Future Stories

The second trailer for Neil Marshall’s R-rated   Hellboy reboot is here, and like the first trailer in December, it features glimpses at the main characters (especially David Harbour as you-know-who ), and it’s gory and full of monsters . But this trailer’s also got way more of Milla Jovovich’s sinister sorceress,… Read more...

In a hard swerve from the first season, Star Trek: Discovery ’s sophomore outing has been a lot happier to leave its overarching story with Spock simmering in the background as it focused on mostly standalone, classically Star Trek tales. It’s worked great so far, but tonight’s episode tried to have it both ways, and… Read more...

Aubrey de Grey is getting more bullish about his timeframes for robust human rejuvenation and longevity escape velocity. He now thinks it is only 18 years away and not 25 years anymore. There is fastly progressing science and there is a rapid increase in funding and formation of companies. Areas that were making slow progress like Mitosens are now rapidly progressing. Cross-linking is making progress as well. Robust mouse rejuvenation could be only 3 years away instead of five years. Robust mouse rejuvenation could be by 2022. Aubrey is more optimistic that partial SENS will be able to deliver significant

The TRON Arcade fund and MixMarvel are launching HyperSnakes which is the blockchain version of Slither.io. It will allow players to compete and earn TRX without a wallet, circumventing common cryptocurrency adoption barriers. TRON and MixMarvel bring high production values and deep gameplay to gamers and blockchain enthusiasts alike. Blockchain gaming will transform the misaligned incentives of traditional game economies, introduce fairer monetization practices, provide players with true ownership of in-game assets, and so much more. MixMarvel has previously created the ETH (Etherium) game HyperDragons. HyperSnakes introduces new abilities and battle royale mechanics to classic Slither.io gameplay. Players can compete

SpaceX is set to send an uncrewed Dragon capsule to the International Space Station this weekend in one of the most anticipated launches of 2019. A successful test would pave the way for a crewed mission later in the year—and the subsequent return of America’s ability to launch astronauts into space on its own terms. Read more...

Mister Miracle was one of the best comics on shelves last year—but the first reunion between Sheriff of Babylon partners Tom King and Mitch Gerads at DC almost took place much closer to home than that the cosmic Fourth World. It started, as a lot of things at DC Comics do, with the Batman. Read more...

Back to the Future is one of those film series that’s just  filled with great scenes . There are so many, in fact, that if you were making a poster for the movie, settling on just one would be difficult. Artist Scott Campbell went the opposite way. He threw them all together and the results are excellent. Read more...

New content from the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is addictive. We kind of just want it injected into our eyeballs. Thankfully, the film is now on digital download so we can do just that—but, if you haven’t plopped down the cash yet, another of the film’s deleted scenes just came online. Read more...

A messy desk is not a sign of a genius—it’s a sign of a messy person—don’t get it twisted. The fact that “great” men had messy desks, e.g., Thomas Edison (racist), Steve Jobs (asshole), Donald Trump (racist asshole), etc., doesn’t permit you to live like a pig. Read more...

The big Tesla announcement is that the $35,000 Tesla Model 3 is now available. The standard Model 3, with 220 miles of range, a top speed of 130 mph and 0-60 mph acceleration of 5.6 seconds is now available at $35,000. It is built to achieve the same perfect 5-star safety rating as the longer-ranged version, which has the lowest probability of injury of any car ever tested by the U.S. Government. Telsa is also introducing the Model 3 Standard Range Plus, which offers 240 miles of range, a top speed of 140 mph, 0-60 mph acceleration of just 5.3

In Level 16 , young girls are taught to be “clean.” To be perfect little ladies. Whatever the hell that means. It’s the kind of thing you’d only participate in if you were brainwashed at an early age, which suggests there’s something sinister afoot. Read more...

The Orville ’s first season obviously spent time introducing us to its quirky ensemble, but it also focused a lot on the crew’s wild and often perilous space adventures. Season two, by contrast, has devoted far more energy to developing its characters—and it’s really paid off in rewarding ways for the series. Read more...

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Just months after discovering FarOut, the most distant known object in the Solar System, the same team of astronomers has detected the faint—but not yet confirmed—glimmerings of an object even farther away. Dubbed FarFarOut, the extreme dwarf planet is 13 billion miles away—a distance so far it takes nearly 20 hours… Read more...

