World of Warcraft: The War Within is about more than just the Alliance, Blizzard says

World of Warcraft: The War Within is the 10th expansion for the game, and it launches just a few months before the MMO’s 20th anniversary. But The war within is more than just a milestone for long-term World of Warcraft players feel old. It is also the beginning of the end for the first saga … Read more

A first physical system to learn nonlinear tasks without a traditional computer processor

Sam Dillavou, a postdoctoral fellow in the Durian Research Group in the School of Arts & Sciences, built the components of this contrasting local learning network, an analog system that is fast, energy-efficient, scalable, and can learn nonlinear tasks. Credit: Erica Moser Scientists face many trade-offs in building and scaling brain-like systems that can perform … Read more

Concord Beta: How to get access, start times and what you can play

Looking for a Concord PS5, PC Beta Guide revealing how to get access the, the start timesAnd what you can play before the full launch? As one of Sony’s first live-service shooters to hit the market, there’s a curiosity surrounding Concord that will largely be satisfied by an upcoming beta available a month before release. … Read more

What’s going on with Beyond Good and Evil 2?

In June, on the eve of the release of Beyond Good & Evil – 20th Anniversary Editionpublisher Ubisoft made a surprising announcement: the sequel to that game, Outside Good and Evil 2was still in development, the company said. It was the first official update to the sequel, which has been in the works for a … Read more

Elusive temporary star described in historical documents recreated using new computer model

These images show the two shock regions of the remnant SNR 1181. The bright white in the center is the white dwarf. Credit: 2024 T. Ko, H. Suzuki, K. Kashiyama et al./ The Astrophysical Journal A mysterious remnant of a rare type of supernova recorded in 1181 has been explained for the first time. Two … Read more

Cosmic research provides hint of mysterious ancient computer

The Antikythera Mechanism, an ingenious calculating machine created 2,200 years ago, has inspired awe and enchantment since it was discovered in 1901 in a shipwreck off a Greek island. For generations, researchers have unraveled many mysteries surrounding the device, often described as the world’s first analog computer, but much remains unknown. A study published this … Read more

Zenless Zone Zero captures the perfect action game flow

The best character action games let me get into the combat flow state. I love rushing toward my target, peppering them with attacks, deftly dodging them, launching them into the air, and juggling their bodies until they finally collapse—or in the case of Zenless Zone ZeroExploding in a kaleidoscope of neons reminiscent of a 90s … Read more

This mysterious ancient computer has a ‘calendar ring’ that tracked the lunar year

two images side by side. one is a rusty circular device. the second is a box with two circles on it, with dials

New research into ripples in the fabric of spacetime suggests that a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar calendar. The hand-cranked “Antikythera Mechanism” was recovered in pieces from a sunken shipwreck in the Aegean Sea in 1901, sparking more than a century of research into how it was made—and … Read more

Stalker 2 Hands On Preview – A Must-Play on Xbox Game Pass in September

Subscribe to Pure Xbox at YouTube24k The story of Stalker 2 is well known at this point. Finally, after delays, a cancellation, and a 2018 re-reveal, the cult classic PC game was set to get a proper sequel in 2022, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced Kiev-based GSC Game World to relocate much of the … Read more

Antikythera Mechanism, World’s Oldest Computer, Followed Greek Lunar Calendar

A photo of the corroded Antikythera mechanism in a museum

The Antikythera Mechanism – an ancient shoebox-sized device used to track the movements of the sun, moon and planets – followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar calendar used by the Egyptians as previously thought, new research reveals. The Antikythera Mechanismfound by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, was made … Read more