in worth 20 per cent this week, despite the treasury’s dramatic decision to raise interest rates a whopping 6.5…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

A tank cut in half is a pretty damn cool thing

There’s never enough things cut in half. My favorite books when I was a kid were cutaway books. Everything in the world should be cut in half and put on display. Like this Leopard I tank, the democratic heir to the Panzer and Tiger tanks that made the Wehrmacht famous and the first line of…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

How One Of History’s Worst Taxidermy Jobs Became A Victorian Sensation

Take a look at this walrus. This is what happens when a taxidermist is taxed with mounting an animal he’s never seen before. With no idea that real walruses have copious wrinkles and folds, this Victorian just kept stuffing it and studding it until it looked smooth. Whoops. Image: Horniman Museum and Gardens Currently the…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

SpaceX Plans to Land a Rocket on This Barge

SpaceX is working hard to make its rockets land-able and, by extension, reusable. Now, it plans to try and land its Falcon 9 craft on this barge. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-secret-of-spacexs-falcon-9-reusable-rocket-1593483305 The company has landed on water from altitude before and firm ground in tests. But landing from altitude on a floating platform—what won’t be tethered to anything—presents…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

I want to live in this cool spaceship from Star Citizen

This is the Anvil Industries’ Carrack, a 403-foot (123-meter) ship and a maximum crew of five. It is not real, but it feels real because every detail in its interior has been designed as if it were a real vessel. It’s one of the ships from Chris Roberts’ Star Citizenpersistent alternative universe, where I’m sure…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Report: Twitter’s Teaming With Foursquare to Improve Location Data

Business Insider is reporting that Twitter is planning to team up with Foursquare in 2015, “adding a location layer to its platform” to make it more relevant and interesting for users. Twitter currently lacks location savvy. Without some level of user involvement, it only knows where you are when you sign up and the location…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Sony’s Clip-On Unit Will Make Any Glasses Smart

Sony has announced a new display module that clips onto the frame of any piece of existing eyewear in order to turn it into something more akin to Google Glass. The new hardware features a control board with Bluetooth and WiFi; compass, accelerometer, touch sensors; and an ARM Cortex-A7 Processor. That all supplies a 640×400…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Staggering Mass of the Craft We’ve Sent Into Space, Visualized

Ever tried to picture how much one rocket weighs compared to another, or how heavy some of the craft orbiting our planet really are? Well this chart explains all. Put together by XKCD’s Randall Munroe, the chart visualizes the changing mass of spacecraft over time, from the first Sputnik launches to the future SLS Block…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Holiday Lights Are Officially Bright Enough to Be Seen from Space

A joint mission between NOAA and NASA has yielded data showing just how much brighter Earth is during the holiday lights season. In some places, the effect makes the area 50% brighter than on an average day. http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/satellite-sees-holiday-lights-brighten-cities/#.VJEo8GTF_Dt Image: Jesse Allen, NASA’s Earth Observatory/flickr/CC by 2.0 The data comes from a combination of technologies. The…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Outstanding underwater film makes killer whales like magic creatures

Wow. For a few seconds here, the killer whales look like they’ve been animated with CGI. They move so effortlessly that they don’t seem real. But Smithsonian shows how this footage was caught, with a camera invented by photographer David Riggs just to see killer whales and what they’re hunting underwater. The footage comes from…

Sploid Casey Chan

Get your Hispabrick magazine in English for free!

The newest Hispabrick magazine (issue 21) is now available for download free of charge. This issue is packed full of great stuff including details on the above Star Destroyer, a review of the upcoming UCS Slave I, a bunch of building guides, set/parts reviews and interviews with some great Lego creators. You’re reading Leg Godt,…

Tech News Michael Schulte

Tim Burton Doesn’t Think Marvel’s Momentum Can Last

Speaking with Yahoo!, Tim Burton offered up his opinion on the new wave of superhero movies. In particular, Burton took aim at Marvel for making film after film with the same formula and issues-ridden superhero. Yes, Tim Burton thinks Marvel needs to consider making a happy superhero. Here’s what Burton said: Marvel, they have their…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Here’s some new Game of Thrones season 5 footage

