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How Max Headroom predicted my job, 20 years before it existed

Click here to read How Max Headroom predicted my job, 20 years before it existed
The entire 80s cyberpunk Max Headroom TV series is available today on DVD, and one of the pleasures of rewatching the series is discovering how many things it got right about the future. More »
07:11 PMBERJAYA
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23BERJAYA
By Annalee Newitz
#retroconsumerism Click here to read And now, proof that the FDA of 1932 was asleep at the wheel

And now, proof that the FDA of 1932 was asleep at the wheel

It may seem obvious now that your Excedrin isn't loaded with heroin, but consumers of the 1930s couldn't be too careful. This pearl of wisdom comes to you from a June 1932 issue of Modern Mechanics. [Modern Mechanix]
04:22 PMBERJAYA
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29BERJAYA
By Cyriaque Lamar
#trailerfrenzy Click here to read First teaser for "Skyline" shows off scary human-vacuuming spaceships

First teaser for "Skyline" shows off scary human-vacuuming spaceships

This the first teaser trailer for indie flick Skyline, which is about how alien abduction looks when done on a massive scale. Those images of millions of people being sucked into the clouds are pretty haunting.
03:51 PMBERJAYA
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150BERJAYA
By Annalee Newitz
#vampiressuckmyass Click here to read True Blood needs to take Vampires Suck in a dark alley and teach it a lesson

True Blood needs to take Vampires Suck in a dark alley and teach it a lesson

Look we're all for good vamp parodies. But watching these clips from groanworthy spoof Vampires Suck (AKA Yet Another Scary Movie Again) we can confidently say that this film is where humor goes to get staked. More »
03:17 PMBERJAYA
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98BERJAYA
By Meredith Woerner
#videogames Click here to read This weird old X-Men computer game allowed you to kill Gambit 100 times

This weird old X-Men computer game allowed you to kill Gambit 100 times

In 1997, X-Men: The Ravages Of Apocalypse hit stores. The game was a Marvel-sanctioned total conversion of the bloody first-person shooter Quake. You played as a cyborg Magneto built to kill Apocalypse's army of X-Men clones. Eat rocket launcher, bub! More »
02:25 PMBERJAYA
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74BERJAYA
By Cyriaque Lamar
#syntheticbiology Click here to read A massive, "unprecedented escape" of genetically-modified crops into the wild

A massive, "unprecedented escape" of genetically-modified crops into the wild

Genetically-modified canola has been breeding undetected in the American wilds for at least "several generations," say scientists. The escaped GM canola has already mutated into a never-before-seen strain, and now it may be modifying other plants too. More »
02:08 PMBERJAYA
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135BERJAYA
By Annalee Newitz
#io9moviemonday Click here to read The best of last night's Avengers Commentary Twack

The best of last night's Avengers Commentary Twack

It's hard to believe that a movie with Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, and Ralph Fiennes could be this bad — but 1998's The Avengers crushed hopes at every turn. If you missed our tweetathon, here are the highlights. More »
02:00 PMBERJAYA
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13BERJAYA
By Marc Bernardin
#quoteoftheday BERJAYA

Inspiration is not an orderly thing

Where does creativity come from? Mary Shelley supplies one possible answer. More »
01:35 PMBERJAYA
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30BERJAYA
By Annalee Newitz
#madscience Click here to read Rodent poop offers an amazing, disgusting window into ancient climates

Rodent poop offers an amazing, disgusting window into ancient climates

Preserved poop can reveal much about the ancient world. It can hold the DNA of the animal that deposited it, bits of undigested plants and pollen, and now it can even reveal the average rainfall the year of the pooping. More »
12:58 PMBERJAYA
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31BERJAYA
By Alasdair Wilkins
#radvertising BERJAYA

Kaiju and Superman enforce common courtesy in surreal Tokyo subway ads

These quirky Tokyo subway posters from 1976-1982 encourage public politeness using superheroes, monsters, aliens, and other icons. Pink Tentacle has a huge collection of these oddballs public service posters, but here are some of the best. More »
12:50 PMBERJAYA
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19BERJAYA
By Cyriaque Lamar
#madengineering Click here to read The world's smallest mirror reflects and traps individual atoms

The world's smallest mirror reflects and traps individual atoms

Mirrors are usually surfaces that reflect light, which means photons bounce off of them. But a new kind of magnetic mirror can reflect magnetized atoms - one at a time. More »
11:45 AMBERJAYA
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13BERJAYA
By Alasdair Wilkins
#weirdmarketing Click here to read A lesson in how all movies should be marketed

