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Android 4.4 KitKat headed to the Wi-Fi versions of the Nexus 7 and 10 starting today, according to Google.

You Can Now Download the Apple II’s DOS Source Code from Back in 1978

The Computer History Museum has released something rather special for you to download: the original DOS source code for the 1978 Apple II. The first computer with a built-in floppy drive—ready to use straight out of the box, kinda—the hardware was incredible for the time: the version with 4K of memory cost $1,300 and had…

According to the WSJ, Hulu is apparently in talks with ‘several pay-TV providers’ to become part of their pay-TV bundles in the future.

Netflix Has a Slick New Interface For Its TV Apps

While all of the content on Netflix is provided equally, the look of its player can vary pretty substantially between devices, making it a pain to find things. Now, the company has unified its interface across the majority of its apps. The new interface rolls out over the next two weeks for the PlayStation 4,…

This robot butt is a painfully realistic video game for doctors

How do doctors become better doctors? By doing more doctor things, duh. Things like spending years at residency, doing rounds, poking synthetic cadavers and yes, practicing prostate exams on a plastic robot butt video game. https://gizmodo.com/this-freakish-skinless-body-is-actually-a-synthetic-hum-1456468994 Rob Delaney tweeted out this eye-popping photo on Twitter earlier this month and Geekosystem tracked down the doctor behind…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Somewhere (2013)

A marooned space explorer says his final goodbye to the woman he loves in this visually-arresting animated short by Nicolas Ménard.

Before and after pictures of the Philippines typhoon are heartbreaking

This is so sad. Satellite imagery has captured what the Philippines looked like before and after Typhoon Haiyan and it’s absolutely tragic. Towns, homes, people’s lives have just been completely decimated. There’s nothing left. To see the total destruction from above like this is heartbreaking. One day everything is normal, the next everything is gone.…

This animation explains how life works better than any biology class

If you’re anything like me, you slept through biology class in high school and figured you could become a full-fledged adult without it. And you were right! But if you’re like me, you’re still curious about how this thing we called life works. This Ted-Ed animation video by pew 36 explains it better than any…

If you’ve ever wondered what a mindfuck looks like, now you know

Meet Siphopteron species 1. It’s a species of sea slug, recently discovered by Rolanda Lange. To procreate, two members of the species get together, stick organs into each other’s heads, and fertilize. That’s right — nature has at last provided us with a perfect example of the mindfuck. I think “skullfucking” might be another word…

Comment of the Day: Guns, Germs, and Steel Edition

Today, we checked out the 15 (and counting!) superheroes and villains who have dispatched Batman with ease, collectively hushed the people chatting over the sound of our movie, and entered into a debate about a book. In response to this post, looking at charges of racism against Jared Diamond’s newest book, The World Until Yesterday,…

Your friends on Facebook may already be robots

Why bother writing anything on Facebook when you can just outsource your personal comments to a bot? That’s the idea behind a new app that reads your past Facebook updates and automatically generates new ones for you. Writes Will Oremus over at Slate: Just go to a fun little hacked-together website called What Would I…

Six things you must NEVER do when watching TV shows with others

You can summarize io9’s list of things you must never do when watching TV to one simple rule: shut up and watch the bloody movie or leave. However, let’s get specific because you really don’t want to be a douchebag and be hated by everyone, right? https://gizmodo.com/im-trying-to-watch-my-tv-show-and-youre-being-a-war-c-1462776424

Over a dozen celestial objects can be seen in this photo of Saturn

If you look very, very carefully at this majestic photo of Saturn, you can see a number of familiar astronomical bodies and features, including several Saturnian moons, Mars, Venus, and even Earth. You’ll find a fully annotated version of the photo below. The photo was taken by the Cassini spacecraft last July as part of…

Watch Los Angeles come to life at night in this timelapse

Los Angeles gets a lot crap for being this gigantic sprawl that’s pumped with Botox and bleached hair and that its city life only exists on the freeways. Maybe some of it is true! But it’s also a fantastic place to do a time lapse video since the world is so big. Ralph and Randy…

This Dope Music Video Was Shot With an iPhone and a Weird Lens Adapter

The video for Leverage Models’ new single, “Sweep,” is a total heart-stopper. The slow-motion footage and shallow depth-of-field perfectly matches the song’s billowy dance rhythm. It’s absolutely gorgeous, and it might surprise you to learn that it was shot on the absolute cheap for less than $500. No fancy video cameras here—just a couple of…

I Want to Stand on These Incredible Balconies and Take in the View

A balcony isn’t just for standing on and declaring yourself master of your domain. It’s also a beautiful architectural feature that can turn an ordinary building into something fantastic. These are some of the most amazing balcony designs we’ve ever seen. VM Houses in Ørestaden, a district of Copenhagen, Denmark, shaped like a V and…

Hollywood now has three Peter Pan movies in development

Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Hanna) is making a Peter Pan origins movie, instead of the dark live-action Little Mermaid adaptation he was previously signed up to do. Wright and Arrow producer Greg Berlanti will adapt a Peter Pan script by Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift), which reportedly has people at Warner Bros super…

Injustice reveals what happens when Superman lets himself kill

Don’t dismiss DC’s Injustice: Gods Among Us as a simple tie-in to the fighting videogame. It’s an excellent Elseworlds tale about the Joker tricking Superman into murdering Lois Lane, and the grief-stricken Superman killing the Joker in vengeance — which leads Superman to decide he can no longer afford to be merciful, which in turn…

These New Graphene Supercapacitors Could Finally Power An Electric Car

A team of South Korean scientists has developed a new graphene supercapacitor that can store almost as much energy as a lithium-ion battery, but charge in only 16 seconds. This makes it an ideal material to store braking energy and could be exactly what the electric car industry needs. Scientists from Gwangju Institute of Science…

Jackets Dreamt Up By William Gibson Are Gaining a Real-Life Following

The Buzz Rickson’s MA-1 is a piece of William Gibson lore. This flight jacket is worn by the heroine of Gibson’s Pattern Recognition, Cayce Pollard, whose preternatural sense of authenticity and phobia of certain brands leads her to the MA-1, a “purely functional and iconic garment.” One small detail that escaped many readers, though, was…