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X-Men: First Class: Not Your Same Old Mutant Angst http://io9.com/5808167/x+men-first-class-not-your-same-old-mutant-angst Are superpowers a blessing or a curse? Are mutants more like ethnic minorities, or queer people? For too long, TV shows and movies have been asking these same old questions, without really finding any interesting answers. So it’s a pleasure to watch a movie like…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 3

Pick up Hugo-nominated novel The Dervish House for $1.99

Here’s your weekend book deal: Pyr Books is making ebooks of Ian McDonald’s Hugo-nominated novel The Dervish House available for $1.99 for a limited time. Snap this one up, because (spoilers!) it’s going to be io9’s August book club pick. Grab it cheap at Amazon.

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Jun 3

A heat-resistant worm that can live miles beneath the Earth’s surface

Until recently, most scientists believed that only single-celled creatures were capable of enduring life in the hot, high-pressure zone beneath Earth’s crust. Now they’ve discovered tiny worms (pictured above) who live as many as 2.2 miles below ground. What else will we find living deep inside the Earth? Here’s a report from this week’s Nature…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 3

Gorillas eat the perfect amounts of fruit and protein

It’s generally assumed that for most terrestrial mammals, the main nutritional goal is to get protein. However, a group of researchers who spent years watching gorillas in the Congo have found evidence that this isn’t quite the case. What they discovered is that the gorillas do have a thing for protein-rich leaves, and they devote…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jun 3

ICloud’s Login Screen Might Look Like This

It could very well be fake, because people love to create hoaxes before Apple events, but if this is Apple’s iCloud Login Screen, it’s a pretty one. [Cult of Mac] WWDC 2011 Predictions | Here comes iCloud, but what else? https://gizmodo.com/wwdc-2011-predictions-here-comes-icloud-but-what-else-5808251 Watch our liveblog here! Keep your eyes clamped on our liveblog from 10am EST…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 3

Learn 20 Languages With Rosetta Stone’s New iPad App

If you’ve used Rosetta Stone in the last year or two, you already know how their new app works—an idea that was likely planned from the get-go. First and foremost, know that the Rosetta Stone iPad application (officially called, TOTALe Companion HD) is almost a standalone version of the software, but it’s not quite there…

Tech News Max Behrman Jun 3

Xperia Play Is Just a Penny at Amazon Through Wednesday

Amazon’s having another one of its mondo smartphone sales, this time featuring seven discounted Verizon handsets. But the deal that’s going to tempt you is the Xperia Play, which is basically free with a two-year contract. Other phones on sale for $50-$150 include the HTC Thunderbolt, Droid X2, and LG Revolution. But a free phone…

Commerce Brian Barrett Jun 3

Jack Kevorkian’s Assisted Suicide Tools (and Van)

Jack Kevorkian died this morning in a Detroit hospital at the age of 83. In the 1990’s, he assisted with more than 100 suicides from the back of his converted VW Vanagon. The Atlantic discusses the tools he used to end lives. Kevorkian employed two suicide machines, dubbed Thanatron and Mercitron. Thanatron administered a sixty…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 3

Solid State Drives Are About to Get 7x Faster if Phase-Change Memory Catches On

Hard drives are all about how much you can store and how quickly you can store it. And this soon-to-be-unveiled phase-change memory drive is expected to up the ante quite a bit. Students and faculty from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering are getting ready to show off their newest SSD, “Moneta.” But Moneta…

Tech News Max Behrman Jun 3

These Baby Sunscreens Work Better Than Most Adult Sunscreens

A study conducted recently found that nearly 11 out of 12 sunscreens on the market are inadequate. There are two ingredients that make sunscreen work: zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. In concentrations above 18%, either will effectively block out both the UVA and UVB spectrums. Here are a few good ones—they turn out to be…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 3

Why X-Men: First Class aims to be like a 1960s James Bond film

Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz have written two of the summer’s biggest movies, Thor and X-Men: First Class. How did they go about translating these comic-book icons into two-hour movie scripts? Stentz and Miller explained to us how they went from writing for Fringe to adapting two Marvel Comics properties. And exactly why putting…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 3

