The chilling effect of Titan’s disappearance in Atlantic ● ‘Stranger Things’ to end in style ● IBM takes another leap ● ‘Secret Invasion’ replaces Nick Fury ● You can now visit the place where Julius Caesar was killed ● Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo star of the film “The Whole World We Cannot See” ● New Netflix trailers

The terrible effect of the disappearance of Titan in the Atlantic

David Szymanski, an American video game programmer, this week reported the unexpected and terrifying effect of the disappearance of the submarine Titan, sharing schedule which shows how sales for Iron longhorror games with an underwater theme, skyrocketed since June 19, when the media began to write about the incident in the Atlantic Ocean.

“So wrong,” he tweeted about the newfound popularity of the indie game he developed. “I did Iron long as horrible as I could imagine and to know that real people are in this situation right now is pretty horrible even if it was [rezultatul] own bad decisions,” he wrote in a follow-up post published on June 21 and cited by IGN.

That is, after more information began to emerge about how OceanGate deliberately ignored safety requirements for its submarine, which likely led to the death of five passengers in a catastrophic explosion, the US Coast Guard announced Thursday. night (Romanian time).

Of Iron long, it’s described as “a short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.” If that sounds like the description of a B-horror movie, you’re not alone: ​​American vlogger and amateur filmmaker Mark Fischbach (Markiplier on YouTube) announced in April that he wanted to make a movie based on the game.

“Stranger Things” will end in style

Moving from indie horror to big-budget horror, Netflix announced at its Tudum event for fans around the world that it has signed on American actress Linda Hamilton for the show’s fifth and final season. Other people’s thingshis fantasy-horror series, which became a global phenomenon after its release 7 years ago, as noted by Screen Rant.

News of the co-optation of Hamilton, who became an international household name in the 90s after playing Sarah Connor in the films finishednot only is it a huge hit for Netflix, but it’s also fitting for a series that brought together a bunch of popular actors from the 1980s, most eloquently exemplified by Winona Ryder.

And since the show’s story is apparently heading into the ’90s with the kids it revolves around growing up, bringing Hamilton into it is a master stroke on Netflix’s part. In less good news, filming on the show’s final season, which was supposed to begin this month, has been delayed due to a strike by Hollywood writers.

Netflix has yet to announce what role Hamilton will play, but here we can see her in Resident Alien, which airs on the Sci Fi Channel (PHOTO: Syfy / Everett / Profimedia Images)

IBM is taking another big leap

By the way finished Somehow the folks at Google caught the world’s attention 4 years ago when they announced that their Sycamore processor had reached the “quantum supremacy,” the moment when a quantum computer reaches the computing power that allows it to perform calculations that would take a classical computer forever. the computer

Although Google announced at the time that Sycamore could only do this in a specific case with no practical application, the fact that it actually achieved quantum superiority is disputed by some to this day. And now IBM’s rivals have announced that they have evidence that quantum computers will soon be able to beat classical computers in useful tasks as well.

Two examples in this regard can be the calculation of material properties or the interaction between elementary particles, IBM researchers model the behavior of a magnetic material in a principle experiment on the Eagle quantum processor. The experiment is described in an article published by the journal Nature on June 14.

Importantly, they managed to avoid “quantization noise”, the main obstacle in this technology because it introduces errors into the calculations to get reliable results. Although the problem they tackled is simplified, using an unrealistically simple model of the material, the result “will be optimistic that it will work in other more complex systems and algorithms.”

The above statement was made by John Martinis himself, the same UC Santa Barbara physicist who led Google’s competitors to the result in 2019. Sabrina Maniskalko, CEO of a Finnish quantum computing startup, says the new experiment provides a “benchmark” for next-generation quantum computers.

“The machines are coming,” she emphatically declares in comments for the journal Nature. Other experts have recently talked about how quantum computers could unlock the true potential of artificial intelligence, but others are wary of IBM’s results and whether the problem of quantization noise can ever be overcome.

One of IBM’s quantum computers (PHOTO: Ross D. Franklin / Associated Press / Profimedia Images)

“Secret Invasion” brings a changed Nick Fury

And what if instead of “machines” there is actually a race of shape-shifting aliens? Obviously, this is a slightly less plausible scenario, but it’s exactly the premise we’re exploring Secret invasiona new series from Disney+ that finally puts Nick Fury at the center of his own series, much to the delight of fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“I think it’s great to go behind the curtain of Nick Fury’s life and see some things or make some discoveries that no one knew about him or what was going on in his life,” said Samuel L. Jackon in a virtual press the conference at which they were present. HotNews.ro about the character, adding that he will be seen from another, more vulnerable side.

