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I Want A Broad-Shouldered, 7ft Tall Man Robot To Rear My Children Too

Buried in a site devoted to early robots is my dream man, Electron. Russian, born in 1967, he has 4ft-wide shoulders, waltzes, plays chess, and while he only understands 112 commands, his steely gaze is reassuringly paternal. [CyberneticZoo via BotJunkie]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 9

Russian Botnet Steals From Another, Replaces Virus With Its Own Badassery

Nevermind the war against viruses—they’ll kill each other before we even update AVG. A Russian Trojan horse program, known as Spy Eye, has stolen data from its competitor Zeus, and replaced PC infections with its own botnet-badness. It’s still a lose-lose situation for anyone with an infected computer, with one botnet being replaced with another,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 11

Russia Wants Nuclear-Powered Rocket to Go to Mars

The space race is on again: The Russians are planning a nuclear-powered spacecraft that will get them to Mars faster than Duck Dodgers in the 24 and a half century. Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov promises a design by 2012: The project is aimed at implementing large-scale space exploration programs, including a manned mission to…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Oct 30

Will People On Long Space Missions Inevitably Kill Each Other?

For 105 days, 4 Russians and 2 Europeans holed up in isolation in Moscow, to see if they could survive a mission to Mars without killing one another in frustration, while American scientists watched. Tomorrow, they’ll be freed. https://gizmodo.com/6-astronauts-subjected-to-brutal-psychological-experime-5192294 The experiment was designed to see if the crew could conduct experiments and deal with stressful…

io9 Megan Carpentier Jul 13

John Connor’s Fate Looks More Uncertain in Russian

The US Terminator posters feature the major players posed all action-y, but they don’t match the gravitas of the Russian ones. A machine about to crush your head? Here’s my $10. [io9] https://gizmodo.com/christian-bale-will-be-angry-at-this-terminator-charact-5163935

Tech News Jason Chen May 7

Russians Will Announce Soyuz Replacement Spaceship Monday

The BBC reports that a long overdue replacement for the Soyuz spaceship will be announced Monday. For now dubbed PPTS—Prospective Piloted Transport System—the moon-reachable ship should look like the one above. Commissioned by Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, this PPTS would go into duty sometime towards 2020. Instead of having a measly three seats like…

Space & Spaceflight Wilson Rothman Apr 3

Kazakhstan’s Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space

It’s amazing how sleek and old-school the Soyuz rocket looks, preparing to blast off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. Especially surrounded by Soviet-looking guards. More Cosmodrome porn is below.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 25

Russia’s New Armor-Fooling Rocket Grenade Is An “Abrams Killer” Apparently

The new rocket-propelled grenade RPG-30 anti-armor weapon recently unveiled in Russia has a sneaky trick to help it get past active defenses—it fires a tiny decoy rocket flying ahead of the main warhead. This is to confuse defensive systems into attacking the decoy, meaning they’re too busy to successfully defeat the real weapon inbound just…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Dec 1

Russian Mod Makes iPhone’s Rear-Side Apple Logo Glow

Saddened by the fact that the Apple logo on the rear-shell of the iPhone is just a dead, un-illuminated entity, a bunch of Russian modders have taken a dremel and soldering iron to one—or is it a replacement back shell? Either way, they brought the sexy (glow) back. Apparently “the battery doesn’t suffer a lot,…

Tech News Kit Eaton Aug 15

Final Proof That Communism Breaks Your Brain

Two regular guys fall into an alien teleportation device and find themselves on a planet of crazy people in Kin-Dza-Dza!, a 1986 Russian movie that satirizes the declining USSR by having people act very very silly for 135 minutes. It’s basically like the longest Monty Python sketch in history: the Plukanians only say the word…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 10

Russian Monkeys May Get to Mars First

Forget about the Constellation missions to Mars, because the first Earthlings set to arrive to the Red Planet may be monkeys: macaques from the Sochi Institute of Medical Primatology, who may get back as fully grown primate overlords, or just prove that humans would be able to resist the 17-month trip in weightlessness and isolation,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 14

