Wednesday’s Biggest Stories

Every evening, we wrap up the day’s biggest stories in one place for you to easily check out. If you’ve been off the grid all day, jump in here and catch up on current events.

Australia Won’t Get Nerf’s Awesome New Rival Blasters
We like Nerf guns at Gizmodo. We really like Nerf guns. But we won’t get them in Australia, because our laws are a little too unforgiving.

Microsoft Surface Pro 4: Australian Review
Heading into 2016, the Surface is surrounded by its competition, fighting for dominance at every price point. Is the Surface Pro 4 a big enough stick to beat back the opposition?

A New Way Of Thinking About Spacetime That Turns Everything Inside Out
One of the weirdest aspects of quantum mechanisms is entanglement, because it seems to violate a fundamental principle of physics called locality. But what if locality is not so fundamental after all?

Inside The Song Machine: How Today’s Hits Are Manufactured
Who are the hit makers? They are enormously influential culture shapers — the Spielbergs and Lucases of our national headphones — and yet they are mostly anonymous.

Watch Shia LaBeouf Watch All His Movies Over The Next Three Days
In his latest foray into frankly baffling performance art, Shia LaBeouf is sitting down and watching all of his movies in reverse chronological order, back-to-back, without any breaks.

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• This Rediscovered Leather Trunk Contains Thousands Of Letters From The 17th Century
• How Will Electricity Work In 2115?


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