China has announced plans to build a massive flying aircraft carrier called Luanniao, featuring unmanned space fighters and ...

Star Trek' comes down to San Francisco in this youth-targeted Paramount+ series starring Holly Hunter and newcomer Sandro Rosta.

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

For years, sci-fi shows have depicted futuristic computers with shapeshifting screens that can fold or expand depending on the situation. Now, Samsung is banking on that concept to try to steer the ...

We are approaching the Gregorian New Year, and it’s a great time to ponder what’s coming next. Are we about to use CRISPR to grow wings? Will we all be uploading our brains to the Amazon cloud? Should ...

In a year when Marvel sputtered, the newly formed DC Universe rose to the occasion with Superman, offering an earnest and optimistic response to superhero fatigue. Meanwhile, James Cameron brought us ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

Peter Greene, a character actor best known for his role as the iconic villain Zed in “Pulp Fiction,” has died. He was 60. He died in his home in New York City, his manager Gregg Edwards confirmed on ...

Stephen King’s 1978 novel “The Stand” was a seminal work of apocalyptic horror, republished in 1990 with 400 added pages that had been cut earlier. “The End of the World as We Know It” (Gallery, 800 ...

Some classic science fiction movies made sweeping predictions for the future. In some cases, those predictions never came to pass, but in others, the movies were strikingly on point. Predictions about ...

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