Mars Magazine

  • Autor: Vários
  • Narrador: Vários
  • Editora: Podcast
  • Duração: 46:57:24
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Sinopse

MARS Magazine is an exploration into the intersection of science fiction and real world science, technology and culture through movies, TV, books and games. Real life as science fiction. #holopunk

Episódios

  • Ep. 43: All About Bitcoin, Crypto, & Blockchain w/ Wong Joon Ian of Coindesk

    24/03/2020 Duração: 53min

    What is the future of internet money? The Coindesk’s Director of Programming for Consensus, Wong Joon Ian, helps us recount a brief history of crypto and what’s happening now with Bitcoin, alt coins, scam coins, stable coins, and blockchain. Note: The annual Consensus conference has gone virtual for 2020 and will be held on May 11. For more info visit Coindesk.com.

  • Ep. 42: Why Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertruck Isn't The Future According Auto Industry Expert Nick Jaynes

    27/11/2019 Duração: 01h07min

    Automobile expert Nick Jaynes joins Adario Strange to explain why he thinks Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertruck may not be all it's cracked up to be, as well as what the future holds for electric cars and autonomous cars in the next couple of decades.

  • Ep. 41: Tiffany Beers, creator of the Nike Back to the Future Self-Lacing Sneaker

    14/12/2018 Duração: 01h03min

    We’re joined by one of the seldom seen masters of the sneaker world, Tiffany Beers, a long time designer at Nike who created the real world version of the science fictional, self-lacing sneaker in “Back to the Future,” as well as the HyperAdapt self-lacing shoe. After Nike she spent some time at Tesla helping them innovate the world of electric automobiles. We also talk about Kanye’s Yeezy’s, the impact of sneakerhead culture on the mainstream, and some of the more futuristic takes on athletic wear currently on the market.

  • Ep. 40: The Life & Death of Stan Lee, Marvel Powers United VR, Avengers Infinity War

    13/11/2018 Duração: 01h10min

    A brief review of the Oculus Rift VR game Marvel Powers United VR (9:00), filmmaker and hacker John Threat joins Adario Strange on the pod to discuss why Avengers: Infinity War is the best Marvel film ever made (21:25), and then a discussion of the life, death, and myth building legacy of Marvel’s Stan Lee (37:21).

  • Ep. 39: Netflix Lost In Space, Oculus Go, James Cameron on AMC, Art Bell, Janelle Monáe

    09/05/2018 Duração: 01h13min

    Filmmaker and hacker John Threat joins Adario Strange on the pod to talk about the launch of the Oculus Go mobile VR headset (4:22), James Cameron’s latest sci-fi production via a documentary series on AMC (8:00), why hard data says Netflix is officially the new sci-fi channel (15:23), the death of UFO conspiracy theory radio legend Art Bell (21:30), the highs & lows of Janelle Monáe’s new sci-fi meets music video ‘Dirty Computer’ (31:36), and a review of the Netflix series reboot of the classic ‘Lost in Space’ (50:41).

  • Ep. 38: Guest Neil deGrasse Tyson, Annihilation, Star Trek Discovery, Altered Carbon

    09/04/2018 Duração: 01h11min

    A dive into the trippy sci-fi epic 'Annihilation' (4:03), why 'Star Trek: Discovery' is underappreciated (8:08), and how Netflix has become the new sci-fi channel via ('Altered Carbon,' 'The Cloverfield Paradox,' and 'Mute')(17:34). Then astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson joins us along with planetary scientist Carolyn Porco to talk about the future of space travel, Elon Musk's Mars plans, and the Voyager mission documentary 'The Farthest' (33:16).

  • Ep. 37: Oculus Connect 4 VR event, exploring the world of Blade Runner 2049

    26/10/2017 Duração: 01h37min

    This week veteran technologist and former Fast Company writer Lynne D. Johnson joins the podcast to help us cover everything we learned from the big Oculus VR event in October including new VR headsets and new VR software, and then we take a deep dive into the sequel to the ‘80s sci-fi classic, the new film Blade Runner 2049 (31:15).

  • Ep. 36: Is Apple's iPhone X a flop? Mr. Robot as judged by a real hacker

    12/10/2017 Duração: 48min

    In this episode filmmaker and hacker John Threat joins us as we rewind a few weeks and look at the debut of the iPhone X and what it means for the future of Apple, biometric security, and a silicon valley without the magic of Steve Jobs, and then, on the eve of its Season 3 premiere, we recap Season 1 of Mr. Robot and unpack what the show gets right and wrong about the real world of hackers (20:20).

  • Ep. 35: IMAX VR, Oculus, Ready Player One, StarVR and VR in Hollywood

    23/09/2017 Duração: 01h12min

    Location-based virtual reality via IMAX VR, the future of Oculus Rift in the mainstream (5:28), the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s VR epic ‘Ready Player One’ (12:42), Apple’s big bet for augmented reality comes in the form of ARKit (19:20), and then we have a conversation with StarVR global director of VR Brooks Brown on the future of VR and AR in Hollywood and beyond (26:32).

