Month: May 2020

Reports from Venturebeat and Eurogamer indicate that Nintendo will delay its previously planned June Nintendo Direct stream which was originally scheduled to serve as the company’s E3 2020 presentation. Those reports indicate that Nintendo is experiencing some first-party development delays related to the spread of COVID-19. Like so many others during this time, the company
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Disney+ hit 50 million subscribers globally in early April, shortly after it finally launched in the UK and other regions, and while the platform has still got a way to go until it gets close to Netflix’s 167 million-strong base, it’s not a bad result so far for a streaming service that only originally got
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Looking for the UK Amazon Prime new releases? Click here instead! It’s been awhile since the world has seen a new comedy from Greg Daniels, co-creator of The Office (U.S.) and Parks and Recreation. That all changes this month with Amazon Prime’s new releases for May 2020. That’s right, leading the pack of Amazon originals
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More than six weeks after comics ceased shipping because of COVID-19 disruptions to production and distribution, Diamond Distributors, the former monopoly that once distributed all single issues to shops around the country, has announced that they’re back. May 20th sees the return of new single issue comics from Image, BOOM!, Marvel, Dark Horse and others
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IMAGE: The cellulose nanofiber-derived bulk CNFP structural material and its characterization. (a) Photograph of large-sized CNFP with a volume of 320 × 220 × 27 mm3. (b) The robust 3D nanofiber… view more  Credit: Shu-Hong Yu Plastic is a kind of widely used artificial material. The invention of plastic gives us a lightweight, strong and inexpensive
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Jim Lee, the legendary comic artist turned publisher turned DC Comics executive, has spent most of his social distancing putting up huge for local comic shops. He’s been furiously sketching some awesome characters, then auctioning them off on eBay. The BINC Foundation, the charity that supports book stores in times of crisis, has seen an
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The success of Star Wars Battlefront 2 cast some doubt regarding when DICE would return to the Battlefield series and if they had any interest in essentially replacing Battlefield with Battlefront in the long-term. While the prospect of them abandoning Battlefield entirely has always been a long-shot, Battlefield 5‘s sales struggles did cast some reasonable
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IMAGE: Researchers from Drexel University have discovered a way to grow hollow crystal spheres, and pause they’re symmetrical growth so they form with holes — a significant advance for their use… view more  Credit: Drexel University The new development, recently reported in the scientific journal Nature Communications, was led by Christopher Li, PhD, a professor in
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IMAGE: Bose-Einstein condensate comagnetometer, formed by two distinct atomic internal states of 87Rb which are contained in the same spatial wavefunction. view more  Credit: ICFO/ P. Gomez & M. Mitchell Scientists have been able to observe the universe and determine that about 80% of the its mass appears to be “dark matter,” which exerts a gravitational
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IMAGE: Nanostimulators bind to the surface of stem cells, delivering agents that spur the cells to release factors that promote blood vessel growth and modulate inflammation in damaged muscle. view more  Credit: Image by Janet Sinn-Hanlon, Veterinary Medicine at Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In regenerative medicine, an ideal treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from
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IMAGE: Researchers at The University of Tokyo and Yokohama City University create elastic fluorescent crystals that reversibly change color when bent or deformed. This work may lead to the development of… view more  Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan – Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, part of The University
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IMAGE: The twist angle between the layers governs the crystal symmetry and can lead to a variety of interesting physical behaviours, such as unconventional superconductivity, tunnelling conductance, nonlinear optics and structural… view more  Credit: Luojun Du et al. Aalto University Two-dimensional (2D) materials, which consist of a single layer of atoms, have attracted a lot of
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