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Innovation and inspiration from science fiction 30 Jul 2013 | 08:24 am
Researchers, inventors engineers and entrepreneurs are increasingly looking to the arts for the next big thing. If history has taught us anything, it’s that tomorrow’s technologies already exist on mo...
Spam comes from ‘bad neighbourhoods’: study 30 Jul 2013 | 08:20 am
A landmark study by a Netherlands university has found that less than half a percent of ISPs sampled were responsible for around half the world’s spam. Using data from the Composite Blocking List, Gi...
How big data can result in bad data 30 Jul 2013 | 08:16 am
A couple of years back, ratings agency Standard and Poor’s downgraded American debt. Not because of the state of the economy, but because of an error in its original calculations… a mere US$2.1 trilli...
This Means War 30 Jul 2013 | 08:12 am
Guillermo Del Toro is nowhere to be seen. He’s under a large marquee with his monitors and assistant directors, keeping the rain off. The only reason SFX knows he’s there is because every time the va...
Charlie Day 17 Jul 2013 | 12:55 am
TV fans know him from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but to moviegoers, Charlie Day is the gawky friend of Jason Batemen and Jason Sudeikis in the 2011 hit Horrible Bosses. From battling the adva...
Charlie Hunnam 17 Jul 2013 | 12:51 am
He’s ‘that guy from that movie’, with small roles in films from Nicole Kidman/Jude Law weepie Cold Mountain and Elijah Wood’s British soccer hoodlum film Green Street Hooligans to Children of Men and ...
Mary Parent 17 Jul 2013 | 12:47 am
Way back in Mary Parent’s back catalogue as a producer is 1998′s Pleasantville, the sleepy, sweet comedy drama about two teenagers sent back in time to shake up the culturally stagnant 1950s. Somewhe...
Context key to learning models 4 Jul 2013 | 10:36 am
The technologies and resources our kids today have at their disposal are changing everything about their lives. But Greg Whitby doesn’t believe education is one of them, and he thinks it’s causing a p...
Alex Winter 4 Jul 2013 | 10:29 am
Mention the name Alex Winter to most people and they’ll smile and say ‘bogus’. As half of the original stoner comedy duo, Winter played a role that would grow bigger than anything else he’s created, s...
Victoria Thaine 24 Jun 2013 | 12:07 am
Then 25-year-old actress Victoria Thaine must have thought all her Christmases had come at once when she scored roles in Paul Goldman’s The Night We Called It a Day and TV’s All Saints. Since then sh...
