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This Short Doc About a Magnetic Tape Fanatic Will Break Your Heart

No matter how outmoded the technology, you’ll find someone who’s devastated that it’s gone. These people are in absolute denial about the old tech’s inferiority to the advancements that supplanted it. This is Micke, the Swedish tape nut. He is precisely the luddite we’re talking about. The Magnetist a beautiful 15 minute look at Micke’s…

What the hell is this massive pentagram doing in Kazakhstan?

Yikes, it looks like Satan worshippers in Kazakhstan are up to no good. But as ominous as this 1,200 foot pentagram appears, there’s a much simpler explanation. https://gizmodo.com/are-the-streets-of-washington-d-c-supposed-to-form-a-5847682 The pentagram, which can be seen via Google Maps, is located near a desolate lake in northern Kazakhstan. According to some, the site has been linked to…

RoboCop and Catwoman are trashing the city in the Krrish 3 trailer

Here it is, the trailer for one of the year’s most anticipated superhero films: Krrish 3. The famous Bollywood franchise has boosted the visual effects, allowing for wholesale destruction, mid-air fights, and huge energy pulses. And skin-tight jumpsuits aplenty. Will this give Man of Steel a run for its money?

Apple is going to let people trade in their third party iPhone chargers for an official Apple USB Power Adapter for 10 bucks. So if you want to save $9 off the retail price and/or get rid of possibly faulty chargers, head to an Apple Store starting August 16th with a third party charger and…

Plan your vacation now and briefly escape your boring life

If you don’t plan your vacation now, you might never get one at all! It’s bad enough that so few American workers have paid time off and that so many people lack the money to go anywhere. Now even the lucky few with paid vacation time have to fight other co-workers for a chance to…

You won’t believe how tiny the world’s smallest Mona Lisa is

Feast your eyes on the “Mini Lisa,” recently created by a team of researchers at Georgia tech. While it looks here to be a decent size, it in fact measures just 30-microns thick – a little under half the width of the average human hair: Via PopSci: The tiny masterpiece was made through a process…

Finally, details about the new Sailor Moon anime emerge

It’s been a year since an all-new Sailor Moon anime was announced, and since then, nothing. So we’re not sure how accurate these new announcements will end up being, but just in case: The series begins this winter, and it will contain a new adventure of the Sailor Scouts. https://gizmodo.com/sailor-moon-returns-next-summer-with-a-new-anime-series-5924149 This news was announced at…

Galileo Was Even Smarter Than We Thought

Galileo is perhaps best known as the guy who proved Copernicus right about the sun sitting in the center of our solar system. But this proof would have been impossible without the improvements Galileo made to the telescope, which allowed him to see into the world beyond our planet like never before. And it turns…

The Orbits of 1,400 Asteroids NASA Says Could Smash the Earth

In case you didn’t have enough to worry about, NASA says there are over 1,400 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) orbiting our sun. If it makes you feel any better, this visualization of their orbits is kinda pretty. The beauty of impending destruction. If you’re really wondering, Asteroids fall into the PHA category when they get…

New Technology Lets Paralyzed People Communicate With Pupil Size

For the longest time, the medical community hasn’t had any idea what to do with people who have locked-in syndrome, the condition of being completely paralyzed from head-to-toe. Sometimes doctors don’t even know if they’re even conscious. The answer to communicating, it turns out, is to look in their eyes. Thanks to a cutting edge…

Watch this mystery celebrity take part in an ancient pagan ritual

You’ll never guess which celebrity entertainer took part in a mysterious pagan ritual on a remote Caribbean island. With her bizarre feathered bikini and majestic white wings, this famous name might as well start having people sacrificed for Her amusement. https://jezebel.com/rihannas-at-a-carnival-in-barbados-with-a-flask-and-be-1032296934

Sentient, bipedal horse-people stalk the earth in This Week’s DVDs

Horse women, walking upright, take advantage of our already beleaguered education system. It sounds like a horrifying social commentary, but in fact it’s just the plot of the new My Little Pony movie Equestria Girls. Plus Oblivion, some Disney, Swamp Thing and more, all in this week’s DVDs! • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls I…

Receiptmate for iOS: Make E-Budgeting Easier With Scannable Receipts

No one save receipts anymore. We buy nearly everything either online or with a credit card, so since we basically have an electronic record of most of our purchases, it’s become too easy to toss any potential paper trail. But some of our payments are still made in cash, and if you really want to…

Toxic Water From Fukushima Is Leaking Into the Ocean at Emergency Levels

According to Japan’s nuclear watchdog group, highly radioactive water from the now-destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant has leaked into the ocean through an underground barrier and is now quickly rising towards the surface. Today, that same group reported that the toxic water has caused the ocean to exceed levels far above the legal radioactive limit. https://gizmodo.com/over-a-year-later-fukushimas-radiation-is-still-fatal-5897126…

It’s official! The world’s first lab-grown burger is “not unpleasant!”

Reviews for the world’s first lab-grown burger are finally rolling in! The consensus? The burger is decidedly… not awful. Um, yay? The burger is the creation of vascular biologist Mark Post, and was years in the making. The five-ounce beef patty was assembled from thousands of teeny-tiny meat strips, cultured from the stem cells of…

What’s the best system of magic in any fantasy world?

Every fantasy book or movie treats magic differently. Sometimes, magic is a totally unknowable force, and controlling it is like steering the ocean. Sometimes, magic is logical, and you just need to know the rules. But which fantasy story has the absolute best system of magic of all time? Please include a picture of your…

A $10 Hack Fixes One of Apple’s Most Annoying Product Design Missteps

Apple’s stock headphones aren’t exactly the most-loved product in the company’s oeuvre, even after Jony Ive’s team revamped them last year. Yet they’re free (with purchase) and produced by the millions. So Sprng, an inexpensive little plastic do-dad that makes them useful, is worth paying attention to. Sprng is the handiwork of Canadian product designers…

NSA Appears to Be Tracking the Anonymous Internet

That custom-built malware that’s tracking down Tor network users? Turns out it might not be the FBI behind it after all. It looks like it might be the NSA. After the Firefox JavaScript exploit was uncovered, there was a rush to figure out who was behind it. At first, that looked like the FBI. The…

Karl Urban really wants Star Trek 3 to be a brand new original story

Think Trek 2 was an awful lot like Wrath of Khan, but you know, without any of the emotional setup? Well, you’re in luck, because Karl Urban really wants the next Trek to cover all brand-new material. And he’s got some pull. https://gizmodo.com/the-problem-of-premature-nerdgasms-979468607 In an interview with IGN, McCoy actor Urban expresses his deep desire…

Jeff Bezos Is Buying the Washington Post for $250 Million

Today the Washington Post Company agreed to sell the Washington Post newspaper to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for $250 million in cash. This ends the Graham family’s ownership of the paper after four generations. The deal, which was made independently of Bezos’ other ventures, is expected to close within 60 days. Bezos says he has…