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Best selling spy novel writer Tom Clancy dies age 66

American writer and Ronald Reagan fan Tom Clancy has died today. Clancy was the author of many literary and cinema blockbusters, including The Hunt for Red October. His Cold War novels have probably been in every beach and pool chair in the planet.

Report: The Next Fitbit Will Also Be a Watch

The Verge has obtained some purported information on the next Fitbit fitness tracker. The follow-up to the Flex supposedly called the Force, and it will apparently work as an actual watch this time around. Additionally, the arm band will be partially water-resistant, have a physical button that lets you scroll through features, and have an…

You can’t watch Gravity like a typical movie, warns Alfonso Cuarón

Everyone is buzzing about Gravity, the stunning new film from director Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men). We sat down with Cuarón to talk about it. He told us why you can watch basically every mainstream movie with your eyes closed, but not Gravity. Far too many films today rely on characters pointing at the sky…

Turn Your Samsung Galaxy S4 Into a TV-B-Gone

Sometimes you not only want a bar where everybody knows your name, but one that’s free of blaring TVs. It was that idea that inspired the original TV-B-Gone device that lets you discreetly turn off any TV, but now anyone with an infra-red equipped smartphone—like the Samsung Galaxy S4—can do the same thanks to a…

Re-Live the Windows 95 Glory Days in Your Browser With This Easter Egg

We’ve all got some nostalgia for computing days gone by, and you have to admit there’s a little corner of your heart that lights up at the thought of Windows 95, right? Right?! Well Microsoft wants you to dig in and find it by taking a trip down memory lane with its new, re-invented web-version…

Listening to Paris Hilton’s new song may make you instantly stupid

Paris Hilton has recorded a song with Lil Wayne and, as expected, it sounds like shit. Listen to this embarrassing music terrorist act coupled with a pathetic video of morons partying. “And I may be a bit tipsy, but that’s ok ’cause you’re with me.” Kill it with fire.

You will believe a coin can fly

The next time you’re bored in a coffee shop, here’s a little something to do. All you need is a coin, a straw, a cup, and a willingness to be made the object of many admiring looks — for you are the pennymaster. Making a penny hop has been done in all kinds of situations,…

Jimmy Kimmel Found the Perfect Cure for iOS 7 Motion Sickness

iOS 7 is allegedly making some people sick to the point of puking. But Jimmy Kimmel has come to the rescue with the perfect cure: stop looking at your phone all the damn time. But seriously, maybe it’s a good idea to put your iPhone down and stop and smell the roses every once in…

These are South Korean apartments, not prison cells

There are three kinds of people in South Korea: those who make real money and live in real homes; those who make cents assembling your phones and share a room with six other people; and those lucky ones who make a few dollars and can afford these prison cells that they call “apartments.”

6 Cities and Towns That Were Relocated Completely

Why is it so hard for us humans to let go? We’re obsessed with preserving the things we love—even when logic tells us it’s time to move on. One large scale example of this irrational behavior: The billions of dollars spent to move entire towns out of harm’s way. Humans have moved since they had…

10 Silliest Rules of Time Travel from Science Fiction

Time travel stories are some of the coolest tales in the universe. But sometimes, when you’re lost in the time-space continuum, things can get pretty crazy. Time-lag, paradox overload, etc. So you gotta have rules to make sense of the vortex. Here are the 10 silliest rules for time travel that people have come up…

Stabilized Action Cam and Smartphone Mounts Smooth Out Your Home Vids

It doesn’t matter how extreme your stunt was no one’s going to want to see your home video when it’s bouncing all over the place making people sick to their stomach. But now you can skip the stabilization software and stop the shaky cam problem at its source with these handheld gimbals. Keeping a video…

These are all the colors emitted by the Sun. Notice anything missing?

The Sun emits an impressive range of visible light. Some colors, however, are more strongly represented than others – while others are missing entirely. The data depicted here was acquired by the Fourier Transform Spectrometer at the National Solar Observatory atop Kitt Peak, near Tucson, AZ. That data was originally translated into an awesomely named…

Why a superintelligent machine may be the last thing we ever invent

If you want to know about the future of artificial intelligence then you must read documentary filmmaker James Barrat’s new book Our Final Invention. We’ve got an incredible excerpt from the book, about the coming intelligence explosion that could redefine the human condition. “The Intelligence Explosion,” an excerpt from Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and…

Legend of Conan scriptwriter hired for masculine grittiness, excellent

The Legend of Conan is still happening! What with Hercules, Expendables 3 and Escape Plan coming down the pipe it feels like we’re reliving the oiled muscled movies of the ’80s, only with old people. And now The Legend of Conan hired a writer. Deadline is reporting that Andrea Berloff, best known for World Trade…

My Cloud Is A New Option For Storing Your Stuff From Anywhere

Chances are you have files stored all over the internet—some in Dropbox, a few in Google Drive, and so forth. Western Digital has new cloud storage system out today called My Cloud that can help you consolidate your photos, videos, and other documents. My Cloud is basically what we’ve come to expect from these type…

Why Letting Superman Kill Kills Superman

Will today’s mailbag be the final word on Man of Steel’s controversial ending? Hopefully! Are the Disney Princesses put in an absurdly violent scenario? You bet! Does a zombie baby question get taken too far? It most certainly does! Welcome to Postal Apocalypse! God Loves, Superman Kills Chris M.: Mr. Postman: I’ve been nerd-raging over…

If you’ve been eagerly anticipating the arrival of Windows 8.1, then some good news: you can now pre-order it, Start button and all, on DVD for the princely sum of $120.

FAA Advisory Panel: Wi-Fi Is Safe During Takeoff and Landing

Last week, an FAA advisory committee recommended that airline passengers should be allowed to use smartphones, tablets and e-readers during takeoffs and landings. Now, it’s added Wi-Fi use to that list. Praise be! The Wall Street Journal reports that the 28-member committee has come to the conclusion that Wi-Fi use is essentially safe on flights.…

Vincent van Gogh’s never-before-seen sketchbooks

Did you know Vincent van Gogh kept a sketchbook? Several of them, in fact. For years, seven of them were kept at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, hidden away in the institution’s archives. Now, they’ve been unveiled for all the world to see in Molly Oldfield’s The Secret Museum. The first sketch in the Van Gogh…