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Dune Remake Will Be Budget-Killer

A new Dune movie will be “big big big,” says director Peter Berg (The Kingdom.) The David Lynch version was dandy, but “that interpretation has left the door wide open for a remake,” Berg says. If it wasn’t for the writers’ strike, he’d be working on his version of the Frank Herbert mega-novel right now.…

Television Charliejane

Where Will The Weird Alien Kid Strike Next?

Since 2004, actor Cameron Bright has played four versions of the same freaky alien kid. You may remember him from Stargate, Ultraviolet, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, or The 4400. When a script calls for a “bizarre child with a powerful blank stare,” he must be the only actor they phone up. Here are some…

Movies Kevin Kelly

Bill Clinton Craved SciFi

Bill Clinton demanded that Camp David subscribe to the SciFi Channel in the summer of 1996, according to an email released by his presidential library in response to a FOIA request. The library also released six emails pertaining to UFO sightings and extraterrestrial contact. But weirdly enough, the Clinton archive refused to release other sensitive…

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World’s Crummiest Cyborg Action Figure

There’s nothing like the delight on a child’s face when they unwrap a present and behold the wonder of an extremely cool toy. Unfortunately, Rom the Spaceknight wasn’t one of them. He looked like a bulimic Cylon who couldn’t bend his arms or legs, and came with three clunky accessories to help him in his…

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Love Between a Mad Scientist and a Degenerate Speck of Hypermatter

Alien invaders tend to shoot acid, go invisible, or drive humongous ships. Not the ones in Rudy Rucker’s 1980s classic The Sex Sphere, where an alien named Babs and her crew take the form of disembodied sex organs that attach to human hosts. Once attached, the humans go into orgasm pleasure dreamland, and never really…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Lady Wasteland is a Dystopia on the Verge

Tonight is the fifth episode of the kickass postapocalyptic Web TV show Lady Wasteland, which will pick up right after our heroine (the titular Lady Wasteland) gun-fu’d her way out of a robbery, rescued a guy and his kid, got shot by a mysterious someone, had her blood drunk by zombies, then narrowly escaped. Plus,…

Television Annalee Newitz

Ravers Crushed By E.T.-Controlled Vampire Mammoth

A bunch of innocent teens are raving in the forest when . . . they’re trampled by a giant woolly mammoth, re-animated after thousands of years in ice by an alien implant that tells it to KILL KILL. Summer Glau, whose powers of acting have been used more wisely in Firefly and upcoming Sarah Connor…

Television Annalee Newitz

A Robot’s Vision of Antarctica’s Undersea Kingdom

This looks like a rocket entering a wormhole, but it’s actually a robot camera designed to function on the ocean floor under the Anatarctic ice. The Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) can fit through a hole in the ice as small as 15 cm. Similar cameras could one day probe a…

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We Don’t Need Your Stupid A.I. to Have a Good Singularity

Catherine Valente, author of adventure tale The Cities of Coin and Spice, says the singularity isn’t about artificial intelligence or nanobots. Instead, that scifi moment at which everything “now” becomes “the future” is personal, too: Valente compares the big Singularity to personal singularities like living as a divorced person when you thought you’d be married…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

How Would We Kill Aliens Without Faster Than Light Travel?

What if warp drive, hyperspace and wormholes turn out to be fantasies? We’ll still need to kill aliens from other solar systems. What will we do? Take the poll after the jump! Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.

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io9 Asks A Ninja About Beowulf and Global Warming

The Ninja from AskANinja.com slipped steathily into the shadowy corners of Los Angeles for a live show, and io9 pinned him down for a few questions. Check out the Q&A that cost us an arm and a leg (literally), and find out about the Ninja’s secret movie plans, after the jump. In a fight between…

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We Know When You’re Pretending to Pay Attention

It’s easy to tell when somebody isn’t paying attention — their eyes wander, and they say “mm hm” a lot. But what about when they are doing a good job of pretending to pay attention by meeting your eyes? Now a University of Western Ontario psychology researcher says it’s possible to monitor who is not…

