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I could watch these pipes forge together with friction welding forever

Friction welding spins so fast and burns so hot that it looks like the excess orange metal is something that’s not meant for this world. The metal pipes forge together so colorfully (and almost unnaturally) that I never get bored of watching the process. Here are a few more videos of friction welding: And linear…

Sploid Casey Chan

Colin Firth Is an Action Star in the Second Kingsman Trailer

There were glimpses of this in the first trailer, but the second trailer features pretty much an entire scene of Colin Firth kicking the asses of some kids targeting the film’s protagonist, played by Taron Egerton. https://gizmodo.com/first-secret-service-trailer-has-badass-spies-with-even-1579185608 Also featured in this trailer is a better look at Samuel L. Jackson as a villain concerned about…

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India’s Space Probe Successfully Enters Mars Orbit

India just cemented its place as a space power, and put NASA’s billions to shame, with the news that its $74 million space probe just entered Mars orbit. The orbiter, dubbed Mangalyaan, dropped into orbit following a burn at 10:30 EST, making India the first country to successfully reach Mars orbit on the first try.…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

Here’s the same picture taken with every iPhone that has existed

Though the new iPhone is called the iPhone 6, we’re actually on the 8th generation of iPhone that has existed. But who cares about that. Let’s just see how much the camera—maybe the most important feature on the iPhone after messaging—has improved over those 8 generations. Hint: a lot. Lisa Bettany compared the new iPhone…

Sploid Casey Chan

A Bunch of US High-Schoolers Broke the Paper Airplane World Record

A ‘science’ project for high school kids normally involves making a poster of the periodic table, or perhaps torching things with a small gas burner if your science teacher is a bit Walter White. If you’re also a cadet with the Civil Aviation Patrol, on the other hand, you can make a computer-controlled, record-breaking paper…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

India Reaches Mars With Mangalyaan’s Safe Arrival

Tonight is a big night for the planet occupied entirely by robots: the Mars Orbiter Mission is the second spacecraft in two days to slip into orbit around the red planet, and the first interplanetary mission from India. Don’t take this accomplishment lightly: the failure rate for Mars missions is still painfully high. The Mars…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Recreating famous portraits with John Malkovich is the best art

All art can stop being made because this is it. This is the best. Photographer Sandro Miller and John Malkovich teamed up to recreate famous portraits from history in their photo series Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters and it’s absolutely perfect. And hilarious. And the best. You’ll recognize so many of these famous…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Lego Mario Brothers Lamp is the Geekiest Way to Spend $2,200

Let’s say that you’ve got a spare two grand stuffed in a shoebox under your bed, and you want to put it towards something really useful. No, not paying off a credit card bill, or getting your car serviced — you want to blow that on a Mario Bros lamp made out of Lego. In…

Tech News Chris Mills

Why Chimps Should Never Become Pets Or Performers

Chimps who are removed from their mothers early in life and raised by humans as pets or performers are more likely to develop behavioral and social problems, according to new research. Can’t say I’m surprised, but it’s good to see work being done in this area. It’s well documented, for example, that infant chimps, when…

io9 George Dvorsky

Is This The Next Motorola Droid?

Well, well, well, look who’s back? After all the Motorola-Google drama, it looks like a new Droid is on the way. The usually reliable Hellomotohk has shots of a brand-new Motorola handset, and it doesn’t appear to be a China-exclusive phone. Just look at those clear Verizon and Droid logos below, indicating likely U.S. availability…

Tech News Alissa Walker

PayPal Maybe Sorta Kinda Slightly Accepting Bitcoin

PayPal has just taken its very first baby step towards allowing Bitcoin payments for goods, thanks to a partnership with payment processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin. PayPal’s move isn’t a wholesale endorsement of the crypto-currency: by partnering with existing Bitcoin payment processors, PayPal doesn’t actually have to handle (or hold onto) any Bitcoin itself, which…

