Sploid: Where awesome, wild, and breathtaking tech moments burst into view.
You don’t need to kill yourself in the gym to stop gaining weight. Here’s the easiest and most obvious way to burn more calories through the day. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-burn-more-calories-through-the-day-without-even-1283047777
After an spectacular match—and recovering from a knee injury that was supposed to take him out of the competition forever—Rafael Nadal has won the the U.S. Open in New York against Novak Djokovic. An incredible comeback. https://deadspin.com/heres-that-insane-54-shot-rally-in-the-djokovic-nadal-1280482243
Tokyo got the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, and they are readying these beautiful space age remakes for their old 1964 olympic stadiums. It’s easy to imagine drones and robots floating around these fantastic structures. https://gizmodo.com/tokyos-clever-plan-to-retrofit-1964-olympic-stadia-for-1277311713
Like computers, videogame consoles are slowly dying. They may not entirely disappear, but this data shows a clear trend towards their extinction, replaced by phones and tablets. Is it Game Over for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft? https://kotaku.com/yikes-sales-chart-predicts-gaming-doom-for-sony-and-ni-1279441081
Critics say it will be impossible to play the 2022 World Cup in Qatar’s scorching summer heat. Sepp Blatter—president of FIFA, the gang of crooks that controls international soccer—now says that it may have been a mistake. However, he’s still giving the most idiotic excuses for his ridiculous decision. https://deadspin.com/french-magazine-reports-that-qatar-bribed-its-way-to-th-5980241 https://deadspin.com/blatter-admits-qatar-world-cup-may-be-a-mistake-throws-1278603296
Watch this mind-blowing demonstration of 3-Sweep, a new technology that can extract objects out of any photograph with the move of a mouse. In fact, it even allows to move around objects in any image. It looks impossible, but it was demonstrated at Siggraph Asia, one of the largest conferences in image science. https://gizmodo.com/this-impossible-software-can-make-3d-models-from-a-sing-1277902245
Check out the very first 2014 cars and concepts at the Frankfurt Motor Show, covered live from Germany by Jalopnik. https://jalopnik.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2013-frankfurt-mo-1277831095
Fiverr is an online marketplace in which people provide small jobs for just five bucks. Lifehacker investigated how it can really solve a lot of life’s little annoying chores and problems. Here’s a selection of five. https://lifehacker.com/five-annoying-life-problems-you-can-solve-for-5-with-f-1260424144
Humans have created the ultimate portable computer with a screen, a keyboard and a pointing device. It doesn’t get much better than a MacBook Air or a Lenovo Yoga 2. They will get faster, lighter and last longer on one battery charge, but this is it. Too bad it’s too late: the laptop is dying,…
The most powerful fashion magazine editor in the planet expelled this crappy demon singer from her December cover because she found her dance “distasteful.” https://jezebel.com/anna-wintour-kills-miley-cyrus-vogue-cover-after-twerki-1277111311
Talking to Charlie Rose, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fired a not-so-veiled threat if the United States attacks Syria. Citing terrorist groups that he ‘can’t control,’ he said that “you should expect everything. Not necessarily from the government.” Of course, he denied the authorship of the chemical attacks. http://gawker.com/syrian-president-chats-with-charlie-rose-denies-everyt-1274899648
Graphene aerogel. Titanium foam. Aluminum bubble wrap. Artificial spider silk. Molecular superglue. These recently invented five of the materials not only sound cool—they will change the world. Here’s how. https://gizmodo.com/5-of-the-craziest-new-man-made-materials-893364032
The PS4—Sony’s new next-generation console—is huge. The PS Vita TV—Sony’s other new console announced today—is really tiny. It plays video on demand, streams video from your phone or tablet, and plays video games. It’s basically an Apple TV with a joystick. https://kotaku.com/introducing-ps-vita-tv-1276599936
While the United States discusses about the political convenience of bombing President Assad’s military, some of the two million Syrian refugees are begging Obama to attack at once. According to Spanish newspaper El País, that’s the opinion of many of the 144,000 Syrian exiles surviving at Zaatari, a refugee city made of tents in Jordan.…
Dim sums are one of the most delicious bites known to humankind. There are infinite variations, but these mouthwatering guide will tell you what to expect from your dim sum no matter what you order. I want them all right now. https://lifehacker.com/navigate-dim-sum-like-a-pro-with-this-video-guide-1260786169
“The NSA is attacking our secure communications on many fronts and we must oppose them using every method we have at our disposal,” says Dan Auerbach and Eva Galperin form the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Here’s how. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-fight-back-in-the-nsas-war-on-encryption-1270158751
These are Jessica Walsh—an insufferable woman who “enjoys running around the city pretending to be Amelie”—and Tim Goodman—an insufferable man who is a total dick. 40 days ago these two unabashed attention whores decided to force themselves to date as an experiment—which actually was even worse than you can imagine. https://jezebel.com/40-days-of-dating-and-one-big-asshole-1264875873
Rather than feeling embarrassed, the architect of the “Walkie Talkie” skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch street, London, seems completely flippant and amused by his car- and human-melting building. Check out this quote from an interview with The Guardian: “When it was spotted on a second design iteration, we judged the temperature was going to be about…
Yesterday, a 19-year-old kid died when a remote helicopter partially decapitated him at Calbert Vaux Park, Brooklyn. It seems like a really terrible way to die, but it could have been worse—like literally dying from pain while having your testicles squeezed really hard. What’s the worst death you can imagine? https://gizmodo.com/can-you-die-if-someone-squeezes-your-testicles-hard-eno-5905682
All the virtual sex apps were unrealistic awkward crap on a computer screen until. Watch this guy using an Oculus Rift—a low cost virtual reality headset that really makes people think they’re somewhere else—to play with ultra-realistic 3D naked bodies. https://kotaku.com/watch-a-guy-stare-at-realistic-naked-bodies-thanks-vi-1264530400
