Trailer for The Girl with All the Gifts
At last, a new zombie movie that looks original and compelling
GeekWire Radio: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella looks ahead, a surprising study on screen time, and more
Looks aside, NASA’s Orion is “lightyears ahead of what they had in Apollo”
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MICHOUD, La.—Look at NASA's high-profile Orion spacecraft, and you may get a funny feeling of familiarity. While the modern crew vehicle recently made its big screen debut in the Oscar-nominated The Martian, any lingering deja vu more likely comes from a different place. With the Orion module, there's more than a passing resemblance to its predecessor—the one from the Apollo program.
"To the untrained eye, it looks very much the same," says...
Alfa Romeo’s Giulia: Italian good looks and lashings of technology
Meet the Giulia—Alfa Romeo's credible return to the US small luxury sedan segment. Video shot and edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)
Was it Top Gear that issued an edict saying one could only be a real car enthusiast if they'd owned an Alfa Romeo? That would have disqualified most Americans from earning that title for many years; Alfa Romeo pulled out of the US market...
Epic looks outside of gaming for new uses of Unreal Engine
A canned version of the stunning "Senua's Sacrifice" trailer that we saw acted out live at GDC.
SAN FRANCISCO—At a GDC keynote presentation Wednesday, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney showed off plenty of Unreal Engine-powered games and highlighted how developers would soon be able to build those games in a fully virtual reality editor. But the more surprising focus...
Comcast looks to expand X1 sports platform, acquires data startup OneTwoSee
More and more sports fans are interacting with a “second screen” — a phone, a tablet, a laptop, etc. — while they watch live sports on TV as a...
Moz raises $10M from Foundry Group at $120M valuation, CEO Sarah Bird looks to create ‘something lasting and meaningful’
Seattle-based Moz, a 12-year-old maker of marketing software, has landed $ 10 million in fresh funding that it will use to accelerate product offerings. The pre-money valuation on the round was $ 120 million, up from $ 75 million when the...
Meet Portland’s newest VC firm: Elevate Capital looks to invest in Oregon startups
Entrepreneurs in Oregon — including those among underrepresented groups — have a new option to finance their startups. Elevate Capital launched today and is led by Managing...
New XPRIZE competition looks for a better underwater robot
Kinda like this, but lose the human. (credit: Expedition to the Deep Slope/NOAA/OER)
XPRIZE has tempted people to accomplish tasks ranging from putting stuff on the Moon to measuring pH in the deep ocean by using the promise of a sweet cash prize. At the annual American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco on Monday, XPRIZE announced a new...
Op-ed: There’s a new Star Trek trailer and it looks terrible
"From the director of Fast & Furious" are not words that I want to see in any Star Trek trailer.
Star Trek is a science fiction series. It is at its best when it is exploring the implications of its science. Yes, we want action and adventure, too, but there should be a context: exploration, the conflict between different cultures, the...
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