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Computers Think These Are Real Animals and Objects

Even computers can be fooled by optical illusions. While computer vision is rapidly advancing, this set of bizzare images can fool even the best algorithms into thinking that they’re real objects. The images were generated by Jeff Clune fromthe University of Wyoming in Laramie when he applied an image-recognition algorithm called a deep neural network…

Holy crap, the new Mad Max trailer is amazing

The first trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road was pretty damn good, but this one has taken everything up to 11. The stunts are truly incredible, the tone feels perfect, and the marriage of retina-bursting imagery and soundtrack makes it all feel like an explosive version of A Clockwork Orange. I’m really looking forward to…

The Librarians Shoot a Minotaur in the Balls

Look, if you can find another explanation for the what happens when Rebecca Romijn’s character slides through the legs of a minotaur on her back while shooting up, I welcome it. Otherwise, she totally shot him in the balls. I’m still enjoying the hell out of The Librarians, which is cheesy and ridiculous but in…

Short film: The heart-melting journey of a house seeking freedom

A reader sent us this amazing animated short film he did. It tells the story of a suburban house put up for sale that one day decides to leave everything behind and hit the road to see the world. A quirky story with a heart-melting ending. The film was made by Pierre Clenet, Alejandro Diaz,…

According Danny John-Jules, planning for another season of Red Dwarf continues apace. “All I can say is that Doug Naylor is slaving away writing scripts and we’ve got lunch next week. That’s as far as I can tell you!” [Digital Spy]

The Different Types of Snowflake, Visualized

Snowflakes are endlessly fascinating and incredibly beautiful. But while they’re all (sort of) unique, they can be neatly divided into well-defined types of flake. This chart shows them all. https://gizmodo.com/these-macro-pictures-of-snowflakes-are-stunningly-beaut-5967349 Column crystals, plane crystals, irregularities, aggregates, germs… you probably never knew that snow flakes could take so many forms. Based on a research paper by…

This Is Where NASA’s Super Guppy Gets Some Rest

NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft—the airplane that carries the space agency’s biggest loads—sits overnight at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia for a well-deserved break. In fact, it had carried the fuselage of… another aircraft, due to be tested at the center. The Guppy had shipped a “representative test article of a futuristic hybrid wing…

Hackers: Sony Employees Can Ask Us Not to Publish Their Emails

A group of hackers claiming to be responsible for the Sony hacks has offered Sony employees a small lifeline. If the company’s staff write to them, it claims, they won’t publish their emails online. The offer has been made by Guardians of Peace in slightly broken English on Pastebin and Friendpaste. It explains: “Message to…

Hey, Weirdos! Is A Reboot Of The Craft In the Works?

Today’s unconfirmed/tantalizing/”but whyyy?” Hollywood rumor for all the once and future teen witches out there: There may be a reboot of 1996’s The Craft in the works. Dread Central is cautiously sharing the news from a tipster who “takes surveys about various topics, the most recent of which was films that are currently in theaters.”…

A Necronomicon for the “Ugh, Whatever” Kind of Days

Unfortunately, this plush “Blech-cronomicon” is already sold out at Gallery 1988, where it’s part of the “Crazy 4 Cult 8” show. But rest assured that you can see more of Steff Bomb’s work here. Or like whatever. Here’s the cover: [via xombieDIRGE]

Russia Drops A New Communications Satellite Into Orbit

The same weekend America is launching a secretive spy satellite with mid-launch media blackouts, Russia launched a new private communications rig on a constant live stream. The new satellite will provide communications and tv signals for Russia and surrounding countries. https://gizmodo.com/a-successful-clandestine-launch-was-widely-seen-in-cal-1670962185 Top image: Spacecraft on pad 24 of site 81 at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos…

An Acorn Finds a Home Far From the Rest of His Family in This Short

This cute animated short from Madeline Sharafian follows an acorn’s trip to find a place to put down roots after he decides not to follow the everyone else’s “close to the tree” approach. You go, brave little acorn. [via Vimeo Staff Picks]

Toho Is Returning to Godzilla, So I Am Too

There is a special place reserved in my heart for kaiju. A love that I’ve cultivated through meticulous fandom and my brief four-month stay in kaiju’s ancestral home of Japan. That’s why when Toho, the Japanese production company responsible for the King of Monsters himself, announced that they were getting back into the monster movie…

Modest Mouse: This Is a Long Drive…

This week Modest Mouse announced it would be releasing a full studio album in 2015. Seeing this news put my world on pause for a few minutes until I could internalize every word of it. The world hasn’t had new Modest Mouse music for five years now, and for some reason, this news had be…

Review: Lego Friends, City, Star Wars advent calendars–day 14

Day 14 of the 2014 Lego advent calendars gives us some food and drink, a getaway vehicle for our crook and a start to a moisture farm. See images and a review of the 14th day of mini builds after the jump! Friends Advent Calendar (41040) Today our little plastic pouch contained some glasses, a…

9 Wild Gifts For Outdoors Men And Women

Got a wild man or woman in your life, or just someone you want to be able to bring along with you in the future? Here’s nine gifts that are tough enough for experts, but versatile enough for beginners. 1. Fugoo Tough Bluetooth Speaker – $200 Fugoo gives you the ability to take stereo-quality sound…

The Pirate Bay Shutdown Hasn’t Slowed Piracy At All

Nature abhors a vacuum. Aristotle said that. Of course, he was talking about how nature has a tendency to fill empty spaces with stuff. In a way, the internet also abhors a vacuum, and the “downfall” of The Pirate Bay is just the latest example. When the popular p2p file-sharing site disappeared from the web,…

Martin Freeman Returns To The Office As Bilbo Baggins

Martin Freeman hosted SNL last night, where he led the show’s cast in a pretty excellent mashup of The Office and The Hobbit. Seriously, though. This worked a lot better than I expected.

How One of the Internet’s Most Memorable Logos Was Created

Welcome to Reading List, a brief tour of some of the wonderful tech reads around the web. Online vigilantism, government hacking, and a brief history lesson on the early internet are just a few great reads in store. Indulge in a lazy Sunday, at least for the next hour or so, and catch up on…

What Is Your Favorite Holiday Memory About Tech?

Christmastime holds some of the most visual memories of gadgets and gizmos, especially when I was kid. You’re presented with a deluge of gifts that on any other normal day would make you faint from excitement, but during the holidays you channel that raw excitement into your voracious wrapping paper-tearing skills. The holidays just have…