Just a day after Steve Jobs showed off a freshly shrunk, content-backed Apple TV , Amazon is taking the Cupertino company’s streaming policy head-on. With Apple, you’re renting — a dollar only gets you so much time. With Amazon, your buck lasts forever.

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Amazon strikes back against Apple TV with $0.99 unlimited streaming

Seen here trying to bite his tongue but catching his lip instead, Stephen Hawking claims there’s no need for a God in order for the universe to exist. *Preparing napsack and evacuation route for flame war* Now, in his upcoming book, according to an excerpt of the introduction released by the London Times which isn’t getting any traffic from this because of their pay wall), Hawking declares that the Big Bang can be explained without God. “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing,” Hawking and his co-author, Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow, write in “The Grand Design,” which is due to be issued next week. “Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper [British way of saying light the fuse] and set the universe going.” Listen: I’m not even gonna pretend to be smart (because I’m not), but Stephen Hawking did give us E=Mc 2 , amirite? No? That was Einstein? Oh . Well then maybe he’s just bitter at God for wheelchairing him. Bad News, Religious People: Stephen Hawking Says God Didn’t Create the Universe [nymag] Thanks to lil co., who a universe without isn’t worth living in.

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Somebody’s Going To Hell! Stephen Hawking: "God Not Necessary For Universe To Exist"

Ferrari has already built a truly awesome F1 simulator for their own use, but now they have taken a big slice of that experience, and turned it into a home game version you can play on your PC.

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Ferrari lets you drive their Formula 1 car for 19 bucks… sort of

Note: X-wing your way over to a full-size version HERE . Rogue Leader Rebecca Crane went and created a map of The United States of Star Wars (or USSW if you’re into the whole brevity thing), with a different planet/location from Star Wars representing each state based on similarities in geography and other factors like the kind of people that live there. For example: Maine is Naboo because it’s filled with nothing but annoying @$$holes. Get it? Because that’s where JarJar’s from . Oh come on — I’z just kiddin’, Maine! (See what I did there?) There are probably tens of planets that work for each state, I picked either the first one that I came to or the best fit. Planets were assigned based on partial terrain, landmarks that correlate with the planet and state, types of people in the state and planet, famous landmarks, or slightly randomly selected (but loosely based on facts) from my brother and myself. Rebecca posted a list of all the states and their corresponding Star Wars planets HERE in case you can’t identify them all by picture alone because at some point you decided the whole “virgin for life” thing wasn’t for you. Hey, it’s not for everybody. Back me up, sister! The United States of Star Wars [wedgeantilles] via Geeky Geography of the Day [thedailywh.at] Thanks to lucy, Gerald and Erik, who want to live on Endor with the Ewoks. Uh, find me someone who doesn’t.

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The United States Of Star Wars (Geography)

In the U.S., “iPod” is pretty much synonymous with “MP3 player.” How many people do you know who own anything else? It’s the same in Japan, but times could be a-changin’. See, the iPod has finally be out-sold, and it was beat by the venerable Sony Walkman.

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Sony Walkman dethrones the iPod in Japan

During his time on the International Space Station , astronaut Don Pettit captured what few of us terrestrials will ever get to see with our own eyes: the Earth from orbit. It’s a breathtaking sight, and Pettit was good enough to turn his snaps into a gorgeous time-lapse.

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Amazing video: Earth from the International Space Station

Yesterday, Apple had on of the company’s trademark self-lovefests , and if you were following DVICE on Twitter , you got all the news as it was happening (and not minutes after it was happening, which is what people who tuned into the “live” stream saw). One lucky reader got more than that, though.

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And the winner of DVICE’s Twitter contest is…

How do you make a badass Nerf belt-fed machine gun even more badass? By modifying it to sense out body heat and fire at anything alive that crosses its path. Holy moly.

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Heat-seeking Nerf machine gun is seriously intimidating

Most people have widescreen TVs now, as all HDTVs are widescreens. Unlike older tube TVs, which had a more square aspect ratio, people are now into a more rectangular image. But Philips 21:9 3D TV makes normal widescreen TV’s look downright square in comparison.

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Philips creates the widest 3D TV yet

The iPad has enjoyed a long period of being the only game in town when it came to tablets, but that’s about to change with the introduction of Samsung’s freshly announced 7-inch Galaxy Tab .

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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab: the iPad’s first true competitor