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Rock Star’s Kid Tweets Surprising Photo of Beverly Hills Cougar

The story is really all there in the headline, but it’s one of those stories that, it seems, can only happen in LA. By now you’ve probably heard of P22, the mountain lion (which are also known as cougars, pumas, or panthers, depending on where you live) that lives in LA’s Griffith Park. He’s got…

The Extra-Private Phone Is Getting Its Own Private App Store

The Blackphone is an Android handset for people who think ‘tinfoil-hat-wearing’ is a prudent measure, not an insult. It launched earlier this year, but now it’s getting the ability to actually install third-party apps. Aww, our little baby, he’s growing up so fast. In short, the Blackphone is a nondescript (but very black!) Android handset,…

First Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Clip Asks Where The Magic Has Gone

We finally get to see at least one of the titular characters in action in the first clip of the BBC’s adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s best-selling novel. Bertie Carvel seem pretty perfect, don’t you think? The seven-part series will air on BBC One early next year and later on BBC America. We don’t have specific…

Report: Bose Is Going To Return To The Apple Store

Less than two months after Bose saw its products ignominiously booted from Apple’s physical and online stores, rumors are suggesting a triumphant return for Bose’s high-end audio equipment, now the two firms have finished squabbling. Bose products were initially pulled following a few disputes with Apple. In addition to a patent dispute (settled out of…

Best books of 2014 by Bill Gates animated with Lego

Bill Gates does a segment on his favorite books of 2014 on his blog, gatesnotes. He has used clever animation to do these reviews in the past, but this is the first that I’ve seen that utilizes Lego. There is no credit to an animator, so I’m just going to hope that he did this…

The First Episode of Cheers is Sitcom Perfection

In her 2011 book Bossypants, Tina Fey explained the difficulty of writing a TV pilot. There are few things harder to write, since the objective is to introduce characters while maintaining both levity and humanity. Fey noted that Cheers might have one of the greatest pilots of all time. And she’s absolutely right. From Bossypants:…

These Lego series 12 minifigure habitats are perfect

The Toronto Lego User Group (ToroLUG) has shared the habitats that they build for each series of collectible minifigures. Each time a new series is released, their Lego user group gets together and builds vignettes on a 12×12 base for each of the new figures. The habitats have been featured at several Brickcons, building events…

Has The Next Villain On The Walking Dead Already Been Revealed?

Maybe so! As as theory on Imgur posits, the next group of bad guys to torment Rick and the others may be the Whisperers, a group of lunatics who wear the skin of zombies and whisper to each other in order to stay unnoticed by the dead. What’s weird is that the show introduced these…

Honest trailer shows just how fun Guardians of the Galaxy was

Sure, it’s basically The Avengers re-casted with characters that we never knew existed fighting bad guys in space and yeah, it’s totally Marvel flexing their movie muscles and exploiting us sheep but man, Guardians of the Galaxy was fun. Even Honest Trailers admits how hard it is to make fun of this movie. SPLOID is…

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: Don’t Leave Me This Way 

The first week I was in college I had no friends. I went to school in Montreal, where the drinking age was 18, and there was a university-sanctioned and remarkably debauched introduction to campus life called “Frosh Week” where people got hammered, sang songs, and inevitably wound up at a full-contact strip club called Supersexe.…

Saturn’s Moons As You’ve Never Seen Them

What you’re seeing here is an image of Saturn’s moon Dione as it passes in front of the moon Titan. The detail is breathtaking, and you can just see the haze of Titan’s atmosphere glowing around the curve of the lake-covered moon. This Cassini spacecraft image was calibrated by Gordon Ugarkovic, who offers this information…

Even 50 Years Ago, Toys Weren’t As Gendered As They Are Today

If you look down the bright pink girls’ toy aisle and think to yourself that toys weren’t always broken down so clearly along gender lines, then you’re right. A sociologists has written a fascinating history of how toys have been marketed over the decades and how gender has come into play. Photo by Janet McKnight.…

Yes, The Television Industry Really Is Majorly Screwed

We’ve known TV networks were in trouble for a while now, but here’s a couple more data points: TV viewing has dropped 3 percent thus far this season, thanks to Netflix, online streaming and other services. And TV networks’ share of ad dollars will drop for the first time in 2015, thanks to the rise…

These are probably the most detailed images of nerves that have ever been produced. Italian researchers have developed a new technique for labelling nerves in living mice, which includes an artificial tagging system. The increased resolution is allowing scientists to see things they couldn’t before, including nerves arranged around skin hair.

Why NASA Put This Spacesuit Through a CT Scanner 

Last year, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned in his own fluids during a harrowing spacewalk-gone-wrong. Now, NASA has teamed with the Houston Methodist Hospital’s research institute to make sure that such a thing never happens again—using a CT scanner. If you don’t recall the crisis, here’s what happened: Parmitano’s emergency stemmed from a clogged…

An Insurance Company Will Pay You to Use Your Fitness Tracker

Insurance companies aren’t exactly known for their largesse, but one New York-based company has an initiative that’ll give you extra money depending on how seriously you take preventive health. With a fitness tracker. This week, Oscar Insurancelaunched a new program giving clients Misfit Fitness trackers as part of their plans. If people reach a daily…

Christopher Lee Keeps His Christmas Metal Streak Intact With A New Song

He rocked you in 2012 with “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Silent Night.” In 2013, he slayed you with “Jingle Hell.” Now, Christopher Lee is back to melt the long, white beard off your face with “Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing,” a “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” do-over that contains the lyric “Glory to the metal…

A Wildlife Sanctuary That Floats Out Of The Reach Of Humans

Floating architecture firm Waterstudio imagines these off-shore wildlife sanctuaries that would be accessible only to animals and not to humans. The towering parks would provide a bit of green space that lets humans observe—but only from a distance. Waterstudio’s Sea Tree concept would involve using technology similar to off-shore oil storage rigs to provide a…

Oh God, This Star Wars Variant Comic Cover Makes Me Want All The Toys

As you know by now, Marvel’s Star Wars comic is hitting shelves next month (and is supposed to be making a pretty big landing) – and inevitably, that means oodles and oodles of variant covers. The latest variant, from Hasbro, might just be the best yet though. Look at all those toys! The cover uses…

You Can Learn How to Be a White Hat Hacker for $60

Do you or someone you love have ambitions to become a hacker for good? Well today you canbuy a White Hat Hacker Bundle with over 40 hours of tutorials on everything from web scraping to penetration testing for just $60. The bundle normally costs over $600. This doesn’t just have to be for fun, either.…