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This Is How We Are Watching The Apple Event Today

Nailed it. [The Joy Of Tech via Recode]

There will be a big U2 announcement at today’s Apple event, says The New York Times. In addition to performing, the band will reveal an integration with Apple’s products that is connected to its next album, which is expected to come out by the end of the year, according to the Times’ anonymous sources. [NYT]

Watching a master chef make noodles by hand is absolutely mesmerizing

I’m not sure if this is considered just cooking or if it can be classified as high art or even a musical performance but whatever it is, it’s an absolute joy to watch. What you’re seeing is soba master Tatsuru Rai, owner and chef of Sobatei Rakuichi in Niseko, Hokkaido, making his soba noodles in…

A Desperate Amazon Drops the Fire Phone’s Price To 99 Cents

Right before Apple announces the iPhone 6 on Tuesday, Amazon is dropping the price of its Fire smartphone from $200 to 99 cents with a two-year AT&T contract. If you needed any more proof that this phone was an unmitigated disaster, this is it. Amazon never releases sales numbers for any of its hardware, but…

Whatsapp for iOS Gets A Ton Of New Features (But No Voice Calling Yet)

Whatsapp updates are so few and far between that we should probably open a bottle of wine every time we get them. The Facebook-owned instant messenger just got another update, and if you have an iPhone, you’re in for a treat. Whatsapp on iOS now has the ability to share the slo-mo videos that you…

The dark alphabet of things that can kill you from A to Z

It’s hard to keep track of what could kill you these days but if you really want to know, it’s basically everything.College Humor created this dark comedy animation bit where the Grim Reaper waxes poetic on all the things that can kill a person from A to Z. It’s a reminder to not avoid life…

Super slick CGI movie teaser makes me want to see the whole thing

CGI and visual effects are often over used in mainstream movies these days but there are still some really cool sequences that can only pop and make you gasp with the help of VFX. This short teaser for The Message, a short film by Industry Visual Effects, goes all in on CGI and it looks…

This might be the most fun you can have with a Nerf gun

A Nerf gun is never not fun. If you see one of those laying around anywhere, at a toy store, in the office, in a kid’s bedroom, in your dreams, you have to pick it up and get goofy with it. So how can you have more fun with something our DNA says is never…

Unicycling down a mountain is pure crazy

First of all, I’m not even sure I would walk down some of these stretches of the mountain. And yet these guys decided to unicycle down the mountains of Moab because there’s nothing as nuts as taking on mother nature with just one wheel between your knees. You don’t go as fast on the unicycle…

Japan’s Made the Best, and Funniest, Guardians of the Galaxy Trailers

Guardians of the Galaxy is premiering in Japan this week and director James Gunn has been kind enough to inform the world of the beauty that are their trailers. Rather than the more team-focused trailers we got, Japan went for a route that picked out the anthropomorphized characters, using some perfectly chosen stock images. You…

This Early Take on Who Framed Roger Rabbit Never Made It To the Theater

As a kid, the wow-factor of seeing live action and animation come together in Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a mind-blowing blast of: Howdedoodat? The 1988 feature we know and love was actually Disney’s second attempt at bringing this particular story to life, and a new-to-the-internet clip from 1983 reveals how much the tale and…

Why Scientists Dig Trenches To Find Hidden Fault Lines in Cities

Thanks to our asphalt-giddy behavior, we’ve all but paved over the fault lines that zigzag through some of our riskiest seismic zones. A new video shows how a team of geologists and engineers in LA have been digging a hole to find the exact location of a fault which could prove to be especially destructive.…

Tech From Stealth Warplanes Make Wind Turbines Invisible to Radar

From afar, wind turbines look like small toys spinning lazily in the wind. But get up close, and you realize what huge structures they really are: hundreds of feet tall, blade tips slicing through the air at over 100 mph. And these wind turbines can really scramble airport and weather radars. To solve the problem,…

A scientifically accurate Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers is quite nasty

Back again to ruin all of your childhood’s favorite cartoons, here’s ADHD hilariously explaining how disgusting chipmunks are. Sure, they might look cute with their puffy cheeks but in reality, their always growing, suicidal teeth and disease riddled selves don’t make for ace detective material. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…

Here’s What You Need to Know About Big Data

What the hell is “big data,” and why does everybody keep saying it will change the future? If you want to understand the answer, you’ve got to get beyond the buzzword and back to the term’s real meaning. In a recent post on UC Berkeley’s Data Science blog, Jenna Dutcher asked several people who work…

Home Depot Confirms Hack: As Many As 60 Million Cards Stolen

Home Depot confirmed today that the company was, indeed, the victim of a large credit card breach reported by many customers last week. An estimated 60 million card numbers were stolen, which would make it the biggest such hack in retail history. A similar attack on Target affected 40 million cardholders. We’re still awaiting more…

All the magical Londons. Over at Tor.com, there’s a great roundup of all the fantasy versions of London that have appeared in books, movies and other media, from Gaiman to Rowling. With a ton more brought up in the comments. Top image: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.

The ***Flawless Remix Is My Daily Affirmation

Whenever I need to light the fire under my own ass, I turn on the remix of Beyonce’s ***Flawless. There’s 100 percent more Nicki Minaj, and it’s 100 percent more awesome. It’s a motivational tool! Listen to these lyrics and tell me you they don’t affirm your life’s existence: I wake up lookin’ this good,…

If It Ever Happens, The Next Dredd Movie Would Be A Prequel

Most right-thinking people loved Karl Urban as Judge Dredd and want a second helping — but if we get another film, it won’t be a continuation of Dredd, showing the Judge upholding the law in Mega-City One. Instead, it’ll be a prequel, showing how the judges came to be. Urban was at Chicago Comic-Con recently,…

Is this the most amazing bathtub in the world? (Spoiler: Yes, yes it is)

It’s not a new image, but I just saw it popping again on my feed and I had the irresistible urge to get in there, to enjoy this bath during that sunset until I look like a California prune. If you are not familiar with this luxury condo skyscraper in Manhattan, it’s name is 432…