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Best 404 Error Ever Makes Man Temporary Trillionaire

For a few brief, shining hours, one fated East Texas man become the world’s very first trillionaire. And he owes it all to what may be the greatest 404 error to ever grace god’s green Earth. Reggie Theus (not the basketball coach) was casually checking his bank account when he noticed something that seemed a…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Miley Cyrus is the greatest internet troll ever

Yesterday Sinéad O’Connor told Miley Cyrus to stop behaving like a dumb prostitute, but in a motherly way. Cyrus replied making fun of her past mental health issues. Now O’Connor threatens to sue the devil child, which has prompted Cyrus to reply with the twattest of tweets: Sinead. I don’t have time to write you…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Several Reasons Why Gravity is Amazing (That You Haven’t Already Heard)

Gravity is the kind of movie that only comes along once in a blue moon: a heart-stopping work of art, that conveys the terror and beauty of space. You’ve already heard a lot about why this movie rules — but you still don’t know all the reasons why Gravity is a must-see movie. Minor spoilers…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

9 Movies You Should Be Ashamed To Be Afraid Of

Some horror movies work your nerves and leave you frightened, but at least you feel justified in your fear. Other movies — well, let’s just say you should feel embarrassed that they scare you. And here they are. Prepare to be ashamed! 9. Jaws (1975) You know you’re not going to get eaten by a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A Map of What Every State Reads Online (Including Right Now)

The most popular sites on the internet? Boring and predictable. The one site that each state reads more of than average? That’s a world where USA Today and Huffpo reign supreme, and New Yorkers don’t read the New York Times. The above map comes compliments of link-shortening heroes bitly, who used the massive stores of…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Best Buy’s Selling the iPhone 5C for $50 This Weekend (Update: Others)

The iPhone 5C will be on sale at Best Buy all weekend for $50 off. Holy smokes that’s a good deal, and just two weeks after the iPhone 5C hit stores. According the ABC News, Best Buy will be giving customers a $50 gift card with the iPhone 5C until Monday October 7th, and you…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Smartphone Charger Also Hunts Down Malware

Numbers show that malware on smartphones is a bigger and bigger problem every year, and it’s not like the phone companies are making it any easier. Would it really kill them to include a native virus scanner in iOS or Android? This is where the Skorpion comes in. The Skorpion is a jacked up smartphone…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

The U.S. military’s robopocalyptic army is starting to take shape

Everyone, say hello to WildCat, a robotic quadruped that can run 16 mph (26 kph) without tethers. It joins an already impressive cast of conceptual bots, including an updated version of ATLAS — who, as showcased in a must-see new video, may soon appear on an episode of American Ninja. Indeed, the Pentagon’s robotic army…

io9 George Dvorsky

And Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the official Quicksilver of Avengers 2

Perhaps spurred on by Samuel L. Jackson’s accidental confirmation of Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch yesterday, long-rumored frontrunner (get it? GET IT?) Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been confirmed as her brother Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Since basically the two people who have always been rumored to be most likely to get the roles…

io9 Rob Bricken

Terrifying Wildcat military robot can hunt down any human in 9 seconds

Watch this video. In a few years—when humans are being hunted down in some war by completely autonomous quadruped robotic beasts that can run faster than the fastest human on Earth—you will remember the day when you watched the video. The day it all started. I’m not talking about some Terminator scenario, a dystopian future…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

7 Bizarrely Fascinating Videos From a North Korean Travel Agency

It’s hard not to feel a sense of simultaneous discomfort and awe while watching the fascinatingly bizarre YouTube channel of Koryo Tours, a Beijing-based travel agency specializing in trips to North Korea. We already knew that most North Korean public outreach attempts feel like a real-life uncanny valley, a pastiche of a happy kingdom—and these…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

These Cubes With No Moving Parts Are Actually Self-Assembling Robots

There’s no shortage of proposed ideas for self-assembling robots, but they’re usually either incredibly complex or just a little boring. In contrast, these adorable little cubes have no obvious moving parts—but can still climb over and around one another, leap through the air, or roll across the ground. Called M-Blocks, these things—developed at MIT—contain a…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

How is it even possible that this droplet can bounce on liquid?

