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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Will Play Edward Snowden in New Oliver Stone Film

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, everyone’s favorite sad-eyed, inevitably likable actor, will play Edward Snowden, everyone’s favorite vacant-eyed, always unkempt former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower, in a new movie directed by Oliver Stone. Do you see the resemblance? It must be the eyebrows. The filmmakers announced the casting decision on Monday afternoon but didn’t offer many more details about the…

Movies Adam Clark Estes Nov 10 '14

Watch Pilot For Orson Welles’ Little-Known Version Of The Twilight Zone

The Orson Welles Show would have been Citizen Kane director’s answer to anthology TV series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. The show never made it past the pilot, however, leaving us with just one brilliant episode about an endocrinologist and an apparent fountain of youth. The pilot episode, “The Fountain of Youth,”…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 10 '14

What Are Danny Trejo’s Natural Predators? Volcano Zombies, Of Course.

Let’s face facts: Volcano Zombies probably isn’t going to be a good movie, and this trailer isn’t going to do anything to change your mind about that. On the other hand, Danny Trejo and lava-spewing zombies is certainly a pairing that piques the cheesy movie-lover’s interest, n’est-ce pas? I do hope the movie has some…

Trailers Rob Bricken Nov 10 '14

Is This DJI’s New Drone?

identifies The hobby drone world is all aflutter this week as DJI prepares to unleash its latest creation onto the world: the Inspire 1. And just like Apple fanboys, they’re eagerly seeking out leaks. The latest images look, well, pretty real. The quadcopter in question is black and white and shaped like an “H.” Quadcopter…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 10 '14

These Iconic Road Trips Make You Want To Grab a Camera and Just Drive

The road trip is one of the great American photographic traditions. Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, a new book published by Aperture, revisits the journeys of 18 influential photographers as they set out in search of weird, beautiful, and unknown things to point their cameras at. It’s hard to imagine the evolution…

Books & Comics Michael Hession Nov 10 '14

This Is The Future Of War

War has been with us throughout our history — and it will likely continue to be with us for some time. But will the ways in which we wage war change? Here’s how the wars of the future could unfold. Some of the next wave of weapons will also undoubtedly be focused on digital strikes…

io9 Ria Misra Nov 10 '14

NASA Captured the Lonely Last Journey of an Aircraft Carrier

This is the loneliest funeral march I’ve ever seen. This photo from November 5th was taken during a NASA mission called Operation IceBridge, the goal of which is to survey polar ice. But it also captured the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CV-64), a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier being towed by comparatively tiny tugboats. The Constellation is…

Tech News Attila Nagy Nov 10 '14

Call The Avengers: The Pentagon wants to make helicarriers

DARPA—the Pentagon’s advanced military technology research agency—is taking a page from Marvel’s playbook and wants to make “aircraft carriers in the sky.” They won’t be Nimitz-size, of course, but they will have “to carry, launch and recover multiple unmanned air systems for a variety of missions.” According to the agency, drones are obviously a great…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Nov 10 '14

Do You Care About Frozen‘s Origin Story? Nope. OK, Then Skip This OUAT

The best part of Once Upon A Time last night was cruelly teased and then ripped away. There was a fairy tale Mommy & Me play date and Emma got all upset because she’s no longer an infant. The rest was about Frozen. 🙁 Look, if you’re super into the Frozen storyline, this isn’t going…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 10 '14

Geologists Found “Not Guilty” of Causing Deaths in Italian Quake

An appeals court has cleared seven experts of manslaughter charges after being accused of failing to adequately warn citizens of the risk before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009. The verdict had outraged many in the scientific community. The six scientists and one governmental officialwere facing six-year jail terms in the wake of a…

io9 George Dvorsky Nov 10 '14

You Can Finally Edit Your Embarrassing Typos on Instagram

Mistake-makers, rejoice. After years of choosing between deleting an entire photo and report it or living with the typos and ill-conceived jokes of the original, Instagram has decided to allow us to edit our captions after they’ve been published. In a blog post this afternoon, Instagram’s staff described the feature as “one of the top…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 10 '14

Transforming Gift Wrap Means You’re Actually Giving Two Presents

If you’ve ever looked at a mountain of shredded wrapping paper after a birthday party or Christmas morning and felt guilty about the waste—even if you intend to recycle it all—then you’ll surely appreciate Nendo’s alternative gift wrap that turns into a reusable tote afterwards. The simple fabric bags come in three different sizes, with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 10 '14

Evidence that Killer Whales Are Trying to Communicate with Dolphins

Humans are not the only creatures who try to imitate the sounds of other animals. It turns out that killer whales try to imitate dolphin clicks. But why? Photo by Monika Wieland via Shutterstock Over at Seriously, Science?, we learn that a new scientific study has identified a series of calls that killer whales make…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 10 '14

So. Much. Armor: A Collection Of Glorious BlizzCon Cosplay!

