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Our favorite art of the day: tiny Deadpool flying on an eagle

Why yes, that is tiny Deadpool flying on an eagle and shooting a massive machine gun. Why do you ask? (Warning: potentially NSFW Deadpool art below.) This concept art comes from artist José Emroca Flores, whose work Kotaku has featured before. It was created for the new Deadpool video game, and it’s basically our new…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

George R.R. Martin explains why Forbidden Planet is his favorite movie

George R.R. Martin first saw Forbidden Planet as a child in 1956, and he’s seen it 100 times sinc then. Yes, you read that right. A hundred. Here’s why. Talking to the Santa Fe New Mexican, Martin reminisces about seeing Forbidden Planet at the DeWitt Theater in Bayonne, NJ as an eight-year-old: It was amazing……

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3D-Printed Lego-Like Blocks Can Be Assembled by Robots into Spaceships

Not too long ago, a couple of MIT scientists asked themselves a lofty question: “Can you 3-D print an airplane?” It didn’t take long for them to realize that 3D printing anything on that scale was impractical. But 3D-printing thousands of small, Lego-like building blocks? That could work. Fast forward a few months, and Kenneth…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Microsoft Is Super Pissed at Google For Breaking Its YouTube App

Earlier today, the Microsoft-built YouTube app for Windows Phone was unceremoniously disabled by Google. These kind of little inter-corporate kerfuffles happen from time to time, and usually resolve themselves without screwing too many users. But boy, Microsoft didn’t take it quietly. In a screed published on this afternoon, Microsoft explains the whole ordeal, and it…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Do villains have to commit “taboo” acts for us to hate them?

Do villains need to rape, torture or mutilate people for us to hate them? Or maybe the reverse is true: Sometimes we can invest more in a villain, if his or her evildoing is creative and leaves more to our imaginations. Sometimes with villains, brutality is the lesser path. Here’s our plea for more subtle…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell

Adorn Your Walls With This Dizzyingly Cool Geometric Art

You’ve seen Andy Gilmore‘s art before—you might just not know it. Gilmore’s colorful kaleidoscopes have adorned everything from magazines to album covers to snowboards. And now, thanks to a collaboration with the Ghostly Store, these hypnotic prints can also deck your walls. Gilmore is inspired by all kinds of forms, many of which come from…

Tech News Leslie Horn

At last, they’re adding female soldiers to one of the biggest games ever

Call of Duty—a warfare simulator that is one most popular and important games in history—is adding female soldiers to the game. The developers gave plenty of excuses in the past, but now they are finally caving in, adding a feature to customize your player, including the player’s sex. https://kotaku.com/why-female-soldiers-were-finally-added-to-call-of-duty-1142063196

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The sci-fi and fantasy movies to watch and avoid this fall

There’s so many sci-fi and fantasy movies coming this fall that it’s really overwhelming. Some may suck, some look awesome, so here’s the ultimate guide from io9 so you don’t get lost. https://gizmodo.com/fall-movie-guide-our-forecast-on-20-science-fiction-an-1138983993

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This Tricycle Printing Press Was the Hot New Advertising Stunt of 1895

In an effort to stick out from the crowd, advertisers often come up with clever ways to reach consumers outside the traditional world of media. These efforts come in many names and varieties: experiential, guerrilla, wild postings, the list is seemingly endless. But despite how clever many of these marketing tactics may seem, there’s almost…

Tech News Matt Novak

This dinosaur’s huge body didn’t work the way we thought it did

Sauropods were some of the most successful dinosaurs that ever lived, partly thanks to the way they used their long necks to reach food. But a new study of ostrich necks reveals that what we thought we knew about the evolution of these dinosaurs was wrong. After they evolved in the late Triassic, sauropods spread…

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No, India did not just grant dolphins the status of humans

Contrary to widespread reports, the Indian government did not recently grant legal personhood status to dolphins. But it did abolish the use of dolphins in aquatic theme parks — an important precedent that could eventually inspire other countries to do the same. This news actually came out a few months ago, but it’s making the…

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The Saga of Star Wars’ Toys Is Almost Better Than the Actual Movies

As much as the original Star Wars was a revolution in filmmaking that gave birth to the summer blockbuster, it was also responsible for the idea of marketing and merchandising the crap out of a film property. It all started with a hastily-designed line of action figures and toys that collectors are still desperate to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Sony Vaio Pro Review: Climbing a Steeper Grading Curve

