Reading Time: 5 minutesSmartphones touch nearly every facet of our lives. The transformative effect of smart glasses can be equally dramatic, experts say.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe spring flash fiction submission cycle opens today. Stories can be submitted anytime from now until April 1, 2021.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHayley Arceneaux will become the first astronaut with a prosthetic limb when she goes into space later this year on a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2020 British Fantasy Awards yesterday, and RJ Barker’s The Bone Ships was selected as the best fantasy novel of the year.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn Feb. 11, 2021, the sixth International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service issued a new Forever stamp to honor Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesNASA has been releasing photos as they arrive from Mars and they are awesome.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Feb. 18, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will be arriving at the red planet, and hopefully will place the Perseverance Rover on the surface.
Perseverance lands tomorrow; lead scientist explains tech and goals Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesTo understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” the physicist writes in a new book.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe U. S. Postal Service announced its new lineup of stamps for 2021, and sci-fi legend Ursula K. Le Guin is the latest addition to the Literary Arts series.
Sci-fi legend Ursula K. Le Guin to get her own postage stamp Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesNalo Hopkinson is the first black woman to win the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for her lifetime achievements in science fiction and fantasy writing.
Nalo Hopkinson is first black woman and youngest winner of Grand Master award Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery Thursday, Epic offers a PC game for free. Yesterday that was Stardock Games’ Galactic Civilizations 3, a critically-acclaimed, popular game that’s like Sid Meier’s Civilization, but in space. Other differences include the fact that you can play the game in multi-player mode, battling your friends for control of the galaxy. That’s nice, considering that,
Galactic Civilizations 3 is free from Epic this week Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you’re hoping or fearing that new technology can put you in a Matrix-style virtual environment — it’s not happening in 2021, judging by what we saw at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGrist, a publication that focuses on climate, sustainability and social justice has announced a contest for short stories that focus on climate change. Entry is free, the deadline is April 12, and the short stories should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words in length. “We’re embracing the opportunity to look beyond the confines of the
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Reading Time: 5 minutesArtificial intelligence is increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives, both in the workplace and at home. Some AI experts are stressing the need to focus on making AI ethical and keeping it human friendly. Bias in programming, security concerns, and a lack of public knowledge about how AI works are all issues that
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe global artificial intelligence market is expected to grow by 46.2% from 2019 to 2025. That type of growth can’t be matched by almost any other industry in the world. Artificial intelligence solutions are particularly relevant for the IT, healthcare, automotive, and manufacturing sectors. However, practically all other businesses can find a use for this
Reading Time: 3 minutesWondering what some of your favorite fantasy, horror, and sci-fi writers have been up to on Instagram? Here’s a short but sweet list of popular speculative fiction author’s Instagram accounts.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWith talks of large companies investing in AI weapons, brain-chips being developed to enhance soldiers, and the head of the British armed forces saying that robot soldiers could make up a quarter of the army by the 2030s, people might have some doubts about where this is all going — a recent survey citing twelve percent of Americans see the possibility of human extinction.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAround 35 percent of businesses plan on implementing virtual or augmented reality technology in 2021 according to a recently published research report.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIceland will celebrate New Year’s Eve with a live and fully virtual concert with Northern Lights and fireworks guaranteed.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesYou can now join virtual meetings in any location and see avatars of coworkers or friends. The VR and AR collaboration platform Spatial released a free AR app for iOS and Android last week. Instead of using a bulky and expensive VR headset, the platform now works with just a phone or tablet — though
Reading Time: 2 minutesSales of virtual reality hardware and software will grow at double-digits rates over the next four years, according to a report by ARtillery Intelligence.
Report: VR revenue expected to reach $12.2 billion by 2024 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesHalf Life: Alyx is the 2020\’s VR game of the year. If you want to play the game the best way, we’ve put together a guide to the best VR headset for Half Life: Alyx. What is Half Life: Alyx? Half Life: Alyx is a VR game built from the ground up for virtual reality.
Reading Time: 8 minutes2020 has been a challenging year and nobody could be blamed if they were looking for a little reprieve from reality. One outlet that’s gained in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic is virtual reality or VR.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDevelopers can now create apps controlled by a user’s thoughts. Yup, you can operate computers, lights, TVs, music, games with your mind — as long as you’ve got a little lighter-sized device strapped to your head.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA new virtual reality camera was successfully delivered to the International Space Station today and will allow the astronauts to film spacewalks in VR.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Garden of Eden,” the first in a series of three live VR art explorations, concerts, and shows organized by HBO, kicks off today at 10 p.m. Eastern time on VRChat, a social VR platform.
HBO VR events and concerts start today on VRChat Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesSci-fi and fantasy author Brandon Sanderson’s 13 hour-long “Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy” lectures are up on YouTube.
Brandon Sanderson’s writing lectures are free on YouTube Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Oumuamua, a weird interstellar object that was discovered passing through our solar system in 2017, might be alien after all.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to new research, it’s possible that we could have wormholes large and stable enough for humans to be able to travel to distant stars.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesLiving on the surface of the Moon, or of Mars, is dangerous. The lack of a protective atmosphere means that radiation is a constant hazard, for example. Lava tubes can be the solution, scientists say.
Lava tubes on the Moon and Mars could be our future homes Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlash fiction submission deadline is November 1.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s short story Emergency Skin was named the winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Novelette.
N. K. Jemisin’s Short Story Emergency Skin Wins 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine, wins the 2020 Hugo Award for best novel.
A Memory Called Empire Wins the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel Read More »
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