Splitgate 2 Re-Announced With Much Bigger Team and Bigger Dreams – IGN

When Ian Proulx and his colleagues at 1047 fully released Splitgate in 2021, his expectations for the multiplayer shooter “Halo with Portals” were completely in check. He expected it to do well enough over time, and hoped for slow and steady growth. At the time, 1047 was under 20 people and just four engineers. “But … Read more

Report: Apple Watch Series 10 features bigger screens and faster chip, but new health features struggle

The Apple Watch Series 10 will have a larger display and a new chip, but there are now questions about new health tracking features for the device. BloombergMark Gurman reports. In the latest edition of his “Power On” newsletter, Gurman said that the design of the Apple Watch Series 10 “probably won’t be all that … Read more

Milky Way may be bigger than thought, research shows

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Astronomers have discovered that our galaxy may be bigger than we first thought. A new model of the Milky Way has revealed that our galaxy is wider than we thought, according to a new paper in the journal Natural astronomy. The researchers found that the bulge at the center of our galaxy is less densely … Read more

More evidence that the Kuiper Belt is bigger than we thought

The Kuiper Belt was named in honor of Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who postulated a reservoir of icy bodies beyond Neptune. The first Kuiper Belt object was discovered in 1992. We now know of more than a thousand objects there, and it's estimated it's home to more than 100,000 asteroids and comets there over 62 miles (100 km) across. Credit: JHUAPL

As the New Horizons spacecraft continues its epic journey to explore the Kuiper Belt, it has a study partner here on Earth. The Subaru Telescope on Hawaii’s Big Island is deploying its Hyper Suprime Cam imager to view the Kuiper Belt along the spacecraft’s path. The observations show that the Kuiper Belt extends farther than … Read more