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The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist

With Apple Watch quickly approaching its April release month, app developers are giving us a better sense of the wearable’s capabilities than the designers at Cupertino. For instance, we know how the watch will work with your car or draw up a to do list. Now its health merits are getting some attention. With help…

Tech News Darren Orf

This is how the dragons of Game of Thrones are made

Pixomondois one of the digital imaging companies working on Game of Thrones’stunning visual effects. Among other things, they are responsible for bringing Khaleesi’s terrifying dragons to life. Here’s how they do it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

How Do I Look in These Genes? The Science of DNA Dating

That sensation you feel when you meet someone you like—that visceral pull towards another human being—there’s biology behind that. And if there’s biology behind that, it can be measured, and controlled for, and used to help determine if two people will be attracted to each other before they ever even meet in person. That’s the…

Tech News Brendan O'Connor

Guy Totally Crashes Drone While Teaching Drone Safety on TV

It doesn’t take much to turn a drone from a gliding wonder-thing into a scourge of the sky—anyone’s dumb dad can get ahold of one and wreak havoc. Such is the lesson viewers of this

Tech News Michael Hession

Out of Thermal Paste for Your PC? Just Use Nutella

If you’ve ever gone elbow-deep inside your computer to do some tweaking, you know all about the joys(?) of meticulously applying thermal paste or grease. Even if you’re a pro at applying the goop, there’s a trick that you probably don’t know about: You canjust use Nutella instead. Seriously. As CoolMaster demonstrates in this video…

Tech News Eric Limer

Ditch Your Shoulder Bag For This Felted R2-D2 Carry-all

Say goodbye to your current backpack, purse, or messenger bag because once you lay eyes on this amazing R2-D2 carry-all nothing else will ever satisfy your carrying needs again. Hand-made by the talented folks behind Krukrustudio, this Artoo is entirely made of felt and can be purchased on Etsy for $185. Compared to other designer…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

KickassTorrents Domain Seized, Site Back Up at Its Old Home

The ongoing legal drama of the world’s huge torrent trackers has just taken another turn. TorrentFreak reports that KickassTorrents, one of the most popular torrent trackers that had most recently taken up residence at Kickass.so, is down after an apparent domain seizure. The .so registry has banned Kickass’s domain, according to the domain’s Whois listing.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Clean Out All Your Old Text Messages on iOS and Android

Those long-winded SMS/iMessage/Hangouts conversations filled with emoticons and pictures and GIFs aren’t doing the storage space on your smartphone any favors. And the clutter in your messaging app isn’t too much fun either. Fortunately, you can get your iOS or Android-powered mobile to erase older messages automatically. Here are the settings to use if you…

Gadgets David Nield

DSCOVR Launch And SpaceX Barge Landing Attempt Delayed Until Tuesday

The launch of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) and second SpaceX barge landing attempt scrubbed yesterday have been delayed until tomorrow due to unfriendly weather. Along with launching a new NOAA satellite to monitor incoming cornal mass ejections and solar storms, the launch will mark SpaceX’s second attempt at soft-landing the Falcon 9 booster…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Shopping for a Camera at This Amazing Store Is Way Better Than Ebay

If you’re into analog photography, most of the time the only way to shop is online. It is exceedingly rare to come across a physical store with a hearty stock of film cameras you can hold and touch. One such oasis is the Denton Camera Exchange in the fair city of Denton, Texas. The above…

Tech News Michael Hession

Welcome to the Robot-Staffed Resort of the Future

BitStream is like a Vulcan mind meld of tech news and rumors you may have missed over the weekend. Give it a read—it is only logical. Enjoy your stay in the Uncanny Valley Welcome to the Henn-na Hotel in the Nagasaki prefecture of Japan. Aside from its overly luxiourious exterior, this resort is no different…

Tech News Darren Orf

The Man Behind Iconic Video Game Music Finally Made a Chiptunes Record

Keiji Yamagishi isn’t a household name but if you were playing video games say, 25 years ago, you know the sound of his erratic musical madness. He’s the composer behind the music in classic games like Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo Bowl, and Captain Tsubasa. Now he’s finally released a record of his own. Retro-Active Pt.1 is…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Highly Reflective Clothing Turns Paparazzi’s Camera Flashes Against Them

