In agreement with last year's announcement by Human Rights Watch, an initiative created by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (an actual organization I didn't start myself) urges policy makers to ban the development and use of autonomous robots that can kill without human inter... / Continue →

This is a video of Redditor Aussie50 tossing some piece of heavy machinery into a front-load washer and watching it shake itself to pieces on the spin cycle. It will never top the anthropomorphic dryer eating a brick video, although this one is pretty action-packed. It's a sh... / Continue →

Hooray, a new recruit! Remember when Cambridge University announced they were opening The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, a think-tank designed to help prevent, among other things, a future robotic apocalypse? Well famed brainiac Stephen Hawking has just joined the ... / Continue →

Note: They drop a couple f-bombs in the video, I'm gonna have to recommend watching it at full volume while giving your boss the finger. Seen here just moments before he should have died, some good ol' boy knocks down an old grain silo with a sledgehammer. Unfortunately for u... / Continue →

This is an army of 'Chef Cui' noodle-shaving robots designed and manufactured by Cui Runquan. The robots were designed to cut noodles from a block of dough cheaper and more efficiently than humans can. Plus today's youth don't want to work as noodle cutters. Kids! I spent t... / Continue →

Ahahahhahaha, if I had one of those I'd be pretending it was my penis too! This is slingshot aficionado Joerg Sprave's latest slinger of shots, 'Shaka Zulu's Wet Dream'. It shoots traditional Zulu spears with enough force to bury them a couple inches in a solid wood block. D... / Continue →

Because so many fanboys got their shit-stained boxers in a ruffle based on the original endings of the game, Bioware has made extended-cuts of the three existing endings to Mass Effect 3, and added a new one. The existing endings now have some more exposition explaining what h... / Continue →

This is HBO's official $30,000 (plus $1,800 shipping) replica of the Iron Throne from the Game of Thrones. Unfortunately, it's made out of fiberglass and not real swords. BOOOOOOOOOO! *rushing castle with a pitchfork* On the show, the Iron Throne was constructed by Aegon I T... / Continue →

Because a legged robot that can run faster than anybody but the quickest sprinters is something that should exist, DARPA and Boston Dynamics are happy to announce their new Cheetah robot can gallop at up to 18-MPH, shattering the previously record of 13.1-MPH, which was already... / Continue →

Sure you could argue 17,000-miles isn't actually that close, but everything is relative. Compared to the rest of space that's like the distance between your privates and b-hole. DANGEROUSLY CLOSE. Also, I don't trust NASA's calculations enough to believe there's not a chance... / Continue →