War-Zone Videos Get On-Demand Treatment in New Defense Department Project
A new $29 million Defense Department project makes viewing military intelligence from Afghanistan as easy as ordering a movie from Netflix. The Department of Defense is unveiling a Netflix Instant-style system for military intelligence that will allow military personnel around the world to view war-zone footage. Called the National System for Geo-Intelligence Video Services (NVS),…
Japanese Nuclear Crisis Upgraded to Chernobyl Level
The badly-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has been upgraded from 5 to 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. That’s, in case you were wondering, out of seven. The only other nuclear crisis to reach the same… [Gawker]
The Spaces Between Stars: The secret connection between crime fiction and science fiction
Acclaimed science fiction and comics writer Warren Ellis just signed a two-book deal with Mulholland Books to publish two novels, starting with The Gun Machine in 2012. To celebrate, he explains why science fiction and crime fiction are the same. My name’s Warren Ellis. I’m mostly a science fiction writer. I’m sometimes also a crime…
