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Skype on Windows Phone is now slightly more useful thanks to a location-sharing feature that comes with the latest update. Also, you can now turn off notifications for individual conversation, a polite way to block annoying friends. [Engadget]

Swinging the world’s longest golf club looks absolutely ridiculous

I don’t where people come up with the ideas to do these things sober but if you were ever wondering what the the Guinness World Record for world’s longest golf club was, the answer is 14-feet 5-inches. Karsten Maas from Denmark used the club to drive the ball about 180 yards. And look absolutely ridiculous…

It’s official: you get a 2-hour refund window to return paid apps and games from the Google Play Store. To be clear, you’ve been able to do this for some time. It’s just that Google has now updated the refund policy on the Google Play support site to reflect the change. Good for us. [Android…

This Rube Goldberg machine is powered by light

It’s always fun to see the chain reaction of Rube Goldberg machines and how one action can cascade into a whole bunch of things happening. This one, from an ad for Japanese technology company au, is particularly cool because it’s just powered by light and lens and optics. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

The Amazing and Diverse Art One Man Made for Three of This Year’s Films

Jonny McCoy is a concept artist who just released a slew of work done for three of this year’s huge releases: Thor: The Dark World, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Edge of Tomorrow (big internationally). The art straddles a wide range of work, all of it awesome. For Days of Future Past, McCoy’s work…

Here’s the first official picture of the new Batmobile and it looks sick

Here it is. The real thing. Batman’s next ride. We saw blurry images of what looked like the new Batmobile earlier today but it wasn’t official until now. Zack Snyder, director of Batman v. Superman, just tweeted out this official image of the upcoming Batmobile and it’s crazy. This angle makes the new Batmobile look…

Illustrated Twitter Typos Are Hilarious Eldritch Horrors

Illustrated Twitter Typos does exactly what it says on the tin: It provides images to show you what it would look like if these weren’t typos but actually what happened. And it turns out that most typos result in horrifying chimera-type lifeforms. Illustrated Twitter Typos can be found on either tumblr or twitter. A project…

​How To Live Off The Land In Paradise

Away from the tourist hoards, Maui’s east side — Hana and Kipahulu — is an unspoiled tropical paradise full of secret beaches, sacred waterfalls and a jungle so fertile it provides all the food you’ll need. Here’s how you can enjoy it like the locals. The girlfriend (pictured) and I have been meaning to go…

Burger King’s new all-black burger has black buns, cheese, and sauce

Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft reports on the new all black burger at Burger King Japan, a sandwich with black buns, black sauce, and black cheese darker than a black hole (seriously, the cheese is extremely black.) It looks kind of gross—but I really want to try it. How is this black cheese so dark, you ask?…

Look at Those Guns: Here’s an Official Look at the Batmobile

Following the photos that leaked this morning, Zack Snyder has dropped an official shot of the new Batman v. Superman Batmobile. If anything, this looks even more souped up than the other photos. First, we’re once again treated to this film’s monochromatic official photography. Second, unlike the leaked photos, we get a very good look…

While You Weren’t Looking, Dell Made Android Tablets Interesting Again

Apple! Apple! Apple! Yesterday, you were probably too busy gawking at Cupertino’s precious new watch and giant smartphones to notice anything else that happened in the world of technology. There’s no shame in that. But if you were paying attention to the 2014 Intel Developers Conference in San Francisco, you might have gotten a glimpse…

NASA publishes unprecedented X-ray image of supernova remnant

Once again, the Universe amazes me with a never-before-seen display of color and shapes that defies belief. You are looking at Puppis A,a supernova remnant that is 7,000 light years away and is 10 light years across (!) And yet it looks like microscopic view of a coral here on Earth. Amazingly beautiful. Capture by…

Famous Hollywood movie scenes recreated with stock footage are hilarious

Who needs big budgets for blockbuster movies when you can just pull generic stock footage to hilariously recreate all the key scenes? It’s beautiful, really. Dissolve made this ad to promote their stock footage library and came up with a bunch of popular movies: The Matrix, Forrest Gump, Lion King and so on. There are…

This Short Sci-Fi Thriller Shows a Quantum Experiment Gone Awry

Would you follow your lover to a different dimension? Entangled, one of the highlights from the Toronto International Film Festival’s Short Cuts program, is an eerie, engrossing story that follows what happens when a scientist decides to conduct a quantum experiment on himself. Like Shane Carruth’s Primer, Entangled takes a sci-fi concept and grounds it…

A Girl Realizes Her Brother Is A Changeling—And Tries To Give Him Back

What would you do if you realized that the baby in your home was not a human child, but a fairy changeling? In this short comic, a young girl recognizes that the baby everyone thinks is her brother is actually a changeling—and she decides to get rid of him. You can see the first few…

How Breakbot Taught Me to Love R&B

I recently started dating a girl. It actually wasn’t that recently and now she is my girlfriend. But! Until recently, there was a rift between us, a canyon separating our passions. She loves R&B. I hate R&B. Who knew a skinny, bearded French dude would sweep in to save the day? That fair Frenchman’s name…

An X-Class Flare Unleashed Right At Earth

The sun fired off an X-class solar flare, the most powerful classification, this afternoon, from an Earth-facing sunspot called Active Region 2158. The flare was powerful enough to cause a sustained blackout of high-frequency radio communication here on Earth. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spied the flare this afternoon, beginning at 1721 and peaking at 1745…

5 Apple Watch Reviews From People Who Wore It For Like Maybe 3 Minutes

Yesterday, lucky journalists (including one from Gizmodo!) got their first looks at the long-awaited Apple Watch. These folks even got to sport it on their wrists for a few brief minutes, which gave them slightest glimpse at what using the finished product might actually be like. So naturally there are already “reviews.” “Beauty first, tech…

Surprise! Legend Of Korra‘s Final Season Debuts In Less Than A Month!

This has been a bizarre year for The Legend of Korra. First, Book 3 was released with little notice; then the show was yanked off the air and made an online-only property. Now the creators have announced that Book 4: Balance will premiere on October 3rd—of this year. The creators did announce during San Diego…

The Brutal Mechanics of a Bike Crash Will Convince You To Wear A Helmet

Bike wrecks happen fast. In two milliseconds—that’s one-hundred-times quicker than a blink of an eye—a regular ride can turn into a disastrous noggin-buster. If you ever doubted the importance of strapping on a helmet before you roll out, cycle giants Giro explain what happens to your head and the mechanics of a crash. Collisions can…