  • Ep. 34: Viacom's VR team on the future of virtual reality & augmented reality

    21/04/2017 Duração: 01h34min

    Viacom, the parent company of MTV, Paramount Pictures (Star Trek!), Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central, has decided to get serious about virtual reality. In this episode, Viacom's leadership team heading up Viacom NEXT (David Liu and Rob Ruffler) join the MARS Magazine pod to talk everything virtual reality, including IMAX VR and the rise of VR arcades, the viability of VR as a mainstream platform, what's going on with Facebook's stewardship of Oculus, and what massively successful VR experiences will look like as the platform matures.

  • Ep. 33: Tech super rich prep for apocalypse, Elon Musk’s fav A.I. singularity film

    31/01/2017 Duração: 01h23min

    Hacker and film maker John Threat joins us again to dive into the apocalypse survival strategies of the tech super rich as outlined in the New Yorker magazine (1:00), and a look into the largely unknown’70s film about the singularity (Colossus: The Forbin Project) recently shared in full on Twitter by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk (34:05). If you’ve been thinking about bunkers, apocalypse strategies and how to live in a world taken over by automation, this is the episode for you.

  • Ep. 32: The passing & legacy of Carrie Fisher, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    28/12/2016 Duração: 01h05min

    The passing of Carrie Fisher has stunned the Star Wars community, but her legacy will live on and we talk about that with the incredibly insightful Kofi Outlaw (formerly Editor-in-Chief of ScreenRant.com, now Senior Editor of Original Content at ComicBook.com). We also take a deep dive into ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ and unpack what it means for the future of the franchise.

  • Ep. 31: Oculus Touch means VR is ready, interview with Will.i.am on tech in fashion

    17/12/2016 Duração: 01h04min

    'Westworld' finale (2:10), 'Arrival' movie’s alien language and rewiring the human brain (4:36), Oculus Touch changes everything for VR (8:51), Will.i.am from the group The Black Eyed Peas on tech-meets-fashion, the singularity, entrepreneurship, tech investing (20:49).

  • Ep. 30: Valerian, Life, Hollywood sci-fi, hacker/director John Threat on data privacy

    12/11/2016 Duração: 01h19min

    Hacker and film director John Threat joins us to talk about the new trailers for ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ (1:48), and the life on Mars film ‘Life’ (10:20), as well as the current science fiction boom in Hollywood (21:57). Then we dive into how operate your digital life in a world of email hacks and data leaks (37:08).

  • Ep. 29: Wikileaks + U.S. election, Edward Snowden update, Oliver Stone’s Snowden

    31/10/2016 Duração: 54min

    How Wikileaks is impacting the U.S. presidential election and normalizing the end of data privacy, an update on Edward Snowden via Vice films (18:10), Oliver Stone’s Snowden movie merges fact and fiction to document history in real time (32:16).

  • Ep. 28: Tesla's self-driving cars, DDoS hacker attack, Black Mirror on Netflix

    25/10/2016 Duração: 55min

    Tesla kickstarts the self-driving car revolution early, the Internet’s top websites are blocked after a historic DDoS hacker attack (5:45), and the debut of the UK science fiction anthology ‘Black Mirror’ season 3 on Netflix (24:35).

  • Ep. 27: Soylent sickness, Star Wars Rogue One, and Obama as sci-fi geek-in-chief

    16/10/2016 Duração: 49min

    Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 becomes a raging, international dumpster fire, Soylent goes from geek food to health disaster (9:10), 'Star Wars Rogue One' trailer reveals more secrets (15:32), and President Obama on his love of sci-fi, getting humans to Mars and the looming challenge of artificial intelligence (28:45).

  • Ep. 26: Black Mirror, VR via Playstation, Google, Facebook, HBO’s Westworld

    10/10/2016 Duração: 52min

    We get our first look at the U.S. version of the hit UK sci-fi series Black Mirror, a VR Roundup: Playstation VR, Google Daydream View, Facebook’s Oculus Rift (4:51), HBO’s Westworld series remake of the ’70s sci-fi classic (29:50).

  • Ep. 25: Snapchat’s Spectacles, Star Trek vs. Trump, Elon Musk’s Mars plans

    04/10/2016 Duração: 56min

    Snapchat’s wearable tech Spectacles, the cast and crew of Star Trek versus presidential candidate Donald Trump (8:50), and space professional and astrophysicist Laura Forczyk joins us to unpack SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s newly announced plans to take humans to Mars in less than 10 years (29:07).

  • Ep. 24: Ghost in the Shell, Nike HyperAdapt sneakers, U.S. self-driving car rules

    27/09/2016 Duração: 01h01min

    We ask if the ‘Ghost in the Shell’ trailers make up for the early casting controversy, examine Nike’s ‘Back to the Future’ self-lacing HyperAdapt sneakers going on sale soon (14:26), dive into the ‘Passengers’ trailer (22:56), and unpack the possible future and fiction of self-driving cars in the wake of new U.S. guidelines released last week (32:00).

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