Five years ago, Jennifer Storrar and Troy Reddington buried a time capsule together on a remote campsite in South River, Ontario. This summer they went to dig it up, but the jar that had been filled with memories now just contained a mysterious card. Storrar was confused until she opened it up. The note read, “Will you marry me?”
Source: Gizmodo – Man Proposes To Girlfriend With Time Capsule They Buried Together Five Years Ago
Last night, Kanye West kicked off his Saint Pablo tour in Indianapolis with a crazy flying stage. Instead of a boring, normal, stationary stage—you know, the kind most artists jump and gyrate all over—Kanye decided to float above the audience on a suspended platform.
Source: Gizmodo – How the Hell Does Kanye’s Flying Stage Work?
Astronaut Scott Kelly returned from a year-long sojourn in space in June. His slightly older astronaut twin, Mark Kelly, stayed home as a control—part of NASA’s twin study to monitor the effects of space on the human body. But there’s a physical change that NASA might not be able to measure that easily. Mark is now even older (by about 5 milliseconds) than his space-faring twin, thanks to special relativity.
Source: io9 – Why Astronaut Mark Kelly Is Now Even Older Than His Twin Brother
Astronaut Scott Kelly returned from a year-long sojourn in space in June. His slightly older twin, Mark Kelly, stayed home as a control—part of NASA’s twin study to monitor the effects of space on the human body. But there’s a physical change that NASA might not be able to measure that easily. Mark is now even older (by about 5 milliseconds) than his space-faring twin, thanks to special relativity.
Source: Gizmodo – Why Mark Kelly Is Now Older Than His Older Twin Brother
Thunderbolt Fantasy is an anime made out of glove puppets. A regular Kotaku reader told me that, and I was like, excuse me?
Source: Kotaku – A Puppet Show That Is Also An Anime
The start of both NFL and college football seasons are imminent and Fox Sports is giving viewers another option for streaming the action. The network announced today that its Fox Sports Go app is now available on the 4th-gen Apple TV. Yes, you’ll nee…
Source: Engadget – Watch Fox Sports Go on Apple TV, if you have cable
This is the official trailer for an upcoming Russian superhero movie titled Защитники (translation: Guardians). It features a team of four genetically modified superheroes fighting missile-launching robot spiders, modern Jawas, and a man who appears to be Bane’s brother or close cousin. The Guardians consist of a guy with an electric whip who also has the power to control rocks, a bear-man hybrid with a gatling gun, the tattooed invisible woman, and a guy who looks like a Mortal Kombat character with two blades that form a hula-hoop. Apparently this Bane character wants to build a laser the size of the Kremlin so he can blow some serious shit up. “I miss IWatchStuff.” Hey — me too.
Keep going for the trailer.
Source: Geekologie – Meanwhile In Russia: A Crazy Superhero Team Movie Trailer
We’ve all experienced email overload
, and some emails require a fair amount of time to write a reply. If you don’t have time to get to an email right away, at least tell the recipient when they can expect to hear back from you.
Source: LifeHacker – If You’re Too Busy to Send a Reply Now, Tell an Email Recipient When They Can Expect One
Finding a backpack designed to protect and carry all of your tech isn’t terribly hard these days. What sets the MOS Pack apart is that it can can also help keep all of your gear charged.
Source: Gizmodo – The Gadget-Charging MOS Pack Is My New Favorite Travel Companion
KDE Connect is the interesting project for integrating notifications and more from your phone or other mobile device onto the KDE desktop. With KDE Connect you can receive smartphone notifications on your computer as well as using your phone as a remote control to the desktop…
Source: Phoronix – KDE Connect 1.0 Released For Device/Phone Communication
After that fantastic teaser trailer
, we’ve been patiently waiting for something, anything, in the way of information for the upcoming live-action musical version of Disney’ Beauty and the Beast. We finally have it.
Source: io9 – Your First Look at Lumière and Cogsworth in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Remake
Dropbox is forcing a number of users to change their passwords after the cloud storage company found some account details linked to an old data breach. “The next time you visit dropbox.com, you may be asked to create a new password. We proactively initiated this password update prompt for Dropbox users who meet certain criteria,” the company writes on its website. Fortune reports: The popular cloud storage said the move was related to the theft of an old set of Dropbox credentials, dating back to 2012. So the users the company has contacted are those who created Dropbox accounts before mid-2012 and have not updated their passwords since that time. Dropbox disclosed in July 2012 that some users were getting spammed, and the cause appeared to be the theft of usernames and passwords from other websites. As is often the case, some people reuse their usernames and passwords across different web services. (If it still needs saying, you really shouldn’t reuse your passwords, ever.)
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Dropbox Is Urging Users To Reset Their Passwords
Spotify has been providing concert info for a while, but now those listings are getting a bit more detailed. Late last year, the company teamed up with Songkick to serve up a list of nearby concerts based on your listening habits. That same partnersh…
Source: Engadget – Spotify adds a full list of tour dates to artist pages
If you travel with a lot of expensive camera, video, or music gear, there’s a good chance you stuff it all in a Pelican case to ensure it arrives unscathed. The company is known for its nearly indestructible cases, and now that it’s made a cooler, you’ll never have to worry about something happening to your drinks.
Source: Gizmodo – Pelican Built an Indestructible Cooler In Case Your Beer Falls Off a Cliff
Fantasy board/card game Armello was one of my favorite games of 2015. While it remains just as fun to play now as it was then, it’s adding four new fantasy animals to play as in next week’s Usurpers Hero Pack. Watch me play as Sargon, the dirtiest rat ever.
Source: Kotaku – Playing With Armello’s Latest Rat Bastard
When the first season of Star Wars Rebels ended with the appearance of Darth Vader, the bar was immediately raised. Vader is the icon of Star Wars and bringing him onto the show for season two changed everything.
Source: io9 – Darth Vader Looms Large Over This Star Wars Rebels Concept Art
This week Google delivered Android Nougat to Nexus phones with new features as sweet as its name suggests. Actually nougat isn’t that sweet—but there are cool features. We also discussed money saving habits that aren’t worth the time, how to stream NFL games, why HDR TVs matter, and more.
Source: LifeHacker – This Week’s Most Popular Posts: August 19th to 26th
An anonymous reader writes: Girls given imitation babies to look after in an effort to deter teenage pregnancy could actually be more likely to get pregnant, according to a study. Researchers in Australia found 8% of girls who used the dolls were expecting by the age of 20, compared with 4% of those who did not. The number of girls having at least one abortion was also higher among girls given the dolls: 9% compared to 6%. ‘Baby Think It Over’ dolls were used in a Virtual Infant Parenting (VIP) programme which began in 57 schools in Western Australia in 2003. During the three-year study, published in The Lancet, 1267 girls aged 13 to 15 used the simulators — which need to be fed and changed, while 1567 learned the normal health curriculum. The idea originated in the United States and is used in 89 countries. Researchers from the Telethon Kids Institute in Western Australia are now warning that such programmes may be a waste of public money.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds
Today marks the release of the third development milestone release of the upcoming Phoronix Test Suite 6.6-Loppa version…
Source: Phoronix – Phoronix Test Suite 6.6 Milestone 3 Released For Linux Benchmarking
Stay with me here — scientists from Bar-Ilan University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel created nanobots, injected them into cockroaches, and released fluorescent drugs into the insects using mind power. While that sounds insanely convolu…
Source: Engadget – Mind-controlled nanobots release drugs inside cockroaches