Fans of science fiction movies that depict weird, speculative or dystopian futures have plenty to look forward to in 2017. Here are our picks of the movies you should put on your radar if you enjoy cinematic depictions of future technology, from a couple of space station thrillers to a story that turns our current social media exhibitionist tendencies into an Orwellian take on the importance of privacy in a digital age.
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AI Wrote a Sci-Fi Screenplay for a London Film Festival, and Humans Directed It
Actors try to make sense out of an AI-written screenplay in the movie Sunspring.
This New Self-Healing, Stretchable Material Is Perfect for Wolverine
Inspired by the comic book character Wolverine, scientists have developed a self-healing, highly stretchable, transparent material that can be used to power artificial muscles.
The end product is a soft, rubber-like material that’s easy to produce at low cost. It can stretch to 50 times its original length, and can heal itself from a scissor cut in the space of 24 hours at room temperature.
Just 5 minutes after being cut, the material can stretch to two times its original length again – not a bad power for a comic book superhero to have.
Future Shock
This thing was not imagination,” he says, jabbing his index finger into the tablecloth. By Cuarón’s estimation, anyone surprised at the accuracy of his movie’s predictions was either uninformed or willfully ignorant about the way the world already was by 2006.’
Revisiting the overlooked 2006 masterpiece with director Alfonso Cuarón.
Imagining 10 Dimensions — the Movie
Here are all 11 “Imagining” videos I’ve published. You can click on the buttons along the top to jump to any particular dimension whenever you want, or if you’ve got an hour and forty-four minutes to spare watch the whole thing! As always, please go to www.tenthdimension.com/blog for the latest about this project, or subscribe to me at twitter.com/10thdim
And thank you everyone for your continued support! We’ve now passed 27,000 subscribers, and youtube estimates that my videos have been watched on this channel for over 31 million minutes. That’s incredible!
Cyrano de Bergerac (1900) — The 1st Movie w/ both Sound & Color — Clement Maurice
And, who said we didn’t have motion pictures with color and sound together before 1931!
Believed to be the first ever, or at least oldest surviving, film produced with both color and sound. The color was made by hand-painting the individual frames of originally black & white film. The sound came from an accompaniment of a sound-on-cylinder recording of Benoit Constant Coquelin’s voice reciting one of Cyrano’s speeches.
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalization of his life that follows the broad outlines of it.
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‘Westworld’ Season 2: When Does the Show Return?
When does Westworld return for season 2? (HBO)
Westworld has been a wonderful show with intricate layers-upon-layers. It seems destined to be the next Game of Thrones for HBO and could reach the level of popularity that Lost enjoyed. J.J. Abrams definitely has another hit on his hands. But now that the first season has ended far too soon, when does the second season begin? Unfortunately, it will likely be farther away than you’re hoping.
First, the good news. Westworld has indeed been renewed for a second season. Season 2 will run for 10 episodes, just like Season 1, according to EW.
The 10 Algorithms Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know
Read this introductory list of contemporary machine learning algorithms of importance that every engineer should understand.
By James Le, New Story Charity.
It is no doubt that the sub-field of machine learning / artificial intelligence has increasingly gained more popularity in the past couple of years. As Big Data is the hottest trend in the tech industry at the moment, machine learning is incredibly powerful to make predictions or calculated suggestions based on large amounts of data. Some of the most common examples of machine learning are Netflix’s algorithms to make movie suggestions based on movies you have watched in the past or Amazon’s algorithms that recommend books based on books you have bought before.