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An exclusive art preview of DC Comics’ new “dinosaurs versus soldiers” title

In the 1960s, DC Comics published The War That Time Forgot, a wacky storyline about soldiers battling dinosaurs on a mysterious Pacific island during World War II. This spring, DC is updating this prehistoric anarchy in the new military anthology G.I. Combat, and we have an exclusive sneak peek. Here’s a first look at Ariel…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Why there really is no such thing as an unsinkable ship

The Titanic’s sinking was a hundred years ago this month, and not all the commemorations are directly related to James Cameron’s movie. For one thing, we can finally get to the bottom of just why anyone ever called Titanic “unsinkable.” https://gizmodo.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-is-behind-the-only-major-technical-5898221 Of course, the whole unsinkable thing waqs mostly a bit of marketing hubris, an…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

HBO pays for Game Of Thrones fans to get tattooed by the House of Lannister

Here’s a pretty rad event for Game Of Thrones that we’re supremely sad we missed. HBO paid for a collection of die-hard Game Of Thrones fans to drop by the Wooster Street Social Club for free tattoos. They could be inked with one of five sigils from the warring families of Westeros. And they turned…

Television Meredith Woerner

This Week’s TV: Adventure Time returns! Plus the Monty Python Lightsaber Battle You’ve Been Waiting For!

In this week’s TV, a princess has to choose between piloting a blue lion and becoming Queen. And on a brand new Adventure Time, Finn discovers the truth about Flame Princess. There’s a fantasy-themed TV movie about Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Stephen Hawking guest stars on Big Bang Theory. Keith Mars steps up his…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The perfect Irish vampire movie

Bringing new meaning to the phrase “potato famine,” Belfast filmmaker John Clerkin has invented my new favorite Irish monster: the blood-drinking potato. In modern Ireland, potato eats you! Yes, the jokes just keep on coming, and that’s pretty much the point in Clerkin’s lo-fi flick about a GMO potato that gets you high — and…

Trailers Annalee Newitz

Behold, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle puppets of the 1990s acting extremely creepy

Back when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were profitable enough to be bootlegged mercilessly and not be transformed into an alien race, movie studios employed state-of-the-art computers to give the heroes-in-a-half-shell orgasm faces. Here’s some 1992 test footage from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, in which a puppeteer from All Effects Company manipulates Donatello, who…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Best April Fools’ Day Gags, from Spiel Burgers to the Mass Effect 3 cartoon

So April Fools’ Day fell on a weekend this year. Instead of backtracking through all the pranks and gags of yesterday, we’ve compiled the best of the best for you right here. Behold, an orbital bed and breakfast and the most apocalyptic BBC headline ever. And for more tomfoolery, don’t forget Google Maps’ Quest View…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Today’s unfortunate sexbot breakthrough = a poster you can make out with

Oh, this is just downright dark. Researchers at Keio University have developed a sensing program that allows you to slobber on a digital two-dimensional image, which will react to your amorous advances. I suppose this what it’s like to get to first base with General Zod when he’s trapped in that Phantom Zone parallelogram. Explains…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Penguin poop can be seen from space

A combination of background coloring and penguin gastrointestinal prowess allows the Emperor penguin to be tracked by satellites orbiting the Earth. And ecologists love it. As anyone knows, there are some serious downsides to white carpeting, namely stains. All it takes is a single errant glass of juice, and the furniture has to be rearranged.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Long lost Star Trek script won’t be a fan film, after all

The lost Star Trek script by Norman Spinrad (“The Doomsday Machine”) may have been found — but it won’t be coming to your screen any time soon. https://gizmodo.com/read-a-lost-star-trek-script-by-the-writer-of-the-doom-5887369 The producers of the nonprofit webseries Star Trek: Phase II were planning on producing it, the way they did with David Gerrold’s lost Star Trek: The Next…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The trouble with race in Game of Thrones can be traced to Tolkien

Over at Salon, fantasy writer Saladin Ahmed has a terrific essay about race in fantasy epics, focusing especially on Game of Thrones and its relationship to JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings cycle. His main question is really whether George RR Martin’s contemporary tale is any better than Tolkein’s tale at dealing with — for…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch Arthur C. Clarke predict the internet and the iPads decades before they were invented

It’s no secret that 2001: A Space Odyssey author Arthur C. Clarke was an avid futurist, but it’s still absolutely amazing to see just how prescient the writer was. In this 1974 clip from Australian television, the science fiction visionary describes computerized life in the year 2001 with eerie accuracy. And of course, this was…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Neil deGrasse Tyson is behind the only major technical change in the Titanic re-release

