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Easter Eggs In Zack Snyder’s Insanely OCD Watchmen Trailer

The second Watchmen trailer arrived last week, and we’re blown away by the crazy OCD detail that goes into every scene. There have been plenty of comics-to-screen comparisons, but the footage is also littered with Easter eggs and little clues as to the direction of the movie. Spoilers ahead. While traveling down the hallway to…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 21

Twilight Should Shed Its Vampire Drag And Embrace Its Sappy Self

Let’s get this out of the way first: Twilight isn’t as bad as you think it is. I know, I know; you all want me to tell you that it’s the worst thing ever made, two hours of extreme embarrassment that I will never be able to get back, and by the way, Robert Pattinson…

io9 Graeme McMillan Nov 20

The Return Of Clinton Futurism?

Click to viewThe last time the Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress, Gillian Anderson wore pants. There were two Star Trek series at once, which promoted women and minorities and looked at the dark side of the Federation. Cyberpunk reigned supreme. The future was a shiny place – but with dread…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 7

CNN Can’t Stop Pimping Its Election-Night Holographic Toy

Seven minutes before the polls closed, CNN decided to show off their new super power hologram technology just one more time, by “beaming in” Obama supporter and musician Wil.I.Am, Princess Leia-style, from his Chicago location. We’d seen Wolf Blitzer toying with the virtual-commentator equipment all night, but watching Cooper and Wil.I.Am. name check both Star…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 4

How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works

CNN’s holographic election coverage is fancy pantsy, but how did they manage to send 3D 360 degree footage of virtual correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago all the way to the station’s election center in NY? As Arthur C. Clarke says, Magic. A magic made possible from technology Vizrt and SportVu with the help of forty-four…

Tech News Jason Chen Nov 4

Tactics and Strategies in the First Real Internet Election

When you go to the polls next Tuesday, no matter who you vote for, you will be motivated by words, images and videos you picked up online. There are some voters who don’t use the internet to gather information about candidates, but that number is dwindling, while the number of ways candidates can reach you…

Tech News Benny Goldman Oct 29

War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production

There’s been a huge spike in the production of zombie movies lately, and many of them seem to be inspired by war. Everything from 28 Days Later to Zombie Strippers make explicit reference to wartime, as did seminal 1968 zombie flick Night of the Living Dead. Is there really a connection between zombie movies and…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 29

A Dark Future Where Everybody Works In Marketing

Award-winning novelist and playwright Sarah Schulman is turning to science fiction because it’s the only way to capture how surreal her world has gotten. Her next novel, Mere Future, takes place in a future New York where everybody works in marketing. I talked to Schulman about her novel, which comes out next year, and asked…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 24

Why Science Fiction Still Hates Itself

Click to view If geek stuff is so hip, then why are two of the season’s biggest scifi hits, CBS show Eleventh Hour and bestselling Neal Stephenson novel Anathem, adamantly classified as Not Scifi? Because nerd culture will never be pop culture. That’s why Borders slashed its scifi section. And it’s why JJ Abrams, director…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 20

Toobin Caught Checking Facebook on CNN During Debate

During the last debate, we caught CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin watching a live feed of playoff baseball while on the air on his laptop. Tonight’s debate? Facebook. Either he’s messing with us (are you messing with us, Toobs?), or he’s really good at multitasking and really bad at being discreet. Either way, that’s some fine…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 16

Ember Proves The Only Grown-Up Movies Are Aimed At Kids

Why are kids’ movies the only ones allowed to deal with real grown-up issues? City Of Ember, opening today, reminded me of the allegory-rich Wall-E. Not least because it talked about issues like scarce resources and the cushiony softness of propaganda. It’s such a relief, after watching a thousand allegedly “grown-up” action-adventure movies, to watch…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 10

Fisher-Price Doll Reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda

The hard-hitting investigative team at MyFox has just discovered the latest and greatest threat to national security and your children: Fisher-Price’s Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo Doll, which is sold across the country, has apparently been hijacked by Al-Qaeda to reprogram your children into followers of Allah! If you squint your ears,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 8

