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This is a Stunning Seaside Timelapse

From astrophotographer Jack Fusco comes a breathtaking reminder to stop and savor the starscapes that soar above us every night – whether we find ourselves in rural Utah, far from city lights, or the Eastern seaboard, just a few miles removed from bright, bustling urban life. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-why-astronomers-build-telescopes-in-the-mountai-5893347 “I’ve been working on a timelapse of thenight…

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Dinosaur DNA cannot be extracted from amber

Well, it looks like we may never have our own Jurassic Park. Scientists at the University of Manchester failed to pull DNA samples from insects trapped in 10,600 year-old amber, leading them to conclude that the chances of extracting intact DNA from samples millions of years older is likely impossible. For those living in a…

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Create Your Own Broken Masterpieces with This Glitch Art Generator

Glitch art is sort of like the internet’s code-heavy version of graffiti. While graffiti writers climb walls to get their tag in impossible spots, glitch artists dig deep into code to create chaotic results. It used to require programming skills, but thanks to this new DIY site, just a few mouse clicks will do. Put…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Dogs basically don’t care if you are a robot or a human

Your dog is not going to miss you after the robot uprising. In a recent experiment with sociable robots — who are designed to emulate human social behavior — scientists found that dogs learned quickly how to interact with robots just as if they were human. The scientists designed two experiments — one with a…

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Jezebel readers confess all about their first sexual experiences

Sexual vampires. Sex in the woods. Caught in the act. Condoms left on for too long. Beer lady. Blue vibrators. Closets in Christian camps. Tom Hanks. Dead heads. Swiss lube. The Big Lebowski. Threesomes. All that and much more in The Best Stories About the First Time [Jezebel Readers] Had Sex.” https://jezebel.com/the-10-best-stories-about-the-first-time-you-had-sex-1307061147

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Good Will Batman is the Batfleck we deserve and need right now

Whenever the Batman/Superman movie comes out, I’m pretty sure the thing we’re going to be most grateful to Ben Affleck’s performance as Batman for is that it’ll have inspired this amazing movie — a stirring tale of friendship between a hero and a guy who’s smarter than his really large science cave computer. [Via Nerd…

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A Railroad-Mounted “Printer” That Covers Its Tracks in Laser Graffiti

If you live in San Francisco, you may have seem some otherworldly lights radiating from the train tracks near your house this summer. If so, you can take off your tin foil hat: It was just the latest project of Aaron Koblin, the Creative Director of Google’s Data Arts Team, and director Ben Tricklebank. You…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Strangest and Most Tragic Ghost Towns from Around the World

There is nothing more haunting than a once-thriving town that has been abandoned and consumed by the elements. Here are images from some of the most incredible ghost towns in the world. Dallol, Ethiopia This place was a potash, sylvite and salt mining community, abandoned in the late 1960s. Most of the buildings were made…

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The FBI Just Admitted to Hacking Into the Tor Network

Just over a month after reports of a malware attack on the anonymous Tor network, the FBI told an Irish court that it was behind the shenanigans. But don’t worry, it was for a good cause. The Tor hack was supposed to target associates of the Freedom Hosting’s operator Eric Eoin Marques who’s currently being…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

This Week in Time Capsules: Best Capsule Ever Leaves the Solar System

This week we have a message in a bottle which could be the oldest ever found, 1970s microfilm that was hidden inside a missile in Kansas, and the single coolest (and furthest traveled) time capsule ever assembled. Coolest Time Capsule Ever Has Left The Solar System Arguably one of the coolest time capsules ever created…

Tech News Matt Novak

The perfect t-shirts for ninjas and space travelers

It’s time for the weekend, and that means putting on your best party t-shirts to wow the world with your sophisticated tastes. And we’ve got two tees for you right here: one for you ninja bunnies and one for the tourists who are ready to visit Neptune’s moon Triton. Nobody will ever question your fashion…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Can Kenya’s Hidden Aquifer Prevent a Water War?

