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The jury is still out on whether Dying Light 2 has successfully outpaced its humongous predecessor, the original Dying Light. The really curious bit is that Dying Light 2 has slowly been inching closer to the sort of experience the original game delivered back in 2015. Now, it’s immediately important to understand and appreciate the fact that Dying Light 2 certainly did improve upon the original game in many ways. Simply by virtue of its setting, it’s a more interesting and fully realized experience: something that paves…

A plane wing that changes shape in flight to better handle the airflow crossing it could be on the horizon thanks to a materials science advance from researchers in Stockholm. The trick involves the melting and hole-punching power of lasers.Researchers out of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, experimented with paraffin. Working with a 2D version of the material, they were able to use lasers to poke tiny holes through the wax and then melt it very gradually to direct the liquid paraffin where they…

EarthCruiser kicked off 2023 with an update on its electric overland camper program, and now it's back with a more specific all-electric project: an off-road camper based on the Hummer EV Pickup. The Oregon-based expedition vehicle company is partnering directly with GMC on the build, transforming the highly off-road-capable Hummer EV truck into an even more capable overland explorer. The "world's first all-electric supertruck" is about to become the world's first all-electric super-camper. EarthCruiser has been working…

Canva — the online design platform used to create logos, presentations, infographics, and more — announced a new suite of AI tools that can do everything from generate new images to automatically edit videos for you. The toolset touches nearly every part of Canva’s design suite. It starts with Magic Design, which will automatically design a graphic for you based on an uploaded image and selected style. Users are free to edit the design after the fact, and they can automatically translate it with Canva’s new…

By exposing a honeycomb-like material with a specific kind of magnetic field, yellow arrow, researchers can create order among the loop currents, light blue, within that material. Electrons, in green, can then pass through the material much more easily. Credit: Oak Ridge National LaboratoryA recently discovered, never-before-seen phenomenon in a type of quantum material could be explained by a series of buzzing, bee-like “loop-currents.” The discovery from physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) may…

Erwin Hymer Group has been on a mission to downright redefine RV design over the past few years, churning out models that combine innovations like inflatable roofs and staircases with elegant materials and aesthetics throughout. It's no surprise that its most luxurious marque, Niesmann + Bischoff, has been among the brands leading the way in onboard ingenuity, comfort and elegance. Niesmann + Bischoff recently introduced its next-generation Flair integrated motorhome, incorporating some of the transformational trickery…

Apple was recently granted a patent that describes a wild-sounding MacBook touchscreen keyboard that might use haptic signals to physically raise portions of the screen to morph into new keyboards. The ability to wirelessly charge an iPhone by placing it on the edge beside the keyboard area is also covered in this patent. The document is 170 pages long and is somewhat exhaustive in exploring a variety of ideas, many of which might never be developed into actual products. There is also a possibility of a physical…