Dystopian

Imagine watching your Ford pickup truck speeding off to deliver itself to a junkyard because you missed one too many car payments. A sampling of the schematics Ford included in its patent application are overlaid above. Image: Shutterstock / GizmodoCar companies often talk about autonomous vehicles as an avenue towards increased freedom—enabling more people to access roadways and giving drivers back their time and attention. But at least one auto giant is considering alternate (and darker) uses of still-elusive…

via RLJ Entertainment The highly specific subgenre of the dystopian action thriller has thrown up plenty of greats over the years, but despite boasting a killer concept and a stellar performance from Dave Bautista in the lead role, 2017’s Bushwick failed to make the most of its undoubted potential. Co-writers and directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion deserve praise for their ambition, but the execution left the fascinating premise largely wasted, even if there is some B-movie fun to be had along the way.…

A few months back fan-favorite creator Jimmie Robinson (Bomb Queen) teased an upcoming project on Twitter. Today Image/Shadowline Comics announced details for project entitled Junk Rabbit, a new ongoing series that puts a new spin on a dystopian tale of climate disaster launching in April 2023. No additional members of the creative team were mentioned in the announcement Here’s how the publisher describes the series: A new hero rises from heaps of consumer waste, mass homelessness, and devastating climate change. Some…

via Village Roadshow Pictures Tales of dystopian terror can be told through the lens of action, drama, science fiction, or even romance when the occasion calls for it. Not many have been elevated into genuine classic territory, though, but supporters of 1992’s Fortress are nonetheless stating the case for the underappreciated gem that’s largely been lost to the sands of time. Directed by Re-Animator‘s Stuart Gordon, Christopher Lambert and Loryn Locklin star as John and Karen Brennick, a happily-married couple…

Andy Weir, author of “The Martian,” is a fan of apocalyptic stories. The genre offers so many opportunities for “cool plots, conflict and action,” he says. “A postnuclear-war wasteland with people fighting over a bunch of canned food – that’s visceral, you can understand and immediately get it. It mixes in a lot of survival which, you know, ‘The Martian’ is a survival story.” “Project Hail Mary,” by Andy Weir (Ballantine Books) Weir’s latest sci-fi novel, “Project Hail Mary” (Ballantine Books, $29), is very much an…

Can ChatGpT revolutionise cybersecurity for good? Or will it be the dystopian future for cybersecurity? Along with machine learning, artificial intelligence addresses many cybersecurity challenges. A dystopian future for cybersecurity is presented by all good apocalyptic sci-fi films and books. Beyond the inclusion of open AI in many vendor slide decks in a way of positioning next-generation technology and a more automated, advanced, approach to technology, the concept is now becoming more mainstream. With the launch of…

Here are the 10 soft skills needed for the dystopian artificial intelligence future you need to know Right now, artificial intelligence is the most exciting subject. People are highly curious about what artificial intelligence will be like in the future. The idea that machines will one day become intelligent and have the capacity for independent thought is represented by artificial intelligence. The AI that we are familiar with today is nothing of that type; it does not reflect artificial intelligence, thought, or…

There are certain blockbusters that have “box office bomb” written all over them and fully live up to such a harsh pre-emptive stigma, with the disastrous Chaos Walking one of the more prominent recent examples. A $125 million dystopian sci-fi starring Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, David Oyelowo – directed by The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow‘s Doug Liman – doesn’t sound as if it’s got the potential to crater so horrifically at the box office it would have been better off…

100% Less Twisted You think Hamster has already hit all of the shmups released in the late ’80s/early ’90s? Well, think again, buster, as the retro lovin’ publisher has added Taito’s eye-searing shooter Metal Black to its mammoth Arcade Archives range, with the forgotten shmup now available to purchase on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Released to the arcade market in 1991, during Taito’s “Loud & Vulgar” phase, (see also: Under Fire, Special Criminal Investigation), Metal Black is a horizontally scrolling sci-fi shmup set…

All you need to know about China’s AI news anchoring that is introduced by Xinhua News Agency The most trending news at the moment is China launching the first-ever Artificial Intelligence news anchor in the world. Tech enthusiasts are truly enthralled by this magnificent launch. If you are also excited to know about the debut of this news anchor, you are at the right place. Do not skip a word and read till the end for all the deets of this fascinating English-speaking AI news anchor.   Dystopian? Maybe not. But it…