Category: News/Events
The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About
The Internet Research Agency is infamous for flooding mainstream social media platforms with compelling disinformation campaigns. The GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, deploys strategic data…
Universities Step Up the Fight for Open-Access Research
For advocates of open research, these sorts of deals are potentially a good step. “It gets us closer to an ideal where everything is open-access,”…
Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister to Be the Subject of New Biopic
He lived a larger than life existence. Now Motorhead icon Lemmy Kilmister‘s story is set to be told on the big screen. According to Deadline,…
Late Blind Melon Singer Shannon Hoon Subject of New Documentary
A documentary about late Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon is coming out later this month, and the film promises to be quite different from other…
Can implicit bias training help cops overcome racism?
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You Can Now Buy Spot the Robot Dog—If You’ve Got $74,500
Spot, Boston Dynamics’ famous robot dog, dutifully follows my every command. The machine traipses forward, then automatically scrambles over a raised bed of rocks. I…
Goldfinger: ‘Tony Hawk Pro Skater’ Impact Greater Than Imagined
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 has been remastered and will return to the spotlight with a Sept. 4 release. The game became a…
Watch New Roger Waters ‘Us and Them’ Clip
Roger Waters released an extensive clip from his concert movie Roger Waters: Us + Them as it became available for digital purchase and rental. He…
Composers Are Ditching Hollywood—to Make Videogame Music
Video game composers know that players will respond to games as they do to cinema. “The thing about film scores and scores for linear media…
Ripple20 Bugs Put Hundreds of Millions of IoT Devices at Risk
Security experts have warned for years that the drive to connect every device imaginable to the internet would offer a bonanza for hackers. Now researchers…