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This Mug’s Customizable e-Ink Display Is Powered By Hot Coffee

If there are kids in your future, so is one of those mugs with a picture of your children on it. But wouldn’t it be great if that image could be updated as they grow up? That’s exactly what the Muki mug from Paulig promises, thanks to an e-Ink display powered by your piping hot…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Tons Of Avengers: Age of Ultron Info. Plus Our First Warcraft Glimpse!

The Japanese trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past is kind of awesome. Tom Hiddleston is a sharp-dressed man on the set of del Toro’s Crimson Peak. Amanda Seyfried joins the cast of Pan. Can Skye save Ward on Agents of SHIELD? Plus, Jennifer Garner’s making a supernatural “feuding families” show. Spoilers now! Top image:…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

The Hidden Beauty of Unfinished Buildings

The field of architectural photography is often slick and staged, overproduced and unrealistic. But not the work of photographer Grant Mudford, who trains his lenses on the uncelebrated, forgotten details of architecture—like half-finished construction sites, still wearing scaffolding. Mudford is the recipient of the annual Excellence in Photography Award from the Julius Shulman Institute at…

Tech News Alissa Walker

These Are the Most Complete Pictures Yet of the Sun’s Atmosphere

You’re looking at the most complete photograph yet taken of the sun’s atmosphere—and it reveals complex patterns of expanding bubbles and mushrooms of matter, which are thought to cause the solar winds that the star spits out toward the rest of the Solar System. The image was captured using a high-resolution eclipse-imaging technique by a…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Microsoft Now Officially Owns Nokia

Almost eight months after the original announcement, Microsoft has now completed its deal to purchase Nokia’s devices and services unit. Microsoft no longer dominates just software: from today, it’s a hardware specialist, too. In cold hard numbers, Microsoft is ponying up €3.79 billion for Nokia’s phone manufacturing wing, along with a further €1.65 billion to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Bitcoin Card Could Make Virtual Money Mainstream

Bitcoin wallet provider Xapo reckons it’s about to make Bitcoin use substantially easier, by teaming up with your more established form of banks to create a Mastercard-branded credit card that’ll let you blow your virtual money in actual shops. The problem seems to be that no one’s told Mastercard about this arrangement. Speaking to Gigaom,…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

Report: Google Plans to Offer Wi-Fi in Its Fiber-Covered Cities

Google is planning to offer Wi-Fi networks in the cities where it supplies fiber internet, according to documents being circulated to the next 34 cities on Mountain View’s broadband hit list. Earlier this month, sources “who have discussed the matter with Google” told at The Information that the company had plans to become a wireless…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why Doesn’t the Heart Get Tired Like Other Muscles?

Anywhere from 60 to 100 times every minute of every day of every year of your (hopefully) long life, your heart beats. Unlike the other muscles in your body, however, your heart almost never gets tired . . . until it stops for good. Here’s why. Three Kinds of Muscles The human body is composed…

Health Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com

YouTube’s Secret Algorithm That Chooses What You Should Watch

YouTube takes the business of tailoring your search results very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it has over 1 million lines of code in place to pair up the videos on its servers to you and your preferences. This video interview with Christos Goodrow from YouTube talks around—without describing in precise detail—YouTube’s search algorithms.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Comcast Claims Netflix Slowed Down Its Own Video Streams

If your Netflix streams have stuttered in the past, you’ve likely blamed your ISP—but now, Comcast claims that Netflix has slowed down its own video streams. In a blog post, a Comcast’s Jennifer Khoury writes that Netflix knowingly sabotaged its own streams prior to inking a deal with Comcast earlier this year. She says: As…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Is What Happens When You Trawl Through Your Old Files

Embarrassing old music libraries, unwatched movies, photographs from prom night, a copy of your Windows 98 desktop, maybe some obscure work documents you no longer understand. This is what happens when you trawl through your archived files. Today’s XKCD, in full below, surely resonates with all of us. But, and I can tell you this…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Dark Skies in Texas

Everything’s bigger in Texas, including their Dark Sky park. Big Bend National Park in the southwest of Texas stretches over 300,000 square kilometers for your stargazing pleasure. The dry air and exceptionally flat landscape will allow you to peek at stars barely above the horizon. Big Bend National Park in Texas. Photography credit: Tyler Nordgren…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Kitefoils are the closest thing to the Back to the Future hoverboard

