What you need to know Lethal Company was one of 2023’s biggest indie games, and has remained one of the most popular multiplayer PC games you can play in 2024. Its developer, Zeekerss, has posted that they “could release” the upcoming Version 50 update for the game now, but want it to be “really substantial” […]
Read MoreAcross the 75 years since something—something—crashed outside Roswell in early July 1947, the very name itself has taken on a life of its own: Today, it’s shorthand for UFOs, extraterrestrials, and a vast government conspiracy, perhaps even where the very idea of the deep state itself was born. The city of 50,000 in southeastern New […]
Read MoreAcross the 75 years since something—something—crashed outside Roswell in early July 1947, the very name itself has taken on a life of its own: Today, it’s shorthand for UFOs, extraterrestrials, and a vast government conspiracy, perhaps even where the very idea of the deep state itself was born. The city of 50,000 in southeastern New […]
Read MoreDuffy and Haworth speculate that on remote planets, communities of purple bacteria could swell in black sulfurous oceans, or spread in films around local sources of hydrogen sulfide. If they evolved into plants that could survive on land, like Earth plants they would still angle their light-absorbing surfaces toward their star, but they might be […]
Read MoreOn September 12, ufologist and journalist Jaime Maussan presented what he claimed to be evidence of alien life to the Congress of Mexico. On September 19, Mexico’s scientific community gathered for a conference to ask a simple question in return: “Extraterrestrials or Llama Skeletons?” The answer was right there in the subtitle of the conference […]
Read More“What happened yesterday in the Mexican Congress was a spectacle, with information that is not necessarily verifiable, the product of fanaticism that is more about media spectacle and political gain than explaining the phenomenon of possible life beyond our planet,” says Raúl Trejo Delarbre, researcher at the Institute for Social Research and a doctor in […]
Read MoreAn influential group of researchers is making the case for new ways to search the skies for signs of alien societies. They argue that current methods could be biased by human-centered thinking, and that it’s time to take advantage of data-driven, machine learning techniques. The team of 22 scientists released a new report on August […]
Read MoreWithin the universe of Starfield, man has ventured into the deepest corners of the galaxy in search of intelligent alien life. Man’s efforts thus far are ancient and mysterious alien artifacts of unknown origin and a large variety of alien wildlife that range from familiar, docile herbivores to nightmare-inducing, aggressive carnivores. In your intergalactic quest […]
Read MoreGregory Frost’s fantasy novel Rhymer puts a fresh spin on Thomas the Rhymer, a character from Scottish folklore whose poems were reputed to predict the future. “It’s the origin story of Thomas the Rhymer as a kind of Michael Moorcock Eternal Champion battling against aliens—effectively, these elves which are passing into our world from another […]
Read MorePhil Plait, creator of the popular astronomy blog Bad Astronomy, credits his interest in outer space partly to his childhood love of science fiction movies such as Angry Red Planet and Robinson Crusoe on Mars. “I’m a huge science fiction dork,” Plait says in Episode 541 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “I’ve […]
Read MoreFrank Drake, a leading figure in planetary astronomy and astrobiology who inspired the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, died Friday, September 2, at the age of 92. “Frank essentially pioneered the field of SETI as a scientific endeavor by being the first to actually conduct a SETI experiment,” says Bill Diamond, president of the […]
Read MoreA month ago, it was reported that Samsung was planning to introduce a new virtual assistant, G-NUSMAS, which is an alien. Fast forward to now, in an official newsroom post, Samsung has introduced the large-eyed G-NUSMAS blue alien which is termed to be the brains behind the Korean tech giant’s design and innovative technologies. This G-NUSMAS alien […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Stranded: Alien Dawn is an upcoming survival game being developed by Haemimont Games and published by Frontier Developments. Haemimont Games has previously worked on titles like the Tropico franchise and Surviving Mars. Stranded: Alien Dawn is currently scheduled to launch in October 2022 for PC via early access. The developers […]
Read MoreSamsung’s little alien creature featured in the Galaxy Z Flip 3 Bespoke Edition ads (below) might become an official Samsung mascot or virtual avatar similar to Sam. The CGI alien now has a name, and according to online documents, it’s called “G-nusmas.” Samsung applied to trademark the “G-nusmas” moniker with the European Union Intellectual Property […]
Read MoreUbiquiti earlier this week announced that it is rolling out firmware version 3.7.0 for its AmpliFi Alien router, which delivers HomeKit support. HomeKit support allows the router to be managed from the Home app across Apple’s platforms to adjust security settings for various HomeKit accessories installed in the home. The functionality serves to firewall HomeKit […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Hyenas is a newly-announced multiplayer shooter from Creative Assembly, with the team having previously worked on Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2. It’s set in a future where billionaires wrecked Earth and colonized Mars. Players are space pirates who steal from said billionaires, hijacking ships and making off with cargo. […]
Read MoreShowtime’s new series The Man Who Fell to Earth, created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, is a sequel to the 1976 Nicolas Roeg film of the same name, which stars David Bowie as an idealistic alien corrupted by human vices. “We were just trying to honor [The Man Who Fell to Earth author Walter] […]
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