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Hands On: Sony’s New Morpheus Is The Best VR Headset Yet

I just survived a shark attack. I just stole a priceless diamond in an upscale London heist. I did it with Sony’s new Project Morpheus headset. It’s the best I’ve ever tried. I’ve used a lot of VR headsets. Each one’s a tiny bit better than the last. The picture’s always a little clearer, the…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Valve’s First Steam Machine Is $50 and It’s Coming This Fall

Been waiting for an officially endorsed Steam Machine? Well, here it is, sort of—the Valve Steam Link. It’s a tiny, $50 micro-PC that seems to do absolutely nothing but pipe PC games in over a local network via Steam-in-home-streaming. Want a Steam Controller? You can get that too, but it’ll cost you an extra $50.…

Tech News Sean Buckley

Drone footage soaring through Angkor Wat shows off the beautiful ruins

Angkor Wat is one of those unbelievable places in the world where you can’t really fathom the history of the ruins around you. I thought it—and all of Northern Cambodia—looked fantastic from the ground but this drone footage shows me that the view is—as it always is—better from the top. The drone footage is stunning.…

Sploid Casey Chan

How To Prepare Your Motorcycle For Adventure

Ready to take your big, heavy motorcycle off-road? Not so fast! Even a simple, low-speed crash is capably of damaging it irrevocably. Luckily, there’s an abundance of effective crash protection available in the aftermarket. Here’s the parts you need and how to fit them. Adventure riding is a fantastic way to be on two wheels.…

Tech News Curtis Visser

Filming Atomic Blasts Requires This Massive, Complicated Camera

There’s a truly monstrous camera at the “Churchill’s Scientists” exhibition at London’s Science Museum right now. The C4 Rotating Mirror High Speed Camera was developed at the end of World War II to study explosive reactions. Later, in the 50s, the camera was upgraded the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) in order to study the…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Nokia N1 Hands-On: Pretty Great for a $250 iPad Mini Clone

Nokia is not dead (yet?), but their phones are. The company’s latest attempt to be popular again is the Nokia N1, an new Android tablet announced a few months back. The good news is Nokia delivered a very good tablet at a very competitive price. The bad news? We still don’t know if it’s coming…

Tech News Carlos Rebato

Sony’s Project Morpheus Headset Will Go On Sale In 2016

At Mobile World Congress this weekend, HTC and Valve threw down the virtual reality gauntlet; their VR is shipping this year. Now, it looks like Sony is following as fast as it can. It’s shipping its Project Morpheus and bring the PS4 into VR-land in the first half of 2016. Sony announced the news at…

Tech News Eric Limer

What Was Your First Smartphone?

Smartphones were once a boutique item, but now they’re essential. Still, we all remember a time before smartphones — at least, the time before we got our first one. How old were you when you got your first, and what year was it? While younger generations likely received their first smartphone as part of a…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Quadriplegic woman flies F-35 with nothing but her thoughts

Arati Prabhakar—director of the Pentagon’s advanced research arm DARPA—has revealed a breakthrough achievement in machine mind control. Jan Scheuermann, a 55-year-old quadriplegic woman with electrodes in her brain, has been able to fly an F-35 fighter jet using “nothing but her thoughts.” This is her: Scheuermann—who is quadriplegic because of an hereditary genetic disease—was recruited…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Skeleton Robot Walks and Swims Exactly Like a Salamander

Pleurobot looks like a salamander skeleton come to life and that’s no coincidence. The robot was engineered to slink around exactly like a salamander. And we mean exactly. When researchers at Switzerland’s EPFL set out to build Pleurobot, they spent hours looking at 3D X-ray videos of a salamanders walking, swimming, and walking underwater. The…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

A Massive Lake Beneath Greenland’s Glaciers Has Collapsed

Under Greenland’s frozen surface is a vast network of channels, crevasses, and basins—its “glacial plumbing system.” A few years ago, the water suddenly disappeared from a subglacial lake, which then collapsed into a funny silhouette that NASA likens to a “mitten,” but I think looks more like a waving Yeti. The subglacial lake, a pool…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Organizing Your Gmail Contacts Is About to Get So Much Better

Organizing your contacts in Gmail historically atrocious. And now, thanks in part to the demise of Google+, it’s about to become way better. How? Basically, Google is taking some of the better features of Google+ and blending them with the some of the better features of Gmail Contacts. The new Google Contacts—the search giant stops…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

