Microsoft is rolling out a big update to Outlook.com that includes an overhaul to the interface alongside integration with a bunch of services that add in additional features. Read more…
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Outlook Gets a Redesign, Adds In Tons of Third-Party Integration
Scientists have discovered eight new species of amblypygid—a special kind of arachnid with a pair of whip-like legs. This is a big deal. Amblypygids are not well-documented, which is a shame, considering we see them every evening in our nightmares. Read more…
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These Eight New Whip-Wielding Spiders Will Haunt Your Nightmares
Sea butterflies are snails that have inverted themselves. Instead of using their flesh (via a foot) to crawl on the sea floor, they turned upside down and make their protruding bodies into “wings.” When scientists studied this unusual motion, they found the sea butterflies move exactly like fruit flies and other small insects. Read more…
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A ‘Sea Butterfly’ Swims the Same Way Insects Fly
In case you’re ever in the position of wanting to get back at a lawyer, here’s some news from Florida: don’t get your revenge by posting a slanderous Yelp review, or you’ll be in the hole for $350, 000. Read more…
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Libelling a Lawyer in Yelp Reviews Turns Out to be a Bad Idea
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s initiative to build a long-endurance unmanned ship that will hunt and track the quietest submarines on Earth has come to fruition. The image above is the first glimpse ever of the potentially revolutionary Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel or ACTUV, also known as Sea Hunter. Read more…
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Exclusive: This Is The First Known Image Of DARPA’s Submarine-Hunting Drone Ship
Sony’s latest quirky product to emerge from its First Flight crowdfunding platform is this sleek universal remote. Called Huis—pronounce it “house”—the e-ink device is designed to be a fully customizable tool to control your entire home. Read more…
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We Hope Sony’s Sleek Universal E -Ink Remote Reaches the US
Lobsters like their foreplay. Read more…
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Lobsters Have the Craziest Sex You’ve Never Heard Of, and Yes, It Involves Urine
Looking for new book suggestions or just curious to see if you missed out on some classics in college? Open Syllabus Project can help you on both fronts. Read more…
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Open Syllabus Project Shows the Books Students Are Assigned Most in College
R. Hurt, Caltech/JPL. Since Albert Einstein first predicted their existence a century ago, physicists have been on the hunt for gravitational waves , ripples in the fabric of spacetime. That hunt is now over. Gravitational waves exist, and we’ve found them. Read more…
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Holy Shit! Scientists Have Confirmed the Existence of Gravitational Waves
The Star Wars expanded universe is huge. Really huge. Like, you just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly huge it really is. To grasp the full extent of this hugeness, a team of data scientists used a new computer program to analyze it, revealing some unexpected things about the extended saga. Read more…
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Computer Analysis Reveals the Stunning Complexity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe