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World’s northernmost big city is a brutal mosaic of color and pollution

Welcome to Norilsk, Russia. With 175,365 citizens, it’s the northernmost big city in the world. The architecture is brutal, it’s highly polluted, and it’s freezing cold all year round. Yet its geometric and colorful shapes make it an oddly pleasing sight—at least as captured from the air by photographer Slava Stepanov. Norilsk has polar days…

Sploid James Baker

Photoshop Mix: Desktop-Lite Photo Editing Lands on the iPad

Three new iPad-only creative apps are here from Adobe today. There are two drafting and sketching apps that are partnered with some neat hardware, and a robust photo editing app called Photoshop Mix, which borrows some of the tools and workflow from its desktop big brother. The first two apps, Line and Sketch, are two…

Tech News Michael Hession

The Best New Feature in Photoshop CC

Adobe is announcing new release of Photoshop CC today, and with it comes one particularly cool feature: the ability to automatically select the out-of-focus areas of an image. The new tool is great for compositing or applying adjustments to only the sharp areas of your photo. It works in tandem with the existing Refine Edge…

Tech News Michael Hession

The Math Formula That Determines Whether You Love Or Hate Adaptations

Greetings, mail parasites. Sorry if I’m in a bad mood, it’s just been a tough week here in the vague post-apocalypse. Food is scare, the cannibal mutants aren’t, and I just remembered it’s been 38 years since I last saw a Game of Thrones book. NO SPOILERS PAST BOOK 9, A SOCIETY OF PSYCHOPATHS, PLEASE.…

Movies Rob Bricken

The Guy Who Coined Net Neutrality Is Running for Office

This week, Columbia law professor Tim Wu announced that he’s running for lieutenant governor of New York. Wu is the guy who invented the term net neutrality. And regardless of which state you call home, this is exciting news. Wu is a lot like you and me. He doesn’t want to allow fast lanes on…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Porcelain fighters come to life when you crash them against the floor

This cool series of photos taken by the German artist Martin Klimas shows fighting porcelain figurines crashing against the floor, their pictures taken at the exact moment of impact, which turns them into living manga-like vignettes of extreme motion and violence. From a height of three meters, porcelain figurines are dropped on the ground, and…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

The Best Hacks From the Fan Site Ikea Doesn’t Want You To See

Ikea biffed by going after IkeaHackers, the fan site that shares all kinds of new uses and smart mods for the Swedish superstore’s affordable furniture—seriously, you can’t buy this kind of devotion. Until founder Jules Yap sets up shop under a new name, let’s have a look at a few of the projects that make…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

The Earth is a Weird and Wonderful Place

It’s easy to forget neglect the wonder of our planet in the bustle of the every-day, until you stop to really think about the terrific forces at play to shape the world around us. Here’s my quicklinks from around the web on amazing (and terrifying) things about our planet. NASA has a satellite photo gallery…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

LG G3 Review: Brains That Finally Keep Up With the Brawn

The LG G2 was the worst kind of disappointment, a powerful device held back by lame software. The G3 keeps the strength, and actually manages to get out of its own way. For the most part, that is. https://gizmodo.com/lg-g2-review-a-braindead-hercules-1349343131 What Is It? LG’s follow-up to the painfully flawed LG G2. It’s an LG phone fit…

Reviews Leslie Horn

If You Want To Teach Children To Lie, Read Them Pinocchio

For generations, parents and teachers have turned to fables to inspire moral behavior among children. Some of the most popular stories teach the importance of telling the truth. A recent study, however, finds that fables that punish the main character for lying are less effective than those that reward honesty. A group of child psychologists…

io9 Mark Strauss

Vancouver School Board Introduces Gender-Neutral Pronouns

Students and teachers in Vancouver, British Columbia, can now use the gender-neutral pronouns “xe,” “xem,” and “xyr.” The move is designed to accommodate students for whom “he” and “she” does not fit or is deemed inappropriate. It’s taking forever for us to adopt gender-neutral pronouns, so this move is very encouraging. The best we’ve got…

io9 George Dvorsky

The Knick Shows The Bloody Beginnings Of NY’s Knickerbocker Hospital

We’re not sure what to make of Steven Soderbergh’s new Cinemax series The Knick. The premise is great: it’s entirely centered around New York’s early 20th-century hospital The Knickerbocker and the vast amount of surgeries performed there. But man oh man is the tension high in this trailer. Starring Clive Owen, the 10-episode season was…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