There is no joy in the Sony Vaio Pro. For a laptop that is, in substance, elegant and powerful, that’s strange. It’s pretty and sleek and slim, but somehow with none of the joie de vivre that typically comes along with that. When the Vaio Pro first hit two months ago, it was a small…

Reviews Kyle Wagner

Your Smartphone Can Now Be Your Eye Doctor

It was only a matter of time before smartphones made the transition from communication device to full blown Star Trek tricorder. And with the development of Peek (an acronym for Portable Eye Examination Kit), that transition is nearly complete. Peek is a project spearheaded by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in partnership…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Disney’s Bears trailer puts teeny tiny baby bear feet in your face

Meet Sky and her newborn squeaky bear cubs. Now get ready to feel all the feelings, as the cute bears in Disney’s Bears movie explore this big, beautiful world. Just in case the title wasn’t enough of a synopsis for you, here’s more: In an epic story of breathtaking scale, Disneynature’s new True Life Adventure…

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Tag Along With the Fearless Badasses Who Clean The Windows of NYC

Cleaning sucks, but just be happy you don’t have to do it from dizzying heights. New York City’s window washers cleaners have to be some of the ballsiest cleaners out there, and they dangle from buildings everyday like it’s nothing. The New York Times took a closer look at their squeegee-ing heroics, and it’s terrifyingly…

Tech News Eric Limer

A Gang of Thai Villagers Tried to Arrest a Google Street View Driver

Google Street View drivers haven’t exactly had the best rep recently, what with that whole collecting-private-Wi-Fi-data debacle and their general propensity for photographing naked women, defecators, murders, and mid-coital couples, just to name a few. And now, one almost got arrested by a group Thai villagers. https://gizmodo.com/was-a-rogue-engineer-responsible-for-googles-wi-fi-sn-5559989 The northern Thai village where the incident took…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Are we in a “Gutenberg moment” with science writing online?

Newspapers may be dying, and television may be turning science into Megalodon specials, but there is one place where stories about science are exploding: on the web. MIT science journalism professor Tom Levinson has a terrific essay explaining why it’s a great time to be reading about science online. In this excerpt, Levinson talks about…

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The Ultimate Guide to this Fall’s Science Fiction and Fantasy TV!

Is this the most insane television season for science fiction and fantasy fans ever? There are tons of new genre shows. But also, a surprisingly high percentage feel like they could be superb. Including killer comic-book shows, futuristic cop action, and supernatural sexiness. Here’s our complete guide to fall TV. Shows marked with a *…

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Alexander Graham Bell’s Failed Flying Machine Reborn As a Floating City

In 1899, the inventor of the telephone set out to solve another problem: The airplane. He failed miserably. Really, really miserably. But this summer, a team of architects and engineers have resurrected his 106-year-old design for a flying machine for a very different purpose: As a model for floating, solar-powered structures. In the early years…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Our favorite art of the day: tiny Deadpool flying on an eagle

George R.R. Martin explains why Forbidden Planet is his favorite movie

3D-Printed Lego-Like Blocks Can Be Assembled by Robots into Spaceships

Microsoft Is Super Pissed at Google For Breaking Its YouTube App

Do villains have to commit “taboo” acts for us to hate them?

Adorn Your Walls With This Dizzyingly Cool Geometric Art

At last, they’re adding female soldiers to one of the biggest games ever

The sci-fi and fantasy movies to watch and avoid this fall

This Tricycle Printing Press Was the Hot New Advertising Stunt of 1895

This dinosaur’s huge body didn’t work the way we thought it did

No, India did not just grant dolphins the status of humans

The Saga of Star Wars’ Toys Is Almost Better Than the Actual Movies

Sony Vaio Pro Review: Climbing a Steeper Grading Curve

Your Smartphone Can Now Be Your Eye Doctor

Disney’s Bears trailer puts teeny tiny baby bear feet in your face

Tag Along With the Fearless Badasses Who Clean The Windows of NYC

A Gang of Thai Villagers Tried to Arrest a Google Street View Driver

Are we in a “Gutenberg moment” with science writing online?

The Ultimate Guide to this Fall’s Science Fiction and Fantasy TV!

Alexander Graham Bell’s Failed Flying Machine Reborn As a Floating City

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