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Neat time lapse of NASA assembling the space shuttle engine, the RS-25

NASA’s RS-25 rocket engine powered the space shuttles and four of them will be used to power the core stage of NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS), the launch vehicle that’ll bring humans to deep space missions like landing on asteroids and Mars. This two minute time lapse video shows how NASA assembles it. You…

Sploid Casey Chan

New Google Platform Will Save Your Passwords on Third-Party Apps

Straight up too much time is spent punching a wide array of passwords for various apps onto the tiny text fields of our phones. Google’s trying to fix that with the Identity Platform, new tools for developers to help keep users signed into their apps in a secure, hassle-free way. Google already has a password…

Tech News Alissa Walker

MIT’s Robot Cheetah Now Jumps While Running, So Walls Won’t Protect You

MIT has already demonstrated that its incredibly nimble and fast robot cheetah can run free without the need for cables or safety tethers. But now it’s not only able run down its prey out in the open, it can also jump without losing its stride. So when the robot uprising eventually happens, ducking behind a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Getting Treated For Depression Is Even Harder When You’re Pregnant

Getting pregnant changes a woman’s hormonal state: there’s a normal chemical interplay between mother and fetus. Hormones affect the brain, and their effects can differ in people. So if no one is surprised when a pregnant woman feels elated, why are they surprised when some pregnant women are clinically depressed? Image: Teza Harinaivo Ramiandrisoa via…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Funny video combines all the major movie studio intro sequences into one

I’m always goofily interested in tracking the changes that happen to movie studio intro sequences just to see the ridiculous flair they add to them now that they have the technology to do so. This video by Art404 pokes fun of all the studios by merging them into one epic sequence, as if all the…

Sploid Casey Chan

Google’s New Cardboard Hands-On: A Little Bigger, A Little Better

Google Cardboard is still made of cardboard. Sorry about that. But the crazy cheap virtual reality viewer does have a new version that’s bigger and better than ever. What’s changed? From a does-this-advance-the-state-of-virtual-reality perspective, not a whole heck of a lot. It’s still just a chunk of cardboard with no fancy cameras, positional trackers, or…

Tech News Sean Hollister and Brent Rose

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This week is the big annual tech holiday for Android fans (with Google Photos as a present), and Apple enthusiasts big day isn’t far behind, but we still got some great apps to talk about amidst the big headlines concerning new OS features and the like. Android gets completely caught up in the world of…

Tech News Darren Orf

Serial Will Return For Two More Seasons With “Distinct New Stories”

If you were among the bazillions who became obsessed with Sarah Koenig’s Serial podcast, which was spun off from This American Life, time to rejoice: the popular show will return for two more seasons, during which it will report on two brand-new cases. In an email newsletter sent to subscribers, host and exec producer Koenig…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy

Google’s Using An Insane GoPro Rig and YouTube to Bring VR to Everyone

GoPro has developed a rig housing that’ll allow you to shoot 360 video for Google’s Cardboard. It’s just one part of making content using Google’s new Jump system—a solution that standardizes every step of creating VR content. This is how VR goes mainstream. This is a very important part of the virtual reality puzzle. Until…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

What Do You Want to Know About Sexual Anatomy?

When I was in graduate school, I wondered what changes made erectile tissue in the penis shift from its soft and flexible state to its stiff and inextensible state. Then, with the help of some armadillos, I did the research and figured it out. Tell me what you wonder about, and I’ll see whether I…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Google Cardboard Now Works With iOS

Google’s Clay Bavor just told everyone at Google I/O that there are over a million Google Cardboard headsets in the world today. There’s about to be a whole lot more: he also just announced that Google Cardboard’s Virtual Reality apps are heading to iPhone. Bavor practically announced the cross-platform support with a shrug, quickly moving…

Tech News Sean Buckley

Our Google I/O Liveblog Is Right Here

Today is the first day of Google I/O, the company’s annual conference where they announce what’s coming in the next year. We’re here at the keynote, and we’ll be liveblogging it for you, starting now. Keep hitting refresh to get the latest updates! (The newest updates will be at the top.) 11:47AM PT And we’re…