Seanan McGuire’s Next Series: Crypto-zoologists of the Secret Monster World

Campbell Award-winning author Seanan McGuire has been busy. She’s just sold the sixth and seventh October Daye novels, and as Mira Grant, she’s written the Hugo-nominated zombie novel Feed (which we’re currently discussing in the io9 book club) and sequels. But apparently, that’s not enough. She’s just launched another new series, with the first book,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jun 3

WWDC 2011 Liveblog Coming This Monday

Atten-shun, fanboys, trolls, and all you beautiful normal people you: We will covering the WWDC 2011 keynote this Monday, June 6 at 10:00am. I feel a surprise in the air! Or it may be the cookies in the oven. We will give you real time commentary on all the announcements—including Mac OS X Lion, iOS…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 3

What would Philip Seymour Hoffman look like as Hector Hammond?

We’ve uncovered some old concept art that shows the villainous Hector Hammond in a much more distinguished light — if he was being played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Plus new featurettes take you on an date on Oa. These images come from the artist Jerad S. Marantz who was hired to work on early concepts…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 3

Wolverine’s smelly son brings some emo to the X-Men universe

Recently, Marvel introduced a new little cub to the Wolverine family. Daken is a sexually predatory assassin with super-pheromone powers and massive daddy issues. And he’s written by Marjorie Liu, a famous paranormal romance author. It’s the perfect fit. Here’s why you need more Daken in your life. Daken, the long-lost son of Wolverine, has…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell Jun 3

NASA Wants Snowboarding Display Tech in Space Helmets

Most NASA innovations come from within their own labs, which are used in space, then sometimes produced for the masses. In the case of potential heads-up displays in space helmets, NASA is looking at Recon Instruments’ HUD tech for ideas. Recon Instruments has been working on heads-up displays in snowboard goggles for awhile now, and…

Space & Spaceflight Adrian Covert Jun 3

In which our critic gets some Pazuzu in his woowoo while watching Exorcist II

Would that we could listen in on the pitch meeting for Exorcist II: The Heretic. “It’ll be like the first Exorcist for people who thought that was too nuanced and subtle.” “Well, it sounds pretty bad, but what if we shot huge chunks of it from a demon locust’s perspective?” “Perfect. And then maybe some…

Movies Louis Peitzman Jun 3

Green Lantern The Guardians Concept Art

View more over at Jerad S. Marantz’s website. Name: Baris View more over at Jerad S. Marantz’s website. Name: Ganthet View more over at Jerad S. Marantz’s website. Name: Herupa View more over at Jerad S. Marantz’s website. Name: Nguanzo View more over at Jerad S. Marantz’s website. Name: Pazu View more over at Jerad…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 3

Green Lantern Concept Art

View more over at Jerad S. Marantz’s website. View more over at Jerad S. Marantz’s website. View more over at Jerad S. Marantz’s website. View more over at Jerad S. Marantz’s website.

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 3

Happy X-Men Day!

Top Stories: Friday June 3, 2011

Pick up Hugo-nominated novel The Dervish House for $1.99

A heat-resistant worm that can live miles beneath the Earth’s surface

Gorillas eat the perfect amounts of fruit and protein

ICloud’s Login Screen Might Look Like This

Learn 20 Languages With Rosetta Stone’s New iPad App

Xperia Play Is Just a Penny at Amazon Through Wednesday

Jack Kevorkian’s Assisted Suicide Tools (and Van)

Solid State Drives Are About to Get 7x Faster if Phase-Change Memory Catches On

These Baby Sunscreens Work Better Than Most Adult Sunscreens

Why X-Men: First Class aims to be like a 1960s James Bond film

Seanan McGuire’s Next Series: Crypto-zoologists of the Secret Monster World

WWDC 2011 Liveblog Coming This Monday

What would Philip Seymour Hoffman look like as Hector Hammond?

Wolverine’s smelly son brings some emo to the X-Men universe

NASA Wants Snowboarding Display Tech in Space Helmets

In which our critic gets some Pazuzu in his woowoo while watching Exorcist II

Green Lantern The Guardians Concept Art

Green Lantern Concept Art

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