Tag: Moore

Joel Schumacher, Director With a Flair for the Distinctive, Dies at 80

Joel Schumacher, the writer-director who came from a world of window dressing and costume design to bring a singular style to films including St. Elmo’s Fire, Flatliners and a pair of Batman movies, died Monday. He was 80. From a report: Schumacher died after a yearlong battle with cancer, a representative announced. Schumacher’s directorial body of work also included the horror…

Scientists identify cleanest air on Earth

Researchers say they’ve identified the cleanest air on the planet – free from particles caused by human activity – over the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/scientist-identify-cleanest-air-on-earth-southern-ocean…

Michael Moore Offers Free Streaming of Movie Criticizing the Green Movement

Nearly 16 years ago, Slashdot’s original co-founder CmdrTaco posted that liberal film-maker Michael Moore had won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for a documentary about the Bush administration — and noted later that Moore approved downloads of the film through networks like BitTorrent. But now the 66-year-old filmmaker is offering free streaming on his YouTube channel for a…

Check out these mammatus clouds

Mammatus clouds can appear ominous. But, in a way that’s so common in nature, their dangerous aspect goes hand in hand with a magnificent beauty. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/amazing-photos-of-mammatus-clouds…

We’re Not Prepared For the End of Moore’s Law

Gordon Moore’s 1965 forecast that the number of components on an integrated circuit would double every year until it reached an astonishing 65,000 by 1975 is the greatest technological prediction of the last half-century. When it proved correct in 1975, he revised what has become known as Moore’s Law to a doubling of transistors on a chip every two years. Since…

Brain-inspired computing for a post-Moore’s Law era

Since the invention of the transistor in 1947, computing development has seen a consistent doubling of the number of transistors that can fit on a chip. But that trend, known as Moore’s Law, may reach its limit as components of submolecular size encounter problems with thermal noise, making further scaling impossible. …

‘We’re Approaching the Limits of Computer Power — We Need New Programmers Now’

Ever-faster processors led to bloated software, but physical limits may force a return to the concise code of the past. John Naughton: Moore’s law is just a statement of an empirical correlation observed over a particular period in history and we are reaching the limits of its application. In 2010, Moore himself predicted that the laws of physics would call a…

Watchmen Creator Alan Moore: Modern Superhero Culture is Embarrassing

Is it embarrassing for adults to like superheroes? According to Alan Moore — creator of the Watchmen series and widely considered one of the greatest comic book writers — it is. From a report: He says superheroes are perfectly fine for 12 or 13-year-olds but adults should think again. “I think the impact of superheroes on popular culture is both tremendously…

Did asteroid collision trigger Earth’s abrupt cooling 12,800 years ago?

Why did Earth’s climate rapidly cool 12,800 years ago? New evidence suggests that a comet or asteroid collision is to blame, with support coming from the bottom of a South Carolina lake. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/asteroid-comet-younger-dryas-abrupt-cooling…