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Team Fortress 2 Recreated With Nerf Guns Looks Like Too Much Fun
“Your friends are all dead” isn’t something anyone wants to hear. In this video, the cartoony world of Valve’s free-to-play team-based shooter is brought into the real world with the help of Nerf guns, slick choreography, and a little computer magic. VFX company CorridorDigital pits a hopelessly outmatched Red team against a hoard of Blues. … Continued
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Incredible Views of the Aurora Borealis from Space Makes the Earth Look Like an Alien Planet
We expect the Earth to always be this beautiful blue marble but at some angles and at some times, it glows differently. Like if you just looked at the glorious Aurora Borealis from space, the planet would have this eery alien green glow to it. This stunning footage from NASA of both the Aurora Borealis … Continued
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Your Star Wars Collection Isn’t Complete Without a Life-Size $8,500 Boba Fett Figure
So this is what collecting action figures has come to? Apparently some Star Wars aficionados aren’t content with 3.75 or even 12-inch figures in their collection. They demand something grander and even more elite, which is why a life-size Boba Fett action figure can now be had for just shy of $8,500. Standing over 78-inches … Continued
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Were the Two Major Quakes Last Weekend Related?
Japan and Ecuador were rocked by major earthquakes over the weekend, prompting speculation that the two seismic events were somehow related. Here’s why that’s extremely unlikely. On Saturday, April 16, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Kumamoto City in Japan’s Kyushu Region. Just hours later, a powerful 7.8 magnitude quake hit Ecuador, about 17 miles (27 … Continued
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No Living Room Is Complete Without a Star Trek Pinball Machine Coffee Table
Your mom always told you to keep your feet off the coffee table, but you’ll finally have good reason to listen to her advice with this wonderfully over-the-top Star Trek pinball machine sitting smack dab in the middle of your living room. It started life as a legit Star Trek pinball machine built and sold … Continued
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Watch Fearless Stuntman Do a Blind Backflip Over a Speeding Race Car
Besides a bit of YouTube fame, it’s hard to say why stuntman Damien Walters challenged himself to perform a daring backflip over a speeding Formula E race car—which he couldn’t actually see coming. It’s a stunt more impressive than anything you’ll see in a Hollywood movie because there are no wires, and no computer graphics. … Continued
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Guy Breaks the 5×5 Rubik’s Cube Record Without Breaking a Sweat
Feliks Zemdegs solved his 5×5 cube at Melbourne Cube Day in 44.837 seconds. And the crowd went not at all wild. The 5×5 Rubik’s cube—or Professor’s cube—has over 282 trevigintillion (10^72) permutations, and requires intimate knowledge of the solving algorithms for both the 3×3 and 4×4. Even the tutorial for solving one of these complicated … Continued
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Maybe Addiction Is More Like a Learning Disorder Than a Disease
When Saturday Night Live aired a skit this weekend riffing on America’s new heroin epidemic—a satirical fake ad for “Heroin A.M.” to help addicts remain productive while using—many people weren’t laughing. That’s because heroin and other powerful opiates are killing more people than ever, across all demographics. So much for the War on Drugs. Maybe … Continued
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You Might Throw Up After Taking the World’s First IMAX Spin Class
The one thing you can’t buy at Lululemon to help you with your fitness routine is motivation. But IMAX thinks it can get your butt off the sofa with a new cycling class that takes place in front of one its massive and immersive movie screens. The first IMAXShift spin class will be available in … Continued
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Boeing Wants to Make Weather Testing Planes Easier With 3D-Printed Fake Ice
Even on a hot summer day, the outside temperature at 30,000 feet can hit 50 below zero. Ice forming on a plane’s fuselage is inevitable, despite how dangerous it can be. So to help ensure planes can survive freezing temps, Boeing is developing fake plastic ice to make it easier to test its aircraft. In … Continued
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Watch the Titanic Sink in Real Time
It’s not exactly the best Monday morning pick-me-up, but if you were ever curious at just how inaccurate movies about the Titanic are, watch this animated simulation showing the infamous ocean liner sinking in real-time. You’ll just need to find a way to dodge work for two hours and forty minutes. The animation was created … Continued
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MIT’s AI Can Predict 85 Percent of Cyberattacks
Knowing a cyberattack’s going to occur before it actually happens is very useful—but it’s tricky to achieve in practice. Now MIT’s built an artificial intelligence system that can predict attacks 85 percent of the time. Cyberattack spotters work in two main ways. Some are AI that simply looks out for anomalies in internet traffic. They … Continued
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These Auroras Look Incredible Filmed From the Space Station in Ultra HD
Here’s something to start your week off right: NASA Television’s latest feature, a compilation of stunning vistas of both the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis, as viewed from the International Space Station and filmed in 4K Ultra-High Definition. I’ve seen many videos of the Northern and Southern lights filmed from the ISS, but these time-lapse … Continued
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New Wi-fi Chip Is Just as Fast With Half the Antennae
Usually removing hardware means removing functionality. But a team of researchers from Columbia University have created a new kind of wi-fi chip that uses just one antenna rather than two—and yet manages to be just as fast. The team, led by Professor Harish Krishnaswamy, has been working on the concept of what they call “circulators” … Continued
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Beverly Hills Has Decided to Build an On-Demand Autonomous Car Service
Beverly Hills City Council has voted—unanimously—to build up a fleet of autonomous cars that will be used to provide an on-demand transport service in the area. The Hollywood Reporter explains that the microcosm that is Beverley Hills wants to run a set of self-driving cars that would be used to provide public transportation. “Beverly Hills … Continued
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This Is Not a Sensible Way to Hitch a Ride
If you need to get somewhere inaccessible, a ride aboard a Sea Hawk helicopter is probably a good bet—but you’re probably better off getting inside. Just kidding: This is Naval Aircrewman Nicholas Farris, and he’s actually inspecting the tail rotor of the helicopter aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp, rather than trying to hitch … Continued
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DJI’s New Drone Is the Most Powerful It’s Ever Produced
Need to haul a heavy load through the sky? Then DJI may now have just the thing: It claims the new Matrice 600 drone is the most powerful professional drone it’s ever made. This is a drone built for serious work, like hauling very a expensive camera kit for movie-making and industrial inspection in absolute … Continued
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You Can Now Get a Monthly Subscription for Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime is one of the best deals on the internet, but the $99/year subscription price can be a little daunting. Amazon is rolling out new monthly subscription offers and breaking out Prime Video into its own subscription for the first time. Per the report, the new subscription offers will cost $11 a month for … Continued
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This Hacker’s Account of How He Infiltrated Hacking Team Says a Lot About Digital Security
You may remember that last year, a hacker exposed the inner workings of Hacking Team, a company that makes spyware for governments. Now that the dust has settled down, someone claiming to be the hacker has posted all the details on how he did it. The hack itself was executed using a common weakness: first, … Continued
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Donald Trump Responds to Gizmodo Report: ‘I’m One of Facebook’s Great Stars’
Gizmodo on Friday reported that some Facebook employees wanted to ask Mark Zuckerberg if the company should do anything to stop a Trump Presidency. The Don himself responded in an interview on Saturday, and he does not sound threatened in the slightest. In a wide-ranging interview on Fox and Friends, Trump claimed that he’s one … Continued
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