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The Netflix site has been given a design overhaul. Gone is the old logo in favour its flatter, more simplistic new one, and the background is lighter and brighter. It looks a whole bunch better, doesn’t it?

A New Xbox Ad Is Turning on Consoles By Accident

The Xbox One has a new advert starring Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul. Standard. But what is strange is that as he shouts “Xbox On” near its start, consoles around the world are firing up. It seems that—perhaps unsurprisingly—the voice command triggers the machine’s Kinect voice/motion sensor, activating the console. People have been taking to Twitter…

Report: Google in Talks to Buy Stake in Virgin Galactic

Google is apparently in talks to buy up part of Virgin Galactic, but not to take a leisure cruise: Sky News claims that it will buy “crucial access to satellite-launch technology” to help put its new low-Earth orbiters into the sky. The report claims that negotiations between the two parties have “been taking place for…

Facebook Messenger now has a tap-and-hold video sharing function. Yes, just like Snapchat. What a coincidence!

The entrance to hell is in the center of Asia and it’s terrifying

You are looking at the city of Mirny, located right in the heart of Asia, in the Republic of Yakutia, an estate associated to the Russian Federation. That terrifying hole is an open quarry 525 meters deep and 1.2 kilometers in diameter right next to the city itself. It looks like the gates of hell…

Bill Murray’s hilarious costumes in Late Show with David Letterman

A clever imgur user posted a strip with all the costumesthat Bill Murray has used in the Late Show with David Letterman from 2009 to 2014. Murray is always hilarious, but the fact that he has been doing this for five years now is amazing. It makes me sad to know that we won’t see…

Oh, Good. Now People Are Going to Want Attack Lizards

Okay, so technically, Dave Durham‘s just trained his pets to respond to voice commands. But it’s a short leap from there to giving them the other skills we’ve given to dogs. Seriously, how quickly would you keel over from fright if a man pointed at you and a bunch of giant iguanas ran your way?…

Finally, a Quiz for International English Accents

Way back when we all took delight in taking the American dialect quiz, a lot of people wanted a similar one for the accents of the rest of the world. Thanks to Games With Words, we now have that quiz. “Which English?” is from MIT, and its focus is less on pronunciation and more on…

Wow, check out the giant full moon rising

Some may call it the Honey Moon now but, according to NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, June’s full moon is traditionally called Strawberry Moon in North America because of the harvesting of the strawberries. This incredible photo by astrophotographer Göran Strandshows a full moon pink and gigantic over Sweden. NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the…

Here’s why Frozen sucks

For a while there, it seemed like all anyone wanted to talk about was the movie Frozen. Elsa. Building a snow man. Letting it go. Lip syncing. Saying things like Disney Animation is better than Pixar now. Yadda and yadda. But was the movie that good? Is it a Disney classic? CinemaSins decided to take…

Guillermo del Toro Won’t Direct a Beauty and the Beast Film After All

No, it’s not the live-action version being done by Disney, it’s the Warner Bros. version called Beauty and starring Emma Watson. Apparently, del Toro’s other commitments made it impossible for him to direct, despite writing and producing the film. [Deadline]

Perfect photoshops warp the world into mind-twisting reality

Martín De Pasquale is a Photoshop master who twists and teases reality in his wonderful surreal art. We’ve seen some of his magical work before and now he’s back with a lot more images that warps your world view. but in his fantastic planning of his shots.His talent is not only in his Photoshopping skills—which…

Write a Score to Accompany a Short Piece of Text You Wrote a Year Ago Today

Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. This project was published in the early evening, California time,…

In This Art, Nature Battles the Artificial

From Daryl Toh Liem Zhan come these commissioned works of “depicting the destructive works of mankind against the forces of nature in a fight for balance on our fragile planet.” Really, it looks more like no one wins in this fight.

Economic Downturn Connected to Rise in Depression and Suicide

Setbacks on the job or with your bank account can definitely leave you feeling bad. So what does a widespread economic recession do to a nation? According to a new study, it’s correlated with a rash of suicides. A recently-published study offered a survey of suicide statistics in the years since the global economic downturn…

The Bravest Warriors Matures Into More Than A Funny YouTube Show

For a long time, The Bravest Warriors was another way for fans of Adventure Time’s Pendleton Ward to see what goes on in his head. The animation was the same, the writing was similar yet more grown up, and the potential for a realized story was lying in wait under the surface. And with the…

Revisit Grease in All Its 1950s Summer Lovin’ Glory Once Again

[Cue up “Summer Nights” for optimal effect]. You’ve almost definitely seen Grease six or seven times. It’s on TV a lot, it’s about 25-years-old, and c’mon, those songs are just about everywhere. But it’s summer, and we’re talking about summer love, so why not revisit the classic campy flick? You know the story: Sandy is…

Samsung Galaxy Tab S: A Shining Screen On a Whole New Body (Update: Hands-On)

Samsung’s Galaxy Android phones have been a terrific success—its Galaxy tablets, not so much. Meet the Galaxy Tab S, Samsung’s crack at making a tablet as great—and as appealing—as the Galaxy S5. The new Tab S replaces last year’s Tab 4 and comes in 10.5 inch and 8.4 inch models with Super AMOLED displays, both…

In a crushing blow to the egos of clever corvids everywhere, a group of Caledonian crows has been outwitted in a causality test by a bunch of human babies. “It’s a rare failure,” writes Khadim Shubber over atWired, “but it appears they are unable to interpret cause and effect to create new solutions without direct…

Dot-Matrix Printers Were Born To Play Bach

Is using computer-controlled ancient electronics as instruments a new fad? Not even close. So why is this old dot-matrix printer playing Bach worthy of note? It’s because this particular piece of classical music, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, was originally composed to be played on an organ. And at times this old printer sounds…