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The Starship Enterprise (no bloody A, B, C, or D) recently got a makeover. It was donated to the Smithsonian, and the workers at the Air and Space Museum took it apart and put it back together. Why? It’s the 50th anniversary of TOS. Hopefully the new show will be using some practical effects.
After years of trying, we’ve finally attained max buzzword. Here’s a pentesting hacker quadcopter drone, “a hacker’s laptop that can fly.” Why would anyone do this? Because, “You need to be close to the wireless signal to be able to read it. [Danger Drone] removes that barrier of …read more
DEF CON is just around the corner, and that means in just a few days thousands of hardware hackers will be wandering around the casinos in Vegas. Yes, in a mere handful of hours, the tech literati will be accosted by the dead, disaffected eyes of dealers and the crass commercialization of every culture in humanity’s recorded history. The light of god does not penetrate mirrored ceilings. Vegas is terrible, it’ll be 120ºF outside, but at least there’s cool stuff happening Thursday through Sunday.
Hackaday is going to be there, but we really don’t want to spend the entire weekend …read more
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‘Star Trek’ tech is more advanced than what we have today, but it’s an inspiration for the future. Continue reading NASA Engineers Fact-Check the Starship Enterprise
Fan film took seven years to create, with over half a year spent in filming alone. Continue reading Someone Spent Seven Years Making a Stop-Motion ‘Star Trek’ Film
This week, Popular Mechanics published cutaway diagrams of ships that will be seen in Star Trek: Beyond, released later this month. This is your cue for spoilers for the remainder of this paragraph. The USS Franklin looks suspiciously like – and was likely built after – the NX-01, the titular ship of Star Trek: Enterprise. The Abrams-verse Franklin was the first Warp 4 ship, yet the prime universe NX-01 was the first Warp 5 ship, with previous ships having trouble reaching Warp 2. We must now consider the Abrams-verse Trek is not a parallel universe to prime-universe Trek …read more
Before Fifty Shades of Grey, early fanfiction authors carved out their own little homes on the burgeoning internet. Continue reading The Forgotten Early History of Fanfiction
Speech generation and recognition have come a long way. It wasn’t that long ago that we were in a breakfast place and endured 30 minutes of a teenaged girl screaming “CALL JUSTIN TAYLOR!” into her phone repeatedly, with no results. Now speech on phones is good enough you might never use the keyboard unless you want privacy. Every time we ask Google or Siri a question and get an answer it makes us feel like we are living in Star Trek.
[Smcameron] probably feels the same way. He’s been working on a Star Trek-inspired bridge simulator called “Space Nerds in …read more
One planet could conceivably host a moon with life. Continue reading This 22-Year-Old Found Four New Planets, Including a ‘Warm Neptune’
We’ll soon have a decision about whether languages can be copyrighted. Continue reading Judge Allows Paramount’s Klingon Language Copyright Case to Move Forward
