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The Five Essential Best Picture Winners for Tech Lovers

Pop some popcorn and zip up your Oscar watchin’ pants, because the 83rd Academy Awards are this Sunday. To get us all in the proper cinematic mood, we’ve rounded up our five favorite tech-heavy Best Picture-winning flicks. Around the World in 80 Days Sure, its special effects are a bit quaint by our spoiled modern…

Movies Sam Biddle

Hipster Disney Princesses take over the internet

A few weeks ago Hipster Ariel was burning up the memes – now her snarky Ray-Ban rants are being picked up by the rest of the Disney Princess crew. We give you Hipster Mulan, Pocahontas, Jasmine, Snow White, and more. Via Fuck Yeah Hipster Ariel, Reddit, Ology, Hipster Princess, and Geekosystem. The Originator Then the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

10 Scientists Who Experimented on Themselves

Science moves forward by experimentation. Often, however, that experimentation is laughably silly, incredibly frightening, or unconscionably cruel. Since the reaction of most scientists who are faced with such experiments is either, “get a monkey” or “get an unsuspecting human,” there are a lot of horror stories out there. There’s also the need to take a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The apocalypse is boring in Vanishing on 7th Street

Hayden Christensen huddles in a shrinking pool of light while a mysterious darkness swallows up the entire human race. Vanishing on 7th. Street, in select theaters today, starts out spooky, but fails to make you care about its characters. Spoilers ahead… Vanishing on 7th. St. is one of those movies that starts off really, really…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

See the world’s first robot marathon from the robot’s point of view

First we had marathon man. Now we have marathon machine. Osaka started the world’s first Robot Marathon yesterday. Four robots will be competing in this historic race, and although they are only around a foot tall, they will be made to complete a full 26.2 mile marathon. One of them even comes with a helmet…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Why the Hell is Inception Being Converted to 3D?

Christopher Nolan, you made a great movie and all, but converting it to 3D post-production is not a good idea. Sure, it’ll squeeze a few more dollars out of everyone, but as we know, 3D conversion does not make for a good experience. [Blu-ray.com via TechRadar]

Movies Kat Hannaford

She watched the sun rise from a smart bubble at the edge of the sea

Who doesn’t want to live at the tide line in a completely transparent bubble full of comfy chairs and a nice fluffy bed? This is post-human nomad existence at its most groovy. It may not be made of smart matter yet, but the Bubble House will make you feel like you’re living in an atmosphere…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Start your career in scientific research right, with humiliation from the Journal of Universal Rejection

So you want to get into the research business, and publish long papers full of footnotes, charts, and formulae in nice academic journals? Then get ready for rejection. Luckily there’s one journal that can give you that satisfaction the very first time you submit a paper: It’s the Journal of Universal Rejection, whose entire reason…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Inside the mysterious mechanics of a mud volcano

In 2006 the ground near Sidoarjo, Indonesia started spitting up mud. The mud volcano, Lusi, has been continuously erupting ever since, displacing 40,000 people and killing fifteen. How long it keeps going depends on the cause, which remains unknown. Some scientists believe Lusi will keep erupting for at least another twenty years. Others believe the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Local vampire outsmarts bank, goes on Fox News to brag about it

Did you know that the bank might be screwing you out of your hard-earned cash? Patrick Rodgers, Philadelphia vampire, stopped by the local news to share his money-making secrets with the mortals of the world.

Movies Meredith Woerner

James McAvoy talks X-Men bromance, Thor screenwriter explains his hero, and a surprise returning Doctor Who guest star!

