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A leaked Samsung user manual seems to suggest that there’s a Galaxy S4 variant on the horizon which will pack the new Snapdragon 800 chip. Speedy.

Adobe’s Creative Cloud Has Already Been Pirated

Adobe’s shift to cloud-based software provision for its new Creative Cloud design suite was partly motivated by anti-piracy concerns. Which, of course, means… it’s already been pirated. https://gizmodo.com/say-goodbye-to-creative-suite-adobe-rebrands-cs-as-cre-493155052 Just one day after the official roll out of Creative Cloud, a certain Ching Liu has already uploaded a torrent link to The Pirate Bay which provides…

Is it Math or Maths?

This is an American blog, but I am a British blogger. That naturally causes occasional tensions, especially when it comes to spelling. And the biggest issue? Math or maths. More an insight into linguistics than maths itself, this video tries to settle the debate. I won’t ruin the surprise by telling you who’s right. [YouTube]

9 Completely Disturbing Scientific Facts

You know how science can be brain-oozingly amazing? Like curing Autism, inventing Star Trek warp drive, lifespan doubling amazing. Yeah this is the opposite of that. This short video shows you nine horrifically disturbing scientific facts that will make you realize how many hairs you have on the back of your neck. Fun! Science is…

Let’s Not Use James Gandolfini’s Death to Sell Sopranos DVDs Amazon

James Gandolfini, a terrific actor and by all accounts, a great guy, passed away today after suffering a heart attack. That’s unimaginably sad news for his family, for his friends, for his fans, for acting and for anyone who hates to see good people taken away too soon. For Amazon though, it was a despicable…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Pussy People

Turns out, Best In Show wasn’t that much of a stretch.

The Feds Say That Two Guys Made an X-Ray Weapon to Sicken People

In an attempt to “secretly sicken opponents of Israel” and presumably star as the bad guys in a barely believable action movie, two guys from New York have been accused by the FBI of assembling a portable X-Ray weapon that would shoot lethal doses of radiation. Seriously. They were going to sell it to Jewish…

Awful JPEG Compression Turns Romeo & Juliet to LB”8DJ IHR:?S

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo. Even if you failed English class, you’d recognize that phrase anywhere. It’s from Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. But would you recognize this phrase: O Romep+ Rpldo wiepffnre arr!riov Romep@. That’s Shakespeare too. If Shakespeare was compressed over and over again by JPEG. Tom Scott created a little experiment…

The Hilarious Difference Between Google and Bing in One Picture

You use Google. Or maybe, just maybe you use Bing. Sometimes one is better. Sometimes the other is prettier. Sometimes it’s the other way around. Whatever. The most hilarious, ridiculous difference between the two though? How they auto-complete the Xbox One. Google Instant finds words like terrible, ugly, a joke and so forth. Bing? Just…

70% of American Workers Admit They’re Dead Inside

A depressing new Gallup poll shows that 70% of American workers are “emotionally disconnected” from their jobs, while a majority (52%) say they’re not engaged at all with work. College-educated employees are more depressed than the less educated. Madeleine Davies writes at Jezebel: Gallup blames the current state of the American workforce on management styles…

How could we engineer humans to have more empathy?

People are capable of amazing kindness, but also of unbelievable callousness. We go out of our way to help strangers, but we also turn a blind eye to misery. But what if you could make human beings kind all the time? What does science teach us about empathy, and how to create it in people?…

How a Used Bottle Becomes a New Bottle Again

Recycling! It’s good for the planet, or something. It’s also a very sensible thing to do. But how does the bottle you just drank out of become a new bottle you’ll drink out of in the future? No, it’s not just refilling the glass. It’s a process that involves magnets, soda ash, a 2,700 degree…

“Sopranos” Star James Gandolfini Dead At 51

James Gandolfini, star of the HBO series The Sopranos, has died after suffering a massive heart attack in Italy. The New Jersey native found fame in 1999 as Tony Soprano in the cable series that ended its run in 2007. He had kept busy in movies and on stage since then. http://gawker.com/gandolfinis-greatest-hits-514503019 The New York…

NASA unveils a spellbinding billion-pixel panorama of Mars

In a beautiful demonstration of Curiosity’s imaging abilities, NASA has just released a stunning interactive 1.3-billion pixel panorama of the surface of Mars, as photographed by the rover’s Mastcam. Assembled by Bob Deen of the Multi-Mission Image Processing Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the massive image comprises close to 900 high-resolution photographs, the vast…

Flying Saucers Are Real: These UFOs Were (Almost) Built By Humans

Whether aliens have visited Earth is still up for debate. Whether we’re the aliens—either from the past or the future—remains to be settled. What cannot be denied is that flying saucers are real, and they’ve been real for more than half a century. https://gizmodo.com/real-life-flying-saucers-prove-that-the-truth-is-right-514253166 Since the 1940s, Cold War adversaries were racing to construct spacecraft…

“Radiation Weapon” For Sale: FBI Claims Man Tried Selling Death To KKK

A “radiation weapon” designed by a rogue mechanic was offered for sale to the Ku Klux Klan and two synagogues, the FBI claims. South Carolina’s racist terror club and two upstate New York synagogues were allegedly approached by a 49-year-old who hoped to build and sell his secret weapon.

Mexico’s National Pyrotechnics Festival Looks Absolutely Insane(ly Fun)

Who doesn’t love a good fireworks show? People the world over—from Beijing to New York—set off pyrotechnics to celebrate everything from home runs to national independence. Mexico has a similar celebratory tradition, they just don’t even bother launching the pyros—intentionally, that is. Photographer Thomas Prior recently traveled to Tultepec, Mexico for the celebration of the…

No, dolphins are not your ‘therapists.’ So just stop it.

Though it might not fit with New Age dolphin lore, the reality is that dolphins, even those born in captivity, are wild. There’s absolutely no evidence to support the burgeoning practice of dolphin-assisted therapy. Here’s why dolphins are not healers — and why this practice needs to stop. Top image: An autistic child swims with…

Real-Life Flying Saucers Prove That the Truth Is Right Here

We introduced you some of the weirdest aircraft of the 20th century before, but now it’s time to talk about Earth’s fleets of flying saucers. Check out these vehicles and concepts that show how we’ve been building UFOs all along. https://gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-aircraft-of-the-20th-century-456552834 VZ-9 Avrocar, a VTOL aircraft developed by the Canadian Avro Aircraft, introduced in 1958…

The robot revolution movie from the Zombieland writers has a director

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick found a clever twist on zombie uprisings with Zombieland, and now they’re giving us a look at the aftermath of a failed robot revolution, with their new movie Epsilon. Which just found itself a somewhat surprising director. THR is reporting that showrunner Greg Berlanti, who has worked on Arrow, Tomorrow…