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Dealing with the death of a favorite character is a reality every fan has to face at some point. This is especially true if you're a "Game of Thrones" fan. George R.R. Martin loves to pick off major characters like they're a row of tin ducks in a caival shooting gallery. The death of Jon Snow, however, hit a lot of fans in the gut. Even though he lives in a world where swift and sudden deaths are common, Jon Snow's death at the end of season 5 still felt untouchable to a lot of hardcore fans. Some still haven't come to grips with it, and some flat out refuse to believe he's dead. He's basically the new Elvis. If you're one of those fans who can't accept the fact that Snow has gone to that gr...

2Getthere A fleet of 24 autonomous pods are coming to Singapore roads before the end of the year, thanks to a join venture between pod producer 2Getthere and Singaporean transport operator SMRT, the Telegraph reports.The pods run entirely on electricity and run completely autonomously. Using "artificial landmarks" for navigation, the fleet will be able to carry "up to 8,000 passengers per hour in any direction", 2Getthere's website explains. "The [pods] system basically operates as a horizontal elevator. The vehicles will stop at every station selected as a destination and where transport has been requested"The Let's block ads! بخوانید...

If you're not a Beyonce fan, HBO subscriber or a milleial, you might not know what Beyonce and lemonade have to do with each other. Fret not, fellow human. No one really knows.Over the weekend Beyonce dropped a trailer for "Lemonade," an hour-long special that will debut worldwide on HBO this Saturday, April 23 at 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT. Is Beyonce about to start shilling refreshing beverages the way Diddy sweats Ciroc? Probably not. However, with an upcoming tour and no release date for a new album in sight, everyone's expecting "Lemonade" to provide some answers to what's next from Beyonce. (Like a clever, long-ruing inside joke on "Arrested Development," hints of lemons have been sprinkled ...

The first Doom game, released way back in 1993, introduced some of the most iconic weapons in the history of the first-person shooter genre, like the Chaingun, the Plasma Rifle and the chainsaw. They were so fun to use they set a new standard for players who enjoy carving up their opponents into tiny, bite-size chunks.However, they pale in comparison with the awesome power of the BFG 9000. This massive weapon could obliterate your enemies with heat-seeking balls of deadly plasma and all you had to do was stand in front of them and pull the trigger. It's the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie of killing machines. You just set it, forget it and watch your enemies get beheaded. Now that a new Doom game ...

Guns and video games go together like Romeo and Juliet. They were always meant to be together even though it feels like the whole world is trying to rip them apart. So what would it look like if a game franchise that uses a ton of deadly weapons tried to tone down the mayhem with some less dangerous options? Believe it or not, it would still look pretty cool. The folks at the YouTube film studio Corridor Digital posted on Monday a Nerf-inspired parody of Valve's multiplayer deathmatch Team Fortress. All of the classes have much less lethal versions of the weapons they use in the game to take out their opponents. The Sniper has a huge Nerf N-Strike Mega Centurion that shoots foam darts instea...

Netflix Netflix has aounced it will add 100 hours of High Dynamic Range (HDR) content in the next few months with shows including "A Series of Unfortunate Events", "Marvel's Jessica Jones" and "Bloodline".The content will be available in both Dolby Vision and HDR, and so will be compatible with Sony and Samsung TVs, and includes mostly Marvel titles plus a couple of movies and standalone series.The full list of titles, which will expand to over 150 hours of material by the end of the year, includes:A Series of Unfortunate EventsBloodlineChef's TableHibanaKnights of SidoniaMarvel's DaredevilMarvel's Iron FistMarvel's Jessica JonesMarvel's Luke CageMarvel's The DefendersThe Do-OverAdam Sandler...

Enlarge ImageYou'll need sunglasses to look at the back of this iPad Pro. Phillips You can stroll into an Apple Store and select an iPad Pro in your choice of three colors: silver, space gray or gold. Or you can help out London's Design Museum during a charity auction and select an...

Enlarge ImageThis Death Star speaker spins with music instead of destruction. Fancy If you're a Star Wars fan, music simply sounds better when chaeled through a Death Star speaker. Sure, there are already some pretty fancy speakers out there that employ the design of the Empire's most potent weapon and take advantage of Bluetooth technology. DIY...

Enlarge ImageThe flexible skin contains embedded OLEDs that can be used to monitor the wearer's health. University of Tokyo/Science Advances We're not quite at the level of watching entire TV shows in the palms of our hands, but blinky temporary tattoos may be a little closer. And not just for the sake of having blinky temporary tattoos (although that's a worthy goal in and of itself). A team of researchers believes its flexible,...

