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T-600 Is a Fantastic Backpack for Exterminating Mankind

Jun 30, 1:00AM

T-600 is neither your average puppet nor your average backpack, but this quick little clip from Stan Winston Schools shows that he's pretty impressive for both. Who said puppets had to be cute? [Stan Winston School]

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C-3P0 Is the Best Worst Rapper

Jun 30, 12:00AM

If there was a list of people (and robots) that should avoid rapping—and maybe there ought to be—C-3P0 would be sitting pretty far up towards the top. Fluent in six million forms of communication and not an ounce of flow.

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Portland's New Streetlights Are Psychedelic, Carnivorous Plants

Jun 29, 11:01PM

Portland's New Streetlights Are Psychedelic, Carnivorous Plants

If you've seen one streetlight, you've pretty much seen them all. They're important, sure, but they're usually not much to look at. The lamps that popped up across Portland are a little bit different. A little more like giant, carnivorous plants.

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Drool Over this Chart of All the Glorious Superpowers You'll Never Have

Jun 29, 10:00PM

Drool Over this Chart of All the Glorious Superpowers You'll Never Have

I don't have any superpowers. Neither do you. But we can both salivate with envy at all the marvelous flavors of superpowers we could have, if they were real. And to aid us in that noble pursuit, Pop Chart has put out their Giant-Size Omnibus of Superpowers, a (fairly) comprehensive menu of powers and their associated owners.

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Beware: Those Instagrams of Fruit Want to Hijack Your Account

Jun 29, 8:06PM

Beware: Those Instagrams of Fruit Want to Hijack Your Account

Heads up: Instagram is weathering a bit of a spam attack right now, and as you may have noticed, it's drowning in fruit. This rather large wave of juicy spam seems to be pushing some sort of "miracle fruit diet" and it could mess up your account if you fall for it.

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What's Your Pick for a Google Reader Replacement?

Jun 29, 7:00PM

What's Your Pick for a Google Reader Replacement?

The day we RSS fans have been dreading for months is almost here. On Monday, Google Reader dies. Forever. There's no going back. Everybody's been hawking their replacements, and we've brought you a little sampling, but now it's decision time. Who you goin' with?

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What iOS 7 Says About the Next iPhone, All Things Windows 8.1, and More

Jun 29, 6:00PM

What iOS 7 Says About the Next iPhone, All Things Windows 8.1, and More

This week, we finally got a look at what the next version of Windows 8 has to offer, up to and including that long-awaited smart button. And on top of all that, we've got a slew of hidden passageways, a look into the iFuture through the iLens of iOS 7, some Google Reader alternatives for your coming RSS-panic, and more.

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All the Hidden Chemicals That Are Lurking In Your Coffee

Jun 29, 5:00PM

Caffeine. For most of us, that's the only chemical compound in coffee that's worth a damn. But that's far from the only thing that's hiding in that simmering cup of black (or light brownish) glory that you suck down every morning. Cockroach pheromones? Rotting meat-smell? Check and check. Drink up! [Wired via Neatorama]

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A Mobius Strip Track Makes Magnet Hovercrafts Even Cooler

Jun 29, 4:12PM

Superconducting magnets are freakin' awesome. You should know this already. But the folks at the Royal Institution took it a step further with their futuristic upside-down, Möbius strip track that's fit for a racing game set in 21xx. Hopefully this is what the Hot Wheels of the future are like. Err, "Hot Superconducting Magnets," I guess.

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Want Vine on your Kindle Fire?

Jun 29, 3:55PM

Want Vine on your Kindle Fire? Well now you can have it. Enjoy!

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How To Take Care of Your Smartphone Battery the Right Way

Jun 29, 3:00PM

How To Take Care of Your Smartphone Battery the Right Way

Your smartphone is a minor miracle, a pocket-sized computer that can fulfill almost every whim. But none of its superpowers matter a bit if it runs out of juice. With removable batteries becoming more and more rare, you've got to take good care of the one you got. Fortunately, it's not to hard keep the lithium-ion powering your everything machine happy if you follow a few simple rules.

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It's Almost Worth Breaking Your Arm for this Crazy 3D-Printed Cast

Jun 29, 2:13PM

It's Almost Worth Breaking Your Arm for this Crazy 3D-Printed Cast

Plaster casts are bulky, obnoxious, heavy, inevitably sweaty, occasionally pink. In short, they are no fun. But this 3D-printed "Cortex" cast could change all that. Sure, it looks a little like a fishnet stocking, but have you seen a old-fashioned cast lately?

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Cross-Section Bullets Are Beautiful for Something That Could Kill You

Jun 29, 1:17PM

Cross-Section Bullets Are Beautiful for Something That Could Kill You

When it isn't being fired at or around you, ammunition can be kind of beautiful. We've already seen the striking beauty of exploding bullets trapped in plexiglass, but photographer Sabine Pearlman found a different, but equally awesome bullet-photography approach: cutting them in half.