A new Dark Phoenix trailer dropped in the dead of night this week and gave us another look at how Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey will transform into her darkest, most cosmically-empowered self on the big screen for the second time in the character’s cinematic history. But a fan also spotted something peculiar... Read more...

Germany is making progress to 100-kilowatt military lasers. There were successful tests shooting down drones and mortar rounds. The next step will be to integrate a 20-kilowatt laser on an armored vehicle. Germany is about two years behind the US military laser program. US Army Has Been Tested 2 and 5 Kilowatt Lasers and is Working on 50-kilowatt and 100-kilowatt The US has been shooting down drones and mortars for a few years with 2 and 5-kilowatt lasers on large military trucks and Stryker armored vehicles. The US Army wants to start fielding a 50-kilowatt laser on an armored vehicle

It started as The Walking Dead . Later, we learned to Fear the Walking Dead . And now The Walking Dead will rise again. Read more...

$14 would be a good price for a barebones HDTV bias light that you have to get up off the couch to control. But today, that gets you a 16.4' strip with a built-in microphone to bounce along with ambient music, and even Bluetooth app control. I have a similar set from the same company behind my TV, and it works great.… Read more...

In a split second before you reach to pick up an object, your brain pre-calculates all the movements needed to safely reach and grasp it securely. It’s a subconscious approach that’s the result of years of childhood development and learning, and one that robotics researchers are now using for their own creations. … Read more...

Well, comics themselves are already a form of serialized storytelling, so while the format isn’t exactly new to these characters, this just-announced project is pretty intriguing. Read more...

In celebration of Buffy the Vampire ’s 22nd anniversary, Fox is teaming up with the American Red Cross to do what they can to help protect the public by going out and donating blood. Does this sound like the sort of complicated scheme to harvest blood that some of Buffy’s more inventive adversaries might have come up… Read more...

If you have an Akira fan on your holiday shopping list, you won’t find a better gift than this stunning 35th anniversary hardcover comic box set . The 2,500+ pages are the most faithful recreations of the originals that you can buy: Read more...

Scientists report finding evidence for an ancient planet-wide groundwater system on Mars, according to a new study. The clues appeared in images taken by Mars orbiters. Read more...

Have you been dying to learn all the nitty-gritty details on what you’ll find inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge ? That wait is over. Read more...

IonQ used its trapped-ion computer and a scalable co-design framework for solving chemistry problems. They applied it to compute the ground-state energy of the water molecule. The robust operation of the trapped ion quantum computer yields energy estimates with errors approaching the chemical accuracy, which is the target threshold necessary for predicting the rates of chemical reaction dynamics. Quantum chemistry is a promising application where quantum computing might overcome the limitations of known classical algorithms, hampered by an exponential scaling of computational resource requirements. One of the most challenging tasks in quantum chemistry is to determine molecular energies to within

In the world of Netflix’s new French-language dystopian thriller, finding one’s true love in the near future is something that most people aspire to do, particularly because all of the guessing’s been taken out of the equation thanks to a new technological development: the Osmosis app. Read more...

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The skwad is already down one of its major members ahead of its upcoming sequel. Read more...

By using the barren Atacama Desert in Chile as a stand-in for Mars, researchers have shown that it’s possible to use an autonomous rover-mounted drill to detect life beneath a desolate surface. Encouragingly, the test resulted in the discovery of a resilient microorganism—exactly the kind of creature that could lurk… Read more...

The Are You Afraid of the Dark movie faces a major delay. Another Disney+ series could be happening, revolving around classic animated villains. A surprise new Alien animated series is coming very soon. Plus, Captain Marvel and the new Kim Possible team up, and what’s to come on Project Blue Book . Spoilers, away! Read more...

Anker’s Nebula Capsule raised the bar for portable projectors , and now, they’ve taken the guts of that soda can, and put it into a much less expensive home projector . Read more...

Researchers have demonstrated a liquid metal catalyst able to turn carbon dioxide gas back into coal. This method could potentially offer a new way to store carbon in solid form.

Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko launched a new $200 million Future Ventures fund. They are focused on bold moon shots by the mission-driven founders who forge the future. Jurvetson identified and backing industry-redefining companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, Nervana, Mythic, and Memphis Meats. Those companies now have an aggregate value of $100 billion. Hello, Future! My partner Maryanna Saenko and I are excited to launch Future Ventures today with our $200 million venture fund focused on bold moon shots by the mission-driven founders who forge the future. More: https://t.co/cRQ67d0BPi Welcome to the https://t.co/TVISSO25gK pic.twitter.com/fanOzJbyGX — Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) February 15,

Oneweb has launched six satellites that will be part of 600 global satellite network. OneWeb will launch into a 450-500km altitude, which is above the International Space Station. From there, our satellites will climb to an operational orbit of 1,200km. How will OneWeb operate alongside proposed constellations which seek to operate in the same altitude? OneWeb has demonstrated its willingness to reach agreements with other operators to ensure orbital safety. We think that constellations of more than 100 satellites should be separated by a minimum of 125km between the center of their orbits. This is necessary to safely and sustainably

One of the big things that Simon Kinberg’s upcoming Dark Phoenix installment needs to get right in order to get out of X-Men: The Last Stand ’s shadow is to make its take on Jean Grey’s turn to evil feel like a legitimately world-altering event. The story is, after all, one of the most important part of the X-Men’s… Read more...

For Star Wars fans, two things have always been true. It’s a world we all dream of visiting but will never actually be able to. Star Wars is a movie, of course. Fiction. The sets and places only exist in far off studios for a few months at a time, or as ones and zeroes on the servers of visual effects companies. None… Read more...

It’s not hard to pick out all the visual effects shots in movies like Avengers: Infinity War or Ready Player One , but First Man was shot more like a documentary, so the extensive visual effects had to be seamless and invisible. To help accomplish this, visual effects studio DNEG built one of the most amazing TVs… Read more...

SpaceX and Tesla are no track for a Saturday, March 2nd unmanned crewed dragon test flight. New Flight Planning Dates SpaceX Demo-1 (uncrewed): March 2, 2019 Boeing Orbital Flight Test (uncrewed): NET April 2019 Boeing Pad Abort Test: NET May 2019 SpaceX In-Flight Abort Test: June 2019 SpaceX Demo-2 (crewed): July 2019 Boeing Crew Flight Test (crewed): NET August 2019 Crew Dragon Capabilities, Specs and Engines The SpaceX Dragon 2 will be partly reusable. SpaceX expects ten flights are possible before significant vehicle refurbishing is needed. It will have a payload capacity of 3,307 kilograms (7,291 lb) Cargo Dragon 2.

Elon Musk indicates there will be some big Tesla news on Thursday. The leading speculation online is that it will be Model Y reveal. The Model Y will share 75% of its parts with the Model 3. It is estimated that a successful crossover vehicle for Tesla could have twice the sales of the Model 3. Some Tesla news — Elon Tusk (@elonmusk) February 27, 2019 SOURCES- Twitter, Elon Musk Written By Brian Wang

WESN’s micro blade was one of our readers’ favorite Kickstarter projects last year , and now, the company has followed up that tiny knife with a great looking, full-sized upgrade . Read more...

We’re in a golden age of superheroic adaptations, on film and TV alike—so at this point, we know that some sacrifices have to be made in structure and time to make a story from one medium work in another. But for Mister Miracle ’s Tom King, the one biggest change is a matter of time itself. Read more...

How did life first start? Scientists hoping to answer that question are recreating the conditions of early Earth’s oceans in a lab. Read more...

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Like all mythic trickster beings who live in stories people tell one another, Brer Rabbit is a character whose precise origins are difficult to pin down. But his folklore roots are deeply intertwined with the history of black Americans whose ancestors who survived the middle passage and were brought to the country in… Read more...

FedEx Corp. has today announced the "SameDay Bot" – an autonomous delivery service, designed to help retailers make same-day and last-mile deliveries to their customers.

HIV drugs turned what was a death sentence within about 5 years into a chronic condition where treated people have almost the same lifespan as those who are not infected. Currently, HIV drugs cost $75 in Africa and $39,000 in the U.S. The distribution of treatment and costs and the impact on life expectancy could represent what might happen with the emergence of effective anti-aging or age-reversal treatments. Over ten to fifteen years the first wave of anti-aging and age reversal treatments could emerge. If they were largely based upon gene therapies or drugs then they would be administered via

Whether you’re looking to start the next big podcast (seriously, you’ve got, like, things to say), improve the quality of your Twitch streams, or just want your Skype calls with Grandma to sound better, the Blue Yeti is one of the most popular mid-range USB microphones you can buy . It’s down to $75 in Steel Red. Read more...

