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For most people February 29, the date that only comes around once every four years, is mostly a fun novelty, but the leap year day also has the potential to wreak havoc on tech systems. This year at least two games have had issues on February 19, forcing players to change the date on their console if they want to keep playing.Racing game EA Sports WRC was one of the games that began seeing issues as soon as console clocks ticked over to February 29, forcing EA tech support to release a tweet suggesting…

An MIT biotech researcher has been able to run the iconic computer game Doom using actual gut bacteria. Lauren Ramlan didn’t get the game going on a digital simulation of bacteria, but turned actual bacteria into pixels to display the 30-year-old FPS, as reported by Rock Paper Shotgun.Specifically, Ramlan created a display inside of a cell wall made entirely of E. coli bacteria. The 32x48 1-bit display may not win any resolution awards, but who cares, right? It’s Doom running on bacteria. The researcher dosed the bacteria…

There is no Barbie without Ken, as Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him. Unfortunately, it would appear that the Oscars didn’t get the memo. With the 96th Academy Awards announcing its nominations on Tuesday (January 23), some movies were unsurprisingly put forward, such as Oppenheimer, which scored the most nominations at 13, including Best Film, Best Director for Christopher Nolan, and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy.The same number of nominations had been anticipated all year long for the highest-grossing…

Rachel Zegler and Halle Bailey's roads to Disney stardom have been less than a fairytale. The young actresses—who portray The Little Mermaid and Snow White in their respective titular live-action films (though the latter will not hit theaters until 2025)—made history when they were cast as two of the House of Mouse's most iconic princesses,. However, their boundary-breaking castings have also sparked criticism and backlash among Disney die-hards. Though many Disney fans rejoiced at the racial diversity of a "Black Ariel"…

Tesla has sought help to prove that its vehicles built with giga-casting parts are not more expensive to repair. That’s something that is particularly of concern to insurers. Over the last few years, Tesla has heavily invested into giga-casting technology to produce larger car parts. The automaker can now produce entire car bodies with just a few parts rather than over a hundred. The advantages in manufacturing, efficiency, and even safety are pretty obvious, but industry experts and other…

What is more tiring than a day out in the real world full of meetings and lectures? It turns out taking those same meetings at home in front of the computer is more exhausting, with a team of researchers offering some of the first physiological evidence proving the phenomenon of ‘Zoom fatigue’ is real.Back in early 2020 online video communication quickly moved from an occasional novelty for most people to a day-to-day staple. The pandemic shifted millions of people to working from home, and the videoconferencing software…

As of 2021, Xbox only had a console market share of 16%, leaving Nintendo and Sony with the bulk of the pie. This is one of several revelations to come from the ongoing FTC vs. Microsoft court hearings, spawning from the FTC attempting to block Microsoft from acquiring gaming company Activision. In its proposing findings of fact, Microsoft also revealed Xbox trailed in the share of existing consoles in use with only 21%. In related news, Beth Wilkinson, Microsoft’s lead attorney, said the case was going to…

via Marvel Comics The doomsayers have been out in force proclaiming the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is nigh, but with Sony now having officially pulled Bad Bunny’s El Muerto from the release calendar, we can safely say that every franchise based on the comic book company’s back catalogue is well and truly doomed. To be fair, this both is and isn’t a shock at the same time, which sums up Sony’s Spider-Man Universe in microcosm. El Muerto was penciled in to hit theaters on January 12 of next year, a date…

There have been increasingly loud public warnings that social media is harming teenagers' mental health - most recently from the US surgeon general - adding to many parents' fears about what all the time spent on phones is doing to their children's brains.Although many scientists share the concern, there is little research to prove that social media is harmful - or to indicate which sites, apps or features are problematic. There isn't even a shared definition of what social media is. It leaves parents, policymakers and…

Screengrab via YouTube/N.B. Ask any horror fan what the real terror in horror movies is, and they’ll likely tell you that it’s never the obvious fright. Instead, it’s something that appears to truly spook you that you aren’t quite expecting, and that’s what horror fans are pointing out today about Paranormal Activity. Scary movies often serve as an allegory for something more profound, whether it is our internal struggle turned into a monster, a scathing critique of society (zombie movies anyone), or, in this…