“It’s always good to have a flawed character who’s used to knowing what’s going on and suddenly realizes that people are telling him that you might be too old for this game now. But being in the shadow world is life and death, when you don’t have the instincts and reflexes you had in the past, and you think you’re still the same person, but you’re not,” he explained.

“So it’s fun to have a guy who has to change and adapt. It’s not Nick Fury, and it helps the audience empathize with him in a different way than usual,” he added. I think the trailer for the series, released on Disney+ on Wednesday, captures what Jackson is saying pretty well:

Now you can visit the place where Julius Caesar was killed

If you’re more into the past and history than the futuristic and sci-fi stuff, Smithsonian Magazine has news for you this week, reporting that the site where Caesar was assassinated is open for tours for the first time. . Please note that the actual announcement was apparently made by the authorities in Rome, but Smithsonian magazine explained the story more fully.

After the death of Julius Caesar, the first emperor of Rome, his successor Augustus declared the crime scene “locus sceleratus”, a cursed place. In the following centuries, the site was forgotten and even historians no longer knew where it was, only to be rediscovered in the 1920s during a demolition ordered by Mussolini to resurface the glory of the Roman Empire.

For various reasons, including a lack of interest from the authorities and an association with a fascist dictator, the site remained in a state of disrepair until recently, and was only opened to the public this Wednesday, some 100 years after its re-opening. “We are over the moon,” said Sandro Lubatelli, a retired local resident who added that “we always wondered why it was closed.”

However, archaeologist Monica Ceci warns that first-time visitors to Rome may be somewhat disappointed. Since the depiction of the assassination of Julius Caesar has been influenced for centuries by Shakespeare’s play of the same name written around 1599, most people believe that it took place in the Roman Forum.

But Shakespeare took a few liberties with the play, including where the murder took place. Caesar was actually assassinated by the Roman senators in Pompey’s Curia, a structure built by the enemy general who was defeated in the Roman Civil War, and which today is called “Largo di Torre Argentina” (not related to the South American country, but to the Latin name ). for “silver”).

Reconstruction of the murder at the same place where it happened (PHOTO: Roma-IPA / Sipa Press / Profimedia Images)

Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo star in All the Light We Cannot See

And if you’re interested in things related to history, I think you’ve seen it Black viperthe series that practically launched the careers of many iconic British actors of the last few decades, including Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie, before they became known to the world as Mr. Bean and Dr. House respectively (Dr. House is now also available to stream on SkyShowtime).

Laurie, who recently tried his hand at sci-fi comedies avenue 5 broadcast by HBO, will soon be seen in an exciting new Netflix project: All the light we can’t seeA 4-part miniseries based on the war novel of the same name, which won American author Anthony Doerr the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The novel tells the story of a blind French teenager, Marie-Laure, who befriends a German orphan, Werner, over the radio during World War II. The paths of the two strangers will cross after Marie-Laurie flees Paris with her father (played by Mark Ruffalo in the miniseries) to the country house of his uncle (Laurie).

If on goal new trailers Last week belonged to gamers, as it was the event where Xbox announced its news for the upcoming period, it was awarded to Netflix with its Tudum event for fans around the world. Here are some of them that I found most interesting:

• finally we have the first trailer Berlina new spin-off series based on At Casa de Papel which will tell the story of the character played by the favorite Pedro Alonso in an earlier period of his life, which is also mentioned in the main series through “flashbacks”. A new spin-off series will be released by Netflix at the end of the year in December;

• also from the premiere trailer category, for which we have one 3 Problem with the body, a sci-fi series that will revolve around a young woman who makes a fateful decision during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a decision that reverberates through time and space for a group of brilliant young explorers in the present day. The premiere of the series based on the best-selling trilogy by the Chinese writer Qixin Liu will take place in January 2024;

• Netflix used Tudum to release a trailer for and Heart of stone, an action film starring Gal Gadot as an agent of a secret organization called Charter that intervenes in situations that prove too difficult for some governments. We will not have to wait so long, its premiere will take place on August 11.

If you’re also interested in reading last weekend’s Nerd Alert column, you can find it here:

• Christopher Columbus could have inadvertently contributed to the cooling of the planet / When the new Star Wars movies / Is the encyclopedia useful today?