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Police Hope 3D Printing Can Help Solve A 1996 Homicide Case

On August 9, 1996, Kobayashi Junko, a 21-year-old senior studying at Sophia University, was murdered in his home in Katsushika-Ku, Tokyo. Today, 18 years later, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police are working with 3D printing technicians to recreate the scene of the crime. As the news site 3Ders.org reports, police were able to conclude that Kobayashi…

Apple Watch Comes With Its Own Terrifying, Animated Emoji

Sure, the highly anticipated Apple Watch may come packing lots of “features” and “practical functions.” But let’s focus on what really matters—the tiny, colored icons that say all the things we cannot. And apparently, in Apple Watch land, all those things are going to be impossibly creepy. Emoji already have a tendency towards unsettling in…

Russia Is Building a Star Fort on This Strategic Arctic Island

For decades, Wrangel Island has been classified as a nature preserve. Situated in the icy Chukchi Sea which flows between the Russian and Alaskan coasts, this quiet, hilly island is now home to a rapidly-growing Russian military base comprised of “prefabricated modules” arranged in a star formation. It sounds a lot like the kinds of…

Whoa, the Apple Watch Has Wireless Charging

One interesting tidbit about the new Apple Watch is that it comes with wireless charging. That’s pretty awesome on it’s own, and notable for the fact that it’s a technology that hasn’t quite be sorted out quite yet. The watch requires no alignment or exposed contacts—it uses a combination of magsafe tech with inductive charging…

Apple Watch: Everything You Need to Know

It’s finally here. The shadow of an “iWatch” has already spawned an army of smartwatches but now Apple’s first wearable is here in the flesh. It’s beautiful, it’s called the “Apple Watch,” and you control it by using that little watch knob. Design Considering that Apple’s been making a ton of fashion-world hires, it’s no…

Apple Pay Could Finally Make Mobile Payments Happen

Apple wants to destroy your wallet and kill your credit cards with Apple Pay, its new mobile payment system. With a new iPhone or the Apple Watch, you’ll be able to ditch your cards and pay for stuff at more than 220,000 merchants by tapping your device. That is, as long as you trust Apple.…

How To Make A Science Fiction TV Show Part 1: Getting The Greenlight

I’m a former Syfy exec who left the network to co-create and write a new TV show called Z Nation, which debuts on Syfy and Space Channel this Friday, Sept. 12, at 10/9c. So how does a genre TV show get on the air? Here’s what I’ve learned from this process, starting with how you…

We’ve Lost One Of The Great Fantasy Writers: R.I.P. Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce was a monumental writer in the fantasy genre. His humane, intense writing was like a masterclass in how to put story first, and he knew how to write people, with all our blind spots and our hopeful mistakes. He died today of lymphatic cancer, and it’s a huge loss to fantasy literature. Top…

Boy Gets Prosthetic Iron Man Hand, Repulsor Blasts Our Hearts

Three-year-old Rayven “Bubba” Kahae was born with ABS, amniotic band syndrome, which means one of Bubba’s hands isn’t fully formed. But now he has a prosthetic Iron Man Hand, and we have something in our eye…. KHON2 News interviewed Bubba’s grandma, who shared the footage of her grandson getting his brand new Iron Man-styled hand.…

The New iPhone Has Burst Mode For Selfies

Okay, this is kind of hilarious. The new iPhone 6 has burst mode for selfies. Hello narcissists! Burst mode, for the uninitiated will take several photos with one push of a button. This joins a number of other features that make the iPhone 6’s camera better than ever. The lens is the same with an…

The iPhone 6’s New M8 Chip Makes It a Truly Badass Fitness Tracker

Amongall the other goodies being packed into the brand new iPhone 6 and6 Plus, the phone comes bearing the newest generation of Apple’s M chip—the M8. And it might finally turn the iPhone into the fitness tracker we’ve been waiting for. The new sensor should be able to know whether you’re running, riding your bike,…

The iPhone’s WiFi Handoffs Make Internet Calling Better Than Ever

You’ll be able to call people using your WiFi connection on the iPhone 6, so when your WiFi is working better than your reception is (all the time?) you’ll have an alternative. And Apple’s WiFi received a speedy upgrade: 802.11ac WiFi in the iPhone 6, or three times faster than the previous generation. But that’s…

iPhone 6 Guts: A Screaming Processor and a Better Camera Than Ever

The new generation of iPhones isn’t only increasing in size but speed as well. Apple just announced its next-generation A8 processor that will be baked into the iPhone 6 and most likely future iPad Airs. Apple confirms rumors that the A8 has over 2 billion transistors and is 13 percent smaller, 25 percent faster, and…

Thebigger, badder iPhone is finally here. But don’t worry, it does indeed have a mode for your itty bitty baby hands. In other words, you should be able to use all 5.5 inches just fine.

Arkham Knight Limited, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Espresso [Deals]

Six films and a Tesseract. $120 today. [ Marvel Cinematic Universe] The Arkham Knight Limited Edition includes a statue, comicbook, and more. The Batmobile Edition is already gone, but we’ll keep an eye out for more stock. [Arkham Knight LE] Get these deals and more, and earlier on Deals.Kinja. Connect with us on Twitter and…

Short Film: The big fish always eats the small fish

Meet Meat is another great animation film from the graduates at French art school Gobelins: A whale hunter hunts a whale, then gets chased by a bigger monster. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

​iPhone 6: A Little Bit Bigger, A Whole Lot Better

This is it. Apple just announced the iPhone 6—andthe iPhone 6 Plus—a sleek sliver of aluminum that comes in two sizes. The screen on the smaller of the two measures 4.7-inches diagonally, and depending on the nature of your needs (and the size of your hands) it might just be the perfect phone for you.…

Tuesday Game Room: Forward Unto Destiny Edition

Welcome to September, Guardian. The fall release season kicks off today with one of the biggest sci-fi games of the year hitting shelves, as well as the latest in all things video game hockey. Preparing a trip to The Tower, or readying your wallet for the spending season? Talk shop in Tuesday Game Room! What…

The Secret Twist In the Bobo Doll Experiments That Turned Kids Mean

The Bobo Doll experiments are famous for establishing that kids who watch violent behavior are more likely to display violent tendencies. But the original experiments had a twist that most people never hear about. Learn how the experimenters wound children up. In 1961, Albert Bandura, a psychologist and professor at Stanford, made a name for…

​iPhone 6 Plus: Everything You Need to Know About Apple’s Jumbo Phone

The 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus is Apple’s biggest iPhone to date. It’s one of two new iPhones the company is introducing today, and the Plus means, obviously, that this is the biggest iPhone 6. Here’s what you need to know about Apple’s massive smartphone future. iPhone Finally Goes Big Apple’s original iPhone was a groundbreaking…