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Which Star Warrior Would You Like As Your Boss?

It’s one thing to become a Jedi, but being one with the Force isn’t going to get you ahead in the modern world. Or is it? That’s the question being asked by the writers of HR World, the internet’s “leading resource and community for HR professionals.” They’ve been busy looking at the main characters of…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Martian Ice Ages Bolster Case for Life on Red Planet

Just ten million years ago (a geological eyeblink), Mars could’ve had an ice age. Even cooler, it may have been one of several, meaning the planet underwent freeze/thaw periods much like those here on Earth. And that means — you guessed it — the chances for liquid water and life on the Red Planet just…

io9 Michael Reilly

Meet the Man Who Predicted Japan’s Humanoid Robot Craze

Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. In the spring of 1988, Japanese publisher Kodansha released a revealing English-language book titled Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics, and the Coming Robotopia. The book predicted a new era when humanoid robots would dominate Japanese society in the same…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Ice Eruptions

They may look like space stations floating in vacuum, but these are actually delicate ice bubbles that formed in Ontario’s Cranberry Lake. Michael Runtz took this picture of the segmented shapes created when pockets of air slowly bubble up from the bottom of the lake and get trapped in the freezing water as they move.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Weirdly Mesmerizing Gallery of Bad Spock Drawings

A person known as Caveman Robot is the curator of a blog called “Bad Spock Drawings,” which boasts the fittingly ungrammatical subtitle “Artist Are Asked to Make a Bad Spock Drawing!” And yes, the drawings submitted by “artist” are quite bad. For some reason, Spock seems to be at his worst when strumming an instrument,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Robots Learn By Doing Improv

Your household robot won’t just clean and make repairs, it will come up with clever, novel solutions to problems by improvising. This hallmark of artificial intelligence is a little closer to reality thanks to a robot named Kurt3D. In a recent test, Kurt3D figured out how to activate a switch and open a door by…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Watch a Cylon Interrogation and the Venture Bros. Preview

Earlier this week, you read our take on the Battlestar Galactica panel at this year’s New York Comic-Con, but now – thanks to NBC/Universal’s Hulu – you can watch it for yourself. And, also thanks to the wonder of the internet, you can read just why panel moderator Marc Bernadin stayed away from the tough…

Television Graeme McMillan

Transformers Meets Cloverfield, from the Director Of Hostel

Hostel director Eli Roth is sick of doing torture-porn, and he’s in the home stretch of writing a huge-budget PG-13 science fiction movie that he says is inspired by Transformers and Cloverfield. He isn’t giving any details about the new project, except that it’ll feature “mass-destruction” and pandemonium. (The other thing Cloverfield and Transformers have…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

And Now . . . The Children Of The Children Of The Atom

Ever wondered what would happen if the X-Men all got slightly more incestual as a group? The answer awaits you in the first issue of next month’s new series GeNext, where classic X-Men writer Chris Claremont gets to fantasize about what would happen if the members of Marvel’s mutant favorite franchise got “busy” with each…

io9 Graeme McMillan

What Happens After The Oceanic Six Get Home?

Every day, we scan through reams of spoilers for Gossip Girl (someone’s gay) and Grey’s Anatomy (someone is having a relationship, or not) just to find a few precious nuggets of scifi spoilerage. Today’s results include a ton of details on the filming of the end of Lost season four, plus two new clips and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Spaghetti Space Opera’s Greatest Moment

The Italians created two awesome Star Wars clones in 1979: the David Hasselhoff-in-eyeliner movie Star Crash (which we featured a while back), and this movie, The Humanoid. It stars Richard Kiel (“Jaws” from the James Bond movies) as a super-soldier — who decapitates like eight guys by throwing one pylon in this clip. It also…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Spike Lee and Nokia Making a Film Entirely Out of Your Cellphone Footage

Spike Lee has teamed up with Nokia in an attempt to “democratize film” by developing a movie based entirely out of user-submitted cellphone footage. The film will focus on “the way music tells the story of humanity” and consist of three acts based on “assignments” posted on the project website. After an assignment has been…

Movies Sean Fallon

The U.S. Military is Looking for a Few Good X-Men

The U.S. military is famous for getting inspiration from science fiction — witness the not-very-aptly-named Star Wars defense system — and now they’re turning to comic books too. Unfortunately, they’re learning from the bad guys. DARPA has just announced a new project called the Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM), named after Magneto, one of the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Panasonic Joining OLED TV Game?