BlizzCon was this past weekend in Anaheim, and fans of Blizzard’s games and other game franchises descended on SoCal to celebrate their greatest heroes and inspirations. Which involved a LOT of incredible armor and painstaking recreations of weapons. Check out some of our favorites from BlizzCon below. This cosplay photography comes viaphotographer Davann Srey, who…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 10 '14

What happened to all the Fantasy Movies?

While writing my guide to the heroes of Duncan Jones’ Warcraft Movie over the weekend, something really struck me. What happened to big ticket Epic Fantasy at the box office? Fantasy movies in the early 00’s went through something of a renaissance – we had Lord of the Rings dominating the box offices, and the…

Movies James Whitbrook Nov 10 '14

Behind The Scenes With Ray Harryhausen And His Special Effects Models

Ray Harryhausen was the stop-motion special effects pioneer behind movies like Mighty Joe Young, Jason and the Argonauts, and Clash of the Titans. And while his creations were impressive on the screen, it’s equally remarkable to see Harryhausen creating and manipulating them in his studio. The from Mighty Joe Young, 1949 (via Chelloveck) The Rhedosaurus…

io9 Vincze Miklós Nov 10 '14

One in four self-made American billionaires dropped out of college

Bloomberg crunched the numbers on “self-made” billionaires in the U.S. and found that about a quarter of them were college dropouts. Ten of America’s 43 self-made billionaires dropped out. One, Harold Hamm, never even attended college. College drop-outs (estimated worth): Sheldon Adelson dropped out of City College of New York ($36.4 billion) Paul Allen dropped…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 10 '14

Mozilla Is Helping Tor Get Bigger and Better

Mozilla knows what’s up. The non-profit is aware that the vast majority of its users think that privacy on the internet is falling apart, so it’s launching a new strategic privacy initiativecalled Polaris. And you’ll never guess who’s on board. Just kidding, it’s totally obvious: the Tor Project. Along with the Center for Democracy &…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Nov 10 '14

HBO Will Make Asimov’s Foundation With Interstellar‘s Jonathan Nolan

It looks like HBO is teaming up with Interstellar writer and Person Of Interest showrunner Jonathan Nolan to adapt the highly revered and beloved Foundation books into a TV series. Wow. The Wrap is reporting that Jonathan Nolan will be working with HBO for yet another series. The Interstellar writer is currently working on a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 10 '14

Stop Putting New Age Pseudoscience in Our Science Fiction

If the pseudoscientific woo about love and time travel in Interstellar pissed you off, you aren’t alone. Though Christopher Nolan’s gorgeous space opera isn’t the first science fiction film to descend into a morass of new age platitudes, here’s why it should be the last. Spoilers for Interstellar ahead. Let’s get something clear. There are…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 10 '14

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Will Play Edward Snowden in New Oliver Stone Film

Watch Pilot For Orson Welles’ Little-Known Version Of The Twilight Zone

What Are Danny Trejo’s Natural Predators? Volcano Zombies, Of Course.

Is This DJI’s New Drone?

These Iconic Road Trips Make You Want To Grab a Camera and Just Drive

This Is The Future Of War

NASA Captured the Lonely Last Journey of an Aircraft Carrier

Call The Avengers: The Pentagon wants to make helicarriers

Do You Care About Frozen‘s Origin Story? Nope. OK, Then Skip This OUAT

Geologists Found “Not Guilty” of Causing Deaths in Italian Quake

You Can Finally Edit Your Embarrassing Typos on Instagram

Transforming Gift Wrap Means You’re Actually Giving Two Presents

Evidence that Killer Whales Are Trying to Communicate with Dolphins

So. Much. Armor: A Collection Of Glorious BlizzCon Cosplay!

What happened to all the Fantasy Movies?

Behind The Scenes With Ray Harryhausen And His Special Effects Models

One in four self-made American billionaires dropped out of college

Mozilla Is Helping Tor Get Bigger and Better

HBO Will Make Asimov’s Foundation With Interstellar‘s Jonathan Nolan

Stop Putting New Age Pseudoscience in Our Science Fiction

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