Tesla has been heralded by the tech and motoring press for its innovation, stirring up a fairly traditional market and introducing electric cars with a distinct buzz about them. Read More
Month: May 2023
A team of researchers from Donghua University in China has made a significant breakthrough in the development of hydrogel-based microfibers, drawing inspiration from the extraordinary characteristics of spider silk. Their groundbreaking study, recently published in Nature Communications, delves into a novel fabrication process inspired by the spinning techniques of spiders. The aim of this research …
After an internet uproar, Howard—the 2018 documentary chronicling the indelible legacy of lyricist Howard Ashman, the queer icon who gave The Little Mermaid a voice—will stay on Disney+. Deadline shared the update that that the title was no longer on a list of films being removed from the streamer. Read more… Read More
One of the more delightful things—aside from the movies themselves—to come out of Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno’s “Shin” tokusatsu movies is the Shin Japan Heroes project, a merch collab that mashes up Evangelion, Ultraman, Godzilla, and Kamen Rider. Now, it’s gotten even weirder, and more delightful. Read more… Read More
One of the less-than-gracious responses to the ongoing WGA strike is that writers could simply be replaced by scripts created by artificial intelligence (AI). There are many problems with this idea, one of which is the obvious: could a program like ChatGPT actually generate a decent sci-fi fantasy script? Read more… Read More