Black Mirror season 5 has been available on Netflix for awhile now, and opinions have certainly been mixed. With anthology shows, there are always going to be some episodes that are better than others, but we make the argument on this edition of the Sci Fi Fidelity podcast that all three episodes of this latest
Month: June 2019
Dell has released its new XPS 15 laptop, which was unveiled last month at Computex. The base model, running the 9th Generation Intel Core i5 processor with 8GB memory and 256GB SSD, will set you back $1,099.99, but Dell is also offering more souped-up versions at the price points of $1,549.99, $1,949.99, $2,099.99, and $2,649.99
During the same Gamelab speech in which Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime addressed crunch culture, he also spoke about the mysterious canceled Blizzard project known as Titan which was positioned to be the studio’s successor to World of Warcraft. “It was a brand-new universe, and it was going to be the next generation MMO, that did all
As an all-new wrestling promotion, All Elite Wrestling has been hitting all the right notes right out the gate. Their prototype show All In made waves, but not nearly as much as their first real show AEW Double or Nothing. The event was both a critical and financial success. They’re a few months away from
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic just took a huge leap. After the universe shattering events of Shattered Grid and the aftermath of Beyond the Grid, the Power Rangers comics are entering a new era. Not just because of writer Ryan Parrott taking over the comic but the comic has shifted time periods to mid season
Release Date: June 18, 2019Platform: PS4 (reviewed), XBO, Switch, PCDeveloper: ArtPlayPublisher: 505 GamesGenre: Metroidvania Platformer Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is such a beloved game that it, along with strange bedfellow Super Metroid, inspired a whole subgenre of platformers focused on exploration and backtracking. Today, Metroidvania games are as relevant and popular as ever, but one of the OGs of
This Swamp Thing review contains spoilers. Swamp Thing Episode 5 Damn, this show deserves a better fate. I have wanted to avoid focusing on the negative too much, but we are at the halfway point of Swamp Thing’s first, and currently only, season, and things are picking up – but I am skeptical whether we’ll get a satisfying conclusion
SPOILER ADVISORY: If you haven’t seen Full Metal Jacket, watch it before reading this article. Watch it if you don’t read this article. If you’ve already seen it, watch it again whether you read the article or not. The casualties of the Vietnam War went beyond soldiers and civilians. The geopolitical morass engulfed journalists, novelists
The Tetris Company and N3TWORK are teaming up to develop a Tetris battle royale game set to come to mobile devices later this year. “Tetris is a timeless pop culture icon that has shaped the history of videogames and is truly loved around the world,” says the founder and CEO of N3TWORK, Neil Young. “Our team at
This review contains spoilers for Agents of SHIELD. Agents of SHIELD Season 6 Episode 7 Sometimes a few well-written character moments, kick-ass action sequences, or surprising plot twists can save an otherwise lackluster episode of Agents of SHIELD, but unfortunately, although there was both heartfelt and witty dialogue in “Toldja,” there wasn’t enough of what
This post is sponsored by Tor Books. Since the release of Ender’s Game in 1985, author Orson Scott Card has expanded his Ender’s universe in many different directions—good news for anyone who is a fan of the original book and for readers who love rich, ever-expanding science fiction universes and have yet to dive into the Enderverse.