Tech News Annalee, Sean, and Brent

The magic pizza sauce machine that sauces pizzas at Costco

Imagine a turntable but instead of a needle, you have a pizza sauce spout, and instead of a record, you have pizza crust spinning so the red sauce can cover every inch. Imagine no more. That’s how pizzas get made at Costco. Workers put the dough on the turntable and the pizzas gets expertly covered…

Sploid Casey Chan

Google Photos: Free Unlimited Photo Storage With Automatic Organization

Here’s Google Photos, Mountain View’s big shot at making your enormous photo collection usable. It’s unlimited photo and video storage, plus some smart design and brains to make a huge number of photos manageable. It launches today on Android, iOS, and desktop. Like Flickr, this is supposed to be a a home for all the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Google Maps, Chrome, and YouTube Will Be Available Offline

There’s nothing more frustrating than cueing up a set of Google Maps directions to your destination only to lose service and have them evaporate while you’re in transit. Now Google Maps, websites, and even YouTube will work with no internet connection on your Android phone. Google announced the series of lighter apps for the audience…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Star Trek IV‘s Whales Are Now A Bobblehead, Because Why The Hell Not

Remember that bit in The Voyage Home where Spock swims with some Whales because he’s goddamn Spock and he’ll do as he pleases? Well, the maddening merchandising glory that is San Diego Comic Con will never let you forget, because said scene is now a Bobblehead that you can buy at the con. What a…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Google’s Brillo and Weave Hope to Make Your Smart Home Actually Smart

Google just announced that a hyper-efficient operating system for the internet of things: Brillo. Developed with the engineers from Nest, the new Android-based OS is designed to be very streamlined, so that any connected object can communicate with another. The common standard that makes it all possible is called Weave. https://gizmodo.com/get-ready-for-google-brillo-the-new-operating-system-f-1706783821 Brillo should help you…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Google’s Inbox App Is Now Available For Everyone

Inbox, aka Google’s attempt at fixing the cesspool that is email, is no longer invite only. You can download it right now at the Apple or Google Play store. To mark the occasion, Google’s also pumped out some new features, including the super duper important “undo send.” We weren’t blown away by Inbox when we…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Android Pay Is Google’s Plan for the Mobile Payments Future

We suspected that Google would announce a new payments system at I/O, and we were right. Enter Android Pay. Android Pay is an open-platform API that enables customers to make payments from their credit cards within an Android mobile app. To use it, unlock your phone like normal, place it in front of the data-slurping…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Android M Is Here, and So Is Google’s Smartphone Future

The future of Android is here. Android M (I’m still hoping for Muffin) is the software that will power Android smartphones starting this fall. Aesthetically, everything looks familiar, but there’s a lot buried under that Material Design exterior. Let’s take a look. App Permissions Google’s Senior VP Sundar Pichai introduced M saying that Android focused…

Tech News Darren Orf

Neat time lapse of NASA assembling the space shuttle engine, the RS-25

New Google Platform Will Save Your Passwords on Third-Party Apps

MIT’s Robot Cheetah Now Jumps While Running, So Walls Won’t Protect You

Getting Treated For Depression Is Even Harder When You’re Pregnant

Funny video combines all the major movie studio intro sequences into one

Google’s New Cardboard Hands-On: A Little Bigger, A Little Better

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Serial Will Return For Two More Seasons With “Distinct New Stories”

Google’s Using An Insane GoPro Rig and YouTube to Bring VR to Everyone

What Do You Want to Know About Sexual Anatomy?

Google Cardboard Now Works With iOS

Our Google I/O Liveblog Is Right Here

The magic pizza sauce machine that sauces pizzas at Costco

Google Photos: Free Unlimited Photo Storage With Automatic Organization

Google Maps, Chrome, and YouTube Will Be Available Offline

Star Trek IV‘s Whales Are Now A Bobblehead, Because Why The Hell Not

Google’s Brillo and Weave Hope to Make Your Smart Home Actually Smart

Google’s Inbox App Is Now Available For Everyone

Android Pay Is Google’s Plan for the Mobile Payments Future

Android M Is Here, and So Is Google’s Smartphone Future

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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

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

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‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

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

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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

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