Now this is a strange effect. This stunning video shows a tiny drop of silicone oil that’s perpetually bouncing on a bath consisting of the same fluid. A new study provides an explanation — and it’s a phenomenon previously thought to be exclusive to the quantum realm. It’s called a pilot-wave system, and it was…

io9 George Dvorsky

Depressed mother shot dead after Washington DC car chase

The White House and the Capitol were locked down yesterday as a car chase ended with the dead of the pursued driver—Miram Carey, from Stamford, Connecticut—shot down by Secret Service agents. Her 1-year-old daughter was in the car. Here’s the complete timeline. [Updated Friday, Oct 4 8:33am] Latest update Friday, Oct 4 8:33am. The woman…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Insane pundit “explains” Obamacare in Star Trek Gorn mask

Whether you think the Affordable Healthcare Act is good or bad, I think we can all agree that Alex Jones is completely out of his mind, right? I mean, not only is he posing as an evil lizard alien who loves Obamacare, nothing he says in this video makes any fucking sense. By the end,…

io9 Rob Bricken

This 4,000-Year-Old Brain Was Burned, Boiled, Shaken, and Is Still Intact

It might look a bit like a lump of charcoal, but this is a 4,000-year-old human brain that’s been shaken, scorched and boiled in its own juices. Somehow, though, it’s still in one piece. It is, in fact, one of the oldest brains ever found. It was discovered in Seyitömer Höyük, a Bronze Age settlement…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

It’s Confirmed, DARPA’s ATLAS Humanoid Can Officially Replace Humanity

As we creep closer to the Robotics Challenge officially getting under way, Boston Dynamics gives us another glimpse of its DARPA-funded ATLAS robot being tested in the lab. This time we get to see the unsettling peek at our future carefully tip-toeing its away across a rock-strewn simulated debris field, with surprising ease and balance.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The first new Godzilla movie footage is monstrously awesome

This first footage from Gareth Edwards’s upcoming American Godzilla movie — which unfortunately Warner Bros. has taken off YouTube —is simple, reassuring, and incredibly effective. Here are a few comments on what we saw. The quote playing over the video is from Manhattan Project participant J. Robert Oppenheimer, which is obviously quite appropriate. “Now I…

io9 Rob Bricken and Annalee Newitz

The week when smog killed 70 people in Pennsylvania

In early October of 1948, the U.S. Steel plant and the Donora Zinc Works were working away, and most of the inhabitants of Donora were working with them. By November seventy people were dead and thousands more were sick. Why? Donora, Pennsylvania was a working town, filled with factories and busy producing materials like zinc…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

From the Inside Out: Everything You Need to Know About Mind Control

The term “mind control” conjures up visions of someone manipulating people from the outside, such as an evil, brainwashing scientist or a supernatural being that takes dominion of a person just with the power of his mind. But since people don’t experience this in their daily lives, most don’t believe in mind control, and think…

Tech News Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com

Best 404 Error Ever Makes Man Temporary Trillionaire

Miley Cyrus is the greatest internet troll ever

Several Reasons Why Gravity is Amazing (That You Haven’t Already Heard)

9 Movies You Should Be Ashamed To Be Afraid Of

A Map of What Every State Reads Online (Including Right Now)

Best Buy’s Selling the iPhone 5C for $50 This Weekend (Update: Others)

This Smartphone Charger Also Hunts Down Malware

The U.S. military’s robopocalyptic army is starting to take shape

And Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the official Quicksilver of Avengers 2

Terrifying Wildcat military robot can hunt down any human in 9 seconds

7 Bizarrely Fascinating Videos From a North Korean Travel Agency

These Cubes With No Moving Parts Are Actually Self-Assembling Robots

How is it even possible that this droplet can bounce on liquid?

Depressed mother shot dead after Washington DC car chase

Insane pundit “explains” Obamacare in Star Trek Gorn mask

This 4,000-Year-Old Brain Was Burned, Boiled, Shaken, and Is Still Intact

It’s Confirmed, DARPA’s ATLAS Humanoid Can Officially Replace Humanity

The first new Godzilla movie footage is monstrously awesome

The week when smog killed 70 people in Pennsylvania

From the Inside Out: Everything You Need to Know About Mind Control

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