The Tomorrow War Looks Good Today

One of the best parts of video-game classic Mass Effect was the ability to take your ship to different planets throughout the galaxy, and actually touch down, get out and explore the places. A new game, The Tomorrow War, takes that concept and expands on it exponentially, giving you a virtual sandbox of systems and…

io9 Kevin Kelly Mar 25

Your Favorite Scifi Films As Russian Woodcuts

As Chancellor Gorkon from Star Trek VI would say, “You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.” We’d reply by telling him that unless he’d seen Star Wars in the original Russian folk art version, he was a pansy. Russian artist Andrey Kuznetsov has created some pretty impressive versions…

io9 Kevin Kelly Feb 19

Russian Space Pirates Melt Your Synapses With Rock

Russian translation circuits: inoperable. We may not know what this band from the motherland is singing about in this science fiction-themed music video, but we do know that a band of crazy space pirates are invading a fleet of women clad in silver jumpsuits. Everybody parades around and sings the chorus of the song while…

io9 Kevin Kelly Feb 8

Russian Space Rocket Looks Totally Old-School

The Soyuz-FG launcher sticks to a 1950s snub-nosed aesthetic, even though it was built in 2001. The Soyuz is preparing to launch Dec. 14 from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome. Image by STR/AFP/Getty Images.

io9 Charliejane Dec 13

Russia’s “Father of All Bombs” Not Quite That Manly

To our innocent eyes, the video of Russia’s “Father of All Bombs” looked pretty impressively explosive, but US big-boom experts are now questioning Russia’s hoax-y claims about the weapon’s size and power. For one, it might not even be a shockwave-generating thermobaric bomb—one expert says it actually looks like a fuel-air bomb, which is just…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Oct 4

Russian Dorm Tetris

What do you get when you combine some Russian college kids, an empty dorm and the desire to re-create Tetris in 100x scale? This video. [English Russia]

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 1

SpongeBob USB Drive Expands When Full

Unfortunately not a real product, this Russian-designed SpongeBob USB Drive looks like your kids’ favorite character when empty, but fills up to a gigantic blowfish when full. Although cool, the concept doesn’t make any sense. SpongeBob is a sponge, not a blowfish. Otherwise he’d be called BlowfishBob. Get it together, Russians. It’s of the same…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 28

Russian Paleo-Future (circa 1900)

BoingBoing has a link to the blog Dark Roasted Blend and some great Russian paleo-futurism. While I take issue with Blend’s contention that these are, “…probably one of the very first truly ‘Futuristic/Urban’ series of images ever published,” it is an amazing set of images. See also: Unrealized Moscow (1930s to 1950s) 7 March 2007

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 21

I Want A Broad-Shouldered, 7ft Tall Man Robot To Rear My Children Too

Russian Botnet Steals From Another, Replaces Virus With Its Own Badassery

Russia Wants Nuclear-Powered Rocket to Go to Mars

Will People On Long Space Missions Inevitably Kill Each Other?

John Connor’s Fate Looks More Uncertain in Russian

Russians Will Announce Soyuz Replacement Spaceship Monday

Kazakhstan’s Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space

Russia’s New Armor-Fooling Rocket Grenade Is An “Abrams Killer” Apparently

Russian Mod Makes iPhone’s Rear-Side Apple Logo Glow

Final Proof That Communism Breaks Your Brain

Russian Monkeys May Get to Mars First

The Tomorrow War Looks Good Today

Your Favorite Scifi Films As Russian Woodcuts

Russian Space Pirates Melt Your Synapses With Rock

Russian Space Rocket Looks Totally Old-School

Russia’s “Father of All Bombs” Not Quite That Manly

Russian Dorm Tetris

SpongeBob USB Drive Expands When Full

Russian Paleo-Future (circa 1900)

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