4 Apps to Get All of Your Contacts in One Place

If you’ve got a well-organized contacts book, our hats are tipped in your direction. Keeping track of hundreds of people across dozens of sites and services is no easy task, and it seems strange that no one’s quite cracked the formula for getting all this information sorted out. Here are four apps taking on the…

Gadgets David Nield

I Heard the Future of Sound Technology While Björk Weirded In My Ear

First launched as a Kickstarter back in 2013, Dysonic’sRondoMotion’s 3D head-tracking technology is now being used to power trippy acoustic effects in Björk’s MoMA retrospective. It’s true 3D listening in your earbuds. That and also Björk. The retrospective, which opens on March 7th in New York, contains a 40 minute “Songlines” tour through Björk’s musical…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Your Most Crushing Stories About Smashing Your Phones

Nothing feels dumber than smashing your phone out of sheer carelessness and stupidity. No one knows this better than me. A few weeks ago we asked you to sharehow you destroyed your expensive pocket computer. Here are the very finest stories: It’s not your phone’s fault, OK? A few years ago I chucked my phone…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

FBI Admits Its Secret Spy Tool Screws Up Bystanders’ Cell Service

The FBI wants to keep stealthy phone surveillance tools called Stingrays as secret as possible, for obvious reasons (to use them whenever they want with as little oversight as possible, growing tipsy on the intoxicating liquor of unfettered power). And now another reason for secrecy just came out: Using Stingrays can disrupt regular peoples’ cell…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

The gorilla who punched that photographer wasn’t drunk

Remember the photo of a “drunk” gorilla that went viral a couple of weeks back? The one that punched a photographer and gave the internet an opportunity to make endless jokes about the gorilla uprising? Turns out, the gorilla wasn’t actually drunk. At least if you believe “scientists” who “know stuff” about “biology.” Smithsonian magazine…

Tech News Matt Novak

Found: A Legendary Lost Civilization Buried In the Honduran Rainforest

The City of the Monkey God. La Ciudad Blanca, or The White City. All the names given to the lost city rumored to exist in a pristine Honduran rainforest sound mythical, but National Geographic reports that now we have evidence that the legendary city was real. This week, an expedition returned from a remote—and still…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

What Would Happen to NYC If a Nuke Exploded Over Manhattan

No question, an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated over midtown Manhattan would destroy the city. But the warhead’s sheer poweris hard to fully grasp: roads so hot it’s impossible to drive for days, superheated hurricane-force winds, and 100 square miles of fire. Over at theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists, three researchers describe the full devastation wreaked…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

The Decaying Body Of Friday The 13th‘s Jason Lies Inside This Table

Or at least, a replica of it does. What better way to scare the living bejesus out of guests than to have them put their drinks down on a coffee table with the body of Jason peering back out at them? The table is made by Australian company Slaughter FX, and goes the whole nine…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Hands On: Sony’s New Morpheus Is The Best VR Headset Yet

Valve’s First Steam Machine Is $50 and It’s Coming This Fall

Drone footage soaring through Angkor Wat shows off the beautiful ruins

How To Prepare Your Motorcycle For Adventure

Filming Atomic Blasts Requires This Massive, Complicated Camera

Nokia N1 Hands-On: Pretty Great for a $250 iPad Mini Clone

Sony’s Project Morpheus Headset Will Go On Sale In 2016

What Was Your First Smartphone?

Quadriplegic woman flies F-35 with nothing but her thoughts

This Skeleton Robot Walks and Swims Exactly Like a Salamander

A Massive Lake Beneath Greenland’s Glaciers Has Collapsed

Organizing Your Gmail Contacts Is About to Get So Much Better

4 Apps to Get All of Your Contacts in One Place

I Heard the Future of Sound Technology While Björk Weirded In My Ear

Your Most Crushing Stories About Smashing Your Phones

FBI Admits Its Secret Spy Tool Screws Up Bystanders’ Cell Service

The gorilla who punched that photographer wasn’t drunk

Found: A Legendary Lost Civilization Buried In the Honduran Rainforest

What Would Happen to NYC If a Nuke Exploded Over Manhattan

The Decaying Body Of Friday The 13th‘s Jason Lies Inside This Table

UGREEN Bluetooth Tracker 4-Pack Now Just $7 Each With iOS and Android Support, While AirTag Stays at Full Price

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

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