Warner Bros. plans to stop working on successful games to double down on unsuccessful ones

What you need to know Warner Bros. has many beloved IPs that include Lego, Lords of the Rings, DC characters, and more. New live-service title Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has player counts below 500 players on Steam. Meanwhile, Hogwarts Legacy continues to have player counts above 10,000 players. Warner Bros is now doubling […]

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Paper Coffee Cups Are Just as Toxic for the Environment as Plastic Ones

Improving recycling practices would be a logical step in trying to keep harmful chemicals from ending up in nature, but researchers say it’s best to retire disposable paper cups altogether. It’s difficult for most recycling centers to separate the plastic coating from the cup’s paper. In the UK, for instance, a mere handful of recycling […]

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Old Memories Can Prime Brains to Make New Ones

The tiny foragers are also “remarkable learners” that can remember something after a single exposure to it, Crossley said. In the new study, the researchers peered deep into the snails’ brains to figure out what happened at the neurological level when they were acquiring memories. Coaxing Memories In their experiments, the researchers gave the snails […]

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Base Galaxy S24 buyers might be the ones getting stuck with the Exynos 2400

There’s been a lot of talk going on about the return of the Exynos SoC to the Galax S flagship series. Samsung is reportedly developing the Exynos 2400 with the idea of debuting it with the Galaxy S24 lineup. But even if this turns out to be correct, a new rumor says that the company […]

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Weekly poll results: the popularity of foldables is rapidly increasing, horizontal ones in the lead

Some see them as unnecessary, while others think they are the only innovative phones on the market right now – foldables are not ready to take over the market yet, but they are quickly growing in popularity as can be seen in last week’s poll. Price and durability are still the main concerns and most […]

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Cute Animals Are Overrated. Let’s Save the Weird Ones

“There are a lot of species out there that are overlooked, and when you get to know them they are just as charismatic and beautiful as the ones we’re aware of,” says Gumbs. According to the EDGE2 metric, our highest-priority mammal should be the mountain pygmy possum, a tiny marsupial that exists in the wild across […]

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New OnePlus Nord 3 leaked specs contradict previously outed ones

A couple of weeks ago we brought you a list of purportedly leaked specs for the upcoming OnePlus Nord 3, and today a different (and usually more reliable) source is out with another set of leaked specs for the same phone, only they differ significantly in some aspects. Obviously, we can’t tell you which one […]

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One UI: I much prefer default icon colors to palette-matching ones

The most recent versions of One UI allow users to color-match their app icons to the UI palette. The way it works is self-explanatory. When enabled, this feature generates a more color-consistent UI across the board. At least, in theory. It’s a nice feature to have in One UI, and since many users asked for […]

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Recycled Battery Materials Can Work as Well as New Ones

The cathode is a marvel of molecular choreography. How much power a battery holds, and how long it lasts, depends on its lattice of metallic atoms—how well it can catch and release lithium ions. For decades, engineers have fiddled with designs that help this movement along. And they’ve gotten pretty good, if the electrical vehicles […]

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Weekly poll results: smartwatches are becoming more popular, especially the advanced ones

Smartwatches, the full-featured kind, are quite popular – nearly half of you have one, according to last week’s poll. The challenges for makers are laid out in the second poll, the most important feature of a smartwatch or band is long battery life. The watches running watchOS, Wear OS, Tizen or HarmonyOS tend to last […]

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To Resurrect Jordan’s Lost Forests, People Plant Tiny Urban Ones

The team’s test plots also host some of Jordan’s rarest flora. In Marka, that includes saplings of Pistacia lentiscus, the wild pistachio tree—there are only about 50 left in the wild in Jordan—and Celtis australis, sometimes called a European hackberry, which is even more rare. However, not everyone is convinced these small-scale forests will help […]

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