Feb 15, 2012 | Forbes
CleanSpace One Space is a dirty place. Over 16,000 pieces of debris over 10 cm wide have been left behind since Sputnik took to the skies in 1957. And now the Swiss want to do something about it. Scientists with the Swiss Space Center at the École Polytechnique...
Feb 15, 2012 | Forbes
What do you get when you cross a badass little girl with the scene in Star Wars where Vader first reveals his Force Choke power? You get one awesome commercial for the Xbox Kinect, that’s what…especially when she finds your lack of faith disturbing. The commercial...
Feb 14, 2012 | Forbes
Science fiction films contain aliens and space battles, time-travelers, and often enough violence to sate the cravings of an 11-year-old boy. But many people overlook what we science fiction fans have known all along: SF/F can be deeply romantic. I’ve found a few...
Feb 14, 2012 | Forbes
Michael Bay and Bumblebee Paramount Pictures has planned a fourth Transformers movie for a release date of Summer 2014. If Paramount has its way, director Michael Bay will return with his particular brand of explosive magic. But producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is...
Feb 11, 2012 | Forbes
V for Vendetta image via Warner Bros. When creative genius Alan Moore wrote V for Vendetta in 1982, he couldn’t have foreseen the rise of Anonymous, the online group of hacktivists who took up his protagonist’s facemask as their public identity. But Moore (who also...
Feb 10, 2012 | Forbes
San Diego Comic-Con With 130,000 attendees in 2011, San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) is currently one of the United States’ largest conventions, one that boosted San Diego’s economy by $193 million. So how did this tiny gathering grow into what some consider...