Software

After Hours: Apps To Never Lose Your Friends On A Night Out

Where the heck is that bar you’re supposed to be at? And what about that restaurant everyone’s gathering near? Make sure you never get lost again on a night out with these awesome apps.

Geek Out

Through A Submarine Periscope Is The Best Way To View San Francisco

San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. But there’s one unique perspective you probably haven’t seen its vistas from — the periscope of a 1950s World War II-era submarine.

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15 Photographs Of The Superstructures That Put Us In Space

“It is easy to invent a flying machine,” said the 19th-century aviation engineer Otto Lilienthalmore, “[and] difficult to build one; to make it fly is everything.” The challenge of air (and later, space) travel began not with building aircraft, but with building a realistic simulation machine in which to test those aircraft.

Entertainment

Philosophy Web Series Shots Of Awe Will Blow Your Mind In 180 Seconds

Shots of Awe is a new web series hosted by “performance philosopher” Jason Silva that features lightning flashes of philosophy that might blow your mind in three minutes or less. Hosted on Discovery’s TestTube network, the series discusses everything from the universe to technology, society, science and much more, all in the tone of the boundary-pushing lectures of Alan Watts.

Gadgets

Architecturally Inspired Forms Have A Place On Your Dessert Plate

The shapes you see in architecture can be reflected in the things you eat with these silicon food moulds from Alessi. They come in six different designs that are inspired by the features you might see on a building, or even the whole building itself.

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How One Artist Makes Hypnotic GIFs From Cloned Video Loops

Sometimes we use GIFs for reactions, sometimes they’re a punchline, and sometimes they’re art. The latter is certainly true of the ones made by Istanbul-based artist Erdal Inci, who masterfully creates mesmerising GIFs using cloned pieces of videos.

Gadgets

Lighting The Sails: Behind The Scenes On Vivid Sydney’s Most Ambitious Project

Every year, Sydney’s best landmarks are converted from gorgeous colonial structures into canvases for incredible light displays as part of Vivid Sydney, with the centrepiece always built around the Sydney Opera House. This year’s Vivid is bigger than ever, but it’s also the most important, because it’s the first time that the lighting of the Sails has ever been done by an all-Aussie crew.

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Monster Machines: This Rocket Bike Just Set A Land Speed Record

There’s a surprising amount of energy locked away in the fizzing bubbles of hydrogen peroxide. Enough, in fact, to propel one daredevil and his modified bicycle into the record books at nearly triple the speed limit of your local interstate. Eat your heart out, Wile E. Coyote.

Science

Tomorrow’s Galactic Explorers Could Use Pulsars As Interstellar GPS

Space is so ludicrously vast that keeping a precise fix on our spacecraft — even within the solar system — is really tough. So rather than track them from afar, a team of researchers want spacecraft to govern themselves — using pulsars.

Computing

Xbox One’s Kinect Sensor Is Officially Coming To Windows Next Year

We knew that the Kinect would be coming to Windows eventually, but it looks like Xbox One’s groundbreaking new Kinect sensor won’t be stuck tethered to a console for long. Microsoft has just announced that the new and improved motion-tracking system will definitely be hitting Windows sometime next year — but exactly when remains hazy.

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