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Update! (December 2019) CtrlShiftFace has a new video Home Stallone produced with Paperspace: Deepfake technology is unlocking a new era of media production. As with all technologies, both positive and harmful use cases exist. As ethical technologists, we aspire to…

These supremely stable particles could explain dark matter. After decades of poking around in the math behind the glue holding the innards of all matter together, physicists have found a strange hypothetical particle, one that…

Urban exploration is easily my favorite trend on the internet. Photographers from all over the world have taken to their own backyards and wandered the abandoned buildings and towns nearby. It’s easy to see why…

Scientists basically knew what happened here – but the full story that’s emerging beggars belief. The Chicxulub crater marks the point of contact made by an asteroid so enormous that it wiped out an entire…

An unidentified object from outer space has been spotted shooting across the Los Angeles night sky on Wednesday and residents have been sharing footage of the bright light on social media. Several locals reported seeing…

‘There’s the possibility of experiencing pleasure that Earth didn’t prepare you for’ Tonia, a 28-year-old student in L.A., is running me through her thoughts on having sex with aliens. “Obviously, the first factor is whether…

When Dwight Eisenhower was elected president in 1952, outgoing president Harry Truman informed him of an important secret: Days before the election the United States had tested the world’s first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific. The nation now…

Was this 18,000-year-old puppy frozen in Siberian permafrost the ancestor of wolves, dogs or both? Meet Dogor, an 18,000-year-old pup recently unearthed in Siberian permafrost whose name means ‘friend’ in the Yakut language. The remains…

This funny image with two of the famous Easter Island statues sitting with their body and folded arms under the ground is not as far from reality as one might think. We all have seen the…

The hypothetical clock measures our nearness to Armageddon. Humanity’s headlong dash toward our own destruction is marked in minutes and seconds in the ticking of the hypothetical Doomsday Clock. How close we are to destroying…

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Top scientist reveals her thoughts on what ET might get up to in the bedroom What happens when a little green man loves a little green woman and decides to have a…

Is it better to free your mind? Or live in blissful ignorance? Two WIRED writers argue it out. Sometimes existing on the internet can feel like being trapped in that dark room with Morpheus, the…

These Drone Images Will Change the Way You See the World By Tali Taylor – October 9, 2018 Technology has allowed us to make some incredible strides in recent years. The advent of the drone has given us…