Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the European Space Agency: White dots arranged in five clusters against a black background (PNG). This is the simulated extraterrestrial signal transmitted from Mars and deciphered by a father and a daughter on … Continue reading ‘Alien’ Signal Decoded
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Hollywood Reporter: A production company for Blade Runner 2049 has sued (PDF) Tesla, which allegedly fed images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image generator to create unlicensed promotional… Continue reading ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Producer Sues Tesla, Warner Bros. Discovery
An anonymous reader shared this report from ComicBook.com:
On Saturday, 20th Century Studios announced that the latest entry in the Alien sci-fi horror franchise will get a limited-edition VHS release on December 3 — just in time for the holiday… Continue reading Special VHS Release for ‘Alien: Romulus’ Announced by 20th Century Studios
Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer “of exuberant prose who revels in embracing big ideas,” according to the New York Times. “With Polostan he enters the realm of the spy novel…”
Or, as the Washington Post puts it, Stephenson “drops readers into a b… Continue reading Neal Stephenson Publishes First Book in New Atomic Age Spy Series ‘Bomb Light’
“It’s going to be violent,” warns the creator of Terminator Zero, an eight-episode anime series premiering Thursday August 29th on Netflix. “It’s going to be dark, it’s going to be horrific, and it’s going to be arresting.”
And the Netflix blog has n… Continue reading Netflix Shares First Six Minutes of New Anime Series ‘Terminator Zero’
Lionsgate is recalling its latest trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s epic “Megalopolis,” which featured a littany of fabricated quotes from famous film critics. From a report: “Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for ‘Megalopolis,'” a Lionsg… Continue reading Lionsgate Pulls ‘Megalopolis’ Trailer Offline Due To Made-Up Critic Quotes
Slashdot reader Dave Knott writes: After once again being plagued by controversy, this time due to a thwarted ballot-stuffing campaign, the 2024 Hugo Awards have been awarded at the 2024 World Science Fiction Convention. This year’s winners are:
In his new memoir, Imminent, former senior intelligence official Luis Elizondo claims that a supersecret program has been retrieving technology and biological remains of nonhuman origin for decades, warning that these phenomena could pose a serious nat… Continue reading An Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s UFO Hunt
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The prestigious Hugo awards for science fiction and fantasy writing has revealed that almost 400 votes — about 10% of all votes cast in this year’s awards — were fraudulently paid for to help one… Continue reading Hugo Awards Organizers Reveal Thousands Spent On Fraudulent Votes To Help One Writer Win
Robin McKie writes via The Guardian: Scientists with Breakthrough Listen, the world’s largest scientific research program dedicated to finding alien civilizations, say a host of technological developments are about to transform the search for intellige… Continue reading ‘Amazing’ New Technology Set To Transform the Search For Alien Life