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Why Is A Major Batman Villain Going To Be Arrow‘s New Big Bad?

Ant-Man gets tons of new cast members, including plenty of familiar names. The reasons behind a major Batman villain’s role as Arrow’s new big bad are explained. Plus, the new Vampire Lestat movie might be circling a director and the titles of this season’s Doctor Who episodes have been revealed. Spoilers now! Ant-Man Well, after…

Crystal clear photo of the fiery reentry and destruction of a spaceship

German astronaut Alexander Gerst took this crystal clear photo of the Cygnus-class resupply ship Janice Voss entering the Earth’s atmosphere on August 17. I wish they could attach a thermal-safe pod with a camera inside to send along these ships—I want see video of the reentry from a close distance. SPLOID is a new blog…

Project Tango Tablet Teardown: Everything You Need For Handheld 3D

Google’s Project Tango tablet is an amazing bit of hardware that made us finally realize that computer vision could be useful for regular people, too. So now that iFixit has ripped one apart, we’re pretty excited to see what lurks within it. We already know that the tablet is powered by Nvidia’s Tegra K, making…

How You Really Use Spotify and iTunes

There are times in every person’s life when Alt-J, Future Islands and Manchester Orchestra just don’t scratch the itch. For those times, there is iTunes. [Truth Facts]

What would happen if pilots were jerks racing airplanes at the runway

I just stumbled upon this old video that I first watched in 2005, a fake Xbox commercial called Racing Beats made by visual effects students Alex Kiesl and Steffen Hacker. It’s a crazy race between four douchebags. Like Fast and Furious, but driving Boeing 747s around some airport runways. SPLOID is a new blog about…

Samsung’s New Bluetooth Speaker Looks Awfully Familiar

No, that’s not an picture of Jawbone’s now-iconic Jambox Bluetooth speaker. It is, in fact, the new Samsung Level Box mini. The new speaker measures 156 x 66 x 50 mm and weighs 392g. (The Jambox measures 151 x 57 x 40 mm and weighs 347g). It features Bluetooth connectivity and and aux-in port. (The…

NASA Wants You to Sift Through Its Astronauts’ Photos

NASA has a problem, and it wants you to help. Since the 50s, it’s amassed 1.8 million images of Earth from space—and it needs your assistance in working out exactly what they’re of. As part of The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, NASA is releasing the huge library of images—1.3 million of which have…

A little blurry? Perhaps, but this is a three-second exposure taken from aboard the ISS. As astronautReid Wiseman points out, it “shows how crazy our atmosphere really is.” [Reid Wiseman]

This Simple Chip Could Turn All Your Clothes Into Activity Trackerssho

These little chips may not look much, but in fact they’re a new breed of super-small, super-cheap accelerometers that could make motion sensing ubiquitous—even in the clothes you wear. The chips, made by mCube, measure just a couple of millimeters across—less than half the size of most accelerometer chips. Perhaps most importantly, though, they’re more…

Your House On Mars Could Look Like This

Your house on Mars could be a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with six-sided rooms laid out in a hex-based grid. It’s designed to shield against the cosmic radiation that humans would be exposed to under the Martian atmosphere using depleted uranium panels, and stay warm using water piped through walls and heated using an exothermic chemical…

How dating can really suck

Love is hard and, for some, dating is even harder. Especially when you are new to that game. Friend zones, disastrous dates, mismatched expectations, awkwardness… Remus Buznea and Kyriaki Kyriakou asked some twentysomethings about their experiences and animated them. Fun to watch—and as real as it gets. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…

How to Fix a Wobbly Table Using Math

We’ve all been sat drinking a beer only to realize that the table wobbles irritatingly. But while a piece of folded paper can solve the problem for a few minutes, there is a better solution—and it uses some simple math. Matthias Kreck from the University of Bonn explains in this video how simply turning the…

DIY Diagnosis: How One Woman Uncovered Her Own Genetic Flaw

When Kim Goodsell discovered that she had two extremely rare genetic diseases, she taught herself genetics to help find out why. Kim Goodsell was running along a mountain trail when her left ankle began turning inward, unbidden. A few weeks later she started having trouble lifting her feet properly near the end of her runs,…

Sprint has announced that, from Friday, a new family rate will allow 10 lines to share 20GB worth of data for $100 per month. (Though, everyone will need to be moving to Sprint from a different carrier, and the pricing will only last until the end of 2015.)

Banks Now Know Who You Are From How You Type

No two humans type alike. Some of us jab our fingers precisely into the right spots on a screen, while others are slightly less accurate. Now, a Swedish security startup is using this behavior to add an extra layer of security to our cellphones. Banks in Europe’s Nordic region are now using a new kind…

How to Read Text in Binary

Though you might not often need to do it, reading text in binary in surprisingly straightforward. Here’s your new nerdy party trick. In this vide, Tom Scott explains how letters emerge from a string of 1s and 0s. You simply need to be able to count in binary and know the order of your alphabet.…

The Amazon Fire Phone isn’t great. But its first software updatemeans that it now does multi-tasking, allows you to organize apps in folders, lets you pin apps to the home screen, and last longer on a charge, too. Still not good, but catching up.

It’s not all about Google Fiber: Cincinnati Bell is now offering gigabit internet to customers in its home town, too.

10 of the best improvised scenes in movie history

CineFix says these 10 scenes are the best improvised scenes in film history. They include the best of Judd Apatow, the insane brilliance of Apocalypse Now, Bob Downey doing his Bob Downey thing and movies from the master of improv, the late Robin Williams. Do you agree? The list: Bridesmaids Apocalypse Now Iron Man The…

The XBOX One’s Official Reddit App Lets You Upvote With Your Voice

Love Reddit? Love your XBOX One? This is your lucky day. Microsoft is launching ReddX, a dedicated Reddit app for the XBOX one, which will allow users to submit their own links and upvote and downvote content by — you guessed it — just screaming at your TV (Kinect required). The app, according to XBOX’s…