In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, a robotic insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped …
This action-packed police drama set 35 years in the future centers around the unlikely partnership between a part-machine cop and a part-human robot. ALMOST HUMAN – Executive-produced by Emmy Award winner J.J. Abrams (“Fringe,” “Lost,” the “Star Trek” and “Mission: Impossible” franchises) and creator J.H. Wyman (“Fringe,” “The Mexican”) and …
The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to return. An 8-year-old American boy (Landon Gimenez) wakes up alone in a rice paddy in a rural Chinese province with no idea how he got there. Details start to emerge when the boy, who …
Ocean Reef residents were awoken early this morning by the thumping, crashing sounds of a stolen ATM being towed down the road by not-so-stealthy thieves. At 4.15am this morning, police were called to Farmer Jacks in Marina Boulevard, Ocean Reef as people nearby heard banging and crashing noises and believed …
It was confirmed by Box Office Mojo confirmed that Assassin’s Creed the movie will be released 2015 during the Memorial Weekend. Along side with Avengers 2 AND followed a few weeks later with Star Wars Episode 7 shortly after. Will the Assassin’s Creed Fan’s flock in numbers?! Knowing me I …
Five ancient copper coins and a map with an “X” might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia’s history. Australian soldier, Maurie Isenberg was stationed on one of the Wessel Islands in WW2 to man a radar station and spent his spare time fishing on the idyllic beaches. While …
OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts he made to his prominent Scholarly Open Access site. OMICS cites India’s terrible Information Technology Act as the basis …
The basic idea is that if someone makes a video of themselves playing a Nintendo game and uploads it to YouTube any ads shown with that video will be of Nintendo’s choosing and revenue from it will flow to Nintendo. Ads may appear beside the videos or actually be inserted …
The fifth season of Warehouse 13 — which will return for only six episodes in 2014 — will be its last, Syfy announced today. “Warehouse 13 has been an incredible signature series for us,” said Mark Stern, Syfy’s President, Original Content, in a statement. “We are grateful to the loyal …
An international team of scientists led by Prof Cheng-Ming Chuong from the University of Southern California has discovered unique cellular and molecular mechanisms behind tooth renewal in American alligators. Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pave the way for tooth regeneration in people. Source
About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town. Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported. …
In a move considered aggressive by US and European officials, Russia has sent at least 12 warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Tartous, Syria. The deployment appears to be a warning to Israeli and Western officials against military intervention in Syria’s bloody civil war, which has now …
MOSCOW — A throng of thousands led by priests in black robes surged through police cordons in downtown Tbilisi, Georgia, on Friday and attacked a group of about 50 gay rights demonstrators. Carrying banners reading “No to mental genocide” and “No to gays,” the masses of mostly young men began …
A Nasa telescope captures the moment a 40kg (88lb) rock crashes into the moon’s surface on Friday. The impact caused a flash 10 times brighter than any other Nasa has seen since it began monitoring the lunar surface eight years ago. Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite is now hunting for …
How do you get away with holding a much-hyped global album launch party in a location so unlikely that the world’s media sits up and takes notice – and get away with not showing up? Many fans we spoke to just prior to Daft Punk’s hugely-hyped Random Access Memories album …
Catholic Church officials have been likened to outlaw motorcycle gangs, drug cartels and people smugglers in an explosive speech delivered at a legal conference in Victoria. Lawyer and lobbyist Bryan Keon-Cohen said the church, currently at the centre of a royal commission into the handling of child sex abuse complaints, …
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A 91-year-old war veteran is being evicted from the Ohio house he built and has lived in for 56 years after signing over his power of attorney to his only daughter, who allegedly had the property put in her name. John “Jack” Potter is a Second World War vet, former …