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Holy crap, the new Star Wars Battlefront game looks incredibly realistic

Jun 10, 1:14AM

Holy crap, the new Star Wars Battlefront game looks incredibly realistic

Even while you can only see a few glimpses of the in-game engine of Star Wars Battlefront, the new game by Swedish studio DICE seems impossibly good. They say they are making the game that, as Star Wars fans, they always wanted to play. I think they may succeed.

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This colorful image disappears completely if you keep staring at it

Jun 10, 12:22AM

This colorful image disappears completely if you keep staring at it

It's always fun to play a trick on your eyes. They're so easily fooled! Take this illusion, for example. It's an old favorite. If you stare at the image long enough, the colors in the picture start fading away and eventually disappear. The colorful blobs shrink like evaporating water puddles

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Mike Mills Asks Kids of Silicon Valley Workers About the Future of Tech

Jun 10, 12:00AM

Mike Mills Asks Kids of Silicon Valley Workers About the Future of Tech

"Well, my mom works at Apple. And my dad? He, like, started his own company. But I think he like doesn't really want to do it anymore." That's one quote from a short film by Mike Mills where he talks to children of Silicon Valley employees about changes in technology and how it will affect society.

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Flying this Nazi glider from 1938 seems incredibly fun

Jun 09, 11:39PM

Flying this Nazi glider from 1938 seems incredibly fun

This dude is flying a Schulgleiter SG38 over Baden-Württemberg, in Germany, an extremely rare glider built in 1938 for the National Socialist Flyers Corps, a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. 10,000 of them were made, and many of the pilots who learn to fly on it became Luftwaffe pilots.

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Watch the Seattle Symphony Perform "Baby's Got Back" with Sir Mix-a-Lot

Jun 09, 11:00PM

So this is awkward. Last Friday, the Seattle Symphony teamed up with Sir Mix-a-Lot to perform his number one hit "Baby's Got Back." It's not so much the idea of rapping over an orchestra that's awkward, though. It's the dancing.

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Gawker Vegas Shooters' Facebook Warnings: "I Will Willingly Die For Liberty" | Jalopnik This Man Bui

Jun 09, 10:22PM

Gawker Vegas Shooters' Facebook Warnings: "I Will Willingly Die For Liberty" | Jalopnik This Man Built A $1.3 Million Lamborghini Speedboat With 2,700 HP | Jezebel Don't Worry, Mansplainer Is Here To Explain How Things Really Are | Kotaku The Internet Reacts To Microsoft's E3 Presentation | Kinja Popular Posts

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Illinois Bans the Microbeads in Soap That Are Ruining the Great Lakes

Jun 09, 10:10PM

Illinois Bans the Microbeads in Soap That Are Ruining the Great Lakes

Some years ago, soap companies began putting plastic exfoliating beads into body wash in hopes of greater profits and smoother skin. Since then, billions of plastic beads have polluted our waterways and poisoned fish. Illinois has become now the first state to take a stand against the beads.

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Why Tall Buildings Make Cities Hotter

Jun 09, 9:20PM

Why Tall Buildings Make Cities Hotter

The breezy dark corridors between a city's tallest buildings seem like shady respites from the blistering summer sun. But it turns out those shadowy urban canyons are actually making your city more hell-like. NASA released some images today shot from the International Space Station which help to illustrate why.

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Swap Your Boring Moleskine For This Tetromino-Edged Tetris Notebook

Jun 09, 9:00PM

Swap Your Boring Moleskine For This Tetromino-Edged Tetris Notebook

There's only one way to properly celebrate Tetris' recent 30th birthday , and it doesn't involve breaking out your original Game Boy. Instead, wherever possible, you should replace anything and everything you own with Tetris-themed alternatives, starting with swapping your Moleskine notebook for this tetromino-ic alternative.

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A Terrifying PSA Scares Moviegoers Into Never Texting and Driving Again

Jun 09, 8:52PM

Sometimes experience is the best way to learn, but when it comes to driver safety, it's not like you can have a deadly accident more than once. But you can come close, as Volkswagen demonstrated with this highly effective interactive PSA it revealed to unsuspecting moviegoers in Hong Kong.

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This Glistening Steel Armadillo Now Occupies Downtown Paris

Jun 09, 8:41PM

This Glistening Steel Armadillo Now Occupies Downtown Paris

Relax, it's not a real armadillo. The hulking silver structure that now fills the inside of a city block in Paris is the new home to the Pathé Foundation. But this glisteningk, sinuous roofline sure makes it seem as though the structure's architects, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, just dropped a huge creature in the middle of the City of Lights.

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14-Year-Old Kids "Hack" Into ATM Using Default Security Code

Jun 09, 8:20PM

14-Year-Old Kids

A couple of crafty 14-year-old kids from Winnipeg figured out how to get past the security on a a Bank of Montreal ATM. Crazy as it might sound, the "hack" didn't require any advanced computer hacking at all—these kids just looked up the ATM manual on the internet.

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Slingshot, Facebook's Snapchat-Like Competitor, Is Finally Here (Update: Patience!)

Jun 09, 7:56PM

Slingshot, Facebook's Snapchat-Like Competitor, Is Finally Here (Update: Patience!)

