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Report: Apple’s Future of TV Is an Actual Television

We’ve said it time and time again: Something like half a dozen companies are working on their own versions of the future of TV. The latest rumor, via Quartz, mentions that Apple’s been chatting up Viacom, HBO, Disney, ESPN, et al about offering their content on a new TV service. But apparently content is just…

Futurama successfully makes me paranoid

“Murder on the Planet Express” gives us one of the few episodes about paranoia that actually make the viewer feel paranoid. Whether that’s good or bad is up to the viewer. I thought it was good. Or did I? Most movies or shows about paranoia and a culture of mistrust fail to impart the feeling…

Philadelphia’s pro sports teams shared “awesome porn stash” in the showers

Philadelphia’s baseball and football teams—the Phillies and the Eagles—shared the Veterans Stadium in the 90s. That included the shower, the rest room area and, according to one of the Eagle’s teammates, the blue chest, a big box brimming with “an awesome collection of porn.” https://deadspin.com/the-eagles-and-phillies-shared-a-porn-collection-at-the-1182454565

Amazon’s Having a Kindle Fire (Fire) Sale All Day Today

If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle Fire HD, now’s a good time. Amazon’s running one hell of a sale today. For starters, the big ol’ Kindle Fire 8.9 is 25 percent off, all day. And pretty much every other model is getting a lightning deal of its own too. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-hd-review-everything-a-tablet-should-be-an-5942283 We’ve heard…

Humanity waves at Saturn as Cassini snaps historic pic

Late last month, the Cassini spacecraft captured a remarkable photograph of the Earth and Moon as seen from Saturn. The event coincided with a project called “The Day The Earth Smiled” in which participants from 40 countries took photos of themselves waving at the ringed planet. The results have now been assembled into this awesome…

An Amazing Stabilized Spoon Lets Parkinson’s Sufferers Feed Themselves

The same way your fancy DSLR lens can automatically track and compensate for vibrations and shaking motions, Lift Labs’ incredibly innovative new Liftware Spoon lets those dealing with Parkinson’s disease—and the tremors associated with the condition—still feed themselves. Available next month for around $300, the spoon uses onboard sensors to detect even the subtlest of…

iMessage and Parts of iCloud Are Down (Updated)

Looks like Apple is having a tricky time of things this morning: its iCloud and iMessage services are currently experiencing difficulties. The hiccup means that users are having problems with Photo Stream, iCloud documents, back-ups, iPhoto journals and iMessage. So, if things aren’t quite working properly this morning, it’s not you—it’s Apple. It’s not clear…

Which Buffy episode is the spiritual predecessor of Agents of SHIELD?

Joss Whedon reveals all, plus he takes us inside of the main villain of The Avengers: Age of Ultron… just as a new contender emerges for the Scarlet Witch. Steven Moffat drops some hints about Doctor Who’s future. Terry Gilliam opens up about Zero Theorem. Plus True Blood, Arrow, and Teen Wolf hints galore. Spoilers…

7 Subtly Suggestive New Cover Designs For Nabokov’s Lolita

Boiling down the essence of a book into a single, striking image is a incredible challenge. Part of the fun of browsing for new books is checking out the various artistic interpretations of your favorite titles—while shamelessly judging each and every unknown by what’s emblazoned on the front. Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl…

How To Make Spaghetti a Dangerous Weapon (Besides All Those Carbs)

Not only has he laid claim to the title of world’s greatest slingshot designer, Joerg Sprave is also a master of turning seemingly innocuous everyday items into frighteningly deadly weapons. This week he turns his attention to spaghetti, weaponizing what we all wrongly assumed was one of the safest meals one could enjoy. In its…

The Otherworldly Glow of the Solar System’s Auroras, Bottled in a Lab

If this image makes you think of the Northern Lights, you shouldn’t be surprised. Because this is in fact a planeterrella: a large glass dome containing spheres and charged particles, which mimics the auroral glows present within our solar system. When magnetic fields are applied within the dome, put together by NASA, charged particle of…

Is This the Gold iPhone 5S?

With all this talk of a golden iPhone you may have been expecting something terribly bling. But this leaked image, published by Japanese website Weekly Ascii, claims to show off the new “champagne” iPhone and it… it doesn’t look that bad. As ever, the usual rumour disclaimer applies: take with a massive pinch of salt…

The Amazing Art of Perfect Portrait Photography

A well-shot portrait is an amazing thing: it can reveal hidden depths of personality and convey layers upon layers of emotional complexity. This video tries to get to the bottom of what makes the perfect portrait photograph. Perhaps understandably, that’s no easy task, and there’s talk of philosophy and feelings as much as insight and…

A Periodic Table of Booze

You can fit an awful lot of information into the classic Periodic Table—and here, Brazil-based designer and illustrator mayra.artes has taken advantage of it to communicate the contents of… booze. Providing details about composition, percentages, year of invention, and more, it might not prove as useful as the real Periodic Table—but it’s probably a bit…

Ubuntu’s crowdfunding effort for its Edge smartphone has fallen massively short on Indiegogo—by a staggering $19 million. Bad luck, Linux lovers.

Read This Letter That Bradley Manning Is Sending to the President

Yesterday, Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for crimes related to stealing government documents and sharing them with WikiLeaks. Now, you can read the letter he’s sending to the President to state his case. https://gizmodo.com/bradley-manning-sentenced-to-35-years-in-prison-1177370126 The letter was read by defense attorney David Coombs following Manning’s sentencing yesterday, but the Associated Press…

Microsoft: Xbox One and Kinect Will Definitely Not Be Sold Separately

Microsoft has had an indecisive month or two recently, contemplating a series of U-turns in its attempts to compete with the forthcoming PlayStation 4. But now, it seems to have settled on a final decision about one of the most controversial flip-flops: every Xbox One WILL come with a Kinect. https://gizmodo.com/the-xbox-one-is-worse-for-everyone-if-kinects-not-mand-1113731041 About that, there now…

Traveling Around the World with Skype Actually Looks Kind of Fun

Sure, we would all love to travel around the world and do stuff but then life, work, money and excuses get in the way. So why not try to do what comedian Mark Malkoff did? He Skyped with 162 different countries, traveling the world with technology. And though that sounds horrifying in that you have…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Deathigner

Oh, OH! Deathinger like “designer” with a lisp, not Deathinger like “Death Thinger.” Ok this totally makes sense now.

Canon S120: A Tiny, Awesome Point-and-Shoot Camera (Again and Again)

For less than $500 you can’t find a tiny camera with the image quality and flexibility of Canon’s parade of S-series Powershot cameras. With the S120, the tradition marches on. Canon’s top point-and-shoot cameras aren’t the industry leaders they were in the heydey of cameras like the S90 and the S95. While S-series cameras have…