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How Jimmy Kimmel Recorded Tonight’s Show With a Laptop

Even if you’re not a regular Jimmy Kimmel Live fan, it might be worth tuning in tonight. Because when they tried to film the episode yesterday, the power went out. So they recorded with a laptop webcam instead. UPDATED: The outage apparently affected the show’s control room, broadcast transmission center, and tape operations area, meaning…

Television Brian Barrett Jun 22

Don’t eat dinner while watching this alien abduction scene

Seriously, this alien-probe-tastic scene from Night Skies does not go with food. Partly because the poor humans are imprisoned with what looks like Ramen noodles and string cheese. And partly because of the whole revolting aliens-stole-my-baby thing. Really, there are two types of alien abduction movies: Ones which follow through and give you the Greys…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 22

Comic Con 2010 predictions: The convention’s must-see movies, TV and more

Gearing up for July’s San Diego Comic Con? While we’re still probably a while away from the official schedule release, we’ve cranked up our futurescope. Here are our predictions for what thrilling new movies and TV shows will be there. Thor We expect to see a lot of Thor footage this SDCC go round. Frankly,…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 22

Get ready for more food riots

West Africa has suffered poor harvests, and Oxfam says the region is facing a terrible famine. It’s already gotten so bad that people are foraging for grains inside anthills. The worst part? Food is available, but too expensive. Farmers are slaughtering their livestock for food, after having eaten all the grain reserved for the animals.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 22

The best of io9’s Concept Art Week

We’ve witnessed some amazing concept art during io9’s concept art week, and celebrated everything from the artists who make it happen to the tools they use. Here are some of the most stunning, mind-expanding concept art posts. The Year in Concept Art: From Iron Man 2 to Tron We’ve already appreciated some of the incredible…

io9 Kelly Faircloth Jun 22

Salute your borscht — scenes from Soviet summer camps

Summer’s finally here! Yay! Who’s ready for swimming, archery, and smashing the corrupt edifice of Western capitalism? Here are photos and posters from the halcyon days of Red summer camps. Canoe trips! Puppy love! Marxist dialectics! Woo! [English Russia].

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 22

First Green Hornet Trailer Shows Off Seth Rogen’s Badass Toys

Click to view The first trailer for Michel Gondry’s Green Hornet adaptation just hit, and, well, it could go either way. I think I’m willing to give it a shot just because Gondry is at the helm. What do you think? [Yahoo]

Movies Adam Frucci Jun 22

What you missed in The Gates: A guy smelling Rhona Mitra’s mouth, and nude werewolf wrestling

The Gates, ABC’s entry into the fast-growing world of vampire television, was sorta fun. A few moments stood out, however: the whole “smelling Rhona Mitra’s mouth” scene, and the naked werewolf action. Clips and spoilers below. So yeah, The Gates wasn’t a revolution in television brilliance, but as a bit of enjoyable fluff to watch…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jun 22

Scientists crack chemical code that controls bacterial swarms

The visible concentric circles you see in this picture show a bacteria swarm as the colony starts and stops its progress. Now Spanish researchers have discovered a key component of infectious bacteria’s battle plan – and how to stop it. They’ve identified a protein that tells bacteria in a colony to halt their forward march…

io9 Clay Dillow - Popular Science Jun 22

More details about Shane Carruth’s next mind-bending film!

Shane Carruth warped our minds with his ultra-low-budget Primer, and now he’s back. We caught up with Carruth and he updated us on the progress of his second film, A Topiary, plus new details have leaked out. Spoilers ahead! So now that there’s a website for Carruth’s second film, does that mean we’re actually going…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 22

College kids design next-gen rescue vehicles for NASA

What can hover in mid-air, land on air or water, carry 50 survivors, have a thousand-mile range, hit 345 mph, and even put out fires? The winner of a NASA contest for college-student engineers. Ten students from Virginia Tech won the NASA Aeronautics Amphibious Tilt Rotor for Civilian Operations Competition — a mouthful of a…

io9 Marc Bernardin Jun 22

The high-flying alternate reality of Sci-Fi Air Show

At Sci-Fi Air Show, the spacecraft of yesteryear are refurbished and displayed for awed audiences. The catch? The site is from an alternate dimension in which these spaceships existed. In other words, Stanley Kubrick really filmed 2001 in deep space. To the uninitiated, perusing Sci-Fi Air Show is a hilariously disorienting experience — the site…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 22

Welcome our new spider robot overlords

In this demo of a robot being developed at Chiba Institute of Technology, a researcher rides on the back of what could one day become that giant mechanical spider from Wild, Wild West. Except without the steam of course.

