Using stock images and Johannes Vermeer’s 1664 painting The Concert as a base, photographer Erik Almas admirably recreated the lost masterpiece in Photoshop. Heck, it might be able to fool you into thinking it were the real thing… if you were standing and squinting from very far away. Still. It’s pretty neat to see Almas’ workflow and how creative he gets in trying to mimic the original. Read more…
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Recreating a 17th Century Painting in Photoshop Is Basically Magic
Normally a glitch is a bad thing. Maybe it means your video game character gets stuck in a wall or maybe a glitch gets you wrongfully arrested . For an Australian man named Luke Moore, a simple bank glitch meant that he was able to blow $1.3 million on cars, travel, strippers and drugs over the course of two years. Read more…
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Bank Glitch Allows Man to Spend Over $1 Million and Walk Away Free
Good news, everyone: Biologists have discovered a species of marine worm that, when still in its larval stage, is nothing more than an algae-gobbling, disembodied head. Read more…
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Horrifying Worm Larva Is Basically a Disembodied Head
Amtrak trains traveling the Northeast Corridor, servicing major cities like New York, Boston, and Washington DC, are getting a $2.45 billion federal upgrade. But it won’t get you anywhere any faster. Read more…
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America’s Railroads Are Too Busted for High Speed Trains
Remember your last flight when you told yourself that at least flying couldn’t get any worse? Well, it’s about to get worse. United Airlines will soon start charging some customers for the privilege to use the overhead bins . Read more…
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United Airlines Will Start Charging for Use of Overhead Bins
If you ask Josiah Zayner, the genetic engineering revolution will not come in the form of designer babies or mutant super crops , but in the form of a bottle of glowing beer. Read more…
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This Biohacker Wants to Spur a Genetic Engineering Revolution With Glowing Beer
The price of communal living at New York’s WeLive, the lavish space operated by co-working giant WeWork, is about to go up. Read more…
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Absurd ‘Co-Living Space’ WeLive Is Jacking Up Its Prices
In October and November, around 70 people left their laptops at a single airport security checkpoint at the Newark Airport. It’s not only the cheap stuff that’s gets abandoned—a fair amount of Macbooks are getting left behind as well. Read more…
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Lisa From TSA Wants You to Pick Up Your Laptop, Thanks
In case you thought we’d figured out life in the oceans even a little bit, a new study published in Nature Communications sets the record straight. For the first time, scientists have found experimental evidence of underwater pollination. There are bees in the sea—or at least creatures that perform the same kind of… Read more…
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We Just Found Out There Are ‘Bees’ in the Sea
We’ve all stolen things from work—pencils, pens, maybe a notebook—but this Foxconn employee went a little too far. According to AsiaOne , a former senior manager at the world’s largest electronics maker and assembler was charged with stealing and selling 5, 700 iPhones for a value of about $1.56 million. Read more…
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Foxconn Employee Steals 5,700 iPhones Before Getting Caught