Month: February 2020

This Charmed review contains spoilers. Charmed Season 2, Episode 14 In this week’s episode, the sisters continue their search to regain the Power of Three, despite receiving a dire warning about what that power has done to all the Charmed Ones before them. With no clear answers as to why the power eludes them, they
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Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds mode has just received its biggest update yet. There’s quite a lot to cover here (and you can read the full details here), but the headline of the latest Battlegrounds patch is the addition of dragons to the mode’s roster of minions. Despite being one of the most popular minion types in Hearthstone’s constructed
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Day of the Dead, a landmark film in the zombie genre, is set to rise again as a Syfy television series. Syfy, the NBCUniversal cable channel, has made a 10-episode series order for Day of the Dead, which will serve as a serial adaptation inspired by zombie genre inventor George A. Romero, specifically the 1985
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Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon has been announced with its first trailer. The developers at Yacht Club Games, overseers of the Shovel Knight franchise, have teamed up with the developers at Vine to make this intriguing new game a reality. It’s apparently “a Roguelite Puzzle game hybrid”, with the team at Yacht Club Games explaining that
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It was in 1897 when H.G. Wells–known as the father of modern science fiction–published his novel The Invisible Man. In that book, a scientist named Griffin discovers a way to render himself invisible while experimenting with the refraction of light. Already an unstable personality, Griffin becomes even more unhinged through his work and decides he
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IMAGE: The validated retweeting network during Italian presidential elections from the session Statistical Physics and Twitter Analysis. view more  Credit: Fabio Saracco DENVER, COLO., FEBRUARY 28, 2020–Tracking communication and movement in this hyperconnected world can seem overwhelming. People (and things) share information through countless platforms. Networks online and off both impact how people live their lives
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The developers at DeNA have announced some big new additions to the Pokémon Masters mobile game, including a single-player survival mode called Battle Villa. This will be music to the ears of gamers who called for more single-player content at the time of the game’s launch in August last year. “Battle Villa is a new
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IMAGE: A close-up view on huge scaffolding at the construction site for building the new Municipal Library. At the left the thick layers of scaffolds are necessary to support the forward… view more  Credit: Fons Heijnsbroek (@fonsheijnsbroek51), Unsplash Engineers from Far Eastern Federal University Military training center (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia) together with colleagues from RUDN University
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IMAGE: Photographs of the patterned rigid part of the substrate on the finger joint indicating 2D dimensional stretchability and images of stretchable OLEDs on a finger joint emitting green light. view more  Credit: Professor Kyung Cheol Choi, KAIST Highly functional and free-form displays are critical components to complete the technological prowess of wearable electronics, robotics, and
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This Brooklyn Nine-Nine review contains spoilers. Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 7 Episode 5 Considering how funny I’ve found Vanessa Bayer as Debbie in her other appearances this season on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, you would think “Debbie,” in which Debbie becomes a coked-up antagonist to Jake and Rosa, would have been right up my alley, but somehow the episode slightly
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This Star Trek: Picard review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Picard Episode 6 How you felt about this week’s Star Trek: Picard probably depends on how invested you have been in the Soji/Narek storyline so far, as their relationship and the implications of Narek’s lies came to an intense head in “The Impossible Box.” For me,
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IMAGE: Computer simulation by the Göttingen research team: a bacterium propelling itself along using flagella pointing forwards and behind. view more  Credit: Sarah Mohammadinejed, University of Göttingen The magnetotactic bacterium Magnetococcus marinus swims with the help of two bundles of flagella, which are thread-like structures. The bacterial cells also possess a sort of intracellular “compass needle”,
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After releasing multiple quality collections of the classic Mega Man and Mega Man X games, Capcom has turned its focus to yet another Mega Man subseries with the Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection. Despite the somewhat awkward title, this is the best collection of Mega Man titles yet. The Zero and ZX games are among the
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IMAGE: Gold nanoparticle technology can detect cancer extracellular vesicles in a blood sample view more  Credit: University of Queensland A novel blood test that uses gold nanoparticles to detect cancer has also been shown to identify signals released by cancer cells which could result in earlier diagnosis and better treatment. New research has revealed the nanotechnology
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IMAGE: Assistant Professor Xiaohu Xia works in his chemistry lab at the University of Central Florida. view more  Credit: UCF, Karen Norum For the first time, a team of scientists at the University of Central Florida has created functional nanomaterials with hollow interiors that can be used to create highly sensitive biosensors for early cancer detection.
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IMAGE: An image showing the water drop bounce view more  Credit: university of Warwick When a water droplet lands on a surface it can splash, coat the surface cleanly, or in special conditions bounce off like a beach ball Droplets only bounce when the speed of collision with a surface is just right, creating a very
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IMAGE: The virtual lab connecting Southampton, Zurich and Padova. view more  Credit: University of Southampton Research on novel nanoelectronics devices led by the University of Southampton enabled brain neurons and artificial neurons to communicate with each other. This study has for the first time shown how three key emerging technologies can work together: brain-computer interfaces, artificial
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If you’re wondering why you haven’t seen Al Pacino on TV much over the years, the answer is simple: the iconic star of films like The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon and Scarface hasn’t done much work on the small screen during his more than five decades as an actor. Following a guest shot on a
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Developer Platinum Games has revealed a new title called Project G.G. which will be the studio’s first self-published game.  “Unlike any of the games we’ve made so far, it’s going to be a 100 percent Platinum Games title,” says director Hideki Kamiya via a press release. “For everything from its setting and characters, to its game
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Researchers from the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, teaming up with scientists from Singapore and the U.S., have found that nanoscale precipitates provide a unique sustainable dislocation source at sufficiently high stress. The scientists discovered that densely dispersed nanoprecipitates simultaneously serve as dislocation sources and obstacles, leading to a sustainable and
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