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Those who have updated their iPhones to iOS 8.3 have already seen the future: Among the many updates out today is a redesigned emoji keyboard with new and improved (and “diverse”) emoji. Basically, the plot of every Wes Anderson movie just got way easier to recap. The Apple iOS 8.3 update features redesigned emoji (the…
The German Mark. Lithuanian Litas. Estonian Kroon. Irish Pound. Slovenian Tolar. Portuguese Escudo. Greek Drachma. Slovak Koruna. Maltese Lira. Finnish Markka. Dutch Guilder. Spanish Peseta. Luxembourgish Franc. Belgian Franc. Italian Lira. Cypriot Pound. Austrian Schilling. French Franc. Latvian Lats. All got replaced by the Euro. N9VE made this animation as an ode to those beautiful…
Nearly 280,000 AT&T customers had their personal data stolen by scammers, including the last four digits of social security numbers and other identifying information. The huge breach happened when at least three AT&T employees at a Mexico-based call center sold customer data to scammers. The breach went down from November 2013 to April 2014, lasting…
The first Apple Watch reviews are in, and the consensus appears to be a resounding “meh.” So let’s think outside the box and design an even sweeter smart device, right here, right now. What’s the wearable of your dreams? I have to admit, all other considerations aside (price/first gen snafus/the hype machine), the Apple Watch…
The last thing I would want to do while flying in a wingsuit (other than fly in a wingsuit) is to blast through a sign while flying. But wingsuit pilot Sebastian Alvarez is not me. He angled his flight route perfectly so that he would smash the Chilean flag sign on his way down. That…
Playboy has a map that uses data from Reddit to showcase what the signature food item (or alcohol! or drugs!) from each state is. California gets In N Out burger, New York gets bagel love and Texas gets Tex-Mex. That mostly makes sense. But I’m not sure why Nevada gets cheeseburgers and why Colorado and…
Just as you may have suspected, Amazon’s voice-controlled personal assistant getting even more functionality—and branching out into controlling your home’s technology with its hub. An email to Echo customers today announced that Echo will work with Philips Hue lights and switches, as well as Belkin’s WeMo gadgets, which include everything from slow cookers to humidifiers…
How do you sleep at night? If you’re rich, the answer is probably “really well.” Research compiled by the CDC reveals that there’s a correlation between how much money you make and how much sleep you get. To no one’s surprise, Americans who make less money aren’t getting as much sleep as the wealthy. If…
Wes Anderson’s quirky characters are always memorable and leave an impression on me even long after I’ve watched the movie. Artist Alejandro Giraldo memorialized them in these illustrations, capturing the essence of each character in his drawings. It says a lot about the characters you create when a simple drawing of them, even with their…
It’s something we’ve all felt. The low, sinking kick in the metaphorical groin when you’ve read some asshole’s tweet or post, expounding on some previously unknown spoiler. But maybe, social media doesn’t need to be such a minefield of potential despair. Well, it seems Google is working on it. A new Google patent, spotted by…
I think this is my new favorite way to re-watch movies that I have seen a million times already: just follow the story through the close up shots. It works surprisingly well! As in the of The Matrix, you can see Neo’s progression from outsider to The One and all the things that happened in…
What’s better then a monster machine? A meta machine. Here are a bunch of machines that really took the advice “Just do you!” to heart. A train that lays its own tracks You can tell just how much this machine loves Fleetwood Mac by how it’s Going Its Own Way. A ship that ships ships…
Facebook just checked off another step in its plan to turn Messenger into its own separate service— launching a distinct web version of its messaging app. If you go to Messenger.com today, you’ll see all your Facebook messages without dealing with Newsfeed. When Facebook spun Messenger off into its own mobile app, it felt like…
Last September, Dell quietly announced one of the most exciting and horribly named Android tablets ever made—the Venue 8 7000. Now, that awesome slate is getting a big brother. The Dell Venue 10 7000 (still a dumb name) is a $500 10.5-inch tab running Android Lollipop. It’s sleek and slim and black, just like its…
Tax day is upon us. For some that means a refund check, and for others, that means saying goodbye to your cold hard cash. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re photographing money. But be sure to read how to do it legally: The Challenge Take a photograph of money. Specifically? COINS. Because it’s illegal…
Diving underneath ice might be the easiest way to be transported into another world that’s completely unlike ours. You need the correct equipment and you never want to be really trapped, but it looks completely ethereal. The colors, the shapes, the ceiling, it’s all so pristine and so beautiful. Kino Zig filmed this video of…
How many times a day would you say you check your smartphone? Be honest. For the average person, it’s 150 times a day. And most of those interactions happen in less than a second. Today, as the first reviews of the Apple Watch rolled in, we got a look at how Apple plans to banish…
Game of Thrones is coming back for Season Five this Sunday, April 12th. Do you remember everything that happened in seasons 1 through 4? Probably not since you probably don’t even know how to pronounce every character’s name. Catch up with everything you need to remember before the premiere in the video below SPLOID is…
Hillary Clinton hasn’t declared that she’s running for president—YET—but she seems to already have one crucial hire in place: The Washington Post reports via anonymous sources that a longtime Google exec, Stephanie Hannon, has been named chief technology officer of Clinton’s not-yet-announced campaign. According to the WaPo’s story, Hannon will work out of Clinton’s NYC…
Cloning isn’t science fiction anymore. In fact, in some parts of the world, it’s big business. But cloning an extinct Woolly Mammoth? Well, that’s another story, but this fascinating Motherboard documentary travels to South Korea and Russia to investigate how close we are to resurrecting the dead. The 22-minute doc focuses on cloning but takes…
