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Nuking asteroids could save the Earth — but we need to make it legal first
The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master oil driller (Willis) and an unlikely crew of misfits place a nuclear bomb inside a giant asteroid heading for Earth, blow it up – and save humanity. дальше »
2019-5-12 12:00 | |
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This is the GDPR-themed sci-fi short story you’ve been waiting for
The short story here below started as a submission to the Dutch Information Law Institute’s science fiction contest but quickly grew into much more once I started to create a timeline to solidify the legal situation. дальше »
2019-2-22 16:34 | |
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How DeepMind’s AI defeated top players at StarCraft II
DeepMind previously took on the challenge of beating world champions at the Chinese game of Go. It’s also gotten astonishingly good at Chess and Shogi, and has wiped the floor with the best AIs developed for those games. дальше »
2019-1-25 12:23 | |
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Real-life cyborgs are fighting for their rights with art
Should cyborgs have rights? It’s a question many find ridiculous. “Cyborg,” after all, conjures up a sci-fi humanoid-robot that exists in a far distant dystopia, long after global warming has smoldered our cities to the ground, our polar bears have burnt to a crisp, and Elon Musk’s grandson has emerged from his cryogenic chamber. дальше »
2018-10-3 17:21 | |
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Bitcoin Price Watch: Currency’s End-of-Year Figure Doesn’t Look So Hot
At press time, the father of cryptocurrency is trading for just over $6,400 – about $100 less than where it stood 24 hours ago. For those of you who are movie buffs, the big hit in theaters right now is a sci-fi flick called “The Meg,” short for “megalodon. дальше »
2018-9-15 20:59 | |
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Enough sci-fi, what will our ‘smart’ environments actually look like?
How will we interact with a growing stream of personalized, curated content over the next generation? Today, intelligent systems are making judgments, continuously analyzing data, and refining their judgments, and the sophistication of those systems will no doubt continue to grow for the foreseeable future. дальше »
2018-8-25 13:00 | |
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‘Enhance’: Browser game mocks Hollywood hacking tropes
You know those evidence-gathering scenes in 90s and 00s tv shows and movies that treat looking at photographs like a particularly shouty spectator sport? Where stern-looking people tap magical “enhance” button or tell the computer they intend to zoom in and “clean up” the image? You know, that old chestnut? Someone made a game out of that. дальше »
2018-8-15 20:02 | |
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Watch this immersive light show made with astronomical data
As a scientist, I was recently involved in bringing my work to the big screen. This was not a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster but “big screen” in the literal sense: an art production about science that used the Lovell radio telescope, a 3,200-ton steel behemoth supporting of a 76-meter wide dish, to generate and show audio-visual art that drew on scientific data. дальше »
2018-8-6 12:43 | |
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Bitcoin Mining Giant, Canaan, Debuts World’s First Bitcoin Mining Television
Having a television that can double up as a mining rig seems like something out of a sci-fi flick. But Bitcoin Mining Giant, Canaan, has pulled this off and is offering its consumers a personal mining rig in the comfort of their homes. дальше »
2018-8-3 21:44 | |
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Stranger Things’ next season won’t arrive until summer 2019
If you’ve been waiting anxiously to follow the adventures of Eleven and her friends as they battle monsters from another dimension in the town of Hawkins, I’ve got some bad news for you: season three of Netflix’ 80s-themed sci-fi show Stranger Things will skip 2018 and air next summer instead. дальше »
2018-7-30 08:54 | |
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Mike Butcher of TechCrunch: It Is up to the Industry to Get Its Own House in Order
Mike Butcher talks to Cointelegraph about the future of the crypto industry, Sci-Fi global currencies and how (not) to pitch at conferences
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