Episode 66 – New beginnings for Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker
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I’m Ramon Mejia…….and I’m Edgar Acosta
Welcome to another episode of Geek Bytes Podcast.
Today is June 3rd, 2016 and this is episode 66 of the podcast.
Every podcast we bring you the roundup of the week’s best Geek and Tech news, then we discuss that news and anything else we’re interested in that week.
In Geek News this week, we’ll talk about Elon Musk, AMD’s new graphics card, the new Harry Potter photos, Luke Skywalker's new show, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, and much much more..
Now let’s Begin our show with Geek News
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Geek News
We begin with…
Elon Musk..futurist or Crackpot?
During an interview at The Code Conference, Elon Musk made some interesting statements that some have labeled as kinda crazy.
Musk predicts the first humans will travel to Mars eight years from now, arriving on the red planet by 2025.
Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, with a goal of "enabling people to live on other planets," according to a description on the space tech company's website. In April, SpaceX announced the first unmanned mission to Mars would launch in two years using the company's Falcon Heavy rocket.
Is life a video game played by a more advanced civilization? Elon thinks it may be.
Musk thinks A.I. could turn us into house cats.
Elon’s solution is to make us part computer. Specifically, Neural lace. It's a mesh that fits on your brain to gives it digital computing capabilities. It also can be injected by syringe, which means a person wouldn't need surgery to implant a neural lace. According to Gizmodo, a prototype was revealed last year.
Snapchat overtakes Twitter
Bloomberg reports that Snapchat has reached 150 million daily active users, overtaking Twitter’s estimated daily active uses of 140 million.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-02/snapchat-passes-twitter-in-daily-usage
AMD reveals VR card
AMD revealed their latest GPU this week, the RX 480. Priced at $199, the company says they designed the card to help make the first 100 million PCs ready for VR.
AMD claims that users can install 2 of their cards and get better graphic rendering than NVIDIA’s $699 GT1080.
AMD is trying to compete with NVIDIA in the VR space by creating a less expensive graphics card that can handle VR.
http://www.roadtovr.com/amd-rx-480-gpu-price-specs-release-date-virtual-reality/
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Cast Photos
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J.K. Rowling’s The Cursed Child will officially hit the stage on July 31st, and will follow Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger along with their children, as they manage the ups and downs of the post-Voldemort wizarding world.
This week the production released the first photos of the cast in costume. We see the Harry and Ginny with their son Albus, Hermione and Ron with their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley, and Draco Malfoy and his son Scorpius.
http://geekandsundry.com/what-we-learned-from-these-cursed-child-cast-photos/
Mark Hamill- Pop Culture Quest
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Comic-Con HQ, an upcoming streaming service, is giving Mark Hamill a new show. Pop Culture Quest, which will feature Hamill talking to memorabilia collectors while they show off their impressive treasure troves of action figures, comic books, and other pop culture items.
Comic-Con HQ is currently in beta and plans to launch in July for $5 a month.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11841386/mark-hamill-new-series-announced-comic-con-hq
Marry Poppins sequel gets release date
Disney has officially announced that Mary Poppins Returns is coming to theaters on December 25, 2018 with Emily Blunt in the title role along with Hamilton star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda as a street lamplighter named Jack. Into the Woods director Rob Marshall will be the man behind-the-camera for the sequel.
Since the Young Han Solo movie has been rescheduled for May 2018, it looks like Disney is shifting their Star Wars movies back to the summer in 2018 to make room for other features.
http://nerdist.com/disney-sets-a-date-for-mary-poppins-returns/
Netflix orders Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Netflix has given a 10-episode order to G.L.O.W., a comedy-series executive produced by Orange Is the New Black creator/executive producer Jenji Kohan and Orange co-executive producer Tara Herrmann.
G.L.O.W. was inspired by the real story of the 1980s female wrestling league. Set in Los Angeles and showcasing big hair and body slams, the series tells the fictionalized story of an out-of-work actress who finds one last attempt to live her dreams in the form of a weekly series about female wrestlers.
The Division, the movie
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Variety reported this week that Jake Gyllenhaal is attached to star in and produce a movie based on The Division, a third-person, cover-based shooter that has become a massive hit for publisher Ubisoft, making an estimated $330 million.
The story behind The Division has all the makings of an action thriller. A virus with a 95 percent mortality rate is introduced into the middle of New York City on Black Friday via infected money.
Players take the role of Division operatives, badass sleeper agents, sent in to save New York.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jake-gyllenhaal-the-division-movie-1201742202/
Legion finds a home
FX Networks has given an eight-episode order to Legion, its X-Men-themed pilot starring Downton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens.
In the Marvel Comic universe David Charles Haller, Legion, takes the role of an antihero and has a severe mental illness, including a form of dissociative identity disorder, with each of his personas controlling one of his many superpowers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(Marvel_Comics)
https://deadline.com/2016/05/legion-fx-series-dan-stevens-marvel-x-men-1201765024/
Hellboy Ends
Mike Mignola has said goodbye to his most famous creation this week. The final issue of Hellboy in Hell was released, and there’s no last triumph among its pages, no final gruelling battle. It simply ends. IO9 has written a touching article on the beauty of the final issue of Hellboy in Hell, the short series that tells of Hellboy’s journey after he died in the comics in 2011.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/hellboy-just-ended-in-the-most-beautiful-way-1779906631
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For the Geek Bytes Podcast I’m Ramon Mejia and I’m Edgar Acosta. Now Go Geek out about something.
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Music Credits
"Happy Bee", "Movement Proposition", "Theme for Harold (var.3) ", "Take the Lead"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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