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Finn Gets Back In The Dating Game On Adventure Time‘s New Night

You may have noticed a distinct lack of new Adventure Time gracing your television last night. Well, that’s because Finn and Jake have moved nights to Thursday at 7. In the upcoming episode, “Breezy,” Finn decides he’s ready to try dating again, which can only mean disaster and a valuable life lesson. Also, a particular…

ASUS Has a New Pair Of Slim, Slick 4K Ultrabooks

Straight out of Computex, ASUS has a pair of pretty little laptops that boast fantastic 4K screens, while still coming in pretty damn slim. The new ultrabooks come in two different flavors. First there’s the Zenbook NX500, a 15.6-incher with a 3840 x 2160 screen, 4K UHD screen. And to push its pixels, it packs…

What You Should Know About Google’s Military Robots—In Comic Form

Last year, Google bought eight robotics companies in just six months, making the search giant a US military contractor. So what is the relationship between Google and the Department of Defense? This comic sheds a bit of light on the current situation. Cartoonist and journalist Andy Warner outlines Google’s connection to DARPA in his short…

Razer Junglecat: A Slide-Out iOS Controller You Might Actually Use

The quest for button controls on iOS that don’t suck is an unending one. Touchscreen buttons suck, and the hardware out that works with the iOS controller API so far is fine, but it’s big and sort of annoyingly deliberate. Razer’s Junglecat, though, is a solution that feels right. The Junglecat’s advantage is in its…

Kickstarter Just Opened the Floodgates to Even More Frauds and Scams

Crowdfunding is notorious for being riddled with impossible projects, broken promises, and straight up scams. But Kickstarter’s been one of the few sites that even attempts to vet projects before people start throwing their money at them. Now, though, Kickstarter has decided to let creators choose to bypass the approval process altogether. Fantastic. The change…

Fake murder on Google Street View attracts attention of real police

On August 2012, a man and his friend spotted a Google Street View car around the corner and decided to simulate a murder to prank everyone on the internet. The police found about it and investigated—more than a year later. He tells his story to the BBC: It is not the first time a gruesome…

The world would be a much better place if we used paper airplane texts

This video—created by the Socialplane platform—shows that we don’t need phones to send messages to people. They promote the use of something way cuter instead, paper planes. I’m sure that we are overdoing this social media thing and we shouldn’t pay that much attention to our phones and all that, but I don’t think we…

A New Technique Could Erase Painful Memories — Or Bring Them Back

By using pulses of light, researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have produced, erased, and restored fearful memories in rats. It’s a finding that could have profound implications for people struggling with neurodegenerative and anxiety disorders. The study, though not the first to implant a memory in a rodent, is the first…

Instagram Update Adds More Sophisticated Photo Editing Tools

An Instagram update that’s hitting today will add new more sophisticated tools to let you adjust 10 tools via sliders, including brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth and other parameters. You’ll also be able to adjust the strength of the preset filters you apply Here’s the complete set of tools from Instagram’s Help pages: Filter strength Adjust…

Everything Apple Didn’t Announce At WWDC

At its annual developer-palooza yesterday, Apple trotted out a lot of new goodies. A new iOS! A new OS X! But they also didn’t announce a whole lot of stuff we expected to see. Here’s what was missing, and our best guess at why. Apple TV SDK Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that an Apple…

Breaking Bad Complete, Star Trek TOS, Falling Skies, Chromecast Deal

Head back to Albequerque and re-live one of the greatest TV series ever made with the complete Breaking Bad Blu-ray set for just $130. It’s never been below $160 until today. That’s a great deal, bitch. DVD also available for $100. [Breaking Bad: The Complete Series, $130] We featured a great deal yesterday on old…

The interior of a communications satellite is a cable nightmare

Benedict Redgrove has a talent for capturing really detailed images of extremely complex technology. The image above shows part of the interior of a communications satellite, which are some of the most complex machines made by humans. Here are some more of his beautiful images. Benedict Redgrove meticulously crafts photographs of spacecraft, cars, planes, boats…

The Mega Ships of Tomorrow May Be Driven by Technology From the Past

The same physics effect that allows pitchers to throw sliders and sinker balls was once used to propel ships. And if this Swedish engineering firm is successful, it will again. Known as the Magnus Effect, the phenomenon is commonly observed in the way spinning balls curve away from their initial flight paths such as the…

What The Dragons On Game Of Thrones Teach Us About Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear winter is coming. As George R.R. Martin has acknowledged, “dragons are the nuclear deterrent” in his epic fantasy. One security analyst agrees, and argues that Game of Thrones teaches us a great deal about the benefits and dangers bestowed upon nations who wield these ultimate weapons of destructions. Writing in the Bulletin of the…

The Saddest Ghost Story You’ll Read This Year

When Ginny and Bobby were teenagers, they stayed in a haunted house and saw a ghost. Now Virginia and Robert are all grown up, and it’s their last chance to see the ghost a second time, before the house is torn down. That’s the deceptively simple premise of Richard Butner’s moving story, “Circa.” Butner’s story,…

The First Religion Devoted to Evolution

Julian Huxley (1887-1975) is remembered as one of the most eminent biologists and science writers of the 20th century. He’s less well known for what he considered to be his true life’s work: the establishment of a new religion he called “evolutionary humanism.” Huxley was the grandson of Charles Darwin’s friend and “bulldog,” Thomas Henry…

This weeks’ Carnival of Space #356 of astronomy-links from around the web is live, with stories on comet-photography, X-ray astronomy, aging of elliptical galaxies, and even a tidbit on Titan’s atmosphere.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Everything Wrong With the Movie Gravity

Gravity is a positively stunning, occasionally horrifying cinematic masterpiece. Of course, that said, it’s got its share of problems. And no one has been more irked by these discrepancies than everyones favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Now, you can listen to the man himself sound off on every single scientific inaccuracy in delightful detail. And…

Starlight Could Be What Makes Planets So Different from Each Other

The planet Mercury is oddly iron rich. So are some exoplanets. Scientists trying to work out how this happened have come up with a crazy theory. Starlight itself might be sorting out the solar system through a technique called electrophoresis. When scientists started looking at the solar system, they noticed something odd. Mercury, the innermost…

AirPlay Won’t Need a Wi-Fi Connection in iOS 8

iOS 8 will support “peer-to-peer AirPlay discovery and playback,” which means that you won’t need to be connected to a wireless network to use AirPlay. That’s a really nice evolution of Apple’s wireless media streaming protocol The tidbit was discovered buried within the enterprise section of Apple’s iOS 8 preview. As written, the new peer-to-peer…