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Here’s how Deathloop’s death loops work

An early look at the next game from Dishonored developer Arkane Studios Deathloop is a game about, well, death loops. The next release from Dishonored developer Arkane Studios, Deathloop puts you in the role of a man named Colt who wakes up in a strange-yet-stylish 1960s-inspired place called Blackreef. Like the studio’s past work, the… Read more

Go read this story about how TikTok and apps are making Starbucks orders obnoxious

BuzzFeed News has published a great story that looks at the cultural phenomenon that was on display when that picture of a mile-long Starbucks order (which included over 18 pumps of flavor) went viral earlier this month. It explores both the phenomenon of people ordering more customizations when using apps (something I know I’ve fallen… Read more

Xbox Series X/S FPS Boost now works on 97 backwards compatible games

Home / Software & Gaming / Xbox Series X/S FPS Boost now works on 97 backwards compatible games Matthew Wilson 16 hours ago Software & Gaming Back in February, the Xbox backwards compatible team launched FPS Boost, a method of getting older generation games to run at up to 120 frames per second on Xbox… Read more

World’s widest plane nails ‘extremely successful’ second test flight

Stratolaunch, the aerospace firm founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, flew its behemoth carrier airplane named ‘Roc’ on Thursday for a second time. It was the company’s first flight under new ownership, coming two years after the twin-fuselage craft’s initial flight test. “Today’s flight, at first review, has appeared extremely successful,” Stratolaunch’s chief… Read more

LG G1 OLED Evo 4K TV review: OLED has evolved

(Pocket-lint) – With some LCD TV makers – including LG! – making a big song and dance about the introduction of Mini LED backlight technology for 2021, the pressure on mainstream OLED TVs to deliver their own substantial hardware leap that’s been rumbling along for years now has become particularly intense. Just as well, then,… Read more

PS5 exclusive Deathloop has been delayed again until September 14th

Deathloop has been delayed again, with Arkane’s timed PS5 console exclusive moving from its previous May 21st release date to a fall release on September 14th. The news marks the second big delay for Deathloop, which was originally supposed to be out in the 2020 holiday season alongside the then-newly released PS5. As with the… Read more

Acer Predator Triton 300 SE review: more prey than Predator

Unfit to dethrone Asus’ Zephyrus G14 Acer’s Predator Triton 300 SE is chasing after the hype that Asus built with last year’s excellent Zephyrus G14. It’s similar in a few key ways: it’s a sophisticated-looking gaming laptop bordering on ultrabook territory in terms of its sleek and relatively thin design. It has a 14-inch 1080p… Read more

Some Bethesda games now on Xbox Game Pass are getting frame rate boosts on Xbox Series X/S

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass platform just got a huge boost with the addition of 20 new Bethesda Softworks titles starting today, and now a quarter of those games will be getting performance boosts on the next-gen Xbox consoles in an upcoming update. The performance gains are in frame rate thanks to an appropriately named new… Read more

Museum Alive is dioramas but AR, with narration by David Attenborough

Remember dioramas? They were the friggin’ best. I’d jump on any excuse to grab a shoebox, fire up the hot glue gun (okay, Dad handled that), and strategically place plastic tigers and shrubs in their tiny cardboard habitat. I might have learned something, too, but that was beside the point. I was a tiny god… Read more

heise + | Build a bat scanner with a MEMS microphone

Bats communicate and orientate themselves outside of our hearing range. With a MEMS microphone you can quickly track down the night owls. As I sat on the terrace on long and warm summer evenings, I noticed that there was a lot of bat flying in our garden at dusk. This is probably the best hunting… Read more

Bioinspiration: Learning from dragonflies and bees

Bio-inspiration, i.e. imitating what nature shows, is not new to humans. The vast field that many researchers plow ranges from camouflage to the lotus effect to walking robots. Researchers from Germany and the Netherlands are now showing their work, which is about learning from bees and dragonflies. Scientists at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) have… Read more