The Week reports on this new comic by Bill Watterson, made for the poster of the best comics fair in the world: The Angoulême International Comics Festival in France, where Watterson will be honored for his a life of great work.
As bored as you might be with the breathless coverage of Banksy and his "takeover of New York," there might be one reason to catch the HBO documentary on the street artist. Over at CityLab, Kriston Capps has an intriguing theory after watching the film: Banksy is a probably a woman.
Here's the trailer for the last part of the Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, The Battle of the Five Armies. It looks spectacular. I really hope they don't screw this one, because what remains is my favorite part of the book.
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If you're a Kanye fan, you probably know the song Homecoming, a 2007 track that included a cameo by Coldplay's Chris Martin. That song is fine and everything, but the original it borrows from—called Home—is the real gem.
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The Oculus Rift VR headset can take you to incredible fictional places, like scene from gorgeous movies like Interstellar or Spirited Away. Last night, it took me somewhere more grounded in reality, but still spectacular: my own personal, deliciously retro '80s arcade.
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Earlier this year Home Depot confirmed that 56 million cards had been compromised in one of the biggest retail security breaches in history. Now we know that much like the Target hack—which was traced to a heating company—Home Depot was infiltrated by custom malware and passwords stolen from a third party vendor.
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This afternoon, Facebook users got a chance to interrogate Mark Zuckerberg about the company's future. Well over 10,000 questions were submitted before the Q&A, many thoughtful, some pressing. So of course he answered the goofy ones.
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Mark your calendars because this Sunday the Planet Express crew is back for an encore in a new Simpsons episode. The whole Futurama cast—John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Maurice LaMarche, and Tress MacNeille—will be back in an episode called "Simpsorama." Here's a sneak peek!
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Most of the new/old retro toy film cameras that come out nowadays bore me to death, but this one is actually pretty neat. It's a hand-made pinhole camera that takes pictures on Polaroid instant film, creating distorted but magical views of the world.
When you're building supertalls, there are other problems to worry about than just making sure they don't fall or blow over. One of the biggest is how to get people up to the top in a reasonable amount of time. If you've got a slow elevator the 125th floor might as well not exist.
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It shouldn't be so easy to peer into a stranger's bedroom, much less hundreds of strangers' bedrooms. But a website has collected the streaming footage from over 73,000 IP cameras whose owners haven't changed their default passwords. Is this about highlighting an important security problem, or profiting off creepy…
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Disney and Pixar just announced that John Lasseter will direct Toy Story 4, scheduled for release in June 2017. Yassssssssssss.
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There's a good chance that more people would 'get' and maybe even learn to appreciate art if it did something more practical for them. Van Gogh's Starry Night could serve as a nightlight, for example, and Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon could double as an air freshener, just like DaVinci's Mona Lisa is now a functional…
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Andrew Hamilton and Tim Goddard have shared the most kick ass micro build of a place they call Panduro City. Heavy use of Mindstorms automates all sorts of things in this build. You can not fully appreciate it in just photo form, the video must be watched!
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If you know anything about the Large Hadron Collider, you know that it is huge. Massive. 17 miles of tunnels under Switzerland. Traditional accelerators need all that space to get particles to smash into each other at close to the speed of light. But scientists at Stanford have come one step closer to a new type of…
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Our call for Best Travel Mug contenders was one of the biggest and most contested we've ever had. You've poured and sealed an awesome list of five nominees, and now it's time to vote.
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Joining the esteemed ranks of such cultural icons as "stick" and "cardboard box," three new beloved toys have taken their place in the National Toy Hall of Fame. Say hello to your new champions: Rubik's Cube, little green army man, and... bubbles.
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Well, that's no good. Aereo just sent a letter to its employees announcing that it would be closing its Boston offices, laying off all 43 employees that work there, and shuttering operations.
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The most common weapon inside is simply a can top. Pulled off a tin of beans and folded over, it doesn't even need to be sharpened to leave a jagged scar. A shank, also known as a shiv, is not for cutting but for stabbing. It's called a "gun" in jailhouse vernacular, and the most valuable kind is fashioned out of…
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