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Playing First-Person Pac-Man In Your Browser Is Great But Terrifying

I’ve never really thought of Pac-Man as a horror game. Innocently chomping away, dodging ghosts from a top-down view is pretty tame. But taken from a first-person view, where you simply don’t know what’s around the next corner, it’s a whole new horrifying game. It’s survival horror in an arena that looks like Tron crossed…

The Doctor Strange Rumors Get Bigger and Crazier!

Ender’s Game wants you to join the International Fleet. Jamie Foxx wants Electro to have kind of an odd catch phrase. S.H.I.E.LD. might be getting a new home in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Some Independence Day stars could return. Brian K. Vaughan explains how Under the Dome could last for years. Spoilers ahead! The…

Senator Defeats Texas’ Anti-Abortion Bill After Standing for 13 Hours

Democrat Texas State Senator Wendy Davis has defeated the draconian Republican-sponsored anti-abortion bill, the toughest in the country. She stood up filibustering for 13 hours straight, without any physical aid at the senate floor. The law would have virtually banned abortion in the Lone Star state, reducing clinics from 47 to just five.

This Nesting Storage Beats Any Set of Russian Dolls

Moving house has never been easier than with this amazing set of nesting storage units. Designed by Sasa Mitrovic of TwentyTree, an amazing six pieces fit together seamlessly—and look great, too. Called Matrioshka, the wooden storage units all fit inside the large orange armoire. Pull out the cabinets as and when you need them, or…

The Cutlery You Use Changes the Way Your Food Tastes

Be careful next time you reach for a spoon: your choice of cutlery could significantly affect the way your food tastes. That’s according to new research published in the open access journal Flavour, which suggests that the size, shape and color of cutlery changes the way we perceive. Performing a number of experiments, the researchers…

How Much Mobile Data Do You Actually Use?

Some of us—including me—are lucky enough to still have unlimited data plans. That’s great, especially given that I burned through 2.6GB in the last month alone. But just how much mobile data do you use? My effort is a result of a heady mixture of tethered internet and Spotify listening while travelling, which clearly crunches…

This Simple Math Puzzle Will Melt Your Brain

Adding and subtracting ones sounds simple, right? Not according to the old Italian mathematician Grandi—who showed that a simple addition of 1s and -1s can give three different answers. Wait, what? If that sounds like it makes no sense that’s because… well, it doesn’t really. But better let Dr James Grime explain it to you…

An Amazing Photo of China’s Space Station Crossing the Sun

While it’s the International Space Station that tends to take all the glory, there is in fact another: China’s Tiangong-1, which went into low-Earth orbit in 2011. In this amazing pictures, you can see it silhouetted against the Sun. Captured by astrophotographer Thierry Legault on June 16 in southern France, the image shows the H-shaped…

According to a report by Juniper Networks, mobile malware has grown by 614 percent over the last year. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, 92 percent of it is on Android…

If Game of Thrones Characters Were on Online Dating Websites

Seeing Game of Thrones play out on Facebook was the comic relief necessary for the oft depressing show. Seeing Game of Thrones characters pretend to have online dating profiles? Just as good, well, if only for Hodor’s. https://gizmodo.com/if-game-of-thrones-characters-were-on-facebook-5993544 Seriously, if Westeros had online dating, the whole world would have been a lot peaceful. At the…

Warning: This clip will probably put you off sex for a few days

Seriously, don’t watch this clip if you were hoping to have a sex life or anything. It’s arguably work-safe, but seriously gruesome. The above clip comes from 1993’s Body Melt, a body horror semi-classic from Australia in the proud tradition of films like Slither, early Cronenberg, and the ouevre of Brian Yuzna. In Body Melt,…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Elk Grass

Numerous cultures believe that the world is borne atop a monumental animal deity—be it the Iroquois’ Great Turtle or the World Serpents and Elephants from Hindu mythology—so why not a Great Elk? The animation team at awesome and modest produced this hypnotic visual interpretation to Pete Van Leeuwen’s subtle song.

Square Market: An Online Market For All Your Artisanal Needs

Having already convinced small businesses and folks to use their phone to buy and sell goods, today Square is announcing Square Market, an online marketplace to, well, buy and sell goods. Now, local artisanal purveyors who might already use Square Register can go from selling locally to slinging goods anywhere without the overhead cost of…

Wow These Beautiful Animation Videos Are Ads for… McDonald’s

You usually know an advertisement for McDonald’s when you see it. Ethnically diverse group of friends who stay impossibly thin even though they eat at Mickey D’s, perfectly dressed burgers and fries that you can almost smell, internal monologues about the deliciousness of the food, so on and so forth. These ads are not like…

These Guys Used 1600 Instagram Photos to Make One Instagram Video

To everyone shooting Instagram videos right now, just give up. No one cares about your 15 second selfie or crappy first video test. It’s never going to be as good as your pictures. But you should also give up because these guys used 1,600 different Instagram pictures to stitch together a wonderful stop motion Instagram…

A pastoral scene with cows and starships

There’s nothing like ending the day with a quiet ramble past the misty fields, full of gentle starships put out to pasture. I’ve always thought it was humane that starships are allowed to retire to such a beautiful place once they can no longer withstand the rigors of wormhole travel. It’s nice that they have…

What If the Superheroes from The Avengers Existed in Real Life?

Because we don’t have any real life superheroes in this totally lame world of ours, we obsess over the lives of silly celebrities with beautiful cheekbones and photoshopped curves and cry over athletes wearing fresh laundry. It’s what we call fun! But if superheroes existed on Earth, all those puny humans would never make the…

A Netflix for the NSA’s Private Info Would Make the Spying Worth It

Do you ever get the feeling that there just isn’t enough stuff to watch on Netflix? You’re going through the catalog every night and the same movies keep popping up. That’s why we should all sign up for the fake NSA Flix. Official Comedy imagined a streaming service that holds all the information the NSA…

Miami Filled With Whores

The entire city of Miami is reportedly filled with a type of amateur prostitute called “sugar babies.” It is how things are done, in Florida. Nobody has money and college is expensive, so young girls whore themselves out to gross old men with money. Rape happens, too.

Under the Dome is creepy and horrifying — but can it be sustained?

What is scarier? The fact that a bizarre piece of otherworldly technology has trapped a small town under a transparent dome, or that everybody in the town will be stuck with each other for eternity? In the new series Under the Dome, the answer is “both.” In this series, based on a Stephen King novel…