A lesson in how all movies should be marketed

Forget viral videos. From now on every movie should just send their actors to a local news station to do the weather. We now give you Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman, in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Weather. More »
11:17 AMBERJAYA
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61BERJAYA
By Meredith Woerner
#math Click here to read P ≠ NP? It's bad news for the power of computing

P ≠ NP? It's bad news for the power of computing

Has the biggest question in computer science been solved? On 6 August, Vinay Deolalikar, a mathematician at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, California, sent out draft copies of a paper titled simply "P ≠ NP". More »
10:36 AMBERJAYA
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79BERJAYA
By Richard Elwes - New Scientist
#timeleaping Click here to read A Quantum Leap movie is getting made, says Scott Bakula

A Quantum Leap movie is getting made, says Scott Bakula

Oh Boy! We did not see this coming: Scott Bakula himself released some info about a Quantum Leap movie. Which is supposedly being handled by a big time Hollywood producer — but with a new Sam Beckett. More »
10:00 AMBERJAYA
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120BERJAYA
By Meredith Woerner
#madengineering Click here to read Breakthrough: Scientists use electron spin to expand computer memory

Breakthrough: Scientists use electron spin to expand computer memory

We've long known that encoding data using electron spin could revolutionize computer performance - and now it's been successfully demonstrated for the first time ever. More »
09:30 AMBERJAYA
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37BERJAYA
By Alasdair Wilkins
#comicswecrave

Guy Gardner, Harry Potter knock-offs, and Stephen King's son run comics this week

Click here to read Guy Gardner, Harry Potter knock-offs, and Stephen King's son run comics this week
What's on the stands this Wednesday? The strongarm police tactics of everyone's favorite mushroom-coiffed space cop, urban fantasy starring a man-boy wizard, and a new installment of Joe Hill's acclaimed supernatural thriller Locke & Key. More »
09:10 AMBERJAYA
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32BERJAYA
By Cyriaque Lamar
BERJAYA #robopsychology

Robots have needs too

Psychologist Abraham Maslow may have influenced generations of self-help gurus with his ideas about the hierarchy of human needs. But he forgot to explain robot needs. Luckily his omission has been corrected with this handy chart. More »
08:30 AMBERJAYA
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42BERJAYA
By Annalee Newitz
#neuromancer Click here to read Check out concept art from the Neuromancer film that never was

Check out concept art from the Neuromancer film that never was

Last year, the internet was abuzz over the idea that famed music video director Joseph Kahn was going to direct a Neuromancer movie. That didn't happen, but this sick concept art gives us a hint of what might have been. More »
08:00 AMBERJAYA
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50BERJAYA
By Meredith Woerner
#fanfilm Click here to read What if the Avengers movie was made in 1952?

What if the Avengers movie was made in 1952?

Ivan Guerrero, the videographer behind the 1950s version of The Empire Strikes Back, has created an old-timey preview of Joss Whedon's upcoming Avengers film by splicing together 50+ clips from old scifi movies. Plus, the movie's based on Secret Invasion! More »
07:30 AMBERJAYA
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19BERJAYA
By Cyriaque Lamar
#arkhamcity Click here to read Hidden blueprints show the plans for Arkham City

Hidden blueprints show the plans for Arkham City

Check out the blueprints hidden Warden Quincy Sharp's secret room in the hit Arkham Asylum game. Are these the plans for the new video game Arkham City? And how come nobody knew this secret room even existed? More »
07:00 AMBERJAYA
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33BERJAYA
By Meredith Woerner
BERJAYA #askaphysicist

Are physicists just making up dark energy?

In this week's "Ask a Physicist," I get defensive about dark energy. It dominates the universe; it's completely absurd; and it's apparently absolutely necessary. More »
06:30 AMBERJAYA
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164BERJAYA
By Dr. Dave Goldberg
#morningspoilers Click here to read Green Lantern sequel gets a writer, more on the Transformers 3 kiss, and secrets of the USS Alabama revealed!

Green Lantern sequel gets a writer, more on the Transformers 3 kiss, and secrets of the USS Alabama revealed!

