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Opera Review (NYC): ‘Kings, Giants & Robots’ – Works by Victoria Bond, Herschel Garfein, Robert Paterson (13 May 2022)
A puppet Gulliver, a powerful poem by Stanley Kunitz, and an android tenor add up to a grand evening of opera and solo voice.
Read More »CES 2021: NASCAR Robots, Start Your Engines
Students from around the world have teamed with NASCAR to develop self-driving cars and improve their safety.
Read More »CES 2021: Online Technology Show Done Right
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), like so many other film, trade, and technology events this past year, went digital. CES, however, was different. I’d begun to feel some burnout after so many ZOOM or other technology based online experiences. As I should have expected, the CES sponsor, the Consumer Technology …
Read More »Gencon Game Review: ‘AEGIS: Combining Robot Strategy Game’
This game was by far the star of the show for me this year and I see myself playing it for years to come.
Read More »Movie Review: Leigh Whannell’s Computer-Powered ‘Upgrade’
The writer/director draws on classic exploitation tropes to create a bleak vision of the future that is both funny and frightening.
Read More »Interview with Graphic Novelist Royden Lepp
Rust has been acquired by Fox Studios for a major film adaptation with 'Attack the Block' director Joe Cornish signed on as director.
Read More »Book Review: Mecha Rogue by Brett Patton
Brett Patton's second entry in his Armor Wars series proves that the first novel was no fluke and this is a series with serious potential.
Read More »Book Review: Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation by Yoshiyuko Tomino
This Mobile Suit Gundam novel which combines three earlier stories will fascinate fans of the series.
Read More »DVD Review: Doctor Who – The Robots of Death (Special Edition)
Forget snakes on a plane, try killer robots on a sandmine.
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