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This Is How You School a Rude Host Live on TV

British comedian Russell Brand—who is generally quite obnoxious and rude himself—got rudely mistreated by the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe yesterday during an interview about his new American comedy tour. By the middle of it he had enough of their unpleasant manners and turned the tables. Worth watching.

Our ability to pay close attention is both a blessing and a curse

Sometimes paying close attention can cause us to overlook the seemingly obvious. Then again, if we couldn’t focus our minds on a single task, we’d never get anything done. https://gizmodo.com/think-you-can-multitask-congratulations-youre-probabl-5977798 Consider, for example, that most radiologists fail miserably at the Gorilla Test when perusing a brain scan for signs of cancer. On one hand: Hey!…

No Star Wars Fan Could Resist Photos of You on This Tauntaun Skin Rug

Your standard alluring, boudoir-style photos usually sees someone stretched out on a bear skin rug. But if the only thing you’re looking for in a partner is an obsession with Star Wars, perhaps a photo of yourself sprawled across this life-size tauntaun skin rug would serve as a better dating site profile pic. Made by…

Rihanna to Get Into Sex and Love Addiction Recovery Program

Singer and actress Rihanna is leaving her world tour to check into a sex and love addiction program at the Center for Relationships and Sexual Recovery at the Ranch, Tennessee. According to a source, she’s still obsessively in love with Chris Brown,” the ex who mistreated her. https://jezebel.com/rihanna-heading-to-love-rehab-to-finally-get-over-you-k-513987725

Plague comes to Defiance town and someone’s gonna die

When an often fatal illness nicknamed the Irath Flu — because the Irathients carry it, although they aren’t affected by it — breaks out, secrets are revealed, some great character moments are had, and a lot of people make tremendously stupid decisions. Let’s start with the stupid decisions. Because the sense of community and equality…

Exactly How Much Cheaper Airbnb Is Than a Hotel in Every Major US City

You’ve probably grappled with this question when you’ve traveled, and the answer is yes, renting a room or an apartment on Airbnb is going to be cheaper most of the time. But what does that savings look like? Priceonomics has broken the data extensively. Renting an entire apartment? You’ll save, on average 21.2 percent. Renting…

Amazon Birthday Gifts is a new “social” way to give somebody a present on Facebook. Basically, you kick in some money for an Amazon gift card and then encourage all your friends to contribute. On your friend’s date of birth, the card arrives along with all your personalized messages. Sooo either this is a genius…

Ryan Reynolds flees the Highlander remake

There can be only… none? Ryan Reynolds has exited the long-in gestation/development hell remake of Highlander, in which he was going to play immortal Scotsman Connor MacLeod, leaving the project without a lead actor or a director. If you thought remaking the 1986 classic was a bad idea and think this news is good, think…

The FBI May Be About to Solve One of America’s Greatest Murder Mysteries

The FBI is now digging in a field in Detroit in an attempt to unearth Jimmy Hoffa‘s body after four decades of his mysterious disappearance. According to old mobster Tony Zerilli, a Mafia soldier “picked up a shovel and cracked Hoffa over the head with it” then “they threw him into the hole, and buried…

The Crazy New Subatomic Particle That May Rewrite the Rules of Matter

Two teams of physicists have stumbled across a weird new subatomic particle that’s unlike anything else we’ve ever seen—and it could rewrite the rules of matter as we know them. Researchers from both the Japanese High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in China have been studying a…

Researchers Discover 280 Hidden Craters on the Moon

By combining gravity and terrain mapping techniques, scientists from Australia have identified hundreds of previously uncharted craters on the Moon, including a handful on the far side. The researchers — Will Featherstone, Christian Hirt, and Michael Kuhn — used gravity and elevation data to develop the ultra-high resolution maps. Earlier, the same technology was used…

A Private Jet Catalog That Actually Flies: This Is How You Sell Luxury

When you’re dealing with clients who will potentially be spending millions of dollars on your product, it doesn’t hurt to splurge a little on your promotional items. After all, you’ve got to spend money to make money, so the brochure for Embraer’s new Lineage 1000 private jet was designed to fly just like the aircraft…

New Photos and Videos from the Godzilla and Transformers 4 Sets!

Check out new trailers and clips for Riddick and World War Z. Take a look behind the scenes of Despicable Me 2. The Sin City sequel got pushed back a year. Plus intriguing hints for what lies ahead on True Blood, Falling Skies, and Teen Wolf! Spoilers right now! Top image from Riddick. Godzilla Here…

Four Insane 60s Military Prototypes That Crashed and Burned

If the music‘s anything to go by, pretty much everyone was on something in the ’60s — and that includes the engineers. BAE Systems has recently dug up some totally batshit-crazy ideas that were seriously being kicked around by its ‘crack’ team of engineers, and they’re both totally ridiculous and dangerously awesome. The designs were…

This High-Speed Tracking Camera Could Snap the Flash’s Family Portrait

Convincing kids to sit still long enough to take their picture either takes a small army of distracting stuffed animals, or the University of Tokyo’s new high-speed camera tracking system which guarantees your subject is always in frame. Instead of moving the glass elements in a lens, or the camera’s sensor which can only compensate…

How the Hell Does a Quantum Computer Work?

You’ve probably heard people—including us—banging on about quantum computers for a long ol’ time. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know exactly how they work. Fortunately this video is here to help. It goes straight from the basic of how quantum bit—a qubit—can carry more information than a normal bit, right the way up to…

Views Don’t Get Any Better Than This

Some people claim to have a great view from their bedroom window or work desk. Their claims are worth nothing compared to the view the astronauts in the ISS get. This image shows the view from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station, timed so that our planet entirely fills the…

This Could Maybe Possibly Be the Next iPhone’s Screen and Guts

It’s that time of the year again, where Apple’s next iPhone is probably being built in factories all over China, resulting in random parts being spat out onto the Internets. Today we have both a screen and logic board supposedly from the incoming iPhone 5S or whatever it ends up being called. If real, what…

You Can Download Adobe’s Creative Cloud Right Now

Adobe pulled the covers off its shiny new Creative Cloud earlier this month, but it’s now finally available for you to get your grubby little hands on. https://gizmodo.com/say-goodbye-to-creative-suite-adobe-rebrands-cs-as-cre-493155052 Head to the Creative Cloud website and you’ll be able to download what you need. From now on, you won’t buy be able to buy CS6 or…

Yahoo’s revealed that it received a staggering 12,000 US government data requests between December 1st 2012 and May 31st 2013—way more than Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and co.