It started at a hackathon a few years ago near Trafalgar Square, in London. Raphaël Haupt and James Farrell got to talking about how to use the growing popularity of blockchain and cryptocurrencies to help combat climate change. The result was Toucan, a project founded by the duo, which aims to revolutionize carbon offsetting. To […]
Read MoreFor as long as David Cottrell could remember, his hometown had been falling into the sea. In the early 1960s, when Cottrell was 3 years old, an abandoned US Coast Guard station teetered over the water of the Pacific in North Cove, Washington. By the middle of the decade, the station was gone—as was a […]
Read MoreIn 2020, Epic Games, the developer of the widely popular game Fortnite, filed lawsuits against Apple and Google, accusing the two companies of following anti-competitive practices with their app distribution platforms, App Store and Play Store. While the court delivered the verdict in the Epic versus Apple case in September 2021, which was largely in […]
Read MoreJitsu Squad et Mighty Fight Federation Cette semaine l’Epic Games Store offre non pas un mais deux jeux vidéo, Jitsu Squad et Mighty Fight Federation. A l’aide de quelques clics de souris vous pouvez acquérir ces deux titres à vie. Attention l’offre ne dure qu’une semaine. Elle se termine le 07 décembre 2023 à 17:00. […]
Read MoreIndia’s capital, New Delhi, is preparing a new weapon in the fight against deadly air pollution: cloud seeding. The experiment, which could take place as early as next week, would introduce chemicals like silver iodide into a cloudy sky to create rain and, it’s hoped, wash away the fine particulate matter hovering over one of […]
Read MoreThink back to any dinosaur illustration you saw as a kid. The background was almost certainly one of two things: an asteroid streaking across the sky or a volcano blowing its top. (If the illustrator was feeling extra dramatic, maybe both.) A 6-mile-wide asteroid, which hit the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years […]
Read MoreClimate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and the United States has begun mobilizing an army to fight it: the American Climate Corps. Formerly conceptualized as the Civilian Climate Corps, the new initiative will “put more than 20,000 young people on career pathways in the growing fields of clean energy, conservation and […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Intel’s “Battlemage” GPUs are already being tested in labs. The new GPU architecture is expected to bring a massive performance uplift over the current “Alchemist” Arc GPUs. Battlemage is expected to launch some time in 2024. Intel’s initial Arc GPU efforts codenamed “Alchemist” didn’t have the smoothest of launches back […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know The Razer kitsune is an all-button fighting controller. It uses optical switches for lightning-fast responses. There are several features that are beneficial for pro players and enthusiasts. Razer has accessories for almost everything on the gaming market, but there was one segment they had never entered. Say hello to the […]
Read MoreIn a normal year, Rennick would expect a staff turnover of 20 percent, but next year will certainly be higher. To that end, Natural Resources Canada recently allocated CA$37.9 million ($27.9million) to recruiting, training, and retaining firefighters in high-risk zones. But several experts and politicians, including Flannigan, want federal officials to go further and are […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Team RICOCHET is the segment of developers at Activision responsible for maintaining Call of Duty’s proprietary anti-cheat system known as RICOCHET. RICOCHET uses mitigation tactics to allow cheaters to remain in game for data collection without allowing the cheaters to affect other players’ experience. Hallucination has been added as a […]
Read MoreIn 2008, a fruit fly known as the spotted-wing drosophila made its way from Southeast Asia to the continental US, likely hitching a ride on fruit shipments. First detected in California raspberry fields, the insect rapidly spread to other states. Unlike the common fruit fly, which is attracted to rotting food, spotted-wing drosophila prefers ripening, […]
Read MoreSince 2017, ophthalmology has been the busiest of all the medical specialties in the UK’s National Health Service in terms of clinical appointments. Nearly 10 percent of all NHS outpatient appointments are related to eye problems. That’s nearly 10 million appointments per year, and that number has risen by more than a third in the […]
Read MoreJellybean continues to defy expectations. The 5-year-old Labrador retriever mix jumps up and down from her favorite spot on the couch and walks around the living room with such ease, it’s as if she hadn’t ever had metastatic cancer. Her owners, Patricia and Zach Mendonca, still can’t quite believe the miracle. “She’s got a little […]
Read MoreReady for your first real challenge in Respawn Entertainment’s latest Star Wars adventure? There are a huge number of enemies and boss fights in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, many of which can provide a tough fight, especially if you’re new to this sort of game. That’s why I’m here to help with a guide on […]
Read MoreIn the mountains of northern Italy, when there’s a wedding in the village, friends often paint the names of the happy couple on a bedsheet and hang it near the main road. A similar sheet currently hangs above the roundabout in the small town of Caldes, in the province of Trentino, but it features just […]
Read MoreBack in 2018, Xiaomi ecosystem brand Duoqin launched its first-generation Qin feature phone with 4G connectivity and several smart features like apps and an AI assistant. Now, Duoqin is turning a new page with the Qin3 Ultra – a 5-inch Android smartphone with a focus on eliminating distractions from your everyday life. The device comes […]
Read MoreKenya is in the middle of its worst drought in 40 years. In the parched north of the country, rivers are running dry and millions of livestock have perished due to lack of food. Around 4.4 million Kenyans don’t have enough to eat, and the situation will worsen if the coming rainy season fails like the previous five. […]
Read MoreThe Samsung Knox suite is one of the most secure platforms in the mobile industry, and the Korean tech giant revealed today that Knox is helping Bottneuro AG with its work on stopping the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Samsung and Bottneuro partnered when Bottneuro AG spun off from the University of Basel in 2021. Although […]
Read MoreThe world’s deadliest animal is a picky eater. Because they transmit viral diseases like Zika and chikungunya, and the parasites that cause malaria, mosquitoes like blood-sucking Aedes aegypti are responsible for over 700,000 deaths worldwide every year. But in Omid Veiseh’s lab at Rice University, his team of bioengineers was struggling to get mosquitoes to eat. Typically, researchers […]
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