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The 2015 Lego Winter Village Toy Shop Is Here and It’s Adorable

LEGO have officially revealed their 2015 Creator Winter Village set. The Winter Toy shop comes with 898 pieces and will retail for $79.99. It comes with tons of accessories, and loads of little minifig toys, to bring happiness and cheer to minifig girls and minifig boys! If this set looks familiar, that’s because it’s incredibly…

Tech News Tatiana Danger

FDA Approves the “Sex Pill For Women”

Yesterday the FDA approved flibanserin, a treatment for premenopausal women who have lost their desire for sex. This was the third time the drug has come up for approval: it was rejected in 2010 and 2013 because the FDA thought its common side effects–particularly fainting and low blood pressure–outweighed its benefits. This time around, Sprout…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Burning Man Riddled with Brutal Pest Infestation

Burning Man, favorite summertime gathering place for Silicon Valley’s VC-funded shirtless mollybros, is combating a large-scale pest infestation at Blackrock City, Nevada. Crawling over every surface of the pop-up desert city—biting, sowing mayhem and discontent—this scourge of pestilence has proven damn near impossible to banish from the once-peaceful windswept playa. Oh, and there’s a lot…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

The Ashley Madison Hack Is Only the Beginning

Over the last few years, a number of shockingly massive hacks have cost hundreds of millions of dollars and revealed loads of personal information about regular people. The Ashley Madison hack and subsequent public revelation of user data should make you more uneasy than the rest. Yesterday, hackers dumped 9.8 GB of data that’d been…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar

Here’s How That New Sex Pill for Women Actually Works

Yesterday, the FDA voted to approve flibanserin, a new drug to treat women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder, or lack of desire for sex. The drug, marketed as Addyi, has been touted as “female Viagra,” in the sense that it helps bring sex back into these women’s lives. But flibanserin doesn’t actually work like Viagra.…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Our First Good Look at the Blackberry Android Franken-Phone

Blackberry is betting on you missing those glorious tactile keys that were the company’s signature—which is why it’s getting together with Android to hack together a smartphone called the Blackberry Venice. And today, we got our first good look. The company that had the smartphone market locked down back in the mid-aughts has been struggling…

Tech News Leah Becerra

Making a homemade carbon fiber hydrofoil and kiteboard is really impressive

I know next to nothing about kiteboarding and have a negative amount of knowledge when it comes to making your own carbon fiber hydrofoil and board but after watching Mat put together his gear, I felt like I’ve learned everything. There is so much cutting and sanding and drilling and layering the carbon fiber and…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Terrible Rise (and Subsequent Spectacular Fall) of the Barker/Karpis Gang

They robbed banks, committed kidnappings, and killed cops. Their ranks included a Public Enemy #1 who taught Charles Manson how to play guitar. Though the legend that a matriarch led them into battle is largely untrue, the Barker/Karpis Gang lived up to the most fearsome aspects of its reputation. Next month marks the 82nd anniversary…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

New Report Says Vaping Is About 95% Less Harmful Than Smoking

Public England Health, an agency of the UK’s Department of Health, says in a new report that vaping is about 95 percent less harmful than smoking, according to their latest “best estimate.” “While vaping may not be 100% safe, most of the chemicals causing smoking-related disease are absent and the chemicals which are present pose…

Tech News Matt Novak

These super fun illusions really messes with your perspective

You really can’t trust your eyeballs. Watch as freerunners Jason Paul and Pasha Petkuns use illusions and perfect camera angles to screw with our perspectives as they slide down bananas, live in an upside down world, become giants and tiny humans, and do a lot more mind trippy stuff. It’s really fun. SPLOID is delicious…

Sploid Casey Chan

It’s Impossible To Overexpose a Shot With a New Camera Built By MIT

Many scenes you point a camera at are doomed to result in a crappy picture. Either the background is blown out, or the foreground is too dark. It’s a limitation of every camera sensor. MIT is working on technology that captures light in a new way, eliminating this problem completely. Currently, there’s only so wide…

Tech News Michael Hession

Three Spinning Chambers Puts a 30 Dart Barrage in BOOMco’s New Triple Tornado

Hasbro’s been hogging the toy blaster spotlight lately with its new Rival line, but Mattel’s got some fun additions to its BOOMco line enroute too, including the Triple Tornado (originally called the Spinsanity 3X at Toy Fair 2015) featuring three spinning chambers that hold a total of 30 darts. The folks at Blaster Labs found…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

