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Tuesday Game Room: Bloody Souls Edition

Does the Playstation 4 get the exclusive it’s been waiting for this week? It just might, in the form of Demons/Dark Souls spiritual successor Bloodborne, shambling its way out this week. Will you pick it up? Are you maybe still messing around with a recently released demo? Come tell us in Tuesday Game Room! What…

Good afternoon, New York

There have been countless movies and time lapses and short videos made about New York and yet I can watch new ones about the city forever because they somehow never get old. Here’s one that I like by Tucker Prescott which shows New York City around the turn of the New Year. It captures all…

As It Turns Out, We Really Are All Starstuff

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars,” Carl Sagan famously said in his 1980 series Cosmos. “We are made of starstuff.” Above: Hubble image of the Crab Nebula supernova remnant captured with the…

Aussie Scientists Say This Is The Largest Asteroid Impact Area On Earth

Measuring 250 miles (400 km) wide, the now-buried crater in Australia was ground zero for a cataclysmic impact that occurred some 300 million years ago. But is it really the largest on Earth? According to a new study published in the geology journal Tectonophysics, the asteroid broke into two before it struck the ground. When…

Amazon Fire Stick’s New Wi-Fi Powers Let You Stream Almost Anywhere 

Dig through Amazon’s new software update for Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, and you’ll find an intriguing detail—one that shows us where streaming TV is heading. Mainly to your hotel room. The update includes a number of new features, like Bluetooth headphone support and expandable USB storage, which is certainly useful. But what’s really…

Currents in the Atlantic Ocean are slowing to dangerous levels. The Gulf Stream system is now weaker than at any time before 1901, likely due to global warming. Climate scientists warn that waning circulation could dramatically change weather in Europe, cause sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast, and impact marine ecosystems. Image: NASA…

The ESA Wants To Clean Up Space Trash Using These Fishing Nets

How will we clean up the giant (and steadily increasing) trash vortex that swirls around our little blue planet? Perhaps by harpooning it with these space fishing nets. https://gizmodo.com/the-earth-is-surrounded-by-a-great-swirling-vortex-of-t-1653288775 The European Space Agency has been experimenting with shooting woven fishing nets out of air cannons in zero gravity, an experiment that you can see them…

Hallmark Made Star Wars Toys So Impossibly Cute Your Head Will Explode

If you’re easily nauseated by super-saturated displays of adorableness, you’ll want to look away as soon as possible. Because Hallmark has created a series of plush Star Wars toys that push the limits of cute to the outer rim—and well beyond. Remember how intimidating Chewbacca was when you were a kid? Now he’s cuter than…

Evil Is Contagious In Daniel Wilson’s New Graphic Novel Quarantine Zone

What if we lived in a world where evil was an infectious virus? Welcome to Quarantine Zone, a new graphic novel from DC and Alloy Entertainment. We sat down exclusively with author Daniel Wilson to talk about Quarantine Zone, his upcoming movie adaptation of Robopocalypse, and more. We also have some exclusive artwork by Fernando…

Throwing My Broken Laptop in the Oven Baked It Back to Life

Every couple months I pull out my old gaming laptop from college: a busted-ass Dell m1210 that’s had its motherboard replaced four times under warranty because Nvidia couldn’t get its shit together. It never works right. I’ve had enough. I’m sticking this sucker in the oven. I know I’m not the only one out there…

Awesome short film shows Star Wars from the Empire’s perspective

Watch this. Now. TIE Fighter is a short animation by Paul Johnson that shows a bit of Star Wars from the perspective of the Empire. It’s done in the style of anime from the 80’s and shows an aerial fight scene between TIE fighters and X-wings and is pretty much so awesome that Disney should…

What’s The Easiest Way To Feed Millions Of Bees? A Bee Food Truck.

The next time you’re driving, you might want to be on the lookout for bees. If you see one or two, no big deal. But if you see two million of them cruising down the highway, hanging out on the back of a flat-bed truck, congratulations — you’ve witnessed someone doing the unique job of…

The Fukushima Cleanup Wasted Half a Billion Dollars on Bad Technology

The cleanup of Fukushima’s leaking nuclear plant has been long, expensive, and plagued with problems. Now, the AP reports a government audit has found that more than a third of the budget for cleanup was wasted—totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. The previous allegations of incompetence and straight-up lies that surround Tokyo Electric Power Co,…

Orphan Black’s Clothing Line Is Here, And It Is Fabulous

One thing clone drama Orphan Black has going for it (besides great actors, a compelling plot and insane action) is its costume department. The internet is lousy with “where can I find this top, or Cosima scarf?” requests. But now the work is over, because Orphan Black has its own clothing line. Announced on Nerdist,…

Jupiter May Have Destroyed The Solar System’s First Planets

It is becoming increasingly obvious that our Solar System — with its inner collection of small rocky planets and an outer region buffeted by gas planets — is quite uncommon. According to a remarkable new study, the reason may have to do with Jupiter and an ancient migratory journey that kickstarted the destruction of our…

Nootropics and the Human Lab Rats of Reddit

Eric Matzner tells me he takes 30 to 40 pills a day. He is 27 and perfectly healthy. Thanks to the pills, he says he hasn’t had a cold in years. More importantly, the regimen is supposed to optimize the hell out of his brain, smoothing right over the ravages of aging, sleep deprivation, and…

Crazy No-Stick Coating Is Coming to a Bottle of Glue Near You

Remember that no-stick ketchup bottle of the future an MIT professor made a few years ago? Well, the MIT team created a company to sell the super slippery technology, and Elmer’s recently signed an exclusive license to use it in their glue bottles. Pretty slick! (Sorry.) The company, LiquiGlide, is selling a product that’s simple…

Seeing cactuses bloom flowers is like watching aliens grow tumors

Usually when you see flowers bloom, it’s a beautiful, almost hypnotic phenomenon. It’s not exactly that poetic with cactuses though. Though the flowers themselves are ridiculously vibrant, the cactuses look like they’ve had radioactive appendages randomly glued onto their bodies. This time lapse, Freaky Flowers: Echinopsis Cacti in Bloom, was filmed by EchinopsisFreak: Echinopsis cactus…

Message Board Scrabble Lets Everyone Play Whenever They Have Time

One of the reasons Words With Friends became so popular on smartphones was because it let players take as much time as they needed between turns. There was no pressure from other players while everyone sat around a game board at a table. So perhaps this hanging message board version of Scrabble was partly inspired…

This ad’s food porn made me so hungry I’m now hypnotized

This commercial for Japanese restaurant Yugo—a very cool place in Madrid, Spain, decorated like a World War II Japanese bunker—is making me drool so much that I’m afraid of drowning in my own saliva. I want to stuff my face with a bucket full of those broiled toro nigiri. That’s the only thing in my…