Microsoft has been waging a one-sided dessert war with Mozilla for years, sending the Firefox developer an Explorer-adorned cake in honor of each release of the rival browser. When Mozilla switched to incremental versions of Firefox, the cakes turned into cupcakes. Now, Mozilla is returning the favor, in honor of the release of Internet Explorer 10.

Before getting too excited, this isn't exactly the Death Star hauling in the Millennium Falcon, however, two physicists at New York University...actually, we'll just let them explain it:

David Ruffner and David Grier of New York University instead projected two Bessel beams side by side and used a lens to angle them so that they overlapped, creating a pattern of alternating bright and dark regions along the length of the beam. Fine-tuning the beam causes photons in the bright regions, initially flowing past a chosen particle in the beam, to scatter backwards. When these photons hit the particle, they knock it to the next bright region. The particle is thus constantly pushed close to the beam's source.

Obviously this is all at a microscopic level, but it's still a tractor beam!

Tickets on sale November 7th -- don't be left out in the cold on opening night.

From the makers of the LEGO Cave Troll video comes another case of Pippin and Merry ruining everything. Enjoy the first of two Halloween weekends, everybody!

Matt Smith turns 30 this Sunday! Here he is receiving a TARDIS-shaped birthday cake at MCM London Expo. Happy Birthday, Matt!

Mass Effect: Paragon Lost is a feature length animated epic from BioWare and Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, Blood: The Last Vampire) that serves as a prequel to the events of the Mass Effect series, starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. as James Vega.

Paragon Lost hits DVD and Blu-ray on December 28.

Now your little green troops can take on a horde of Walkers!