William Goldman Gone

from BBC William Goldman, Butch Cassidy screenwriter, dies at 87  William Goldman, screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men, has died aged 87. Goldman, who received Oscars for both of those films, also wrote Marathon Man,...

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...