Month: January 2020

Warner Bros. Animation has revealed an upcoming animated movie based on the Mortal Kombat franchise called Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge. The movie will star Joel McHale as Johnny Cage and Jennifer Carpenter as Sonya Blade. It’s set to be directed by Ethan Spaulding (director of Batman: Assault on Arkham, Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, and Scooby-Doo: Return
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IMAGE: By combining low-power magnetic fields, which agitates nanowires, with laser heating and drug delivery, target cells can be killed efficiently. view more  Credit: 2019 KAUST Drug-coated iron nanowires that can be guided to the site of a tumor using an external magnetic field before activating a three-step cancer-killing mechanism could provide an effective option for
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The prospects of additive manufacturing (3D printing) as a versatile tool for prompt and inexpensive prototyping are extremely promising. This family of methods are set to make fabrication processes faster, more efficient in terms of the raw materials and energy required, and more flexible. However, additive manufacturing has not yet been broadly applied to micro
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IMAGE: Meta-hologram optical device that operated in forward and backward directions. view more  Credit: Junsuk Rho(POSTECH) Hologram techniques are already used in our everyday life. A hologram sticker to prevent from counterfeiting money, Augmented Reality navigation projected in front mirror of a car to guide directions, and Virtual Reality game that allows a user to play
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This Manifest review contains spoilers. Manifest Season 2 Episode 4 Manifest is certainly making the most of its strong central conflict between the passengers with powers and those who would exploit it like the Major, who is proving to be a formidable opponent. Other potential conundrums are still in the set-up phase, such as Olive’s
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In an interview with PowerUp, lead effects artist Hadidjah Chamberlin noted that Blizzard briefly worked on a VR version of Hearthstone.  “They actually prototyped a VR version of Hearthstone during that time,” says Chamberlin. “You could walk around the tavern and sit down to play a game with someone. They only had two weeks, so they
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Costs of solar panels have plummeted over the last several years, leading to rates of solar installations far greater than most analysts had expected. But with most of the potential areas for cost savings already pushed to the extreme, further cost reductions are becoming more challenging to find. Now, researchers at MIT and at the
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Heels is an inside jargon term within the professional wrestling industry referring to the role of villainous wrestlers, whose jobs are to generate “heat” (essentially energetic negativity,) amongst the audience, getting people behind the heroic “babyface” wrestler. Yet, it’s a concept to which Stephen Amell, the former heroic defender of Arrow’s Star City, will soon
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For over twenty years, the Guilty Gear series has been synonymous with amazing visuals and ridiculous character designs in the realm of fighting games. Well, that and head-scratching titles. This is the series that gave us such games as Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R and Guilty Gear Xrd: Sign. Now they’re giving us something
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An interdisciplinary team from the University of Basel in Switzerland has succeeded in creating a direct path for artificial nanocontainers to enter into the nucleus of living cells. To this end, they produced biocompatible polymer vesicles that can pass through the pores that decorate the membrane of the cell nucleus. In this way, it might
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HOUSTON – (Jan. 27, 2020) – That banana peel, turned into graphene, can help facilitate a massive reduction of the environmental impact of concrete and other building materials. While you’re at it, toss in those plastic empties. A new process introduced by the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour can turn bulk quantities of
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IMAGE: Jing Shi is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Riverside. view more  Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A team of physicists has discovered an electrical detection method for terahertz electromagnetic waves, which are extremely difficult to detect. The discovery could help miniaturize the detection equipment on microchips
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IMAGE: The four most ambitious intiatives of the EU exhibit at the MWC20 in Barcelona. view more  Credit: Quantum Flagship, Graphene Flagship, Human Brain Project, Battery 2030+ The world is moving at full speed, pushing forward an amazing wave of novel and disruptive technologies that will change the way we see, move, behave and even communicate.
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Developer Ninja Theory has announced that it has started work on a new title currently known as Project: Mara. “Project: Mara will be a real-world and grounded representation of mental terror,” says Ninja Theory. “Based on real lived experience accounts and in-depth research, the goal is to recreate the horrors of the mind as accurately
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IMAGE: Computer science experts at UTSA have published the first review of the security and privacy risks posed by e-scooters and their related software services and applications. view more  Credit: Photo by MusicFox Fx on Unsplash (San Antonio — January 27, 2020) Micromobility vehicles, such as e-scooters, zip in and out of traffic. In San Antonio
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The Charmed reboot is back for Season 2, this time with a new showrunner.  Carter Covington was replaced by Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro for Charmed Season 2, and a new “creative direction” is being targeted for the trio of budding witches, with the series set to “lean harder into its supernatural storylines and less into the family dynamic”
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The developers from inXile Entertainment have announced that Wasteland Remastered is coming to Xbox One and PC. This is your confirmation, then, that the much-loved first game in the Wasteland franchise is all set to make a big comeback. Fans will remember that the original Wasteland was a post-apocalyptic role-playing game that launched in 1988,
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Never doubt the public’s appetite for enormous, man-eating snakes…or at least movie studios’ perception of the public’s appetite for man-eating snakes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Columbia Pictures has ordered a reboot of 1997’s monster horror hit Anaconda. Evan Daugherty, writer of Tomb Raider and Snow White and the Hunstman, is attached to write the
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IMAGE: Two photons are entangled, one in polarization and the other in orbital angular momentum — twisted light. By passing the polarization photon through the fiber and keeping the twisted light… view more  Credit: Wits University New research done at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Huazhang University of Science and Technology
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Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are coming to what Disney hopes will be Earth’s Mightiest Streaming Service. With the launch of Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, an impressive lineup of Marvel Cinematic Universe favorites and classic Marvel animated shows will be part of its library from launch. But that’s not all. One of the centerpieces of Disney’s
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Amnesia developer Frictional Games recently began teasing an upcoming project via a previously dead website. The mystery of this project grew larger recently with the reveal of what seems to be an ARG campaign tied to the upcoming title.  As with most ARG campaigns, this one is a little weird, so you’ll need to bear with
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