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A New Robot Provided These Unprecedented Views Beneath Antarctica

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has built a new needle-like robot that can descend through ice-fields to explore the sea floor beneath —and this footage from Antarctica is the first footage it’s returned. The robot, known as, Icefin was sent through a 12-inch diamter bore hole drilled through 20 meters…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The paintings of Star Wars matte painter Frank Ordaz

Frank Ordaz worked with George Lucas in The Return of the Jedi—among other films—making some of its awesome background matte paintings. When he left the film industry he combined his freelance work with some personal projects involving oil painting. This is a selection I made of his latest work: Here are some pictures of Frank…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Google Maps Software Now Lets Your Explore Depths of the Human Body

Google Maps makes it easy to pan, zoom and search the world—and now it can do the same for the deep recesses of the human body, too. A new project by researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia has been borrowing the algorithms used to assemble and run Google Maps to create…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The $400,000 F-35 Pilot Helmet Can See Through the Pilot’s Aircraft

This is one of the priciest pieces of pilots’ head gear ever constructed. The F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS), with the tremendous price tag of $400,000, is so advanced that it lets pilots see through their own airframe. According to Lockheed Martin and manufacturer Rockwell Collins this piece of integrated hardware and…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Short film: A strange hole in the ground that duplicates organic life

This great short film—written and directed by Ray Wong—tells the story of a young couple that one day finds out there is a hole in their backyard with awesome powers: It duplicates any organic life that falls into it. That uncanny discovery ends up affecting their life and, of course, their relationship. Ray Wong is…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Censorship Order That Threatened Websites and Message Boards Overturned

Our right to express opinions online—for instance, to criticize copyright trolls and their demands for money in hopes of scaring them away—are protected by the First Amendment. The Georgia Supreme Court correctly underscored these protections in a ruling late last week about the state’s anti-stalking law. The panel overturned a trial judge’s astonishing order directing…

Tech News Karen Gullo - EFF

NASA Has Some Scary Images Of Super Typhoon Maysak

Maysak, a charmingly-named Cat-5 super typhoon that only sounds a bit like the Norse god of destruction, is churning its way through the Pacific at the moment. And, as always, mankind is keeping a very careful eye on things from space. We’d already seen the fantastic images captured by astronauts on the ISS, like something…

Tech News Chris Mills

This San Francisco sunset makes it look like the apocalypse is here

Welcome to our post-apocalyptic world. You can find the last remaining civilization in San Francisco. Or something like that. It’s startling how much this simple time lapse of a San Francisco sunset makes it look like nuclear bombs have gone off and destroyed everything we know. But nope, just a normal sunset in the bay.…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Space Invaders Typing Challenge Is Driving Me Insane

I had a to-do list a mile long that I was meant to tackle this afternoon. Instead, I spent the entire thing being driven increasingly crazy by this Space Invaders typing game. Goddamn internet. I stumbled acrossZ-Type on Twitter earlier today. It’s a game built by Dominic Szablewski, a developer and game-maker with a site…

Tech News Chris Mills

Of Course Japan Has An Island Where Cats Outnumber People

Thisshort film documents life on Tashirojima, a tiny island off the Oshika Peninsula in Japan. It’s home to 800 cat overlords, and the 100 or so humans who slavishly feed their feral masters. Cats were originally brought onto the island to control the mouse population, who fed on silkworms and threatened the fishing industry that…

Tech News Chris Mills

What It’s Like to Work For Putin’s Internet Troll Army

The Guardian has a doozy of a report on Russia’s secret troll army: hundreds of bloggers and commentators paid to flood the internet with pro-Kremlin posts. Two former employees gave the paper a rare glimpse inside the troll army’s headquarters. The bloggers and commentators work in 12-hour shifts inside a St. Petersburg office building, where…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

A Dude Made Fake VHS Covers for New Shows And They’re So Good

Remember when you missed the season finale of Breaking Bad and you had to wait like a year until the series finally came out on VHS so you could watch it? No, but now you could imagine what that might have been like. Here are some recent movies and popular shows reimagined as 1980s-era VHS…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Would You Hack Your Body For a Superpower?

