Month: February 2020

This spoiler-free review is based on the first three episodes of Altered Carbon season 2 but contains spoilers for season 1. Altered Carbon pulled out all the stops in season one, introducing viewers to a cyberpunk world ruled by wealthy nigh-immortals and others who, for a price, can digitally transfer their consciousness into new bodies.
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Eli Roth (Hostel, Death Wish) is officially set to direct an upcoming film adaptation of the popular Borderlands video game franchise. “I’m so excited to dive into the world of Borderlands and I could not be doing it with a better script, producing team, and studio,” said Roth in a press release. “I have a
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IMAGE: Figure. A: Optical image and band diagram of the heterojunction formed by the thickness variation of black phosphorus 2D material. B: Schematic of the tunnel field-effect transistor and the thickness-dependent… view more  Credit: KAIST Researchers have reported a black phosphorus transistor that can be used as an alternative ultra-low power switch. A research team led
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IMAGE: Professor Xu is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. view more  Credit: Lehigh University Xiaoji Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University, has been named a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow. This prestigious award, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, places Xu
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IMAGE: Prof. Job Boekhoven and Caren Wanzke at the Technical University of Munich discovered a new material system that can release drugs with a constant release rate over a tunable period… view more  Credit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Using a mixture of oil droplets and hydrogel, medical active agents can be not only precisely dosed, but
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IMAGE: Tulane National Primate Research Center Director Jay Rappaport (right) and Skip Bohm, associate director and chief veterinary medical officer, are part of a team establishing a COVID-19 research program at… view more  Credit: Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano. From working to develop one of the first nonhuman primate models for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
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Tokyo, Japan – Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, a part of The University of Tokyo, have developed a new procedure for recycling concrete with the addition of discarded wood. They found that the correct proportion of inputs can yield a new building material with a bending strength superior to that of the original
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There’s so much to look forward to in our speculative fiction future. Here are some of the horror books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Top New Horror Books in February 2020 Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland Type: Novel Publisher: Balzer + Bray Advertisement Release date: 2/4/20
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IMAGE: This is a schematic image of graphene plasmonic metamolecules capable of independent amplitude and phase control of light. view more  Credit: KAIST Researchers described a new strategy of designing metamolecules that incorporates two independently controllable subwavelength meta-atoms. This two-parametric control of the metamolecule secures the complete control of both amplitude and the phase of light.
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IMAGE: Gene-infused nanoparticles used for combating disease work better when they include plant-based relatives of cholesterol because their shape and structure help the genes get where they need to be inside… view more  Credit: Image provided by Gaurav Sahay, OSU College of Pharmacy. PORTLAND, Ore. – Gene-infused nanoparticles used for combating disease work better when they
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For its new releases in March 2020, Amazon Prime is enlisting help from some horror friends.  Yes, horror is the name of the game this month with Night of the Living Dead (albeit the 2007 version), The Crazies, and The Descent all arriving on March 1. And if that weren’t enough, Pet Sematary comes a
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The spaceship-stuffed game No Man’s Sky is continuing its trajectory from shaky launch to really interesting piece of work, with the latest update to the space-exploration experience adding funky biological spaceships into the mixer. The game’s previous big update, No Man’s Sky Beyond, launched in August 2019 and added a multiplayer mode. And now, going live
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IMAGE: Mark Jankauski, right, works in his lab with collaborator Erick Johnson on instruments used to study the complex shapes and motions associated with insect flight. MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez…. view more  Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN — In the engineer’s world, vibration is usually a bad thing. It means that something is
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Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, with colleagues from Poland and China used liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a rotary micromotor powered with light. The 5-millimeter diameter ring, driven and controlled by a laser beam, can rotate and perform work, e.g. by rotating another element installed on the same
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IMAGE: Schematic of modes of interest in the single-magnon detector. The uniformly-processing mode of collective spin excitations in the ferromagnetic crystal, called Kittel mode, is coherently coupler to a superconducting qubit… view more  Credit: ©Dany Lachance-Quirion Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at The University of Tokyo demonstrated
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Release Date: February 14, 2020 (Street Fighter V originally released on February 16, 2016)Platform: PS4 (reviewed), PCDeveloper: Capcom, DimpsPublisher: CapcomGenre: Fighting The Capcom release model for fighting games is simple. Release a game, then release a bigger version of it again and again until it’s time to move on. This has been Street Fighter’s bread and
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At the Department for Materials of the ETH in Zurich, Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators investigate tomorrow’s memory devices. They should be fast, retain data reliably for a long time and also be cheap. So-called magnetic “random access memories” (MRAM) achieve this quadrature of the circle by combining fast switching via electric currents with durable
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If you’re a fan of horrific alternate histories that are actually about our horrific contemporary reality, then HBO has some new content for you. The premium cabler is adapting Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America novel, which imagines what would have happened if Charles Lindbergh had run for and been elected into the presidency during World
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Larian is preparing to reveal the gameplay for Baldur’s Gate III, the long-awaited new installment in the iconic RPG franchise. The existence of this new entry in the Dungeons & Dragons-based video game series was announced with a cinematic trailer at E3 2019, but the public has yet to clap eyes on any fully-fledged gameplay
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