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El Paso, Elsewhere developer Strange Scaffold has announced a five-game deal with publisher Frosty Pop. As part of the announcement, they’ve revealed a trailer for their next game, Life Eater, which is out on April 16, 2024. I find this trailer rather unsettling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGat8cjV0lU The trailer shows off the game’s timeline interface where you must learn the habits and schedule of your quarry so that you may find the opportunity to abduct them. You play as a “modern day druid” who is tasked with…

The Philippines will be the first to get access to a brand-new combination electric minivan and an eVTOL. The combo vehicle is designed by LuftCar LLC and is part of a partnership between the company and eFrancisco Motor Corporation (eFMC). The new Luft Pinoy is unlike any other flying car concept we’ve seen, and it’s actually perfect for the Philippines.What sets the Pinoy apart from any other concept we’ve seen for flying cars is the fact that it is designed as both an electric minivan and an eVTOL (electric…

Quantum traffic laws applied to the 3D streetscape of a specific kind of crystal can put the brakes on electron rush hour.In a search for novel materials that can contain bizarre new states of matter, physicists from Rice University in the US led an experiment that forced free-roaming electrons to stay in place.While the phenomenon has been seen in materials where electrons are constrained to just two dimensions, this is the first time it's been observed in a three-dimensional crystal metal lattice, known as a…

Earlier this year, NASA's Terra satellite was zipping over the Gulf of Mexico when one of its instruments snapped a photo of some odd-looking clouds.The clouds looked like someone had taken a hole punch to the sky.This unusual phenomenon isn't new. Researchers have been documenting it since the 1940s, according to NASA. But it wasn't until about 15 years ago that scientists finally found an explanation.The features are officially called cavum clouds, but are sometimes nicknamed hole-punch clouds or fallstreak holes.…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: doctor strangeIn Doctor Strange #13, NYC's latest crisis? A LARP spell gone wild. Can Doc and his motley crew save the Big Apple from cosplay doom?Published Sun, 03 Mar 2024 11:26:06 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary New York faces a LARP catastrophe in Doctor Strange #13, on shelves Mar 06, 2024. Doctor Strange leads Black Cat, Taskmaster, and Hunter's Moon, against the RPG chaos. The comic explores magic and gaming, guaranteeing an unpredictable…

Film: Poor ThingsCast: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy YoussefDirector: Yorgos LanthimosRating: * * * 1/2Runtime: 141 min This is an incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). She is someone reborn and given the chance, she is ready for everything life has to throw her. This film has some of the strangest characters you will see, yet it is believable and totally…

British singer-songwriter Tom McRae releases his ninth studio album, ‘Étrange Hiver’, via Buzzard Tree Records, and it’s the perfect way to disappear into 42 minutes of hypnotic musicianship and soft vocals on ballads that you didn’t know you needed. The eleven French and English songs are duets with some of McRae’s favourite French artists, sharing his passion for French music and to strengthen his relationship with mainland Europe, in the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the EU.…

The art of speaking to AI chatbots is continuing to frustrate and baffle people.A study attempting to fine-tune prompts fed into a chatbot model found that, in one instance, asking it to speak as if it were on Star Trek dramatically improved its ability to solve grade-school-level math problems."It's both surprising and irritating that trivial modifications to the prompt can exhibit such dramatic swings in performance," the study authors Rick Battle and Teja Gollapudi at software firm VMware in California said in their…

Life is Strange: True Colors developer Deck Nine Games announced that it would be laying off staff. The studio mentioned the games industry's worsening market conditions as the reason for the cuts."Today we made the difficult decision to lay off 20% of our staff. These people are amazing, talented, and awesome developers," Deck Nine said on Twitter. "They have made a huge impact during their time at Deck Nine Games and we did not take this decision lightly."Game director Stephan Frost also said that…

A strange phase of matter that previously existed purely in the realm of theory has finally been detected in a real material.It's known as the Bragg glass phase – a strange, seemingly paradoxical arrangement of atoms in a glass material where the particles are nearly as ordered as those in a perfect crystal. Scientists weren't even sure Bragg glass existed, but there it was, hiding in an alloy of palladium inserted between layers of terbium and tellurium (PdxErTe3).The discovery, led by physicist Krishnanand Mallayya of…