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The first official Chinese Army war simulator promotes real world war scenarios against Japan, with the Chinese soldiers soldiers screaming “The devils are here, kill them all!” What’s worse: they will automatically fire at point-blank range against any Japanese bodies on the ground, emptying their ammo clips. https://kotaku.com/chinas-first-person-military-shooter-has-a-terrible-me-1026025398
Watch these incredible clips for a taste of the Matrix-style 360-degree replays coming to NFL Sunday Football starting this September. They were taken with a similar technology now installed at Yankee Stadium. It’s really going to be incredible. https://gizmodo.com/baseballs-downtime-will-be-less-painful-with-360-degre-1021413637
After weeks of anxious fan speculation, the secret has been revealed: the actor who will play the 12th Doctor Who in the cult sci-fi British TV series is Peter Capaldi. io9 readers point out that, ironically, Capaldi played a World Health Organization doctor in Brad Pitt’s World War Z. https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-new-doctor-who-time-lord-peter-capaldi-1020872836
Deadspin readers say this ridiculously funny skit—starring Saturday Night Live comedian Jason Sudeikis as an American football coach sent to manage an European football team—should get made into a full movie starring him and Will Ferrell. They’re right. https://deadspin.com/what-might-happen-if-a-football-coach-coached-soccer-1012841849
Imagine being trapped in a plane with six toilets and 26 passengers suffering constant explosive diarrhea and violent vomiting for 13 hours. Imagine it and shiver. That’s what happened in this Qantas flight from Santiago de Chile to Sydney, Australia. https://jalopnik.com/qantas-flight-to-australia-becomes-poop-plane-from-hell-1011607008
President Obama has vetoed a ban on Apple products after losing a patent battle to Samsung. Is this a favor between old friends? Apple has long been a Democrat Party and Obama supporter. Apple’s founder Steve Jobs personally helped Obama in his 2012 re-election campaign, while Bill Clinton reportedly sought Jobs advice on the Monica…
Talking at the Black Hat computer security conference, researcher Kyle Wilhoit has demonstrated how Chinese Army hackers attacked and infiltrated 13 critical facilities in American soil. Luckily, the high security facilities were decoys, honeypots set up to catch them. The fake facilities’ computer systems, however, were exactly like the ones used in similar facilities, like…
No matter where they are from, the living have always been fascinated by ancient mummies. All their old mysteries, all those tales of curses and powerful myths have been unraveled and explained one by one, each thanks to one of these modern technologies. Here’s how scientists did it.
Here’s a fun way to distract yourself till the weekend starts in a few hours: listen to this cover of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines (the original is above, in case you don’t know it) performed by himself, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots.
Ride Apart‘s Wes Siler argues that the $59,000 Mission RS electric bike has “a superior performance motorcycle to any yet made. Period.” Maybe that’s true, maybe not, but it should be the best ever because it sounds like an Imperial TIE Fighter. Listen. It’s the same noise as the Mission R above, says Wes. Both…
Fascist Russia is actively oppressing gay people and systematically ignoring human rights in general. So, instead of just demanding that gay athletes and tourists are not persecuted, why don’t we just cancel the Winter Olympics altogether? Short answer: because the International Olympic Commitee is a bunch of corrupt fat cats who want to keep sucking…
His wife, Karen Elson, has filed a restraining order against him, claiming he’s harassing her and throwing violent tantrums because she went to the wedding of a rival musician who—he says—”ripped off” his music.
Can you possibly imagine what could have made this 18-wheeler truck fly over a highway overpass and then explode in pink flames? I’d say the Hulk or the A-Team.
Jump in and peek into every single window of every single building in sight on this awesome zoomable panorama of Tokyo, the largest photo ever taken of the Japanese capital.
Kotaku’s Richard Eisenbeis says that “at times [he] literally forgot [he] was really sitting in my living room” while playing with the Oculus Rift—a new virtual reality gaming eyeglasses system—for five hours straight. He really means it. His description of the surreal experience is incredible. When Alyx jumped into my arms at the start of…
Gizmodo’s Kyle Wagner argues that this is the saddest Craigslist ad of the week. It’s pretty hilarious too, in the darkest possible way. https://gizmodo.com/yep-thats-the-saddest-craigslist-ad-of-the-week-993836024
Women continue to behave in ways that horrify parents, journalists, men and especially other women. The latest comes from Princeton, an elitist university, where female students are lining up to join the grossest frat-bro social club of all. How gross? Penis air guitar competition is the standard dinner show. https://jezebel.com/college-party-girls-are-too-busy-slutting-it-up-to-need-990270412
World War III never happened—we still have time!—but that doesn’t mean our (lizard?) leaders aren’t ready for it. This is how Queen Elizabeth II planned to comfort her obliterated country after the missile storm. https://gizmodo.com/what-queen-elizabeth-iis-speech-would-have-been-if-wwii-990920023
The Koch Brothers made their money the old fashioned way: They were born rich, raped every corner of the Earth, hauled away the natural resources that supposedly belong to everyone, and then dumped the waste on cities like Detroit—which was having a bad enough year without this Kochian toxic black death cloud. https://jalopnik.com/watch-a-massive-petroleum-coke-cloud-blanket-the-detroi-992400340
Russia, a fascist state that’s armed with enough nuclear weapons to easily kill everyone on Earth, is also a country that legally and officially hates homosexuals and anything that could be considered (by a bigot) to be pro-gay. At next year’s Winter Olympics, visitors and foreign athletes will be subject to the same outrageous anti-gay…