Today, we rediscovered that people are willing to go to extreme lengths to gain mutant-like abilities. Are you one of them? I’m going to guess that most of us wouldn’t turn down strange powers, no matter how many cautionary X-Men comics we’ve read. And while we’re a long way from getting our hands on the…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

After 150,000 Years in a Cave, a Neanderthal Skull Looks Like This

This is the Altamura Man. He’s old. In 1993, cave researchers stumbled across an odd formation in Italy: a skull that had essentially grown over time to become part of the cave, calcite budding from its features. Now, scientists have discovered that it could easily be 150,000 years old. Experts have been touchy about whether…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Fun stop-motion animation brings nail art alive and into real life

It’s always fun to see things that aren’t supposed to be real, come alive. Breathing life into inanimate objects and giving them their own personality spins your brain sideways. This video by turns a woman’s nails into their own little monsters. The stop-motion animation was filmed using 521 different nails that were made by a…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Most Technically Advanced Drone Footage Ever Looks Pretty Stunning

Drones are great for filmmaking—unless you want footage that looks better than film. The best cinema-grade cameras are basically just too damn heavy to fly. The Phantom Flex4k high-speed digital camera, for instance, weighs almost 15 pounds. But that didn’t stop the drone hackers at Brain Farm from taking it airborne. Known for capturing impossible…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This Is The Most Beautiful TARDIS Toy Ever Made

The TARDIS isn’t hard to get right as a toy. After all, it’s just a big blue police box. But there’s a difference between getting it right, and doing Doctor Who’s iconic time ship justice — and Big Chief’s 1:6 scale replica definitely does the TARDIS justice. Based on the Tenth Doctor’s TARDIS, the nearly…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Pizza is the most popular emoji on Venmo

Venmo is a great way to ditch your wallet or buy drugs with your smartphone. Part of the fun is the simple fact that the app’s social networking features allows you to publicly shame your friends spending habits with emoji. The most popular emoji used on Venmo, by the way, is pizza—by a landslide. There’s…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Somehow This Figure Looks More Like Mr. Bean Than Rowan Atkinson Does

It’s hard not to like a character who can express vast amounts of emotion and feeling without ever muttering a single word. But for those who are truly obsessed with Mr. Bean, Enterbay has created a fully posable miniature version of the character complete with a flawless head sculpt that’s a dead ringer for Rowan…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Your Keyboard Could Tell If You Have Parkinson’s

An everyday technology is becoming the central figure in how scientists understand and diagnose Parkinson’s—the keyboard. Researchers at MIT are working on a method that would create keyboards that could actually tell whether you have this unfortunately common neuron impairment. It’s all mechanical—no apps or special software required. All the information is hidden in the…

Tech News Darren Orf

A New Robot Provided These Unprecedented Views Beneath Antarctica

The paintings of Star Wars matte painter Frank Ordaz

Google Maps Software Now Lets Your Explore Depths of the Human Body

The $400,000 F-35 Pilot Helmet Can See Through the Pilot’s Aircraft

Short film: A strange hole in the ground that duplicates organic life

Censorship Order That Threatened Websites and Message Boards Overturned

NASA Has Some Scary Images Of Super Typhoon Maysak

This San Francisco sunset makes it look like the apocalypse is here

This Space Invaders Typing Challenge Is Driving Me Insane

Of Course Japan Has An Island Where Cats Outnumber People

What It’s Like to Work For Putin’s Internet Troll Army

A Dude Made Fake VHS Covers for New Shows And They’re So Good

Would You Hack Your Body For a Superpower?

After 150,000 Years in a Cave, a Neanderthal Skull Looks Like This

Fun stop-motion animation brings nail art alive and into real life

The Most Technically Advanced Drone Footage Ever Looks Pretty Stunning

This Is The Most Beautiful TARDIS Toy Ever Made

Pizza is the most popular emoji on Venmo

Somehow This Figure Looks More Like Mr. Bean Than Rowan Atkinson Does

Your Keyboard Could Tell If You Have Parkinson’s

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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