Yesterday’s Xbox games showcase has raised new questions regarding Microsoft’s previous promise that upcoming first-party games will be available on both Xbox One and Xbox Series X for at least the next year or two. This confusion stems from the recently revealed trailers for Fable, Avowed, Everwild, Forza Motorsport, and State of Decay 3. The
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Rolling around at the speed of sound. Got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow! As part of a multitude of release date changes from Paramount, a date was finally given to the much anticipated Sonic the Hedgehog movie sequel. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 will be released on April 8, 2022. The release date was
Disney has reconfigured its theatrical release schedule again as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage throughout the country, with the company yanking or delaying some films while leaving others in place — at least for now. The first, not totally unexpected move was pulling Mulan off its August 21 release date. Originally set to arrive
The Boys are back in town…again! Amazon Prime announced today during The Boys Comic-Con@Home appearance that it has renewed its adaptation of Garth Ennis’s dark superhero drama for season 3. The announcement comes ahead of season 2’s premiere date on September 4. Additionally, Amazon announced the creation of an official Boys aftershow called Prime Rewind:
Superhero movies have a notoriously poor track record on sincerely depicting disenfranchised or marginalized groups on the screen, LGBTQ+ or otherwise. Often every time a Hollywood studio brags about including a gay character in a major blockbuster, it turns out to be a character without a name, or a background player whose public display of
IMAGE: Designer landscape of localized light in the shape of an elephant. Guided light is molded by bouncing back and forth between two mode converters. view more Credit: (Image courtesy of Second Bay Studios/Harvard SEAS) There are many types of light — some visible and some invisible to the human eye. For example, our eyes and
IMAGE: Illustration of subsurface infrared nanoimaging. view more Credit: CIC nanoGUNE Researchers from the Nanooptics Group at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian) demonstrate that nanoscale infrared imaging – which is established as a surface-sensitive technique – can be employed for chemical nanoidentification of materials that are located up to 100 nm below the surface. The results further
These days, we appreciate new television more than ever. As we venture further into this new content desert, the examples of fresh growth are dwindling. One such TV show is The 100, which is currently in the midst of its seventh and final season. As a midseason return, The 100 was one of the final
In an extensive interview/gameplay preview, the Godfall development team revealed new information about how the game’s loot mechanics and other RPG elements will work. Let’s start with some good news. The Godfall team has confirmed that Godfall will not depend on microtransactions. Specifically, Godfall technical producer Richard Heyne says that they don’t consider the upcoming
This Cursed feature contains spoilers for both the Netflix series and the illustrated novel of the same name. Read our spoiler-free review of the series here. Netflix’s Cursed puts a feminist spin on the legend of King Arthur by centering its origins around a woman – Nimue, the future Lady of the Lake. Its first
IMAGE: Memory device, developed by USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers, shows record performance view more Credit: (IMAGE CREDIT: XIAODONG YAN) Memory devices come in many forms. From USB sticks, to external hard-drives, to chips implanted directly into smartphones. What makes one better than another is usually a combination of new, groundbreaking materials and the novel
Collaborate and listen, because Ice is back with a brand new invention. And that invention is a biopic where Dave Franco slips into Vanilla Ice’s borrowed hammer pants. The news, which came late Wednesday, confirmed Franco will play the infamous rapper in To the Extreme. Franco confirmed the news himself to Insider while also revealing
After Sony wowed gamers with the PlayStation 5 in June, it’s finally time for Microsoft to take the stage with the games that are coming to the Xbox Series X. July’s Xbox Games Showcase will unveil more about Halo Infinite, the Xbox Series X’s flagship title, as well as other first-party and third-party titles coming
This review contains spoilers for Agents of SHIELD. Agents of SHIELD Season 7 Episode 9 Groundhog Day episodes are a dangerous prospect. They can be whimsical, with mistakes erased and deaths undone, or they can be meaningless, completely removing the stakes that make conflict interesting. They can allow characters to learn from each time loop,
IMAGE: PNNL materials scientist James De Yoreo has been named a Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science. Here, he is pictured with an array… view more Credit: Background image courtesy of the University of Washington RICHLAND, Wash.–Materials science pioneer James (Jim) De Yoreo has been named a 2020 “Distinguished Scientist
IMAGE: Changes in surface roughness (top) and modulus of elasticity (bottom) of tooth enamel exposed to popular beverages imaged by atomic force microscopy. view more Credit: Professor Seungbum Hong, KAIST KAIST researchers used atomic force microscopy to quantitatively evaluate how acidic and sugary drinks affect human tooth enamel at the nanoscale level. This novel approach is
IMAGE: Immunofluorescence staining image of the 3D fibrotic tissue. Cancer cells (green) exist embedded within a densely fibrotic extracellular matrix (red). Cell nuclei are stained in blue. view more Credit: © 2020 Mitsunobu R. Kano Pancreatic cancer is a life-threatening disease with very poor survival rates in patients, and–despite various efforts–its treatment remains challenging. This is
IMAGE: (a)Cell membrane perforation of living cells based on highly localized photochemical oxidation with a catalytic TiO2-functionalized AFM probe (b)Intracellular tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) imaging of molecular dynamics in living cells… view more Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview A research group composed of Professor Takayuki Shibata and his colleagues at
When three part documentary Don’t F**k With Cats landed on Netflix in 2019 it became and instant sensation. It was both utterly fascinating and incredibly disturbing and became one of Netflix’s top five watched docs of that year, but also prompted discussions about whether the series itself could be seen as part of the problem.
