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Some lucky players have gotten their hands on early copies of Dragon’s Dogma 2, but framerate issues are hampering the experience for some. A Capcom representative told IGN, “a large amount of CPU usage is allocated to each character and dynamically calculates the impact of their physical presence in various environments.” They added that this could be the cause for the framerate issues when “numerous characters appear simultaneously”. Dragon’s Dogma 2 on consoles doesn’t have the option to switch between a performance…

A miscalculation by organizers contributed to too many ticketed attendees at the tragic Astroworld festival in November 2021, new court records show. The documents, obtained by Houston Landing and filed in the weeks before organizers face civil litigation from some of the attendees of Travis Scott’s Houston fest against the rapper and Live Nation among others, also reveal that organizers fretted just 10 days before Astroworld about how the fest would fit 50,000 people outside NRG Park. “I feel like there is…

It seems Seattle Swifties aren’t the only fans who know how to shake it off to seismic proportions. A recent study from Caltech and UCLA researchers found that Taylor Swift‘s Los Angeles fans also caused earthquake-like activity when the superstar took over Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium for six nights in August. Caltech seismologist Gabrielle Tepp oversaw the study, titled “Shake to the Beat: Exploring the Seismic Signals and Stadium Response of Concerts and Music Fans.”“It’s been well known that concerts make these harmonic…

The breaking of orographic gravity waves induces a zonal wave drag in the middle troposphere, which destroys the geostrophic balance of the large-scale westerly flow and thus drives an ageostrophic meridional circulation across the Tibetan Plateau. The rising branch of the meridional circulation acts to lower the pressure and increase the meridional pressure gradient to the south of the Tibetan Plateau by dynamically pumping the lower-tropospheric air…

Nigerians including telecommunications companies, banks, and media among others were on Thursday hit by an internet outage as a result of damage to international undersea cables supplying them with connectivity. Confirming the incident, the Nigerian government said the damage affects major undersea cables near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire and is causing downtime across West and South African countries. The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), in a statement through its Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka,…

Chronic UTI Pain Could Be Caused by Overgrown NervesUrinary tract infection symptoms can resurface long after bacteria are gone. A new study suggests nerve growth is to blameBy Joanna ThompsonA colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Escherichia coli bacteria on bladder epithelial cells found in a urine sample from a person with a urinary tract infection (UTI). Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science SourceUrinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the world’s most common bacterial maladies. Approximately 12 percent of…

Photograph of Antarctic ice bubbles, retrieved from deep within the Antarctic Ice Sheet, which contain the Earth's history of atmospheric greenhouse gases. Credit: Thomas Bauska Changes in human activity may have led to atmospheric CO2 levels declining in the 16th century, due to large-scale land use changes in the Americas during New World-Old World contact between 1450 and 1700 CE, suggests a Nature Communications paper. The…

Many Pregnancy Losses Are Caused by Errors in Cell DivisionOdd cell divisions could help explain why even young, healthy couples might struggle to get pregnantBy Gina Jiménez Credit: ugurhan/Getty ImagesHuman reproduction is notoriously inefficient. Whereas the fertilized eggs of other animals, such as mice, usually progress to more complex embryo stages, fertilized human eggs often falter early on. For a recent study in Genome Medicine, scientists analyzed almost 1,000 embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures…

Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism responsible for noise-induced hearing loss through excess zinc in the inner ear. Their findings, which show promise in treating and preventing hearing loss with medication that traps excess zinc, could lead to over-the-counter options for protecting against hearing damage.Anyone who has attended a loud concert is familiar with the sensation of ears ringing. Some individuals may suffer from temporary or permanent hearing loss, or significant alterations in how they perceive…

Share price of GameStop stock over January and February 2021. Credit: Yahoo Finance Three years ago, the stock price of the company GameStop soared over 1,625% in just a week. While it's been speculated the primary cause was unprecedented, organized action among Reddit users using a trading strategy known as a "short squeeze," researchers have now definitively shown a causal relationship between activity on Reddit and the wild…