Tech News Chris Mills

I Don’t Want Any Of These People Under Me Any More

Did you ever have an infestation you just can’t get rid of? Bedbugs, maybe? Or ants? Pubic lice? You spray and you clean and you put down traps, but you just can’t get rid of it. That’s how I feel about the humans who have been living inside of me. They’re annoying, but hard to…

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Brand new song made with random YouTube clips might be the best one yet

I don’t know how mash up star Kutiman keeps making such kick ass music just using YouTube clips. And this new song No One In This World might be the best yet. The musical magician lifts random clips off YouTube and seamlessly blends them together into something so stunning, you’d think it was recorded in…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Cop That Blasted Apple’s New Encryption Got His Facts Backwards

On Tuesday morning, The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Ronald T. Hosko, a former assistant director at the FBI, about how Apple’s new encryption techniques would’ve lead to the death of a victim in a case he oversaw. Turns out he was totally wrong. The newspaper just issued a correction. The paragraph in…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

8-bit game version of The Matrix is a better movie than its sequels

Being better than a Matrix sequel is not saying much, I know. But after recently re-watching the whole trilogy (and enjoying it!), it’s still nuts how much better the first one was. The action sequences in the sequels may have been more insane but this 8-bit game version of The Matrix brings back more fond…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Flapping Device Makes Electricity From Wind Rushing Past Your Car

As far as car accessories go, we have to admit this one looks pretty silly. But the Samsung scientists who made it could also be onto something. The flapping tongues inside are actually coated with gold, and when they rub up against a smooth plate, electricity is created through something called the triboelectric effect. It…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

It Wasn’t Exactly Hovering, At Least Not In Any Way We Could Understand

We came over the crest expecting to see another slope of crumbling rock. But instead, we witnessed this. A city began to build itself before our eyes, as if awakened by our presence. A golden ring of heated rock detached itself from the regolith, floating and spinning, illuminating the incomprehensible process. This is a painting…

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3 Fun Facts About the Unforgettable OD Scene in Pulp Fiction

Exactly 20 years ago today, Pulp Fiction hit theaters for the first time. No one had quite seen anything like the Quentin Tarantino masterpiece and its multiple layers of amazing. And who could ever forget the insane overdose scene that ends with John Travolta stabbing an adrenaline shot into Uma Thurman’s heart? Before getting into…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Class Of Satanic School Children

If you’re looking for something creepy to close out your day, watch the strange and chilling short film All Down Hill, in which a class of children abandoned in the desert go about their school day—their disturbing school day. Kyle Fleischer made this oddball short as his graduate film from MassArt. The sound design is…

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How The Amazing Spider-Man 2 should have ended

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 needs so much fixing that the folks at HISHE saw it fit to pretty much re-write the entire movie. Too bad the people making the movie didn’t feel the same way because they left us with an electric turd of a superhero sequel that ruined everything charming about the first movie.…

Sploid Casey Chan

I could watch these pipes forge together with friction welding forever

Colin Firth Is an Action Star in the Second Kingsman Trailer

India’s Space Probe Successfully Enters Mars Orbit

Here’s the same picture taken with every iPhone that has existed

A Bunch of US High-Schoolers Broke the Paper Airplane World Record

India Reaches Mars With Mangalyaan’s Safe Arrival

Recreating famous portraits with John Malkovich is the best art

This Lego Mario Brothers Lamp is the Geekiest Way to Spend $2,200

Why Chimps Should Never Become Pets Or Performers

Is This The Next Motorola Droid?

PayPal Maybe Sorta Kinda Slightly Accepting Bitcoin

I Don’t Want Any Of These People Under Me Any More

Brand new song made with random YouTube clips might be the best one yet

The Cop That Blasted Apple’s New Encryption Got His Facts Backwards

8-bit game version of The Matrix is a better movie than its sequels

This Flapping Device Makes Electricity From Wind Rushing Past Your Car

It Wasn’t Exactly Hovering, At Least Not In Any Way We Could Understand

3 Fun Facts About the Unforgettable OD Scene in Pulp Fiction

An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Class Of Satanic School Children

How The Amazing Spider-Man 2 should have ended

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