How To Change Your Default Apps in Android

The first time Android needs to open a particular file type, whether an image or PDF, you’ll be asked which app you want to use. Having your phone know your preferences is handy, but it can be frustrating if you change your mind down the road. Here’s how to get back the freedom of choice.…

Gadgets David Nield

Fleksy Messenger Makes Typing on a Smartwatch Slightly Less Impossible

Samsung’s Gear 2 smartwatch can be handy for checking your text messages without whipping your phone out of your pocket. But it’s impossible to type on—literally, you can’t reply to texts on the watch. Fleksy just changed that with Messenger, a Gear 2 SMS messaging app that brings Fleksy’s intelligent keyboard to the very, very…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Bitcoin Has Its Own College Bowl Game Because Life Is a Meaningless Void

College football, you are in for a treat. Thanks to three year sponsorship from payment services provider BitPay, the NCAA is getting a Bitcoin Bowl. That’s right, a Bitcoin Bowl. Per GigaOm, ESPN Events just announced the digital currency-sponsored sporting event earlier today. Important facts: It will be held in St. Petersburg, Florida. It will…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Hell Yes! Miles Morales Is Joining The Ultimate Spider-Man Cartoon!

But he’s not coming alone. When the comics’ Ultimate Spider-Man joins the animated Ultimate Spider-Man, it’ll be as part of the third season, premiering August 31st and subtitled Web Warriors, where Spideys throughout the multiverse join forces. The Spideys include Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Girl (who is Petra Parker in the cartoon, from a gender-swapped…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Clamp-On Controller Bolsters the iPad Mini’s Gaming Prowess

When it comes to mobile gaming the iPhone gets all the glory, but the iPad Mini actually serves as a decent portable console as well, particularly with that larger display. And the Gamevice, from the same folks responsible for the Wikipad, adds a much needed set of physical buttons and joysticks that clamp onto either…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

7 Iconic Computers and Consoles Reborn As Lego Microscales

I have to admit, custom microscale builds are the things that amuse me the most when I wander through in the infinite world of Lego. Miniatures are just more fun—especially when these tiny builds are actually recreations of classic gadgetry. Sure, you might be gifted enough to build a life-sized X-Wing star fighter or an…

Tech News Attila Nagy

What Needs to Happen For Us To Get Hellboy 3? Or Another Hulk Movie?

The stars of both franchises are working at it. Jared Leto could step into Will Smith’s shoes. Everyone’s favorite character will return for Heroes Reborn. Gotham promises go deep into the comics with its references. Plus a ton of Transformers: Age of Extinction information. Spoilers now! Top image: The Flash Incredible Hulk 2 While another…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

This animatronic human head looks so real that it freaks me out

I always thought that Michael Fassbender’s severed head in Prometheus was so perfect an realistic that it had to be just him with his body in a green suit. Or perhaps his real face filmed and projected on a 3D model. Surprisingly, it’s an awesome animatronic head made by special effects wizard Gustav Hoegen. This…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

World’s northernmost big city is a brutal mosaic of color and pollution

Photoshop Mix: Desktop-Lite Photo Editing Lands on the iPad

The Best New Feature in Photoshop CC

The Math Formula That Determines Whether You Love Or Hate Adaptations

The Guy Who Coined Net Neutrality Is Running for Office

Porcelain fighters come to life when you crash them against the floor

The Best Hacks From the Fan Site Ikea Doesn’t Want You To See

The Earth is a Weird and Wonderful Place

LG G3 Review: Brains That Finally Keep Up With the Brawn

If You Want To Teach Children To Lie, Read Them Pinocchio

Vancouver School Board Introduces Gender-Neutral Pronouns

The Knick Shows The Bloody Beginnings Of NY’s Knickerbocker Hospital

How To Change Your Default Apps in Android

Fleksy Messenger Makes Typing on a Smartwatch Slightly Less Impossible

Bitcoin Has Its Own College Bowl Game Because Life Is a Meaningless Void

Hell Yes! Miles Morales Is Joining The Ultimate Spider-Man Cartoon!

Clamp-On Controller Bolsters the iPad Mini’s Gaming Prowess

7 Iconic Computers and Consoles Reborn As Lego Microscales

What Needs to Happen For Us To Get Hellboy 3? Or Another Hulk Movie?

This animatronic human head looks so real that it freaks me out

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