MechWarrior 5: Clans couldn’t have happened without Duke Nukem Forever
Creating a MechWarrior game is complicated for reasons far beyond game development. You also need to factor in IP law, anime, and ... Duke Nukem?.....»»
He took a job with his college buddy"s sister, Elizabeth Holmes. Now he"s a witness in her trial
To many people a decade or so ago, Elizabeth Holmes was the founder of high-flying blood-testing startup Theranos. To Daniel Edlin, she was the sister of his Duke University college buddy, Christian......»»
Passengers couldn’t fly after NHS vaccine passport went offline
Outage lasted approximately 4 hours, causing issues with health app. Enlarge (credit: VOO QQQ) England's COVID Pass system went offline for hours on Wednesday, causing British travelers to remain stranded at airports. Some pas.....»»
Google says Fortnite’s in-app purchase swap was a breach of contract, sues Epic
Epic swapped Google Play IAPs in 2020, but the contract says it couldn't do that. Enlarge (credit: Epic Games) Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of con.....»»
California"s offshore oil rigs are decades old, and industry resists decommissioning them
Amid a week of horror and heartbreak, outrage and demands for greater accountability, many Californians couldn't help but question all the other oil platforms that have rusted and churned for decades just a few miles offshore......»»
A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About To Become a Very Big Business
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: At Duke University's Marcus Center for Cellular Cures, parents can enroll their children into a number of clinical trials that aim to study the effects of cells derived from umbilical cord blood o.....»»
Android 12 is out. Or is it? Here’s why we think Google delayed the release
Google announced the release of Android 12, but is making users jump through a lot of hoops to get it. Here's what we think happened......»»
Money Heist Season 5: What Happened To The Professor?
The Professor has gone missing in a trailer for the final season of Money Heist, and there are a few likely possibilities for his whereabouts. In a trailer for the Money Heist final season, the Professor has gone missing, and there are a few options.....»»
Smuggling light through opaque materials
Electrical engineers at Duke University have discovered that changing the physical shape of a class of materials commonly used in electronics and near- and mid-infrared photonics—chalcogenide glasses— can extend their use into the visible and ult.....»»
Facebook back online after more than 6 hours, Mark Zuckerberg loses $6 billion as result of outage
The problems started on Monday just before noon ET when people began reporting that they couldn't access Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or WhatsApp—even the Oculus app and website were impacted. It would be almost six hours before regular service.....»»
California spill came 52 years after historic oil disaster
The weekend oil leak along the Southern California coast happened not far from the site of the catastrophe more than a generation ago that helped give rise to the modern environmental movement itself: the 1969 Santa Barbara spill......»»
Foundational step shows quantum computers can be better than the sum of their parts
Pobody's nerfect—not even the indifferent, calculating bits that are the foundation of computers. But JQI Fellow Christopher Monroe's group, together with colleagues from Duke University, have made progress toward ensuring we can trust the results.....»»
It took me a month to fall for the Galaxy Z Fold 3, but now I’m quite smitten
I've owned the Galaxy Z Fold 3 since release, but the first few weeks with it were bumpier than expected. Now I'm smitten, and this is how it happened......»»
CRISPR Gene-Editing Experiment Partly Restores Vision In Legally Blind Patients
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Carlene Knight's vision was so bad that she couldn't even maneuver around the call center where she works using her cane. But that's changed as a result of volunteering for a landmark medical experiment......»»
What Happened When Germany Tried to Fight Online Hate Speech?
"Harassment and abuse are all too common on the modern internet," writes the New York Times. "Yet it was supposed to be different in Germany." In 2017, the country enacted one of the world's toughest laws against online hate speech. It requires Face.....»»
Are You Ready To Share Your Analprint With Big Tech?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: For the past 10 years, Sonia Grego has been thinking about toilets -- and more specifically what we deposit into them. "We are laser-focused on the analysis of stool," says the Duke University re.....»»
Video: How lemur research can help endangered species
Research scientists Marina Blanco, Ph.D. and Lydia Greene, Ph.D. study lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina (home to the largest population of lemurs outside of Madagascar). Some people might assume that they do this just to hang.....»»
Melbourne earthquake: What exactly happened, and what"s the best way to stay safe from aftershocks?
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck about 115 kilometers east of Melbourne in Victoria, causing damage to buildings and forcing residents to evacuate across the city. The quake, which started near Woods Point at a depth of 12km, was also felt in Sy.....»»
Elodie Games obtains $32.5M round to make social co-op gaming better
During the darkest hours of the pandemic, millions upon millions of people turned to online gaming as a way to pass time in lockdown and connect with friends they couldn’t see in person. But a social, cooperative, fun and cross-platform gaming.....»»
Australian wildfires triggered massive algal blooms in Southern Ocean
Clouds of smoke and ash from wildfires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020 triggered widespread algal blooms in the Southern Ocean thousands of miles downwind to the east, a new Duke University-led study by an international team of scientists fin.....»»
10 off-camera moments from the MCU that Marvel needs to explain
There are a lot of stories that make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and too many of them happened off-screen. Here are some moments we still want to see......»»