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Thunderbolt 2 Will Be in Products Later This Year

Intel has officially announced that the next generation of Thunderbolt, previously codenamed Falcon Ridge, will be called… wait for it… Thunderbolt 2. Lame name, sadly—but it still promises to be amazing. In fact Intel spilled the beans on he new data connection back in April, explaining that it would be capable of 20Gbps in both…

Samsung Galaxy S4 Active Emerges from the Rumour Swamp

The constantly leaked Samsung Galaxy S4 Active has just been officially announced by Samsung, which has confirmed its insane level of desirability by telling us it features a 5-inch 1080p display and 1.9GHz quad-core processor inside a fully waterproof case. What’s that, like 15 Galaxy devices now? Samsung’s gained IP67 certification for the S4 Active,…

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Intel is throwing a cool $100 million towards “perceptual” computing technologies like voice and gesture control. The future might be here sooner than we thought.

Samsung Legal Win Could Halt US iPhone 4 Sales

Samsung has, to some surprise, won a patent battle against Apple that could see the iPhone 4 and 3G iPad 2 banned from sale in the US. The legal fight was centered on a patent relating to 3G standards, which Samsung has pledged to license freely, reports the Guardian. But according to the International Trade…

Microsoft just announced that Outlook is coming to Windows 8 RT as part of the free Windows 8.1 update coming later this year. If your office is stuffy about using Outlook only for mail, you can finally use a Surface for work. [Microsoft]

The Surface Type and Touch Covers Are Getting More Functional

If you looked at the Microsoft Surface Type and Touch Cover keyboards and wanted more keys, you’ll be getting them. Well, sort of. Microsoft is updating the keyboard to add the ability to toggle between what the keys on the top row do. It’s a little bit confusing but if you love your function keys,…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Strongest Square

Sometimes you’ve just got to know when to leave bad enough alone.

Sony Vaio Pro: Sony Is Finally Making Good Laptops Again

Sony will tell you a lot of things about the new Vaio Pro, which replaces the Vaio Z at the top of its laptop heap. It might say that it’s exceedingly light, and made from carbon fiber. Or it might say that it’s got new Intel Haswell guts. But what it should really say is…

What Would You Do Inside a Slow Motion Video Booth?

Here’s a fun party idea: get a bunch of people together with 11 kegs and 1 slow motion video booth and see what happens. That’s pretty much what these guys did, they hooked up a Phantom Miro camera and let people go nuts with whatever they wanted to do at 1500FPS. Bruton Stroube Studios, the…

Where the Heck Does Wind Even Come From?

There are few things as refreshing as feeling the wind blow against your hair. There are few things as scary as violent winds smashing and crumbling a town. So what is wind? And where does it even come from? PBS It’s Okay to be Smart series answers that saying its air molecules bumping and bashing…

The Reason We Need a New Superman Movie Is Because the Last One Sucked

Studios make movies so they can fill seats to print money to make more movies to fill more seats to print more money. And the easiest way to start printing money is to go with an established movie franchise. Like Superman! But the real reason we need a new Superman movie (as opposed to needing…

After the megavolcano, life as a street cat was pretty much the same

While the humans ran around freaking out about how they had lost their precious farms and internets, the street cats just shrugged. All this chaos just meant more places to hide, and more trash to eat. What’s the big deal about a bunch of ash anyway? It makes the ground softer, and that’s got to…

Read the first chapter of Celebromancy!

If you liked the meta-comic fantasy of Michael Underwood’s novel Geekomancy, you’ll adore the follow-up, Celebromancy. Our urban fantasy author/asskicker Ree is back — and she’ll have to use every pop culture tool in her arsenal to defeat these Big Bads. We’ve got an excerpt! The book comes out July 15. Learn more on the…

The Camera in Google Glass Just Got A Lot Better

Google is rolling out a software update to Google Glass and it’s dramatically improving what might be the main feature of Glass: the camera. It’s smarter software that takes a rapid sequence of shots and combines them into one uber picture. Google says: So, what does this new software mean for your pictures? Two things:…

This Surreal Mall Is More Ghost Town Than Shopping Center

It’s easy to find the the New South China Mall in the bustling metropolis of Dongguan in Guangdong province, China. With 892,000 square metres of leasable space, it’s the largest shopping center in the world.* But you’ll have to look much more closely to see if its even open. The NSCM is the victim of…

We could watch this bouncing water droplet all. Day. Long.

And now you can, too! FYFD explains the physics behind this mesmerizing clip, which comes by way of Kahp-Yang Suh of Seoul National university in South Korea. This high-speed video shows the remarkable resilience of a water droplet upon impact against as a solid surface. The droplet deforms into a pancake-shape, with its center depressing…

The story behind this woman’s face transplant is simply incredible

The world’s first face transplant took place eight years ago, and while it remains a highly experimental operation, the procedure has been advancing in leaps and bounds ever since. In February of this year, Carmen Tarleton underwent one of the most successful face transplants yet. https://gizmodo.com/the-results-of-the-most-comprehensive-face-transplant-i-5896910 Photo of Tarleton by Shell Stein Today at The…

Paralyzed People Walk Again With Mind-Reading Cyborg Skeleton

A robotic exoskeleton that reads the wearer’s mind will make walking possible again for people who have lost the use of their legs. The Mindwalker Project, now being tested by European Commission researchers, combines a mind-reading EEG signal processor that controls a powerful musculo-skeletal system you wear over your legs.

Editor Gets Rape Threats After Arguing That Rape Jokes Aren’t Good

Last week, Lindy West—one of the editors of Gawker Media’s blog Jezebel—participated in FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, arguing that rape jokes contribute to “a culture of young men who don’t understand what it means to take this stuff seriously.” The resulting barrage of rape threats has been disgusting.

Spaceship concept art that will blow your post-apocalyptic mind

Check out some sleek, beautiful spaceships from our distant interplanetary future. Concept artist Colie Wertz developed some incredible ship designs for After Earth, for the near future “abandoning the Earth” sequences as well as the far-future space wars. Even if you didn’t like the movie, Wertz’s designs are really sweet. Here are some of Wertz’s…