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Things Are Getting Real On the Jurassic World Set

This picture was tweeted by director Colin Trevorrow this morning. It’s not entirely surprising to see that someone meets a bloody end in a Jurassic Park movie, so we’re wondering more about the role a mobile vetrinary unit plays. Here’s the full tweet from Trevorrow: [via Bleeding Cool]

Drone Month at AudioMo

There’s a month-long audio challenge in June called AudioMo (more at twitter.com/AudioMo and audiomo.net). The intention appears to be to get music-makers making music, along the lines of National Novel Writing Month and February Album Writing Month. Here’s a description of AudioMo from its website: AudioMo is a month long audio challenge, normally held in…

Terminator: Genesis is apparently being renamed Terminator. This comes from sources telling Bleeding Cool that various tie-ins are being branded that way, which would make this the final title. [via Bleeding Cool]

NASA’s Flying Saucer Test Flight A Success

The landing was a bit rough, but NASA is calling the test flight of its flying saucer shaped, low-density supersonic decelerator a success. Mika McKinnon has the details on the primary mission – which began at 120,000 feet and ended with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean – after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/the-long-awaitedflying-saucer-test-finally-happened-in-1597781119

Luckiest guy in the world avoids death by stray demolition rock

Witness a man being born again as a huge stray rock—ejected from the explosive demolition of a clothing factory in Czech Republic—swooshes right by his head. A few inches closer and he would have been instantly killed. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

A Successful First Flight for of the Saucer Test Vehicle over Hawaii

The long-awaited flying saucer test finally happened in the Hawaiian skies this weekend. The primary mission of evaluating the test vehicle was a complete success, but the bonus missions of evaluating new landing technologies were more mixed, with the parachute failing to deploy. The saucer-shaped test vehicle being lifted aboard the Kahana recovery vessel after…

This Is A Good Time To Catch Up On American Horror Story

Now that we know what the next season of American Horror Story is about, it’s a good time to catch up on the last few seasons of the show if you haven’t already seen it. I recommend starting with Season 2 (“Asylum“), moving on Season 1 (“Murder House“) and then watching Season 3 (“Coven“) This…

Neil Gaiman’s Video Game Is Coming July 15th!

Last year, Neil Gaiman announced he was putting out a video game (hooray!). Then, its October release was pushed back (drat!). Now, according to an update on the game’s website, Gaiman’s long-awaited “Wayward Manor” has an official release date, and it’s just over two weeks away! https://kotaku.com/here-s-a-quick-glimpse-at-neil-gaiman-s-first-video-gam-924129519 A project update was posted to the game’s…

Shania Twain: You’re Still The One

I just survived a long-distance relationship. The girlfriend and I met after two whole years. Having a face-to-face conversation after months of Whatsapping and Skyping feels… unreal, and it’s kind of awesome just to be in the same time zone as each other. For my Soundtrack pick tonight, I’m going back to the late 90s…

How To Cook A Steak Over A Campfire

If there’s any better feeling than that brought by throwing a steak on a campfire, we don’t want to know what it is. Here’s how to get your meat right every time. What You’ll Need: Steaks (the best quality you can buy). Salt and Pepper. A grill rack (optional). Long, sturdy tongs. Heavy leather gloves,…

We’re Not Dead Yet, Says BlackBerry, Launching a “Fact Check” Portal

BlackBerry’s U.S. market share is now 0 percent. But the company doesn’t want you to think that it has given up yet. Instead, it has launched a new portal called the “BlackBerry Fact Check” to counter the “smoke and mirrors marketing tactics by competitors” and fight back with facts. The company has been updating its…

John Constantine Won’t Be Smoking On TV

Producer David S. Goyer says he fought to keep it, but it looks like John Constantine’s trademark chain-smoking will not make it to the TV adaptation of DC’s Constantine. https://gizmodo.com/damn-if-nbcs-constantine-doesnt-look-exactly-like-jo-1542952012 Said Neil Marshall, who directed the show’s pilot, in a recent interview with Collider: …it’s the one thing you can’t smoke on network. That’s one…

Microsoft’s Cross-Platform Smartwatch Might Be Here In October

We hope you didn’t blow all your cash on that Surface Pro 3. Tom’s Hardware says that a “trusted source with knowledge of the development” has verified that a Microsoft smartwatch will be released in October. There aren’t really a lot of details about hardware or pricing yet, but here’s what Tom’s claims they do…

Check Out This Three-Page Preview of Warren Ellis’ Supreme: Blue Rose

Image Comics has released three pages from the forthcoming first-issue of Supreme: Blue Rose, Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay’s reimagining of Rob Liefeld’s skewed Superman archetype. According the publisher, Blue Rose will “re-introduce the central Image Comics character Supreme with a science-fiction/mystery flavor.” Via Image: Paired with striking visuals from Lotay, Ellis resurrects the SUPREME…

This Is The Most Earth-Like Planet Discovered Yet

The nearest Earth-like planet is only 16 light-years away from us. It has a mass that is more than five times the mass of the Earth and it orbits a red dwarf star that has half the mass and radius of our sun. But the most important thing about the Gliese 832c, as astronomers at…

Facebook Doesn’t Think Manipulating Users’ Emotions Is A Big Deal

If you missed this outrageous study published earlier this month in an academic journal, here’s the nutshell version: In January 2012, a Facebook data scientist, along with two university researchers, tweaked the News Feed of almost 690,000 users to display more “positive” or “negative” stories to figure out if “emotions are contagious on social networks”.…

Clever Minimalist Movie Posters Made From Card Stock

Spanish design studio Atipo designed movie posters for 15 classic films using creatively configured sheets of paper, in the series “Papeles de Cine.” The series was part of a promotional campaign to announce the launch “Gallery of Papers,” a website by design firm Minke. For several of the pieces,the only medium used was card stock;…

Google, Not Device Makers, Will Control Android Wear, Auto and TV UI

When Android Wear, Android Auto and Android TV launch this fall, they’ll solve a problem that has plagued Android since day one: an inconsistent user experience across devices. Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham points out that unlike Android phones from different manufacturers that sport ugly custom UIs, launchers and interacting with Android on different smartwatches was…

Have You Ever Realized You Were In a Dream?

Recently, for the first time, I realized that I was dreaming as I was having the dream. This was due to critical thinking – which usually doesn’t happen in dreams. We’ll look at why lucid dreaming and critical thinking might go hand in hand. Lucid dreaming is still a contested area of study among scientists.…

Recursive Book Cover Is Recursive

The cover art for Paul Halmos’ book on Naive Set Theory plays with the self-referential nature of Russel’s Paradox, to humorous visual effect. https://gizmodo.com/this-logic-puzzle-will-make-your-brain-hate-you-5854921 H/t Kottke