Minecraft Legends’ latest update confirmed to be its last — Mojang’s latest experiment is dead

What you need to know Minecraft Legends is a unique action-strategy spin-off developed by Mojang Studios and Blackbird Interactive. It was released on Apr. 18, 2023, but several issues led to a sudden drop-off in interest from the community. Mojang has continued to update Legends since then with quality-of-life fixes and new content, but has […]

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YouTube’s blocking of ad blockers isn’t a “small experiment” anymore

Back in June, YouTube announced that it was running a “small experiment” globally where it urged a tiny subset of people using ad blockers to disable them if they want to view content on the platform. This is no longer a “small experiment”. YouTube now says it’s launching a global effort to crack down on […]

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The EU Just Kicked Off Its Biggest Climate Experiment Yet

With little fanfare, the European Union has launched a huge climate experiment. On October 1, the EU kicked off the initial phase of a Europe-wide tax on carbon in imported goods. This marks the first time a carbon border tax has been tried at this scale anywhere in the world. Europe’s experiment could have ripple […]

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Experiment: Apple iPhone 15 Pro’s 28mm and 35mm modes are just digital crops

Apple dedicated a few moments from its nearly 1-hour iPhone 15 presentation to the new Pro models’ custom 28mm and 35mm shooting modes. Technically, you get a cropped 28mm or 35mm portion from the native 24mm primary lens and you get it in the same 24MP resolution as the default 24mm images. Apple says that […]

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A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new measurement of the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, confirms previous hints of an uncomfortable truth: We still don’t have a solid theoretical grasp of even the simplest nuclear systems. To test the strong nuclear force, physicists turned to the […]

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Microsoft experiment adds ‘Handheld Mode’ gaming UI to Windows 11 for Steam Deck-like devices

What you need to know A leaked Microsoft hackathon project has revealed that the company has experimented with adding a dedicated Handheld Gaming Mode to Windows 11. The project acknowledges Windows 11’s existing weaknesses when it comes to navigating the OS on small handheld gaming devices like the Steam Deck. The effort would deliver a […]

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YouTube abandons experiment limiting 4K playback to Premium users only

YouTube experimented with limiting access to 4K content to its Premium users, but the company confirmed this trial is now over and “turned off”. The platform revealed on Twitter everyone should be able to access 4K quality without any restrictions and no fancy memberships. we’ve fully turned off this experiment. viewers should now be able […]

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An Antimatter Experiment Shows Surprises Near Absolute Zero

The project was designed to see if spectroscopy in a helium bath was possible at all—a proof of concept for future experiments that would use even more exotic hybrid atoms. But Sótér was curious about how the hybrid atoms would react to different temperatures of helium. She convinced the collaboration to spend precious antimatter repeating […]

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4 Years On, a New Experiment Sees No Sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’

When hydrogen atoms first formed, they absorbed and then emitted ambient 21-centimeter radiation at equal rates, which made the clouds of hydrogen that filled the primordial universe effectively invisible. Then came cosmic dawn. Ultraviolet radiation from the first stars excited atomic transitions that enabled hydrogen atoms to absorb more 21-centimeter waves than they emitted. Viewed […]

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