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Sony Hackers Email: Thanks For Running Scared, We’ll Stop Now

Brian Stelter from CNN reports that hackers sent Sony Pictures Entertainment executives a braggy email celebrating Sony’s decision to cancel its release plans for The Interview. The hackers promise that the remainder of Sony’s data is safe—for now. According to CNN, part of the email reads: It is very wise that you have made a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 19

Volvo Created a Bike Helmet That Warns Drivers About Nearby Cyclists

Though they share the road, bikes and vehicles don’t always play nice together. So Volvo, known for making some of the safest cars on the road, has helped develop a new safety helmet that lets bikes and vehicles communicate so that both cyclists and drivers are aware of each other when in close proximity—even if…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 19

This Street Photographer’s Start-to-Finish Analog Process Is a Rarity

The number of people who still shoot film is small. The number of people who shoot and develop their own film is smaller, and the number of people who then make their own prints in a darkroom is miniscule. Andre D. Wagner is one of the few. This video is a window into not only…

Tech News Michael Hession Dec 19

Here’s How I’d Change The Witcher Board Game To Make It Not Suck

In the board game version of the popular Witcher video game series, you and your friends travel around a war-torn realm, completing quests for victory points. Though it has some very clever elements, the game is crippled by poor design decisions. Here’s how I’d fix it. The Witcher is published by Fantasy Flight Games. As…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Dec 19

This GIF Party Needs Only One More Thing To Get Started: You

Finally! Our party is here to bring you the present you really want this season: Lots and lots of perfectly expressive GIFs. Tell us a little something about your week — are you traveling, staying in, baking, catching up on your interneting, or something else entirely? Fill us in on the details and then help…

io9 Ria Misra Dec 19

The Gadgets We Really Want This Year

With all the gear that passes through our grubby little hands, the number of gadgets we covet knows no bounds. And since we have to return most the objects our desire, there’s always a few that stick with us just a little too hard. These are the ones we’ll be aching for the hardest this…

Gadgets Ashley Feinberg Dec 19

NASA Celebrates Anniversary Of Earth Observing System With Amazing GIFs

In December 1999, NASA launched the Terra satellite to collect climate data. It would be the first spacecraft in a fleet of 18 Earth-observing satellites that, over the last 15 years, have opened up a new era of exploration of our home planet. To celebrate, the space agency has compiled some of its most stunning…

io9 Mark Strauss Dec 19

Neat chart will help you understand the vast universe of women footwear

I really like women shoes, not only for the reasons you are thinking (that too) but because I think they can be beautiful design pieces. This neat chart—by infographic design studio Pop Chart Lab—brakes down the contemporary footwear styles so we can understand and appreciate the nuances of such a vast world. SPLOID is delicious…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Dec 19

Now’s the Perfect Time To Harass Your Friends for Google Inbox Invites

Google still hasn’t opened its new Inbox mail service for everyone, and it’s not doing another invite free-for-all, but it is gifting all existing users 10 addition invites over the holidays. Time to start hitting up your friends. If you’ve got Inbox already, spread the love Just don’t count on using these as a stocking…

Tech News Eric Limer Dec 19

Wingsuit daredevil high fives hand on insane low-level flight

Watch wingsuit daredevil Sammy Rohan jumping from a cliff in Chamonix, France, and flying so close to the ground that he was able to high-five a big yellow hand that his friends were holding on the ground. The stunt was made to raise funds for the Project: Base charity. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Dec 19

A Bizarre New Species Of Fish Has Been Discovered At A Record Depth

Scientists exploring the deepest place on Earth — the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean — have captured footage of a never-before-seen fish at a record depth of 26,722 feet (8,145 meters). As reported in New Scientist, the ghostly fish was spotted by an expedition led by Jeff Drazen and Patty Fryer of the University…

io9 George Dvorsky Dec 19

Hot Toys’ Iron Man Hulkbuster Could Be the Greatest Action Figure Ever

Once you accept the harsh truth that adding Hot Toys’ upcoming Iron Man Hulkbuster to your collection probably means there won’t be any money for your kids to go to college, it becomes easier to get excited about owning what is probably the most detailed figure ever created. Revealed at the Toy Soul convention currently…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 19

Santa Doom Is Here To Spread Festive Cheer IN ALL CAPS

DOOM CARES NOT FOR CHRISTMAS. Well, I guess that’s a lie, thanks to this incredible cosplay by Cash Branson – Santa Doom is coming to town, and he’s got one hell of a naughty list. Cash made the costume for a recent convention, and it’s pretty damn incredible – from the detail on Doom’s armour…

Tech News James Whitbrook Dec 19

The Most Worrying Rumor Yet About Star Trek 3‘s Director Change!

