At the annual Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Fest in Tokyo, Japanese politicians showed they too, are hip to what the kids are up to these days. Unlike Steve Buscemi in a kid outfit (God […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2f2od8w
via IFT...
Sheriff’s department denies surveilling Standing Rock protesters via Facebook check-ins
Like wildfire, the latest viral protest spreading across the internet involves Facebook users checking in at Standing Rock, ND en masse to “confuse” and “overwhelm” law enforcement authorities seeking to disrupt ongoing protests against the proposed path of an oil pipeline. The viral Facebook post claims that the local sheriff’s department in Morton County is… Read More
from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2fnXZih
via IFT...
Standing Rock pipeline protest absent from Facebook Trends
A massive social media protest is exploding on Facebook, not Twitter for a change, yet Facebook’s dehumanized Trending system is failing to pick it up. People around the country are checking in to Facebook at the Standing Rock Native American Reservation in an effort to supposedly hinder local Morton County police from targeting protesters there in person to fight an oil pipeline… Read More
from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2fazCzF
via...
Mercedes-Benz Protects Your Hearing During a Car Crash Using Pink Noise
Car makers have developed a myriad of technologies to keep you safe in the event of a collision. Airbags, seat belt pre-tensioning, and other features can reduce the damage done in a car […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2eNEnly
via IFT...
Prime Directive: Amazon Daily Deals for Geeks
The Internet is where we do most of our shopping, and a solid 90% of it is done at Amazon. Jeff Bezos has turned his humble bookstore into a sort of Automat of […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2edRwAS
via IFT...
31 of Our Favorites From Inktober 2016
One of my favorite things about October is getting to see all of my very talented pals participate in Inktober. Inktober is a wonderful time of year where artists all over the world […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2fo5dCy
via IFT...
The Walking Dead Hate Watch: A Man and His Tiger
Look, everybody at Geek has mixed opinions on The Walking Dead. Either we haven’t watched it, knowing the criticisms that surround it, or have been keeping up but are ready to call it […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2dVQFt4
via IFT...
Man Makes Fully-Functional Pokemon Go Costume
If you’re anything like me (which is to say a hard-partying fool), then you tore up the town looking great in your carefully crafted Halloween costume. I went as Rick from Rick and […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2fnJPxE
via IFT...
Geek deals: Get online courses at Udemy for $10 each
Whether you’re looking for a different career path, or searching for new ways to improve yourself, you’ll definitely want to take a look at today’s deal. For a limited time, the folks over […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2dghWVn
via IFT...
Once Upon a Time Mixes Jules Verne with Teen Angst
This week’s Once Upon a Time takes us 20,000 leagues under the sea so Henry can work out his stepdad issues. We start off during the time of the dark curse, where Hook […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2dVBDn3
via IFT...
Amazon Sued After Hoverboard Burns Down Million-Dollar House
Headlines regarding gadgets bursting into flames weren’t always about the Galaxy Note 7. Last year, it was a piece of two-wheeled technology that heated up the news cycle: hoverboards. It’s been a while […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2fx8ezM
via IFT...
6 Essential Batman: The Animated Series Episodes Truly About Batman
Batman: The Animated Series was often a better show when it wasn’t taking on the topics that Christopher Nolan would later put at the center of the modern bat popular consciousness: in Batman’s […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2f9OoGy
via IFT...
Dolores Makes Her Own Story in Westworld
I keep waiting for a mediocre episode, but Westworld does not let up. They’ve created a story with multiple mysteries and can move at least one forward in a meaningful way with each […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2f4VDRS
via IFT...
Patient Starts Fire During Surgery By Farting
Going into any surgery your main hope is to just come out the other side in one piece with whatever needed fixing being fixed. But how about if you came out of surgery […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2eMjlUm
via IFT...
Instrument 1 Makes Me Want to Get Back Into Music
This smart instrument is like air guitar but real.
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2eeziSQ
via IFT...
Nintendo Teases Us By Playing Games On The NES Classic Edition
On November 11 Nintendo will launch its next games consoles, but this one isn’t called the Switch and won’t have any games available beyond those it ships with. Instead, this piece of hardware […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2eTDq8O
via IFT...
Vine founders’ Hype app blends live video into a rich multimedia mix
Does the world need another live video app? Meerkat’s demise might suggest not, but that hasn’t stopped Vine’s co-founders from screwing their courage to the sticking place and stepping into a highly contested space with the launch of an iOS app called Hype — days after Twitter announced it would be shuttering their looping video app, apparently without even doing them… Read More
from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2f4cu7l
via IFT...
Google’s Halloween Game Is All About A Spell Casting Cat
When Google first introduced its interactive Doodles they were something to get excited and talk about regularly, especially when they made Pac-Man playable in a browser. But now they’ve become the norm and […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2e4EGED
via IFT...
Wes Anderson Tribute Art Show Returns to NYC
Spoke Art‘s new NYC home continues its excellence with a return to favorites. For the past seven years, Spoke has presented “Bad Dads,” a celebration of all things Wes Anderson. What started as […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2fk1pCy
via IFT...
Essential Sailor Moon Episodes Every Fan Should Watch
‘Tis the season for nostalgic looks back at our favorite episodes from our number one fandom. Sailor Moon began airing in the US back in 1996, a time when many would remember seeing […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2dSUC1m
via IFT...
Loot Crate Brings Us a HORROR show for October 2016
If you can’t tell from the cheap plastic skeletons, the costumes of presidential debate attendees, the stench of pumpkin spice, and the clowns silently watching us everywhere, we’re living in the upside-down in […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2ft9T9A
via IFT...
