If you’re a Ryzen 3000 owner (or planning to be in the near future), be advised — Bungie’s popular Destiny 2 MMO doesn’t currently run on AMD’s latest CPU. It’s not clear why this is currently the case, but according to the developer, a fix is on the way. …
Read More »DuckDuckGo expands its maps UI with a few familiar features
DuckDuckGo’s expanded map view with map re-querying. Image source: DuckDuckGo. Privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo announced that it has expanded its local search capabilities with a dedicated maps tab, map re-querying and local autocomplete. Powered by Apple Maps. Earlier this year, the search engine adopted Apple’s MapKit JS framework to power …
Read More »Golden Tate Complements Matthew Stafford.
Stafford is best QB Ive played with Gone from Detroit, Tate hasnt forgotten his time there or his time playing with Stafford, who he views as highly underrated and the best quarterback hes played with across nine NFL seasons. Staffords been the best quarterback Ive played with, Tate told Click …
Read More »Mars Terraforming: Silica Aerogel Could Warm Widespread Regions of Martian Surface
New research by scientists from Harvard University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the UK Centre for Astrobiology shows that widespread regions of the surface of Mars could be made habitable to photosynthetic life via a solid-state analogue to Earth’s greenhouse effect. Through experiments and modeling under Martian environmental conditions, the …
Read More »Matcha Tea Has Anti-Anxiety Properties, New Study Shows
In a study done in mice, a team of researchers at Kumamoto University, Japan, demonstrated that Matcha tea powder exerts strong and synergistic anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) effects, and that the activation of the dopamine D1 and serotonin 5-HT1A receptors contributes to such effects. Matcha tea. Image credit: Dung Thuy Vu Nguyen. …
Read More »‘Shovel-Billed’ Dinosaur Roamed Texas 80 Million Years Ago
A new genus and species of primitive hadrosaurid dinosaur — named Aquilarhinus palimentus — has been identified from fossils found in Big Bend National Park, Texas, the United States. Aquilarhinus palimentus lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Texas. Image credit: ICRA Art. Aquilarhinus palimentus belongs to …
Read More »Foot of Cretaceous Enantiornithine Bird Found Encased in Burmese Amber
The ancient bird, named Elektorornis chenguangi, lived 99 million years ago (Cretaceous period) and had a hyper-elongated third toe. An artist’s reconstruction of Elektorornis chenguangi, showing the possible probing function of the elongate toe. Image credit: Zhongda Zhang. Elektorornis chenguangi belongs to a group of extinct birds called Enantiornithes, the …
Read More »New Analog Keyboard Switches Promise Lifespan of 1 Billion Presses
The world of custom mechanical keyboards is more vibrant and varied than ever before, but most of the switches in those fancy boards still use the same contact leaf mechanisms that have existed for decades. Input Club, the designers behind keyboards like the WhiteFox and Kira, have just launched …
Read More »Microsoft Blocks Windows 10 May 2019 Update on Surface Book 2
Microsoft has been forced to block the Windows 10 May 2019 update from its own hardware, due to incompatibilities with the GPUs used in its Surface Book 2. It’s the latest self-own from a company that promised its new methods of rolling out updates and patches would result in …
Read More »AMD Will Provide a Free Temporary UEFI Upgrade Kit for Ryzen 3000 Motherboard Updates
AMD has once again refreshed its backward compatibility program and will offer customers who buy a Ryzen 3000 CPU without a compatible motherboard an APU they can use to update their systems. This program, which has been in place for several years now, is a solution to the perennial …
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