Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you haven’t seen this excellent movie yet, go watch it on HBO Max, then come back. I’ll wait.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesI came for Tony Shalhoub and I was not disappointed.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne thing we learned from 2020 is not to trust AI facial recognition –it’s biased against race and gender.
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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.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesIn this brave new world, many of our choices aren’t choices at all.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI don’t consider myself a hard-core Trekkie by any means, but I sure have watched a lot of Star Trek. “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” or TNG, had its seven-season run when I was just a kid and I watched almost every episode as I was growing up, often with family.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday’s directive promoting the use of nuclear power in space, including in low Earth Orbit, presents lots of interesting plot possibilities for thrillers.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesA very, very long list of ways to show emotion through body language or actions.
Reading Time: 10 minutesPre-made book cover sites offer low-cost, professional-looking covers for independent authors.
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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: 3 minutesJenning’s debut novel stands out against her peers in a horrifying examination of family intersectionality, mental trauma, and compelling story-telling.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn William King’s tie-in novel, you can explore one of the World of Warcraft’s most cold-blooded villains, a night elf who goes by Illidan Stormrage.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesUpdate: Netflix is not picking up Away for a second season. I have to be honest. I’m not really the target audience for Netflix’ new science fiction drama, Away. Yes, it’s about humanity’s first manned mission to Mars. And yes, it stars Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank. Both of those things are great. But it’s
Reading Time: 3 minutesBBC America just released the first video previews of “The Watch,” a series based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, and it’s not looking at all like what people were expecting.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat if “The Office” was staffed by vampires? Here’s the answer, folks.
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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 minutesCome have a laugh with Dr. Shane.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesOur master list of best resources for writers of fantasy, horror and sci-fi.
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast Friday, billionaire inventor Tony Stark — I mean, Elon Musk — showed off progress on his latest project, the Neuralink.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes If you live for reliable magic systems that still feel otherworldly and strange, then the Dreamblood duology is for you.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTerry Pratchett is one of my all-time favorite authors, and even though he died five years ago, a new book is now out, a collection of never-before-published short stories he wrote for local newspapers back in the 1960s and 1970s.
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.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSci-fi and fantasy author Brandon Sanderson’s 13 hour-long “Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy” lectures are up on YouTube.
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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: 3 minutesThe “Umbrella Academy” series is worth your while if you love wacky, unique, funny stories that stretch the boundaries of genre and convention.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat if one day we could cheat death? What if we could live longer – possibly forever? And if we could, would we want to?
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Reading Time: 6 minutesA new paradox in quantum mechanics – one of our two most fundamental scientific theories – throws doubt on some common-sense ideas about physical reality.
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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.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesTesla was a real-life Prometheus: the mythical Greek titan who raided heaven to bring fire to mankind, yet in punishment was chained to a rock where each day an eagle ate his liver.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNetflix’s new show “Away”, the first 10-episode season of which drops Sept. 4, takes a realistic, personal approach to the first manned trip to Mars.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlash fiction submission deadline is November 1.
Reading Time: 11 minutesAs Dune continues to work its way back into the social consciousness, I believe it is worth revisiting some of the novel’s core themes, and considering them in the light of 2020.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWireless power transmission is the future, but there are a lot of technical challenges to overcome.
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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.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine, wins the 2020 Hugo Award for best novel.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesHere are my top 14 reasons to try Google Docs, if you’re not using it yet.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of people in this group have talked about Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars. The book won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2019 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the 2019 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. If you saw Hidden Figures
Reading Time: 5 minutesHere’s our list of great online resources and websites for speculative fiction authors.
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