Death By Data

from Prospect Dark satanic mills 2.0: inside the massive server farms storing your data—and harming the planet Experts suggest data centres will consume one fifth of the world’s electricity by 2030 by George Grylls A data storage centre: cooling the centres alone can...

Stan Lee Gone

from DEADLINE Stan Lee Dies: Marvel Comics Icon Was 95 by Geoff Boucher  Stan Lee, the co-creator of Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four, is dead. He was 95. Kirk Schenck, the attorney for Stan Lee’s daughter, confirmed to Deadline...

HAL 9000 Gone

from NBC News Douglas Rain, the creepy voice of HAL in ‘2001,’ dies at 90 Rain’s sinuous, detached reading of HAL’s lines made the computer’s murders of four astronauts all the more shocking. By Alex Johnson Douglas Rain, the acclaimed...

Paradise Burnt

from Gizmodo Video Shows the Terrifying Drive to Escape Massive Fire in Paradise, California by Matt Novak  The so-called Camp Fire has already consumed over 20,000 acres in Northern California, forcing about 50,000 people to evacuate. But the fire has moved so...