Month: November 2019

This Van Helsing review contains spoilers. Van Helsing Season 4 Episode 10 “I can’t believe we’re negotiating with a moron in the goddamn apocalypse.” After last week’s solo mission into Jack’s past, “Together Forever” gets the larger Van Helsing narrative arc back on track and introduces an element that up to now has remained in
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This Titans review contains spoilers. Titans Season 2 Episode 13 Rather than skimp on the fixins’, the Titans season 2 loads so much on the narrative plate that, like yesterday’s Thanksgiving dinner, it is difficult to fully appreciate any one dish we have to chew on. By no means a bad episode, “Nightwing” is still
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Release Date: November 15, 2019Platform: SwitchDeveloper: Game FreakPublisher: NintendoGenre: RPG When you replay Pokémon games, you realize just how formulaic they are: you’re always catching critters, battling rivals, and working your way to a clearly signposted prize at the end. With that in mind, it’s no small achievement that Pokémon Sword and Shield feel fresh and interesting as new games in
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Created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, Rick and Morty is more than just a brilliant Adult Swim series, it’s a full-fledged pop culture phenomenon. With the show’s fourth season currently underway, the dimension-spanning adventures of the duo are bigger — and stranger — than ever before. Here’s our picks for the Rick and Morty
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The following contains spoilers for the first three episodes of Servant.  At first it seemed a little strange that Servant, Apple TV+’s first horror adjacent offering, would premiere on November 28, 2019 a.k.a. Thanksgiving Day. Apple TV+ itself launched with four original series on November 1 so a date closer to a seemingly more appropriate
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Brandon Sanderson is one of the most popular speculative fiction authors writing today. From his Stormlight Archive series to Reckoners to his work finishing the Wheel of Time series following Robert Jordan’s death, Sanderson is as prolific as he is imaginative. His latest? Starsight, the sequel to his bestselling space drama Skyward, which takes the “boy and
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Release Date: November 19, 2019Platform: PS4 (reviewed), PCDeveloper: Ys NetPublisher: Deep SilverGenre: Action-adventure What Yu Suzuki and his teams at Ys Net and Neilo have endeavored to do with Shenmue III is simple: create a new entry in the long-beloved series and stay faithful to the original games. Problem is, the original games are LONG-beloved.
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MIT researchers have devised a novel circuit design that enables precise control of computing with magnetic waves — with no electricity needed. The advance takes a step toward practical magnetic-based devices, which have the potential to compute far more efficiently than electronics. Classical computers rely on massive amounts of electricity for computing and data storage,
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This South Park review contains spoilers.  South Park Season 23 Episode 8 Though South Park’s bread and butter is, and has been for a long time now, satirically skewering current issues and recent trends, when they take a break for pure, unadulterated stupidity, without worrying about imparting any sort of moral at the end, the results
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Popular-music-focused dramatizations seem to have found new life, thanks to recent cinematic offerings like Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, with many more currently on the industry docket. It’s a notion that Netflix might have taken into consideration with a television project it just unveiled, set to chronicle the story of Selena Quintanilla, the 1990s Mexican-American crossover pop
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Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have developed a strategy for treating the most aggressive type of brain cancer in adults that combines a photoactive molecule and a chemotherapeutic agent – both encapsulated in protein-lipid nanoparticles. Results of the research, supported by São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP, were presented during
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Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, and Melbourne Center for Nanofabrication developed an ultrasensitive detector based on black silicon. The device is able to detect trace amounts of nitroaromatic compounds and can be applied to identify the majority of explosives or
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Scientists have added a crucial tool to the atomic-scale manufacturing toolkit with major implications for today’s data driven–carbon intensive–world, according to new research from the University of Alberta in Canada. “Computers today are contributing one gigatonne of carbon emissions to the atmosphere, and we can eliminate that by enhancing the most power-hungry parts of conventional
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IMAGE: McMaster University researcher Tohid Didar, a mechanical and biomedical engineer, led a team that has created a coating to make synthetic vascular grafts less prone to infection and clotting and… view more  Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, Nov. 27, 2019 – Researchers at McMaster University have created a new coating to prevent clotting
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A new technique in chemistry could pave the way for producing uniform nanoparticles for use in drug delivery systems. Scientists have been investigating how to make better use of nanoparticles in medicine for several decades. Significantly smaller than an average cell, nanoparticles are more similar in size to proteins. This makes them good at interacting
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This article is sponsored by Tor Books. The opinions reflect those of the writer. As readers are preparing to dig into fantasy epic The Wheel of Time all over again with Amazon Prime’s forthcoming television adaptation, they’re also given the treat of experiencing a “new” Robert Jordan book.  After forty years of sitting on the shelf, Warrior
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This Star Wars article contains spoilers for Jedi: Fallen Order. We’ve not gotten very far into Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order just yet, but it’s clear from our first few hours of exploring planets and slashing Stormtroopers that the team at Respawn Entertainment went to great lengths to prove its Star Wars credentials and cram
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Things have been far too quiet on the MST3K front lately. It has been over a year since Mystery Science Theater 3000 season 12 hit Netflix, and since then, we’ve heard nary a peep about production on new episodes. Sure, series creator Joel Hodgson has been busy with the live tour and various other efforts,
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Influential cartoonist Gahan Wilson, who’s worked darkened Colliers, Playboy, National Lampoon and The New Yorker, died of complications of dementia on Nov. 21 in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to the Associated Press. He was 89. “The world has lost a legend,” his stepson Paul Wilson posted on the artist’s Facebook page. “One of the very best
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