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LG Lineup Leak Lists Looming Line of Android Smartphones

A recent LG leak has delivered not one but five upcoming Android smartphones and one Mango-equipped one. Life is good, if you’re in love with LG. The “flagship” phone in this group of five is the LG Prada K2, which features “Prada-inspired texture.” I can only assume that means it’s encased in money or perhaps…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 23

We just saw the best Jeffster performance yet, at the Chuck panel!

Chuck came back to Comic-Con in a big way — with a specially shot comedy skit in which the cast tries to cope with the huge curveball the show threw at the end of the previous season. Watch it below. But be warned — there are huge spoilers ahead! We saw an absolutely hilarious “sizzle…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 23

Two Bullet Trains Collide, One Falls From Bridge

Two bullet trains have collided over a bridge in Wenzhou, China. As a result, four carriages of the first train derailed. Two were catapulted by the force of the impact into the ground, killing at least 16 passengers. Authorities fear that more victims could be found, since each carriage carries at least one hundred people.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 23

Watch Andrew Garfield read his love letter to Spider-Man at Comic-Con

A nervous Andrew Garfield read his love letter to Spider-Man during a panel at Comic-Con yesterday. It was an emotional prelude to the movie’s first footage, filled with teen angst, mechanical web shooters, and an adorable first chat with Gwen Stacy. Plus, find out which version of Spider-Man from the comics inspired Garfield’s performance in…

io9 Lauren Davis and Cyriaque Lamar Jul 23

Fright Night unveils its vampire car chase and David Tennant’s crotch-scratching vampire expert

At Comic-Con, we got a sneak peek at a ton of crazy footage from the Fright Night remake. Find out more about David Tennant’s douchey vampire “expert,” an explosive loophole in the vampire invitation rule, and a seriously bloody car chase. Plus, Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s Evil Ed got in a quick dig at Twilight. The first…

Movies Lauren Davis Jul 23

Cut the Rope Is a Comic Now

Om Nom has gone Hollywood, folks. The lovable main character in Zepto Lab’s critically-acclaimed and oft-downloaded Cut the Rope iOS game is making the jump to comics. Maybe now he can get that candy all by his damn self. Ape Entertainment is set to take on publishing duties for the comic, which was revealed at…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 23

Watch the fangtastic True Blood sizzle reel that premiered at Comic-Con

Holy Hell. You know how the last 4 episodes of True Blood have been a bit tedious? Well from the looks of this new sizzle that was debuted at Comic-Con yesterday SHIT IS ABOUT TO GET VAMPIRE REAL. Watch it now. Bill’s chained up, Eric’s chained up, Marni is crazy powerful, Jessica is vampire suiciding…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Jul 23

Zora Neale Hurston, Zombie Hunter

She’s best known as the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and one of the luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. But in her capacity as a folklorist, Zora Neale Hurston also recorded an encounter with a real-life zombie. In Tell My Horse, her 1938 recounting of her fieldwork in Haiti, she talked about what…

Books & Comics Kelly Faircloth Jul 23

Looks Like the Spotify Hype Worked: Service Spots Itself 70,000 Paid Subscribers In One Week

Turns out a massive marketing push works wonders for your bottom line…if you happen to be Spotify, that is, and can also deliver a much-hyped, well-designed music streaming service (I’m using mine right now!). Case in point, Billboard Editor Bill Werde crunched some numbers this week (or read some emails from his “sources”) and claims…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 23

Flawed diamonds reveal the shape of a lost Earth

A tiny, blood-red flaw inside a diamond can reveal what was happening to Earth 3 billion years ago. A recent scientific study of thousands of flawed diamonds like this one have given us a window into our planet’s strange and violent past. We have a pretty good understanding of the continental plates’ behavior on Earth…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jul 23

Watch Tyra Banks explain her new fantasy novel about magical supermodels while wearing golden eye feathers

Tyra Banks was on Good Morning America yesterday, and she was talking up her new fantasy novel Modelland, which comes out in September. And her explanation of the book’s premise kind of needs to be seen to be believed. Apparently the weird thing over her eye is called a “Smize,” and if you find one,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 23

Warehouse 13 is going to get trapped inside a genre-bending, wizard-obsessed video game!

