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Before too long in Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, you'll be sick of the sight of creeping ivy. These weeds crop up frequently, preventing you from exploring various paths in this RPG with a very similar level structure to 2018's God of War. Since it's a Metroidvania you can always backtrack and clear the creeping ivy later down the line, but much like the destructible rocks, you need to know exactly how to get rid of it if you want to explore all New Eden has to offer. Here's what you need to know about…

We’re staring at FlixPatrol with our feet ice-cold in the snow, standing puzzling and puzzling wondering how could it be so? It came without fanfare! It came without hype! It came at least three weeks before films of its type! And we puzzled for hours, till our puzzler was sore. But there’s no denying the chart onto which it has inched, because at number ten on Netflix sits The Grinch. Does the holiday season come around earlier each year? Does the voice of Cumberbatch simply pleasure the ear? Was 2018 a bonanza year for…

Last updated: March 23rd, 2023 at 14:17 UTC+01:00 Samsung’s camera software came under scrutiny recently after the Galaxy S23 Ultra fueled a heated debate concerning zoomed-in photos of the moon and whether or not they’re fake. Engineers believe that Samsung’s moon photos are real, but even then, the meaning of the term “real” can be debated. Now Samsung’s mobile photography is back in the headlines, again for the wrong reasons, as someone discovered that using the Gallery app’s “Remaster picture” feature can have…

John Banville, 76, is the author of 26 books, including seven crime novels under the name Benjamin Black. His new novel, The Singularities, which takes place in a parallel reality overseen by a Greek god, is a sequel to The Infinities (2009) and involves a cast of characters from his previous books, not least Freddie Montgomery, the murderer who narrated 1989’s The Book of Evidence. When Banville, born and raised in Wexford, won the Booker prize for The Sea in 2005, a year considered one of the strongest in the history of…

Imagine you're walking through a forest, and you roll over a log with your foot. Spreading out on its underside is something moist and yellow – a bit like something you may have sneezed out… if that something was banana-yellow and fanned itself out into elegant fractal branches.What you'd see is the plasmodium form of Physarum polycephalum, the many-headed slime mold. Like other slime molds found in nature, it fills an important ecological role, aiding in the decay of organic matter to recycle it into the food web.This…

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Data compiled by digital rights advocacy body the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) through right-to-information (RTI) filings showed that authorities had deployed 124 facial recognition systems in India as of August. Until last November, that number was just 75, according to IFF. But the rapid spread of the new but unproven technology has alarmed critics and civil liberty advocates, especially because India lacks a data protection law. “There has been a rise…

Edward George vividly remembers when he was first abducted – his word – by music. It was 1973 and he was 10 – the comics-loving son of Dominican immigrants flogging copies of West Indian World newspaper at Ridley Road market in Dalston, London. “It being the East End there was a lot of shouting. Turks, Asians, Caribbean folk. Noise. Jewish shops selling reggae. Because I was little, my sense of space and smell was always heightened. Suddenly there was this other sound. It was as if someone had just pulled a…

NEW DELHI : Scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune have raised an alarm about the silent spread of the zika virus across eight states and union territories where it had never been reported earlier, establishing local transmission of the disease in India. According to an NIV research report published in Frontiers of Microbiology, the virus, spread by daytime-active Aedes mosquitoes has now been found in Delhi, Amritsar (Punjab), Aligarh…

You may never have heard of Hikvision, but chances are you’ve already been captured by one of its millions of cameras. The Chinese company’s products can be found anywhere from police surveillance systems to baby monitors in more than 190 countries. Its ability to make decent-quality products at cheap prices (as well as its ties with the Chinese state) has helped make Hikvision the largest manufacturer of video surveillance equipment in the world.But while Hikvision’s close links with the Chinese government have helped…