HBO has very slowly teased and trickled footage from Game of Thrones season 5 with a secret website and now this new elaborate seemingly self-destructing mobile-only video teaser. Luckily, the footage—which could only play once and not be screenshotted—was leaked online and we have a few more seconds to get excited. The website ThreeEyedRaven.com started…

Sploid Casey Chan

Guy Wakes Up With A Hole In His Skull—And Finds Something Gross Inside

You’ll have to forgive the morbid short comedy The Grey Matter a few dozen puns, but it makes up for it by being deliciously macabre. A working stiff comes to on the street covered in blood with a nasty hole in his head. Naturally, he’s worried—at least until he suddenly hits it off with a…

io9 Lauren Davis

Behind the scenes video shows how 7 scenes are filmed in 1 take

Johnnie Walker has a pretty neat commercial on air these days that covers 7 different backgrounds in just one long take. It’s a well choreographed and perfectly timed spot, a man is at a bar and starts walking. As he moves along, the scenery changes along with him to give him a wild journey until…

Sploid Casey Chan

Microbes Have Been Discovered 1.5 Miles Beneath The Seabed Off Japan

The floor itself is more than 3,000 feet (1,000 meters) beneath the waves. The extremophiles, the deepest ever discovered by a drilling expedition, likely subsist on a low-calorie diet of hydrocarbons and have a low metabolism. The discovery has implications in the search for alien life. Image: The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) via BBC…

io9 George Dvorsky

Star Wars-Themed Christmas Light Show Is So Excessive And So Amazing

So you know when you strung up three reels of Christmas lights and a flashing reindeer, and thought you’d won decorations for 2014? Forget it. Forget it all. A music teacher from California has lit up his entire property, added a 17-foot guitar, and set the entire thing to a Star Wars mash-up. The five-minute…

Tech News Chris Mills

Making a screw flush with the surface is like creating invisibility

When a screw sticks out on metal or isn’t perfectly flush with the surface, an angel in heaven loses an eyeball. Or something like that. But fret not eyeballs of angels in heaven, people of Earth can make a screw completely flush. It’s a lot of filing and sanding and hammering but eventually the screw…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Methane Spike Indicates Active Processes On Mars

The more we learn about Mars, the more we learn it’s a deceptively active planet. Most recently, the Curiosity rover sniffed out a sharp spike in methane levels that dropped back down just as quickly, suggesting some yet-to-be-determined process is currently happening to trigger the aberration. Top image: Hole drilled on sol 279 (May 19,…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Why You Never Wake A Sleeping Swamp Dragon

Feared above all other dragons is the species of wyrm that makes the swamps and bogs its home. For it nests near shallow pockets of marshland gas, which it knocks loose and burns with its fiery breath whenever intruders come near. “Swamp Dragon” is by Alex Konstad, whose work you can follow on deviantART and…

io9 Lauren Davis

Apple Halts Online Sales in Russia Due to Seesawing Rouble

A tank cut in half is a pretty damn cool thing

How One Of History’s Worst Taxidermy Jobs Became A Victorian Sensation

SpaceX Plans to Land a Rocket on This Barge

I want to live in this cool spaceship from Star Citizen

Report: Twitter’s Teaming With Foursquare to Improve Location Data

Sony’s Clip-On Unit Will Make Any Glasses Smart

The Staggering Mass of the Craft We’ve Sent Into Space, Visualized

Holiday Lights Are Officially Bright Enough to Be Seen from Space

Outstanding underwater film makes killer whales like magic creatures

Get your Hispabrick magazine in English for free!

Tim Burton Doesn’t Think Marvel’s Momentum Can Last

Here’s some new Game of Thrones season 5 footage

Guy Wakes Up With A Hole In His Skull—And Finds Something Gross Inside

Behind the scenes video shows how 7 scenes are filmed in 1 take

Microbes Have Been Discovered 1.5 Miles Beneath The Seabed Off Japan

Star Wars-Themed Christmas Light Show Is So Excessive And So Amazing

Making a screw flush with the surface is like creating invisibility

A Methane Spike Indicates Active Processes On Mars

Why You Never Wake A Sleeping Swamp Dragon

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