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Joss Whedon can’t see making The Avengers 2 without Robert Downey Jr.

Check out a bunch of new interviews with the director and stars of Man of Steel. Russell Crowe explains why his Noah is no hero, while Evangeline Lilly describes her new Elf in the Hobbit trilogy. Stars Ming-Na Wen and Clark Gregg drop Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. hints while Jaime Murray talks Defiance and Warehouse 13.…

The White House: We’re Happy for the NSA to Spy on Your Phone Records

The National Security Agency has been busy bullying Verizon into handing over all of its customer’s phone records—and the the White House is now on record as saying that, hey, that’s just fine. https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-is-collecting-phone-records-of-millions-of-amer-511565570 This morning, White House representatives said that collecting data from phone records was “a critical tool in protecting the nation from…

Sony’s Xperia Z Might Be the Next Google Edition Phone

Whether Google’s dumping the Nexus line or not, it seems the “Google Edition” series is growing fast. First we had the Samsung Galaxy S4 without all that bloat, then an HTC One with stock Android, and now rumours are circling that we’ll get a Sony Xperia Z with Jelly Bean sans skin the way Google…

The Flood Plains of Mars

This stunning image of Mars shows how massive floods once carved an intricate system of channels into the surface of the red planet. This picture, stitched together from 67 images taken with the high-resolution stereo camera aboard the ESA’s Mars Express, shows the planet’s Kasei Valles. One of the largest outflows on Mars, Kasei Valles…

Report: Apple’s Almost Certainly Got New MacBook Airs at WWDC

Compounding previous reports of global stock shortages of Apple’s slim-line MacBook Airs, plus the rumoured product numbers we saw the other day, now some leaked pricing supposedly points directly to a new MacBook Airs. 9to5Mac reports that it managed to get a sneaky peek at the pricing for the previously leaked SKUs, which confirms that…

Refuse to Drink Wine From Anything But These Crazy Anatomical Carafes

Next time someone offers you a glass of wine, refuse unless its presented from a carafe as incredibly attractive as this. All example of “bio-tableware” by sculptor Etienne Meneau, these beautiful, branched structures are artistic takes on wine carafes. Mimicking the blood supply networks and airways in our bodies, they’re each capable of holding a…

AMD had admitted that it’s willing to make chips that work with Android—but only if people ask it nicely. What a tease.

The Science of Hangovers

Hangovers only exist because it keeps us from partying and drinking and going nuts every single night. It’s a fail-safe for humans so we don’t all devolve into skinny blonde mid-twenties actresses at once. It’s payment for fun. It sucks. But what’s the real science behind it? It all boils down to three things. Dehydration.…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Chicken or the Egg

This romantic comedy by Christine Kim and Elaine Wu from Ringling College of Art and Design explores one pig’s struggle to give up his first love for his true love. It also leaves the viewer wondering what their children will taste like. Hamicken?

Awesome Doctors Give Children Superhero Formula to Fight Cancer

Cancer sucks. Always. But it might be at its absolute suckiest when it strikes kids. Thank God for awesome doctors like these ones in Brazil. Instead of doling out regular chemotherapy medication, the doctors repackage the medication into a superhero formula complete with its own superhero case. It doesn’t stop there. It gets better. The…

Is This Nokia’s Full-On PureView Windows Phone?

We heard Nokia was planning on releasing a true, full-on PureView Windows Phone that would have a sensor as ridiculous as Nokia’s 41-megapixel 808. Only this time it would run Windows Phone. Could this be it? https://gizmodo.com/report-nokia-will-launch-a-full-on-pureview-windows-ph-5978234 Posted by ViziLeaks, these two images show a Nokia device with a PureView camera. Just look at this…

A Time Cloak Made from Lasers Can Erase Data from History

Time cloaks are so much cooler than invisibility cloaks because they use freaking time to hide things, not silly dumb vision tricks. This new method of using a time cloak is the first that can cloak data at rapid rates. It might change security altogether. The idea behind a time cloak is sort of simple…

Wait a Minute, Does Math Actually Exist?

If you’re studying for the algebra test tomorrow or thinking about how little you use math now after you failed it a million times in high school, here’s something to melt your brain with just a tad: math might not actually exist. It’s not an actual thing of the universe, it’s just something humans invented.…

Docking at the Biological City’s Space Port

It wasn’t too long before the Jupiter cloud city planners started building with algae. In the nutrient-rich environment, algae held together better than anything else, and with a little genetic tweaking it was as strong as steel. This is a detail from an image by Eddie Del Rio, an illustrator and designer in Northern California.…

The NSA Is Actively Spying on Every Single US Verizon Customer

We’re being watched. Or listened to. Or recorded. Probably all three. The National Security Agency is collecting the phone records of millions of US citizens on Verizon right now. It’s ongoing. It’s daily. It’s happening right now. How is that possible? A top secret court order forced Verizon to give up the call data. The…

Tree Vs. Morons: Insane Losers Try Uprooting Massive Tree With Old Car

What happens when some American hicks try to destroy a beautiful old tree with a chain and a 1980s Oldsmobile? The tree wins, even after a half-dozen horrific attempts to yank it out of the ground. https://jalopnik.com/slack-jawed-yokels-attempt-tree-removal-with-car-fail-511514154

What can we learn from the real superhumans among us?

Humans are a genetically diverse bunch. Some of us are born with extraordinary perceptual powers — neurological gifts that biologists might eventually be able to provide for the rest of us. But do we really want to have some of these ‘superhuman’ quirks? Most of us are familiar with savants and their remarkable cognitive abilities,…

The World’s Most Bizarre Aircraft Graveyards

Where do aircraft go to rust away after death? Often, their final resting places are more emotionally evocative than human cemeteries. Commercial airliners at the Southern California Logistics Airport (a former Air Force base), Victorville, California (via Bobak Ha’Eri, Marks Flickr Page and Mike Fiala/Getty Images) The AMARC, (Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Center) Davis-Monthan Air…

Haha, Xbox One Is Basically Going to Be HAL 9000

Freaked out about the “always on” Xbox One creeping on your life? You probably shouldn’t be. But if you’re one of those people who’s afraid of connecting your Xbox to the Internet, love playing old and used games and hate having a Kinect, this is your hilarious fear of Xbox One: it’s HAL 9000. To…

Should killer robots be a human rights issue?

Lethal autonomous robots (LARs) are robots that are programmed to kill enemies without any human intervention or control. Undoubtedly, they are the precursors to Terminator-like combatants. And their existence begs the question: Can a machine violate human rights? One U.N. representative believes they do. Christof Heyns is the U.N. Special Rapporteur who deals with extrajudicial,…