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LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS
By Ed McKinley
Some of the 18 short animated films in a new Netflix series called Love Death + Robots end with unexpected twists—like latter-day episodes of the venerable Twilight Zone shows. But the new adult-oriented anthology beats the old one for weirdness.
Part of the enhanced bizarreness on LDR probably accrues from Hollywood’s additional decades of working to perfect the ways it wields shock, horror and suspense. It’s been a long time since the original Twilight Zone episodes ran on broadcast TV from 1959 to 1964 .
LDR also increases the strangeness quotient by capitalizing on the current era’s relatively relaxed attitudes toward the profane, erotic, grisly and gory. All of those characteristics abound in the new series,...
Podcasts
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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
By Luckbox
|Futurism podcasts aren’t for everyone. With work, family, friends and finances vying for attention, it’s difficult to justify carving out time to listen to what may be in store for… -
The Business of Esports
|“The fastest-growing entertainment phenomenon of this generation.” That’s how the hosts of The Business of Esports podcast—William Collis, Paul Dawalibi and Arda Ocal—characterize professional video gaming. Their podcast sheds light… -
MY DEAD WIFE, THE ROBOT CAR
By Jeff Joseph
|In 1964, My Mother the Car, an NBC sitcom, aired one season for 30 episodes. The set-up was a man’s deceased mother communicating with him through his car’s radio. Critics… -
MIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
By Jeff Joseph
|General-interest journalists love to score interviews with prominent technologists, futurists and other visionaries. But it’s not easy to ask the right questions or understand the answers on the fly. That’s…