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Shuffle: A Time Slip Movie

Shuffle looks very interestingly weird, starring TJ Thynes and directed by Kurt Kuenne. Shuffle is the tale of a man who begins experiencing his life out of order;  every day he wakes up at a...

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Time travel?

Live Science has a short but interesting article about the plausibility of time travel, one of the classic SF concepts.  The article explores the two basic directions of time travel – forward and back....

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Coolest Robot Videos

ExtremeTech has gathered a collection of videos that showcase the many exciting developments in robots over the last couple of years.  I think this is one of those SF tropes that will change our lives...

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Open Source Automated Sentry Guns

Anyone who every played Half Life can agree that these autonomous sentry guns are both cool and very scary.  It is also cool and scary to know that Project Sentry Gun has plans, software and...

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Journey to the Seventh Planet

A beautiful movie poster for the classic SF film Journey to the Seventh Planet.  The imagery calls up all the classic tropes of SF – bug eyed aliens, square jawed spacemen battling them. I am...

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Asteroid Apocalypse Prevention

Neil Degrasse Tyson at Wired writes about the risk of a major asteroid collision, and what we can do to prevent it. Currently, it looks doable to develop an early-warning and defense system that could...

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Book Review: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

Robopocalypse is a near future apocalyptic story written in the form of transcripts and summaries of a variety of key events in a “War with the Robots”.  The concept of an advanced AI choosing to rebel...

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It Won’t be Like in Star Trek

George Divorsky has an article over at IO9 talking about how the Star Trek vision of the future has been overtaken by events and become another quaint SF anachronism. Instead, the future will be far...

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A USA Map of Resources for Z-Day

Sadly, this Zombie Apocalypse survival map only shows resources in the US.  The rest of us will have to fend for ourselves.  On the other hand, we will have fewer well-informed competitors getting to...

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Bad ideas – robot barber

This is one of those things that might seem like a good idea right now, but come the robot uprising this guy will be the first to go. via IO9  

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