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There’s no dystopia as campy as a post-Rapture dystopia

Now that we know the Rapture is coming on May 21, it’s time to prepare. So what will life be like after the Rapture? Judging from this awesome post-Rapture movie, it’ll be just like other dystopian futures… only campier. http://gawker.com/5704035/save-the-date-jesus-is-coming-in-may In the direct-to-DVD The Moment After 2: the Awakening, it’s a while after the Rapture,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Cop turned corporate spy took his inspiration from Stargate and Babylon 5

A British undercover police officer who infiltrated environmental groups was moonlighting as a corporate spy. And his semi-legal espionage companies were full of science fiction references. The story of Mark Kennedy, which has grown into an enormous scandal over the past few weeks, is a tangle that reveals strange links between covert police work and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Basement Jaxx scoring Nick Frost’s alien invasion flick

Move over Trent Reznor, Basement Jaxx is all set to provide the score for science fiction’s next big sensation: Nick Frost and Joe Cornish’s teenagers-vs-aliens movie Attack the Block. According to the Playlist, Attack the Block is about a teen gang in South London (called the Hoodies) who have to defend their block from an…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Is this Wireless Graphics Card Stupidly Intuitive or Just Stupid?

Cable cutting is almost a reflexively good thing, right? Wireless mice, wireless console controllers, wireless internet—but is this wireless KFA2 GeForce GTX460 graphics card just wireless for the pure sake of it? Or is this the future? The ostensibly cool factor of a graphics card like this—which KFA2 claims can output 1080p video at 60hz…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Solving the cosmic mystery of the green blob in space

Back in 2007, Dutch schoolteacher and amateur astronomer Hanny van Arkel spotted a strange object near a distant spiral galaxy…and nobody had any idea what it was. Now, four years later, we’re finally learning the truth about this mysterious object Hanny’s Voorwerp – which is simply Dutch for “Hanny’s Object” – confounded astronomers when van…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Evil toy mastermind The Sucklord and his “ghetto Star Wars” empire

Who is The Sucklord? He’s a Boba Fett-masked supercriminal whose passion for creating bootleg action figures has penetrated the rarefied world of high art. io9 hit up his recent gallery opening in NYC and learned of all things Suckadelic. Yesterday marked the opening of “You’re An Asshole For Buying This — The Suckadelic Art Toy…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Google Places for iPhone

Google’s library of data is immense, sometimes dauntingly so. The new Google Places iPhone app is an elegant entry point into one particularly dark and disorganized fold of Google’s mega-brain: their restaurant, bar, and venue listings. What is it? Google Places, iPhone, Free. Once upon a time, Google tried to buy the restaurant-rating site Yelp.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Get to Know and Stalk the Gizmodo Staff

We’ve told you how you can stalk Gizmodo staff members on Facebook before, but we’ve realized that some of you might actually want to get to know us. So here’s a little bit of info about our staff. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-stalk-the-gizmodo-staff-on-facebook-5688748 Brian Lam Click to view Once upon a time, Brian Lam lurked around boxing gyms and…

Social Media The Gizmodo Crew

Verizon Killing Upgrade Discount Program Just In Time For iPhone 4

Verizon’s finally bringing the iPhone on board! But what’s this? The carrier’s going to be closing its “New Every Two” upgrade discount program to new subscribers three weeks before the iPhone hits its shelves? But… but… aw, man. https://gizmodo.com/the-verizon-iphone-is-here-5730527 Just to be perfectly clear, this won’t affect current subscribers who’ve been holding on to their…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Most Exciting Severed Hands Of All Time

Sometimes, to achieve true greatness, you have to give something up. Many of fantasy and science fiction’s greatest heroes have lost a hand along the way, but it just makes them more awesome. Here are the greatest severed hands, ever! Crawling hands. No matter how you slice them, they’re still spooky. Long after being separated…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Bill & Ted’s Exterminating Adventure

When time travelers collide! Maybe Doc Brown can save them? This fantastic art comes fromChristopher Jones, and prints are available for purchase at Etsy!

