3 Call of Duty titles joined NVIDIA GeForce Now yesterday, but some gamers are claiming to be banned after playing on the cloud (archive.is)
Dead by Daylight gets its first canon trans survivor, kind of (archive.is)
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China: Huawei Chipmaker SMIC Broke Through a Decade of US Sanctions - Bloomberg (archive.is)
Gabon’s New Premier Vows to Honor Debt Commitments, Weighs Reforms (archive.is)
Adorable Moth-Size Bats Found in the Pacific Islands’ Largest Bat Cave (archive.is)
An expedition has discovered a remote Fijian cave with thousands of microbats thought to be nearly extinct
These Sumerian inventions changed the world (archive.is)
Original link. Sumer was home to quite a few “famous” firsts as far as historians and scientists know. Most significant of these was the invention of writing, through which they communicated quite a complex literary tradition that included factual and fantastic elements. Writing also enabled them to record laws. The...
The Sunday Times Bestsellers List — the UK’s definitive book sales chart (August 20th, 2023) (archive.is)
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Will Scientists Ever Find a Theory of Everything? (archive.is)
Physicists are on an ever urgent quest to find a fuller understanding of what makes the cosmos tick, which they call a theory of everything
Consciousness traced to specific clusters of nerve cells in the brain (archive.is)
Researchers have mapped how clusters of nerve cells in the brain connect to regulate wakefulness, which could open doors to new treatments for people in comas
tja (archive.is) German
Wieso nicht einfach mal einen Linienflug statt dem Privatjet, der alle 10 Meter notlanden muss? Buche jetzt für nur 1.473,81 € einen Direktflug von Abu Dhabi nach Sydney! feddit.de/…/d9267c85-97f5-4b6a-92f0-a3fba7e664d3.…
China’s video-game limits haven’t cut heavy gaming (archive.is)
The strict time limits China imposed on how long under-18s can spend playing video games had no effect on heavy gaming generally, according to a study of 7 billion hours of playing time
Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight is about to launch (archive.is)
Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic’s first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, is scheduled to launch from New Mexico on 10 August
Why heart attacks are rising in young adults—and what to watch out for (archive.is)
Research shows that heart attacks are becoming more prevalent among adults younger than 50—and the outcomes are worse for women. The good news is we know how to prevent them.
Fossilised reptile poo contains 200-million-year-old parasites (archive.is)
Ancient faeces contains the first evidence that terrestrial vertebrates living during the Late Triassic epoch hosted multiple parasites
How prehistoric people settled one of Earth’s most extreme places (archive.is)
Archaeologists previously believed the Tibetan plateau was one of the last places to be settled by humans or hominins – over the past couple of decades that notion has been slowly but comprehensively blown apart
DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3? (archive.is)
We know almost nothing about thousands of proteins in the human body (archive.is)
Scientists have created an "unknome" of proteins encoded by human genes, whose existence is known but whose functions are mostly not
Putin’s secret navy (archive.is) Ukrainian
A small group of Western businesses holds back EU sanctions, and keeps money flowing into Russia’s war machine.
Killer Asteroid-Spotting Software Could Help Save the World (archive.is)
HelioLinc3D, which was developed for the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, showed its potential after finding an overlooked space rock that will make a close path of Earth.
Smoke-spotting AI watches live video to find early signs of wildfire (archive.is)
An AI that analyses live video from California’s statewide wildfire detection system could speedily focus human attention on possible wildfires
Astronomers have spotted inexplicably bright light coming from the sun (archive.is)
Extraordinarily high-energy gamma rays have been found emanating from the sun, and none of our theoretical models can explain why there are so many of them
AMD revenues fall 18% to $5.36B as PC market recovers and AI rises (archive.is)
AMD revenues fall 18% to $5.36B as PC market recovers and AI rises (archive.is)
Advanced Micro Devices reported that revenue in its second quarter was $5.36 billion, down 18% from a year earlier as the client PC market continues to climb back during the economic downturn. But investors took the report as good news, as AI-related stocks such as AMD, which makes the processors and graphics processing units...
Inflation Reduction Act: Amerika boomt wieder (archive.is) German
Joe Biden hat einen Aufschwung angestoßen: Selbst abgehängte Regionen profitieren, Hunderttausende Jobs entstehen. Ob ihm das politisch zugute kommt, ist aber fraglich....