Sewing is a bit arcane for people, like myself, who aren’t particularly good at it. I can sew badges onto a Girl Scout uniform and hem pants if pressed, but create a whole new article of clothing? It’s beyond me. There are plenty of wizards in my social circle who have this skillset, and it
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To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Microsoft has announced a Pokemon Go-like mobile game called Minecraft Earth. “We have covered the entire planet in Minecraft,” says Minecraft Earth director Torfi Olafsson in an interview with The Verge. “Every lake is a place you can fish, every park is a place you can chop down trees. We’ve
This iZombie review contains spoilers. iZombie Season 5, Episode 10 It’s pretty interesting to watch a film noir-inspired episode of iZombie when Rob Thomas’ other film noir-inspired show, Veronia Mars, is about to come back for a fourth season. Unlike Veronica Mars, or even the earlier, more noir-ish Season 1 episodes of iZombie, “Night and The Zombie
Call it a match made in hell: legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter is co-writing a new Joker one-shot with his Big Trouble in Little China comic book collaborator Anthony Burch (Borderlands 2). The 40-page book is titled The Joker: Year of the Villain #1, a tie-in to the big, baddie-centric DC crossover event coming out
2019’s Call of Duty will be called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and it’s a realistic refresh of the iconic shooter series that brought the FPS genre to a more contemporary setting. The game is being developed by Infinity Ward, the studio responsible for the other Modern Warfare installments, with help from Raven Software and Beenox. This is
The Deuce isn’t stopping at two. HBO has officially ordered The Deuce Season 3 and, in the process, also confirmed that the third season will be the show’s final. The Deuce is just the latest in a long line of collaborations between David Simon and HBO. Former Baltimore Sun reporter Simon and his writing partner George Pelecanos were the driving forces behind GOAT
The Boys will unleash an unapologetically ultraviolent response to the entertainment industry’s seemingly interminable array of live-action superhero fare with a TV series created by Supernatural and Timeless‘s Eric Kripke, adapting the bleak comic book series from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Yet, with news arriving of an addition to the cast of the series,
Greg Russo, the writer of the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot, has confirmed on Twitter that the movie will be R-Rated and that the film will feature on-screen fatalities. The fact that Russo didn’t say which fatalities will make it to the big screen suggests that some of them will be pulled directly from the game.
HOUSTON – (July 12, 2019) – The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels – and anything else that loses energy through heat – far more efficient. Rice University scientists are designing arrays of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes to channel mid-infrared radiation (aka heat) and greatly raise the efficiency of
President Trump has named two George Washington University professors winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE): Chunlei Liang, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Volker J. Sorger, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “It’s overwhelming and a true honor, and it
For some phenomena in quantum many-body physics several competing theories exist. But which of them describes a quantum phenomenon best? A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Harvard University in the United States has now successfully deployed artificial neural networks for image analysis of quantum systems. Is that a dog
Zack Snyder, the director of big DC projects like Justice League and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, now wants to head to Asgard – but not Marvel’s version of Asgard. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zack Snyder is teaming with his Justic League producing partner Jay Oliva to bring an anime based on Norse mythology to Netflix.
