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At the end of every year, there’s one article I always look forward to writing. I try to put the “Trends” in Digital Trends” by predicting where gaming is headed in the coming year. It’s a fun thought experiment that puts my expertise to the test as I try to pull together narratives and pin down what the industry is building to. Sometimes I’m spot-on. Other times, I’m hilariously off. As I began to think about this year’s edition, I decided to look back to what I’d written almost exactly one year ago on New Year’s…

A proposed class-action lawsuit against 23andMe could include more people in Canada than originally anticipated, experts say, after the genetic testing company said a data breach affected millions more customers than initially believed.A statement from the company on Tuesday said hackers have gained access to roughly 6.9 million profiles on the site — nearly half its client base. Those profiles contain delicate personal data ranging from birth year, geographic location, health information and the percentage of DNA users…

Scientists from the University of Groningen and their international partners have confirmed the existence of a superconductive state, the FFLO, that was theoretically predicted in 2017. Their device, which utilizes a double layer of molybdenum disulfide to control this state, could significantly advance the field of superconducting electronics.In a ground-breaking experiment, researchers from the University of Groningen collaborated with their peers from Nijmegen and Twente universities in the Netherlands, and the Harbin…

Black Mirror is going to have to stick around for many more decades before it even gets within spitting distance of The Simpsons for eerily predicting future events. But the speed with which Holywood life imitated Black Mirror art was lightning quick this time. Think back to the bygone days of mid-June 2023. Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi satire anthology was back with its sixth season, which opened with an episode titled “Joan Is Awful.” Annie Murphy played the title character, a tech company middle manager dismayed…

While AI is currently at the centre of a huge debate in Hollywood, veteran star Arnold Schwarzenegger claimed 'The Terminator' franchise, which launched his career in 1984, predicted the future of artificial intelligence.Speaking at An Evening with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles on Wednesday, the actor, 75, praised the franchise's writer and director James Cameron, People reported. "Today, everyone is frightened of it, of where this is gonna go," Schwarzenegger said of current concerns around AI. "And in this…

If you feel like you’ve seen Vision Pro before in a TV show, then it may have been from a certain episode of The Simpsons, because this happened to me not too long ago.The show is about everything and nothing which features Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie alongside the rest of Springfield’s inhabitants which has had a unique reputation attached to it in recent years. Fans of the show have been rewatching older episodes and discovered that some of its scenes have correctly predicted certain events, years before they…

Diabetes cases are likely to skyrocket over the next few decades, new research out this week has found. The study estimates that more than a billion people worldwide will be living with the chronic condition by 2050—roughly double the amount of cases seen today. The prevalence of diabetes is expected to be especially high in parts of Africa and the Middle East, but dozens of countries could experience substantial increases.Mental Health Apps Are a Privacy NightmareIn the simplest terms, diabetes is defined ashaving…

Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing.Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded "regime shifts" like these in more than 20 different types of ecosystems where tipping points have been passed. Across the world, more than 20 percent of ecosystems are in danger of shifting or collapsing into something different.These collapses might happen sooner than you'd think. Humans are already putting ecosystems under pressure in many…

Satellite (Landsat) picture of Chesapeake Bay (center) and Delaware Bay (upper right) – and Atlantic coast of the central-eastern United States. Image credit: Landsat/NASA, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Credit: University of Michigan This summer's Chesapeake Bay "dead zone" is expected to be significantly smaller than the long-term average, according to a forecast released today by researchers from the University of…

Image via Sony Pictures Animation Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is arguably one of the best Spider-Man stories to date; however, it appears that the movie’s plot was predicted years before the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. A handful of people noticed that this Spidey sequel’s main conflict resembles a skit in an old Netflix show. A clip from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has been circulating on social media, featuring Titus auditioning for the role of “Spider-Man number 12” in the Broadway…