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Netflix version of Cowboy Bebop put on ice for nine months as star John Cho hurt on set (news).
The Netflix version of Cowboy Bebop has sadly been put on ice for nine months as star actor John Cho is hurt on…
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October 2019
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Neil Patrick Harris – aka Doogie Howser, M.D. – joins Matrix 4 (film news).
Actor Neil Patrick Harris – aka Doogie Howser, M.D. – is joining the cast of the new Matrix 4 film. Of course, he…
September 2019
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Susanna Clarke’s follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell on the way (book news).
Susanna Clarke’s next two fantasy novels are coming out from the publisher Bloomsbury, only 15 years after her work Jonathan Strange & Mr…
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Spider-Man back in the MCU (news).
Sony Pictures and Marvel have signed a little peace treaty and now found a way to make the next Spider-Man film, keeping it…
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Venus habitable for 2-3 billions years (science news).
Here’s a good plot twister from the European Planetary Science Congress of the Europlanet Society and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the…
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Russian bio-weapons plague-lab burns down (science news).
Here’s a rather less than scintillating science news story which sounds like the prologue to that bit in World War Z where Brad…
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Ghostbusters 2020 movie gets Dan Aykroyd to star (news).
Dan Aykroyd doesn’t just own some very nice vineyards in Canada (his Ice Wine a particular favourite of ours at Casa Crowsnest), he…
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Saudi Arabia pulps school textbook accidentally showing their King and Yoda as friends (news).
Saudi Arabia has now pulped a schoolbook accidentally printed with a fake joke photo showing Yoda from Star Wars sitting next to the…
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Biohackers are medicine’s real Robin Hoods (science news).
Biohackers are creating a free knockoff of a million-dollar gene therapy – should we cringe or applaud the Robin Hoods of medicine? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614245/biohackers-are-pirating-a-cheap-version-of-a-million-dollar-gene-therapy/…
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Self-healing robots that cannot be destroyed (science news).
Robots that cannot be broken? Skynet will be so pleased about this actual piece of science news! The European Commission is funding a…
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Killer military robots: arriving to kill you soon (science news).
Murder-bots – coming soon to a war zone near you. Welcome to a dark new age of autonomous machine warfare! https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/killer-robots-and-new-era-machine-driven-warfare/597130/ The Offworld…
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CBS TV Studios fires Star Trek Discovery script writer, Walter Mosley (news).
Star Trek Discovery writer Walter Mosley was chastised by human resources and booted out of the Star Trek Discovery writers’ room. This is…