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John Cleese: 'Most Of The Gadgetry Is Of No Interest To Me At All' 
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Gizmodo Asks Douglas Rushkoff About His Geek Origins While self-confidence is definitely a route to job interview success, it’s often suggested that outright arrogance and narcissism is a real turn-off for employers. A new study suggests that’s not the case: interview performance doesn’t depend on how much the interviewer likes you in the slightest, but just how much you like yourself.
As part of a promotional tour for Wrestlemania 28 and the August WWE Raw tour, WWE Pro Wrestler Sheamus was in Sydney last Friday. I sat down with him to discuss online social media, gaming, travelling and the IT world — especially as Sheamus has an interesting IT background.
There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. Like the guy who collects Steve Ballmer’s dry cleaning. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest gig in Redmond. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years, he’s taken on the tiny task of redesigning the operating system used by like a billion people all over the world. You know, NBD.
Dennis Muren is one of the founding team members of Industrial Light and Magic, Lucasfilm’s effects team since the days of A New Hope. With eight Academy Awards to his name, Giz AU had the chance to sit down with Muren at Lucasfilm in San Francisco to talk about the special content available on the Blu-ray releases, as well as what it was like to invent an entire special effects industry.
Stargate Universe had finally started to grow on me when it got cancelled. Particularly Eli — the wiz-kid who joined the ship after solving a problem in an online game (yeah I loved The Last Starfighter too). In Sydney over the weekend, David Blue explained how his Xbox saved his audition, and why it’s kind of ironic that his Skyrim Dark Elf looks like Christopher Walken.
Gizmodo Australia sits down with the winner of the James Dyson award, Ed Linacre to talk about water, patents, science fiction and why copper wool can lead to beautiful moments in science.
Matthew Wood is a 21 year veteran of Skywalker Sound, tasked with bringing all six Star Wars films up to a 6.1 channel audio mix for the Blu-ray release. We spoke with Wood about the process of remastering audio, working with Ben Burtt, and how some very Australian sounds became the ‘voice’ of the Geonosians.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes hit cinemas yesterday, and for a special effects blockbuster, I was surprised by its cautionary tone and heart. The film centres on main ape, Caesar, an amazing CG realisation from Weta Digital and Andy “Gollum” Serkis. I sat down with Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Joe Letteri, to ask how performance capture has progressed since Avatar and Lord of the Rings, and find out if Weta has contemplated video games.
