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Showdown: Will Captain America 3 go up against Batman Vs. Superman?

Meet a major character in Doctor Who season 8. See what’s happening in the first four episodes of Orphan Black season 2. Manu Bennett talks about Slade’s family on Arrow. There’s some important Flash costume news. Plus, two feautrettes from Captain America 2. Spoilers now! Captain America Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Marvel’s already…

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble Scaling Back E-Reading Plans

Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have agreed to scale back their digital-reading partnership, which means that the bookseller will no longer develop its Nook e-reading app for Microsoft software. After Microsoft ponied up hundreds of millions to keep Nook going, a range of Microsoft products using Barnes & Noble technology have long been expected. But…

Nokia’s Lytro-like Refocus app is now available for all Lumias running WP8—not just those with PureView cameras.

What Is Reality, Anwyway?

Forgive us while we get a little philosophical on a Friday morning but: what the hell is reality anyway? One way of thinking about it is as everything that would be here if we weren’t around—but that’s not particularly satisfying as, to the best of our knowledge, we do exist. Or hope we do. So,…

Record a Duet with Yourself, Mediated by a Wall

Disquiet Junto Project 0115: Mediated Solo Duet 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…

Artist inserts his hilarious monster drawings into real life

To have a little bit of fun, artist Marty Cooper drew some cute critters and funny looking monsters on a transparent sheet and inserted them into real life. As in he superimposed his drawings into the environment around him. It’s like what the world would look like if monsters were living among us. You’ll see…

Watery minerals from the deep, deep Earth

Planetary science news! Not only does Earth have a nice, wet surface, but a new mineral sample gives us a peek at a wet interior, too. Water, water, everywhere… One quibble — this isn’t a new suspicion amongst geoscientists. Instead, it’s the first direct proof from a deep-Earth mineral that those suspicions are correct! I…

Magic floor sinks into the ground to transform into an outdoor pool

Everyone wants a pool in their backyard until they realize they never actually swim in it. Those neglected pools become nothing more than holes in the ground filled with cloudy water that act as mosquito magnets. Not this pool though. This outdoor pool is magic. The floors sinks into the ground and it fills itself…

Predictability: What Your Computer Dreams About in Sleep Mode

Layering dozens of asynchronous Gifs onto his digital canvas, Johnathan Gillie creates a hyper-kinetic allegory for our overly-stimulated, technology-saturated modern lifestyles. Be warned, this does include numerous flashing lights and may not play well with your epilepsy.

This sci-fi death match in space short is better than Hollywood movies

If you crossed Hunger Games with Oblivion, mixed in some feelings of Moon, sprinkled a little of action from that Bourne movie without Matt Damon and shook it all up with astronaut suits, futuristic guns, another planet and an eerie death match you would get Project Skyborn, a heart pumping short by Marko Slavnic. It’s…

The third season of Game of Thrones summarized in one epic recap

Get ready for new episodes of Game of Thrones with this official, 25-minute summary of everything you need to know before the season four premiere on April 6th. Or just remember the bad times and the good! That one, single good time! I think it was in the fourth episode..?

Watch this girl draw a shockingly perfect picture of the Ellen selfie

Man, talent is talented. Watch fantastic artist Heather Rooney draw an amazingly photorealistic picture of the famous Ellen Oscars selfie. You know the one with a billion celebrities that got retweeted a billion times. All she used was Prismacolor colored pencils to turn a blank sheet of paper into what looks exactly like a photo.…

Geologists now suspect that an entire ocean’s worth of water exists deep inside the Earth’s crust. The discovery of a diamond-like grain made of ringwoodite — a water-rich mineral previously seen only in meteorites — suggests that vast volumes of water are trapped 250–400 miles beneath the surface of the planet. Image: Richard Siemens, University…

This Mos Def-Marvin Gaye Mashup Album Is Perfect (and Free)

It’s kind of hard not to like mashups. They’re gimmicky after a while, but it’s fun to hear songs you know and love mixed with other songs you know and love. When you take two artists you know and love and create a whole mashup album, it’s crazy fun. Amerigo Gazaway is doing a whole…

An Ode to the Eerie Charm of Convenience Stores At Night

Convenience stores are many things to many people: a Slurpee-filled oasis on a long road trip; a late-night hang-out for thirsty teens hoping to bum some beers in the parking lot; somewhere to grab some Cheetos, because Cheetos. But no matter where you are, after hours the artificial glow of these things is like an…

A Collapsible Speaker That Might Double As an Emergency Cup

Even your most basic outdoor store will sell you a collapsible silicone drinking cup that helps keep your backpack as light as possible when hiking. And it turns out that same strategy can apply to portable speakers too, like the making them even easier to stash in a bag when not in use. Available in…

The home office of the future, as imagined in the 1967 short film, 1999 A.D.

This Cheap, Recyclable Passive House Assembles Like Lego

The Passive House movement is a wonderful thing. What could be wrong with a voluntary standard that encourages people to make their houses as energy efficient as possible? Well, it’s complicated. No seriously, these things are really hard to build. That’s what makes the Pop-Up House so interesting. Designed by French architecture firm multipod studio,…

Read this intense, pre-apocalyptic hacker story by Tobias Buckell

We’ve got an incredible short story for you to read, called “System Reset,” written by Arctic Rising author Tobias Buckell. It’s taken from the pre-apocalypse anthology The End is Nigh, edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey. It’s a smart thriller about hacker bounty hunters on a world-ending job. The End is Nigh is…

This App Guarantees You’ve Always Got a Deck Of Cards On Hand

When a deck is available, it’s probably the easiest way to start up a quick game of cards with a group of friends. But while many of us have a smartphone on hand 24/7, few of us have a deck of cards in our pockets as well. Which is why this app that creates a…