RSC to stage interactive Midsummer’s Night Dream-inspired performance online

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is to stage a production inspired by the faerie realm of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which will allow audiences to remotely interact with characters.  The Midsummer Night’s Dream-inspired performance, ‘Dream’, had originally been scheduled to be staged as a more conventional live performance in spring. However, with most large theatres … Read more

Light engineering jokes for Christmas

It’s not been an easy year for anyone, so to brighten things up a bit we’ve collected together our favourite jokes with a technology twist. In terms of quality control, don’t worry, they’re all as clean as a whistle and definitely safe for work. One or two might even raise a smile.  Three statisticians go … Read more

Videos beamed straight onto human retina via compact laser projector

A compact device capable of projecting images and video directly onto the retina of a human eye has been developed by researchers from the University of Fukui.  The Fukui team created the device by integrating a laser module capable of outputting red, green and blue lasers with a microelectromechanical (MEMS) mirror. The direction in which … Read more

AI tool could predict future ratings of films

Researchers have developed an AI tool that can rate a film’s content in a matter of seconds, based on the film script and before a single scene has been shot.  Ratings can determine a film’s appeal to consumers and the size of its potential audience. Thus, they have an impact on a film’s bottom line. … Read more

Video games shown to improve wellbeing for players

People who spend time video games have been shown to have improved wellbeing according to a new study from Oxford University.  With many people forced to stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, gaming firms have enjoyed a record year, with more people playing than ever before, coupled with the recent launch of new … Read more

The Java 2 Class File Format

The class file contains a lot more information than its cousin, the executable file. Of course, it still contains the same type of information: program requirements, an identifier indicating that this is a program and executable code (bytecode, in this case). However, it also contains some very rich information about the original source code. The … Read more

Create your own search engine with PHP and MySQL

Database Matter The first step is to open up phpMyAdmin or a database software and incorporate the below query into the SQL section. 1 2 3 4 5 6 CREATE TABLE `searchengine` ( `id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , `pageurl` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL , `pagecontent` TEXT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `id` … Read more