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Marvel Working On ‘Power Pack’ Movie

Stan Lee had a lot to talk about earlier this week when he accepted his Jules Verne Lifetime Achievement award, and one of those things was the fact that Marvel has been seriously considering doing a movie based on their Power Pack comic book. You can’t chalk this one up to senility, because Lee definitely…

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Bioengineered Pig Teeth Grown Inside a Rat’s Stomach

These are bionengineered tooth crowns grown from pig cells that were implanted in a rat’s stomach. Obviously a beta version resulted. But eventually scientists hope to use teeth like these in your mouth. Yum. Image by Douglas McFadd via Getty.

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Singing Career of Tik Tok the Clockwork Man

Before the word “robot” was invented, L. Frank Baum wrote about a clockwork man named Tik-Tok who lived in Oz. Tik-Tok is a portly metal creature who constantly needs winding. Though he has no emotions, he is ridiculously grateful to Dorothy after she discovers him in a cave and winds him up in the 1907…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Bill Murray Plays Dystopian Underground Ruler for the Kids

Bill Murray cackles like a cartoon villain in this first glimpse of tween post-apocalyptic flick City of Ember, out next fall. He plays the corrupt mayor of an underground city who tries to prevent our two teen heroes from discovering how to get back above ground now that the city’s power generator is failing. The…

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Klaatu Comes To Madison Avenue

The delay-plagued The Day The Earth Stood Still remake gained a shot of credibility with the casting of Jon Hamm, fresh from his Golden Globe nod for Mad Men. The movie, also starring Keanu Reeves (playing the alien Klaatu) and Jennifer Connelly, started principal photography Dec. 12. [Reuters] A new Jericho pic, plus bad signs…

Television Charliejane

The Real KITT

Life imitates Knight Rider. Australian police are testing a new super-car that can recognize 5000 license plates in a day, respond to voice commands and calculate whether other cars are speeding. Best of all, the ESCV can fire a small dart with a GPS locator into other vehicles, so the cops can locate them later…

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First Peek at Glorious Freakshow of Hellboy II

Guillermo Del Toro, who directed Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, is back for Hellboy II: The Golden Army this summer. Expect loads more monsters and an evil fairy tale look that the director says is more badass than the so-called “dark” versions of various other comic books getting made into movies. (Ahem Batman.) IGN just posted…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Teen Girl’s Giant Robot Smashes Metropolis

Seventeen-year-old Tabitha Brennan drives a truck which transforms into a giant girl robot, crushing the mobsters who stand between her and crime boss-hood. That’s just one splash page from this week’s Birds of Prey #113, the first issue from Sean McKeever (Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane). See the full image, and get some spoilers, below the…

Books & Comics Charliejane

Dune Remake Will Be Budget-Killer

Where Will The Weird Alien Kid Strike Next?

Bill Clinton Craved SciFi

World’s Crummiest Cyborg Action Figure

Love Between a Mad Scientist and a Degenerate Speck of Hypermatter

Lady Wasteland is a Dystopia on the Verge

Ravers Crushed By E.T.-Controlled Vampire Mammoth

A Robot’s Vision of Antarctica’s Undersea Kingdom

We Don’t Need Your Stupid A.I. to Have a Good Singularity

How Would We Kill Aliens Without Faster Than Light Travel?

io9 Asks A Ninja About Beowulf and Global Warming

We Know When You’re Pretending to Pay Attention

Marvel Working On ‘Power Pack’ Movie

Bioengineered Pig Teeth Grown Inside a Rat’s Stomach

The Singing Career of Tik Tok the Clockwork Man

Bill Murray Plays Dystopian Underground Ruler for the Kids

Klaatu Comes To Madison Avenue

The Real KITT

First Peek at Glorious Freakshow of Hellboy II

Teen Girl’s Giant Robot Smashes Metropolis

Artemis 2 Crew Become First Humans to Travel Beyond Earth Orbit Since the 1970s

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Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

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New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang

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