From the category archives:

Battlestar Galactica

BSG Emblem

So its at last been confirmed, Battlestar Galactica is coming to an end. What had been leaked by Edward James Olmos was confirmed by the show’s producers Ronald Moore and David Eick.

Executive producers Ronald Moore and David Eick said that it was a creative decision to end the acclaimed series with the upcoming 22-episode season which will star in January 08.

So what can we expect from the fourth season of Battlestar? Well a few questions should be wrapped up, a few relationships and hopefully the fleet will finally reach earth.

At last month’s Saturn Awards, Edward James Olmos said that the upcoming season would be the show’s last, prompting Eick to say at the time that no decision had been made. “I promise you that when Ron and I make a decision about Galactica’s future, we’ll let you know,” he said then.

In November, a special two-hour Battlestar episode, “Razor,” will air. The episode revolves around the Pegasus Battlestar before its destruction at the hands of the cylons.

Reference for posting: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire

{ 1 comment }

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 remains unofficial and unannounced, but you can add a small query string to the end of your Google Image search URL to see the facial recognition software in action.

For example, do a normal Google image search for “Starbuck Battlestar” and your image results should produce images from the American SciFi TV show Battlestar Galactica. Then try adding “&imgtype=face” to the end of the URL. Your new search results will only contain photos of people and tight shots of their faces. Cool right?


Last August, Google Picasa product manager Adrian Graham had this to say about Google’s acquisition of Neven Vision in the official Google blog:

“Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects.”

BeSocial: flickr | digg story | methodshop

{ 0 comments }

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 [...]

Read the full article →

New BSG Book

April 5, 2007

SF author Steven Harper’s latest book in the Battlestar Galatica universe and is set in the period between “Flight of the Phoenix” and before “Pegasus.” The book, titled Battlestar Galatica: Unity looks to explore some of the Colony’s pop culture and involves the discovery of a rock star from Caprica in a colonial rescue [...]

Read the full article →

Battlestar Renewed For Season 4

February 14, 2007

Good news for anyone who has ever watched the critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica, its going to be back for a fourth series.
The SCI FI Channel announced that it has renewed the science fiction series about the last several thousand survivors of humanity searching for Earth whilst being pursued by their cylon enemies. Production [...]

Read the full article →

BSG game finally confirmed

February 12, 2007

Its been rumored for months but it seems that a Battlestar Galactica game has finally been confirmed.
The game is being developed by Australian studio Auran Games and will be distributed by Sierra Games. In the game that will be released for Xbox 360 and PC, players will be able to take part in intense [...]

Read the full article →

Battlestar Galactica, perhaps the greatest television sci-fi drama

January 24, 2007

One of the television greatest sci-fi dramas returned to Sky One on January 9th. Battlestar Galactica has been praised for its engrossing story line, dynamic characters and the kind of production associated with big budget sci-fi yarns. Fans of the show also enjoy the mystery and suspense however it does sort out its [...]

Read the full article →

BattleStar Galactica, Previously unseen trailer for the upcoming season of BSG

January 8, 2007

Previously unseen trailer for the upcoming season of BattleStar Galactica

Read the full article →

Battlestar Galactica Preview

May 23, 2006

Newsarama has been provided with four and a half page preview of Battlestar Galactica #0 which is due to be released on the 31st of May. Newsarama reports that:
“It’s the story of a ragtag starfleet containing the last remnants of the human race who are fleeing their robot Cylon persecutors and seeking a legendary [...]

Read the full article →