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The best and worst of the internet's uninspired Hodor jokes

Kaitlyn Tiffany May 25, 2016 01:59 pm7 hours ago 24

On Sunday night, beloved Game of Thrones character Hodor valiantly sacrificed his life for two of his friends (because one of them was mind-controlling him and the other was repeatedly yelling at him to kill himself). Ever since, the internet has belonged to loving Hodor tributes.

Also, some...

True Detective might be dying, but its memes can live forever

Jamieson Cox May 25, 2016 01:14 pm8 hours ago 19

The Hollywood Reporter published a profile of HBO's incoming head of programming Casey Bloys this morning, one that suggests Nic Pizzolatto's anthology series True Detective is unlikely to return for a third season. The writing's been on the wall regarding the show's fate for a few months at this...

Bentley, Zoolander pose, or Danielle Steel novel?

Chris Ziegler May 25, 2016 10:25 am10 hours ago 3

I was browsing the online configurator for Bentley's range-topping Mulsanne model this morning, and I stumbled upon the most delightful feature: the British luxury automaker names the suggested color combinations for each of its models and sub-models, and the names are fantastic. Molten Bronze....

Shia LaBeouf is using Twitter to hitchhike across the country

Lizzie Plaugic May 25, 2016 10:07 am11 hours ago 12

Aspiring artist and Gemini Shia LaBeouf has quite literally taken to the streets in his most recent attempt to prove himself as a performance artist. His new project, #TakeMeAnywhere, asks people to pick up LaBeouf and his two collaborators, Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner, on the side of the...

Queen's Brian May is making a VR viewer to speed the demise of reality

Adi Robertson May 25, 2016 09:24 am11 hours ago 1

At this point, you could probably write a boilerplate celebrity response to virtual reality, and Queen guitarist Brian May would be delivering the latest version of it:

This is what 100 Tinder screenshots look like in a single image

James Vincent May 25, 2016 03:40 am17 hours ago 3

There really are a surprising number of humans in the world, and a lot of them live near you. Sometimes you forget, but Tinder offers a helpful reminder. There's nothing like swiping through dozens of profiles, taking in new face after new face, to remember how much sheer humanity there is...

'What's Overwatch?' he asked me, with oldness in his eyes

Paul Miller May 24, 2016 06:09 pm05.24.2016 56

Today, Nilay Patel, a man who I used to respect as a colleague and an editor, turned to me and asked, "What's Overwatch?"

Now here I am, literally dying to go home and play Overwatch, trying to think of any plausible excuse to leave work early, and the very man who writes my paychecks has no...

On the free Kindle excerpt of the novelization of the film based on the app called Angry Birds

Kaitlyn Tiffany May 24, 2016 05:24 pm05.24.2016

The feature film The Angry Birds Movie is not art. It is bizarre anti-immigration propaganda, in which a peaceful Park Slope-esque society of green-juice-swilling, yoga-doing, procreating birds faces near destruction because of its extremely naïve willingness to trust and accommodate foreign...

Netflix engineers made a VR 'video store' for the company's latest Hack Day

Jamieson Cox May 24, 2016 03:17 pm05.24.2016 2

When Netflix's designers and engineers get together for their biannual Hack Day, they usually manage to turn out at least one invention the streaming service's subscribers wouldn't mind taking for a public spin. They've created test interfaces for development versions of the Oculus Rift; they've p...

This Star Wars drone dogfight would be nothing without the right sound design

Kwame Opam May 24, 2016 02:15 pm05.24.2016 6

YouTubers CorridorDigital and Rotor Riot teamed up to make this incredible drone dogfight starring a Rebel X-Wing and three Tie Fighters. In their four-minute video, the two teams make an aerial battle that comes close to being as exciting and intense as anything that the official films produced...

Robot queen Simone Giertz on inventions, the internet, and not winning a Darwin Award

Dami Lee May 24, 2016 12:05 pm05.24.2016 13

Simone Giertz is a 25-year old inventor from Stockholm, Sweden, best known for charming the internet with her "shitty robots," as she calls them. Except they're not shitty at all, because they've fulfilled their purpose in delighting anyone with a pair of eyes and a heart full of childlike...

The Bachelorette, illustrated: first impressions

Dami Lee May 24, 2016 10:51 am05.24.2016 11

Let's get one thing out of the way: The Bachelorette is a mindless reality television series built upon a ridiculous premise of a bunch of conventionally attractive people competing for love. It is also quality television and I love every trainwreck second of it. And as is the case when you love...

What are graphics cards, and why do you want one?

Sam Byford May 24, 2016 10:28 am05.24.2016 20

Graphics cards! So hot right now. Whether it's the slow realization that jumping on board with the 2016 VR revolution requires a tricked-out gaming rig you'd never previously have dreamed of stashing under your desk, or the blitz of hype surrounding Nvidia's latest 1000-series GPUs, there's more...

It's officially 'Beyoncé Day' in Minnesota

Dieter Bohn May 23, 2016 06:47 pm05.23.2016

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has declared that today is officially Beyoncé Day. He issued a decree and everything, with his official seal. This is a thing that governors do when they want attention, so here is some attention for you, Governor Dayton. Here is your tweet with the official...

How did three different Game of Thrones fans predict that Hodor surprise?

Kaitlyn Tiffany May 23, 2016 02:57 pm05.23.2016

If you haven't seen last night's episode of Game of Thrones yet, I suggest closing this tab and putting all of your devices on airplane mode and avoiding human interaction until you have the opportunity to do so.

Are you gone?

Okay, great. The lovable, perfect Hodor, who dedicated the last...

Who knew a rock-sorting robot could be so mesmerizing?

Sean O'Kane May 23, 2016 01:02 pm05.23.2016

A couple of artists have teamed up with the Czech-German Future Fund to create a vacuum robot that can sort rocks. The result is much more mesmerizing than that description, I promise.

The robot is called Jller, named for the German river where the aforementioned rocks were collected. Jller uses...

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