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A Homebrew Club for Biogeeks

Back in the 1970s, engineering enthusiasts formed homebrew computer clubs that later gave rise to the first consumer-grade computing machines. A similar movement is afoot in the world of biology. Of course it’s starting in Cambridge, Mass., city of mad scientists. Calling themselves the DiYBio Club, they had their first meeting last month to talk…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Exclusive First Look At The Middleman’s Mexican Wrestler Foes

A Mexican Wrestler — wielding an oversized laser gun — threatens straight-edge superhero The Middleman in this exclusive new photo from ABC Family’s new superhero series The Middleman, which premieres June 16. Besides the masked laser-brandishing luchadores, The Middleman will face a range of villains including vampire cows, aliens, and gorilla mob-bosses. Click through for…

io9 Meredith Woerner

VisionArt Hides Flat Panel TVs and Speakers Behind Fine Art For Classy Consumers

If you are planning to install a flat panel television into a tastefully decorated room, chances are you will want to conceal that sucker along with any speaker setups so as not to detract from all of your well-crafted classiness. VisionArt may have an ideal solution that conceals your equipment behind museum quality art prints…

Television Sean Fallon

Raimi Still Perching On The Fence, With Spider-Like Agility

Sam Raimi is still doing the will-he-won’t-he dance when it comes to directing Spider-Man 4. In an interview with Coming Soon, he repeated his previous statements that his participation depends on whether James Vanderbilt’s script knocks his socks off. (A degree of caution one wishes he’d shown with Spider-Man 3.) [Coming Soon] https://gizmodo.com/spider-man-is-trapped-in-a-web-of-pitch-meetings-311730 https://gizmodo.com/sam-raimi-put-a-sock-in-it-327657

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How Alien Kids Get High

Floaty bubbles carry children to the rooftops of a crazy scifi city in “Dangerous Entertainment,” a picture from the mind of Russian concept artist Sergey Skachkov. According to Skachkov’s CG profile this is Crater-City, from a distant planet. “This city has arisen from a fiery lava spouting out of the ground. Strange constructions of the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Master Of Male Danger Will Write Dune Movie

Peter Berg’s movie of Frank Herbert’s desert epic novel Dune could be a tense thriller about men who barely repress their inner monsters, if screenwriter Josh Zetumer gets to write the script. Zetumer, who’s in talks to script it, is “especially good at developing complex male characters in whom danger is always lurking just beneath…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Is the U.S. Space Program History?

If you’re fascinated by all things related to rockets, trips to the moon, and the inner workings of the US space program (and who isn’t), then you won’t want to miss Discovery’s new miniseries, When We Left Earth. It traces the 50-year history of the Space Age in the United States, and is packed with…

io9 Annalee Newitz

She’ll Be Back: First Set Pics Of Terminator Season Two

Sarah Connor is looking a bit the worse for wear in the first pictures of the filming of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season two, which debuts Sept. 8 on Fox. Click through to find out why our future freedom fighter is so jacked up — and to see who else is back for season…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Ultimate Star Wars Fan Directory? It’s A Trap!

For a franchise that takes place in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars certainly takes up a lot of this galaxy’s internet. Thankfully for those of you who need to tell your Baleen Whaletortoise from your Bergruutfa, someone has created a guide to more Star Wars fansites than you could ever want to visit.…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Did Somebody Hack Your Virtual Breasts?

I can’t stop thinking about a story that broke earlier this week about a bug that reduced the breast sizes of tons of large-boobed avatars in the MMO “Age of Conan” (you can see before and after pictures here). No word on whether the boobs have been re-inflated, nor any real explanation of how it…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Is Earth’s Magnetic Field Failing Us?

