This spoiler-free review is based on the first four episodes. When a drama comes prefixed by an issue (class-drama, race-drama, abuse-drama), audiences can inwardly brace for a lecture, suspicious that they’re about to be made to eat their metaphorical greens. When that drama is also based on real-life suffering, the prospect of entertainment slides out
Month: June 2020
E3 2020 may be canceled, but there are plenty of online gaming events that have taken its place, including IGN’s Summer of Gaming and Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, which are jam-packed with hours of big reveals, gameplay footage, developer interviews, and much more. You can find a full schedule of events here. This is
IMAGE: Experimental visualization of individual nanowires and their and fabrication imperfections. The new and conventional optical microscope methods are labeled (EC) and (No EC), respectively. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International view more Credit: Lynford Goddard, Grainger Engineering URBANA, Ill. – New Illinois ECE research is advancing the field of optical microscopy, giving the field a critical
This Harley Quinn review contains spoilers. Harley Quinn Season 2 Episode 10 We’re nearing the end of Harley Quinn season two and without Ivy by her side our Hot-Panted heroine is struggling. If having a broken heart wasn’t bad enough, the rest of her crew are far too busy to hang out with her on
Some Activision Blizzard shareholders are attempting to prevent company CEO Bobby Kotick from receiving a substantial payment which they believe is unjustified. “Despite repeated low approval votes from shareholders, Activision Blizzard maintains multiple, overlapping opportunities for its CEO to earn outsize equity awards, even when performance-related vesting thresholds have not been met,” reads a filing
IMAGE: Artist’s view of individual electrons interacting with an optical whispering gallery mode as it circles a silica sphere. The matching between the velocities of the electron and the light-wave it… view more Credit: Dr Murat Sivis When you speak softly in one of the galleries of St Paul’s cathedral, the sound runs so easily around
IMAGE: Magnetic ionic liquid structures were elucidated through hybrid reverse Monte Carlo simulation. The research results elucidated fundamental understanding of pure liquids with magnetic responses as well as lead to… view more Credit: Ryusuke Futamura, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Shinshu University A research team lead by Ryusuke Futamura of Shinshu University investigated the response
The following contains spoilers through the Killing eve Season 3 finale. Perhaps the inevitable danger of a show like Killing Eve was always going to be in the fact that its antagonist might turn out to be more interesting than its protagonist. Jodie Comer’s Villanelle is one of the most memorable breakout television characters of
As we noted last year, a round of EA games has returned to Steam as part of an expanded partnership between the two companies which will include eventual EA Access support. Right now, you can not only download games such as Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Need for Speed Heat, and Dragon Age Inquisition from Steam, but
Nanotechnology has contributed a great deal to the field of medical science. It has enabled researchers to design tools to deliver drugs to specific targets in a living organism. Smart drug delivery vectors, combined with stimuli-based characteristics, are becoming increasingly important. The use of external and internal stimulating factors can have enormous benefits in combination
IMAGE: Haleh Ardebili, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, led work demonstrated that modeling based on the material nanoarchitecture can provide a more accurate… view more Credit: University of Houston The explosion of mobile electronic devices, electric vehicles, drones and other technologies have driven demand for new lightweight materials
ORLANDO, June 4, 2020 – Taking inspiration from nature’s nanotech that creates the stunning color of butterfly wings, a University of Central Florida researcher is creating technology to make extremely low-power, ultra-high-definition displays and screens that are easier on the eyes. The new technology creates digital displays that are lit by surrounding light and are
Humans rely dominantly on their eyesight. Losing vision means not being able to read, recognize faces or find objects. Macular degeneration is one of the major reasons for visual impairment, round the globe, close to 200 million people are affected. Photoreceptors in the retina are responsible to capture the light coming from the environment through
IMAGE: Researchers have developed a technology called “Artificial Chemist, ” which incorporates AI and an automated system for performing chemical reactions to accelerate R&D and manufacturing of commercially desirable materials. view more Credit: Milad Abolhasani Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University at Buffalo have developed a technology called “Artificial Chemist,” which incorporates artificial
In a massive new interview, Outlander and Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore has been looking back on the time he spent writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. One of the more interesting tidbits in Moore’s interview with Collider this week is how he got a job writing
