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Amazon and Rockstar Games have teamed up to create an interesting new aspect of the game that will leverage the ever-increasing bond between gamers and music: Grand Theft Auto 4 is set to include a unique new model for digital music distribution: gamers w

Roboter, die wie Menschen denken und mit Menschen interagieren können – wenn es nach den Forschern vom Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT) geht, ist das nicht nur reiner Stoff für Science-Fiction Filme. An vielen Forschungsstandpunkten macht man s

The British branch of Penguin Books recently premiered a new website called – a bit lamely – We Tell Stories. The basic idea is that six authors will tell six stories over a period of six weeks. More interesting, however, is the fact that story #1, “The 2

With people starting to talk about the rights of robots, I thought it’d be a good time to link to the fun site ‘Let’s Make Robots’, which has a pretty comprehensive set of blog entries and guides to building your own cybertronic friend

Der Media-Player Songbird ist in der Version 0.5 erschienen und bringt zahlreiche kleinere Verbesserungen. So gibt es eine verbesserte Bedienoberfläche sowie für die Windows-Welt MTP-Unterstützung. Ferner wurden etliche Programmfehler bereinigt, so das

Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth.

Photoimagist Carl Warner depicts what the apocalypse and beyond might look like in a captivating series of food shots staged to look like scenery.

Revoltech Flickr-Pool. Robots und Manga-Chicks ohne Ende.

Make your voice heard, in possibly the most democratic set of science fiction awards of all. The Locus Awards are accepting your votes — including write-in votes for things not on the ballot — until April 15.

Forget about story, or character development. When it comes to selecting your science fiction reading material, you want a story that spans millions of years, if not billions. Or why not trillions, while you’re at it? A truly grand space saga needs a lot

However, in relation to this topic, I’d like to propose the following equation: RSS = Free Music. (To avoid any possible misunderstanding, I mean this in the sense that giving your RSS feed for free is the same as giving away music for free) The thing i

Musicians themselves may just be crazy, but the music labels are dangerously stupid, and need to be stopped before they can do any further damage to the music industry. Case in point: Warner Music, fully aware that the days of charging for recorded music

The widget contains an entire menu of video and music content, along with tour dates, news articles, and a link to purchase the album. We’ve seen a few companies launch similar music widgets for artists, with some variants such as maps for tour dates, e

Editors Jonathan Strahan and Gardner Dozois have just posted the full text of two of the best stories from their original anthology The New Space Opera, from superstars Ken Macleod and Greg Egan. Both of these stories have been nominated for this year’s H

Mal unabhängig davon, dass ich es völlig plemplem finde, dass Plattenfirmenmenschen immer noch der Meinung sind, man bräuchte 3 Monate Promovorlauf, bis ein Album veröffentlicht wird, und genau diese Plemplem-Plattenfirmenmenschen sich dann darüber a