Netflix has released the first trailer for Dreamworks Trollhunters , a children’s animated series directed by the same guy whose idea of a fairy tale includes rebel torture and child murder. It’s Guillermo del Toro… for kids! Read more…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters Looks Really Damn Fun
The British pound suffered a “flash crash” earlier this morning in which it plummeted six percent against the US dollar within a matter of minutes. All signs point to high frequency stock trading as the culprit—and possibly a single algorithm. Read more…
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‘Rogue’ Algorithm Blamed for Historic Crash of the British Pound
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the company’s experiments with social virtual reality experiences that allow you to chat with your friends using avatars in headsets like Oculus’s Rift. It was really weird. The demo app allows you to chat with avatars of your friends, travel to places like Mars or Facebook’s Headquarters, and take virtual reality selfies to share to Facebook. Read more…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Absurd ‘Social VR’ Demo Was Brutal
An NSA contractor was arrested in secret by the FBI and investigated for possibly stealing secrets, the New York Times reported . Read more…
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NSA Contractor Arrested in Probe of Stolen ‘Source Code’: Report
If you watched the “Made by Google” event yesterday—or read our roundup —you’d be forgiven if you missed that there was a brand new version of Android. Google itself hardly seemed to notice . Here’s what we know about it. Read more…
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Android 7.1 Brings Night Light, Seamless Updates, Fingerprint Gestures, and Daydream VR
Google has sold more than 30 million Chromecasts for the simple reason that it’s a super easy, super cheap way to get the stuff you’re watching on your computer on to your TV. Now it’s getting an upgrade for the TVs of tomorrow. Read more…
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Google’s New 4K Chromecast Ultra Is Way Fast
We tend to think of coral reefs as luminous, undersea jungles that pepper the shallow, scuba-friendly tropics. But deeper down, in a region about as bright as Pluto on a sunny day , there lie vast reef ecosystems unknown to science. Read more…
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Exotic ‘Twilight Zone’ Reef Is Brimming With Unique Forms of Life
Jack Sparrow is a no-show in the first trailer for P irates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales , but he casts a large shadow. Read more…
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Death is Coming in the First Trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
If you come across a symbol you’ve never seen before, or you want to look up the unicode for a certain symbol, it may be a small challenge to search for it if you’re not entirely sure of its name. Mausr lets you draw the symbol instead, then identifies it based on your drawing. Read more…
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Mausr Helps You Identify Unknown Symbols
There’s really nothing like playing a Nintendo 64 game with one of the classic controllers. The problem is that classic N64 controllers don’t hook up to phones, tablet, or laptops, which makes playing console emulators a real pain. Now, there’s finally some sweet relief for retro gaming fans. Read more…
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This Bluetooth N64 Controller Is Every 90s Kid’s Dream