Saturday, June 7, 2025

SPL!NG Movie Review: Terminator – Dark Fate

While James Cameron lost touch with the ‘Terminator’ saga, taking on more of a backseat role as it went through several iterations, he’s returned to the story with ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’.

SPL!NG Movie Review: Terminator – Genisys

After a mesmerising movie poster, a marketing stunt where Arnold Schwarzenegger pranked people at Madame Tussard’s in Hollywood and an endorsement from James Cameron that this film would be the actual third film in the series, there was much excitement and anticipation around the release of Terminator: Genisys.

Japan Shows Off Intelligent Robot – Well Hello, Skynet

Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Hasegawa Group have doomed us all to inevitable destruction at the hands of our robot creations by releasing footage of an experimental robot they’ve designed that basically models its behaviour on human cognitive processes, i.e. it learns from its actions.

America’s Unmanned Combat Drones Infected With Computer Virus

Well this can only end well. The US Air Force’s unmanned combat drones in the “Predator” and “Reaper” class have been infected with computer viruses that they can’t get rid of, in case you weren’t sufficiently terrified of the world when you woke up this morning.

‘Nitrogen Funerals:’ The Eco-Friendly Way To Deal With Death

Wow. Okay. So a Swedish company wants to make burials more eco-friendly by freezing dead people in liquid nitrogen, using sound waves to shatter the ice before drawing all the moisture out of the remains with a vacuum. Because the Swedish word for ‘eco-friendly’ also means ‘traumatic’ and ‘awesome.’