In Pictures: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories
We’re talking Pluto, Earth 2.0, Brain algorithms, software coding and tons more.
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In Pictures: 9 nightmare sci-fi virtual realities that are closer than you think
Emerging technologies in virtual and artificial reality blur the line between science and fiction
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Jetpacks, androids, and the future that never came
From Jules Verne to Stanley Kubrick and beyond, writers and artists have imagined what the future would be like. Their visions range from the comically bizarre to the uncannily accurate to the wildly optimistic (where are those jet packs they promised us?!). Here's a quick collection of our favorite examples.
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Robocop Ran DOS: Stupid movie tech moments
Virtually no sci-fi or action flick these days is complete without a computer scene showing a few screens of mysterious scrolling text and a 3D wire-frame model. But where does this vaguely tech-looking stuff come from? Well, more often than
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Sci-fi fan faces sentencing for "idiotic, stupid" 3D printing of guns
“Every craftsman wants their work to be acknowledged,” Sicen Sun told NSW District Court today, in response to questions about why he posted 3D printed replica guns he had printed at home for sale on Facebook.
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In Pictures: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories
We’re talking Pluto, Earth 2.0, Brain algorithms, software coding and tons more.
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In Pictures: 9 nightmare sci-fi virtual realities that are closer than you think
Emerging technologies in virtual and artificial reality blur the line between science and fiction
Features about sci-fi
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Jetpacks, androids, and the future that never came
From Jules Verne to Stanley Kubrick and beyond, writers and artists have imagined what the future would be like. Their visions range from the comically bizarre to the uncannily accurate to the wildly optimistic (where are those jet packs they promised us?!). Here's a quick collection of our favorite examples.
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Robocop Ran DOS: Stupid movie tech moments
Virtually no sci-fi or action flick these days is complete without a computer scene showing a few screens of mysterious scrolling text and a 3D wire-frame model. But where does this vaguely tech-looking stuff come from? Well, more often than
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6 futuristic gadgets that exist today
Science Fiction sometimes comes up with remarkable ideas for devices which would make our lives easier. Or, at the very least, much cooler. Until we get a faster than light drive or a light saber, the following will have to do. Read on, and enjoy the future of fantasy today.
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Neuromancer at 25: What it got right and wrong
The tantalizing question about William Gibson's ideas in his novel Neuromancer involves their relationship with the course that the Web took and continues to take as Neuromancer's publication date--July 1, 1984, 25 years ago today--recedes farther into the past. In his afterword to the 2000 re-release of the book, novelist Jack Womack suggests that Neuromancer may have directly influenced the way the Web developed--that it may have provided a blueprint that developers who grew up with the book consciously or subconsciously followed. Womack asks "what if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?"