Day: March 28, 2014

Entertainment

Inside the greatest sci-fi film never made

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Before ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Alien,’ there was Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ In the late 1970s, science fiction and cinema changed forever. Star Warshelped usher in the era of the outer-space blockbuster, while Ridley Scott’s Alien crystallized a sinister vision with some of the most horrific creature design ever seen. But as the new documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune argues, neither may have become the classics we know today were it not for another epic film — one that…

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Wearing Google Glass makes you look like a dick on a Segway, says designer Marc Newson

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Speaking with Dezeen about his new range of glasses, renowned designer Marc Newson took some time out to throw some serious shade at Google Glass. Although Newson, whose diverse designs have spanned products, furniture, aircraft interiors, and fashion, feels that wearable technologies are the future, he is whole-heartedly against Google’s idea of what that future will look like. “What Google have done thus far, I wouldn’t be seen dead wearing. It looks pretty…

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Facebook Joins Google In The Hunt For The Future

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Josh Constine We now live in an era when Mark Zuckerberg speed-dials Obama, controls fleets of drones, brokers $19 billion acquisitions in a week, and buys whole virtual worlds. Facebook’s mission has changed. While once it was solely “to make the world more open and connected”, it’s expanded to also “give people the power to share.” And nothing is too crazy if it brings Facebook one step closer to that goal. If you…

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Culture

This R/C racer can shame sports cars with a 188mph top speed

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As reported on Engadget. BY MARIELLA MOON The R/C Bullet might be tiny, but it’s so fast it can leave some supercars in the dust. The 1:10 scale model with four-wheel drive was recently timed at 188mph, beating its own 171.96mph world record (as shown after the break). The spaceship-like speeder is the brainchild of Nic Case, already a savant in making radio-controlled cars and breaking records. He built a Schumacher Mi3 R/C before the Bullet, which also held the Guinness World…

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Office for iPad review: three beautiful apps, each with strong competition

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANA WOLLMAN After loads of leaks — and some serious denial from Microsoft — the company has finally released a version of Office for iPad. It’s not surprising, in a way, given that Microsoft already has Office Mobile for iPhone. And yet, this new trio of apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) isn’t at all what we expected. In fact, it’s a lot better. You see, rather than simply blow up the current iPhone app to iPad-sized proportions, the…

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