Illustration: Elena Scotti Over 25 million users have flocked to Discord, a text and voice platform for gamers, since its launch in May of 2015. Despite the company raising at least 30 million in venture capital funding, the company has…
Sony’s bought a script about a game app that kills the players. Unfortunately, it has the truly atrocious name There is no way that name survives. Read more… Source: io9
At this point, are we even surprised that The Simpsons yet again predicted something accurately? The animated series predicted that the Star Wars franchise would continue. It also knew that at some point in American history, Donald Trump would be…
Flash…boom. It took just seconds for a bright green fireball — and apparent meteor — to streak across the dark sky over Wisconsin at about 1:31 am Monday morning. But thanks to the magic (and paranoia) of our digital age,…
Image: Dominic Walliman/YouTube Math is often considered synonymous with pain, boredom and frustration. It’s not uncommon to hear someone say, “ugh, it’s like doing math.” But math is beautiful in theory, miraculous when applied, and awe-inspiring at every turn. Even…
The Pastillon’s fake ad for a “Börder Wåll.” The Pastillon Assembling an Ikea bookshelf may be difficult, but designers from the satirical site The Pastillon have envisioned Ikea instructions for a project that looks truly back-breaking: Trump’s border wall. They created a tongue-in-cheek ad for a “Börder Wåll,”…
If your movie theater of choice is run by AMC, there’s no reason not to buy this $30 gift card for $25. That’s an extra $5 you can spend on popcorn, which might even get you a small in certain…
Justice League Dark tries to cram far too much into its relatively short 70-odd minute runtime—and because of it, not everything it does quite sticks the landing. What does, though, is remind us that Matt Ryan’s excellent John Constantine has…
Back in the day, before I was recording any of The School of Greatness episodes on video, I made a random video about the top 10 ways to make money online. Now this was two years ago, but the feedback was awesome — people…
Even the smallest defects can create serious problems. It’s a good thing, then, that researchers have found a way to map nanoparticles at an "unprecedented" level of detail — they’ve located the 3D positions of all 23,000 atoms in an…
