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The New Apple TV Is The Beginning Of A Nifty Little Game Machine
The fourth generation Apple TV went on sale yesterday morning, finally giving Apple’s set-top box the ability to play video games. It’s no gaming revolution, but it’s off to a pretty good start. I’ve...
View ArticleHalo and XBox have long been synonymous: the former is credited with the...
Halo and XBox have long been synonymous: the former is credited with the blockbuster success of the latter. Now, with Xbox One struggling against competing devices, all eyes are Halo 5. Over on...
View Article97% Is A Short Romance Film For The Smartphone Age
In Ben Brand’s film 97%, Bert gets an alert on his mobile phone: someone with a 97% match on a dating app is within meters. He just needs to find her. What results is comedic, and a little...
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This Photo Tour Of The USAF's "Grim Reapers" F-15 Squadron Will Give You Shivers
Master photographer Rich Cooper recently embedded with the 493rd Fighter Squadron “Grim Reapers” based at RAF Lakenheath in England to capture day-to-day operations of the famed F-15C/D Eagle unit. The...
View ArticleThe Devil Turns Up His Charm In These Two New Teasers For Lucifer
Fox has released two new teasers for their upcoming show Lucifer, and show off Tom Ellis’s charm as the titular main character. They’re really playing up his charisma and the particular skills that he...
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The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Was Probably a Ghost
When the exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb was announced in Nature in 2012, it was hailed a watershed moment in the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. But as eerie as it sounds, it now...
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Here's How we Started Measuring the Oceans from Space
February 8, 1973: Biologist Ellen Weaver creates a sensor package to measure ocean temperature and detect chlorophyll levels. The sensors were loaded onto communications and weather satellites in...
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This Turning-The-Clocks-Back Nonsense Needs To Stop
Daylight saving time ends tomorrow, a fact which will cause many of us to groan as we think forward to the Monday evening commute home in utter darkness. While many have argued that daylight saving...
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Crossed Genres Magazine To Close In December
Crossed Genres, one of the best speculative, short fiction magazines out there, has announced that they will be shutting down after their December issue, citing a mix of health and financial issues....
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Crypto is For Everyone—and American History Proves It
Over the last year, law enforcement officials around the world have been pressing hard on the notion that without a magical “backdoor” to access the content of any and all encrypted communications by...
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These Gorgeous Fiery Clouds Show Off the Wonders of Fluid Dynamics
They look like the wrath of Hades and Poseidon combined, but these beautiful, fiery clouds, captured by Breckenridge Resort in Colorado, have a simple physical explanation, and it’s rooted in fluid...
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The Earth Today, Seen from Space
It’s only fitting that the camera dedicated to sending home a steady stream of photos of what our planet looks like right now wears the name EPIC. Living in the future is awesome.The Earth...
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A plane landing in the snow and doing donuts is the funnest thing
An untouched snow-covered plot of land? Let’s get a plane to land on it and then immediately do donuts for a few rounds and then take off again! That’s obviously the first thing that comes to mind,...
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Open Channel: Your NaNoWriMo Tips
Today is November, which means that it’s the start of National Novel Writing Month (aka, NaNoWriMo). It’s a writing sprint that encourages people to get writing. The goal is to show that writing a...
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Halloween Is Way Creepier In Zero Gravity
Most ghost costumes are half-assed at best: no matter how good your mask and bedsheet might be, ghosts are meant to float. So if you’re really committed to a good costume, you should take it into zero...
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Lightless Is A Fascinating Thriller Set Far Out In The Solar System
Set in the edges of the Solar System, a pair of thieves board an experimental military spacecraft and are promptly captured, but not before setting into motion an intense plot in one of the best hard...
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Check Out These New Images From Duncan Jones' Warcraft
We’ve been starving for a new glimpse of Duncan Jones’ upcoming movie Warcraft, and this weekend, three new pictures of the fantasy epic have appeared, thanks to Empire Magazine. The pictures show off...
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The First Trailer For Preacher is Here And It's Intense
For years, fans probably never believed we’d get to see a live-action adaptation of the incredible comic series Preacher. But now, finally, you can watch the first trailer from the show, which will...
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Vanessa Helsing TV Series Coming to Syfy. Get It? Get IT?!
You probably get it. Syfy announced the new series, set for fall 2016, which is basically Buffy the Vampire Slayer-meets-I Am Legend. Here’s the official description, courtesy of THR:In this new...
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Why Is Ireland's Giant's Causeway Shaped Like That?
Visitors to the coast of Northern Ireland have always marveled at the so-called Giant’s Causeway — a field of some 40,000 interlocking basalt columns arranged in a tidy hexagonal pattern. German...
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