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It seems like comic book movies are becoming the next great American commodity, along with Donald Trump GIFs and ballpark concessions that qualify as weapons of mass destruction. They are so prevalent in our lives that you might not be surprised if people could name more superheroes than US presidents. That's what late-night host Jimmy Kimmel wanted to find on Wednesday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Kimmel set his crew loose on the streets of Los Angeles to ask random people to name as many members of Marvel's Avengers as they could. Then they asked them to name as many US presidents as they could. They posted some of the more interesting responses from their pedestrian pop quiz on their...

The Kepler mission has found 1,963 confirmed planets outside the solar system, and we know now that there are probably billions more out there. Yet there was a time in the not-so-distant past when we didn't have any evidence of exoplanets at all. In fact, a researcher has just found the very earliest evidence of an exoplanet we have, and it is less than 100 years old.The plate in question, made in 1917 by the then-director of the Caegie Observatories Water Adams at Mount Wilson Observatory, was in the Institutions archives. It was retrieved at the request of University College London researcher Jay Farihi, who was researching a particular star, van Maanen's star, a white dwarf discovered by ...

As we watched the video of Zapata's Flyboard Air, we noticed it seems to be turbine-powered. If the company's claims are to be believed, Flyboard Air could someday become a true flying personal transport vehicle.We're also enjoying the video from Volocopter, which recently completed the first maed flight of its 18-rotor aircraft. Between this electric helicopter and true flying boards, the future of personal transport looks delightful (albeit a little short-lived, if flight durations are taken into account). Who needs a hoverboard when you can fly around on this thing? (Tomorrow Daily 346) Your browser does not support the audio element. Of course, you can find us everywhere on social media....

Enlarge ImageWe're going to need a bigger Lambo. Paul Cross You can walk into a Lamborghini dealership and easily plunk down $200,000 for one of the Italian super cars. Or you can click over to eBay and pick up a Lambo lookalike for a lot less. What's the catch, you say? Well, it needs a little work. But on the plus side, it's amphibious and you'll feel like James Bond behind the wheel....

Enlarge ImageHarry L Williams administers LSD 25 to Carl Pfeiffer, chairman of Emory University's Pharmacological Department, in 1955. The experiment was documented using the microphone. Bettma/Corbis A lot of research has been conducted into how psychedelic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, affects human behaviour, but what does it actually do to the brain? To find out, a team of researchers from Imperial College London gave some test subjects the drug, and documented the results using brain im...

Enlarge ImageFranky Zapata aboard the Flyboard Air. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET We want hoverboards so bad. The promise of sweet, skateboard-style flying machines from the 1989 film "Back to the Future: Part II" continues to haunt our tech dreams. We're not talking about those wheeled poseurs that never leave the ground, but the ones that actually take f...

Enlarge ImageThe possible structure of the yet-proven-to-exist Planet Nine. University of Be Planet Nine may or may not exist. The evidence for its existence is incomplete, based on behaviour observed in outer solar system objects that seems to indicate the gravitational effects of planetary orbit. If it does exist, it's pretty big. The evidence indicates that it would be around 10 times more massive than Earth....

Enlarge ImageThe modelled structure of Planet Nine. University of Be Planet Nine may or may not exist. The evidence for its existence is incomplete, based on behaviour observed in outer solar system objects that seems to indicate the gravitational affects of planetary orbit.If it does exist, it's pretty big. The evidence indicates that it would be around 10 times more massive than Earth. The Califoia University of Technology team that gathere...

It's a good thing I have two monitors for my computer. One of them is fully taken up with condors. I'm watching a live camera feed of a day-old Califoia condor chick and its parents. At first, it's soothing. There's dad, condor No. 509, sitting quietly, the chick hidden under his belly. I hear the calls of other birds from outside the nest. Then the action begins. Mom, condor No. 111, shows up to take over babysitting duties. Feathers ruffle, the massive birds interact. I see a glimpse of the small, fuzzy chick. This is better binge-watching than "Daredevil." And don't worry "Silicon Valley" fans, no technicians are trapped in a ravine here.The live feed is a joint project between the Coell ...

Enlarge ImageTwitter is adding a Message button in tweets to make it easier for users to direct message each other. Twitter Twitter users now have an easier way to chat privately: Just push a button.Find a tweet particularly interesting but only want to discuss it with a friend? Now you can simply click the new Message button to communicate discreetly with your pal.The social network said Tuesday it has add...