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Hulu Plus for iPad Looks a Whole Lot Different Now

It’s been a long time since we’ve last seen any sort of major update to Hulu Plus’s iPad app. And thankfully, its newest incarnation has been completely redesigned from the ground up. One of the most notable additions is a far more gesture-based UI that should, supposedly, make interacting with the app a more pleasant…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Japanese Porsche Fan Commissions the World’s Most Elegant Garage

The Porsche 911 is a thing of beauty: Designed in 1959 by “Butzi” Porsche himself, its clean lines and German engineered guts have turned it into a much-obsessed-over classic. To wit: this Osaka townhome designed by Kenji Yanagawa Architects, for a client with an unusual request—that the entire structure be oriented around the garage. The…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

What Futuristic Promise Are You Most Skeptical About?

Within the past decade we’ve seen technologies that had been promised for years finally become mainstream successes. The smartphone? Yep! The tablet computer? You betcha! Ebooks? They now account for nearly a quarter of book sales. But we’re still waiting on plenty of other technologies that were dreamed up by the generations that preceded us.…

Tech News Matt Novak

Our clearest view yet of Antarctica stripped of all its ice

The British Antarctic Survey has produced the sharpest image yet of Antarctica’s rugged topography. And as you can clearly see, without its mile-thick layer of ice, the polar continent would be an incredibly mountainous terrain, indeed. In conjunction with NASA’s IceBridge mission, the BAS compiled this map by drawing upon millions of new measurements of…

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Is there a technological fix for racism? These scientists say yes.

Playing videogame or virtual reality avatars whose race is different from yours could reduce your racial biases, according to a new study. Now, scientists are using this insight to explore how technology could help build empathy and reduce tension between different groups of people. In recent years, numerous studies have shown just how easy it…

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If Google Can Predict Blockbusters, How Do You Explain This?

Sorry, guys. Not buying it.

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

My Own Personal Doctor Who Adventure

The amazing thing about Doctor Who is, it means many different things to different people. And a new anthology, Queers Dig Time Lords, aims to open up the meaning of Doctor Who for LGBT fans. Here’s an essay from the book, by Nebula Award-winning author Rachel Swirsky. The Girl Who Waited (for the Guidance Counselor…

Television Rachel Swirsky

These Awesome Books Don’t Exist Yet—But Should

Forget the finding the next instant classic, great American novel, or literary tour de force—we need to get humanity’s greatest writers and intellectuals (sit down, Nic Cage) together to work putting stories behind these incredible faux book covers. Like, now. Tyler Adam Smith, a Masters of Branding student New York’s School of Visual Arts, began…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Man of Steel saves the best trailer for last

It’s kind of insane that Man of Steel would still be releasing new trailers this close to the opening of the movie — which comes out in a mere eight days — but it’s very much worth the time to watch this fifth and final trailer, because not only is it chock full of new…

Trailers Rob Bricken

This Is How a Facebook Billionaire Spent $4.5 Million On His Wedding

This is the disgustingly tacky wedding scenario built by Facebook billionaire Sean Parker and his apparently tasteless bride. He spent $4.5 million on this Tolkienesque abortion after ignoring California Coastal Commission’s prohibition to build in the forest, seriously damaging it in the process. http://valleywag.gawker.com/the-full-damage-of-facebook-billionaire-sean-parkers-f-511236497

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Why You Should Never Write Action Scenes For Your Blockbuster Movie

It’s the height of summer movie season, which means that action movies are blowing up all over. And that makes this the perfect time to revisit some advice from John Rogers, creator of Leverage and writer of the new webcomic Arcanum. Here, he explains why you should never write an action scene. Ever. All images…

Movies John Rogers

Can You Identify These Cities Based on How They Look from Space?

