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Crazy pilot scoops objects off the ground with his airplane’s wing tip

Watch Cesar Falistocco of the Escuadrilla Argentina aerial acrobatic team prove he is an ace with this display of control—he swoops in low and picks up a pair of flags lying flat on the ground with just a wing tip. Incredible flying. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid James Baker

Chicago’s New Lamp Posts Will Track Pollution and Count People

The walls—or lamp posts, at least—have ears. Chicago is rolling out some new street furniture, and it will be able to measure air quality, monitor noise and even count pedestrians. The Chicago Tribune explains that the “curled metal fixtures” will appear on Michigan Avenue lamp posts as soon as July, and will measure air quality,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Neutrality Begins at Home: How Mayors Could Help Save the Internet

This weekend at the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting in Dallas, some mayors will take a strong stand in support of net neutrality. According to an op-ed by Mayors Ed Lee of San Francisco and Ed Murray of Seattle, the city leaders are unveiling a resolution calling on the FCC to preserve an open…

Tech News April Glaser & Corynne Mcsherry - EFF

Silicon Valley Giants Just Handed Out $15M in Prizes to Mathematicians

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which is funded by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and investor Yuri Milner, just doled out five $3 million awards to cutting edge math projects (which you almost certainly won’t understand). The Breakthrough Prizes—there have been two previously, for life science and fundamental physics—are designed to raise awareness of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watch This Guided Tour of Stockholm’s Beautiful Subway

Alexander Dragunov is an architectural photographer, but his real passion is capturing images of subways. In this video, he gives a guided tour of his favorite metro system in Stockholm—and reveals that it is indeed stunningly beautiful. The St Petersburg-born photographer shot this video with the BBC to explain why he thinks Stockholm’s is ‘the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

These are the coolest amateur rockets I’ve ever seen

Bamboo rockets are really cool. They are wheels with a central rod full of solid fuel and nozzles that spin into the sky until they stop and fall back to Earth on a parachute. Or explode. It’s a big thing in Thailand—so big that they celebrate festivals to watch them fly and broadcast them on…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Spectacular photos of the US Navy’s most powerful battleship ever

This is the USS Iowa, the first of the largest, most powerful battleship class ever in the United States Navy, equipped with nine 16-inch (406mm) guns that could fire nuclear shells—the only American ship in history with this capability. This photo series is old but still stunning. Those nine guns firing simultaneously is a terrible…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Watching Gordon Ramsay Be an Arrogant Prick Is Delightful

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares would easily beat The Wolf Of Wall Street in a number-of-cusses-every-60-seconds contest. You get a generous serving of “bollocks”, a side of “arse”, and a dash of genitalia-related terms through the course of the show. This is an old gem that I discovered on Netflix last week and I’ve been pretty hooked…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Jesper Kyd: Earth

Someone has to say it: Assassin’s Creed II, like its predecessor, was an average game. Once you got over the lush visuals, the missions became a chore, the running around became tedious, and the actual assassinations became routine when you realized that you didn’t actually need to be stealthy to carry them out — you…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

The National Weather Service Will Use Airplanes As Weather Balloons

Here’s how weather forecasts in the United States work: The National Weather Service attaches devices that measure pressure, temperature and humidity to weather balloons that are launched, twice a day, from 69 locations in the US. This is the way it has been since, well, the 1930s. Now, the Weather Service is finally getting better…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Why Twitter GIFs Aren’t Actually GIFs

Twitter GIF are VIFs. They’re regular MP4 files that basically play in a loop. Why does Twitter convert your GIFs to MP4? Turns out it’s all about size and control. Sean Creeley of Embedly has a great explanation on his blog, in which he compares the file sizes of a GIF and an MP4 file.…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Star Wars Now Has a Slick Guardians of the Galaxy-Style Trailer

And now for something awesome. Just in time for the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie coming out in August, YouTuber The Unusual Suspect has released a GotG-style trailer… for Star Wars! It’s amazing how well it works, and in a roundabout way makes me even more excited for Guardians of the Galaxy. Enjoy! [Twitter]

Tech News Pranav Dixit

A Map That Shows Which States Are Xbox One and Which Are PS4

The XBOX One is beating the PS4 — at least on Facebook, if not in sales numbers. A map published by the Movoto Blog takes a look at the popularity of current-gen consoles in every state in the United States based on the number of Facebook likes. The results are surprising: The XBOX One was…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Are You Using Facebook’s Slingshot?