Adding to Facebook's ever increasing lineup of standalone apps, Slingshot is the social media giant's latest attempt to take on Snapchat. Hey—it can't be any worse than Poke .

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Developer: There's Code in iOS 8 for Split-Screen Multitasking

Jun 09, 7:50PM

Developer: There's Code in iOS 8 for Split-Screen Multitasking

An app developer says he's found code in iOS 8's SpringBoard, the hidden app that manages the homescreen, that offers the ability to run two apps side-by-side.

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Small Town Police Are Getting Leftover War Vehicles and Machine Guns

Jun 09, 7:40PM

Small Town Police Are Getting Leftover War Vehicles and Machine Guns

As America's wars wind down, the troops are coming home and so are the M-16 rifles. Armored cars, land mine detectors, silencers, aircraft, and other leftover military equipment are flowing to police departments big and small. Free stuff is tough to turn down, but does a small Wisconsin city that hasn't seen a homicide in 5 years really need a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP)?

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Out-of-control elevator crashes into building roof in terrible accident

Jun 09, 7:38PM

Out-of-control elevator crashes into building roof in terrible accident

Chilean newspaper Publimetro (in Spanish) reports on the terrible accident suffered by 30-year-old José Vergara: A malfunctioning elevator launched him across an entire building and into the roof, going through 34 stories in just 15 seconds. Reportedly, he suffered major fractures on his back and hips.

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Sony's A7s Could Be the New Champion of Low Light Cinematography

Jun 09, 7:24PM

4K has securely replaced 3D as the buzzword feature on new TVs, and as content producers scramble to churn out genuine ultra HD content, it looks like Sony's new A7s just might be their weapon of choice. It trades the 36.4 megapixels of the A7R for a 12.2 megapixel sensor optimized to shoot incredible low-light video in the darkest of conditions.

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A 3D Printing Pen That Uses UV Light Instead of Dangerous Heat

Jun 09, 7:20PM

A 3D Printing Pen That Uses UV Light Instead of Dangerous Heat

If you've ever used a hot glue gun for a craft project, you already know how tricky and messy they can be to work with. And this is partly why the handful of 3D printing pens already on the market aren't the easiest tools to use. So maybe the CreoPop pen, which instead uses UV light to cure a liquid resin, might be a better solution.

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Animated short shows epic match between soccer stars and cyborgs

Jun 09, 7:16PM

Animated short shows epic match between soccer stars and cyborgs

Nike has produced a cool new 3D animation short to promote the World Cup and the value teamwork and human creativity: What would happen if an evil organization tried to replace soccer players with cyborgs that never fail and the world's best stars had to fight back? An epic match, that's what.

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The Tallest Elevators On Earth Are Being Tested In an Old Mineshaft

Jun 09, 7:02PM

The Tallest Elevators On Earth Are Being Tested In an Old Mineshaft

Jeddah's Kingdom Tower will be taller than any other structure ever built. At more than one kilometer high, this supertall will require feats of engineering that, until now, have been the stuff of science fiction. Like the world's tallest, longest, and fastest elevators—which are being developed in a mine shaft in Finland.

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This Man Built A $1.3 Million Lamborghini Speedboat With 2,700 HP

Jun 09, 7:01PM

This Man Built A $1.3 Million Lamborghini Speedboat With 2,700 HP

Think you're committed to your car? You've got nothing on Miami restaurant mogul Gino Gargiulo, who loves his Lamborghini Aventador so much he commissioned a speedboat replica that's so outrageous it lives up to its namesake.

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No, A Paris Bridge Did Not Collapse Under the Weight of Its Love Locks

Jun 09, 6:30PM

No, A Paris Bridge Did Not Collapse Under the Weight of Its Love Locks

Reports that a Paris bridge "collapsed" due to the weight of thousands of padlocks placed by lovesick tourists have been wildly over-exaggerated. A bridge did not "collapse," Not even "partially ." In fact, there are people walking over the "collapsed" bridge right now.

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Why The Turing Test Is Bullshit

Jun 09, 6:05PM

Why The Turing Test Is Bullshit

As many reported yesterday, a chatbot has passed the Turing Test , though under some very convenient conditions. The announcement has led some to declare that the age of AI is finally here, but that's nonsense. Here's why the Turing Test is a very poor way of measuring machine intelligence.

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This Glass-Bottomed Hotel Room Lets You Sleep With the Fishes

Jun 09, 6:00PM

This Glass-Bottomed Hotel Room Lets You Sleep With the Fishes

Bali is a beautiful place, but one of the drawbacks of beautiful places is that it's hard to consume all of the beauty at once. That's why the Bambu Inda Hotel built a glass-bottomed hotel room on top of a fish-filled pond. It's supposed to create a "fishing village experience."

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Moscow's Replica of Times Square Looks Startlingly Realistic

Jun 09, 5:38PM

Moscow's Replica of Times Square Looks Startlingly Realistic

Russia might not be doing much business with the US government right now, but that doesn't mean it's not interested in the foremost symbol of consumerism in America. VEGAS Crocus City, a Moscow mall, has unveiled a surprisingly realistic model of Times Square. It even features the forever-swamped TKTS podium—now bereft of crowds.

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