Sony unlocks the PS4’s seventh CPU core, but will games benefit?

Sony quietly unlocked the PS4's formerly reserved seventh core for game developers recently -- but whether or not that will lead directly to higher performance is a very open question.

‘The 6 God’ renews faith in out-of-home advertising

Behind the scenes of 'the most viral billboard in history'

Ancient skull reveals the secret to why snakes lost their legs

A 90 million year old skull has revealed that snakes lost their legs to live on land, not to live in the sea. 

By: Matt Burgess,

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Cyber games, gullible kids: Podcast 245

We spend a day at GCHQ's latest recruitment exercise and try and work out why kids will believe anything the internet tells them.

By: WIRED.co.uk,

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How two British superfans built Star Wars' new R2-D2

To bring back R2-D2 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens J.J. Abrams turned to two British super fans, Lee Towersey and Oliver Steeples.

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis,

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Sci-fi's Gamergate: How the Hugos were torn apart over diversity

A battle over diversity is raging in the world of science fiction. And it’s a fight for the soul of all popular culture

By: Amy Wallce,

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Ridley Scott reveals how his Prometheus sequels fit into Alien

Head's up, fans of complicated sci-fi chronology: director Ridley Scott has confirmed that there will now be three sequels to 2012's Prometheus, which was itself a prequel to 1979's original Alien, before the storylines meet up somewhere in the middle.

Scott made the announcement at a press conference in Sydney, where he is about to begin production on Alien: Covenant, the first of the three (or second of the four, depending on how you count). It was previously known as Alien: Paradise Lost, after Milton's epic poem, but at this point it might be easier to just think of it as Alien -3.

By: Matt Kamen,

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