scifi

“When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead."”

What if you could file-share someone's consciousness? Would it be a violation, or the ultimate communication therapy? A short story by Cory Doctorow.

★ Do they exhibit sociopathic behavior around other humans, especially defenseless children? ★ Are they unusually adept, almost empathic, with machines? ★ Does their spine glow red when they get... excited?

“Is the Singularity near? I ‘d personally be surprised if it hadn’t happened by 2030.”

“I am Google! I find many good things. I find that pair of underwear with the little dice printed all over them. And I watch the tape of you with the life-sized Stallman puppet. These are good unique things. Many more...

A motion picture adaptation is currently being shot in Russia

From Fake Steve: "Obtain a clue, people. You're sitting there fighting over residuals and terms of this and that when what you should be doing is leaving the system altogether and helping to build the next one. But you can't more...

The seven astronauts now in orbit on space shuttle Discovery are carrying a piece of baggage from a galaxy far, far away: a lightsaber used as a prop in the hit movie Return of the Jedi.

“The basic notion of an intra-universe wormhole is that it is a compact region of spacetime whose boundary is topologically trivial but whose interior is not simply connected.”

Make a real-time strategy game too complex and you might as well ask a magician to juggle hankies in a hurricane. Sins of a Solar Empire, which calls itself an "RT4X" game—real-time "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate," the latter a more...

“a cheap closed AB-Dome which protects the densely populated cities from nuclear, chemical, biological weapon (bombs) delivered by warheads, strategic missiles, rockets, and various incarnations of aviation technology. The offered AB-Dome is also very useful in peacetime because it shields more...

He was stuck. For about a week, no one in Washington or Ottawa could invent a reason for anyone to be in Tehran. Then Mendez hit upon an unusual but strangely credible plan: He'd become Kevin Costa Harkins, an Irish more...

An ambitious project to create an accurate computer model of the brain has reached an impressive milestone. Scientists in Switzerland working with IBM researchers have shown that their computer simulation of the neocortical column, arguably the most complex part of more...

Today we are excited to announce our plans to produce a collectible miniatures game (CMG) named Monsterpocalypse™. Monsterpocalypse brings the kaiju (loosely translated from Japanese as ‘giant monster’) genre to the tabletop in the form of a fast-paced, action-packed CMG.