Warner Brothers has picked a familiar writer to pen the screenplay for Green Lantern 2. Do we know how Michael Bay's Transformers saga will end? And a Reno 911 star tells all about their new science fiction starship comedy Alabama! More »
06:00 AMBERJAYA
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73BERJAYA
By Alasdair Wilkins
Yesterday - August 9, 2010
#truebloodrecap

Why it's a bad idea to "turn your backside" on a naked vampire in True Blood

Click here to read Why it's a bad idea to "turn your backside" on a naked vampire in True Blood
We learned many valuable lessons from this week's True Blood, such as how dating a vampire never allows for enough time to make a shitty scrapbook, how to tan cry, and the ABCs of vampire hate-sexin'. Enjoy the NSFWness. More »
06:22 PMBERJAYA
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403BERJAYA
By Meredith Woerner
#tvrecap Click here to read The Gates has become damned good television

The Gates has become damned good television

We wrote off The Gates after we saw the bland first episode. But ABC's new horror-soap opera has been getting better and better, and last night's episode was almost inhumanly entertaining. Spoilers ahead... More »
05:30 PMBERJAYA
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119BERJAYA
By Charlie Jane Anders
#philosophy

Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

04:43 PMBERJAYA
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16BERJAYA
#futurism

Will print books really be dead within 5 years?

04:20 PMBERJAYA
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356BERJAYA
#television

Watch Pioneer One, a cosmonaut thriller that was made using $6000 of internet donations

04:01 PMBERJAYA
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49BERJAYA
#firstlook Click here to read First look at Green Lantern's alien trainer, Kilowog!

First look at Green Lantern's alien trainer, Kilowog!

The heart and soul of the Green Lantern Corps is Kilowog, the tough-but-awesome alien who trains the new recruits. Check out a new image of how he'll supposedly look in the new movie. More »
04:01 PMBERJAYA
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89BERJAYA
By Charlie Jane Anders
#art BERJAYA

Angels, clowns and a deep dark place: the art of Mariano Villalba

This is the work of Mariano Villalba, a young Argentinian artist whose influences include Edgar Allen Poe, Jan Saudek and Scarface! His dark surreal world is populated with fallen angels, evil clowns (are there any other kinds?) and mysterious women. More »
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03:30 PMBERJAYA
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By Ann VanderMeer
#madpsychology

The psychological secret to humor is making immoral behavior seem harmless

03:00 PMBERJAYA
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#giantrobotsinspace

The strategic implications of giant robots in space

02:40 PMBERJAYA
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#zombiesvsvampires

NBC nabs Zombies Vs. Vampires buddy-cop TV series

02:20 PMBERJAYA
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#triviagasm BERJAYA

The most unnecessary giant monster movies of all time

Not every scifi film can star a Brobdingnagian shark or lizard. Some movies must make due with giant livestock, vermin, and apes who aren't named King Kong. Here are 10 of the most superfluous creature features ever made. More »
02:00 PMBERJAYA
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145BERJAYA
By Cyriaque Lamar
#apocalypses

Author kept coming up with scenarios for the fall of the United States — but then they kept coming true

02:00 PMBERJAYA
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#madbiology

Glow in the dark sperm revolutionizes biology by allowing us to observe the unobservable

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BERJAYA #bbc

6 images from your soon-to-be new space opera obsession, BBC's Outcasts

BBC's new show Outcasts series seems to be combining all the things we love the most: drama, planetary colonists, criminals and space Westerns. The first pictures have been released — check out space adventurers Jamie Bamber and Eric Mabius. More »
12:30 PMBERJAYA
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By Meredith Woerner
#stephenhawking Click here to read Stephen Hawking Predicts the End of Humanity, Again

Stephen Hawking Predicts the End of Humanity, Again

Stephen Hawking, brilliant astrophysicist and nefarious alien doomsday prophet, is again atop his soapbox preaching the end of humanity should we not board spaceships and colonize the solar system and beyond. More »
12:23 PMBERJAYA
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By Jack Loftus
#madscience Click here to read Why golf balls have dimples

Why golf balls have dimples

You'd think a totally smooth surface would be better at flying through the air with the least amount of wind resistance. So why do golf balls have all those little indentations? So they can use the air against itself. More »
12:00 PMBERJAYA
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By Esther Inglis-Arkell
#madscience

Nanomesh breakthrough brings us one step closer to a cloaking device

11:38 AMBERJAYA
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#madbiology

425 million year old blob creature recreated for the first time ever with 3D imaging

11:23 AMBERJAYA
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