Whether we like it or not, Game of Thrones will end its run on HBO this summer. And knowing it’s the final season of the show , the producers asked the creator of Westeros to grace the series with his presence. He declined. Read more...

There are over 3.484 billion active social media users on scores of social networks. The major share of these users are active on Facebook as it has 2.3 billion users. It is the most popular social network, but there always seems to be some controversy around it. When it was launched the controversy surrounding it was on who owns it. But it seemed like it went past that and grew into a social network on which one could safely converse with their friends and family. But it hasn’t been so. One of the factors that constantly puts Facebook amid controversies

America is home to 161 active volcanoes spread across 12 states and two overseas territories. This easily makes it one of the most volcanic places on Earth, which is why it’s deeply strange that the United States doesn’t yet have a nationwide early warning system for its fiery mountains. Read more...

Time isn’t a straight line. It’s all… bumpy-wumpy . There’s loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays, and Tuesdays, and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays: Big temporal tipping points when anything’s possible. Read more...

I realize that you’re not used to paying $99 for a board game, but you should make an exception for Gloomhaven . It’s Board Game Geek’s #1 board game ever, and is “ astoundingly good ” according to Ars Technica. Hell, it weighs 20 pounds! It was also a finalist in our recent board game Co-Op on The Inventory . If you love… Read more...

D-Wave Systems has shown its new 5000 qubit quantum annealing system that uses a vastly improved Pegasus architecture. Nextbigfuture wrote about the Pegasus architecture and the 5,640 qubit D-Wave prototype back in mid-January. D-Wave has now officially announced the 5000+ qubit system and the new architecture. The next-generation D-Wave quantum platform will include ongoing updates available through the cloud, a new quantum system, and new software for tools and applications: New Topology: The Pegasus™ topology is the most connected of any commercial quantum system in the world. Currently, each qubit in the Chimera™ topology is connected to six other qubits.

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Fox has an odd habit of releasing X-Men projects ( The Last Stand, Days of Future Past , and Apocalyps e come to mind) with plots that don’t exactly live up to their epic-sounding subtitles. With its so-so season finale, The Gifted joined that exclusive club last night. But while the episode—and really, the season as a… Read more...

Generation eight of Pokémon is officially here, as this morning Nintendo announced Pokémon Sword and Shield , to release this fall on the Switch. The pair of games are three-dimensional and cel-shaded, looking better than any Pokémon we’ve seen before. Read more...

In terms of sheer power and graphical capability, nothing can top the Xbox One X. So if you want to experience modern games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in their full 4K HDR glory, you can save $150 today on a bundle that includes a copy of PUBG , the best deal we’ve ever seen. Read more...

The King of Atlantis is returning to the big screen. Read more...

India and Pakistan are using airstrikes against each other and both also shot down each other’s fighter jets on Wednesday. Pakistan captured an Indian pilot. These are the first air strikes they have exchanged since 1971. Pakistan and Indian ground forces have exchanged fire in more than a dozen locations. A suicide car bombing on February 14, by Pakistan-based militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police has triggered recent fighting and tension. Yesterday, India launched an air strike on what it said was a militant training base. A senior Indian government source said that 300 militants

We already knew DC Universe’s Titans was getting a second season. And, if you watched the entire finale episode of season one, you already had a very good idea of at least one new character joining the ensemble. Now, it’s confirmed, with a casting announcement for Superboy. Read more...

Policies aimed at cutting CO2 emissions in developed economies are beginning to pay off, according to new research.

It’s not really a surprise that Star Trek: Discovery will be back for more adventures next year—after all, it’s become the jewel in CBS All Access’ otherwise pretty spartan crown. But Alex Kurtzman will no longer be the sole showrunner when it does. Read more...

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We’ve seen a lot of weird-ass tropical cyclones in recent years. This week, we can add another one to the list. Read more...

The good Captain and his Number One are partnering up for a new mission. Read more...

Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij created something bold and bizarre for Netflix wth The OA . The series was divisive but certainly created a buzz . And while fans may have been wondering where they’d go after that shocker of a finale, the first season two trailer just revealed how they’d carry on. And it’s a pretty great… Read more...