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The Onion’s iPhone 6 vs Galaxy S5 Is the Only Review You Need to Read

The new iPhones have just hit the streets, and you know what that means: A million reviews comparing the Cupertino fruit stand’s newest smartphone to its toughest competition. Don’t waste your time. The Onion’s hilarious comparison is the only one you need to read. Once again, the internet’s gurus of piercing satire manage to get…

6 Tips For Getting Started With Google Now

Are you still tracking your own packages, flights, and deliveries while tapping on your mobile device’s screen like a caveman? Not when we’re done, you won’t be. Here are seven simple steps you can take to turn Google Now into your personal digital secretary. Android users may already be well-familiar with Google Now’s powers, but…

How Long Will It Take To Read That Book? This Chart Gives An Estimate

If you were able to read straight through without any breaks, how long would it take the average person to read all of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Game of Thrones? This infographic estimates how long it will take at average reading speed to get from beginning to end. Personal Creations based this…

AppleCare repair and replacement costs are out: Under Apple’s protection plan, new screen comes in at $109 for the iPhone 6, $129 for the 6 Plus; out-of-warranty battery replacement is $79; and broken phone replacement runs $299 for the 6, $329 for the 6 Plus. [AppleCare via iMore]

Rocket And Groot Replace Other Marvel Heroes On Classic Comic Covers

The world fell in love with Rocket Raccoon and Groot this summer in Guardians of the Galaxy, and now the pair are invading the covers of other characters’ comics. An upcoming set of Marvel variant covers will feature homages to classic comic book covers, with Rocket and Groot in the starring roles. Just as Deadpool…

Man’s Terminal Illness Actually Come In Handy In The Zombie Apocalypse

Josh is one of those guys who never thought that he’d amount to anything, and that feeling becomes even stronger when he’s diagnosed with terminal cancer. But everything changes for Josh when the dead start attacking the living. Super Zero is a fun short film directed by Mitchell L. Cohen, one where all it takes…

The Reality of the iPhone Line Is a Black Market Nightmare

This week, people camped outside Apple stores for days anticipating the iPhone 6. But those line-waiters weren’t all frenzied Apple fans high on the joy of a new smartphone: As filmmaker Casey Neistat portrays it, many of the line-sitters were buying the new iPhone to immediately resell it on the black market. It’s hard to…

So This Is How You Move a Neighborhood of Houses Across San Francisco

San Francisco’s current tech-led boom has seen slick new housing high-rises pop up all across the grid, but Bay Area urban renewal in the 1970s had a very different look. Photographer Dave Glass is a native of the city’s Western Addition, and snapped these images of Victorians being driven around town like massive domestic trailers…

Hawkeye Wearing A Scarlett Johansson Mask On Avengers 2 Set Is Freaky

No, this isn’t some bizarre spoiler for The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Hawkeye actor Jeremy Renner apparently stuck Scarlett Johansson’s stunt double’s mask on his own face, and the effect is…really strange. Now I won’t be able to get this image out of my head when Hawkeye and Black Widow appear on screen together. Thanks,…

Tuxedo Mask finally does something on Sailor Moon Crystal

It may have taken him 6 episodes, but finally, Tuxedo Mask barely manages to be an active participant in this week’s episode of Sailor Moon Crystal, as the search for the Legendary Silver Crystal continues. Moon Prism Power, Re-Cap! Act 6 – Tuxedo Mask – is an enjoyable return to form for the series so…

Gmail No Longer Forces New Users to Make a Google+ Account

Google’s free email service is great—tons of people use it. Google+ isn’t nearly as popular, even though new Gmail users have been forced to connect to a Google+ account for years. Now, Google’s making that social service integration optional. Finally. WordStream noticed yesterday that new Gmail sign-ups are no longer required to connect a Google+…

Here’s Everything We Know About The Chelyabinsk Meteor

When a 4.5 billion year old relic from the dawn of the solar system hurtled through the skies above the Russia in 2013, we all heard about it. Now after over a year of poking through bushes for lost fragments and analyzing data, we’ve got a good idea of what happened. Top image: Meteor over…

This 3-D Printed Robot Could Secure the Ports Of The Future

Transport by sea has been a favorite of smugglers for centuries – it’s hard to patrol an entire coastline, and it’s easier to move a ton of stuff by sea than by land. In the future, though, getting your contraband through a port might be made exponentially more difficult by this tiny, ultrasound-packing submersible robot.…

Driving in Los Angeles somehow looks awesome in this time lapse

I hate driving, I really do. I especially hate driving in Los Angeles. And even though I know it’s impossible and unreal for me to ever feel this cool driving (unless I turn into Ryan Gosling), this time lapse by Gavin Heffernan makes me want to get in my car and drive through Los Angeles…

Seeing cast iron skillets get made makes me want to cook

Cineastas spent some time with Mike Whitehead and Finex Cast Iron Cookware Co. to give a glimpse of how Finex is trying to reinvent something that has existed for thousands of years: cast iron. I love the slow and considered process—and I love to imagine the delicious food that will be inside them. If you’re…

Arguably The Greatest “Lion Turns Into Naked Lady” Scene Ever [NSFW]

What makes this scene from the 1986 movie Amazons so wonderful isn’t just the completely ridiculous visual effects (and sound effects) when the lion turns into an naked assassin. It’s also the amazing dialogue, including the villain’s final threat to turn her into a rug. This whole movie is full of unbelievable dialogue and gratuitous…

How much a European city has changed in 100 years

My favorite thing about these then and now type of videos that show what the world used to look like versus what it looks like now is not seeing what has changed but seeing how much has actually stayed the same. This video shows the 100 year difference at Alkmaar in the Netherlands. The video…

You Never Know When They’ll Strike Next

Ichthyosaurs like to surf — but pliosaurs like to surf and eat at the same time. It makes sense, when you see how it’s done. Pam Gonzales is a VFX artist and illustrator in Los Angeles. You can see more of her work on her Deviant Art page.

This Is the Best Movie for Food Porn

Before Ang Li made big blockbuster movies with CGI tigers and swordsmen flying on wires, he made small family dramas, the most mouthwatering of which is Eat Drink Man Woman. In the movie’s opening scene—famous among food porn connoisseurs—Mr. Chu prepares a sumptuous Sunday dinner for his three grown daughters. You don’t find the bright…

Burger King’s all-black burger looks absolutely disgusting in real life

To no one’s surprise, Burger King’s all black burger looks like a disgusting turd in real life. Actually, it might be even worse than some turds. It looks like it tastes like ash. It looks like it’s made from burnt cardboard. It looks like it’ll bring death to anyone who dare eats it. Grub Street…