Humanity’s grandest architectural triumph isn’t some single building or monument. It’s the cities that surround them, the forests of high-rises that house more than half the human population within their limits. Cities grow almost organically to suit the needs of their residents, resulting in a cityscape as unique as the people that lives there. Can…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Google Glass is only “Stage One” in a three-stage evolution

Human beings are headed to a Matrix-like future, according to one neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur named Meron Gribetz. And Google Glass is just “Stage One.” Apparently, he’s already invented the final stage. Gribetz runs a startup called Meta-View, which is basically like Google Glass except the Matrix will have already happened. Or something like that. Gribetz participated in…

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Conan Discovers Even More Nazi-Looking JC Penny Products

It turns out that Michael Graves-designed teapot with its unsettling resemblance to Hitler might not have been the only Nazi-related product in J.C. Penney stores. As Conan O’Brien discovered on his show the other night, the teapot is apparently just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the department store intentionally, or unintentionally,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Haswell-Packing Gaming Laptop Is Your Deal of the Day

Haswell, Intel’s newest line of processors, is currently rolling out into consumer computers, and Haswell-equipped laptops are already price competitive with older models. For example, this 14-inch Lenovo gaming laptop packing a quad-core Core i7-4700MQ is on sale for $720. https://gizmodo.com/the-kickass-processors-that-will-power-your-next-comput-510668761 Haswell promises a bunch of improvements to Ivy Bridge, the most important being improved…

Tech News Kif Leswing

The Dust Bowl Skyscrapers That Were Supposed to Make It Rain

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was vicious. Crops were ravaged, dust clouds darkened the sky, and thousands fled the Great Plains to look for work elsewhere. But one meteorologist in France had an idea that very much appealed to the parched farmers and ranchers of yesteryear — enormous weather-manipulation towers that would dwarf the…

Tech News Matt Novak

How will space colonists access the Internet on Mars?

Question: would you sign up for a one-way trip to Mars? Followup question for those who answered “No”: what if you had an internet connection? Obviously, a lifetime on Mars would be a lot more enjoyable with a steady diet of cat videos. But would it be possible? The concept of an Interplanetary Internet first…

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The Final Man of Steel Trailer Is Pretty Epic

Warner Bros. latest attempt at resurrecting the Superman franchise, Man of Steel, will be released on June 14th and today the last official trailer has made its way to the Internet. You should watch it. It’s sponsored by Nokia and has more new footage of Zach Snyder’s hopefully-not-an-abomination-like-the-last-one, including what looks like Krypton and a…

Tech News Peter ha

Did Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash predict the world of today?

That’s what a number of venture capitalists and futurists told the Wall Street Journal recently. They cite Stephenson’s classic novel as a harbinger of many current staples, from World of Warcraft to Google’s search capabilities. As the WSJ writes: “We are living in Neal Stephenson’s story,” says Bijan Sabet, a partner at venture-capital firm Spark…

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DARPA Made a Vacuum the Size of a Penny

You know that terrible feeling in your gut when you’ve eaten something you shouldn’t have? Well imagine having a Roomba small enough to swallow, one that could clean up that mess inside you. That’s not exactly what DARPA had in mind when it funded the creation of this penny-sized vacuum, although it certainly should have…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hulu Plus for iPad Looks a Whole Lot Different Now

Japanese Porsche Fan Commissions the World’s Most Elegant Garage

What Futuristic Promise Are You Most Skeptical About?

Our clearest view yet of Antarctica stripped of all its ice

Is there a technological fix for racism? These scientists say yes.

If Google Can Predict Blockbusters, How Do You Explain This?

My Own Personal Doctor Who Adventure

These Awesome Books Don’t Exist Yet—But Should

Man of Steel saves the best trailer for last

This Is How a Facebook Billionaire Spent $4.5 Million On His Wedding

Why You Should Never Write Action Scenes For Your Blockbuster Movie

Can You Identify These Cities Based on How They Look from Space?

Google Glass is only “Stage One” in a three-stage evolution

Conan Discovers Even More Nazi-Looking JC Penny Products

This Haswell-Packing Gaming Laptop Is Your Deal of the Day

The Dust Bowl Skyscrapers That Were Supposed to Make It Rain

How will space colonists access the Internet on Mars?

The Final Man of Steel Trailer Is Pretty Epic

Did Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash predict the world of today?

DARPA Made a Vacuum the Size of a Penny

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