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You know Prometheus? Yeah, that one. Well, Verizon has teamed with Twentieth Century Fox to bring you an online Prometheus mini-game in which you navigate through various levels (powering the ship, unlocking surveillance cameras, etc.) using the extremely cool Verizon Home Monitoring and Control... [io9]

It's not an April Fools' Day joke. Joffery's cruelty and resulting bitchslaps, Tyrion's lusting and scheming, the Master of Whispers' whisperings—all of this and more is coming back to HBO this Sunday, April 1 at 9 PM, when Season 2 of the Emmy®-winning Game of Thrones returns. [io9]

One minute isn't very long, but some pretty amazing things have been achieved over the span of sixty seconds—the time it takes for Hotmail to conquer your messy inbox. [io9]

Unless you live in a bunker underground waiting for an alien attack or the impact of the granddaddy of all meteors, life is noisy. Roaring car engines, honking car horns, blabbering people, barking dogs—it can all be pretty overwhelming. [io9]

Do you ever feel like newsletters, deals, and updates are weighing down your inbox? This isn't the spam of your inbox. It's the bacon. That's called graymail, and the amount you receive each year, if equated to the weight of real mail, would be the equivalent of 2,330 pounds. [io9]

It's been over two months since the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead, and while some folks may still be recovering from November's traumatic barn massacre, most viewers are ready to dive right back in to the undead bloodbath. Picking up right where it left off, upcoming episodes deal with the... [io9]

When was the last time you saw a network TV show scary enough to make you cling to your seat? Now, try to remember a show that did that to a whole theater full of people. [io9]

Countless threats exist deep in the jungle. But it's not just poisonous, candy-colored frogs or fish with rows of razor teeth that trouble intrepid explorers—the jungle is home to a host of wild, unexplained happenings and folklore that all carry real, bone-chilling consequences. So, to [io9]

Countless threats exist deep in the jungle. But it's not just poisonous, candy-colored frogs or fish with rows of razor teeth that trouble intrepid explorers—the jungle is home to a host of wild, unexplained happenings and folklore that all carry real, bone-chilling consequences. So, to [io9]

Countless threats exist deep in the jungle. But it's not just poisonous, candy-colored frogs or fish with rows of razor teeth that trouble intrepid explorers—the jungle is home to a host of wild, unexplained happenings and folklore that all carry real, bone-chilling consequences. So, to [io9]

On Wednesday, over on our sister (brother?) site, Deadspin, Steven S. DeKnight, the Executive Producer, Writer and Creator of Spartacus: Vengeance, the gloriously gory and steamy Starz series about gladiators, slave rebellions, and bored Roman widows, chatted live with readers. [io9]

Monsters aren't exactly known for being reliable, yet there are certain indefatigable triggers that bring out the beast in the best of them. As a public safety reminder, we've teamed up with Syfy's supernatural soap, Being Human, to bring you this list of 5 things that can turn your friendly... [io9]

Entertainment-wise, you can't get any better than the new Samsung Galaxy S II. It has a giant, Super AMOLED Plus screen (all the better to watch movies and TV shows on), a thin silhouette, and a dual-core processor that shrinks your download time. [io9]

Those familiar with Philip K. Dick's prolific body of work (which includes Scanner Darkly and Now Wait For Last Year) know that he hardly treated time as a linear experience. [io9]

Philip K. Dick, author of Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is perhaps one of the most lauded science fiction writers of our time (And certainly one of the most adapted. [io9]

What do you do when Union soldiers kill your wife? Naturally, you focus every ion of your being on hunting them down and killing them. That's exactly what prompts former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon to take up a little side-work building the first transcontinental railroad. [io9]

Over the past couple of weeks we've been featuring episode guides to NOVA's new four-part series, The Fabric Of The Cosmos, in order to get readers caught up to speed on some of the stellar science the show explores. [io9]

Over the next month, NOVA is going to confirm what most sci-fi enthusiasts already suspect-that everything we've been taught about space and time just might be total B.S. [io9]

Over the next month, NOVA is going to confirm what most sci-fi enthusiasts already suspect-that everything we've been taught about space and time just might be total B.S. [io9]

By now you've seen the unboxing of the 2012 Toyota Yaris. (If you haven't, it's right up there above the headline.) It was your basic big deal, and our sister site Gizmodo was thrilled to participate. [io9]

Over the next month, NOVA is going to confirm what most sci-fi enthusiasts already suspect-that everything we've been taught about space and time just might be total B.S. [io9]

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a lady who used to be on a show about doctors, another lady who used to be on a show about polygamy and a little boy who used to be on a show about 60s-era alcoholics, were magically transported to a show about a dark and twisted fairytale... [io9]

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a lady who used to be on a show about doctors, another lady who used to be on a show about polygamy and a little boy who used to be on a show about 60s-era alcoholics, were magically transported to a show about a dark and twisted fairytale... [io9]

Over the next month, NOVA is going to confirm what most sci-fi enthusiasts already suspect-that everything we've been taught about space and time just might be total B.S. [io9]