California-based start-up Pacific Fusion has reported results from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) showing a simplified target design that eliminates the need for expensive external magnetic coils, ...

Four experiments on the Z machine at 22 million amps provide data on simplified ‘targets’ for pulsed-power inertial fusion concepts Pacific Fusion today reported results from a series of experiments ...

Beware of Underground Trolls: Originally released for PDP 10 mainframe computers in 1977, Zork became a cultural and commercial phenomenon at the dawn of the home computing revolution. Now, Redmond is ...

Microsoft and Activision have officially released the source code for the seminal text adventure trilogy Zork under the MIT License, transforming the games from “gray market” abandonware into legally ...

A tokamak operated by the French Atomic Energy Commission was able to maintain a high temperature plasma for more than 22 minutes earlier this year, smashing the previous record and bringing ...

Here, I'm using "Zork" as a shorthand to represent "the world of interactive fiction" in general. This project is not exclusive to Zork, and very much not exclusive to the z-machine. The Å-machine and ...

A Zmachine is an instance of virtual compute capacity. There are 2 kinds of Zmachines. One is a VM, standard in cloud environments. Next to this it can also be a container. On the Zos level, both of ...

ComingSoon can exclusively reveal the trailer for Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison. Before the End is a new three-part music documentary about Jim Morrison that will be released in January ...

HAPPENING IN OUR OWN BACKYARD. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE HAD DEMONSTRATED YOU COULD ACTUALLY DEFLECT AN ASTEROID USING A POWERFUL X RAY BURST. PHYSICIST NATHAN MOORE AND HIS TEAM WITH AN ...

Nuclear fusion startup Pacific Fusion has introduced itself to the public, alongside the announcement that it has raised over $900 million in Series A funding. Led by Eric Lander, a principal leader ...