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Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel 222

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 27, 2015 @10:39AM from the geriaction-heroes dept.

An anonymous reader sends news that Harrison Ford is now confirmed to be returning as Rick Deckard in the upcoming sequel to Blade Runner. Ridley Scott is now officially an executive producer for the film as well, and Denis Villeneuve will direct. It's set to begin production in the summer of 2016.

Comment LMJGTFY (Score 1) 151

by lovejw2 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @03:31PM (#47883271) Attached to: To prepare for a coronal mass ejection, I ...

Here is what this is talking about..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Submission + - Intel releases Edison: hugely powerful x86 board almost as small as an SD card (hackaday.com)

Submitted by szczys on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @12:39PM

szczys writes: Intel is upping their bid for a place at the power-efficient, yet powerful device table. This Edison board features an x86 based SoC running at 100 MHz. The footprint measures 35.5mm x 25.0 mm and offers a 70-pin connector to break out 40 pins for add-on hardware.

Submission + - Paypal Jumps into Bitcoin with Both Feet (wired.com)

Submitted by retroworks on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @11:25AM

retroworks writes: BBC, WSJ, Bloomberg, Forbes and several other business sites are buzzing with Paypal's incorporation of Bitcoin transactions. According to Wired, Paypal will be "the best thing ever to happen to bitcoin" http://www.wired.com/2014/09/p... Paypal-owned Braintree not only brings 150 million active users in close contact with Bitcoin, it signals "mainstreaming" similar to cell phone app banking, perceived as experimental just a few years ago.

Meanwhile Wired News reports on "someone's efforts" to expose or unmask Bitcoin guru Satoshi Nakamoto... http://www.wired.com/2014/09/s...

Submission + - Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative (dice.com) 1

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @10:50AM

Nerval's Lobster writes: In theory, learning less-popular programming languages could end up paying off big—provided the programmers who pursue them play their proverbial cards right. And as with any good card game, there’s a considerable element of chance involved: In order to land a great job, you need to become an expert in a language, which involves a considerable amount of work with no guarantee of a payoff. With that in mind, do you think it's worth learning R, Scala, Haskell, Clojure, or even COBOL (the lattermost is still in use among companies with decades-old infrastructure, and they reportedly have trouble filling jobs that rely on it)? Or is it better to devote your precious hours and memory to popular, much-used languages that have a lot of use out there?

Submission + - The Era of Artificial Hearts Has Begun

Submitted by Jason Koebler on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @10:32AM

Jason Koebler writes: One of the most important goals of transhumanist medicine—possessing a perfectly healthy heart—has so far remained elusive. This week, we came a step closer when for the second time ever, a French company implanted a permanent artificial heart in a patient.
More than just pumping blood, future artificial hearts will bring numerous other advantages with them. They will have computer chips and wi-fi capacity built into them. We'll control our hearts with our smart phones, tuning down its pumping capacity when we want to sleep, or tuning it up when we want to run marathons.

Comment Re:Speculation (Score 1) 475

by lovejw2 on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:24AM (#47155699) Attached to: The Sudden Policy Change In Truecrypt Explained

So it's Schrodinger's Canary?

Comment Laywer Recall (Score 1) 94

by lovejw2 on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @10:52AM (#38877083) Attached to: Megaupload Lawyer Says User Data Will Be Held For Two Weeks

Lets hope that this isn't the answer that we will keep getting when we ask the lawyer how long before the files are deleted.

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