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Is Everyone Wrong About Luke Skywalker’s Role In The Force Awakens?

Peggy Carter gets a new neighbor in Agent Carter. Get your first look at another classic Bat-character on Gotham. We know at least one character that Constantine will introduce if it gets more episodes. Plus, sneak peeks at Agents of SHIELD, The Originals, and Once Upon a Time. Spoilers now! Top Image: Agents of SHIELD…

Lytro is branching out from just making cameras, and is now licensing its technology out to other businesses with its Lytro Development Kit. They expect to see applications from holography and microscopy to architecture and security. Let’s wait see!

Healthcare.gov Is Being Hacked—By the Government

Healthcare.gov wasn’t the Obama administration’s finest moment. But ahead of a second enrolment period which kicks off November 15th, the team behind the website are making sure the same problems don’t happen again—by hacking their own site. The AP reportsthat weekly white-hat hacking sessions are being used to simulate real attacks and ensure that the…

Who Wins In a Race Between Two Quicksilvers?

What’s the word for a crossover between two versions of the same character? Is it a multiverse-over? A sameover? This is “You Gotta Be Fast In This Business” by Stephen Byrne (whose animation workwe’vefeatured afew times before.) [via xombieDIRGE]

Jailbreaking Is Not a Crime—and We Should Keep It That Way

If you own a phone or a tablet, you should be able to run whatever software you want on it. It seems like a simple truth, but there are a surprising number of hurdles in the way. Most pressingly, if the manufacturer of that phone or tablet wants to, they can misuse the law to…

Taylor Swift Explains Why She Ditched Spotify

Earlier this week, something awful happened: it became the case that you can’t hear Taylor Swift on Spotify anymore. Gasp. Now, the the singer-songwriter has explained why. Of course, she may have already alluded to it in her lyrics, but it does no harm to hear her actual reasoning. From Yahoo Music: [M]usic is changing…

WSJ: Google’s Barges Have Been Shut Down Over Fire Concerns

Google’s barges caused much speculation when they first appeared in San Francisco and Portland, Maine, last year. Now, though, it appears they’ve been scrappedbecause Google couldn’t prove to Coast Guard that they were safe. The Wall Street Journal reports that documents it’s obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the project has been…

Calvin and Hobbes in Lego is just perfect

A co-creation by Evan and Simon from the brothers brick makes me happy like the Sunday issues of the comic did. You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the best sets in the web. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

This Might Just Be The Most Ridiculous Personal Watercraft Yet

Any ‘personal watercraft’ is almost certain to be a playboy toy, and this might just be the most playboy-toyish of them all: a $19,000 electric hydrofoiling experience for two. Last time we checked in with the Quadrofoil, it was just a twinkling prototype in the eyes of its Slovenian inventors. Now, it’s a fully-fledged thing…

Cyborg Cockroaches Could Be Used To Save Trapped Humans

Controlling cockroaches with electrical ‘backpacks’ is one of those science experiments that’s simultaneously quite cool and ethically grey. What might make you feel better, though, is the knowledge that those remote-controlled cockroaches may save your life if you ever get trapped inside a burning building. Researchers from North Carolina State University have outfitted cyborg cockroaches…

John Oliver Delivers the News About British Biscuits to Cookie Monster

It goes about as well as you’d expect. If there is one thing that Cookie Monster isn’t prepared to deal with, it’s a possible lack of cookies. In order to get Cookie Monster ready for a trip to the Furchester Hotel, Sesame Street brought in his news desk partner, John Oliver. He easily explains how…

Does Knowing that “OK” Was a Joke Ruin It?

OK has been traced to a 19th century Boston Morning Post article where a writer was satirizing the “new” craze of abbreviations. The more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess. Rachel Newer at Smithsonian Magazine has pulled together a numberof sources tracing the origin of OK to an article by Charles…

This Headset Uses Sound To Navigate Blind People Through Cities

Using substitute senses for visually impaired people isn’t a new idea — even putting aids into hi-tech glasses isn’t new. But this project takes things a step further, piping in relevant information straight into the wearer’s skull. The project is a collaboration between Microsoft, Future Cities Catapult, and the Guide Dogs charity, and it consists…

Twitter and Women, Action & the Media have just rolled out a new harassment-reporting tool for victims of 140-character gender harassment. The tool, which has been created thanks to recent attacks on women on Twitter, will sort genuine complaints and escalate them to Twitter, which will still make the ultimate takedown decision. [Women, Action &…

I don’t know what this crazy video is about but it keeps getting funnier

This video is absolutely absurd. It starts like a cheesy 80’s sitcom and then makes a turn and another turn and another turn and keeps going until it creates a labyrinth of hilariousness and craziness. I mean, I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know why I kept watching. I don’t know why I’m…

FBI: Shutting Down Silk Road 2 Was Just The Start

Earlier today, we learned that The Silk Road 2.0 has a new, fed-shaped landing page; but the FBI isn’t just stopping at hitting one illegal online drug market: it looks like it’s taking down everything it can get its hands on. Other popular drug markets have also been targeted, with Cloud9, Hydra, and the Cannabis…

This animation using CGI to create marionette puppets is just stunning

This ad was made by Elastic for League of Legends (a game of which half the world plays and half the world doesn’t know exists) but really, it’s just phenomenal animation work. I love seeing the marionettes move around and interact with the environment, it really feels like they’re on strings. SPLOID is delicious brain…

Bats Can Use Sonar Jamming to Steal Food From Each Other

Using sound to hunt for food is a pretty ingenious adaptation for bats flying at night. But it doesn’t work if another bat is messing with you. Scientists have discovered that a species of bats can purposely jam the sonars of others to keep rivals away from their insect prey. Aaron Corcoran, now at Johns…

Video: A mash up of awe-inspiring scenes from awesome movies about space

There are very few things that are actually cooler in real life than in the movies. Being in space is one of them. Sure, movies might make space look more cinematic and epic but being a real astronaut who actually put on a suit and got on a shuttle to go to space trumps any…

Is Banksy a Woman? Watch This Documentary And See What You Think

As bored as you might be with the breathless coverage of Banksy and his “takeover of New York,” there might be one reason to catch the HBO documentary on the street artist. Over at CityLab, Kriston Capps has an intriguing theory after watching the film:Banksy is a probably a woman. There are a lot of…