Ok, so technically it never really died, but it all depends on your frame of reference (nerdy physics joke…you earn stellar points if you get it). Basically, this cute little doggy, named Ethan, managed to survive being poisoned and buried alive. It’s unclear who tried to do this dastardly deed but it seems Ethan was [...]
Apparently this latest animated feature film, Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United from Marvel will see Iron Man and the Hulk team up to battle villains such as Zzzax, Abomination and more. The Avengers movie will apparently have quite a heavy influence on the relationship between the characters. The portrayal given by Robert Downey Jr and [...]
Over the night of 4-5 October 2012, the Sun decided things were getting a bit boring in the solar system and decided to inject some fun. Perhaps eject is a better term. The Sun flung off a bunch of energetic particles in what is known to the astro nerds as a coronal mass ejection. The [...]
CBM has released the first glimpse we have of Wolverine’s nemesis, Kenuichio Harada – the Silver Samurai, from the upcoming movie The Wolverine. He is being played by Korean-American actor Will Yun Lee, who you might recognize from Elektra, Hawaii Five-0 or Total Recall. The character is suited entirely in silver armour (hence the name) [...]
In my opinion, Facebook is focusing on the wrong problem here – they’ve got plenty of other things they need to research and fix! With roughly 955 million users, Facebook is concerned that not all their users are real people. And now they’re asking you to nark on your friends who aren’t using their real [...]
An 11 year old has won $20,000 from AT&T in an app competition to try and discourage texting while driving. In collaboration with the designer David Grau, Victoria Walker created an app called Rode Dog for the “It Can Wait” campaign. How the app works is that you join a “pack” with your friends (you all have [...]
Check out MakerBot’s 4th generation 3D printer, called the Replicator 2. It’s not quite a commercial-ready 3D printer that’s being marketed to the average geek, but it still looks pretty awesome. The machine is actually aimed towards engineers and industrial designers who want a smaller, and so-called more ‘affordable’ way of printing professional quality 3D models. [...]
It would seem that all is not rosy with the release of the new operating system on iDevices. Apparently there were floods of complaints from customers who had their WiFi greyed out following the update to iOS6 on iPhones 4 and 4S and iPad 3rd Gen. I haven’t yet updated my systems to iOS6 and [...]
Four and a half years ago, the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle launched a little project called the Allen Brain Atlas. This week, it’s complete, and thanks to the hard work of an international team led by Michael Hawrylycz, we now have a high-res, searchable 3D map of the human brain. Even better? [...]
It’s official – insurance companies are setting their sights on the social media realm. After a landmark case won by Nicola Brooks, who managed to get Facebook trolls identities legally revealed, it’s become clear that social media isn’t all just posting instagramed photos of your delicious brunch and playing Draw Something with your friends. There [...]
Have you sometimes found that when you’re facing a really tough problem, an old kindergarten trick can sometimes work quite perfectly? Well apparently that can extend to quantum computers as well. At the University of Toronto, researchers have combined superconducting materials and semiconducting materials using good, wholesome two-sided Scotch tape. Quantum computing is a highly [...]
Ever wanted to know the degrees of separation between any actor ever with Kevin Bacon? Well the geniuses at Google did. You can now go to Google and type in any actors name followed by “bacon number” and you will be given the degrees of separation between that actor and Kevin Bacon. Apparently it’s very [...]