Gene Turnbow, Author at SCIFI.radio

Dawn Probe Delivers New Images of Ceres

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Jan 20, 2015 | Blinded by Science, Space Exploration |

As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft closes in on Ceres, the first images are amazing. Is that a volcano feature we see going by?

Pooky Amsterdam’s Machinima and YouThisMe

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Jun 25, 2014 | Science Fiction / Fantasy |

Pooky Amsterdam of PookyMedia is using Second Life to make machinima ads for YouThisMe. The results are surprisingly good.

Why Film is Leaving the Movie Business

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Jan 7, 2014 | Editorials, Movies / Video / Theater |

Movies like The Avengers, all five of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings pictures and almost every other FX film shot in the past five years have something important in common: they weren’t shot on film.

DARPA Working on Sentient Robots With “Positronic” Brains

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Jul 17, 2013 | Blinded by Science, Science Fiction / Fantasy |

“The next frontier for the robotics industry is to build machines that think like humans. Scientists have pursued that elusive goal for decades, and they believe they are now just inches away from the finish line.” Hold onto your hats, folks. Sentient robots may be on their way.