Neural DSP models John Mayer’s entire amp and effects rig—and it sounds great

So do we really need one amp sim package? Neural DSP thinks we do, because the Finnish company just dropped a major new ...
New York Sun

From ‘Alien’ to ‘Barbarella,’ MOMA Retrospective Showcases Special Effects Wizard’s Career

The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with Cinecittà Studios in Rome, has organized a retrospective of films dedicated to “the man who made creatures,” Carlos Rambaldi (1925-2012). MOMA curator ...
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'Alien: Earth' Stars Tease Scary, Practical Effect-Driven Action Sci-Fi Series

Alien: Earth is bringing one of the most deadly and terrifying space threats home this summer, and two cast members have been teasing exactly what fans of the Ridley Scott-created franchise want to ...
Mashable

'Mass Effect' brings totally f*ckable aliens to 'Cards Against Humanity'

If there's one thing Mass Effect fans know well, it's that everybody in BioWare's space adventure series likes to f*ck. The $1 pack was conceived -- according to the website -- as a way to convince ...
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The sound of a spacecraft passing between Saturn and its rings is straight out of 'Alien'

On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its dive ...
PBS

The Missing Papers —

One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World War II, he ...