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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Otto l’Automate

Tomatoes are an opiate for the masses. And who’s to say that isn’t a soylent tomato canning plant? The cyber-proletariat will remain ironically indentured to their own class of robot overlords.

Wow, This Beautiful Time Lapse Was Incredibly Created in GTA V

It’s official. Living in the world of GTA is way better than living in real life. Hell, the only thing real life had on being a criminal in Los Santos was gaspingly beautiful time lapse videos that would pop up every and now again to capture your attention and make you wonder why you can’t…

Amazon’s 3D Phone Apparently Uses Four Cameras to Track Your Face

Earlier this year, the WSJ reported that Amazon was working on a 3D phone that no one really wants. Now TechCrunch reveals what’s behind the 3D tech and it’s not actual 3D. It’s four front-facing cameras at each corner of the device that can track eye and head movements to make the phone’s screen look…

How Many of These Simple Security Tips Do You Actually Use?

The ever helpful folks at Household Hacker have come up with a list of quick and easy security tips to make your life on the Internet a wee bit more secure. Most of you probably already do a lot of this stuff. And if you don’t, you should. Even if it makes your life a…

This Is How Star Trek Into Darkness Should Have Ended

Okay, I have a confession. I didn’t watch Star Trek Into Darkness. Not because I don’t like lens flares or Trekkies or plot holes but because I’m generally just a terrible person at catching movies while they’re in theaters. It’s okay though. From the looks of this latest hilarious video on how movies should have…

The classic toy camera Diana F+ can now be bought as an Instant Camera package for $140. Previously, you had to buy a separate instant back to the camera for $90, not to mention the $90 it cost for the Diana F+ camera itself. Save a few bucks! [Lomography]

Knife Party: Lrad

Sometimes even the most horrific of screw ups can wind up working out in your favor. Like when you attempt to unmask—quite literally in this case—a political charlatan for the well-groomed automaton he really is. Knife Party is an Australian house duo comprised of Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen, two former members of the reasonably…

Our Favorite Tablets, Phablets, and Phones

From the rumors to the unveiling to the in-store debut, iPhone chatter seemed to dominate the month of September. But technology does not live on the iPhone alone, and plenty of other gadgets hit the scene during back-to-school time. Here’s what we loved most. The Best Tablet The Kindle Fire HDX is a big step…

Oakley’s Heads-Up Display Ski Goggles Get a Better Battery

Last year Oakley wowed us with Airwave, its heads-up display ski goggles. And just as we’re starting to think about ski season, Oakley’s got a new version of the fancy mountain gear that has the same look and some essential internal tweaks. For the uninitiated, Airwave track your stats like speed, height, and altitude. It…

The UK Is About to Connect an Entire Highway to the Internet

Imagine a future where your car’s not just connected to the road between the tire rubber and tarmac. It’s connected to the internet and not only sending a steady stream of data but also receiving signals to speed up or slow down based on the traffic. This futuristic future is already here. The United Kingdom…

This Giant Submarine Destroying a City Street Is Actually an Ad

Life is strange and unpredictable. Some things have to be seen to be believed, and even then it can be tough to trust your own peepers. Take Milan’s Piazza Mercanti, for instance. It recently became home to what appears to be a submarine bursting through the asphalt. Wait, what? Whether or not anyone questioned how…

How the Feds Bullied Snowden’s Email Provider into Shutting Down

New details have emerged in the saga of Lavabit, the now offline secure email provider used by Edward Snowden. Apparently, the government tried (and failed) to strong arm the service into giving up its private SSL key, a major security concession that would’ve given Uncle Sam access to all user data. The story actually starts…

The most famous astronaut after Apollo is going mad(ly awesome)

Behold the stellar Chris Hadfield—the Canadian astronaut who became a space celebrity for his fun educational videos in the International Space Station—characterized as a pornstached Ziggy Stardust. Kids, may you be half as awesome as Chris when you grow up.

Should Bitcoin Be Illegal?

As the Silk Road came tumbling down today, and its signature currency—Bitcoin—has been pushed into the spotlight again. Will Bitcoin survive? Should it survive? Should people keep using it if it does? We’re here to talk it out. The fact that all this trading was taking place over the internet and with an entirely virtual…

Miners Want to Ignite an Inferno Deep Beneath Wyoming

Out in Wyoming, an energy company is getting creative about extracting coal from deep below the surface. Rather than blast a hole in the side of the Earth and go digging for it, Linc Energy just wants to set the stuff on fire and gobble up the gas emitted by the blaze. What could go…

Every robot guitarist needs a small mammal friend

On a rainy night, Busker’s Row was pretty empty. But that’s when Hattie did her best work. She could strum a tune that perfectly matched the tempo of the beating rain, and the kitten on her shoulder would howl counterpoint. If Hattie had been human, she might have wondered if the coins from passerby were…

Corita Kent: How a Screenprinting Nun Changed the Course of Modern Art

During the 1960s, a woman named Corita Kent transformed a tiny art department in a Hollywood Catholic school into a global center for design and printmaking. She was buddies with Buckminister Fuller and counted IBM as a client. Oh yeah, and she was a nun! The new book Someday is Now: The Art of Sister…

Facebook Is Building Its Own “Resort-Inspired” Factory Town

Facebook is dipping its big blue thumb into the real estate market, investing in a cushy 394-unit apartment complex that’s a 45-minute walk to its new Frank Gehry-designed Menlo Park campus. The $120 million Anton Menlo will be designed by architects at KTGY Group in a partnership with St. Anton Developers (hence the name) and…

The only review you need to read of Dave Eggers’ new book, The Circle

Dave Eggers’ new novel The Circle hasn’t even been released yet and already there’s plenty of controversy to go around. Kate Losse, a former Facebook employee who wrote a vaguely similar tell-all last year, is shouting plagiarism before she’s even read it. And Eggers quite famously doesn’t even use the internet, leading many to wonder…