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Director Rob McLellan, who is turning his robot serial killer short ABE into a feature film with MGM, has also been working on something else: a Star Wars VR game. Along with his VFX guy Craig Stiff, and with a little help from games studio HammerheadVR, they’ve put together this demo of what they’re toying…
Gawker’s internal drama has gotten the Taiwanese animation treatment, with some not-so-subtle commentary about the whole mess. In case you haven’t heard, Gawker posted a very questionable piece about a Conde Nast executive being in contact with a gay porn star. It was pretty strongly condemned online as having zero news value, and the post…
CNN contributor and former NYPD detective Harry Houck argued on Tuesday that a Texas woman would not have died in police custody if she had not been “arrogant from the very beginning.” Disturbing dashcam video released on Tuesday shows a Texas trooper pulling Sandra Bland over for failure to signal, but the incident quickly escalates…
Just like Back to the Future 2 predicted, here in 2015 we seem to be obsessed with nostalgia. It’s nowhere more obvious than in our movies, with some of the most (Jurassic World) and least (Terminator Genisys) successful films of the summer betting squarely on people’s love for looking backward. Joining the chorus is the…
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During a routine traffic stop on Sunday night, white University of Cincinnati campus police officer Ray Tensing shot 43-year-old black man Samuel Dubose in the head. Dubose was missing a license plate on the front of his car, according to police officials, university police chief Jason Goodrich told the Guardian. Dubose allegedly refused to provide a…
As the trooper’s cruiser makes a U-turn and pulls up behind Sandra Bland’s white car, you can almost hear the first notes of John Williams’ Jaws theme. You then hear the first notes of the tuba that sounds like it’s underwater, and then the other horns. The pace quickens when the light turns green and…
When the love of your life dumps you, you’re going to go a little nuts. But it’s a very specific form of crazy: There are actually conflicting neural systems active inside your brain. It’s like you’re falling in love all over again, only in reverse. Here’s how neuroscience explains it. Addicted to Love It doesn’t…
The concept and practice of disrupting a formal occasion with a protest always seemed awkward to me, not just for the people being disrupted but for the protesters as well. Generally, I think, there’s a tendency for this form of protest to make the activists involved look unserious. On the extreme end of the spectrum,…
In the past few months, there have been some promising developments in tech diversity. Eileen Burbidge and Martha Lane Fox were given prominent government roles, Jacqueline de Rojas was appointed president of techUK, Apple finally had female employees presenting at their conference and the E3 gaming convention featured lots of non-sexualised female protagonists. And yet…