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The World’s Awesomest Scientists Invent Cavity-Free Candy

With a breakthrough that will finally help Halloween top Christmas as the best holiday ever, scientists at the Berlin-based biotech lab Organo Balance claim to have developed a candy that doesn’t cause cavities. You’ll still get sick and pack on the pounds from gorging on sweets, but if you forget to brush your teeth, your…

Sony expands the Spider-Man films with Venom and Sinister Six movies

Not to be left out of the massive spanning world of comic book continuity Marvel Studios has mastered, Sony is expanding the Spider-Man brand with two new major VILLAIN movies. Yes, Venom is finally getting his own movie, and so is the anti-Spidey gang the Sinister Six. And wait until you hear who’s making it!…

Gorgeous New Posters From an Abandoned Printing Press in London

How neat is this? The folks at Faber & Faber, an independent publishing house in London since 1929, recently found a forgotten hand press in their archives. As it turns out, the half-century-old machine was used by the firm’s most famous designer, Berthold Wolpe: they’ve since refurbished the relic, which is going to be back…

You get a gif! And you get a gif! It’s a Gif Party!

Come on in, people! It’s Gif Party Friday! We’re looking for the all best gifs of the week, whether it’s an old favorite, an amazing science gif to astonish us all with the wonder of science, or even something you made yourself. So grab a few of your favorite gifs — costumed in their very…

Amazon’s Best-Selling Music of All Time: So That’s Who’s Buying CDs

In an apparent effort to win back some headlines after Beyoncé’s new album broke iTunes last night, Amazon has compiled its best-selling music of all time in the categories of songs, MP3 albums, and physical CDs. It’s not exactly what you’d expect. https://gizmodo.com/beyonces-surprise-new-album-crashed-itunes-overnight-1482524545 Adele sits at the top of the physical compact disc list, joined…

Looks like ARM is trying to beef up its graphics offering; it just bought Geometrics, a long time partner that specializes in dynamic illumination tech, stuff that makes graphics look real, and real good. [GigaOM]

Should we just rename Uranus already?

Two-hundred-and-thirty-two years ago a mistake was made. The question is, do we have to keep living with it forever, or is it finally time to rename Uranus? Even as I write this, I am bracing myself so that I can be stoic in the face of the inevitable barrage of comments that amount to, “I…

This Wonderful Cardboard Robot Proves the Box Is Always More Fun

There’s a long running joke that kids would rather play with the cardboard box than the toy inside. And that’s especially true if that cardboard can then be transformed into an articulated 20-inch tall robot like our friend here. Thanks to pre-cut holes and panels, as well as folding cardboard joints and hinges, this creation…

Here’s when you can finally see Knights of Badassdom

I have no idea how any movie starring Peter Dinklage goes straight to VOD in this day and age, but the much anticipated Knights of Badassdom is pretty much doing just that. It’ll have a limited theatrical run beginning January 21st, but then be available on VOD on February 11th. Seeing as director Joe Lynch…

New Details About the “Old Friend” in the Doctor Who Christmas Special

Check out the first photo of Meryl Streep in The Giver. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost explain why they probably won’t be in Ant-Man. Is another classic villain being hinted at for the Amazing Spider-Man films? That Ouija movie is still happening. Plus yet another Stephen King story is becoming a TV show. Spoilers ahead!…

Rare Manhattan Project Photos Show The Birth Of The Atomic Age

The Department Of Energy posted 21 photos onto its Flickr page a few weeks ago about Chicago Pile-1, the site of the first human-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction, located in Chicago. Built under the west stands of the Stagg football field of the University of Chicago and initiated on 2 December 1942, the Chicago Pile-1 was…

Bell Labs’ 202 Hack: The First Great Jailbreak?

Before laser-printers were even dreamt of, large companies had to use typesetters to render text if it were to look any good—but they were expensive and tightly controlled. Then, in the summer of 1979, engineers at Bell Labs changed all that. Over their summer vacation, a team of researchers decided to reverse engineer the technology…

Rumor: Amazon Will Open a Wholesale Store Called Pantry in 2014

USA Today is reporting that Amazon is planning to launch a wholesale store in 2014, which will take on warehouse store businesses like Costco and Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club. The rumor suggests that Amazon will launch a new online service, referred to as Pantry, which will initially carry “2,000 products typically found in the center of…

Your Hacked LinkedIn Password Is Art

Last year, LinkedIn suffered the embarrassment of having millions of its users’ passwords stolen. So someone went and turned it into art. Of course they did. Aram Bartholl created Forgot Your Password? after the event: a set of eight books containing 4.7 million passwords leaked during the hack. Bartholl explains: In summer 2012 the social…

Over 60 Percent of Internet Traffic Is Now Driven By Bots

Chances are that, if you’re visiting this page, you’re not a human. A new study reveals that 61.5 percent of all website traffic is generated by automated bots. Hi, robot! The research, carried out by researchers Incapsula, shows that bot-produced traffic has jumped by 21 percent in the last year alone. But while it might…

Following no small amount of outcry, Twitter has reverted its blocking changes. So they’re now virtually all back to normal. Nothing to see here. Move along.

This Is How to Stop People Hijacking Your Details for Marketing

Obviously nobody wants their website full of abusive content cleverly hidden away in the last name field. So why not get creative? Of course, as Randall Munroe points out in the alt text of today’s XKCD: “It’s ok, they’ll always let you opt out! Like they did with the YouTube real name profile thing.” Oh…

Beyoncé’s Surprise New Album Crashed iTunes Overnight

Overnight, Beyonce has released her fifth studio album without warning. Referred to as the “visual album” and titled Beyoncé, it was made exclusively available on iTunes without any announcement—and has already made quite an impact. With Twitter going crazy over the release, the Daily Mail reports that it “caused iTunes to temporarily crash as fans…

Bloomberg: Google Is Thinking About Making Chips

Bloomberg is reporting that Google is mulling the idea of designing its own server processors, using technology from ARM. The report cites a source who points out that the move could help Google better manage the interface between its hardware and software. It also points out that the move would threaten Intel’s market dominance, given…

Disquiet Junto Project 0102: Sonic Tinsel

The project: Record original secular holiday music: glistening, reflective, gentle. 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.…