Star James McAvoy explains Professor X and Magneto’s love story in X-Men: First Class. Writer Don Payne discusses the difficulties of Thor. Is the Doctor’s old friend returning? Plus a first look at James Franco in Rise of the Apes! Spoilers from here on out! X-Men: First Class James McAvoy explains how the young Professor…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

This Is the Worst Lie Your Computer Tells You

A watched pot never boils, and a watched download never finishes. Honestly, I’d rather my laptop just say “hey, chill, working on it” than give the kind of false hope it seems to specialize in. [Doghouse Diaries]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

Watch the amazing trailer for Robonaut 2: The next step in space robotics

The Space Shuttle Discovery’s crew today includes one special robot — Robonaut 2, who has way more lifting and manipulation capacity than existing humanoid robots. Check out this super-dramatic movie-style trailer, showing why Robonaut is the bot with a mission. I love the super-tense movie music interspersed with splashy captions and shots of Robonaut doing…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

All Criterion Collection Blu-Ray Titles Are Half Off for the Next 50,000 Seconds

To celebrate the acquisition of their 50,000th Facebook fan, Criterion Collection is offering a 50% discount on all their Blu-ray (and DVD) titlesfor the next 13.8 hours. Just enter the discount code “THANKS” when you’re checking out. [Facebook]

Movies Adrian Covert

The big moments to watch for on Oscar night

Sunday night’s Academy Awards show may not have all of last year’s Avatar-related buzz. But you should still keep your eyes glued to the screen for plenty of other gigantic moments that could change the course of movie-making history forever. We’ve rounded them up for you. Here’s our handy guide to Oscar Night 2011. Science…

io9 Meredith Woerner

If you live in Madison, WI, you could be working on the Doctor Who MMO

It’s the chance of a lifetime for some lucky game developer living in Madison, Wisconsin — the opportunity to work on the first ever Doctor Who massively multiplayer online role-playing game Worlds In Time. The job announcement just went up at Three Rings, the San Francisco-based game designer best known for Puzzle Pirates. What’s this…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Want to pass on your genes? Polygamy isn’t the solution.

There are reasons, then and now, that people might gather in plural marriages. Some people are inclined to have more than one partner in life. Others believe that they should have multiple spouses for religious reasons. Still others are practical: Many spouses can mean much less work when it comes to childcare and household chores.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Is this the end of dark matter?

Dark matter is our best explanation for why galaxies stay together when they don’t seem massive enough to keep up gravitational attraction. But now a largely-dismissed alternative theory has some actual proof backing it up. This could get complicated. Image by Marius Krivicius/Shutterstock Dark matter, which calls for the existence of massive particles (or some…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

This Is the Last Launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery

Today, Discovery reached for the stars for the last time in history. The launch almost got canceled because of a last-minute computer display problem, but the engineers saved the day a couple of seconds before the launch window deadline. Here’s the video of the launch. It was a thrilling moment. I just can’t imagine the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Chris Roberson Conjures Superman in Episode 31 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Chris Roberson—writer of Superman: Grounded and I, Zombie—joins us this week on io9’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast to talk about comic books, writing the Man of Steel, and Lex Luthor’s hair. Art by Eddy Barrows via DC Comics The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr…

Books & Comics Johnjosephadams

The Five Essential Best Picture Winners for Tech Lovers

Hipster Disney Princesses take over the internet

10 Scientists Who Experimented on Themselves

The apocalypse is boring in Vanishing on 7th Street

See the world’s first robot marathon from the robot’s point of view

Why the Hell is Inception Being Converted to 3D?

She watched the sun rise from a smart bubble at the edge of the sea

Start your career in scientific research right, with humiliation from the Journal of Universal Rejection

Inside the mysterious mechanics of a mud volcano

Local vampire outsmarts bank, goes on Fox News to brag about it

James McAvoy talks X-Men bromance, Thor screenwriter explains his hero, and a surprise returning Doctor Who guest star!

This Is the Worst Lie Your Computer Tells You

Watch the amazing trailer for Robonaut 2: The next step in space robotics

All Criterion Collection Blu-Ray Titles Are Half Off for the Next 50,000 Seconds

The big moments to watch for on Oscar night

If you live in Madison, WI, you could be working on the Doctor Who MMO

Want to pass on your genes? Polygamy isn’t the solution.

Is this the end of dark matter?

This Is the Last Launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery

Chris Roberson Conjures Superman in Episode 31 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

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