This week’s jaw-dropping news that a massive aquifer has been discovered beneath Kenya conjured up all sorts of visions of the desert instantly greening like a Chia Pet. But it’s not as easy as digging a well—the aquifer opens up a whole other set of political and environmental issues that face the African nation. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-found-a-huge-underground-water-reserve-1296862271…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Nokia Was Testing Android Lumia Phones Before Microsoft Swallowed It

It’ll never happen now but the dream of beautifully brawny Nokia hardware loaded with dominating Android software was an idea that Nokia had been toying around with before Microsoft swooped in and bought Nokia’s phone business. In fact, Android-powered Lumia phones actually existed inside Nokia. You heard it right, ANDROID LUMIA PHONES. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-microsoft-is-buying-nokias-phones-business-1243005211 The NY…

Tech News Casey Chan

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

It’s been a surprisingly calm Friday the 13th, so hang out with us for the next few hours as we discuss the events of the past week, which didn’t lack for accidents and mistakes. Some of them we saw coming, like this man’s ill-fated attempt to ride a bunch of balloons across the Atlantic. Others…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

What’s the most WTF movie you’ve ever seen?

One reason we love science fiction and fantasy movies is their wide-open, imaginative spirit. A science-fiction film can go to places that most people can barely dream of. And sometimes… beyond. But what’s the weirdest, most inexplicable movie you’ve ever seen? Please include a picture, poster or clip from this film. And include the title,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

A Cardboard Space Station For Astronauts of All Ages

As Voyager makes its bold journey into interstellar space, it’s a great time to get the next generation of astronauts interested in travel to infinity and beyond. https://gizmodo.com/its-official-voyager-has-left-the-solar-system-1302291699 Amsterdam-based studio Kids On Roof has been producing delightfully hands-on, low-frills fun for tots since 2005, and Teknika Space is their latest addition. The six colorful cutouts…

Space & Spaceflight Jordan Kushins

The Best Non-Alcoholic Beer

Non-alcoholic beers take a lot of flack, and rightly so. The great majority of them taste like swampwater (and give you less of a buzz). But are any of them actually good? We tried 14 different non-alcoholic beers to find out. And the answer is a definitive yes. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through…

Tech News Brent Rose

Does The Dog Die? A Movie website that asks the IMPORTANT questions

Does the Dog Die is a website dedicated to ranking movies based on whether or not the dog (or other animals in the movie) gets snuffed. So far there are about 649 movies rated, and many more to go. The system is simple: But be aware there are some spoilers, especially in movies like Old…

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Are Janelle Monae’s science-fictional lyrics keeping her off the radio?

That’s what a new article in Radio.com claims. Monae’s first full-length album was lukewarm on radio, with the song “Tightrope” barely getting much airplay. Monae wants her new album The Electric Lady to get more radio play, but the science-fiction imagery is turning off programmers. It’s hard to believe, in the wake of tons of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

When a Friday the 13th prank goes too far . . .

Pranks can be a lot of fun, but how do you know when your prank has gone too far? Here are three Friday the 13th-themed prank videos that can help you learn the fine line between a prankster and a dangerous asshole. Example #1: A guy has his friend put on a Michael Myers mask,…

io9 Rob Bricken

This is a Stunning Seaside Timelapse

Dinosaur DNA cannot be extracted from amber

Create Your Own Broken Masterpieces with This Glitch Art Generator

Dogs basically don’t care if you are a robot or a human

Jezebel readers confess all about their first sexual experiences

Good Will Batman is the Batfleck we deserve and need right now

A Railroad-Mounted “Printer” That Covers Its Tracks in Laser Graffiti

The Strangest and Most Tragic Ghost Towns from Around the World

The FBI Just Admitted to Hacking Into the Tor Network

This Week in Time Capsules: Best Capsule Ever Leaves the Solar System

The perfect t-shirts for ninjas and space travelers

Can Kenya’s Hidden Aquifer Prevent a Water War?

Nokia Was Testing Android Lumia Phones Before Microsoft Swallowed It

Let’s Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

What’s the most WTF movie you’ve ever seen?

A Cardboard Space Station For Astronauts of All Ages

The Best Non-Alcoholic Beer

Does The Dog Die? A Movie website that asks the IMPORTANT questions

Are Janelle Monae’s science-fictional lyrics keeping her off the radio?

When a Friday the 13th prank goes too far . . .

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