Month: July 2019

Expect to hear big things about Marvel’s Eternals movie very, very soon. Eternals is coming to the big screen as part of Marvel Phase 4, and the cast reportedly includes Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, and more. Marvel’s Eternals aren’t exactly household names yet, but then again, neither was Guardians of the
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The Simpsons, the lovable, loathable, yellow-skinned, eight-fingered nuclear family who dominate my Sunday nights, paid another two years on their Evergreen Terrace property mortage. Lisa went radical in recent seasons, Bart’s always been radical and Homer still forgets to check the safety gauges on the radicals at the nuclear plant. The family has grown and
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Release Date: July 11, 2019Platforms: PC (reviewed), PS4, XBO, SwitchDeveloper: JoyMasherPublisher: The Arcade CrewGenre: Run and gun They just don’t make games like Blazing Chrome anymore, and that’s really too bad because it’s a fun and challenging run and gun shooter with tight controls that might fool you into thinking it’s from the early ’90s era when Contra was still
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a graphene device that’s thinner than a human hair but has a depth of special traits. It easily switches from a superconducting material that conducts electricity without losing any energy, to an insulator that resists the flow of electric current,
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Every year, robots get more and more life-like. Solar-powered bees fly on lithe wings, humanoids stick backflips, and teams of soccer bots strategize how to dribble, pass, and score. And, the more researchers discover about how living creatures move, the more machines can imitate them all the way down to their smallest molecules. “We have
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IMAGE: Jas Sanghera, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory branch head for Optical Materials and Devices, holds up optical fiber that will be used to produce eye safer lasers at U.S. NRL, DC… view more  Credit: Jonathan Steffen/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON — Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have devised a new process for using nano-particles
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IMAGE: (a−c) AFM images before (a) and after (b) KPFS manipulation of Oad2−−Oad2− with the tip positioned symmetrically in the middle and the corresponding line profiles (c). The double bright spot… view more  Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan – While pinning down a single oxygen atom sounds difficult, trying to then manipulate electrons associated with that
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Stargirl is coming to the DC Universe streaming service. The Stargirl TV show will join live-action series Titans, Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing, Metropolis, and animated series Harley Quinn and Young Justice: Outsiders. Greg Berlanti, Geoff Johns, and Sarah Schechter serve as executive producers, and Johns himself will write the first episode. The series will follow the character created by Geoff Johns
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Some pretty big news dropped to kick off San Diego Comic Con week this year: IDW and Rob Liefeld announced that the legendary creator is coming on board for a Snake Eyes focused comic in 2020. “Two words: ‘BUCKET LIST,’” said Liefeld, “One more word: ‘ICON.’ Snake Eyes is Wolverine, Deadpool, and Spider-Man rolled into
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The best PC games of 2019 reveal the changing nature of PC gaming and the gaming industry as a whole. The lines between platforms are becoming blurred. Microsoft is embracing PC gaming once again as it aims to bring Xbox to the masses, Japan making more PC ports than ever before, and even Nintendo adopting more
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Three UC Santa Barbara junior faculty members have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Spencer Smith, in electrical and computer engineering, Phillip Christopher, in chemical engineering, and Andrea Young in physics join more than 300 others across the country in receiving the award. The PECASE is the highest honor
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Hulu has had a busy couple of months. First came June and The Handmaid’s Tale. Then came July and Veronica Mars. Now, for its new releases in August 2019, Hulu is going to…chill. Yes, it’s a pretty chill slate for Hulu in August. Aside from the usual Into the Dark installment and a couple of
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Quantum computers promise to perform operations of great importance believed to be impossible for our technology today. Current computers process information via transistors carrying one of two units of information, either a 1 or a 0. Quantum computing is based on the quantum mechanical behavior of the logic unit. Each quantum unit, or “qubit,” can
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IMAGE: The new chip is based on an ultra-thin material that changes electrical resistance in response to different wavelengths of light. view more  Credit: RMIT University Researchers from RMIT University drew inspiration from an emerging tool in biotechnology – optogenetics – to develop a device that replicates the way the brain stores and loses information. Optogenetics
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This Legion review contains spoilers. Legion Season 3 Episode 4 Time travel is in vogue. Not only did it serve as a major plot device in the summer’s biggest hit film, it’s also rumored to be where Stranger Things is headed in Season 4, and could possibly be a factor in wrapping up the Star Wars Skywalker
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We love a good dragon story. Bright Star, out next month from Tor Teen, tells the story of Andra, a half-human, half-elf indentured servant who is swept up in a secret rebellion and meets Tiri, a young dragon whose mind speaks directly to hers in the process. This fantasy debut from author Erin Swan, Bright
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IMAGE: The ‘end-to-end transmitter-receiver’ chip boasts a unique architecture combining digital and analog components on a single platform, resulting in ultra-fast data processing and reduced energy consumption. view more  Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., July 16, 2019 – A new wireless transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio
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This Veronica Mars review contains no spoilers. Spring break isn’t for everyone, Marshmallows. And while Veronica Mars Season 4 recaptures much of the original show’s magic, it also makes bold, grown-up choices that won’t be for everyone, either. Neptune, California has become a spring break destination but not everyone is happy about it. Some, like Big Dick Casablancas (Dick
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Back in 1998 the Power Rangers teamed up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in what has been called one of the wildest crossovers in TV history. The episode “Shell Shocked” is still fondly remembered today and BOOM! Studios is about to bring us another crossover between two of the biggest names kids action series in Mighty Morphin
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