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Huawei’s Honor 8 Is the Latest Cheap Super Phone

The general consensus is the Samsung S7/S7 Edge/Note 7 are the best damn Android phones you can buy right now. They’re also really expensive. Off contract you’ll be dropping at least$800 to enjoy a gorgeous device saddled with Samsung’s clunky TouchWiz OS. But Huawei just went and made the Honor 8, a phone very similar…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Facebook Can’t Figure Out How to Diversify Its Staff

A new report from Wall Street Journal reveals that the system Facebook created two years ago to diversify its staff has been largely unsuccessful. The system awards each recruiter one-point for any new hires in engineering who are white or Asian men. Initially, the company awarded each recruiter one-and-a-half points if they hired outside that…

Social Media Eve Peyser

The 10 Best Structured Movies in History

I don’t find myself thinking about the structure of a movie as often as I should. But after seeing this video from CineFix explain the different structures used in movies, I probably will. There’s a lot of information to unpack and a lot of movies get mentioned and a lot of their picks for the…

Sploid Casey Chan

Cash Money Records Reportedly Signs Deal With Apple Music

It is a truly extraordinary day for Apple Music subscribers. According to an Instagram post by Cash Money Records co-founder Birdman, the label has made “a power move” with Apple Music. He posted a picture over the weekend with Apple music executive Larry Jackson announcing the news, and reposted the photo today with a link…

Tech News Eve Peyser

This Ink For Artists Is Made From Air Pollution

We’ve been pouring carbon into our atmosphere for over 200 years, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the global climate. Now a start-up venture called Air Ink has found a good use for some of that extra carbon: a line of pens whose ink is made of recycled air pollution. Air Ink is the brainchild of…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Why Jurassic Park’s Visual Effects Still Look Amazing Today

Jurassic Park still holds up. It’s an excellent movie that’s still fun to watch, the dinosaurs are still scary as hell, and the visual effects still look spectacular. How is that possible? Even though Jurassic Park changed the way films use visual effects, the restraint it used with its own effects is what has made…

Sploid Casey Chan

Milwaukee Police Deny Cutting Off Internet Access During Protests

Milwaukee is currently struggling with unrest following the fatal shooting of an armed black man by a Milwaukee police officer on Saturday night. There have been protests every night since, some of which have turned violent. Amidst all the unrest, internet streams have been one of the few unfiltered sources of news. But some activists…

Tech News Matt Novak

Why New Games Are Always Garbage on PCs

On Friday the very hotly anticipated No Man’s Sky was finally made available for PC gamers, a full four days after console gamers got it. Reportedly this was because the developers wanted to “make it right.” Unfortunately it was still a rush job and game stores like Steam and GoG have pages and pages of…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Elon Musk’s OpenAI Wants to Teach Robots to Speak Like Redditors

Reddit is known for many things: lively communities, a dedicated user base, cum boxes, incest. Now, the Elon Musk-and-Peter Thiel-backed nonprofit OpenAI wants to use Reddit’s vast array of content as a guide for its new machine learning programs. MIT Technology Review reports that OpenAI has partnered with NVIDIA to use the latter company’s new…

Artificial Intelligence Sophie Kleeman

Watch NASA Build a 130-Foot Rocket Tank In 60 Seconds

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will be the most powerful booster humans have ever created. And to power that rocket, you need on big-ass tank of liquid hydrogen built with the largest welding machine ever made. This is a timelapse of NASA completing the construction of the 130-foot fuel tank that will be a part…

Sploid Darren Orf

Ford Wants to Build the Largest Self-Driving Car Fleet in the World

You might take a self-driving car home from the bar in five years. Ford announced plans today to build a fully autonomous vehicle to sell to ride-sharing services such as Uber by 2021. The proposed vehicle would not include a steering wheel, gas tank, or brake pedals. Ford is expediting its race to hit the…

Tech News Michael Nunez

The 2016 Nexus: Everything We Think We Know About Google’s Next Phones (Updated)

While there are dozens of phones which run their own flavor of the Android operating system, Nexus phones are the purest expressions of Google’s ideas. Google is preparing to launch a pair of new Nexus phones this fall, and thanks to rumors and leaks we’ve already got a good idea of what they’ll look like.…

