The first round of Xbox Series X gameplay previews left many convinced that the next-gen console may have a heating problem. However, a new round of tests suggests that may not actually be the case. For instance, VentureBeat ran a fairly simple Xbox Series X heat test in which they ran Hitman 2 on the
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IMAGE: Live ultrasound footage shows a microrobot tumbling through a colon in vivo. view more Credit: Purdue University video/Elizabeth Niedert and Chenghao Bi WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips, Purdue University engineers have demonstrated in live animal models. Why
IMAGE: Elsa Reichmanis, Professor and Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected as a Fellow of the… view more Credit: Lehigh University Elsa Reichmanis, Professor and Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, has been elected as a Fellow
IMAGE: The National Science Foundation renews the Rice-based Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center, led by Pedro Alvarez, for five years. The Engineering Research Center is dedicated to enabling access to clean… view more Credit: Rice University HOUSTON – (Oct. 15, 2020) – The Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center (NEWT), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center
IMAGE: Rice University engineer Haotian Wang is named a Packard Fellow, one of 20 researchers in the nation to earn the honor this year. view more Credit: Rice University HOUSTON – (Oct. 15, 2020) -Haotian Wang of Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering has been honored with a Packard Fellowship, one of 20 researchers in the
IMAGE: Professor of physics Andrew Jordan and his colleagues will use superconducting circuits to design experiments that can be carried out within a realistic quantum system, with the goal of studying… view more Credit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster In order to make a car run, a car’s engine burns gasoline and converts
Stuck right in the middle of chaos with no explanation. But no explanation is needed. Liam Murphy’s No-A communicates everything we need to know about its main characters through wordless action. The end result is an empathetic and poignant short fueled by a robot’s love for its creator and its willingness to pay the ultimate
The classic space opera hero Buck Rogers is coming back, according to The Wrap. Legendary Entertainment (Godzilla: King of the Monsters) has snagged the movie rights to the 92-year-old character, with producers Don Murphy (Transformers) and Susan Montford set to steer the project through Murphy’s Angry Films production company. Buck Rogers brought sci-fi elements like
It takes a certain amount of cojones to remake a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, especially one that nabbed the Academy Award for Best Picture and remains a stone cold classic some 80 years after it first came out. But that’s what British director Ben Wheatley has done with Rebecca, albeit with a film (his first
Rachel Talalay knows horror. The British-American filmmaker got her directorial start with 90s horror flicks Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare and Ghost in the Machine before helming cult classic Tank Girl. In the last few decades, she has directed dozens of TV episodes that dip or full-on dive into That Most Chilling Genre. From Doctor
Join hosts Ollie Drennan, Karla Beltran, and Steph Sabraw review Season 2 Ep. 7 of Freeform’s Cloak and Dagger, “Vikingtown Sound”. What are your thoughts on this season’s newest villian, Andre AKA D’Spayre? Should we still continue to trust Conners? And Tandy and Tyrone are finally reunited, but are we out of the woods yet?
Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix appear determined to meet their Waterloo… or at least film it with the pair mounting a new historical war epic about French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The news was broken by Deadline, which filed the story on the last day of filming of production for Scott’s current historical epic, The Last
As part of their 60th-anniversary celebration event, Sega has revealed a free Streets of Rage/Yakuza mashup called Streets Of Kamurocho. “The death of the Tojo Clan’s Third Chairman has plunged the organization into chaos,” reads a description of the game on its Steam page. “The violence spreads to the streets, and only Kazuma Kiryu and
A tired, sick, and hungry nation calls out for something…anything to distract from its miserable current state of affairs. Showtime steps up and responds with “Best we can do is another season of Dexter.” Yes, Showtime announced today that it has ordered one more season of its hallmark bloody drama Dexter for another run of
IMAGE: Series of nanophotonic resonators, each slightly different in geometry, generates different colors of visible light from the same near-infrared pump laser. view more Credit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a microchip technology that can convert invisible near-infrared laser light into any one
IMAGE: Engineers and virologists at the University of Nevada, Reno team up to develop a nanotube-based electrochemical biosensor for COVID-19. Research Scientist Timsy Uppal cultures and assays the virus while post-doctoral… view more Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Nevada, Reno. RENO, Nev. – Rapid detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in about 30 seconds following the
IMAGE: On-body sensors, such as electrodes and temperature sensors, were directly printed and sintered on the skin surface. view more Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c11479 Wearable electronics are getting smaller, more comfortable and increasingly capable of interfacing with the human body. To achieve a truly seamless integration, electronics could someday
A Roomba meets its match when encountering a new mess to clean up. “Clean Cut” by Andrew Hunt Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm About DUST: DUST presents thought-provoking science fiction content, exploring the future of humanity through the lens of science and technology. From timeless classics to cutting-edge movies, series, short
The Magicians is back! But do our heroes remember who they even are? Join hosts Ty Matthews, Adrian Snow, Nate Miller and Steph Sabraw as they break down Season 4, Episode 1, “A Flock of Lost Birds.” ABOUT THE MAGICIANS: The Magicians is a fantasy television series that premiered on Syfy and Showcase on December
After a summer full of unexpected show cancellations and streaming rivals springing up in every direction, Netflix might be regretting that their first major original series was called House of Cards. Well, they’re probably regretting that show for another major reason as well. Now, in another house of cards-y move, Netflix is rolling out a
The following contains spoilers for Wynonna Earp season 4. While we wait for Wynonna Earp to return from its COVID-instigated midseason hiatus, it seems like the perfect time to dig into one of the show’s most complicated and rich topics: The layered relationship between Wynonna Earp and Doc Holliday, and the ways in which the
Contains spoilers for the movie Lake Mungo. “We were thinking it’d be nice if we could make a film that was kind of a curiosity, but if you saw it years from now you wouldn’t know anything about where it came from.” This quote from a 2009 interview with Lake Mungo director Joel Anderson proved
Coming 2 America is set to sow its royal oats on Amazon Prime Video. Paramount has sold the distribution rights to the film, a sequel to star Eddie Murphy’s 1988 signature comedy hit, Coming to America, to Amazon Studios for around $125 million, as sources tell Variety. With the deal reportedly locked, the film is
All good things must come to an end. All debauched things too. Which may explain how we’re here, staring at the Great Beyond for the Gallagher Brood of Shameless. Aye, two seasons after Emmy Rossum left the series as one of its ostensible lead characters, Fiona Gallagher, the series itself is resuming production and winding
NXIVM is known as the branding cult, and India Oxenberg was the first person to submit her flesh to the irons. She was told the symbol represented the elements, but will now tell her own story of coercion, abuse, and recovery in Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult. The four-part Starz Original docuseries will premiere on
In recognition of his “innovative leadership in creating, developing, and commercializing revolutionary polymer-based therapeutics and personal-care products through multiple successful start-up companies,” Craig Hawker, professor of materials, chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, has received the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) 2021 Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success. “This is huge. I personally put
IMAGE: a) Trajectory of an enzyme-powered nanomotor prepared with lipase in a closed conformation and without controlled orientation during immobilization on the silicon nanoparticle surface. b) Trajectory of an enzyme-powered nanomotor… view more Credit: CNIC/ IBEC A study by scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), the Universidad Complutense (UCM), Universidad de Girona (UdG),
IMAGE: Professor Sungwon Lee (left) holds up a hand with the tiny micro-supercapacitor stuck on the skin near his wrist. The device was developed together with Dr. Koteeswara Nandanapalli (right) and… view more Credit: DGIST Materials scientists Sungwon Lee and Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST) developed the fabrication
IMAGE: Red light is transformed into blue light by frequency doubling inside tiny spheres made of nanocrystals. view more Credit: ETH Zurich / Jolanda Mueller From microscopes to data transfer via optical fibres all the way to modern quantum technologies, light plays an important role in science and industry. Particularly methods for changing the colour –
IMAGE: Pressure-induced polymerization of 1,4-diphenylbutadiyne toward crystalline graphitic nanoribbons. view more Credit: Peijie Zhang New work from a team of scientists led by Drs. Kuo Li and Haiyan Zheng from the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR) collaborated with Dr. Jing Ju from Peking University found pressure-induced polymerization of 1,4-diphenylbutadiyne produces crystalline