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Step Inside 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Iconic Hotel Room Exhibit
Video: This year, Stanley Kubrick’s legendary film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, celebrates 50 years. The sci-fi masterpiece has inspired decades of filmmaking and scientific exploration. That’s why the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has unveiled an exhibit dedicated to one of the film’s most iconic spaces. We have a video look inside…
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AI Imagines Nude Paintings As Terrifying Pools Of Melting Flesh
When Robbie Barrat trained an AI to study and reproduce classical nude paintings, he expected something at least recognisable. What the AI produced instead was unfamiliar and unsettling, but still intriguing. The “paintings” look like flesh-like ice cream, spilling into pools that only vaguely recall a woman’s body. Barrat told Gizmodo these meaty blobs, disturbing…
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Can You Name Every Alien In This All-Encompassing Sci-Fi Cantina?
If you like Easter eggs, posters and genre movies, today is your lucky day.
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Why Two Guys Are Building A Massive Island Out Of Fat
Just north of Amsterdam’s most famous canals, there’s an island of fat bobbing up and down in the sea by a wharf in a former shipyard. Right now it’s the size of a Volkswagen Beetle and weighs a metric ton, but its creators, Mike Thompson and Arne Hendricks, say it will be big enough to…