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Dennis Rodman at Beijing International Airport departing for Pyongyang, North Korea on June 13, 2017 (Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press) Dennis Rodman landed in Pyongyang, North Korea this morning to visit his old friend, dictator Kim Jong-un. And while Rodman has visited the country a few times before, this trip is even weirder. Rodman’s trip is being…

Image: Amazon Look, I’m a straight woman with the maturity level of a 13-year-old boy. I am willing to admit that maybe—maybe—I sometimes see phalluses where they don’t exist. But this thing totally looks like a dick, right? Amazon announced today that it had erected the “largest Times Square advertising installment ever,” which is actually…

GIF Shimon—a four-armed marimba playing robot—has been around for years, but its developers at Georgia Tech have recently taken this futuristic musical machine to the next level. Using deep learning, the robot can now study large datasets from well-known musicians, and then produce and perform its own original compositions. Shimon was originally developed by Gil…

Image: AP On Tuesday, prosecutors and defense lawyers submitted memoranda ahead of the June 22nd sentencing of Pizzagate gunman Edgar Welch, who pled guilty to weapons charges after firing a rifle inside a DC pizza restaurant last year. With fewer facts to work with, Welch was previously portrayed as either the manifestation of internet vigilantism,…

Image: Flinders University; By Elen Shute, from photos by Kim Benson, Tony Rodd and Aaron Camens Bird enthusiasts will be disappointed to know they were born millions of years too late. Paleontologists from Flinders University in Australia have discovered five extinct megapode birds—among them, a giant brush-turkey called Progura gallinacea. The big bird was roughly…