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New Post At https://sciencefiction.site/with-q-microsoft-is-throwing-programmers-the-keys-to-quantum/ - Microsoft Computers are about to get weird. After decades as theory, the first quantum computers now sit in a select few labs across the globe. They’re rudimentary, and arguably less practical than early electronic computers like the 50-ton ENIAC. Yet researchers are making headway. IBM, Google, and Intel are making progress  on quantum hardware, and a practical quantum computer finally feels like a near-future reality instead of a subject for science fiction. That’s an opportunity. It’s also a problem. Quantum physics is a weird realm of teleportation and probability that doesn’t follow the rules we’re familiar with. Most people don’t understand quantum mechanics, and that includes programmers, the people who will need to put quantum computers to practical use. Microsoft has a plan to educate them. Making the mystery approachable Any develope...

New Post At https://sciencefiction.site/calling-karan-i-dont-mind-if-taimur-and-roohi-want-to-be-together-after-20-years-reveals-kjo-watch-video/ - Karan Johar is a lot of things at the same time. A movie maverick, a producer, director, reality show host, immaculate dancer you would want to attend your shaadi (didn’t you see his moves at Sonam’s wedding?), the list really goes on. But the best part is, he doesn’t break into a sweat while being so many different things to so many different people. Like all these weren’t enough, the man, who is best friends with the who’s who of Bollywood, went on to add another feather to his hat and he’s a hoot at it too. If you haven’t heard already, Karan recently ventured into the radio space as a jockey, with his show Calling Karan, which airs on Ishq 104.8.  Also Read:  Calling Karan: Diana Penty puts Karan Johar in a fix asking him to pick the best among Sara, Janhvi and Ananya! And from love, is...

New Post At https://sciencefiction.site/apple-is-developing-dozens-of-tv-shows-to-compete-with-netflix-amazon-and-hulu/ - Apple Is Developing Dozens of TV Shows to Compete with Netflix, Amazon and Hulu    IGN Full coverage Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/30/apple-is-developing-dozens-of-tv-shows-to-compete-with-netflix-amazon-and-hulu

New Post At https://sciencefiction.site/help-me-star-wars-resistance-youre-our-only-hope-for-seeing-a-lot-more-of-general-leia/ - We know that due to the tragic passing of Carrie Fisher that General Leia’s story will come to a close in ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’ but her character will live on throughout the events of ‘ Star Wars: Resistance .’ Now, we have our first look at how Leia will be looking in this animated adventure from a galaxy far, far away. It was recently confirmed that Rachel Butera would be voicing the woman who toppled an Empire and now we’re going to see how she helped form a Resistance to the First Order as it started to take hold in the “Star Wars” galaxy. In the shot we have an animated Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron talking to the General via hologram and the voice actress who is playing her shared it in the following tweet:   pic.twitter.com/RyQbw6h88l — Rachel Butera (@RachelAButera) August 29, 2018 Butera won...

New Post At https://sciencefiction.site/what-is-cyberpunk/ - A woman doing her makeup as the camera slowly pulls out to reveal she’s missing the bottom half of her face, a gaping cybernetic maw in its place. A cable jacked directly into a businessman’s skull, sparking and smoking as it fries his brain. An elevator the size of an apartment, crawling up the side of a high-rise towards the sky. These are just some of the fragmented vignettes studio CD Projekt Red put on display in Cyberpunk 2077 ’s debut trailer earlier this year. As an introduction to Night City, it promised one of the most distinctive game settings since Rapture or City 17 — but not much of its neon-soaked imagery is original. And that’s by design. With this game, CD Projekt Red is drawing from a long tradition, one that — unusually — is named right there in the title: cyberpunk. But what exactly does that mean, and where did it come from? [embedded content] Before “cyberpu...

New Post At https://sciencefiction.site/is-the-future-female-fixing-sci-fis-women-problem/ - R ecently, I was asked if I could write a short story for a science fiction collection about “women inventing the future”. Could I write it in four weeks? I considered it. I have three day jobs, a two-year-old and was then knee deep in promotion for my debut novel. Out of those four weeks, I figured I’d have three days to write the thing – if granny could step up. “No problem,” I said breezily, and hung up. Then I panicked. What on earth did “women inventing the future” mean? Was I supposed to write some sort of feminist space opera, full of menstruating aliens? A utopian version of the singularity, with robots who liked to talk about their feelings? A vision of a social media platform so woke and teeming with empathy that Zuckerberg would jack in Facebook and invest? Then there was the issue of my credentials. Who am I to invent the future? I am n...

New Post At https://sciencefiction.site/the-big-bang-theory-is-better-at-portraying-geekdom-than-haters-admit/ - The Big Bang Theory didn’t make the best first impression. Back in September 2007, the CBS sitcom’s pilot episode introduced a pair of California science professors — Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) — who spent much of the next 20 minutes either stammering awkwardly in front of their pretty new neighbor Penny (Kaley Cuoco), or getting humiliated by her hunky ex-boyfriend. Right from the start, the geek community had their worst fears about this show confirmed: based on how it began, The Big Bang Theory promised to be a cliché-ridden weekly mockery of all things nerdy. For some, that initial disgust with The Big Bang Theory never flagged. Last week, producer Chuck Lorre announced that the show’s upcoming 12th season would be its last. And while BBT has been one of the most-watched comedies on TV for mo...