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Get ready to say 'I do' to R2-D2, because robots are going to be the perfect marriage material. A British scientist claims humans and cyborgs will tie the knot in the not too distant future.

Is Corn Ethanol a myth?
George W. Bush hails corn as the savior of our oil addiction.

Source: The Garling Gauge
U.S. Army deploys Terminator-like robots in Iraq

Source: The Times
To coincide with the release of Michael Bay's epic Transformers movie we rate the most celebrated 'artifical people' in movies

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Trends come and go, but Hollywood's always been good at blowing stuff up. And here's the rank which movies that delivered the biggest bang for the buck, from No. 25 to No. 1

Source: The Baltimore Sun
Porky's? Friday the 13th?
If you were a decade, is that how you'd want to be remembered?
Ask most people about the benchmark films of the 1980s, and that's what they'll come up with. Those, and a lot of John Hughes movies.

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An interesting debate on whether Arnold Schwarzenegger thinks he's President. Discusses whether his environmental agenda is something he personally believes in or is he using it to forward his political career?

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
The NIMBY syndrome is alive and well in Malibu.

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Variety reports that Halcyon has bought the rights to the Terminator franchise, allowing the privately funded company to continue burying the series without even the interference of pesky series star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Source: Zap2it.com
Halcyon hopes to have 'T4' in theaters by early 2009. The Halcyon Company has acquired the rights to the "Terminator" franchise and put "Terminator 4" into immediate pre-production.

Source: TV Squad
When I heard of this new series coming to FOX, I had mixed reactions. I'm a big fan of the Terminator franchise, so first there was a feeling of excitement.

Source: Scientific Blogging
At MIT, researchers are working on an early version of intelligent, robotic helpers--a humanoid called Domo who grasp objects and place them on shelves or counters.

You guys remember that great sci-fi trope where a global computer/robot system runs amok and determines that the best thing for the planet is the extermination of humanity? You know, like Skynet from the Terminator films, or the Machines of the Matrix? Well, I done just had a t …

Source: MAKE Magazine
The real feat comes when engineers remove a part of its leg: The robot senses a change in its structure and begins walking in a different way to compensate.

Source: BBC News
The British military is set to take one of its most significant steps into the digital age with the launch of the first Skynet 5 satellite.
The spacecraft will deliver secure, high-bandwidth communications for UK and "friendly" forces across the globe.

Source: SCI FI Wire
woot!

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What do get when you mix a healthy dose of intelligence with a little arrogance and limitless resources? If it's Hollywood you get death, destruction, a shattering of time/space sensibilities! What do Seth Brundle, Doc Brown and Poggle the Lesser all have in common? They're inven …

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Dekker and Connor will topline.
The fate of the world may now be in Thomas Dekker's hands.

Source: SCI FI Wire
Lena Headey ("Imagine Me & You") has landed the title role in the Fox pilot "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," which is based on the mythology of the Terminator films, Variety reported.

Source: Wired News
Millions of viewers of NBC's Heroes know actor Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura, the bored young Japanese office worker who discovers he has the power to alter time and teleport.

Source: Global Research Center
These villages got together and realized that they need to communicate more effectively particularly because of what was happening to farmers in neighbouring regions and districts.

Source: The New York Times
The Governator has signed a bill to protect your pets...

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Enjoy, it's old, but hilarious.

Sure, Dom's a hockey player, and the T-800 is a red-eyed killing machine but they're both middle-aged dudes with funny European accents, hell-bent on staying in the game—that, and neither knows how to blink.

The article "Web 2.0: Dumber and Dumberer?" on the "Evolving Trends" blog discusses the "dumbing" down effects of Web 2.0 on society and analyses the current situation in the web 2.0 "community." The author's comparison of a Chess Game of man against machine to …