In an official earnings call that Eurogamer reported on, Ubisoft has revealed its intention to release five triple-A games between now and April 2021 (the end of the next financial year). The gaming giant had already announced its plans to release the Brexit-inspired hacker game Watch Dogs Legion, the open-world fantasy adventure Gods & Monsters, and
Month: February 2020
Sometimes the smallest of things lead to the biggest ideas. Case in point: Nano 2020, a University of Arizona-led initiative to develop curriculum and technology focused on educating students in the rapidly expanding field of nanotechnology. The five-year, multi-university project recently met its goal of creating globally relevant and implementable curricula and instructional technologies, to
This Brooklyn Nine-Nine review contains spoilers. Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 7 Episodes 1 & 2 Before NBC benevolently saved Brooklyn Nine-Nine from cancelation, a new season of the beloved workplace comedy seemed improbable; after the successful return, the hilarious Season 6, a new season seemed inevitable. Sure enough, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back for Season 7 on NBC, which seems
Jay Garrick was the first Flash of the DC Universe. Debuting (appropriately enough) in the pages of Flash Comics #1 in 1939, he was a founding member of the first superhero team in history with the Justice Society of America, proved so popular he earned a solo book (with the quaintly 1940s title of All-Flash),
During a recent earnings call, Blizzard president J. Allen Brack revealed that World of Warcraft‘s subscriber count has doubled since the release of WoW Classic. “Given the content updates for modern WoW, and the cadence that we have for Classic, we exited our year with a subscriber base that was double what it was at
Understanding the interactions between proteins and soap molecules (surfactants) has long been important for the industry, particularly within detergents and cosmetics. The anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) is known to unfold globular proteins, while the nonionic surfactant octaethylene glycol monododecyl ether (C12E8) does the opposite, i.e. it helps proteins fold into shape again. For
IMAGE: This is Associate Professor Timothy Scott. view more Credit: Monash University An international research team have for the first time observed dynamic covalent oligomers mimicking the combination of complementary DNA strands, which could lead to exciting developments in electronics and the engineering of interfaces between prostheses and body tissue. The study by Associate Professor Timothy
IMAGE: With a new technique, MIT researchers can peel and stack thin films of metal oxides — chemical compounds that can be designed to have unique magnetic and electronic properties. The… view more Credit: Image: Felice Frankel At the heart of any electronic device is a cold, hard computer chip, covered in a miniature city of
IMAGE: This is a research concept of copper oxide subnanoparticles. view more Credit: Makoto Tanabe, Kimihisa Yamamoto Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have shown that copper oxide particles on the sub-nanoscale are more powerful catalysts than those on the nanoscale. These subnanoparticles can also catalyze the oxidation reactions of aromatic hydrocarbons far more effectively than
This Briarpatch review contains spoilers. Briarpatch Episode 1 After screening for critics and audiences at the Toronto Film Festival back in September, USA’s Briarpatch is finally here. The series, created by writer and pop culture commentator Andy Greenwald and executive produced by Mr. Robot’s Sam Esmail, is the NBCUniversal sister network’s latest prestige play, and most promising new
This article contains nothing but Birds of Prey spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review right here. Birds of Prey is the latest entry in Warner Bros.’ sprawling DCEU shared universe of superhero movies. It’s not just any superhero movie though. Birds of Prey offers up a female-led, female directed R-rated action romp through the grimy
Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s head of gaming and therefore the overlord of all things Xbox, has thrown some serious shade at Sony and Nintendo. Even though the Xbox Series X is due to launch around the same time as the PS5, into a market where the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite have both sold very
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In a recent study, University of Arkansas physics researchers found evidence of an inverse transition in ferroelectric ultrathin films, which could lead to advances in development of data storage, microelectronics and sensors. “We found that a disordered labyrinthine phase transforms into the more ordered parallel-stripe structure upon raising the temperature,” said Yousra Nahas,
IMAGE: Zheng received two honors – an AOCS Honored Student Award and the Manuchehr Eijadi Award, which recognizes the outstanding merit and performance of an honored student. view more Credit: UMass Amherst Five food science Ph.D. students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been honored with 2020 student awards from the American Oil Chemists’ Society
IMAGE: a Artistic representation of the HgTe QD layer coated above the laser-printed Au nanobump array. b Side-view (view angle of 45°) SEM image showing the Au nanobump array printed at… view more Credit: FEFU press office Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia), together with colleagues from FEB RAS, China, Hong Kong, and