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 22

Barnes & Noble is (pretty much) giving comics away

If you get your ass to Barnes & Noble, you’ll find that a select batch of trade paperbacks are selling at 80% off. And good stuff, too. Hope it’s not an Amazon-style glitch, but hurry just in case. [Twitter]

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin Jun 22

Inception’s dream heist crew comes together

Meet Inception’s team: The Extractor, The Point Man, The Architect, The Forger, The Shade… and even discover their Mark. If you liked being completely in the dark about Chris Nolan’s mysterious feature, be warned: There are quite a few spoilers. First trailer via MSN. Wow, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a bad ass sex bomb in that.…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 22

Will totalitarianism make a comeback? We asked Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Totalitarianism towered over the 20th century — a leader-focused, oppressive form of rule in which the individual was crushed. Now it seems to have receded as an ideal. But will it be back? We asked the expert, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski is best known for having been the National Security Advisor in the Carter Administration, and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 22

Here comes the Last Son of Krypton. It’s all right.

This may be one of the greatest Superman covers ever. Frank Quitely does it again with this amazing cover to the Absolute Edition of All Star Superman. [The Source via Comic Book Resources]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 22

The deadly inheritance of chimps and humans

A new study of chimp behavior reveals that humans share something deadly with our genetic cousins. Chimps routinely wage war on their own species, murdering neighbors to gain new territory. Did we inherit warlike urges from a common ancestor? For ten years, a group of researchers tailed a large group of chimps through Uganda’s Kibale…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 22

Is Disney scouring Marvel’s B-listers for the next big superhero flick?

With Marvel’s A-listers ensnared in preexisting movie franchises, it appears Disney’s cultivating the publisher’s second-tier superheroes. Two writers behind the upcoming Conan flick are penning a Dr. Strange script, and Disney’s apparently producing short films for heroes like Luke Cage. According to Deadline, Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Donnelly, two writers of Lionsgate’s Hyborian reboot, are…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jun 22

Set your phasers on “Tik Tok”

This mashup of Ke$ha’s ubiquitous, unrelenting hit song and classic Star Trek makes two things perfectly clear: 1) The Enterprise was a nonstop party vessel and 2) Kirk/Spock slash fiction will never die. [Topless Robot]

io9 Marc Bernardin Jun 22

How Jimmy Kimmel Recorded Tonight’s Show With a Laptop

Don’t eat dinner while watching this alien abduction scene

Comic Con 2010 predictions: The convention’s must-see movies, TV and more

Get ready for more food riots

The best of io9’s Concept Art Week

Salute your borscht — scenes from Soviet summer camps

First Green Hornet Trailer Shows Off Seth Rogen’s Badass Toys

What you missed in The Gates: A guy smelling Rhona Mitra’s mouth, and nude werewolf wrestling

Scientists crack chemical code that controls bacterial swarms

More details about Shane Carruth’s next mind-bending film!

College kids design next-gen rescue vehicles for NASA

The high-flying alternate reality of Sci-Fi Air Show

Welcome our new spider robot overlords

Barnes & Noble is (pretty much) giving comics away

Inception’s dream heist crew comes together

Will totalitarianism make a comeback? We asked Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Here comes the Last Son of Krypton. It’s all right.

The deadly inheritance of chimps and humans

Is Disney scouring Marvel’s B-listers for the next big superhero flick?

Set your phasers on “Tik Tok”

Scientists Think They’ve Finally Discovered Why Your Cat Never Finishes Its Meal

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Trump’s War on American Cybersecurity Ramps Up With Planned $700 Million Cuts to CISA

10 Years Ago Today, ‘Star Wars’ Changed Its Future With the First Look at ‘Rogue One’

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