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io9Watch Bella tell Edward she’s carrying his unholy vampire spawn in 4 new Twilight: Breaking Dawn clips
It’s the beginning of the end for Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. Breaking Dawn Part 1 promises so much for the vampires who sparkle and their clumsy human mates — including one of the most famous sex scenes in literary history, followed by one of the most famous birth scenes! Watch the first clips now! Directed … Continued
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io9MoviesPlex Media Center Now Runs on Google TV. Wait, What?
Media center software running on top of media center software seems silly (cue meme), but maybe you really love Plex’s UI that much. Or maybe you love the Google TV hardware, but not the software? Either way, you now have options. Plex’s app is now optimized and available for Google TV, promising access to all … Continued
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io9TelevisionMorning SpoilersGeorge Clooney discusses the making of Alfonso Cuarón’s stranded astronaut epic Gravity!
Is Matthew Modine’s character in The Dark Knight Rises a hero or villain…or both? One X-Men: First Class actor thinks a sequel will happen. The 300 sequel might have found its star. Plus True Blood adds a new regular vampire! Spoilers from this point forward! Top image from The Hunger Games. The Dark Knight Rises … Continued
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The Victorian Hugos: 1886
The Hugo Awards are given to the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Unfortunately, they’ve only been awarded since 1953. That’s where this column comes in — Jess Nevins will be awarding some honorary Hugo Awards to the best novels of the Victorian era… and beyond. Top image: Jekyll and Hyde … Continued
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Stephen King explains the rules of time travel. Debate over.
Stephen King’s new novel 11/22/63 involves a tunnel to the past, and a guy who tries to tamper with the Kennedy assassination. Talking to Wired, King explains something about the rules of time travel as he sees them: 1) “The more potential a given event has to change the future, the more difficult that event … Continued
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Japanese legislators consider building a back-up Tokyo (in case the original’s destroyed)
During World War I, Paris built a fake Paris to confuse German bombardiers. More recently, China has seen a spate of towns reproducing a little slice of Germany and Austria. Now, Japan is considering constructing a second Tokyo in case an earthquake destroys the one we have today. https://gizmodo.com/during-world-war-i-france-began-building-a-fake-paris-5843670 https://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-the-deserted-german-city-outside-of-shanghai-5850214 https://gizmodo.com/chinese-architecture-firm-duplicates-austrian-village-5813227 Explains World Architecture News: … Continued
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Psychologist admits to faking dozens of scientific studies
Every branch of science has its share of “sexy” studies—so called for their supposed tendency to provoke media attention, even in the absence of strong or conclusive findings—but investigations in the field of social psychology are often especially popular targets of the “sexy” label. Now, prominent social psychologist Diederik Stapel has been outed as one … Continued
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io9Underworld: now with baby vampires, silver whips and super-Lycans!
This new trailer for Underworld Awakening exposes a lot more of the story line. Which may or may not be a good thing, depending on how you feel about adding small children to revive a dead franchise. But hey, Kate Beckinsale…in rubber! Let the Lycan whipping begin! As you can see in this trailer, Selene … Continued
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The secret of ancient Viking navigation was transparent crystals
Before the invention of modern navigational equipment, ancient sailors crossed the seas largely through their knowledge of the positions of the Sun and stars. So how did Vikings cross from Europe to America in the often foggy, cloudy northern Atlantic? There’s no real way that Vikings could have crossed such tremendous distances – they were … Continued
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io9This wall-climbing robot is half tank, half gecko
The ranks of wall-climbing robots are increasing in number. A team of Canadian engineers from Simon Fraser University have combined what they describe as gecko-inspired “fibrillar dry adhesives” with track wheels, to create a modular, tank-like robot that can scale walls and even transfer from horizontal to vertical surfaces with ease. https://gizmodo.com/come-the-robot-uprising-paraswift-will-climb-the-walls-5838415 Whether it’s glass, … Continued
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io9New Immortals clips are so vivid, you can almost taste the oiled torsos
Holy sepiatoned nipples! We’ve got six new clips from new Tarsem Singh’s mythological epic Immortals — plus one exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how they built the massive sets our waxed-Adonises heroes would wrestle in. Above is an interesting look at the world Tarsem and company built for our Greek Gods, plus we’ve got a collection … Continued
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io9Watch a spherical robot drone fly around the room!
We’ve talked before about this floating robot from the Japanese Ministry of Defense, but now there’s new video of this floating, gyroscopic drone. And, against all odds, this video is even more awesome than the last one. The video up top shows a recent demonstration by Japan’s Ministry of Defense. To the delight (and probably … Continued
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Eight Tools to Help You Pen the Next Great American Novel
It’s NaNoWriMo, say whaaaaaaaaa? For the acronym-challenged, it’s National Novel Writing Month, which means that anyone who decides to partake has 30 days to crank out their literary masterpiece. Think you’re up for the challenge? Here are eight tools to help. Heavy Duty Door Lock You know how you’re always talking about how you’re gonna … Continued
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io9Have a conversation with physicist Brian Greene on io9 tonight, live from Columbia University!
Even if you didn’t get tickets to the World Science Festival in New York, you can still have a live conversation with Brian Greene, exploring how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time, and the Universe. We’ve got the webcast streaming below. And he’ll be taking your questions! Tune in … Continued
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In this preview of DC’s Frankenstein, a vampire with a machine gun needs no introduction
One of our favorite comics to come out of DC’s New 52 relaunch was Jeff Lemire and Alberto Ponticelli’s Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E., a gleefully deranged horror/science fiction/espionage hybrid starring a poetic patchwork monster and his crack squad of paramilitary monsters. Here’s an exclusive preview of the third issue, in which Frankenstein and his team … Continued
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William Gibson explains why cyberpunk was made to be co-opted
There’s a must-read interview with William Gibson over at the Paris Review, in which he explains what was wrong with cyberpunk: “A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such … Continued
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io9Snake becomes trapped in bank ATM, lashes out at customers
We’ve seen Snakes on a Plane, snakes without a plane, and snakes in an MRI. Now, an ornery serpent in Llodio, Spain brings us Snakes In The Automatic Teller Machine. http://io9.com/5698427/watch-scientists-toss-flying-snakes-off-a-49+foot-tower https://gizmodo.com/bat-on-a-plane-snake-in-an-mri-tube-5830640 This (understandably angry) snake was found at a Caja Madrid bank Monday morning. The snake tried to attack bank patrons until the manager … Continued
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io9Is this Bane’s ultimate weapon from The Dark Knight Rises?
Have set photos revealed the device that Bane will use to bring Batman to his knees in The Dark Knight Rises? Possibly — a collection of photos and blueprints may have just revealed Bane’s dastardly plan for the good people of Gotham. Major Spoilers Ahead… A while back Bane was filmed blowing up a Gotham … Continued