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These Heartbreaking Ads Show How Useless Facebook Likes Can Be

Jun 29, 5:00AM

These Heartbreaking Ads Show How Useless Facebook Likes Can Be

We toss around likes as if they were high fives on the Internet. As affirmation of people doing the right thing. As oh hey look cool. As being silly and ironic. As the digital form of support. As a hug. As a fist bump. But what do those thumbs up actually do? Boosts someone's ego? Spreads your online seed? In reality, nothing.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: All Circles (NSFW)

Jun 29, 4:00AM

Jeez, sink a spear into one alegorical elephant-man's chest cavity and the whole of human history is doomed to strife and pestillence. Great aim cro-moron.

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You Can Use Digg Reader Now

Jun 29, 3:40AM

You Can Use Digg Reader Now

Just in time! On the weekend before Google Reader is set to mercilessly kill itself off, Digg Reader has opened its arms to everyone. After being in beta, Digg Reader is ready for public release. It's a simple process. Just head here. Link up your Google account and Digg Reader will show everything you had in Google Reader. And then read, I guess. [Digg]

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The Beautiful Visualization of Relationships in Your Favorite Movies

Jun 29, 3:31AM

The Beautiful Visualization of Relationships in Your Favorite Movies

Movies exist in their own world, with their own rules, with the characters having their own relationships. And though we may know every one of those characters, they might not all be connected together. These visualizations show how characters connect with each other in a beautiful constellation. You can almost gauge a movie by how its characters connect.

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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Reggie Makes Music with Aziz Ansari

Jun 29, 2:18AM

This Week's Top Comedy Video: Reggie Makes Music with Aziz Ansari

Combining the genius of Reggie Watts with the ridiculousness of Aziz Ansari can only mean good things. How good? A sweet serenade about eating sandwiches, tolerant veganism, muenster cheese and female attraction. Yeah, I know. I sing about those four exact things every day too.

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Apple Is Finally Going to Ditch Samsung's Chips

Jun 29, 12:54AM

Apple Is Finally Going to Ditch Samsung's Chips

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has finally signed a deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to make its guts for future iPhones and iPads. Specifically, TSMC will start mass-producing 20 nanometer chips for Apple in 2014, paving way for longer battery life in Samsung-less iPhones and iPads.

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A Lot of Cameras Are Going to Change in the Tiniest Way Possible

Jun 29, 12:34AM

A Lot of Cameras Are Going to Change in the Tiniest Way Possible

If you use a Sony or Fujifilm camera or Nokia phone or anything like that, you may notice a slight difference in future editions of your favorite camera and phones. The iconic Carl Zeiss imprint on the camera lens will now be just ZEISS. I guess they were growing tired of non photogs asking who the heck is Carl Zeiss?

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Young Imbeciles Destroy Largest Lego Helicopter Ever

Jun 28, 11:31PM

Young Imbeciles Destroy Largest Lego Helicopter Ever

Yesterday a group of idiotic teens destroyed the largest Lego helicopter in the world, the 100,000-piece Erickson Air-Crane. Built by Ryan McNaught over the course of six weeks, the pieces alone are valued at $25,000.

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Most Beautiful Items: June 22 - June 28, 2013

Jun 28, 11:00PM

Most Beautiful Items: June 22 - June 28, 2013
From churches to iOS glitch art, we found a wide variety of beautiful items on the internet this week. Sure, you're on the cusp of the weekend, but before you go, take a second to binge on some of the wonders of the worlds of art architecture, and design from the last few days.

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Pixies - Bagboy

Jun 28, 11:00PM

Just two weeks after their long-time (albeit intermittently involved) bassist Kim Deal left the band, the Pixies are back! And for the first time in nearly a decade, they're debuting a new song: Bagboy.

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Corkscrew Lasers Are About to Revolutionize Internet Bandwidth

Jun 28, 10:26PM

Corkscrew Lasers Are About to Revolutionize Internet Bandwidth

We transmit almost a thousand petabytes of data over the 'nets every month—an amount that's growing exponentially, thanks to your narcissistic obsession with Snapchat. In fact, we're quickly closing in on the limits of how much data optical fiber can transmit. Luckily, scientists at Boston University recently unveiled what could be the next generation of bandwidth tech.

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iPhone Apps of the Week: Visual 2.0, Foresee, and More

Jun 28, 10:00PM

iPhone Apps of the Week: Visual 2.0, Foresee, and More

Welcome to the weekend, friends. Need to give your bike a tuneup? Start preparing yourself for your upcoming bereavement of Google Reader? What about getting some outdoor activity? Or maybe you're just looking to cower under your tinfoil hat and mull over the PRISM scandal for a while? Well lucky you, we have just the thing.

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