Thor: Ragnarok adds another cast member. Daniel Radcliffe wants to die on Game of Thrones. The Jumanji movie casts its kids. Mark Wahlberg teases a new kind of robot for Transformers: The Last Knight. Plus, introductions for Class, and new footage from The Flash. Spoilers Now! Thor: Ragnarok Sam Neill told Short List he will … Continued
Earlier this year Roku announced a single new product, an excellent $50 stick that was, for the most part, the only set-top box the average person would ever need. Now Roku is back with five new boxes meant to fill every possible user niche—from the person that still has a tube TV from 1995 to … Continued
You can’t complain about Facebook News Feed serving you up stuff you’re not interested in if you haven’t taken the time to customize all of the options and tweaks available. There are more than you might think. From prioritizing the friends you like the most to controlling the sponsored links you see, here’s how to … Continued
Here’s a good reason to be happy about finding yourself perched on an office chair behind a desk on a Monday morning. You can safely watch Ryan Paul Robinson attempt to slackline over surf-pounded rocks to the 105-feet tall Moai Tower in Tasmania with a coffee in one hand and a danish in the other. … Continued
The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is tonight at 9pm ET, 6pm PT. And while every broadcast network will be airing the debate commercial-free, cordcutters might be wondering how to watch without a traditional TV connection. Well, we’ve got you covered. Thankfully, cordcutters have a vast array of options to watch … Continued
In a self-described “master plan” released earlier this year, probable hologram Elon Musk declared the future is solar, but this weekend, teen mystic Jaden Smith suggested the Tesla founder ignored a far more obvious answer: Water, the kind we drink and occasionally promote on social media. On Sunday, Smith tweeted a photo of his Tesla … Continued
Or was it Twitter itself? Salesforce? Google? Neoliberalism? A16Z? An act of god? Marc Andreessen—billionaire Netscape founder, famed venture capitalist—will forever be a Twitter legend, even though he took a leave of absence from the troubled social network late Saturday night. Never afraid to shy away from controversy, Andreessen shared his very Silicon Valley views … Continued
In a bid to keep its identity secret, an anonymous pharmacy filed a motion Friday night arguing that selling the lethal agents used in 16 executions was protected political speech, “no different than signing a referendum petition or selling a t-shirt.” As first reported by BuzzFeed, a subpoena by death row inmates in Mississippi is … Continued
This is why the traffic report really needs to take monster attacks into account. Concept art by Nacho Yagüe. This is actually just an unfinished doodle (not a completed illustration) from Yagüe, who works as a professional concept artist at Ubisoft Toronto. You may be familiar with some of his work from Splinter Cell, Assassin’s … Continued
In the dystopian world of Dust, evolution occurs at a breakneck rate, forming organisms that may hold miraculous powers or trigger deadly plagues. While most of humanity lives in walled cities, it’s the job of trackers to record the changes, and look for ways to cure the sicknesses. We spoke with Dust director Mike Grier … Continued
These beautiful photographs of fast food were taken by Brea Souders using a radiometric thermal camera. They demonstrate that all matter with a temperature greater than absolute zero emits electromagnetic waves—no microwave oven required. And that Day-Glo Warholish quality is more than appropriate for junk food. The work was commissioned by VSCO. The company made … Continued
We’ve seen a lot of webcomics loosely inspired by fairy tales, but Megan Kearney does something a little different with her Beauty and the Beast. She goes back to the classic tellings of the story, and gives both leads richer and stranger backstories. Kearney starts with a familiar story: Beauty’s family was once wealthy, but … Continued
Lynda Barry is truly a treasure of cartooning. In just four panels, she delivers a poignant piece on how audiences interact with art, even if they’re not sure what they’re supposed to be feeling. If you haven’t read any of Barry’s comics, I can’t recommend her Marlys comics and One Hundred Demons highly enough. Plus, … Continued
Animation in the Soviet Union was often a glorious thing to behold: experimental, surreal, and eclectic, even amidst government censorship. In fact, just one home-grown animated film didn’t make it past the censors: Andrei Khrzhanovsky’s 1968 satire The Glass Harmonica. Open Culture pointed us toward this particular film and explains the context in which it … Continued
The circle of life is gross. It’s even grosser when you throw in a cockroach, larvae and some violently ravenous fire ants. This 18-minute video would seem to be for the true ant farming aficionado. That’s a lot of time to dedicate to the insane process of thousands of ants eating a live cockroach. It’s … Continued
Mary Cagle’s latest webcomic, Sleepless Domain, is set in a city that’s invaded by monsters every night, and protected by Magical Girls. But one group, Team Alchemical, is having some interpersonal issues, which can get dangerous during those nightly battles. It quickly becomes clear that Sleepless Domain, against Cagle’s cute Magical Girl art, is a … Continued
The field of psychology is currently in the midst of a kind of civil war, with one side claiming a widespread reproducibility crisis, and the other just as loudly proclaiming that concerns are greatly exaggerated. There’s certainly evidence for the former. Last year, a University of Virginia initiative called the Reproducibility Project repeated 100 experiments … Continued
Libertarian nominee for president Gary Johnson got a lot of heat recently for comments he made in 2011 about not having to worry about climate change because the sun was eventually going to destroy Earth anyway. So Johnson went on ABC’s This Week today to tell everyone to lighten up and explain his real solution … Continued
Do you remember that Will Smith movie where he got the big high-powered Wall Street job by solving a Rubik’s Cube in front of the company’s CEO? With a little deception, that could be you, by using this Rubik’s Cube-solving application. Cubr is a project that Carnegie Mellon student Chris Barker put together for his … Continued