A casting call sheds a surprising light on Batman v. Superman’s take on Bruce Wayne. Andy Serkis debunks a bunch of rumors about his Star Wars role. Evangeline Lilly says some intriguing things about Ant-Man, and there’s a look at Jessica Chastain in Crimson Peak. Plus the first look at Neil Patrick Harris in American…

Television Katharine Trendacosta Dec 19

The Weirdest Stuff We’ve Launched Into Space

From the minute we started sending humans into space, authorized and unauthorized paraphernalia have gone with them. Even unmanned spacecraft hauled oddities to the far reaches of our solar system. Here are a few items that have reached where most of us will never go. Pornography When NASA sent Apollo 12 to the Moon in…

Space & Spaceflight Steve Wynalda - Listverse Dec 19

The Biggest Video Game Disappointments of 2014

Some video games were great this year. Some were not so great. These, as compiled by our bleep bloop buddies at Kotaku, are the latter. https://kotaku.com/the-biggest-disappointments-of-2014-1672860181

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 19

How the Soviet Union used nuclear explosions to create giant canals

I know the Soviets made tons of crazy stuff back in the 20th century, but this is beyond insane: They blasted an entire forest and the adjacent land with the help of nuclear explosions to carve a canal. Atomic terraforming makes so much sense, doesn’t it? The United States also conducted Plowshare experiments in the…

Sploid Attila Nagy Dec 19

Adding Water to Solids Can Actually Make Them Stronger

It may sounder counter-intuitive, but adding drops of humble old water into solid materials can actually increase their strength and changes their other properties in interesting and useful ways. Researchers from Yale have discovered that adding droplets of water into some solids can strengthen and stiffen them, by virtue of their surface tension. The force…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 19

Sony’s Letting Robert Rodrgiuez Finally Make Fire and Ice

Sony’s just completed a deal that brings Robert Rodriguez’s dream project — a live action version of Frank Frazetta’s Fire and Ice — to the big screen. This is passion project for Rodriguez, who has been trying to make this homage to his friend for years. And it looks like it will finally happen. Image:…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Dec 19

A pizza world champion made this 99-cheese pizza and it tastes fantastic

Check out the gorgeous images that photographer Steve Scalone took of my latest object of desire, a 99-cheese pizza created by pizza world champion Johnny di Francesco, of Melbourne’s famed 400 Gradi. A pizza that The Guardian says tastes fantastic: Fantastic. Di Francesco has created a balanced and surprisingly nuanced pizza. It sounds like a…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 19

Sony Hackers Email: Thanks For Running Scared, We’ll Stop Now

Volvo Created a Bike Helmet That Warns Drivers About Nearby Cyclists

This Street Photographer’s Start-to-Finish Analog Process Is a Rarity

Here’s How I’d Change The Witcher Board Game To Make It Not Suck

This GIF Party Needs Only One More Thing To Get Started: You

The Gadgets We Really Want This Year

NASA Celebrates Anniversary Of Earth Observing System With Amazing GIFs

Neat chart will help you understand the vast universe of women footwear

Now’s the Perfect Time To Harass Your Friends for Google Inbox Invites

Wingsuit daredevil high fives hand on insane low-level flight

A Bizarre New Species Of Fish Has Been Discovered At A Record Depth

Hot Toys’ Iron Man Hulkbuster Could Be the Greatest Action Figure Ever

Santa Doom Is Here To Spread Festive Cheer IN ALL CAPS

The Most Worrying Rumor Yet About Star Trek 3‘s Director Change!

The Weirdest Stuff We’ve Launched Into Space

The Biggest Video Game Disappointments of 2014

How the Soviet Union used nuclear explosions to create giant canals

Adding Water to Solids Can Actually Make Them Stronger

Sony’s Letting Robert Rodrgiuez Finally Make Fire and Ice

A pizza world champion made this 99-cheese pizza and it tastes fantastic

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