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Tons More Star Wars Details, Plus Two New Game of Thrones Characters!

Harrison Ford wants to return to Indiana Jones. Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi tease the Doctor Who season finale. Aliens: Paradise Lost will explore the origins of the Aliens. Plus, oodles of new The Force Awakens pictures, and Peyton Reed talks about the importance of Ant-Man and the Wasp. Behold, Spoilers! Star Wars: The Force…

Spotify is introducing a new “concerts” feature. It will work much like the totally awesome Discover Weekly playlist—in addition to suggesting concerts by artists you already like, you’ll also get recommendations based on what Spotify’s magical algorithms think you might enjoy. Rock on.

This Face Is the Average of Inanimate Objects That Look Like Faces

No real faces were used in the making of this face. Instead, it’s what happens when you average out the appearance of a bunch of inanimate objects that people think look like faces. Using an algorithm usually used to average out the faces of real people, Robby Kraft instead used it to average out around…

This Giant Vending Machine Can Dispense Your Next Car

If buying a car all seems a little too complex, relax: you can now walk straight up to a five-story vending machine to choose your new set of wheels, as if it were a gigantic candy bar. You’re looking at a new kind of car dealership that’s been built by Carvana. Featuring a series of…

Bluetooth Will Have Twice the Speed and Four Times the Range in 2016

Since Bluetooth was given an overhaul in 2010 with the 4.0 standard, it’s surged in popularity. Now, it’s about to get another serious spec bump, providing four times the range, twice the speed and even mesh networking. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced its plans for the future of the wireless standard, and they…

Report Claims FBI Paid Carnegie Mellon University $1M to Attack Tor

Last year, Tor—the service which allows people to use the internet with anonymity—was attacked. Now, a new report suggests that the FBI paid Carnegie Mellon University a cool $1 million to carry out the work. At the time of the attack, Tor believed it had been carried out by Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Emergency Response Team.…

Apple Said To Be Developing a Person-to-Person Payment Service

According to a new report, Apple is said to be in discussion with banks to build a person-to-person payment system that would allow people to transfer money between phones without the need for cards or checks. The Wall Street Journal reports that the service “would allow consumers to send payments from their checking accounts to…

Samsung’s New High-End Smartphone Chip Is Its First To Be Fully Integrated 

Samsung has just announced its new top-end chipset, the Exynos 8 Octa 8890. Like its Qualcomm competitors, it squeezes everything it needs into a single slab of silicon. In fact, this is the first Samsung flagship system to be fully integrated into a single chip and only the second to be based on the 14-nanometer…

Sound Waves Could Power the Hard Drives of the Future

Our need to store data is growing at an astonishing rate. An estimated 2.7 zettabytes (2.721) of data are currently held worldwide, equivalent to several trillion bytes for every one of the 7 billion people on Earth. Accessing this data quickly and reliably is essential for us to do useful things with it – the…

A Finished Version of Firefox for iOS Is Finally Available on the App Store

It’s been in the planning since the start of the year and testing since September, but the first version of Firefox for iOS is finally available in the App Store. Late to the iOS browser game, Firefox will face some stiff competition with most people having long since settled on Safari, Chrome, Opera or something…

Dumbass Crashes Drone Into Seattle’s Great Wheel

Dumb people doing dumb things with drones is not a new thing. But crashing a DJI Phantom 3 into Seattle’s Great Wheel is a particular kind of dumb. According to KIRO7, the accident happened sometime Wednesday evening. The drone hit somewhere on the wheel, and landed on the patio of an adjacent restaurant. No-one was…

iPad Pro Teardown: Big Screen Doesn’t Mean Easy to Repair

As is tradition with new gadgets, the cruel folks at iFixit have torn the iPad Pro from limb to limb for our entertainment and education. The Pro opens up like other iPads: heat up the glue that holds the screen in place, then use a suction cup to lift it off, granting access to the…

How to Exclude Certain Apps From Android’s Battery-Saving Doze Feature

You may have heard one of the new features in Android Marshmallow is Doze, a standby mode for your apps that slows down background processes and pings to the cloud while your device isn’t being used. While there’s no way to turn Doze itself on or off, you can exclude certain apps from it if…

A Rare Look Inside NY’s Secretive Data Centers

The data centers that run the internet are kept pretty quiet, and for good reason: forget cyberattacks, a few well-placed hatchet swings could kill Snapchat worldwide. But photographer Peter Garritano recently gained access to some of the exchanges and colocation centers that underpin the internet, and brought back these photos. The facilities he visited aren’t…

Brand New Terminator Concept Art Shows How Skynet Will Destroy Your City

It’s long been a recognized fact of existence that the best Terminator concept art is the Judgment Day concept art, or else art showing the war against Skynet in the future. So these brand new art pieces, showing Judgment Day in action, are pure apocalyptic gold. To promote the Terminator Genisys DVD/Blu-ray, Paramount commissioned four…

What the Heck is a Porous Liquid?

Scientists at the Queen’s University Belfast have just invented the world’s first “porous liquid,” and it’s being hailed as a major breakthrough. But what on Earth is it? Porous materials, as their name would suggest, are materials with holes. But we’re not talking swiss cheese or vinyl mesh-type holes. These are materials that look totally…

Super-Sticky Gecko Feet Inspire Strapless Bra Design 

Ladies, don’t say physics never did anything for you. Your days of awkwardly pulling up your slipping strapless bra during a night on the town—thereby ruining the illusion of glamorous savor faire—may finally be over, thanks to the physics of tiny gecko feet. Meet the latest designs from Kellie K Apparel, a start-up company with…

These Alternate Designs For Marvel’s Ant-Man Costume Are Super Cool 

I think most people were happy with the look of Ant-Man in this year’s film. But of course, that wasn’t the initial look. Just as he did with the Wasp, concept artist and Marvel Studios designer Andy Park has posted some alternate looks at the costume. He prefers the original one, but I think I…

Tell Us Your Nightmare Stories of How You Quit Your Terrible IT Job

Or maybe you got fired from an evil place and lived to tell the tale. Either way, we want to hear about IT transitions away from awfulness. When we last published reader IT horror stories, there were several epic comments about getting out of shitty situations. Even then, the nightmare often wasn’t over—many of you…

That Time a Mechanical Mosquito Hovered Far Above the Earth 

What happens when you pair a space station with a space shuttle and tuck them in orbit far above our planet? This oddly insectoid monster machine. On May 24, 2011, the Endeavour space shuttle docked with the International Space Station as it coasted approximately 350 kilometers (220 miles) above the Earth. The photo was captured…