One of the defining trends of tech in recent years has been the colonization of the real by the digital. By that, I mean the tendency for technology to overlay our experience of people, places, and things, with networks that exist primarily online. The classic example of this is the digital map. Maps have always […]
Overwatch recently celebrated its second anniversary, and is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, game director Jeff Kaplan has released a new developer update that that details what the future holds for the game – including a major Symmetra rework. Overwatch hasn’t tried to keep the Symmetra rework a secret, but now we […]
Bees need all the help they can get. Thus programmer Mat Kelsey created a bee counter to see just how many of his winged honeymakers are hanging out in his hives. His system, which uses a Raspberry Pi and a machine learning algorithm that recognizes the number of individual bees entering a hive, is used […]
A pair of emperor penguins in Antarctica filmed themselves with a camera that had been left on the ice by an explorer. In the short video, posted by the Australian Antarctic Division, you can see one penguin approach the camera, somehow flick it up so that it’s focused on its face, and then a second […]
The Halo universe is filled with strangeness and oddities — but some of them are way stranger than the others. In this article, we identify what we think are the top five freakiest things in Halo. When it comes to science fiction, species, societies, weapons, and everything between are often considered to be “out there,” […]
At TennoCon 2018, Digital Extremes unveiled the follow-up to Warframe’s open-world “Plains of Eidolon” content. The “Fortuna” update takes players to an open-world Venus, and there’s also tactical ship-to-ship combat in the works! Fortuna According to the developer, the Venusian landscape packs exciting new gameplay experiences with the introduction of a new faction and lore. […]
As we move into 2018, it’s time for a look at the biggest and brightest Xbox games on the horizon. In 2017, Microsoft launched the Xbox One X and closed the gap between itself and Sony’s PlayStation 4 platform. The X is a 6TF beast that can provide higher-fidelity visuals than any other video game […]