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High School Student Builds Working Submarine: Possibly Wants to Defect

A high school sub usually means your teacher’s sick and you get a free period to screw around. But for one student, its meaning is a little more literal. Eighteen-year-old Justin Beckerman could be considered the reincarnation of Thomas Edison. In his brief life, Justin’s created a remote controlled cleaning machine, a helmet home theater,…

The new Avengers Assemble cartoon looks… actually kinda okay

The first clip from Avengers Assemble, the new Marvel cartoon debuting this Sunday on Disney XD, has arrived, and… well, it looks fine. As a lover of the needlessly cancelled Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, this is difficult to say, but Assemble feels like EMH, just with the movie roster. I guess we won’t know for sure…

Beer Architecture: 9 Classic American Breweries

Beer is a staple of Americana, so it’s only suitable that the buildings where it’s brewed are often classic examples of American architecture. Even though some breweries eventually fall into disrepair, either because the brewer shuts down or because it moves, many of those have been given second lives as loft apartments, hotels, restaurants, and…

Henry Cavill wants to make a Superman/Batman team-up film!

The rising star that Joss Whedon supposedly wants to play Scarlet Witch in Avengers 2 has now said that she would like to play Scarlet Witch in Avengers 2. Hugh Jackman explains why Wolverine kind of just wants to die in his latest solo film. Plus Grimm, Arrow, Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and more! Spoilers…

Get $50 Off an iPhone at Best Buy From Sunday

From Sunday, Best Buy is knocking $50 off the price off the price of iPhones for four weeks. The deal applies to the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 on two-year contracts with Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. So, if you’ve been umm-ing and ahh-ing, now might be the time to stump up some cash.…

A Homeland Security intelligence bulletin has warned that it could be “impossible” to stop 3D-printed guns from being made. Astute, guys. Very, very astute.

This Chair Is Also a Table

This is a clever little concept design by New York-based Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects: a perfectly normal chair with a tiny little table top, that turns a functional piece of furniture into something rather more sociable. Designed to be thrown together to create informal groupings, the backs of these chairs can be butted together to create a…

Intel Says Haswell Will Extend Laptop Battery Life by 50 Percent

Intel has just made one very, very big claim: it reckons that its new Haswell chip will boost the battery life of laptops by a staggering 50 percent. Intel’s Architecture Group VP Rani Borkar is on the record as saying that laptops powered by Haswell will squeeze 50 percent more runtime out of a battery,…

It Sure Looks Beautiful Inside the Ring Nebula

The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas. These new images, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, reveal that the glowing gas shroud is actually a rather different shape to what’s previously been observed. Robert O’Dell of Vanderbilt…

Speaking last night, Digg CEO Andrew McLaughlin explained that Digg’s Reader won’t be a standalone app, and will allow you to sort and rank content, unlike a normal RSS reader.

Google is apparently facing a fresh antitrust probe from the Federal Trade Commission to find out if it’s been abusing its dominance in display-advertising to illegally curb competition. Naughty.

What Life on Earth Would Look Like If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn

Every so often when the Moon is especially ginormous or we can see Venus or Mars from Earth, humans collectively freaks out. So cool three exclamation points, we scream. Look how big with thirty i’s, we yell. And it’s warranted! Seeing things that don’t belong in the sky pop up, well, in the sky is…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Planet Online

Between ads for action figures, micromachines, and sugar-laden cereals, there used to be a time when Saturday morning commercials were just as riveting as the cartoons they interrupted—especially for gullible 8-year-olds. And though the ads themselves no longer deliver that overwhelming sense of excitement and grandeur, Neosignal‘s newest track adopts the same flashy, hyperactive style…

Is HTC Coming Out with a HTC One that Runs Stock Android?

Please be true, please be true, please be true. After Google announced that it would be selling a pure Android version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 on Google Play, the entire world screamed joys of Hallelujah Halle Berry. An awesome phone running completely stock Android has always been the dream. Now, HTC might be making…

This Is What Each Season Looks Like in a Million Pixels

If you think you’re looking at color palettes of different shades of brownish gray, you’re not exactly wrong. I’m sure people would love to paint their bathroom Roman Rotunda Slate or some made up name like that. But it’s not that simple. You’re actually looking at the seasons—spring, summer, fall and winter—and you just don’t…

New Hubble images of the Ring Nebula reveal the Eye of Sauron

The Ring Nebula, a massive cloud of gas around a dying star, is one of the best-known celestial objects. Not only is it gorgeous, but it’s easy to find in a telescope, even if you’re an amateur. This new Hubble image is anything but backyard astronomy, however — and it’s given astronomers a new understanding…

Apparently, Google wants to start a bidding war with Facebook over who gets to buy Waze. That sounds like a lot of fun, actually. Who’s got more billions? [Bloomberg]

Iran Has Hacked US Energy Companies

According to the WSJ, Iran has hacked US oil, gas and power companies. The hackers were able to gain access to control-system software “that could allow them to manipulate oil or gas pipelines”. Basically, the hackers are far enough inside that people are starting to get worried. US officials say that these break ins from…

Wow, a Dystopian Coming-of-Age Novel With Actual Real Science

At this point the glut of novels about a young person growing up in a fearsome dystopia has become kind of insane, especially as the dystopias have gotten more and more far-fetched. So it’s refreshing to read a novel like Jane Rogers’ Testament of Jessie Lamb, where the dark future involves actual science. And real…

The Beer of Thrones is not safe for pregnant women, Dothraki, anybody

Comediva cooked up a little commercial for the Beer of Thrones, a no-doubt hearty ale which has some unfortunate side effects for those who drink it… and those who happen to be standing nearby those who drink it. Frankly, I think everybody should consider themselves lucky no one ended up channeling Theon’s new buddy.