Even if you’re not a celebrity, some of us just don’t like having our picture taken and spread around social media. Until now, assaulting the person behind the camera was the only way to make it stop, but Betabrand’s new Flashback clothing turns the photographer’s gear against them by reflecting the light from a flash…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski

Sentinel’s Stylish Hulkbuster Toy Is Way Sleeker Than Age Of Ultron‘s

Sentinel have long been known for their slick ‘Re:Edit’ Iron Man toys, but at Wonder Festival this weekend they lifted the lid on even more toys based on the Marvel legend – including a sleek, gorgeous Hulkbuster fit to rival Age of Ultron’s brilliant rendition. Sentinel’s Re:Edit line has produced some lovely figures, but their…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Tokyo looks naked without its iconic street ads

French graphic designer Nicolas Damiens made this cool series of animated black and white GIFs showing the difference between a Tokyo with and without its iconic street ads, logos, or banners. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Ukrainian Wildfires May Bring Chernobyl’s Radiation Back to Life

The legacy of the world’s worst nuclear accident lives on—and it might be causing new problems, according to researchers from the Norwegian Institute for Air Research. The 1986 nuclear plant explosion saw the 4800 square kilometres of land surrounding it evacuated and abandoned. The exclusion zone has been taken over by a dense boreal forest…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Neat video shows the evolution of Batman movies over the last 70 years

Editor Jacob T. Swinney put together this cool video showing the evolution of Batman from the 1943 serial to Nolan’s blockbusters. Many things have changed: The suit, the vehicles, or even the psychological approach to the character. But others, like people’s interest on this superhero, remain exactly the same. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

This Video Chat Software Runs in Terminal, Renders Your Face in ASCII

If you find Skype a little too… polished, then why not use your computer’s abilities in a rather more retro way? p2pvc is a point-to-point color video chat system, only it runs in terminal and renders the images in ASCII. Free to download and use on GitHub, the sofware isn’t perhaps for the code-shy, as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Leaked Data From 30,000 Swiss Bank Accounts Reveals Mass Tax Avoidance

A slew of 30,000 leaked Swiss HSBC bank account details—what the Guardian callsthe “biggest banking leak in history”—lays bare the practices of the organization and its customers. And it doesn’t look pretty. The leaked files, which you can explore online, reveal the use of Swiss bank accounts by actors, footballers,politicians, business owners and more to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How the Cardboard Box Was Invented

The cardboard box goes largely unappreciated. Yet, it is indispensable to our daily living. It holds all of our knick-knacks and personal mementos when we move or have things shipped. It holds our breakfast cereal. It has been used for countless children’s art projects; fashioned into a robot head or a horse’s body. Heck, it…

Tech News Matt Blitz - TodayIFoundOut.com

The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist

This is how the dragons of Game of Thrones are made

How Do I Look in These Genes? The Science of DNA Dating

Guy Totally Crashes Drone While Teaching Drone Safety on TV

Out of Thermal Paste for Your PC? Just Use Nutella

Ditch Your Shoulder Bag For This Felted R2-D2 Carry-all

KickassTorrents Domain Seized, Site Back Up at Its Old Home

Clean Out All Your Old Text Messages on iOS and Android

DSCOVR Launch And SpaceX Barge Landing Attempt Delayed Until Tuesday

Shopping for a Camera at This Amazing Store Is Way Better Than Ebay

Welcome to the Robot-Staffed Resort of the Future

The Man Behind Iconic Video Game Music Finally Made a Chiptunes Record

Highly Reflective Clothing Turns Paparazzi’s Camera Flashes Against Them

Sentinel’s Stylish Hulkbuster Toy Is Way Sleeker Than Age Of Ultron‘s

Tokyo looks naked without its iconic street ads

Ukrainian Wildfires May Bring Chernobyl’s Radiation Back to Life

Neat video shows the evolution of Batman movies over the last 70 years

This Video Chat Software Runs in Terminal, Renders Your Face in ASCII

Leaked Data From 30,000 Swiss Bank Accounts Reveals Mass Tax Avoidance

How the Cardboard Box Was Invented

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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