Tech News Gizmodo Staff Reporter

This Is How You Fake a Non-Existent $2.6 Million Supercar For a Commercial

You need more than just a brochure to convince someone to spend $2.6 million on a supercar. So when Bugatti wanted to tease its upcoming Chiron, the follow-up to its revered Veyron, last year, it had to turn to the special effects wizards at SLGH to fake a CG version for a promo video, because…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Water Does Some Really Weird Shit to Things

Water can do some trippy things, man. If you take a glass of water and slide it in front of a pattern, the refraction of light in water basically screws with those patterns and makes it appear as something else entirely. The distortion is really crazy to see because black and white squares turn into…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Smartphone Sensor Lets You Peer Right Through Walls

You may never again have use for that stud sensor buried in your kitchen’s utility drawer with a new sensor for Android smartphones called the WalabotDIY that promises to let your device peer right through walls revealing everything from pipes, to wiring, to even unwanted pests hiding between rooms. The device is the first to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Intel Made a VR Headset and It’s Totally Cord-Free

Intel just announced its own virtual reality headset called Project Alloy, a VR competitor to the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the forthcoming PlayStation VR headsets. But what separates the Alloy from the pack is that it’s completely wireless (the wire above is for capturing video for the demo) and it should give you complete…

Tech News Darren Orf

What a Scan of Sting’s Brain Teaches Us About Music

The puns, they almost write themselves. A cognitive psychologist at McGill University has scanned the brain of Grammy-winning musician Sting to glean insight into how creative people find connections between seemingly very different thoughts or sounds. The results were just published in Neurocase. It all started a few years ago, when Sting was traveling to…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

What Happens When You Dive Into a Pool Filled With 25 Million Squishy Waterballs?

Would you sink or float if you were tossed into a gigantic vat of squishy gelatinous spheres, more popularly known as Orbeez? Mark Rober decided the only way to definitively answer the question that few have ever asked was to fill an entire pool with 25 million of the tiny spheres, and dive in. Because…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Nvidia Finally Fixed Laptop Gaming

You haven’t really experienced PC gaming if you’ve been playing on a laptop instead of a desktop. You’ve enjoyed the convenience of taking your games anywhere, but you’ve sacrificed playability for mobility. Your games are rarely pretty. You run things on mid-to-low settings. The newest games struggle. But with Nvidia’s latest new line of mobile…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Why Do Trains In America Suck So Badly?

Let’s state the obvious: trains in america are awful. They’re slow, expensive, and not very reliable. And there are a few, largely unsolvable reasons why that’s the case. As Wendoverproductions explains, part of it boils down to where American cities are located. Trains are only more convenient than planes when cities are located 200-300 miles…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Huawei’s Honor 8 Is the Latest Cheap Super Phone

Facebook Can’t Figure Out How to Diversify Its Staff

The 10 Best Structured Movies in History

Cash Money Records Reportedly Signs Deal With Apple Music

This Ink For Artists Is Made From Air Pollution

Why Jurassic Park’s Visual Effects Still Look Amazing Today

Milwaukee Police Deny Cutting Off Internet Access During Protests

Why New Games Are Always Garbage on PCs

Elon Musk’s OpenAI Wants to Teach Robots to Speak Like Redditors

Watch NASA Build a 130-Foot Rocket Tank In 60 Seconds

Ford Wants to Build the Largest Self-Driving Car Fleet in the World

The 2016 Nexus: Everything We Think We Know About Google’s Next Phones (Updated)

This Is How You Fake a Non-Existent $2.6 Million Supercar For a Commercial

Water Does Some Really Weird Shit to Things

This Smartphone Sensor Lets You Peer Right Through Walls

Intel Made a VR Headset and It’s Totally Cord-Free

What a Scan of Sting’s Brain Teaches Us About Music

What Happens When You Dive Into a Pool Filled With 25 Million Squishy Waterballs?

Nvidia Finally Fixed Laptop Gaming

Why Do Trains In America Suck So Badly?

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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