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While gold iPhone rumors have been floating around for weeks now, it seems AllThingsD finally has confirmation thanks to “sources in a position to know.” Here’s to imagining King Midas running frantically around Foxconn.

Iron Man battles his most obsessed fanboy in new IM3 deleted scene

Iron Man 3 doesn’t hit DVD and Blu-ray until September 24th, but deleted scenes and extras are leaking out — like these alternate versions of Tony Stark’s encounter with his #1 fan Gary (played by Happy Endings’ Adam Pally). I’m pretty Stark would rather deal with Whiplash again than look at that tattoo. https://gizmodo.com/first-iron-man-3-deleted-scene-shows-the-mandarin-on-th-1124038015

Why a Gold iPhone 5S Actually Makes Sense

Full disclosure: We’ve been seeing the gold iPhone rumors for weeks now, but have largely been brushing them aside. Fake Apple rumors are as easy to come by as tangled EarPod cords this close to a new product launch, and this one in particular seemed too outlandish, too… tacky. But gold iPhone reports have reached…

First footage from Julia Ormond’s Witches of East End series

Witches are the new mermaids or what have you. But all joking aside, we’re actually pretty excited about Lifetime’s new Witches of East End Lifetime TV series. Because it stars Julia Ormond. And she is amazing, and so is magic. Based on the Melissa de la Cruz’s novel, Witches of East End will also star…

Skunk Works Is Building a Drone That Carries Cars Instead of Cameras

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works’ Transformer TX started out as yet another design for the oft-predicted but never delivered flying car. But it’s since turned into an entirely different type of flying machine: an autonomous way for the military to airlift vehicles and cargo to dangerous areas. The Transformer TX is a DARPA-funded project that was…

This Week’s TV: An A.I. Revolution, From the Writers of Stargate!

Television loves you. How do we know? Because this week’s offerings include the Ghost Shark TV movie. Plus a guide for alien invaders. And a special about the man with the 132-pound scrotum. And most of all, Seth Green is stopping the A.I. apocalypse. Check out clips and details for this week’s TV! Top image:…

Incredible Before-and-After Photos Match Up Old and New NYC

New York documentarian Paul Sahner’s blog NYC Grid is a lovely project, and amongst the coolest recurring features on the site is Before & After, which compares archival images of New York monuments with photos of the same spot today. Above, we see the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge as it was in 1915, compared…

In Breaking Bad, allies are hard to come by

In last night’s tension-filled episode of Breaking Bad, we are treated to several critical — and much anticipated — encounters. Things are moving quickly now as everyone tries to keep ahead of the other. Episode recap and spoilers ahead. “Buried” is episode 10 of Breaking Bad’s fifth and final season, and the second episode of…

Scientists Invent the Holy Grail of Booze: Electrolyte-Enhanced Beer

In the never-ending quest to create a hangover-proof booze, a team of Australian researchers have developed a beer that rehydrates you as you drink, thanks to a healthy serving of electrolytes. Think of it as beer-flavored Gatorade—only less disgusting, presumably. The nutrition researchers hail from the Griffith Health Institute in Queensland, and they say they’ve…

Lady Gaga’s goose egg video for “Applause” turns her into a black swan

Whoa nelly. The usually fairly more stunning music video maker Lady Gaga has dropped her latest video tome for her new single “Applause.” It’s certainly something. But instead of wowing us with her wild fashion forward thought and highly stylized sets we got Lady Gaga as a goose. SO that’s something. It just feels like…

Which music star says she’s being stalked by a creepy famous gossiper?

This lady told this guy: “STAY AWAY FROM ME + MY FAMILY YOU ARE SICK TRYING TO RENT AN APARTMENT IN MY BUILDING TO STALK ME. LEAVE ME ALONE!!!” https://jezebel.com/lady-gaga-accuses-perez-hilton-of-stalking-as-their-feu-1165668091

I Want to Believe These Colorful iPhone 5c Parts Are Real

It’s looking increasingly likely that the “budget” iPhone 5C will be announced at an Apple keynote on September 10th. And we can’t get enough of the speculative renders and possible leaks. Today’s highly-suspect rumor? Colorful buttons! https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5c-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-1108397130 These (supposedly) leaked parts come from this year’s rumor-blogger standout, Sonny Dickson. We’ve seen colorful iPhone backs like…

Aircast Turns Chromecast into an Android AirPlay

Chromecast is great, except for the part where your streaming options are pretty limited. They’re getting better by the day, but soon, it’ll all be a non-issue; a new app called Aircast, can already push all your videos to Chromecast. https://gizmodo.com/chromecast-is-getting-vimeo-and-redbox-instant-and-may-961630039 Koushik Dutta has been working on stream-everything functionality for the Chromecast for a while,…

You Can Download Your Next Desk From This Open-Source Ikea

Ikea’s not the only place you can get a build-your-own-furniture puzzle. If you’re into the whole open source thing, there’s a new repository of completely free furniture designs that are ripe for the downloadin’. The only hurdle? You have to actually make the pieces before you can put ’em together. OpenDesk, furniture designers Joni and…

Where the hell are my goddamned adult Underoos?

It’s a pretty fine time to be a nerd. We have an abundance of big-budget superhero movies, we have some phenomenal scifi and fantasy TV, and you can pretty much get a toy of anything. But there’s one major discrepancy in this cornucopia of nerdy delights, and it’s in my underwear drawer. Where the fuck…

How a Renaissance Artist Imagined iOS Almost 500 Years Ago

Apple’s iOS may be undergoing the biggest change since its inception, but that doesn’t mean the spirit of the operating system hasn’t been floating around designer’s heads for hundreds of years. In 1525, before the iPhone was even a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye, German polymath Albrecht Dürer was espousing similar design principles using the…

This Flexible OLED Camera Can Snap One-Shot Panoramic Photos

Taking panoramic photos was once a time consuming process of carefully snapping a series of shots and then manually stitching them back together in Photoshop. Today it’s as easy as just panning across a vista with your digital camera or smartphone, but researchers at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab have come up with an even…

Sansa Stark’s actress adopted her real-life direwolf

In Game of Thrones, Sansa Stark’s dire wolf Lady met an untimely end as a sacrifice to mollify the queen’s anger after Arya’s dire wolf Nymeria bit Prince Joffrey (and then ran away). In real life, however, Lady’s doing much better — especially after actress Sophie Turner adopted the Mahlek Northern Inuit Dog who played…

Thai university uses the most ridiculous anti-cheating device

Look at these poor students taking an exam at a university in Thailand: a paper headband with two paper sheets stapled to each side so they couldn’t look at the next desk during exams. It’s been a scandal in the country because people find it humiliating—understandably. https://kotaku.com/these-anti-cheating-hats-make-me-sad-1165692137

For morning viewing: 3 timelapses of last week’s Perseid meteor shower

Last weekend’s Perseid display may go down as the most spectacular meteor shower of 2013. Did you miss it? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Here to wrest you from the clutches of Monday morning indolence are three arresting timelapses of the shower, each under 90 seconds long. The first comes from photographer P-M Hedén,…