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Warner Bros. Finally Thinks Of A Better Title For Edge Of Tomorrow

Tom Cruise’s scifi movie Edge of Tomorrow was great, but it was doomed by terrible marketing. It was a box office bomb, not least because Warner Bros. changed its title from All You Need Is Kill to the ultra-generic Edge of Tomorrow — and now WB has apparently changed the title again. Check out its…

Owls are weighed wrapped up in blankets like little bird burritos

When you look up at this cute little owl all wrapped up with his bulging eyes, it makes your heart melt. But weighing owls in blanket burritos is actually a common practice by researchers and vets. The photos above come from the Raptor Center Clinic at the University of Minnesota. The veterinary clinic was treating…

U.S. Military Veterans Criticize Police Tactics In Ferguson

Recent events in Ferguson have prompted a national debate about “over-militarized” police forces that have acquired sophisticated, high-tech Pentagon equipment — including drones — through Homeland Security funding. But, how do actual military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan assess the situation? [Image: Department of Defense.] Veterans who were interviewed by the Washington Post…

Three Minutes Of Spinning Tops That Are Impossible To Stop Watching

This short film takes its inspiration from the 1969 film Tops directed by famed designers Ray and Charles Eames, and is literally nothing more than footage of spinning tops of all shapes, sizes, and colors. But don’t be fooled, it’s more captivating as anything Hollywood has produced in the past decade. The featured tops are…

How Weird Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Going to Be?

Ben Affleck opens up about the reaction to his Batman. Jessica Alba discusses how her own personal growth affected her character in Sin City 2. Changes are coming to Oliver’s Arrow costume. And news about the return of Doctor Who’s most famous foes. Spoilers now! Top image: Arrow Batman v. Superman Ben Affleck actually talked…

16 Ways To Use FLIR’s Incredibly Fun Predator-Vision iPhone Camera

There’s no doubt about it, being able to see more than just the visible spectrum is the closest thing most of us will ever have to superpowers. Seeing the world through its heat signature is almost like having x-ray vision, and let’s not forget, even the Predator made sure to bring his thermal camera with…

This Is Where Your Electricity Comes From

Ever wondered where those electrons come from when you plug something into your wall? Well, the Wall Street Journal has a lovely map which shows the main sources of electricity in each of the U.S. states. In fact, it shows how it’s changed since 2001 too—not that you’d notice much difference at a glance. Look…

Cheap Solid-State Batteries That Last Twice as Long as Li-On Are Coming

Most of our devices run (not for long enough) on lithium ion batteries. But there could be a new, old kid on the block—in the shape of a solid-state battery that can hold twice the charge as li-on. There’s nothing new about the solid-state battery: it simply swaps the liquid electrolyte in conventional lithium-ion batteries…

Biologist explains the science behind The Hulk and Captain America

Even while it is all science-fiction, there are science mechanisms that can explain some superheroes. Stanford University biologist Sebastian Alvarado talks about the genetic transformations that made the Incredible Hulk and Captain America acquire their trademark superpowers. The Incredible Hulk Captain America All this said, the fact that there are mechanisms that explain these superheroes…

The Premier League Is Banning Goals Being Posted to Vine and Twitter

If there’s one thing better than a wonderful goal in soccer, it’s reliving it over, and over, and over, and over. Preferably in slow-mo. Ideally as a looped GIF. And almost certainly sourced from social media. But sadly, the UK’s Premier League is stamping out all such behavior. Speaking to BBC’s Newsbeat, the Premier League’s…

Real Clean Slate Program Loses Trademark Case Against Dark Knight Rises

Decided yesterday in the 7th Circuit: Users can tell the difference between The Dark Knight Rises fake “clean slate” program — which can delete every reference to you on every computer, everywhere — and a real program which restores default settings to shared computers. On August 14, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an…

This Site Automatically Saves Your Favorite Username on New Services

Boy do you have to be quick when signing up for new services these days. Dilly-dally a little and you’ll find that your favorite username has already been snapped up. Now, a new startup called Earlyclaim can automatically reserve your favorite username for you. “This is an effort to help people create a consistent online…

The latest version of Google’s Voice Search allows you to choose up to five languages as your default instead of just one—which means you can search in different languages without having to change a single option anywhere. Neat.

The Xbox One Media Player Is Gonna Be Great for Watching Torrents

Microsoft announced its plans for a new standalone media player on Xbox One earlier this week—and it turns out that it will be perfect for watching torrents. https://gizmodo.com/the-xbox-one-could-soon-stream-tv-straight-to-your-phon-1620037840 The new player will support playback of both files from USB and local networks via DLNA. But more usefully, it will support a wide array of codecs—including…

This animation short is so good that they’re making it into a full movie

This short film created by former Pixar animator Adam Wood is so good that Adam McKay and Will Ferrell will be producing a movie based on it. It tells the story of a clumsy janitor at a museum who accidentally finds himself inside the sophisticated, out-of-control armor of a famous supervillain. They are aiming for…

NASA Scientists Have Found the First Interstellar Space Particles

NASA has identified for the first time seven rare, microscopic interstellar dust particles—that date to the beginnings of the solar system. The particles have been identified amongst samples obtained by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, which returned to Earth back in 2006. The craft contained a tray of silica aerogel, which captured small interstellar dust particles as…

How Do You Know You’re Real?

It’s Friday morning, and maybe you’re questioning your life a little: is it worth this long hard slog each week? But there are bigger questions to ask yourself, like, do you even exist in the first place? This lovely video by James Zucker is really just a super-accessible take on René Descartes’s Meditations on First…

Microsoft Research has created aSnapchat clone called Windup, which is available for Windows Phone 8 and 8.1. It lets you share pictures, videos and audio snippets, as well as text—and choose how long your friends get to see them for.

The Man Who Invented Pop-up Ads Is Very, Very Sorry

Pop-up ads have got be in the top five list of the digital world’s most hated things, not including Internet Explorer. Now, the man who invented them back in the mid-90s, wants to apologize. Ethan Zuckerman, the head of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT, says that he didn’t know what he was…

Are These Star Wars Episode VII‘s New Stormtroopers? [UPDATED]

Website Indie Revolver has shots of what may be a version of Imperial stormtrooper we’ll be seeing in Episode VII. And the photos are very convincing. Spoilers of a sort ahead. But mostly speculation. Here’s the first design revealed by Indie Revolver: Comic Book Movie says that this is being referred to as a “Jungle…