IMAGE: (a) Red and blue are different metal atoms; yellow are chalcogen atoms. (b) Newly developed procedure. Different TMDC precursors are fed in sequentially to grow crystalline domains with different composition. view more Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have grown atomically thin crystalline layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A joint team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is getting closer to confirming the existence of an exotic quantum particle called Majorana fermion, crucial for fault-tolerant quantum computing — the kind of quantum computing that addresses errors during its operation. Quantum computing uses
Release Date: June 27, 2019Platform: PS4 (reviewed), XBODeveloper: SNK CorporationPublisher: Athlon GamesGenre: Fighting In the ’90s heyday of fighting games, it seemed like SNK released a new game every week, churning out series after series. SNK fell to the wayside after the turn of the century, but it’s been trying to make a comeback of late. Three years ago, SNK
In the wake of HBO’s phenomenally successful mini-series Chernobyl, a slew of articles have appeared along the lines of ‘Facts vs Fiction’, ‘Moments the show got wrong’, ‘How much of Chernobyl is true?’ ‘What the mini-series gets right’ ‘Separating fact from fiction’, and so on. How can a series that talks so much about truth
Hi, friends. We’re giving away five copies of Orson Scott Card’s latest Enderverse book: The Hive. The second novel in the prequel trilogy following the events of the Second Formic War, Card co-wrote The Hive with Aaron Johnston. Here’s the full, official synopsis: New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to
IMAGE: Different kinds of nanoparticles are bound together by DNA fragments and Ceren Kimna released at specific times. Such connections may become the basis of drugs that release their active ingredients… view more Credit: Ceren Kimna / TUM A drug with three active ingredients that are released in sequence at specific times: Thanks to the work
Researchers from the Yokohama National University have teleported quantum information securely within the confines of a diamond. The study has big implications for quantum information technology – the future of how sensitive information is shared and stored. The researchers published their results on June 28, 2019 in Communications Physics. “Quantum teleportation permits the transfer of
Despite the hopes of many, Google is shooting down rumors that Stadia games will be cheaper or that they will immediately inspire developers to lower their prices. “I don’t know why it would be cheaper,” said Google Stadia’s Phil Harrison in a roundtable interview attended by Eurogamer. “The value you get from the game on
BoJack Horseman Season 6 is coming whether BoJack can handle it or not. Season 5 darn near killed the poor guy/horse but hopefully he’ll have some time to recover. The Hollywood Reporter first reported that Netflix officially ordered BoJack Horseman Season 6. The show then confirmed the news via its Twitter account. BoJack Horseman is one
Strangers Things standout Millie Bobby Brown has a new role on her agenda. According to Deadline, Brown will be starring in and producing a film series based on The Enola Holmes Mysteries novel series for Legendary Entertainment. The Enola Holmes Mysteries are a series of novels from Nancy Springer that follow Sherlock Holmes‘ much younger sister
EVANSTON, Ill. — A new form of electron microscopy allows researchers to examine nanoscale tubular materials while they are “alive” and forming liquids — a first in the field. Developed by a multidisciplinary team at Northwestern University and the University of Tennessee, the new technique, called variable temperature liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (VT-LPTEM), allows researchers
Now that the Dark Souls series is officially complete, Bandai Namco has a hole in their lineup that was previously occupied by a hardcore RPG series with a moody atmosphere and strong action elements. While it’s going to be hard for any game to ever completely fill that void, we must say that Bandai Namco’s upcoming action
FX officially confirmed we’ll be getting an Atlanta Season 3. It’s just going to take awhile. Donald and Stephen Glover’s brilliant, Faulkner-esque series Atlanta has been a big hit for FX in some untraditional ways. Anecdotally speaking, it feels like few shows on television drive online conversation or rile up the blogosphere like Atlanta. read more: Best
Weapons that tear holes in reality, letting in thousands of eyes and teeth. Military strategies depending on clocks and calculus. Yoon Ha Lee’s Hexarchate series brings truly unique world-building to space opera. Baroque and character-driven, his series is also governed by strict mathematical laws. Reading a Yoon Ha Lee novel feels a bit like playing
This year’s Nano Research Award, which is sponsored by Tsinghua University Press (TUP) and Springer Nature, was presented to two celebrated researchers in Changsha, China on 23 June. Xinhe Bao is Professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Science and Technology of China, and Omar
IMAGE: Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in a bowl shape, as seen in this photo, instead of spreading out over the surface,… view more Credit: Kripa Varanasi CAMBRIDGE, MA — In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids with
In response to a Twitter thread discussing the Epic Store’s controversial pursuit of exclusives, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney explained that the aggressive pursuit of such titles is really one of the only ways to change the digital distribution status quo which he believes is often unfair to developers. “We believe exclusives are the only strategy
Todd Kohlhepp was an avid Amazon reviewer who wrote more than 140 recomendations for guns, knives, and gear between 2014 and 2016. He lauded a folding shovel for its usefulness “when you have to hide the bodies and left your full size shovel at home.” Kohlhepp was serving seven consecutive life sentences without parole when
DC Comics is launching a new horror comics line curated by author Joe Hill in October. It’s called Hill House Comics and it follows in the footsteps of other “pop-up” lines at DC such as Gerard Way’s Young Animal. Hill, who is best known for horror novels such as NOS4A2 and his comic book series
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