Forget the ozone layer, global warming, and all of the other things environmentalists whine about: the one thing holding life together here on Earth is its powerful magnetic field. And for the past 150 years that humans have been measuring it, our only line of defense against deadly cosmic and solar radiation has been mysteriously…

io9 Michael Reilly

Five Reasons Why Aliens Will Make Contact with the Japanese First

Click to viewWelcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. I’ve been thinking about extraterrestrials a lot this week. Do they exist? How will we know? Who will they call if they decide to make contact with us, and through what medium? First off, nobody knows if extraterrestrials…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Fiery Blasts Don’t Compensate For Death Race’s Wimpiness

Boom goes the dynamite, as Jason Statham unflinchingly walks away from a splodey fireball, as his new film Death Race desperately tries to resurrect some of the bad-ass cred that it lost by reducing the gore content from the original Death Race 2000. Sorry buddy — Walk away from as many explosions as you like,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Who Wants A Soul Sword, When You Can Have A Light Saber?

Yoda and Darth Vader step into the ring in the battle to wield the soul swords, in the latest version of killer video game Soul Calibur IV which means more Yoda flip fighting. SC IV, Namco’s latest addition of their 3-D weapons-based fighting series, will feature either Yoda or Vader depending on your console. The…

io9 Meredith Woerner

These Skurgian Space Slugs Need Exterminating – Any Volunteers?

A few million Skurgians were unleashed onto the Xbox 360 this week, and all you have to defeat them is an unlimited supply of cluster bombs, torpedoes and chain gun ammo. Plus the ability to slow down time. Oh, and the occasional space warp. But other than that, you’re on your own out there, man.…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Marvel Comics Are Anti-Everything

Marvel Comics’ big summer Spider-Man storyline, “New Ways To Die”, promises to introduce a new villain into the webslinger’s life: a mysterious character connected to his enemy Venom, called Anti-Venom. The most recent issue of Marvel’s Fantastic Four series featured Mr. Fantastic stopping an invincible foe by wearing his new “Anti-Galactus suit”. Sensing a trend…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

A Museum Whose Shape Defies Geometry

This weekend marks the opening of San Francisco’s new Contemporary Jewish Museum, but locals have been gawking at the building’s mesmerizing shape for months. Todd Lappin of awesome blog Telstar Logistics snapped some images of this shiny, weird cube that is actually a room in the museum, even though it looks like precisely the wrong…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Weapons Inspectors on the Jovian Moons

United Nations weapon inspectors have found way more than they bargained for during a routine inspection. That may sound like the beginning of a “torn from headlines” plot from your average episode of Law & Order: International Politics Unit. But when you add in that the weapon inspections are happening on one of Jupiter’s moons…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Watch The Dark Knight’s Harvey Dent Flip His Coin

Spoiler time! There’s a new featurette about the Batman movie The Dark Knight, which includes some new footage — including District Attorney Harvey Dent playing with a coin. And early reviews of Incredible Hulk give away some juicy info about the movie’s ending. Plus there are pics from Fringe and Spectacular Spider-Man. And episode synopses…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Movie that “The Island” Ripped Off and Dumbed Down

Remember that awful movie The Island with Scarlett Johansson and Obi Wan discovering that they were clones who’d been grown to provide body parts for rich people? And all the other clones are kept in line because they’re promised a trip to “the island” if they’re good (A TRIP WHICH IS REALLY TO DEATH)? And…

Movies Annalee Newitz

A Homebrew Club for Biogeeks

Exclusive First Look At The Middleman’s Mexican Wrestler Foes

VisionArt Hides Flat Panel TVs and Speakers Behind Fine Art For Classy Consumers

Raimi Still Perching On The Fence, With Spider-Like Agility

How Alien Kids Get High

Master Of Male Danger Will Write Dune Movie

Is the U.S. Space Program History?

She’ll Be Back: First Set Pics Of Terminator Season Two

The Ultimate Star Wars Fan Directory? It’s A Trap!

Did Somebody Hack Your Virtual Breasts?

Is Earth’s Magnetic Field Failing Us?

Five Reasons Why Aliens Will Make Contact with the Japanese First

Fiery Blasts Don’t Compensate For Death Race’s Wimpiness

Who Wants A Soul Sword, When You Can Have A Light Saber?

These Skurgian Space Slugs Need Exterminating – Any Volunteers?

Marvel Comics Are Anti-Everything

A Museum Whose Shape Defies Geometry

Weapons Inspectors on the Jovian Moons

Watch The Dark Knight’s Harvey Dent Flip His Coin

The Movie that “The Island” Ripped Off and Dumbed Down

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

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?

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