Smashed

Exactly one week ago, I mentioned how Steam achieved a concurrent player record of over 34.6 million users. Well, guess what? It’s gone and topped that again, possibly owing its latest milestone numbers to the perfect storm of old games with new updates and new games being…well, new. In the latest statistics over on Steam itself, the number of concurrent players reached 35,377,613 in the last 24 hours or so, breaking the previous record that was set just last week. In an era in which gamers feel more cynical and…

Scientists in Britain announced Thursday they had smashed a record for generating fusion energy in the final experiment using the Joint European Torus (JET) machines. Nuclear fusion is the same process that the sun uses to generate heat. Proponents believe it could one day help tackle climate change by providing an abundant, safe and clean source of energy.A team at the JET facility near Oxford in central England generated 69 megajoules for five seconds using 0.2 milligrams of fuel, beating its previous record set in…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Kathy Hilton has been many things to many people: sister, mother, business woman, philanthropist and television personality. But the Beverly Hills icon is adding “leading lady” to the list with the launch of a new campaign for Smirnoff Ice Smash Tea. Hilton takes center stage as the star of the ‘Smash Tea Partay: A Smirnoff Ice Musical.” A new campaign centered…

William Stetson Kennedy's journey to becoming a human rights activist began at a young age. Working as a bill collector for his father's store in the '20s, he saw how economic hardships unfairly affected people based on their race. Initially, Kennedy thought writing about his experience would help others. "I would write a book telling how the multitudes suffer from lack of food, clothing, shelter – and the other two-thirds of the nation (who couldn't possibly realize how much suffering was going on) would…

You’ve probably heard of AI winning against humans in games like chess and GO that require intellect. That’s impressive but not shocking.AI is good at crunching numbers and finding patterns.But what about physical skills? That’s something humans are supposed to be better at, right? Well, not anymore.CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER CyberRunner AI robot (ETH Zurich)An AI labyrinth maze champion emergesResearchers at…

The year 2023 shattered the record for the warmest summer in the Arctic, and people and ecosystems across the region felt the impact.Wildfires forced evacuations across Canada. Greenland was so warm that a research station at the ice sheet summit recorded melting in late June, only its fifth melting event on record. Sea surface temperatures in the Barents, Kara, Laptev and Beaufort seas were 9 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit (5 to 7 degrees Celsius) above normal in August.While reliable instrument measurements go back only to…

A herd of elephants in Malaysia smashed up a car after it struck one of their babies on Sunday night.That (frankly understandable) response shows how the highly emotional animals will do anything to protect their own, an elephant advocate said."If you put yourself in their position, if your kid was hit by a car and you felt that people were negligent or whatever you thought, I suppose you or your family might fly into a rage or scream or shout at people also," Joyce Poole, who co-founded an elephant research and advocacy…

The rare bottle had been expected to raise £750,000 to £1.2 million but outstripped estimates. A bottle of The Macallan 1926, described by Sotheby's auction house as the "most valuable whisky in the world", on Saturday went under the hammer for a record £2.1 million. The rare bottle had been expected to raise between £750,000 and £1.2 million but outstripped…

A Fender Stratocaster guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has sold for nearly $600,000 at auction — more than 10 times what it was expected to go for.The reconstructed left-handed guitar — covered in chips, scratches and the original three bandmembers’ inscriptions — garnered 31 bids and fetched $596,000 at auction Saturday, according to Julien’s Auctions. The iconic instrument, a headlining piece of a three-day music icons auction, was originally valued at $60,000 to $80,000. A spokesperson for the auction…

A rock that smashed into a home in New Jersey this year has been confirmed as a rare meteorite believed to be roughly 4.6 billion years old. The confirmation comes after much testing and observation of the small rock, which scientists say is a class of meteorite known as a stony chondrite. Nathan Magee, the chair of the physics department at the College of New Jersey (TCNJ), was contacted to inspect the rock after Hopewell Township police responded to the discovery. The rock was originally found on May 8, and…