It’s been more than two years since Halo Infinite, the next big chapter in the acclaimed sci-fi shooter series, was revealed by Microsoft at E3 2018. While Microsoft has kept pretty quiet about the game since then, fans are finally going to learn way more about the game during an Xbox Series X games showcase
Elizabeth Henstridge and her character on Agents of SHIELD, Jemma Simmons, have both been fan favorites for as long as the show has been on the air. It’s a role Henstridge landed just a year after coming to the U.S. with only a passion for acting and a few professional connections, but now with her
Spectroscopy is the use of light to analyze physical objects and biological samples. Different kinds of light can provide different kinds of information. Vacuum ultraviolet light is useful as it can aid people in a broad range of research fields, but generation of that light has been difficult and expensive. Researchers created a new device
Dr. Herbert asks what if our genome was far smarter than everyone previously believed? What if in the many DNA repeat elements lay the foundation for building a novel type of biocomputer? This approach would enable calculations performed with self-renewing wetware rather than stone-cold hardware, opening the door to logic circuits based on DNA that
IMAGE: A team from Purdue University developed self-powered wearable triboelectric nanogenerators with polyvinyl alcohol-based contact layers for monitoring cardiovascular health. view more Credit: Wenzhuo Wu/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An invention may turn one of the most widely used materials for biomedical applications into wearable devices to help monitor heart health. A team from Purdue
Cobra Kai will soon bask in the biggest audience it’s ever had when the series completes its migration from former platform YouTube Premium to the streaming big leagues of Netflix. Now, said migration has a release date for viewers to mark. Netflix has announced that Cobra Kai Season 1 and Season 2 will premiere on
The Xbox Series X is Microsoft’s next-gen console that will bring all-new graphics, faster load times, and plenty of ways to enjoy all of the games you love digitally through Xbox Game Pass, the Smart Delivery system, and backward compatibility. We’ve learned quite a bit about the Xbox Series X’s impressive specs as well as
Watch out, everyone. Netflix is on an Avatar-collecting spree. Netflix today announced that Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel series, The Legend of Korra, is set to arrive on its streams on August 14. The announcement came with an appropriate tweet of course. The Legend of Korra (also known as Avatar: The Legend of Korra) premiered
IMAGE: A close-up view of a handful of nanostars used to create a new type of cancer diagnostic. view more Credit: Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke University Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a method for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple specific microRNAs in RNA extracted from tissue samples without the need for labeling or target
IMAGE: Illustration of the University of Pittsburgh’s CANELa lab’s nanocluster modeling that was featured on the cover of the journal Dalton Transactions. Image reproduced with permission of Mpourmpakis and Cowan…. view more Credit: Mpourmpakis and Cowan A field studying something very small is becoming very big: In the last decade, the field of nanoparticle research has
IMAGE: The photonic tensor core performs vector-matrix multiplications by utilizing the efficient interaction of light at different wavelengths with multistate photonic phase change memories. view more Credit: Mario Miscuglio WASHINGTON, July 21, 2020 — Machine learning performed by neural networks is a popular approach to developing artificial intelligence, as researchers aim to replicate brain functionalities for