The Walt Disney Company has announced that it is investing $1.5 billion in Epic Games and that the two companies will collaborate on a multiyear project to create a new “games and entertainment universe” to expand the reach of Disney’s “stories and experiences.” According to Disney, the “new persistent universe” will offer a “world-class games […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Garry’s Mod, also known as GMod, is a 2006 physics-driven sandbox game from Facepunch Studios that’s built on Valve’s Source engine. The game still has a passionate community today, and gets constant improvements thanks to fan-made addons. A GMod player named Alexandrovich has created a map in the game that’s […]
Read MoreLeakster Ice Universe has some good news – the Samsung Galaxy S24+ will finally have an option with 12GB of RAM (the S23+ options begin and end at 8GB). However, The Cat has some bad news too – the vanilla Galaxy S24 is sticking to the 8GB, which has been the base capacity since the […]
Read MoreLike any object, black holes take time to grow and form. And like a 6-foot-tall toddler, Fan’s supersize black holes were too big for their age—the universe wasn’t old enough for them to have accrued billions of suns of heft. To explain those overgrown toddlers, physicists were forced to consider two distasteful options. Decades ago, […]
Read MoreAt this point it is fairly certain that the Galaxy Ring, Samsung’s entry into a new category of health-focused wearables, is not coming this year. Now Ice Universe offers a launch window – the Ring will be announced at the Galaxy S24 unveiling event in January. Even more importantly, it sounds like Samsung has high […]
Read MoreThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, most come from the sun or Earth’s atmosphere. But a smattering of the particles—those moving much faster than the rest—traveled here from powerful sources farther away. For decades, astrophysicists have sought the origin of […]
Read MoreThe S21 Ultra was the first of the Galaxy S series to use an LTPO display, this tech offers fine-grained control over the refresh rate and helps save battery. The the S21 and S21+ stuck with old school displays that only supported a couple of refresh rate options. That’s true of the S22/S22+ and even […]
Read MoreFadel’s group created a state in which the crystal contained a superposition of a single phonon and zero phonons. “In a sense, the crystal is in a state where it is still and vibrating at the same time,” says Fadel. To do this, they use microwave pulses to make a tiny superconducting circuit produce a […]
Read MoreOur universe started with a bang that blasted everything into existence. But what happened next is a mystery. Scientists think that before atoms formed—or even the protons and neutrons they’re made of—there was probably a hot, soupy mix of two elementary particles called quarks and gluons, churning through space as a plasma. And because no […]
Read MoreWith the Samsung Galaxy S23 series launch already in the rear-view mirror, we can move on to the other big Samsung flagship launch of the year – the next gen Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip. Reliable tipster IceUniverse shared some preliminary specs details for the upcoming foldables. The big news for the Z Flip5 […]
Read MoreEvery year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in a pattern so repeatable that they’re used as “standard candles”—objects so uniformly bright that astronomers can deduce the distance to one of them by its appearance. Our understanding of the cosmos is based on these […]
Read MoreIs Ice Universe is obsessed with bezel thickness? Yes, but we don’t mind – The Cat reports that the upcoming Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max will set a new record in that regard. The black border around the screen of the new flagship will measure only 1.55mm, way down from the 2.17mm of the current […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know According to a new report, a single-player game set in the Titanfall and Apex Legends universe has been cancelled by Electronic Arts (EA). The game, codenamed “Titanfall Legends,” was in development at Respawn Entertainment by 50 developers. Reportedly, EA will try and find new positions for these developers, though they […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know According to a new report, a single-player game set in the Titanfall and Apex Legends universe has been cancelled by Electronic Arts (EA). The game, codenamed “Titanfall Legends,” was in development at Respawn Entertainment by 50 developers. Reportedly, EA will try and find new positions for these developers, though they […]
Read MoreCosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and flat as far as we can see, but it’s also expanding at an ever-so-slowly increasing pace, when naive calculations suggest that—coming out of the Big Bang—space should have become crumpled up by gravity and blasted […]
Read MoreSmartphones are constrained by batteries and thermals and perform optimally when specialized hardware does the heavy lifting – hardware like Oppo’s MariSilicon X ISP and the new MariSilicon Y Bluetooth chip. Of course, these are partial solutions, for best results a completely custom chipset is what is needed. That seems to be the thinking over […]
Read More“There are some configurations of the future that don’t correspond to anything in the past,” Cotler said. “There’s nothing in the past that would evolve into them.” Giddings has proposed a similar principle for ruling out paradoxical states he encountered while studying black holes last year. He calls it “history matters,” and it holds that […]
Read MoreSometimes we must look to the heavens to understand our own planet. In the 17th century, Johannes Kepler’s insight that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun led to a deeper understanding of gravity, the force that determines Earth’s tides. In the 19th century, scientists studied the color of sunlight, whose distinctive properties helped […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know GitHub Universe, an event focused on cloud, security, community, and AI, was held this week. At the conference, GitHub announced several new tools for developers and programmers. One of tools in an experimental feature called “Hey, GitHub!” that lets you code with your voice. GitHub Universe is a global developer […]
Read MoreLast week leakster Ice Universe published the exact dimensions of the Galaxy S23 series. They were mostly the same as the respective S22 models, except that they grew by a fractions of a millimeter in height and width. Now Ice has figured out where that extra 0.3mm on the Galaxy S23 came from and the […]
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