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Fede Alvarez made a big splash with his Evil Dead reboot, and now he’s sold the mystery project Machina to MRC. Could this be a return to the “robot attack” theme of his short film Panic Attack? We sure hope so.

The TV show that taught the world how to masturbate

Let’s leave out the cable shows and the entire Cinemax suite and focus on plain old broadcast television prime time. What’s the most masturbated-to program in the world? The answer is also the secret behind David Hasselhoff’s global fame. https://deadspin.com/searching-for-the-most-masturbated-to-tv-show-of-all-ti-962942967

Every Dog Needs This Magnet-Powered Flying Carpet

The new skunkworks project from Swiss retailer MiCasa—MiCasa Lab—is all about giving scientists, engineers, and crazy people a safe space to work on the types of projects that might otherwise go unsupported due to a lack of “practicality” or “commercial viability” or “any reason for existence whatsoever.” And thank god it does—otherwise we might never…

RUN, RADISH MAN!

This freakish “radish” was plucked from a Japanese vegetable farm, and news of the green-haired homunculus quickly made the mysterious entity a national hero in Japan. Doubters say the Radish Man is not able to walk without assistance, but photos suggest otherwise. https://kotaku.com/how-a-japanese-radish-became-an-internet-hero-959300090

Amazon’s Updated Kindle App Is a Tiny F U to Apple’s App Store

Amazon just released a new update to its Kindle app for iOS, and it basically just told Apple to go f*** itself in the process. The Apple App Store bible absolutely forbids in-app purchases unless the company is willing to give Apple a 30 percent cut, but Amazon has finally found a way around this…

Here’s How Designers Reimagined the Cover Art For 50 Classic Novels

Classic novels tend to have equally classic cover art. For example, when you think of The Great Gatsby, your mind likely goes to a pair of half-closed eyes floating over a glittering, cobalt city. But what if designers were given a chance to rethink these covers entirely? That’s the concept behind Recovering The Classics, a…

Another as-yet-unpublished novel sparked a Hollywood bidding war, as Sony won an auction for the movie rights to Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Thomas Sweterlitsch, set 10 years after a deadly attack on Pittsburgh in a digital reconstruction of the city that hides a deadly secret. The book comes out a year from now.

A Dark, Brilliant Short Film… Starring Pee Wee Herman

Holy cow, this short film, The Final Moments of Karl Brant, is fantastic. Penned by and directed by M. Francis, The Final Moments of Karl Brant stars Paul Reubens, Luna from True Blood (Janina Gavankar), Fay Masterson, Jon Sklaroff and Pete Chekvala. Here’s the premise — but really just hit play already, dammit. It’s quite…

Future Windows Could Use a Biomimetic Vascular System to Save Energy

Windows, our source of life-giving sunlight indoors, are a menace to your electrical bill. In the summer, windows bleed cold and in the winter they ooze heat. To save energy, researchers want to give window panes a circulatory system that could pump in cool, liquid relief when they get too hot. In research published in…

Jamie Foxx wants to star in a Spawn movie for some reason

Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx will make his triumphant debut in the superhero movie genre as Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. But that’s not enough, as the actor has announced he’s trying his damnedest get a new Spawn movie off the ground, with himself in the starring role. For some reason. Spawn creator Todd…

On Henry Ford’s 150th Birthday, a Look Inside His Failed Utopia

The murky legacy of Henry Ford—who would’ve been 150 today—centers around a few familiar ideas like the assembly line and the $5 workday. Less familiar is Ford’s biggest failure: Fordlandia, a city in the rainforest that was abandoned as quickly as it was built. Ford was a farm boy who went on to establish 20th…

Commercial Drones Are Now Approved for Aerial Surveillance

Creepy drone spying is no longer just the purview of the military in the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration recently cleared two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for commercial use surveilling the Alaskan coast, marking a sharp turn for the future of domestic drone use. One of the drones, an Insitu Scan Eagle 200, will…

Is monogamy evolution’s biggest mistake?

Monogamy is not much fun, and it’s not even efficient. Men have the biological ability to impregnate women constantly from puberty until death. What’s the evolutionary point of staying with one female who can only get pregnant every nine months? https://gizmodo.com/how-did-monogamy-evolve-965375691

How did monogamy evolve?

From an evolutionary standpoint, monogamy doesn’t seem to make much sense – especially for males. And yet, it’s practiced by a significant number of mammalian species, including humans. Now, in a fantastic example of science in progress, two newly published studies with divergent conclusions seek to explain why. Top image by Adia Speer via CreativeButterflyXX…

Dealzmodo: 4TB for $130, Canon 24-105mm, Nexus 7 Case, Vizio Soundbar

We auto-post 4TB USB3 externals for $150, so grabbing one for $130 is about as easy a recommendation as we can make. Use code 0730BTS32 over at Newegg to claim your prize. [Newegg] Your New Dealzmaster Is me. In an unexpected but welcome twist, I’ll be running both Dealzmodo and Moneysaver from now on. I…

Making a Stunning, Glow-in-the-Dark Fountain Is Surprisingly Simple

Bioluminescence is awesome. Essentially the production of light by a living organism, e.g. fireflies, certain types of jellyfish, etc—but it doesn’t just occur in animals. There’s even some plant life that has the potential to give off that lovely, ethereal glow. And as Mark Rober shows us in the video above, you can even harness…

New X-Men viral offers the best look at the new Sentinels yet

The Trask Industries website has gone live, and it’s released a bevy of great X-Men: Days of Future Past peeks to go along with it! Get the best look at the Bolivar Trask’s Sentinels yet, check out Trask himself and watch a fantastic “Trask Industries publicity video,” too. First, Trask, circa 1973: Man, Peter Dinklage…

Medical Professor Shows Google Glass Doesn’t Have To Be Dumb

Most of the Google Glass videos we’ve seen thus far don’t seem to tap this device’s enormous potential. Used as a miniaturized camera phone or just another vehicle for porn, Glass doesn’t do much that a GoPro can’t. And that’s a damn shame, because the way Glass enables wearers to near-effortlessly shoot point-of-view video makes…

Andy Warhol’s penis is on the Moon!

Some of our greatest achievements in space are some of the least known. Consider the iconic pop artist Andy Warhol and his secret art gallery on the Moon. It’s a very real thing, thanks to a tiny ceramic chip smuggled aboard Apollo 12. https://jalopnik.com/the-ten-greatest-space-achievements-nobody-knows-about-961669989

The Civil War That Tore Westeros in Half, Long Before King Joffrey

A major theme in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series involves women trying to take power for themselves.