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io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15

The best Syfy Original Movie trailer ever is for Sharktopus

You can’t go wrong with Sharktopus. Roger Corman helms a movie that is a glorious celebration of giant monsters for giant monster’s sake. And the sharktopus looks awesome! I especially like how it can come on land. Land sharktopus! Click to view Click to view

Trailers Annalee Newitz Jul 15

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io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15

16 demented Green Lantern stories that we’re sure won’t be in the movie

Now you’ve seen Green Lantern’s costume, and we’ll learn more Lantern facts at Comic Con. But we already know one thing for sure: There’s no way the movie can include these 16 utterly loopy storylines from the Green Lantern comics. #1 Green Lantern gets knocked on the head. It’s the thing that seems to happen…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 15

BP well has been capped, and has stopped gushing oil

A new cap (pictured) was lowered into place Monday over BP’s gushing oil well in the Gulf, and today was temporarily sealed. For the first time in three months, oil is not gushing into the ocean from this disaster. Don’t get too excited, though. Using the cap to close off the well is just part…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 15

See something truly unexpected at the Comic-Con Independent Film Festival

There’s a lot of stuff to see at Comic Con, but one of the best parts is the SDCC Independent Film Festival. It delivers a heady, steady stream of unbridled cinematic creativity. See, every year, the organizers of Comic Con International also host the Independent Film Festival — which welcomes entries from all over the…

Movies Marc Bernardin Jul 15

Preview Tongues of Serpents

What do you remember from history class about the Napoleonic Wars? Waterloo? Josephine? How about the fleet of intelligent, militarized dragons who helped battle for world dominance? Forgot that part? Tongues of Serpents, the sixth book in the Temeraire series, will jog your memory. Naomi Novik’s exhilarating fantasy series follows the brutal wars of the…

io9 Gawkercreative Jul 15

How to write the next great alien language

Constructing an entire alien language is the most challenging task in all of speculative fiction, and there are two examples that tower above the rest: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish and Marc Okrand’s Klingon. We’ll show you how to outdo even them. When it comes to world-building, there’s no finer way to capture an alien culture than…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 15

Sharpen your #2 pencils… to stab in your neighbor’s eye the Exam trailer is out!

We’re dying to see a screening of this film in the states. The Exam shows what happens when you lock eight people in a room and tell them it’s a test. Bloodshed! Watch what happens in this new trailer. We love weird conspiracy films! Check for it at your local art house theaters and on…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 15

Smoking cigarettes damages 323 different human genes

It’s not exactly news that smoking cigarettes is bad for you, but this latest danger is a doozy: smoking damages your genome. The largest genetic study of smoking ever has identified over 300 genes that are negatively affected by cigarettes. The study looked at white blood cells from over a thousand people in the hopes…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 15

Stop the mumbling! Why can’t we understand what people are saying in movies any more?

Did you understand what Vin Diesel was saying half the time in Pitch Black? Or the new B.A. Baracus in The A-Team? And good luck understanding Ken Watanabe in Inception. DenOfGeek declares war on muddy sound mixes and mumbling actors.

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 15

New trailer for “The Social Network” is classic scifi techno-tragedy

There’s a good case to be made that The Social Network is a science fiction movie set in the present, about the way technology transforms human life – often with tragic and unintended consequences. The new trailer delivers on tragedy. https://gizmodo.com/is-the-social-network-a-science-fiction-movie-5580630 Of course the tragic victims are us, the people who use Facebook because we…

Trailers Annalee Newitz Jul 15

How to vacuum up every last little piece of news about San Diego Comic-Con

Our pals over at UGO have put together an excellent list of all the blogs with plans to cover SDCC, with a handy guide linking to each site’s coverage – as well as a taste of what they’ll be covering most intensely. You can visit UGO for more information, or visit some of the blogs…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 15

How much should you compromise your vision to get published?

Your writing reflects your unique — and sometimes messy — vision of the world. But how much should you compromise or censor yourself to get published? Urban fantasy author Stacia Kane delves into tricky questions of art and commerce. A few weeks ago over on the Romance Divas forum a discussion was started about honesty…

Books & Comics Stacia Kane Jul 15

The latest experimental robots, from dinobots to Robosapiens

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) just met in Georgia, and some new photos show off the incredible diversity of your future robot overlords. Jiuguang Wang (JiuGuangW on Flickr) visited AAAI as well as some local robotics labs, and posted some amazing photos. It’s pretty incredible how many different visions of the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 15

Big mystery holding back practical superconductors may have been solved

Superconductors carry electric current with no energy loss. They could revolutionize our electrical grid, but they only work at impractically low temperatures. We just figured out a key reason why – and possibly got a lot closer to room-temperature superconductors. Scientists have spent the last two decades trying to figure out why their superconductors only…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 15

Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern costume revealed!

Check out your first look at Warner Brother’s new Green Lantern costume, on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. So what do you think of our new Hal Jordan? Should those who worship evil’s might be worried? UPDATE: More images added. Click on the image for the super high res. version. The Green Lantern EW issues…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 15

Gong Li and Andy Lau sign up for Chinese remake of Mel Gibson’s creepiest film

Mel Gibson skeeved us out when he gained selective telepathy, allowing him to hear women’s thoughts, in What Women Want. So why is the fantastic Gong Li signing up to star with Andy Lau in a Chinese remake? There’s a whole sub-genre of films out there that combine the worst elements of romantic comedy and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 15

Get Creative Cosplay

The best Syfy Original Movie trailer ever is for Sharktopus

Kid Cosplay

Cosplay Teams

Scott Pilgrim Cosplay

16 demented Green Lantern stories that we’re sure won’t be in the movie

BP well has been capped, and has stopped gushing oil

See something truly unexpected at the Comic-Con Independent Film Festival

Preview Tongues of Serpents

How to write the next great alien language

Sharpen your #2 pencils… to stab in your neighbor’s eye the Exam trailer is out!

Smoking cigarettes damages 323 different human genes

Stop the mumbling! Why can’t we understand what people are saying in movies any more?

New trailer for “The Social Network” is classic scifi techno-tragedy

How to vacuum up every last little piece of news about San Diego Comic-Con

How much should you compromise your vision to get published?

The latest experimental robots, from dinobots to Robosapiens

Big mystery holding back practical superconductors may have been solved

Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern costume revealed!

Gong Li and Andy Lau sign up for Chinese remake of Mel Gibson’s creepiest film

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