Slingshot is Facebook’s second attempt at trying to jump onto the ephemeral messaging bandwagon. It’s basically a mashup of the disastrous Poke and Snapchat but with a twist – to unlock a message you’ve received, you need to send one back. If you’ve tried it, you’ll know that at best, this is a chore. At…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

More than Half of Heartbleed-Vulnerable Servers Are Still Exposed

Over 300,000 servers out of the 600,000 that were vulnerable to Heartbleed are still unpatched two months after the nasty vulnerability in OpenSSL was discovered by a Google engineer. The numbers were announced by security researcher Robert David Graham who found that although half of the 600,00 servers were patched a month after Heartbleed was…

Tech News Pranav Dixit

Designing a Deca-millennium Warning System

Symbols change meaning over time, so how do you set up a warning system to warn people off of living near nuclear waste repositories for 10,000 years or more? A radio show on design, 99% Invisible, tackles the problem, outlining the limitations and proposed solutions. The whole history of ideas is fascinating, but one of…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Famous characters look more badass with cool beards on them

Vanja Mrgan has imagined what different famous characters would look like with beards. From Robocop to He-Man to Batman to Wario to Popeye to Porky Pig to Boba Fett to Snoo—Reddit’s alien mascot—they all look quite cool. Some even better than the real thing (like Popeye, Wario, and even Batman!) Vanja Mrgan is a brilliant…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: God’s Crazy Monsters

Hey kids, let’s go down to the museum where you can see how back in ancient times people used to ride around on dinosaurs! It’ll be fun and educational! In case you missed it, here’s all the big comedy stuff that happened this week: Playing House and Louie both aired their season finales. We reviewed…

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Jake Doesn’t Handle Being Rich Well On This Week’s Adventure Time

I’m not sure why I haven’t been leading every recap with the wonderful episode art each week, but we’ll just pretend I always have been. Anyway, “Furniture & Meat” was a pretty solid episode despite not having much to do with this season’s story. It does, however, finally address that boatload of gold Finn and…

Tech News Jason Krell

Watching desperate polar bears searching for ice is truly heartbreaking

This beautiful video shows something terrible: How polar bears now have to swim for incredibly long distanceslooking for ice to hunt their prey without being seen. Many of them drown. Some get back to land and die later, exhausted and starved. All thanks to the collapse of the northern ice sheets. According to NOAA, NASA,…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Crazy pilot scoops objects off the ground with his airplane’s wing tip

Chicago’s New Lamp Posts Will Track Pollution and Count People

Neutrality Begins at Home: How Mayors Could Help Save the Internet

Silicon Valley Giants Just Handed Out $15M in Prizes to Mathematicians

Watch This Guided Tour of Stockholm’s Beautiful Subway

These are the coolest amateur rockets I’ve ever seen

Spectacular photos of the US Navy’s most powerful battleship ever

Watching Gordon Ramsay Be an Arrogant Prick Is Delightful

Jesper Kyd: Earth

The National Weather Service Will Use Airplanes As Weather Balloons

Why Twitter GIFs Aren’t Actually GIFs

Star Wars Now Has a Slick Guardians of the Galaxy-Style Trailer

A Map That Shows Which States Are Xbox One and Which Are PS4

Are You Using Facebook’s Slingshot?

More than Half of Heartbleed-Vulnerable Servers Are Still Exposed

Designing a Deca-millennium Warning System

Famous characters look more badass with cool beards on them

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: God’s Crazy Monsters

Jake Doesn’t Handle Being Rich Well On This Week’s Adventure Time

Watching desperate polar bears searching for ice is truly heartbreaking

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