Everyone knows kitesurfing—which is pretty hard to master and can get pretty rough. Kitefoiling is something completely different. It’s easy and it gives you the sensation that you’re flying, smoothly floating at high speed inches above the sea. It’s like Marty McFly’s hoverboard—one that can only work over water. Kitefoil uses a board with an…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

If life were a video game, it’d look exactly like this

When you’re playing the game of life, you probably imagine it to be some impossibly complicated RPG filled with awful consequences and no right answer. You’d be wrong. We only make it that way because it keeps us busy. Life really is just about moving forward because time forces us to. Like in Super Life…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Sing-Along Music Video by Tiësto Is All Sorts of Wonderful

The week’s almost over already, there’s no hurt in starting the party a little early with this infectiously groovie tune from Tiësto featuring Matthew Koma—Especially when you have this trio of bombshells leading the crowd in song. Wasted is Tiesto’s latest work and can be found, along with more of the renowned DJ’s mixes on…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

5.2-ton Blackhawk turned into the world’s biggest RC helicopter

This is something you don’t see every day. In fact, this is the first time this has happened: A man controls a 5.2-ton Blackhawk helicopter with a joystick and backpack, carrying around a couple tons of concrete. The military always gets the best toys. https://gizmodo.com/military-turn-5-2-ton-blackhawk-into-the-worlds-biggest-1567442395

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Military turn 5.2-ton Blackhawk into the world’s biggest RC helicopter

When the US Army wants to have fun they turn to Sikorsky and ask them to turn their 5.2-ton UH-60 Blackhawk into an unmanned helicopter remote controlled by some guy with a backpack and a joystick. Unfreakinunbelievable. The project has been in development for a while, but they have just successfully tested it for the…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Hubble photos capture the formation of planetary systems

Researchers have used new image processing techniques to reveal two images of planetary systems forming around their home stars. The images are, according to NASA, “two treasures that were hiding in the Hubble archives.” They are spectacular. Discovered by a team led by Rémi Soummer—from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland—the stars were…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

3D Printed Eyes Are Insanely Cheap Prosthetics and Look Perfect

Custom-made, prosthetic eyes are molded in acrylic and then painted by hand—a meticulous process that can take anywhere from 4 to 8 hours. But a recently developed 3D printing process can produce eyes of equal quality, at a rate of 150 per hour, reducing the cost by 97 percent. The prosthetic eyes are the result…

io9 Mark Strauss

Anti-bullying ad shows the real revenge of the nerds

I’ve seen many gloomy anti-bullying ads. This one uses humor and fear instead—and it may do the trick. The message: The nerds you’re torturing today will probably end being your bosses tomorrow. And they won’t forget any of the things you’re doing to them. I really hope it works, although I think that none of…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

This Mug’s Customizable e-Ink Display Is Powered By Hot Coffee

Tons Of Avengers: Age of Ultron Info. Plus Our First Warcraft Glimpse!

The Hidden Beauty of Unfinished Buildings

These Are the Most Complete Pictures Yet of the Sun’s Atmosphere

Microsoft Now Officially Owns Nokia

This Bitcoin Card Could Make Virtual Money Mainstream

Report: Google Plans to Offer Wi-Fi in Its Fiber-Covered Cities

Why Doesn’t the Heart Get Tired Like Other Muscles?

YouTube’s Secret Algorithm That Chooses What You Should Watch

Comcast Claims Netflix Slowed Down Its Own Video Streams

This Is What Happens When You Trawl Through Your Old Files

Dark Skies in Texas

Kitefoils are the closest thing to the Back to the Future hoverboard

If life were a video game, it’d look exactly like this

This Sing-Along Music Video by Tiësto Is All Sorts of Wonderful

5.2-ton Blackhawk turned into the world’s biggest RC helicopter

Military turn 5.2-ton Blackhawk into the world’s biggest RC helicopter

Hubble photos capture the formation of planetary systems

3D Printed Eyes Are Insanely Cheap Prosthetics and Look Perfect

Anti-bullying ad shows the real revenge of the nerds

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