Soylent Stops Selling Powdered Meal Mix Because It’s Making People Barf
Soylent’s efforts to replace regular solid food have been derailed. The Silicon Valley startup has been forced to take its flagship meal replacement powder off the market following multiple reports of nausea, vomiting, […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2eTHTLM
via IFT...
Black Mirror Season Three is Barely Science Fiction
The less outlandish the technology, the more frightening the implications.
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2fqP8eO
via IFT...
We’ve Discovered How to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Booze
Carbon dioxide will probably the death of humanity. Not too long ago we crossed the critical 400ppm global CO2 threshold. Meaning that unless we figure out how to pull CO2 out of the […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2ePldcL
via IFT...
8 Essential Episodes of Batman: The Animated Series
If you forgot the episode where Batman rides a shark, never fear...
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2eSU8bq
via IFT...
Let your Vines live on forever with this Giphy conversion tool
The death of Vine was perhaps not entirely unexpected, but it’s sad nevertheless. Luckily, six-second videos are pretty easy to archive for posterity, and all-purpose GIF platform Giphy wants you to do just that. Read More
from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2dUSe5m
via IFT...
Scientists Find First Ever Fossilized Dinosaur Brain
The overwhelming majority of dinosaur fossils are the remains of bones — it’s very rare for soft tissue to survive long enough to mineralize. It’s not impossible, though. In the past, paleontologists have […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2dUKuk3
via IFT...
Facebook draws criticism for ‘ethnic affinity’ ad targeting
ProPublica pointed to some potentially problematic Facebook ad capabilities today — specifically, the ability to include or exclude users from a given ad campaign based on their “ethnic affinity.” These capabilities have existed for a while (Facebook told ProPublica’s Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. it began offering them within the past two years as part of its… Read More
from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2e5GG2B
via IFT...
Your Name to Debut in US Theaters as an Academy Awards Hopeful
Funimation announced back in July that they had acquired the U.S. rights to Your Name (Kimi no Na wa), and have now just revealed that they will be launching a theatrical release for the […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2e5IdWE
via IFT...
Playing Final Fantasy XV With Friends Requires Buying The DLC
Final Fantasy XV features lead protagonist Noctis and his pals driving around their world fighting off monsters, robots, and generally getting into all sorts of trouble. Square-Enix is capitalizing on the co-op potential […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2ejEEK5
via IFT...
The Best Screenwriting Programs for Writing a Slasher Movie
The perfect software for killing teenagers with a keystroke.
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2e5pYjQ
via IFT...
10 Obscure Superman Characters Every Fan Should Know
While Tyler Hoechlin’s Superman may not be coming back to the Supergirl TV show anytime soon, there are plenty of characters in the Super-mythos that the show can dip into. Here, we take […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2eNbT9e
via IFT...
Check Out Final Forms of Sun and Moon’s Starters (plus more Pokemon news)
Pokémon Sun and Moon is just around the corner, and Nintendo’s kept up with almost weekly updates on what we can expect with the new games. Earlier today on the Official Pokémon YouTube […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2e5dUiF
via IFT...
Ontario Police Are Using SMS Spam To Locate Murder Witnesses
What do you do when you’ve been trying to solve a murder for nearly a year and you’re out of leads? Sending 7,500 text messages to potential witnesses is one option. That’s what […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2dPewKS
via IFT...
It’s the Beginning of a Dark Era for Cyber Security
It may be old news to most of us, but researchers and experts are still sifting through the data on last week’s staggering distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. For those few who […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2ejgb7w
via IFT...
Geek deals: Get an Xbox One S with two games and a controller for $390
If you’re excited about the plethora of new games coming out this season, it’s a great time to invest in a new console. Right now, Dell is offering up a sweet deal on […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2dU17fw
via IFT...
MovieBob Reviews: Inferno
Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon books are one of the weirdest success stories in modern popular literature. The central gimmick makes the hero a Harvard symbology professor who (somehow) keeps getting wrapped up in […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2e4Wti2
via IFT...
Hello Games Tweets That No Man’s Sky ‘was a mistake’
The drama surrounding No Man’s Sky continues today as the studio behind the ill-received game tweeted that the game “was a mistake.” This tweet was taken down shortly after it was posted. The […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2e4SylA
via IFT...
WhatsApp-Facebook privacy U-turn now being probed by EU data watchdog
A seismic shift in privacy policy by messaging app WhatsApp this summer, when it said it would begin sharing user data with parent company Facebook including for ad targeting, has now attracted the attention of European’s data protection watchdog group, the Article 29 Working Party. Read More
from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2ej0ayB
via IFT...
Gfycat brings its higher quality GIFs and DIY creation tools to iMessage
Gfycat, the startup that recently raised a whopping $10 million for its user-generated content platform that lets you creating silent, looping animations and videos, has now launched its first mobile app. Designed for iMessage, Gfycat lets you search for, send and create your own “Gfycat Loops,” which you can also augment with your own emojis and captions. There are already a number… Read More
from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2eV0UeT
via...
Legends of Tomorrow Gets Two New Superheroes, but Loses Another
Well, Legends off Tomorrow needed to get out of World War II. They did, but the third episode of the season definitely felt more like filler than anything else. Nate has been sedated, […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2fenHp3
via IFT...
Titanfall 2’s Campaign Gives the Franchise a Fresh Start
Back when the first Titanfall was announced I was intrigued simply because it had mechs in it. I’ve been a fan of robots and mechs my entire life so a game like Titanfall […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2dTrF0J
via IFT...
Twitter is Shutting Down Vine, Laying Off Employees
Twitter announced Thursday that it’ll be discontinuing the Vine mobile app in a move that limited all productivity on the internet as people went looking for their favorite vines. In a blog post […]
from Geek.com http://ift.tt/2e4wGXl
via IFT...
