Scientists create Terminator 2-inspired 3D printer

New technique works 100 times faster than conventional 3D printing and makes objects within minutes by simply lifting them out of a pool of resin

Apple executive Eddy Cue savages Steve Jobs biopic

Film showing Apple co-founder as modern-day Citizen Kane causes unusual outburst from company’s upper ranks

Star Wars Episode 8 and Rogue One: what we know

With the rumour mill working overtime, we sort the wheat from the chaff about Episode VIII and the first Star Wars spin-off film, Rogue One

Thanks, Harrison Ford, for not letting real life get in the way of the movies

Like all the best stars, Harrison is two kinds of real: Han Solo and Indiana Jones. Neither of these characters would be felled by crash-landing a plane

Chappie review – robot boy grows up to become angry robot teen

Elysium director Neill Blomkamp has come up with an entertaining spin on the Robocop theme in this South Africa-set tale of law-enforcement ‘scouts’

Is Insurgent’s Shatter Reality VR ride the future of film?

A virtual reality experience is touring America to put viewers in the middle of the action. Is it a gimmick, or the shape of things to come?

Republicans strike back: FCC member invokes Star Wars in net neutrality fight

Republican Ajit Pai quotes Emperor Palpatine, of Star Wars’s evil galactic empire, in attack on new broadband rules regulating the internet

Viral video chart: Simon’s Cat woos Generic Female, as Buscemi does Fifty Shades

Love is in the air for this week’s roundup, with the team behind Serial playing Cupid, and a Lego trailer for a certain unignorable sexy movie

‘A golden shining moment’: the true story behind Atari’s ET, the worst video game ever

Legend has it that millions of copies of Atari’s tie-in with the sci-fi blockbuster were secretly buried in New Mexico after the game was branded a stinker. A new documentary, Atari: Game Over, goes digging for the truth

Google Glass is on a strategic ‘reset’ and eight other things we learned

Google missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations, but it revealed people really love watching adverts, claimed credit for the success of The Interview and let people send money via Gmail

How virtual reality will change the cinematic experience

Will VR be seen as a major milestone in film history? Dan Page explores how experiences in the cinema aisles might change for the better

Virtual reality documentaries ‘take the middle man out of journalism’

Filmmaker Chris Milk is showing how the use of VR film in news coverage can be a powerful new storytelling vessel

Facebook’s Oculus VR sets up Story Studio to make virtual reality films

New division is staffed by Pixar veterans, with its first VR movie Lost debuting at the Sundance Film Festival

YouTube goes to the movies with Rooster Teeth, Our 2nd Life, Nash Grier and Cameron Dallas

Multi-channel network Fullscreen is producing a series of films starring or about popular YouTubers, through its new Fullscreen Film division