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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence Is Absolutely Fascinating

We poke fun at Siri and pretend to get scared by Humanoid robots and make our neck hair stand up straight by watching quadrocopters do amazing things but the truth is, artificial intelligence is still pretty dumb. But that’s going to change! The rise of artificial intelligence is happening and they’re learning a lot more…

Microsoft responded to the report of how Microsoft gave the NSA access to emails, video calls and more by saying that it didn’t give direct access (there’s that phrase again) to SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype or any Microsoft product. [Microsoft]

Netflix Might Give Us Another Season of Arrested Development

Though some people weren’t as fanatical about Netflix’s Season 4 of Arrested Development, I loved it (especially once it got rolling). So I’m ecstatic that Netflix is currently in talks to do another season of Arrested Development. As awesome as a movie has sounded in the past, more episodic puzzles in the name of Arrested…

How Typography Moved from the Paper to the Screen

Typography is something most of us see almost everyday but only few of us really pay attention to the details. It’s all around us that it’s sometime easy to gloss over. This lovely little animation describes its importance and how we’ve had our fun with it, first by showing the basic rules of typesetting and…

What We Did Before the Internet

I have absolutely no idea how I’m going to explain to my future kids what life was like before the Internet. Those stories of a pre-YouTube, pre-Wikipedia, pre-Google, pre-iPhone, pre-iPad day will be the modern day equivalent of my parents’ stories about walking a mile to school barefoot in the snow with two barrels of…

Best Buy Will Give You At Least $200 for Your Old iPad 2 or iPad 3

That old iPad 2 of yours too blurry for your precious eyes? That fantastically beautiful screen on the iPad 3 too heavy to lift for your puny muscles? Best Buy is willing to take those old tablets off your hands for at least 200 bucks. This Friday June 12th and Saturday June 13th, Best Buy…

The Kleptones: Shout My Name

All that’s old is new again. In this raucous, high-tempo mash-up, Ezra Kleptone smashes three dissonant musical acts—the Ting Tings, Lulu, and Green Day— together like recombinant digital DNA. The result is an awesome new breed of auditory animal.

Nintendo says Wii U won’t get a software update to fix performance issues until later this fall. So try and enjoy those sloooow load times while you can! [Nintendo via Polygon]

Groopic for iOS: Photographers Can Finally Be Part of Their Own Shots

The group shot dilemma—it’s the bane of both narcissists and scrapbooking enthusiasts alike. But what are you supposed to do when you want to snap a pic of a precious moment between friends, but the only person around to take the picture is, well, you? Fortunately for you, Groopic has taken it upon itself to…

For Just $250 a Week You Can Rent Your Very Own Satellite

On August 4, a resupply mission is scheduled to take off for the International Space Station carrying a satellite for hire with it. It’s actually a nanosatellite, since it’s only 10 centimeters wide, and it’s yours to use if you’ve got the cash. Dubbed “ArduSat,” the soon-to-be-launched satellite will connect with the servers at NanoSatisfi,…

The Middleman will return at last, as a graphic novel

The brilliant but gone-too-soon Middleman series will return yet again. Series creator Javier Grillo-Marxuach announced the triumphant return on his Tumblr,explaining that Middleman would return as a graphic novel that links the comic book to the TV series: it will be a brand spankin’ new graphic novel bringing together the comic book and tv continuities.…

Trapped on a Space Station: First Look at Cecil Castellucci’s Tin Star

Cecil Castellucci has written some of the most entertaining young-adult and middle-grade novels — and now, at last, she’s doing a full-on science fiction book. Tin Star is about what happens when you’re stuck on a space station, with just some aliens for company. Check out the cover, right here. Castellucci will be signing ARCs…

Daft Punk Action Figures: Get Bendy

Tired of Daft Punk yet? Nope, neither are we. So since this has been a summer of all things Random Access Memories, you can continue to satisfy your obsession with a pair of helmet-clad action figures. The Christo and Bangalter action figures go for $45 each. The action figures won’t actually be released until late…

Mind-Blowing Spaceships from 1970s British Paperbacks

Paul McAuley is the author of The Quiet War, as well as Life After Wartime and Evening’s Empires. He’s also got an amazing collection of 1970s SF paperbacks, whose covers he’s just digitized to share with the world. Here’s his gallery of covers that feature spaceships done in a cool, psychedelic-minimalist style. Writes McAuleyon his…

An Animated Wonder Woman Like You’ve Never Seen Her Before!

This Saturday’s DC Nation on Cartoon Network features a brand new Wonder Woman short written and directed by Robert Valley — and here’s the first clip. It’s got a wacky 1970s feel to it, but you have to love the Invisible Car, especially with door-thwacking action. This short airs as part of the DC Nation…

Sprint Is Now Basically Offering Unlimited Everything Forever

In the hopes of gaining a smidge more market share in the US, Sprint has just announced that it will offer what amounts to unlimited everything (text, data, voice) for the life of service on any line. The Sprint Unlimited Guarantee is described thusly: The Sprint Unlimited Guarantee guarantees customers unlimited talk (calls to any…

Bremont’s Codebreaker Watch Pays Homage to WWII’s Enigma Crackers

The allied victory in World War II can be as much credited to the brave men and women who fought with weapons as it can the scientists and mathematicians who successfully broke the secret codes used by the Germans, including the famous Enigma machine. And Bremont is commemorating that accomplishment with a limited edition timepiece…

Aaron Eckhart is the world’s sexiest Frankenstein monster

No, your eyes don’t deceive you — that’s Aaron Eckhart and every single one of his abdominal muscles as “Adam Frankenstein,” star of Liongate’s I, Frankenstein, based on Kevin Grevioux’s graphic novel. And yes, I assure you, he is playing the monster. The sexy, sexy monster. Let’s see the full thing, shall we? Goodness. You…

The Inspector Gadget Tech That Ended Up Becoming Real

Back when many of us were still kids and many more had yet to even be twinkles in our mothers’ uteri, Inspector Gadget was the apotheosis of all of technology’s promises—many of which, it turns out, came true. Vanity Fair has a wonderful little collection of those gadgets of the inspector’s that were particularly prescient.…

Could the Ender’s Game boycott actually sink the movie?

Usually when people organize a boycott of a big Hollywood movie, you sort of assume they’ll barely make a dent. But with Ender’s Game, it actually seems somewhat possible that the fan boycott of the film could generate enough static to keep the studio from getting the word out. A bit of backstory: Ender’s Game…