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Nov 21, 2024

Chandra and Hubble tune into ‘flame-throwing’ Guitar Nebula

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Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a “flame-throwing guitar” has now been spotted moving through space. Astronomers have captured movies of this extreme cosmic object using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope.

The new movie of Chandra (red) and Palomar (blue) data helps break down what is playing out in the Guitar Nebula. X-rays from Chandra show a of energetic matter and , about two light-years or 12 trillion miles long, blasting away from the pulsar (seen as the bright white dot connected to the filament).

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Nov 14, 2024

24 Brain Networks Kick in When You Watch Movies, Study Finds

Posted by in categories: entertainment, neuroscience

Researchers created the most detailed map of the brain’s functional networks using data from people watching movies, including “Inception,” “Home Alone” and “Erin Brokovich.”

Nov 9, 2024

This “AI-Generated Game” Blatantly Rips Off Minecraft

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

The most observant of our readers might have already noticed a small little detail about Oasis, a caveat that only the most eagle-eyed OSINT enthusiasts would catch – it’s basically a 1-to-1 copy of Mojang’s Minecraft.

And those readers would be right. Essentially, the “first AI-generated game” is nothing more than blatant plagiarism of everyone’s favorite sandbox, trained on thousands of hours of Minecraft gameplay and recordings of corresponding user actions, which resulted in a nearly identical, but worse in every aspect, “game” with a similar visual style, UI, gameplay mechanics, fonts, visual effects, animations, and so on.

One thing that doesn’t exist in the original Minecraft but is front and center in Oasis is, of course, AI hallucinations. Those who have tried it confirm that the experience is incredibly unstable, with environments often morphing into something else when not in the player’s direct line of sight, making the “first AI-generated game” a proof of concept at best, something that its creators, to their credit, openly admit, describing the current iteration of Oasis as a “technical demo.”

Oct 31, 2024

Sakyo Komatsu — “The Savage Mouth” (1979) | Episode 46.2

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Containing Matters of Grotesque Gastronomy.

Bibliography:
Gregory, Sinda and McCaffery, Larry — “Not just a Gibson Clone: An Interview with Goro Masaki” https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045310/http://www.center…asaki.html.
Tatsumi, Takayuki — “Generations and Controversies — An Overview of Japanese Science Fiction, 1957–1997″, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 2000)

Oct 29, 2024

Watch 1st-ever video of ovulation occurring in real-time

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A new imaging technique enabled scientists to film every step of ovulation as it unfolds in mouse cells.

Oct 29, 2024

Meta Announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered Video Generator

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Movie Gen can create new clips from text prompts or edit your face into existing footage — complete with sound.

Oct 19, 2024

This magical film can produce electricity from anything that moves

Posted by in categories: entertainment, materials

This non-toxic piezoelectric material generates electricity from movement or vibration.


This lead-free polymer film can eliminate the need of batteries in many smart devices and turn roads into charging stations.

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Oct 12, 2024

Flatland: Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs…

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by “A Square”, [ 1 ] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella’s more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. [ 2 ]

A sequel, Sphereland, was written by Dionys Burger in 1957. Several films have been based on including the feature film Dudley Moore and the short films [ 3 ].

Oct 4, 2024

Protector 101 — Runners

Posted by in categories: entertainment, media & arts

Music by Protector 101 : “Runners” (2011)Video edit by Lueur VerteFootage taken from the movie : Blade Runner (1982)Buy the Album here : http://protector101

Oct 1, 2024

Here’s a video of Doom running on gut bacteria, proving you really can play the game on anything

Posted by in categories: computing, entertainment

O.o!!!


An MIT researcher has gotten the 30-year-old computer game Doom running on actual gut bacteria. The frame rate is really bad, as the game would take nearly 600 years to beat.

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