The good folks over at io9 have posted a really nice piece on the possibility that we are living inside a huge computer simulation. Sound like codswallop?  Probably.  Is it possible?  Definitely. A snippet: Interestingly, the researchers consider their simulation to be a...

An exciting piece of news from over at Geekologie. A new comet, which has been discovered near Saturn, could become one of the brightest ever recorded when it speeds past the Sun in late 2013/early 2014. The comet, entitled Comet ISON (C/2012S1) will burn up past the sun.  Although it...

It may look like the stuff of science-fiction, and sound like the stuff of science-fiction, but it’s soon to become science-fact. California governor Jerry Brown backed legislation on Tuesday to bring driverless cars onto the roads of California. A Google project, the company have been...

A really nice video taken from Gizmodo, with some gorgeous shots of the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s last flight in California. The video is shot using a RED Epic camera at 5K resolution with Canon 800mm 5.6 lens in slow motion—-96 frames per second. This was the last flight of any space...

Twitter exploded last night in a similar fashion to the disintegrating meteor that came tumbling through the atmosphere above Britain. Now, experts claim that the fireball was more likely to have been space junk. According to Dr. Tim O’Brien at Jodrell Bank Observatory, the event was...

Thousands of people witnessed a large fireball heading over the United Kingdom and Ireland on Friday evening (September 21st 2012). The large meteor could be seen from Dublin to Belfast, and Glasgow to the Midlands of England. The object seemed to disintegrate in the atmosphere, with the BBC...

The discovery of a collection of strange spherical objects on Mars has caused a stir over at NASA. Despite all the fuss made over the Curiosity rover in recent months, the discovery has actually come from earlier rover Opportunity.   The strange spheres resemble earlier objects –...

I’ve recently bought a new MacBook Air, and despite promises of colossal battery life – it really doesn’t last that long when I’m sitting browsing Safari on Wi-Fi. To quote Aldous Snow: I thought, that ain’t right.  And I made some calls, and it turns out, it...

Someone with apparently too much time on their hands has spent four weeks putting together an HD video of NASA’s Curiosity rover’s descent.  He’s retouched the original footage, upping the quality considerably, and adding in some fake sound effects for dramatic...

BioWare have begun rolling out and testing their new high-population server technology for Star Wars: The Old Republic.   The move comes ahead of an imminent switchover to free-to-play, a decision that will most likely lead to massively increased numbers of players. In an effort to avoid...