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Feb 5, 2017

Could We Bring The Technology in Mass Effect to Life?

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In Brief

  • The game designers for Mass Effect have gone all out for scientifically accurate weapons.
  • From rail guns to “element 0,” this science fiction game mirrors reality.

From the astoundingly stiff weaponry of 1995’s GoldenEye to the alien arsenal of the Halo franchise, video games haven’t always had the most realistic arms. But, in Bioware’s Mass Effect franchise, the game designers opted for scientifically accurate weapons.

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Feb 2, 2017

World’s First Gaming Hotel in Amsterdam To Reopen In May 2017

Posted by in categories: entertainment, virtual reality

If I dare show this to my nephews, we will never see them again.


When the Arcade Hotel Amsterdam opened last year, owner Daniel Salmanovich couldn’t help but smile when his hotel had people wanting what is known as the world’s first gaming hotel. It has its doors closed now until it will reopen in May for a much bigger expansion.

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Feb 1, 2017

Are we simulated beings living in a simulated universe?

Posted by in categories: computing, entertainment

Considering how far technology has come in recent years, the idea that we may all just be simulated beings in a simulated game may not be too far off. And microchips might soon become so powerful they can simulate something as complex as the cosmos.

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Jan 21, 2017

What if we could live in the Matrix?

Posted by in categories: entertainment, virtual reality

Virtual Reality is not a new technology, it’s been around in various forms for decades, but enthusiasts believe it’s now on the cusp of a golden age. Driven by an increase in research money and significant advances in picture resolution and technical functionality, interest in the potential of VR is going well beyond the games and entertainment industry. The pairing of these developments with an exponential growth in certain technology sectors evokes scenarios of the future taken from the pages of sci-fi literature. VR pioneer Cosmo Scharf will paint his vision of our shared future.

More information on http://www.tedxvienna.at

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Jan 4, 2017

DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

Announcing DeepMind’s collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment to open up StarCraft II to AI and ML researchers around the world.

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Jan 4, 2017

Real ‘Jurassic World’ Scientist Says We Could Bring Back Dinosaurs As Pets

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, entertainment

Paleontologist Jack Horner participates in a “Jurassic World” Q&A at the Natural History Museum.

Here at Popular Science, we can’t wait to see Jurassic World, which opens in theaters nationwide today. I mean, who can resist velociraptor biker gangs:

But we were also curious about the real scientific research that inspired the movie. So we talked with Jack Horner, a noted paleontologist who has consulted on the entire Jurassic Park movie franchise, including Jurassic World.

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Jan 3, 2017

Watch DARPA’s New Self-Guided Bullets Turn in Mid-Flight, Following Their Target

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In Brief DARPA has created self-steering bullets which use a real-time optical guidance system to hit both moving and accelerating targets with high accuracy.

You may have seen the movie Wanted. Sure, the movie was almost unrecognizable from the Mark Millar comic book series it was very loosely based on. But that didn’t stop anyone from pretending to be a bullet-curving, badass, supervillain-with-a-heart sniper like Angelina Jolie after seeing it.

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Dec 29, 2016

10 Exciting Future-Focused Films Coming in 2017

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Fans of science fiction movies that depict weird, speculative or dystopian futures have plenty to look forward to in 2017. Here are our picks of the movies you should put on your radar if you enjoy cinematic depictions of future technology, from a couple of space station thrillers to a story that turns our current social media exhibitionist tendencies into an Orwellian take on the importance of privacy in a digital age.

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Dec 28, 2016

AI Wrote a Sci-Fi Screenplay for a London Film Festival, and Humans Directed It

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Actors try to make sense out of an AI-written screenplay in the movie Sunspring.

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Dec 27, 2016

This New Self-Healing, Stretchable Material Is Perfect for Wolverine

Posted by in categories: entertainment, materials

Inspired by the comic book character Wolverine, scientists have developed a self-healing, highly stretchable, transparent material that can be used to power artificial muscles.

The end product is a soft, rubber-like material that’s easy to produce at low cost. It can stretch to 50 times its original length, and can heal itself from a scissor cut in the space of 24 hours at room temperature.

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