One hundred miles west of Johannesburg in South Africa, the Komati Power Station is hard to miss, looming above the flat grassland and farming landscapes like an enormous eruption of concrete, brick, and metal. When the coal-fired power station first spun up its turbines in 1961, it had twice the capacity of any existing power […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Intel is making its ‘most significant brand update in 15 years’ to its consumer processor lineup. The company is dropping ‘i’ and generational messaging in front of the Intel Core brand. Intel is introducing a new ‘Intel Core Ultra’ branding for “the most advanced client offerings.” Intel is also updating […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Starfield, Bethesda’s massive upcoming sci-fi RPG, has an incredible number of different planets, systems, and mechanics. On a Giant Bomb at Nite livestream, Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty said that currently, Starfield has the fewest bugs of any game released by Bethesda. Bethesda titles have a reputation for being […]
Read MoreWhether you’re covering deserts, ugly parking lots, canals, or even sunny lakes with solar panels, clouds will occasionally get in the way—and every day the sun must set. No problem, says the European Space Agency: Just put the solar arrays in space. The agency recently announced a new exploratory program called Solaris, which aims to figure out if it is […]
Read MoreHorror games are making a comeback in a big way. With the world bouncing back from the pandemic, this year’s returning video game trade shows were dominated by a bold showing within the genre. The resurgence includes a series of new remakes, with Dead Space, Resident Evil 4, and Silent Hill 2 — all considered […]
Read MoreDornbusch thinks this strategy will spare patients from serious side effects or “off-target” edits—unintentional cuts elsewhere in the genome that could cause problems such as cancer. The regions targeted by the company’s Crispr therapy are also in a part of the genome that tends to stay the same even when HIV evolves. That’s important because […]
Read MoreBlizzard Entertainment’s acclaimed hero shooter, Overwatch, has fallen into an awkward state during its final years. Once successful and widely adored, the direction of its gameplay had shifted with time, as its popularity dwindled among the masses. To this day, Overwatch has struggled to revisit those glory days. Overwatch had become grueling, bland, and slow […]
Read More]In an action-packed event for Apple smartwatches, the Apple Watch Ultra is the pick of the crop. A super-sized, super-charged, super expensive Apple Watch, the Ultra is aimed at lovers of the outdoors, water sports, hiking, and endurance running – or (more importantly) aspire to the lifestyle. Think of the Apple Watch Ultra as the […]
Read MoreNow a Californian startup has taken the same approach, but this time with poplar trees. In a non-peer-reviewed preprint first posted on February 19, scientists at Living Carbon claimed that by inserting new genes into poplar trees, they can make the plants grow 53 percent more quickly than their non-edited equivalents. Both sets of trees […]
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