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The robots are here, and they're winning your dogs' affections. Well, at least this one is. One dog owner, distraught over leaving his pup home alone every day, built a robot to keep him entertained. More »
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Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp's plans for a Halo movie fell apart (but yielded District 9), but that doesn't mean that Microsoft's uninterested in bringing the space marine franchise to the big screen. More »
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In Leon Wang's short film The Secret Mission of The Terminator, a T-800 in Beijing is reduced to panhandling for battery money. A passerby offers him some spare change, and then things get ugly. Looks like cyborgs hate Steve Jobs. More »
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We're totally calling it: the Halo movie is never happening. When Steven-freakin-Spielberg says he wants to make a film, and Microsoft still says no, it's doomed. Here are 10 other video game films you'll see before you ever see Halo. More »
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Here you can see what Microsoft thinks the future holds, at least when it comes to computers and the internet. More »
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Yesterday Microsoft announced one of its latest research projects: A floating woman's head named Laura that will live in your monitor and be your "personal assistant." Laura will not annoy you by having a body, a need for worker's compensation, or a wish to do anything but serve you - and she will also monitor your moods and appearance to give you that real-life assistant experience. More »
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Okay, so Bollywood's Love Story 2050 wasn't the masterpiece we were hoping for. At least it gave us a few sublimely silly moments, like this futuristic video game fight. That's something. More »
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Great battle scenes are few and far between, especially when animated alien-bot wars are what make your blood boil. When you want your alien-bot war, the only thing to do is watch Masks, an short created by Microsoft's Zune Arts and NYC design studio PandaPanther. It's packed with horned blue aliens in pumpkin head masks, black bots in red boots, dramatic slo-mo, psychedelic watermelons, and a Black Angels soundtrack. Hundreds die, but when the respective leaders pick up each other's battle masks, they see magical things and become friends. More »
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