Something to look forward to: The cult time-travelling first-person shooter TimeSplitters is coming back. Deep Silver shared the news that’s bringing back and reforming the original developer team to work on a new TimeSplitters game, 16 years after the launch of the last entry in the franchise. Development is starting in the coming months. To…
tracking the tropics — Ana’s formation is part of a trend toward earlier storms in the Atlantic. Eric Berger – May 22, 2021 12:37 pm UTC Enlarge / Subtropical Ana forms in the Atlantic on Saturday morning.NOAAThe National Hurricane Center said that a low-pressure system to the northwest of Bermuda had become sufficiently organized on…
Sprichst du mit mir? — Technology related to deepfakes helps match facial movements to dialogue. Will Knight, wired.com – May 22, 2021 12:15 pm UTC Paul Bednyakov | Getty ImagesYou talkin’ to me… in German? New deepfake technology allows Robert De Niro to deliver his famous line from Taxi Driverin flawless German—with realistic lip movements…
A warmer world — “Overwintering” fires smolder under the snow, reigniting vegetation in the spring. Matt Simon, wired.com – May 22, 2021 11:30 am UTC Enlarge / White smoke rising from the tundra in front of the Baird Mountains.Each winter, as snow blankets Alaska and northern Canada, the wildfires of the summer extinguish, and calm…
In a nutshell: If you use Microsoft Office for Android, there’s some good news to share. Whether you’re writing a document on Word, preparing a PowerPoint presentation, or creating a dynamic table on Excel, Office for Android users will soon be able to work on the app with dark mode enabled. Dark mode everywhere has…
Surprise! The second season of No Man’s Sky Expeditions is underway, and players have been juggling between running the latest mission and putting in time on the Mass Effect remake, which released about the same time. Little did players know there was a huge crossover surprise coming, which players just started discovering today. In April,…
Bottom line: Seagate has finally shared more information about its Mach.2-based Exos 2X14 hard drives, which feature multi-actuator technology to significantly boost performance. By using two actuators with read / write heads attached, equipped hard drives can achieve double the IOPS performance. As we previously learned, Seagate developed its Mach.2 technology to maximize performance across…
Shiver me timbers — Wood analysis shows the wrecks discovered in 2019 are the warships Apollo and Maria. Jennifer Ouellette – May 21, 2021 11:41 pm UTC Enlarge / Two shipwrecks discovered in 2019 have been identified as 17th-century Swedish warships Apollo and Maria.Back in 2019, Swedish maritime archaeologists discovered the wrecks of two 17th-century…
DARKSIDE — Colonial Pipeline hackers have cashed in spectacularly. Now, they’re feeling the heat. Dan Goodin – May 22, 2021 2:46 pm UTC A crime forum is holding a quasi-judicial proceeding against the makers of DarkSide, the ransomware that shut down Colonial Pipeline two weeks ago, to hear claims from former affiliates who say the…
Shots heard round the world — Nations with sufficient supply could donate doses to vaccinate 60% of world population. Anna Gross, Martin Sandbu, Chris Giles, and Michael Peel, FT – May 22, 2021 1:15 pm UTC Enlarge / A vial with the Pfizer Biontech vaccine.Thomas Lohnes | Getty ImagesThe world could “end the pandemic” in…
