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Sony Releases Burly E-Mount Lens With Serious Video Chops For Your a7

Sony’s a7 and a7r full-frame mirrorless cameras were only so-so for video, but the a7s is an absolute killer. The only thing lacking at launch was a good selection of lenses to suit the needs of videographers. That is starting to change with the new 28-135mm f/4 OSS. Designed specifically for videographers, the 28-135 f/4…

Those Excavated E. T. Video Game Cartridges Are Being Auctioned Off

If you’re an old-school gaming aficionado, here’s your chance to own a piece of (infamous) gaming history. The Alamogordo City Council in New Mexico is auctioning off half the recovered E. T. cartridges that were found buried in a landfill. The cartridges of what is widely believed to be the worst video game in the…

Viber for Android and iOS now allows you to make video calls. If you have the desktop app installed, you can even switch devices in the middle of the conversation (and vice versa). Nice. [The Next Web]

Reuters: The Next Apple Watch Will Track More Fitness Data

The Apple Watch, as it exists right now, is pretty sweet. If you’re tempted to snag one as soon as it hits the shelves some time next year, we won’t blame you. But here’s a reason to hold off right now. There’salready evidence that a better, richer Apple Watch might be here in 2016. This…

How many items in this animation have you dropped?

Accidentally dropping things is such a sinking feeling. It’s a combination of feeling embarrassed because you dropped something and being grossed out because it’s on the floor now mixed with carelessness and I should know better since I’ve been living on this planet for many years-ness. This cute little animation short called Butter Fingers by…

Nikon D750: Finally, a Top DSLR With a Screen That’s Useful For Video

Over the last few years top DSLRs have gotten so good that they’re not just for photographers; they’re used by filmmakers and producers to shoot high-quality video, too. The Nikon’s D750, though, is the first pro-DSLR to come with a tilting screen, a significant ergonomic improvement. Tilting LCDs aren’t new on cheaper DSLRs and mirrorless…

Here’s a F1 car racing against a motorcycle racing against a supercar

For a second, you think hey maybe the motorcycle has a chance in this Top Gear bit since it screams to a lead but then the land-based jet machine insanity known as an F1 race car steps it up and the other two are fighting not to get lapped by the closest thing we have…

Is a Live-Action Teen Titans One DC Show Too Many?

DC does not seem concerned about this at all, since they and Warner Bros. keep producing them. The latest property to get the small screen treatment are the Teen Titans, as TNT is about to order a pilot based on the Teen Titans called, simply Titans. Written by Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman and Marc Haimes, the…

Watch an adorable 2-year-old girl immediately identify fonts adorably

I learned two things while watching this aww-inducing video. Scarlett, the cute 2-year-old girl in the video, is a genius child with an eagle eye for instantly recognizing typefaces better than most humans and that it’s going to be awesome to be a parent because you can teach your kid whatever the heck you want…

Pepperoni pizza made with french fries crust is a delicious way to die

There have been many attempts to make this right, but it seems that everyone has failed until now. Or at least claims the inventor of the pepperoni pizza with french fries dough, who says that everyone else has failed to make the french fries base correctly: I’ve see many variations of the french fry pizza…

What happened to your favorite cartoon characters after they got famous

Like most people who got too famous too fast or too rich too young, it’s no surprise that our favorite cartoon characters would burn out and get fat, drunk and be out of work too. Well, if they were real. Steve Cutts made this short animation that imagined the harsh reality of cartoon characters past…

Here’s How Japanese Pop Videos Depicted Cyberspace Back In 1989

Western cyberpunk creators borrowed a lot from Japanese culture in the 1980s — but judging from this video by J-Pop diva Anri, it went both ways. Watch as our heroine puts on her mirror shades and hacks into cyberspace, only to be pursued by a dark avatar. This amazing 1980s time capsule is the video…

Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Get Pumped in His Prime

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen the man who would become governor of California talk about “the pump.” In the now legendary 1977 documentary Pumping Iron, a 28-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger describes the feeling in memorable terms. Put more bluntly, the Terminator likens lifting weights to having an orgasm. Plenty of people have heard of Pumping…

Today’s Best Music News Is About Songs That Came Out in the 1970s

George Harrison or Stevie Wonder? It was a total toss-up who would win tonight’s coveted Soundtrack spot. The former’s got a new box set coming out, which made me all kinds of misty eyed for the (best) Beatle; the latter just announced an upcoming tour where he’ll play the entirety of Songs in the Key…

What If You Were Under House Arrest In A Haunted House? TWIST

It’s officially the time when all the indie horror movies coming out in October start releasing their early buzz trailers! We love this time! Check out the new trailer for Housebound, a movie about a girl under house arrest in a haunted house. This New Zealand film puts a twist on the classic haunted house…

Why Is It So Hard To Predict The Technology Of The Future?

Attempting to predict the future is always a roll of the dice — even if we manage to correctly foretell where the winds will shift us, it is impossible to know what unexpected events will detour us on the way there. But what makes the technology of the future so particularly difficult to imagine? In…

Turns out Hollywood isn’t so gay-friendly after all. A new study of 5,700 members of SAG-AFTRA found way more widespread (and blatant) discrimination against LGBT performers and other professionals than you’d have expected (or hoped.) There’s a town hall about it, being livestreamed at 5:30 PST.

The Quest to Resurrect an Extinct Animal Without Cloning

Before there was the cow, there was the auroch, a sinewy beast that roamed Eurasia by the millions. And over thousands of years, humans bred the creature into the millions of milk-and-steak-machines we have today. The last auroch, however, died in the 17th century. A group of scientists now want to bring back the auroch…

The Curiosity Rover Has Arrived At Its Primary Scientific Target!

It took a little more than 2 years and nearly 9 kilometers of driving, but NASA’s Curiosity Rover has finally reached the base of Mount Sharp. The a 3.4-mile-tall mountain, formally known as Aeolis Mons, rises from the center of Gale Crater, and is the rover’s primary scientific target. After so much driving (for which…

Why Does The Universe Exist?

Here’s philosopher Jim Holt delivering a TED talk with one of the TED-talkiest titles ever (just listen to the audience laugh in a paroxysm of absurd self-awareness): “Why does the Universe Exist?” And yet it’s a pretty great presentation. In all seriousness, I know it’s popular these days to give TED a hard time for…