An Even Better Look At Square-Enix’s Captain America And Black Widow

Recently, Square-Enix released teasers for the latest entry in their Marvel line of Play Arts Kai figures—a pretty damn rad Black Widow, and a significantly less-rad Captain America. But now we can get an even better look at the two in action… even though our initial impressions seem to hold out. Let’s start with the…

Tech News James Whitbrook

You Can Officially Review the TSA on Yelp Now, But Don’t Bother

The federal government wants you to review it on Yelp. Don’t do it. People have been leaving unofficial Yelp reviews for the Transportation Security Administration and various dreadful DMVs around the US for a while, but now the government says it’s reading those reviews. Yelp has started a partnership with the federal government to create…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

The Long Life and Quiet Death of True Detective Magazine

As recently as the 1970s, fact crime magazines were a significant, if not reputable, segment of the publishing industry. No liquor store magazine rack was complete without the lurid covers of True Detective warning of a “Sex Freak on the Prowl” or promising to reveal the scoop “Behind California’s Latest Mass Murder Case.” A fully…

Tech News John Marr - Murder Can Be Fun

Vaio Is Coming Back to the US With a Powerful, Premium Laptop

New Vaio computers are coming back to the United States—some 18 months after Sony sold off the venerable and unprofitable brand. The Wall Street Journal reports that the new, free-standing company will begin selling pricey machines at Microsoft stores this fall. We’d already heard about the new Vaio Z Canvas a few months ago. The…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Ashley Madison Hackers Just Released a Ton of Stolen Data [Updated]

Well, this should be interesting. Hackers who claim to have stolen data from Ashley Madison, the dating site for cheaters, recently posted nearly 10-gigabytes of said stolen data. That includes member email addresses, credit card transactions, and even profiles. This should be very interesting. The data can be found on the dark web, and those…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Start Your Day With a Replay of This Morning’s Japanese Spacecraft Launch

At around 8 a.m. EST this morning, Japan successfully launched an unmanned cargo vehicle, bound for the ISS. And man, watching spacecraft take off never gets old. The shuttle is called Kounotori-5, and it was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on Japan’s southern tip Wednesday night Japan time. It’s carrying 4.5 tons of cargo,…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Pre-Ordering this Interactive Yoda Is as Close as You’ll Ever Get to Jedi School

First revealed back in February shortly after Toy Fair 2015, we now know quite a few more details about Spin Master’s interactive Legendary Yoda toy thanks to Walmart who’s finally made it available for pre-order and officially available on September 4—AKA Force Friday. Standing 16-inches tall, the Star Wars Legendary Jedi Master Yoda can’t walk,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

15 Years Of Drought Have Not Been Kind to Lake Mead

The water level in Lake Mead has been fairly steadily falling for the last 15 years, something proven quite easily using many charts and graphs. But nothing hammers it home quite like NASA’s before-and-after shots. As the GIF shows, water levels have dropped significantly since 2000 — you can see the northern arm shrink down…

Tech News Chris Mills

The 2015 Lego Winter Village Toy Shop Is Here and It’s Adorable

FDA Approves the “Sex Pill For Women”

Burning Man Riddled with Brutal Pest Infestation

The Ashley Madison Hack Is Only the Beginning

Here’s How That New Sex Pill for Women Actually Works

Our First Good Look at the Blackberry Android Franken-Phone

Making a homemade carbon fiber hydrofoil and kiteboard is really impressive

The Terrible Rise (and Subsequent Spectacular Fall) of the Barker/Karpis Gang

New Report Says Vaping Is About 95% Less Harmful Than Smoking

These super fun illusions really messes with your perspective

It’s Impossible To Overexpose a Shot With a New Camera Built By MIT

Three Spinning Chambers Puts a 30 Dart Barrage in BOOMco’s New Triple Tornado

An Even Better Look At Square-Enix’s Captain America And Black Widow

You Can Officially Review the TSA on Yelp Now, But Don’t Bother

The Long Life and Quiet Death of True Detective Magazine

Vaio Is Coming Back to the US With a Powerful, Premium Laptop

The Ashley Madison Hackers Just Released a Ton of Stolen Data [Updated]

Start Your Day With a Replay of This Morning’s Japanese Spacecraft Launch

Pre-Ordering this Interactive Yoda Is as Close as You’ll Ever Get to Jedi School

15 Years Of Drought Have Not Been Kind to Lake Mead

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

Report: FDA Set to Unban RFK Jr.’s Favorite Peptides

Source Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Leaks at the Exact Wrong Time

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Breaks Apart in Orbit

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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

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