This Star Trek: Picard article contains spoilers through Episode 3. Though a secret Romulan cabal called the Zhat Vash might be the most overt set of villains in Star Trek: Picard, another pointed-eared character strikes even more fear without needing to pick up a phaser. In Episodes 2 and 3 of Star Trek: Picard, Commodore
“Dead Static Drive is Grand Theft Cthulhu”, reads the official description of the first trailer for an upcoming indie game called Dead Static Drive. And if that isn’t enough to grab your attention, we don’t know what is. Come on, it’s Grand Theft Auto but with creepy creatures in it! Yep, this really is a game
Materials called perovskites show strong potential for a new generation of solar cells, but they’ve had trouble gaining traction in a market dominated by silicon-based solar cells. Now, a study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere outlines a roadmap for how this promising technology could move from the laboratory to a significant place in the
IMAGE: Calculated localized field (left) and temperature distribution (right) of the nano-butterfly structure. view more Credit: Fujiwara H., et al, Nano Letters. December 23, 2019. A nanoscale gold butterfly provides a more precise route for growing/synthesizing nanosized semiconductors that can be used in nano-lasers and other applications. Hokkaido University researchers have devised a unique approach for
IMAGE: Viscosity is closely guarded within the cell, though at present we don’t know who the guardians are. view more Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The only thing that appears to be unchanging in living cells is that they are constantly changing. However, scientists from the IPC PAS have managed to show that there is a
This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 10 “Today it is a sad day; we lost a child. But it will be far worse to lose a country.” It would appear that the gods have, in fact, abandoned Bjorn Ironside. Over a hundred episodes into its six season run, there’s not much Vikings
Since the early ’00s, the Evolution Championship Series has been like the Olympics of one-on-one fighting games. The three-day event will return once again on July 31-August 2 to the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Formerly called the Battle by the Bay, this will be the 19th official Evo tournament (not counting the recent installments of
IMAGE: Army scientist Dr. Kang Xu specializes in electrochemistry and materials science to develops innovative solutions for tomorrow’s Soldiers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory at… view more Credit: U.S. Army photo by Jhi Scott ADELPHI, Md. (Feb. 5, 2020) – Scientists are closer to understanding exactly what happens inside batteries
IMAGE: Suggested structure of two Au230 nanoclusters linked by 5,5?-bis(mercaptomethyl)-2,2?-bipyridine (BMM-BPy) dithiols. view more Credit: The University of Jyväskylä/Karolina Sokolowska Manufacture of chemical sensors and catalysts based on gold nanoclusters gained new light from recent cutting-edge research. Chemists at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and the University of California succeeded in determining the atomic precise structure
Generating electricity from raindrops efficiently has gone one step further. A research team led by scientists from the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has recently developed a droplet-based electricity generator (DEG), featured with a field-effect transistor (FET)-like structure that allows for high energy-conversion efficiency and instantaneous power density increased by thousands times compared to
When metal atoms form small clusters of a particular size, they show interesting and potentially useful electromagnetic characteristics, which are different from those of the actual bulk metal. To fully explore the potential of these properties, it is necessary to find ways to assemble precise macroscopic structures out of these clusters. But, how do these
Tom Hiddleston is set to extend his stay on television after he finishes filming on Disney+’s Marvel spinoff series, Loki, hopping over to rival streaming service Netflix for a new political thriller series called White Stork. Variety confirmed that the actor has signed up for the lead role in the show, which is being created
Chris Pratt has spent most of the last decade in the once-unlikely position as one of Hollywood’s biggest breakout stars. However, despite a budding big-budget backlog, the A-lister is planning his return to the medium on which he got his start: television. Pratt has signed on for a television project titled The Terminal List, on
In an interview with Eurogamer, Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi clarifies that the studio currently has no plans to introduce an easy mode for Nioh 2. “I’m not against easy modes at all,” says Hayashi, “When you look at Nioh and its priority, the concept is the tension of samurai combat so it didn’t quite work.
IMAGE: Ekaterina Goncharova, a Master Degree student from ITMO University’s International Research Center SCAMT, a co-author of the research. view more Credit: ITMO.NEWS (https://news.itmo.ru/en/) A group of researchers from ITMO University has come up with the concept of a new drug against cancer: a nanorobot made of DNA fragments, which can potentially be used not only