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Group chats are the worst, but Apple is making them a little less bad in iOS 8, by giving you the ability to leave them. Thank god!

iOS Is Finally Getting a New, Smarter Keyboard

One of our biggest frustrations with iOS devices has been the less-than-stellar stock keyboard. iOS 8 fixes that with Quicktype, a predictive, content-sensitive keyboard with multiple layouts that learns the phrases you use most and fills them in. It’s about ducking time. Update: Thanks to Extensions, iOS 8 also supports third-party keyboard apps (like Swype)…

A Handy Chart Showing Every Tawdry Encounter Ever On Penny Dreadful

Last week, Penny Dreadful cranked through some very Victorian flashbacks and positioned itself for the second act. This week, things get even more Victorian as everyone goes out to a play and has the worst night ever — except for the people who stayed home, for whom the night was slightly worse. Spoilers ahead! This…

iOS 8: All the New Features For Your iPhone and iPad

The new Apple iOS 8 presented at WWDC 2014 is a lot more than Healthkit—Apple’s new vital statistics monitoring system—and a few adjustments to the interface introduced last year. Here you will find the complete catalog of new features along with live commentary on all of them. Healthkit Apple has created a new API called…

Apple’s new desktop operating systemOS X 10.10 Yosemite will be available as a public beta this summer, and just like Mavericks before it, it will be free.

SONOS Speakers with Free Extras, Facial Hair Trimmer, Threes!

The Panasonic Vortex nose and facial hair trimmer is one of our favorite pieces of shaving gear, not to mention one of the most popular items we’ve ever listed. Today, you can get one for a mere $9 after clipping the $3 coupon, which is easily the best price we’ve ever seen. [Panasonic Vortex, $9…

Apple’s Turning Your Mac into a Phone

At today’s WWDC conference, Apple made a string of announcement that essentially turns all your devices into one, synchronized, Apple-fueled monster. The most notable of these is the fact that, in OS X Yosemite, Apple is more or less literally turning you computer into a second phone, allowing you to receive both calls and texts…

It’s Finally Time To Enjoy The Destruction Of Science Fiction!

A while ago, you donated your money and your signal-boosting powers to Lightspeed Magazine’s “Women Destroy Science Fiction” special issue. Now at last, that issue is available as an ebook for just $3.99 — including 180,000 words of content. For those who missed it, this is an all-female issue of Lightspeed, and the somewhat ironic…

Apple’s iCloud Drive Takes a Swing at Dropbox

Apple just announced on stage at WWDC iCloud Drive, its cloud storage syncing system that sounds sneakily similar to Dropbox. iCloud Drive syncs your stuff across all your devices, and across all platforms—even Windows. Documents are now accessible from the Finder and syncing is automatic. Which means, iCloud is better. And that’s a good thing.…

​OS X Yosemite: Everything You Need to Know About the Big Redesign

Apple’s follow up to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, will be OS X Yosemite, following with the theme of naming OS versions after impressive California landmarks. Last year’s WWDC was all about giving iOS an overhaul. This year’s star will be Apple’s desktop operating system. Here’s what you need to know. As we suspected, the new…

From Metaphysics to Teen Wolf Meta: The Evolution of a Word

If you follow genre television, internet fandom, or literary criticism, you’ve probably heard the word “meta” used to describe everything from a narrative form, to intensive analysis of character backstories in Harry Potter. How did this Greek prefix meaning “beyond” come to mean so much to so many of us? You can probably blame it…

MIT Created an Extra Set of Shoulder-Mounted Robot Arms

They’re not going to turn you into a Doctor Octopus-like super villain, but the next time you’re trying to open a door with your arms full, you’ll see the value in this extra set of shoulder-worn robot arms being developed at MIT. Just don’t get your hopes up about flipping away speeding cars that are…

World’s First Fully Organic Flexible OLED Will Wrap Around Your Wrist

The idea of truly flexible displays never gets boring, and now Plastic Logic is taking us one step closer. Its latest flexible OLED is the world’s first to be made using fully organic transistors—and it’s surprisingly pleasing display could wrap around your entire wrist. The bendable screen, which features 256 grey levels and full 30fps…

Check Out This Insanely Dangerous Zinc Flamethrower

You may think of zinc as “one of those metals we’re supposed to eat.” It keeps important enzymes functioning, and keeps roofs from rusting. It also makes one hell of a flamethrower, as we can see in this video. It was even used to make a special prototype flamethrower that was never used – because…

Listen to this great story on how this guy discovered he was a coward

In 2008 someone broke into Rob Norman’s house. He had speculated about this situation since he was a kid and thought of different heroic ways of repealing an attack. When it actually happened, he realized that he wasn’t Bruce Willis in Die Hard. He was weak and instantly submissive—like most of us would be if…

Could A Day On The Internet Be Better Than This?

The answer probably depends on who you ask, but Fox’s Animation Domination High Def nails what looks like a pretty perfect day on the net. It’s got all the social media, Internet culture, and gaming most of us live with, but everything is great. Getting up-votes on Reddit, kills streaks online, and nothing bad happening…

Exclusive Coherence Clip Turns The Tunguska Event​ Into Campfire Story

It’s not every day you have the Tunguska Event name-checked at a dinner party like a spooky story, but the new science-fiction thriller Coherence (which revolves around a comet, a dinner party and horror!) manages to make comets creepy again. Make you want to watch Night of the Comet, right? I would actually be into…

This Six Minute Satellite Studies Star Nurseries

Not every scientific exploration of the cosmos requires a multi-year, multi-billion dollar effort a la the Hubble Space Telescope Program. In fact, sometimes all it requires is a reusable sounding rocket, an ultraviolet camera, and six minutes in space. Built by a team of researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and dubbed the…

Scientists create a supernova in a lab right here on Earth

Scientists at the Vulcan laser lab in the United Kingdom have used three high powered light beams “focused on a carbon rod target not much thicker than a strand of hair “to create a supernova right here on Earth—a tiny supernova, but a supernova nonetheless. The researchers conducted the experiment to understand the shape of…

Our WWDC 2014 Liveblog Starts Right Here, Right Now

It’s that time of year again! Later today at WWDC 2014, Apple’s going to trot out its latest and greatest offerings developments for all the world to see. iOS 8! OS X 10.10! And very possibly a plan to take over your home in a way that should totally not freak you out. We’ll be…