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, a remaster of Kingdoms of Amalur, has been confirmed after the game appeared on the Microsoft Store ahead of an official announcement. According to the listing and this tweet from the Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning team, Re-Recokoning remasters the original Kingdoms of Amalur with “stunning visuals and refined gameplay” that still
IMAGE: Lipitoids, which self-assemble with DNA and RNA, could serve as cellular delivery systems for antiviral therapies that prevent COVID-19 and other coronavirus infections. view more Credit: R.N. Zuckermann A team of scientists from Stanford University is working with researchers at the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience user facility located at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley
This review contains spoilers for Agents of SHIELD. Agents of SHIELD Season 7 Episode 2 Agents of SHIELD might be giving itself a little wiggle room with its “ripples not waves” time travel rules, seemingly setting up a situation this week in which Koenig’s personal history is actually caused by the team’s adventure to the
Ike Perlmutter, the Chairman of Marvel Entertainment, has spent much of Donald Trump’s tenure as President advising the Department of Veteran’s Affairs in an informal role. And in that time, he raised alarms with career staff within the VA by his willingness to use the agency to promote Marvel Comics, according to a new report
Yes, one of the greatest games of the previous console generation is getting a sequel. Fans hoped that Naughty Dog might find a way to return to the world of The Last of Us, but the nature of the original game’s ending left some to speculate whether the developers had said all there was to say
UC Santa Barbara researchers continue to push the boundaries of LED design a little further with a new method that could pave the way toward more efficient and versatile LED display and lighting technology. In a paper published in Nature Photonics, UCSB electrical and computer engineering professor Jonathan Schuller and collaborators describe this new approach,
IMAGE: An SEM image of the device shows the irregular nanostructures created during the inverse design process. view more Credit: (Image courtesy of Zhujun Shi/Harvard SEAS) Polarization, the direction in which light vibrates, is invisible to the human eye. Yet, so much of our optical world relies on the control and manipulation of this hidden quality
IMAGE: A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the USA has published a new review on a field of computer device development known as spintronics,… view more Credit: The University of Manchester A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the USA has published a
IMAGE: Artificial red blood cells, like the one shown here, could carry oxygen, therapeutic drugs and other cargo in the bloodstream. Scale bar, 2 μm. view more Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b08714 Scientists have tried to develop synthetic red blood cells that mimic the favorable properties of natural ones, such as flexibility, oxygen
IMAGE: The newly designed HAMR-Jr alongside its predecessor, HAMR-VI. HAMR-Jr is only slightly bigger in length and width than a penny, making it one of the smallest yet highly capable, high-speed… view more Credit: (Image courtesy of Kaushik Jayaram/Harvard SEAS) This itsy-bitsy robot can’t climb up the waterspout yet but it can run, jump, carry heavy
IMAGE: Angle-resolved ac magnetic susceptibility helps to understand the magnetic dynamics in single molecular magnets (SMMs). (Source: IFJ PAN) view more Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Scientists from IFJ PAN in cooperation with researchers from the Nara Women’s University (Japan) and the Jagiellonian University (Poland) took another important step towards building a functional quantum computer. Using material
IMAGE: Sketch of the new catalytic mechanism proposed in the present Nature Communications paper. The particle is made of titanium dioxide with a gold-coated hemisphere. Its motion is induced by external… view more Credit: Source: UW Physics, M. Lisicki Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, ETH in Zurich and the University
In March 1968, the fans, cast, and creators of the NBC-TV series Star Trek were celebrating an unprecedented victory: a massive mail campaign by fans of the show, which directed more than 100,000 letters (if not more) to NBC executives, had resulted in the network deciding not to cancel the sci-fi program after two seasons
Recently uncovered footage seemingly showcases a canceled first-person Avengers game that was once in development at THQ. The story of this game’s development dates back to around 2010 or 2011 when THQ Studio Australia and Blue Tongue Entertainment were working on an Avengers game that may have released alongside (or close to) the first MCU
An international team of researchers led by researchers from ITMO University announced the development of the world’s most compact semiconductor laser that works in the visible range at room temperature. According to the authors of the research, the laser is a nanoparticle of only 310 nanometers in size (which is 3,000 times less than a