In a end-of-article one-liner afterthought, Digitimes noted that Panasonic will begin making OLED TVs “in the future.” They’ll join Samsung (2009) and LG (2011) in jumping off the current LCD and Plasma train, which is an increasingly competitive (read: lower margin) market. [Digitimes] https://gizmodo.com/samsung-oled-tvs-in-2009-382434

Television Jason Chen

Jules Verne Wants You To Shoot The Moon

Jules Verne first published From The Earth to the Moon, or De la Terre à la Lune, in 1865, pre-dating our first real visit to our lunar neighbor by over 100 years. It involves a post -American Civil War group called The Baltimore Gun Club firing a three-person capsule from an enormous gun. The goal:…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Best Novels Of 2007 Include Alternate Present And Near Future Stories

You’ve chosen the winners of this year’s Locus Awards for science fiction novels, stories, novellas, story collections, first novels and a few other categories. Locus has announced the finalists — including Charles Stross’ Halting State, Michael Chabon’s Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Ian McDonald’s Brasyl, William Gibson’s Spook Country and Joe Haldeman’s The Accidental Time Machine, for…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Battlestar Clip: The Gods Hate Gaius Baltar

Even as the once-solid Cylon unity starts to splinter, a religious war is looming on Battlestar Galactica, judging from this clip from tomorrow night’s episode. Baltar’s been a traitor, an arrogant scientist, and a corrupt politician… but apparently there are third, fourth and fifth acts in Caprican life. (And maybe sixth, if Baltar’s mental Cylon…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

We Can Stop Global Warming — And Cook Ourselves Alive

Tweaking Earth’s climate to combat global warming seems like a great idea. Giant mirrors or shades in space, artificially enhanced cloud cover, and regular injections of reflective sulfate particles into the stratosphere could all help cool the planet enough for us to ignore all of the CO2 we’re pumping into the atmosphere. But a new…

io9 Michael Reilly

The Most Exciting, Baffling, Thrilling, and Mysterious Tie-In Product Ever! (1954)

The Mono-view Outer Space Helmet (yours for 25 cents and a box top) was just one of a panoply of mail-order goodies the Space Patrol TV show shamelessly hawked to the kiddies during its run from 1950-1955. Remember, Commander Corry wants you to have it! Unless you’re a girl, of course: the ad makes it…

io9 Lynn Peril

Latest Murder-Plague Movie Has Lush Anime Visuals

Do we really need another movie about a virus that turns people into psycho berzerkers, forcing riot cops with cool-looking goggles to wield an iron fist to hold the crumbling shreds of society together? I may have just answered my own question… but what if it’s a nice-looking animated film, with touches of Akira and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Which Star Warrior Would You Like As Your Boss?

Martian Ice Ages Bolster Case for Life on Red Planet

Meet the Man Who Predicted Japan’s Humanoid Robot Craze

Ice Eruptions

A Weirdly Mesmerizing Gallery of Bad Spock Drawings

Robots Learn By Doing Improv

Watch a Cylon Interrogation and the Venture Bros. Preview

Transformers Meets Cloverfield, from the Director Of Hostel

And Now . . . The Children Of The Children Of The Atom

What Happens After The Oceanic Six Get Home?

Spaghetti Space Opera’s Greatest Moment

Spike Lee and Nokia Making a Film Entirely Out of Your Cellphone Footage

The U.S. Military is Looking for a Few Good X-Men

Panasonic Joining OLED TV Game?

Jules Verne Wants You To Shoot The Moon

Best Novels Of 2007 Include Alternate Present And Near Future Stories

New Battlestar Clip: The Gods Hate Gaius Baltar

We Can Stop Global Warming — And Cook Ourselves Alive

The Most Exciting, Baffling, Thrilling, and Mysterious Tie-In Product Ever! (1954)

Latest Murder-Plague Movie Has Lush Anime Visuals

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

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Amazon Slashes 50% Off Keurig K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Now a Budget Alternative to Breville and Nespresso Espresso Machines

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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