6 Science Fiction Classics To Help You Choose The Next President

Click to viewWe asked six political pundits, including Andrew Sullivan and DailyKos’ Markos Moulitsas, to pick one piece of science fiction that you must read or watch before stepping into the voting booth next month. After all, science fiction often deals with some of the biggest what-ifs and alternate futures imaginable. So we couldn’t imagine…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 6

Blindness’ Dystopian Fable Becomes An Overwrought Movie

The best thing about the movie version of Blindness is how much it makes you appreciate the transcendent novel by Jose Saramago. The book takes a potentially hackneyed story — everyone goes blind, except for one woman — and turns it into a jarring look at how anything can become normal. At its best, the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 3

Adapting Saramago’s “Blindness” Was A Journey From Horror To Poetry, Meirelles Tells io9

Fernando Meirelles garnered award nominations for City Of God and The Constant Gardener. So he was probably the perfect choice to direct the film version of Blindness, Jose Saramago’s terrifying novel about an epidemic of inexplicable blindness. The paralyzes an entire country and reduces civilized city-dwellers to near-animal status. But Meirelles struggled to find the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 3

America: It Had To End Sometime

With America’s economic future looking bleak, now’s the time to read up on what to expect after the country fails altogether. Luckily, there are a whole host of stories about the fall of America, and the ravaging of our nation is a crime with many potential culprits. Here’s the definitive list of suspects who might…

Books & Comics Alex Carnevale Oct 2

The Longest Science Fiction Books of All Time

David Foster Wallace killed himself on my birthday earlier this month. Out of curiosity I decided (not for the first time) to start reading his novel Infinite Jest. After I complete it, it will be the longest book I have ever read. Reading this detailed and excessively footnoted book that creates an entire universe of…

Books & Comics Alex Carnevale Sep 30

Future Dystopias Where Conservatives Have Won

What’s the worst that can happen if you vote Republican in November? Science fiction has the answer, with a wealth of stories about right-wing policies taken to their most horrendous extremes. We already recounted the scariest dystopias where liberals triumph, and now here’s our list of the most awesome dark futures where Sarah Palin holds…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 24

Forget Post-Apocalyptic, Today’s Weirdest Stories Are All About Pre-Apocalypses

Click to viewSo CERN switched on the Large Hadron Collider, and the end of the world has begun. But there may still be time to panic – and some hot new pre-apocalyptic spectacles are happy to help. It turns out post-apocalyptic movies and shows are passé, and what we really want is to see people…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 10

Steve Jobs Responds to Accusations of Dying

In case you missed my personal favorite moment of the Apple Let’s Rock Event, here’s how Steve Jobs responded to early leaks of his own death. [Gizmodo]

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 9

Easter Eggs In Zack Snyder’s Insanely OCD Watchmen Trailer

Twilight Should Shed Its Vampire Drag And Embrace Its Sappy Self

The Return Of Clinton Futurism?

CNN Can’t Stop Pimping Its Election-Night Holographic Toy

How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works

Tactics and Strategies in the First Real Internet Election

War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production

A Dark Future Where Everybody Works In Marketing

Why Science Fiction Still Hates Itself

Toobin Caught Checking Facebook on CNN During Debate

Ember Proves The Only Grown-Up Movies Are Aimed At Kids

Fisher-Price Doll Reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda

6 Science Fiction Classics To Help You Choose The Next President

Blindness’ Dystopian Fable Becomes An Overwrought Movie

Adapting Saramago’s “Blindness” Was A Journey From Horror To Poetry, Meirelles Tells io9

America: It Had To End Sometime

The Longest Science Fiction Books of All Time

Future Dystopias Where Conservatives Have Won

Forget Post-Apocalyptic, Today’s Weirdest Stories Are All About Pre-Apocalypses

Steve Jobs Responds to Accusations of Dying

‘Marvel Rivals’ Wants to Start Being More Than Just a Hero Shooter

‘How Do We Make Sure That Claude Behaves Itself?’: Anthropic Invited 15 Christians for a Summit

See the Next ‘Hunger Games’ in This Trip Down Memory Lane

Indie Animation Is Having a Moment on YouTube

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Steven Soderbergh Wanted to Take ‘Bond’ Back to the ’60s

If You Make Fart Music, ChatGPT Will Be the Most Supportive Girlfriend You Could Ask For

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