Yesterday’s Warehouse 13 panel at Comic-Con revealed what the new guy means for the show, the details of the latest Eureka crossover, whether Mark Shepard will ever return, and (yes!) confirmation of a spin-off following HG Wells in the days of Warehouse 12! Regarding the addition of Aaron Ashmore as Steve Jinks, executive producer Jack…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins and Katharine Trendacosta Jul 23

Apple > Gas, Soon

Not in the hilarious sense, of course, but in market cap. Turns out the iPad-pumping, MacBook Air-refreshing Cupertino company is on track to surpass profit-happy Exxon Mobil as “most valuable company” if the iPhone 5 is a hit. “If.” [Electronista]

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 23

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Gives You Tips On Beating The Heat

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle joined Alex Witt on MSNBC Saturday July 23, 2011. Watch the clip above. For media requests, please contact Kevin Prince.

Tech News Scott Kidder Jul 23

Americans will get the new Judge Dredd movie 10 months after the Brits [UPDATED]

We may be getting Torchwood a few days ahead of the U.K., but when it comes to the greatest lawman in Mega-City One, Americans are getting shafted. According to Deadline and the Daily BLAM, Dredd will be out in Britain this December 1st, but won’t hit the States until September 21, 2012. Don’t they know…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 23

Why are Total Recall‘s memory merchants shooting up an Asian day spa?

Yesterday at Comic-Con, we saw early footage from the Total Recall remake, which took us inside Rekall, the company that sells exciting memory vacations. Amidst the stone lion-dogs and Buddha heads, John Cho will happily supply you with fake memories — or reignite your real ones. Should you be looking forward to this remake, or…

Movies Lauren Davis Jul 23

The U.S. Debt Would Make One Sweet $114.5 Trillion Skyscraper

Charts are fun! They basically make the Internet go ’round these days, what with the sharing, the memes and the Reddit and whatnot. But not this one! This one is depressing. Ladies and gents, the U.S. debt, in visual form. On the left there is the Empire State Building. In the middle, the doomed World…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 23

When a robot girl loses her inhibitions, it can only end badly

If you love weird, thought-provoking stories about robot consciousness, then you’ll be as excited as we are to learn about vN, the debut novel by Madeline Ashby which just sold to Angry Robot Books. Ashby’s novel shows what happens when a robot girl loses her inhibitions. Spoilers ahead… The book will be out in August…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 23

First Details on Guillermo Del Toro’s Giant Monster Movie and the Live-Action Mass Effect Film!

Quite possibly the most exciting movie panel at Comic-Con yesterday didn’t involve Spider-Man or Tintin. Legendary Pictures gave a select few fans a sneak peek of four long-awaited film projects, and we were there. Guillermo Del Toro talked about his kaiju movie Pacific Rim. Jeff Bridges talked about his supernatural film Seventh Son. Alex Proyas…

Movies Keith Veronese Jul 23

LG Lineup Leak Lists Looming Line of Android Smartphones

We just saw the best Jeffster performance yet, at the Chuck panel!

Two Bullet Trains Collide, One Falls From Bridge

Watch Andrew Garfield read his love letter to Spider-Man at Comic-Con

Fright Night unveils its vampire car chase and David Tennant’s crotch-scratching vampire expert

Cut the Rope Is a Comic Now

Watch the fangtastic True Blood sizzle reel that premiered at Comic-Con

Zora Neale Hurston, Zombie Hunter

Looks Like the Spotify Hype Worked: Service Spots Itself 70,000 Paid Subscribers In One Week

Flawed diamonds reveal the shape of a lost Earth

Watch Tyra Banks explain her new fantasy novel about magical supermodels while wearing golden eye feathers

Warehouse 13 is going to get trapped inside a genre-bending, wizard-obsessed video game!

Apple > Gas, Soon

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Gives You Tips On Beating The Heat

Americans will get the new Judge Dredd movie 10 months after the Brits [UPDATED]

Why are Total Recall‘s memory merchants shooting up an Asian day spa?

The U.S. Debt Would Make One Sweet $114.5 Trillion Skyscraper

When a robot girl loses her inhibitions, it can only end badly

First Details on Guillermo Del Toro’s Giant Monster Movie and the Live-Action Mass Effect Film!

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