Earlier this year, prolific comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan struck a deal with Legendary Entertainment to adapt some of his comic IP. Now the first project from that deal has been announced. According to Deadline, Brian K. Vaughan, Legendary, and Plan B (the studio behind Moonlight) have struck a deal with Amazon Studios to adapt
DC Black Label has added yet another miniseries to its lineup of adult-oriented and darker superhero books. Not only is Jeff Lemire working on a new The Question series with the legendary Denys Cowan, but he’s also set to tackle a new Joker story with frequent collaborator Andrea Sorrentino in Joker: Killer Smile, a three-parter
Brazilian and European researchers have demonstrated exactly how a nanotechnology-based compound delivers an oral vaccine against hepatitis B to the immune system. When particles containing silica and an antigen combine, even though they are different sizes, they reach the intestine without being destroyed by the acidity of the digestive system. A compound of nanostructured SBA-15
As a cucumber plant grows, it sprouts tightly coiled tendrils that seek out supports in order to pull the plant upward. This ensures the plant receives as much sunlight exposure as possible. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting fibers that could be used as artificial
IMAGE: This illustration shows a twisted carbon nanotube yarn (CNT) (left) and a sheath-run artificial muscle (SRAM) made by coating a twisted CNT yarn with a polymer sheath. A scanning electron… view more Credit: The University of Texas at Dallas Over the last 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international
PITTSBURGH (July 11, 2019) — Glass for technologies like displays, tablets, laptops, smartphones, and solar cells need to pass light through, but could benefit from a surface that repels water, dirt, oil, and other liquids. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering have created a nanostructure glass that takes inspiration from the
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their compact atomic gyroscope to enable multitasking measurement capabilities and measure its performance, important steps toward practical applications. Described in a new paper, the quantum gyroscope design and evaluation processes were led by three women — a highly unusual situation in physics and
This article comes from Den of Geek UK. Like all the best TV opening titles, Harlots’ comical, brazen credits sequence announces its personality in miniature. A collage-style animation set to modern music, it shows cut-out characters from William Hogarth’s 18th-century painting series A Harlot’s Progress clustered around a giant, luridly colored female nude. They tuck into her crevices, canoodle
This Robotech article contains minor spoilers up to issue 22 of the Robotech Titan Comics’ series. The Robotech comics are finally giving some major love to the franchise’s underdog, The Masters Saga. While the original Robotech anime was made up three different anime programs, the first and third “sagas” of the show have always received way more attention
Microsoft has announced its intention to close down Microsoft Internet Games, a service that launched in 2000 and allowed gamers to play iconic games like backgammon and checkers against online opponents. The service currently spans Windows XP, Windows ME, and Windows 7. As The Windows Gaming Team states on the official Microsoft website, “it is
Lovecraft Country is an intriguing TV project from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, which will team with J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot and Misha Green, the creator of Underground, to adapt Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name for HBO. The project, which was just ordered to series, is also produced being by Warner Bros TV. The
The deal struck between Netflix and Shonda Rhimes is already beginning to bear fruit. Following the announcement that Rhimes’ first project will be Anna Delvey, Netflix has revealed Shonda Rhimes project number two. Rhimes will produce Bridgerton, an eight episode series based on the popular series of novels from Julia Quinn. Bridgerton is set between
Augmented reality isn’t just a concept or gimmick anymore. Pokemon Go took the technology mainstream in the summer of 2016, and now that game’s developer is back this year with Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. But those are just two games out of many in a still growing category. To that end, Den of Geek has
IMAGE: From left to right, A vial of graphite (Gr), like what you would find in an ordinary pencil; a vial of graphene oxide (GO), produced by exfoliating Gr–shedding the layers… view more Credit: Delft University of Technology photo / Benjamin Lehner In order to create new and more efficient computers, medical devices, and other advanced
IMAGE: This is an image of a disordered polythiophene film. view more Credit: Marília Junqueira Caldas Flexible electronics is one of the most important trends in technology today. The market is growing so fast that it is expected to double in value in the next decade. Extremely light and even bendable optoelectronic equipment that supplies, detects
IMAGE: A UMass Amherst team of chemists and electrical engineers outline a new way to advance a more efficient, cheaper, polymer-based harvest of heat energy to produce electricity in a recent… view more Credit: UMass Amherst/Meenakshi Upadhyaya By one official estimate, American manufacturing, transportation, residential and commercial consumers use only about 40 percent of the energy
RICHLAND, Wash. July 10, 2019 – The goal of the research, published July 11 in the journal Nature, was to engineer artificial proteins to self-assemble on a crystal surface by creating an exact match between the pattern of amino acids in the protein and the atoms of the crystal. The ability to program these interactions
IMAGE: A new type of nanomaterial tape, shown here mounted in a conventional tape dispenser, sticks strongly to surfaces over a wide range of temperatures. view more Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01629 In very hot or cold environments, conventional tape can lose its stickiness and leave behind an annoying residue. But while most