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Could Hugh Jackman play Wolverine in four more X-Men films?

Vin Diesel has pretty much confirmed that he’s a member of Guardians of the Galaxy. Natalie Portman catches us up on Jane Foster in Thor: The Dark World. Chappie, Neill Blomkamp’s robot comedy, gets a synopsis. Check out schematics for X-Men: Days of Future Past’s Sentinels. The Walking Dead is really into horses now. Spoilers!…

Breakfast Cereal, Made With a Gun, in Slow-Motion

It might seem unlikely, but once upon a time the cereal you tiredly shove into your face every morning came out of a gun. But it was a very special kind of gun: a puffing gun. In fact, the puffing cannon was a major turning point in food technology, allowing starchy foods to be heated…

Philips Hue Light Bulbs Are Highly Hackable

If you’re the proud owner of some smart Philips Hue light bulbs, watch out for blackouts—because the bulbs seem to be susceptible to malicious attacks according to new research. https://gizmodo.com/turn-your-home-into-a-psychadellic-den-with-philips-ne-1045294673 Work by Nitesh Dhanjani shows that Hue’s control portal—referred to as “the bridge”—uses a pretty shaky authentication system to communicate wirelessly with devices like phones…

How Machines Think

When people talk about artificial intelligence, it’s tempting to think that it means computers can think (a little) like humans. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out that’s not quite the case. This video from New Scientist explains how machine are designed to be capable of solving problems that humans can—just not quite in the same way.…

Rumor has it that Sony is launching a flash-based PlayStation 3 with just 12GB of storage in North America—potentially priced at around $200 and available from the 18th August.

Where Those Weird Prescription Drug Names Come From

Prescription pharmaceuticals tend to have some pretty weird and wonderful names: Bremabecestat, Vepoloxamer, Nexbolizumab, Orilotimod. They sound more like characters from sci-fi films than something you’d want to ingest. So where the hell do they come from? Well, wonder no longer, because James Harbeck from The Week had decided to find out for you. Though…

What to Do If You Really Hate Google Glass

For all its promise of being the Next Big Thing in tech, when it comes to Google Glass, haters gotta hate. Still, if you’re gonna object to it, you may as well do it properly. Of course, this might not be strictly ethical. Or even legal for that matter. But, hey, someone is looking at…

Under the Dome has become Lost, and guess what? I love it.

I think it was probably last week when Under the Dome turned into Lost — right around when Nerd Boy Joe and Goth Girl Norrie found the Cadbury Creme Egg of Doom in its own mini dome. It was also right around that point that I realized the show was starting to become my new…

What Apple’s Latest Acquisition Says About the Future of Apple TV

Apple just bought a small startup company you probably never heard of called Matcha.tv. Why is this important? Because it might, maybe, could possibly reveal what Apple sees as the future of Apple TV: a channel-less oasis where it doesn’t matter what streaming service you watch your favorite TV show on as long as it’s…

How George Lucas could have made the awful Star Wars prequels good

The Star Wars prequels suck. Boring premises, bad scripts, confusing plots, uninteresting motives, and nonexistent character development. But, as this dude explains in this video, they could have been great movies with some very specific changes. If you watch the two videos, you will see he’s right. They could have worked perfectly fine with these…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Ruuuun!!

A room full of monkeys with keyboards may eventually be able to write Shakespeare but you put 100 artists in a chatroom and they’ll create something even more amazing. According to the project’s director, BingTangHuLuer: We have held 3 animation-painting live events, but which are inconvenient for friends in other cities. So I have the…

The Funniest Video on the Ridiculousness of Kickstarter

Kickstarter can be a fantastic launching pad for people with real knowhow and real talent to make real ideas, well, real. There are a lot of wonderful success stories! At its very peak, Kickstarter gives everyone a shot at success. But there are also a lot of epic failures too. The truth is, like much…

A Map of the Countries That Censor the Internet

Green shows the countries you want to live in because they have little to no Internet censorship. Yellow reveals countries that you might not want to stay in too long because they might increase censorship in the future. And if you love the Internet, you should probably avoid every other color because they all have…

Look At All the Creepy Stuff Inside a Single Drop of Pond Water

Wow. This is incredible. Captured by high-definition microscopy, the footage shows the buzzing world and slimy life inside a single drop of pond water. It’s completely alien, it’s unnerving and it makes your stomach turn itself inside out. There are brown flatworms, Medusa looking nematodes, starfish-like hydras ‘defecating’ and more oozy organisms. The video was…

After beefing with Google over YouTube ads, Microsoft just re-released an official YouTube app for Windows Phone. Get it here. [Windows Phone]

What if Disney Princesses had Instagram?

Oh man — this Disney Princess Instagram idea hits it out of the park. And yes, it’s mostly vintage pictures of people’s parents, food, feet shots, and clothes. Created by Belinda Tan over on the website Bforbel, we’re pretty sure this is EXACTLY what a Disney Princess Instagram feed would look like. And we kind…

“Armed Subject” At a College Was Actually Just Carrying a Samsung Phone

Earlier today, students at California State University, Long Beach were asked to evacuate and/or take shelter after reports that there was an “armed gunman” on campus. People were told to, “lock and blockade doors, close blinds, silence cell phones and remain calm.” Scary. Luckily, there wasn’t a shooter though. It was just a guy carrying…

Here’s what Elysium did wrong — and what it did right

Reactions to Neill Blomkamp’s first film after his sleeper hit District 9 have been mixed, to say the least. Elysium is a movie with a lot of aspirations to greatness, but it fails miserably to live up to its promise. Still, it has some incredible scenes and ideas. Here’s the breakdown. There are major spoilers…

What If Star Wars: Episode II Was Actually a Good Movie?

Depending on where you stand as a fan of Star Wars, Star Wars Episode I, II and III either destroyed everything you believed in humanity or were never actually real movies to begin with. But what if in an alternate universe (possibly far far away) that trilogy was actually, like, good? I know, hard to…

Driving with a dog? You need a dog seatbelt!

Some dogs love a ride in the car, other dogs hate it. Regardless, when you have a terrible car accident your pet will be thrown to its death or smashed to bits on the dashboard—unless you have a dog seatbelt, which one major car company is planning to put in new models. https://jalopnik.com/subaru-wants-to-make-car-rides-safer-for-your-dog-1125088992