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Windows 10 has been out and about for months now, but Microsoft hasn’t added anything new to the hardware pool—until now. Microsoft will announce an absolute deluge of Windows 10 products today, including two Lumia flagship smartphones, a next-gen Band wearable, and an all-new Surface Pro 4. You can watch all this magic unfold in…

This Impressive 7-Ball Robot Juggler Is Better Than Most Buskers

Juggling isn’t an easy skill to master, especially when you up the challenge to keeping seven balls in the air. It’s even harder for robots to do, which is why Nathan Peterson’s automaton busker deserves more than just a handful of loose change if you happen to come across it busking in the subway. Before…

Lego Doctor Who Is Finally Here, And It Looks Awesome

It feels like ages since Lego announced that it would be making a set based on Doctor Who—but now we don’t need a time machine to find a future where it’s out. It’s finally happening this December, and it’s looking rather fantastic if you’re a fan of all things wibbly, wobbly, and maybe even timey…

This beautiful spinning chocolate cake hides hilarious animations

Oh, this is great. Alexandre Dubosc made this wonderful zoetrope that uses chocolate and popcorn to animate itself. As the multi-layer cake spins around, different things begin to appear as if they’re moving and it’s all perfectly matched with the sound. Corn kernels pop, popcorn gets catapulted and chocolate mouths get fed. SPLOID is delicious…

You Can Drive Lexus’ Laser-Cut Cardboard Car, But You Probably Shouldn’t

In the wake of the Volkswagen diesel-gate scandal, automakers are now making even more of an effort to design vehicles that are as eco-friendly as possible. But Lexus might have gone too far with this paper version of its IS, made from 1,700 sheets of precisely laser-cut cardboard. We’re not just talking about the vehicle’s…

Lego Luke Skywalker Is the Best L’Oréal Spokesperson

Proving you don’t need a supermodel to sell beauty products, Flickr’s Marc Mater has created this brilliant (but fake) L’Oréal ad showing how the company’s products can even tame hair ravaged by the dry deserts of Tatooine. If it can do this for Luke Skywalker, imagine what Chewbacca might look like after a long shower…

Windows 10 Hardware Event Rumor Roundup: This Is Microsoft’s Next Generation

Think of all the hardware Microsoft makes that’s not a peripheral. What you’re thinking is probably getting some kind of update on Today. That includes the wonderfulSurface Pro laptop/tablet, but also theMicrosoft Bandand two new Lumias (finally). And maybe even a surprise or two, just to keep us guessing. So, let’s see exactly what tech…

This Interactive Web App Lets Your Play at Being an Air Traffic Analyst

If you’ve ever wondered what it must be like to study the movement of airplanes as they take off and land across the entire world, then this interactive app let’s you do just that. It’s not the first time we’ve seen air traffic data visualized, but it is the first time we’ve seen an interactive…

YouTube’s iOS app now lets you edit videos on your phone before you upload them.

Wildlife Is Making a Comeback at Chernobyl — Now That People Have Left

The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 had a devastating impact on the local population and forced 116,000 people to permanently leave their homes. But now researchers have discovered that, while the people may not have returned, the contaminated area of Belarus is teeming with wild animals, including elk, wild boar, deer…

EU Ruling to Stop US Companies Moving Data Freely Across the Atlantic

A new court ruling from the European Court of Justice deems invalid a legal framework that has untul now been used to justify the free transfer of data between the European Union and the U.S.. Known as the Safe Harbour agreement, the law has in the past allowed organizations based in the U.S. to pull…

Reddit Is Launching a News Website Called Upvoted — Without Comments

Reddit is launching a brand new website today to unearth news from its social aggregator. Called Upvoted, the site will surface pictures, videos and commentary from Reddit and present it as news — without the option to comment on a single thing. Wired reports that the new website, which is set to launch later today,…

Strava Insights Lets You See How the World Runs and Cycles

Since Strava burst on to the fitness scene to track runs and rides, it’s collected an extraordinary amount of data—so much, in fact, that it even sells it to city planners. Now, it’slaunched a new website called Insights that lets you explore how the entire world runs and cycles. Drawing on a frankly bewildering 136…

Hail the Tiny Moons of Pluto!

Goodnight, moons! These are the best images we’re going to see of Nix and Hydra, the largest of the little moons swooping around Pluto and Charon. Pluto’s largest moon Charon is massive enough to yank the dwarf planet around their mutual center of gravity, the barycenter. The two create a miniature binary system orbited by…

How France Plans to Bury Its Carbon Emissions — Literally, in Its Soil

French wine lovers have always taken their soil very seriously. But now the country’s government has introduced fresh reasons for the rest of the world to pay attention to their terroir. As industrial emissions of greenhouse gases continue to increase and concerns about climate change grow, scientists and policy wonks are searching for potential solutions.…

Want a Reversible USB-C Cable? OnePlus Has You Covered

If you’re the kind of lucky person who owns a USB-C enabled piece of electronica, listen up: OnePlus is selling its fantastic reversible USB-C cables for a song. The 1-meter and 1.5-meter (3 feet and 5 feet, for people who don’t like order) cables go for $5.50 and $7 respectively. That’s a bunch cheaper than…

Donald Trump’s Bad Twitter Is Explained By His Bad Phone

Among a fascinating examination of Donald Trump’s Twitter strategy in the New York Times, we learn one important thing: the GOP candidate-in-waiting sends his mostly offensive 140-character missives from an undefined Samsung Galaxy smartphone. The Times story has a bunch of different conclusions, from how Trump is using social media in place of traditional ads,…

Simulating a Universe With a Computer: Yes, This Is Complicated

TheEAGLE Project isn’t some neo-Nazi project to bring a cloned Hitler to life; rather, it’s trying to simulate a universe inside a supercomputer. Yes, it’s exactly as complicated as it sounds. The project, housed at the University of Durham in the UK, is trying to understand how galaxies form and evolve. It starts using the…

How an Affluent Neighborhood Banished Private Cars for a Month

Last week, Paris shooed cars from its downtown for a single photogenic day. Now a neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa is one-upping that car-free day with a celebration that kicks cars off the street for the entire month of October. As part of theEcoMobility World Festival, which started today, cars have been banished from Sandton,…

Making a clay bottle from dirt you find on the ground is messy fun

In continuing his really awesome hand made series, Andy George of How to Make Everything learns how clay pots and bottles are made from the very beginning (dirt!) to the beautiful end (ceramics). In between, you see him show us every step of the process like digging up the dirt, filtering out the crap in…