From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Stalking Starbuck with Google’s Facial Recognition Search

May 31, 2007

It looks like Google’s 2006 acquisition of Neven Vision, a company specializing in facial recognition software, is finally starting to pay off. Google Blogoscoped, a blog dedicated to everything related to Google, got a tip from a Google engineer that Google had secretly added some facial recognition abilities to its image search this week.
The feature [...]

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Heroes Season 1 DVD

May 29, 2007

No longer are our magnificent Monday night ‘Heroes’ going to be confined to merely mortal NBC TV (and SciFi Channel reruns). Our favorite Heroes and villains are coming to DVD this August with tons of bonus features.
The 7-disc set, available on DVD and HD DVD on August 28, 2007, will include the never-before-aired 73-minute premiere [...]

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Silver hopes for new He-Man Film

May 26, 2007

Think He-Man and you will think Mattel action figures, “By the Power of GreySkull” and that campy 1987 movie that starred Dolph Lundgren. Now producer Joel Silver is hoping that he can develop a new film version of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for Warner Brothers but it must be approved by [...]

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BBC nabs second season of Heroes

May 26, 2007

The BBC has picked up hit sci fi drama Heroes as an exclusive for its second season. The broadcaster is thought to have paid around £400,000 an episode for the second season of the show.
The new deal represents a five-fold increase on the amount the corporation paid for season one, which will air on [...]

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Bionic Woman Preview

May 24, 2007

After months of hype, we finally get to see Michelle Ryan in NBC’s new remake of the Bionic Woman. In this clip from Vmix.com, we get to see Jamie Sommers (Michelle Ryan) find out she has bionic parts and freak out. Those are some sexy bionic toes by the way.
It’s tough to tell from just [...]

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Bionic Woman Pulls Double Duty

May 21, 2007

There was a bit of a surprise when Katee Sackhoff told reporters that her time on the new NBC series “Bionic Woman” went from “one episode” to “recurring.” But all of that can be explained in one simple sentence: Sackhoff simply wowed network executives.
“She absolutely steals the screen in ‘Bionic,’” Angela Bromstad, president of NBC [...]

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Finding Closure For Jericho

May 21, 2007

Less than a week after American broadcast network, CBS, pulled the plug on its post-Apocalyptic sci-fi series “Jericho,” fans have apparently been making contact with the network in droves, demanding that if nothing else, CBS find closure for the cliffhanger left at the end of Season 1.

That campaign has included letter writing and even the [...]

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The blood of the future

May 12, 2007

In another step to make us that cool Sci-Fi civilization of the future, Scientists have developed an artificial plastic blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies.
The artificial blood is made up of plastic molecules that have an iron atom at their core, like haemoglobin, that can carry oxygen through the body.
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NBC goes with Journeyman

May 12, 2007

I know that the whole “man goes back in time to alter events” idea has been done a lot and to various degrees of success but hopefully NBC’s Journeyman will be one of the better versions.
NBC has picked up the show which is about a man who can go back in time and alter events. [...]

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Iron Man High Rez Photos

May 8, 2007

If you are a regular reader of Entertainment Weekly, then you might have seen the first photo of the upcoming Iron Man film they published last week. The picture got such a huge fan reaction in the blogosphere that Paramount decided to release a high resolution version of the photo.
Jon Favreau (Swingers) will direct Iron [...]

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