It took James Cameron 60 weeks to prepare Titanic for its rerelease, but apart from remastering the original at 4k resolution and converting it to stereoscopic 3D, nothing about the movie has really changed. Well, almost nothing. According to Cameron: “Neil deGrasse Tyson sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Made James Cameron Update the Stars in Titanic 3D

No one asked James Cameron to trot out Titanic again with an annoying 3D makeover. But at least this time around the stars in scenes where the night sky is visible will all be in the right place. A few years ago physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked a question about bad science in movies,…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

The Dalek relaxation album will make you hyperventilate

Over the weekend, BBC radio host Peter Serafinowicz began speculating what the Daleks have been up to since taking a hiatus from Doctor Who. His supposition? They were off recording an absolutely chilling New Age meditation tape. Pair this with “Doctor in Distress” for extra headache-inducing power. Hat tip to Krakenstein2! https://gizmodo.com/latest-rumors-and-hints-for-captain-america-2-doctor-w-5898241 https://gizmodo.com/doctor-in-distress-the-worst-charity-single-of-all-5473162

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Latest Rumors and Hints for Captain America 2, Doctor Who and The Robocop Remake!

The latest Captain America 2 rumors have a surprising Community connection. And meanwhile, Kevin Feige promises that Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man movie is still happening. The great Peter Dinklage joins the mind-bending science fiction movie Rememory. And do we finally know what the mysterious extraterrestrials in The Avengers are? All that, plus the latest casting news…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

In the first trailer for Ted, Seth MacFarlane is a bong-ripping teddy bear

The first trailer for director Seth MacFarlane’s live-action film debut has hit the web. In this ribald buddy comedy, Mark Wahlberg wishes his favorite childhood toy (voiced by MacFarlane) to life, and they proceed to swear a lot in Boston accents. Ted hits theaters July 13. Hat tip to Ash (Not From Pallet Town)!

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

On Game of Thrones, knowledge is power and truth is slavery

In the season opener of Game of Thrones, a huge secret becomes common knowledge. (Or at least common rumor.) And a whole bunch of people learn that it’s better to avoid seeing the truth that’s right in front of their eyes. Does power come from knowledge, as Littlefinger suggests? Or does power come from other…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

First Fang-Banging Footage from True Blood Season 5

The first ever footage from the fifth season of the vampire sex-and-politics show, True Blood, is out. Proceed forward with copious hand-fanning. Sex, blood, showers, OH MY! We have so many questions. Who is this new brunette rolling her lips against our favorite giant vampire Viking? Did Vampire Bill look like he was going to…

Television Meredith Woerner

io9 Roundup: April 1, 2012

THE BATTLE FOR THE IRON THRONE CONTINUES | Game of Thrones returns tonight. Grab your wineskin, curl up with your favorite direwolf, and enjoy. Red Keep at King’s Landing by Ted Nasmith, thanks to Andreas. Here there be White Walkers in stylized Game of Thrones maps https://gizmodo.com/here-there-be-white-walkers-in-stylized-game-of-thrones-5897972 We’ve seen tons of attempts to map the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

An exclusive art preview of DC Comics’ new “dinosaurs versus soldiers” title

Why there really is no such thing as an unsinkable ship

HBO pays for Game Of Thrones fans to get tattooed by the House of Lannister

This Week’s TV: Adventure Time returns! Plus the Monty Python Lightsaber Battle You’ve Been Waiting For!

The perfect Irish vampire movie

Behold, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle puppets of the 1990s acting extremely creepy

The Best April Fools’ Day Gags, from Spiel Burgers to the Mass Effect 3 cartoon

Today’s unfortunate sexbot breakthrough = a poster you can make out with

Penguin poop can be seen from space

Long lost Star Trek script won’t be a fan film, after all

The trouble with race in Game of Thrones can be traced to Tolkien

Watch Arthur C. Clarke predict the internet and the iPads decades before they were invented

Neil deGrasse Tyson is behind the only major technical change in the Titanic re-release

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Made James Cameron Update the Stars in Titanic 3D

The Dalek relaxation album will make you hyperventilate

Latest Rumors and Hints for Captain America 2, Doctor Who and The Robocop Remake!

In the first trailer for Ted, Seth MacFarlane is a bong-ripping teddy bear

On Game of Thrones, knowledge is power and truth is slavery

First Fang-Banging Footage from True Blood Season 5

io9 Roundup: April 1, 2012

‘Scream 7’ Comes Home With Deleted Scenes We Hope Will Improve the Movie

A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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