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...Their latest case involves a kidnapping and a series of curious bank robberies; the clues point to corruption in the ranks of the elite, quasi-military class of engineers known as the Brunel Corps....
...Lumon’s angular sci-fi typeface eschews the blandness of Waystar RoyCo, matching the show’s retrofuturist aesthetic of vintage cars, sci-fi computers and cavernous white offices....
...Early chapters of Isaacson’s book sketch out a not-particularly-remarkable story of paternal cruelty, social awkwardness, self-diagnosed autism and an adolescent habit for sci-fi....
...But it’s all too easy to imagine any number of sci-fi style disasters, from the creation of off-world colonies where the rich are able to escape the problems of this planet (for a price), to evil billionaires...
...Earlier this month, American sci-fi writer Ken Liu, who has a clutch of Hugo and Nebula awards to his name, joined 12 other professional authors for a writing workshop on Google’s Wordcraft....
...The FT’s review is here: https://on.ft.com/3nJqzey –Jing’s 2020 piece for the FT, ‘Why sci-fi could be the secret weapon in China’s soft-power arsenal’: https://on.ft.com/3y2WbBF –Dan Brooks is on Twitter...
...In one section, Nicola explores a sci-fi like scenario that gives black women the power to put a force field around their personal space, protecting themselves from white people’s inappropriate curiosity...
...Space junk poses a serious risk to satellites but collisions of the kind shown in the sci-fi movie Gravity have so far been rare....
...“It’s not like it’s sci-fi, it’s actual,” says Thomas. “We flooded the zone....
...Not the villains from Doctor Who but, rather, a fleet of miniature, CCTV-enabled robots with an aggressive affect that remind him of the sci-fi mutants....
...In 2006, Moore won a place to read physics at Harvard but she found time to audition for the nearby Boston Ballet, dancing in the corps of La Bayadère, sometimes returning to the lab between matinee and...
...The latest advancements in chip technology — including a project called Triffid after the man-eating plants from British sci-fi history aimed at lowering the power consumption of sensors used by logistics...
...He deals in “near-future” sci-fi that hints at the next developments in AI, bots, drones, genetic engineering, facial recognition and other hot subjects, and provokes debate in readings at public events....
...In the 1999 sci-fi film The Matrix “jacked-in” heroes had leads plugged into their heads in order to transfer their consciousness to an artificial world....
...A combined Siemens-Alstom would be the next-largest supplier, but would have only half that turnover and 9 per cent of the market, according to SCI Verkehr data....
...claims he will revolutionise public transport, go back to the ur-moment for one of Elon Musk's pet publicity schemes: a 2012 fireside chat with PandoDaily, when he first mentioned his name for a bit of sci-fi...
...Mr Spielberg turned one idea from the TV series into his 1987 sci-fi movie Batteries Not Included....
...Citigroup, Zurich Insurance and banking industry group the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp (DTCC) are leading the charge, more here from FT.com...
...Those ranged from zombie-filled horror, Lord of the Rings-inspired medieval battles, sci-fi shooters and a forthcoming Electronic Arts exclusive called Anthem....
...Professor Kokas points to recent movies such as Arrival and The Martian, two sci-fi films that portray American and Chinese characters working together....
...He saved another potential tragedy when Dune, his dream project from Frank Herbert’s sci-fi mega-novel, failed to get made....
...It was hard not to think of a silver-suited and well-meaning alien in some 1950s Sci Fi movie, offering the gift of extraterrestrial knowledge to solve the world’s deepest problems....
...While life on Mars has long been seen as a sci-fi fantasy, Mr Musk’s success with SpaceX and his personal financial resources make the SpaceX programme one of the most serious Mars efforts yet....
...In the sci-fi film Sunshine, a spaceship’s crew goes insane after staring at the sun for too long. Those hoping for profits from solar power investments might also go mad....
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