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watch the iPad’s New Secret Tricks

We’ve discovered a little gem in the iOS 4.3 beta: Four and five finger multi-touch gesture support for the iPad. Here’s how it looks in action. https://gizmodo.com/ios-4-3-beta-and-pre-release-apple-tv-software-now-avai-5731997 Each of the new gestures can be done with either four or five fingers—your choice—and they all work smoothly. A pinch brings you to the Home Screen, a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Book Club Reminder: Read Connie Willis’ “Blackout” and “All Clear” for 1/25

We took a hiatus for the holidays, so we’re doing a mega-read for late January: We’ll be tackling Connie Willis’ Blackout and All Clear (her two-book time travel novel). What is this io9 book club, you ask? For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Read the first three chapters from Paul McAuley’s new novel “Cowboy Angels”

We’re big fans of hard scifi author Paul McAuley – we even chose his novel The Quiet War to be io9’s first-ever book club choice. His new book, Cowboy Angels, looks amazing. Now you can read the first three chapters! Thanks to Pyr Books for giving io9 the chance to run these chapters from the…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Batman Villain or Operating System?

Thanks to illustrator Fabian Glez, I now finally understand why my computer seems a bit shady at times. Of course, now I’ve also begun worrying that Batman will break down my door and force me to change operating systems. [Flickr via The High Definite]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Thank You For Fixing the iPad’s Side Switch, Apple

We weren’t happy when Apple changed the iPad’s side switch from an orientation lock into a mute switch, but thanks to iOS 4.3 we can calm down: Now there’s finally a setting allowing us to choose what the switch does. https://gizmodo.com/hey-apple-lets-get-the-screen-lock-back-to-the-ipad-sw-5696733 As minor of an option as this may seem, it actually makes life quite…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Anthony Hopkins reveals the dreadful weight of playing a god in Thor

While discussing his upcoming exorcism thriller The Rite, legendary actor Anthony Hopkins told us a little about the world of Thor, and the great weight that is placed upon you when you play the god Odin… both literally and metaphorically. Hopkins was mainly there to talk about The Rite (which we’ll have more to say…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins

Cowboy Angels excerpt, Chapter Three

Continued from here. CHAPTER THREE https://gizmodo.com/read-the-first-three-chapters-from-paul-mcauleys-new-no-5732034 “Welch put you up to this, didn’t he?” Stone said. “The slick son of a bitch brought you through the mirror because he thought you might ﬂush out your father.” “It isn’t like that at all,” Linda Waverly said, and started the taxi and pulled away from the curb.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

You Could Run a Marathon On the World’s Longest Bridge

This is the world’s longest bridge. It links the Chinese cities Qingdao with Huangdao, could easily traverse the English Channel, and at 26.4 miles long extends far enough that you could run a marathon on it. With room to spare. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge took four years, 10,000 workers, and more than $8 billion to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Korean version of the X-Files takes place in the 17th century

Check out this footage from the Korean TV show Special Investigation Report, which is more commonly referred to as “Joseon X-Files.” What’s it about? A pair of UFO investigators sleuthing during Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. Matthew Bey of No Fear For the Future has seen half a season, and even though the production values aren’t always…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

There’s no dystopia as campy as a post-Rapture dystopia

Cop turned corporate spy took his inspiration from Stargate and Babylon 5

Basement Jaxx scoring Nick Frost’s alien invasion flick

Is this Wireless Graphics Card Stupidly Intuitive or Just Stupid?

Solving the cosmic mystery of the green blob in space

Evil toy mastermind The Sucklord and his “ghetto Star Wars” empire

Google Places for iPhone

Get to Know and Stalk the Gizmodo Staff

Verizon Killing Upgrade Discount Program Just In Time For iPhone 4

The Most Exciting Severed Hands Of All Time

Bill & Ted’s Exterminating Adventure

Watch the iPad’s New Secret Tricks

Book Club Reminder: Read Connie Willis’ “Blackout” and “All Clear” for 1/25

Read the first three chapters from Paul McAuley’s new novel “Cowboy Angels”

Batman Villain or Operating System?

Thank You For Fixing the iPad’s Side Switch, Apple

Anthony Hopkins reveals the dreadful weight of playing a god in Thor

Cowboy Angels excerpt, Chapter Three

You Could Run a Marathon On the World’s Longest Bridge

The Korean version of the X-Files takes place in the 17th century

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