Viewers of the most current iteration of the professional wrestling organization known as the WWE have been wondering, it would seem, why The Rock (aka Dwayne Johnson) wasn’t slated to meet any contenders at their next big Pay-Per-View engagement. As it turns out – and so it has been tipped – The Rock may instead
D-Wave has had little trouble lining up customers for its quantum computer, but questions have persisted as to whether or not the machine is performing quantum math in the first place. University of Southern California researchers have tested Lockheed Martin’s unit to help settle that debate, and they believe that D-Wave’s computer could be the real deal — or rather, that it isn’t obviously cheating. They’ve shown that the system isn’t based on simulated annealing, which relies on traditional physics for number crunching. The device is at least “consistent” with true quantum annealing, although there’s no proof that this is what’s going on; it may be using other shortcuts. Whether or not D-Wave built a full-fledged quantum computer, the resulting output is credible enough that customers won’t feel much in the way of buyer’s remorse.
Source: Wired
The first Boba Fett screen test featured an all-white costume. Art director Joe Johnston painted the outfit shortly after.
(Credit: Screenshot by Christopher MacManus/CNET)
Thirty-five years ago, sound designer Ben Burtt introduced an early version of legendary “Star Wars” bounty hunter Boba Fett to director George Lucas and select members of the “Empire Strikes Back” production team — an epic behind-the-scenes moment you can now watch as if you were there.
“The Boba Fett character is really an early version of Darth Vader,” George Lucas says in the visual novel The Making of the Empire Strikes Back. “He is also very much like the man-with-no-name from the Sergio Leone Westerns.”
The concept of Boba Fett changed greatly as Lucas brought “Star Wars” to life. In an early draft, Lucas once referenced Fett as Prince Valorum, a Sith Knight who Vader utilized as a bounty hunter. Fett also represented Lucas’ vision of a supertrooper, but in March 1978, Lucas, concept artist Ralph McQuarrie, and art director Joe Johnston converted the super-stormtrooper into a galactic mercenary.
If you were an advertising executive tasked with selling chocolate milk, what approach would you take? Fun cartoon characters? Promoting the health benefits of calcium? Touting its delicious taste? Wrong, wrong, wrong. The right answer is to commission the creation of a fur coat hand-woven from over a million strands of male chest hair. Because nothing pairs better with food than human hairs.
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This week we’ve gotten the opportunity to have a close-up look at both the AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active and their official wireless charging kit for the original Galaxy S 4. The Charging Kit you’re seeing here works with the Qi standard for wireless power pushing and has an extremely simple
Whether or not you pay for GameStop’s annual membership plan, the planet’s largest video game retailer is opening the doors of the Las Vegas Sands Expo and Convention Center to the public for its annual GameStop Expo this August, which this year features hands-on opportunities with both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. For a $35 general admission ticket, you’ll get access to both consoles on August 28th — long before their respective holiday launches — as well as a chance to play a variety of upcoming games. Should you shell out a stone cold $90, you’ll snag a copy of Madden NFL 25 for Xbox 360, gain early entry to the show (one hour) and “access to panel discussions with some of the biggest names in the industry.” Per usual, attendees must be older than 17, and the event’s a one-day affair. But then you’ll be in Vegas, so… maybe stay for a few days.
Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds, Software, HD, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo
Via: Joystiq
Source: GameStop
Joining Space Shuttles Endeavour, Discovery, and Enterprise, the Atlantis will open up to the public tomorrow at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Atlantis marked the end of an era and was the last Space Shuttle NASA sent up into space, which was launched on July 8, 2011 and returned
This week’s round-up of time capsule news includes some freshly buried capsules stuffed with cellphones, hair products and booze; some recently unearthed capsules that are so waterlogged they probably should’ve just stayed in the ground; and the hunt for quite a few capsules that have gone missing.
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