The Universal Translator problem may be going away very soon. Frank Soong and Rick Rashidof Microsoft are hard at work prototyping the real thing. Technology Review reports that research scientist Frank Soong demonstrated the software at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus on Tuesday.
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The legendary French artist Jean Giraud, known to most of his fans as Moebius, has died at age 73 after a long battle with cancer.
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Wendy Wilde reviews the new release from Disney, ‘John Carter’, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel “A Princess of Mars”.
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The best known production artist in cinematic history and one of the founding fathers of a galaxy far, far away has died. Ralph McQuarrie’s website announced this week that the artist responsible for the look of the Star Wars universe and many other films, passed away at the age of 82.
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The family of Edgar Rice Burroughs takes three comic book companies to court over abuses of Tarzan, Deja Thoris and John Carter, while the movie industry (and Disney in particular) tries to figure out what’s going to happen to the movie ‘John Carter’ when it premieres.
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