For the better part of a decade the videogame landscape remained mostly unchanged, complacent in a sea of sequels, motion controls and downloadable content.
It’s a generation that has lasted longer than any other before it albeit for generally good reasons. And perhaps most impressive is though their PC gaming counterparts have long since passed them by, these aging consoles are still able to render great looking games.
So while the sun begins to set on what will go down as a pivotal generation for videogames, we look ahead to se [...]
Forget what you know, next-gen consoles change everything
For the better part of a decade the videogame landscape remained mostly unchanged, complacent in a sea of sequels, motion controls and downloadable content.
It’s a generation that has lasted longer than any other before it albeit for generally good reasons. And perhaps most impressive is though their PC gaming counterparts have long since passed them by, these aging consoles are still able to render great looking games.
So while the sun begins to set on what will go down as a pivotal generation for videogames, we look ahead to se [...]
Immigration bill gets Senate boost; House effort teetering
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON |
Wed May 22, 2013 6:29pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Supporters of U.S. immigration reform are hoping that the smooth and drama-free passage of their legislation through a Senate committee – a departure from almost everything that has happened in Congress over the past four years – will boost the likelihood of the bill winning full Senate approval.
Even Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee who voted against the immigra [...]
Montreal told to boil drinking water
22 May 2013
Last updated at 18:09 ET
Most of Montreal’s 1.8 million residents have been warned to boil drinking and cooking water
More than one million Montreal residents must boil drinking and cooking water after a mishap at a water treatment plant, officials have warned.
Water officials say residents of virtually all of Canada’s second largest city should boil their water for the next 24 hours.
Officials described the advisory as a precautionary measure while they await results of bacteria tests.
The water t [...]
Dylan Hartley says Northampton’s underdog spirit can upset Leicester
Northampton have never previously reached a Premiership grand final but those who give them little chance of defeating Leicester should pause before betting their mortgage on the outcome. Rarely has a team of supposed underdogs sounded as motivated as the Saints and their captain Dylan Hartley is promising the Tigers a thunderous contest at Twickenham on Saturday.
Leicester will be playing in their ninth successive Premiership final but Northampton, according to Hartley, want to prove a point to those who wrote them off as title contender [...]
Docs Use 3-D Printer to Create Lifesaving Airway Device for Infant
WEDNESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) — The success of an imaginative and resourceful device used to save an infant born with a serious airway malformation sheds light on new technology created by the marriage of bioengineering and surgery.
A report in the May 23 New England Journal of Medicine describes the situation that sparked the innovation.
At first, the baby born five weeks early seemed perfectly healthy, but he began to have difficulty breathing and eating when he was 6 weeks old. Just two weeks later, his symp [...]
Army: Soldier taped female cadets
The Army is investigating a soldier who helped train cadets at West Point amid allegations that he made secret videos of female cadets, the latest in a rash of cases that have brought heavy political pressure on the Pentagon to crack down on sexually oriented offenses in the ranks.
The Army said Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon, a 23-year veteran who did two tours in Iraq, was charged with indecency, dereliction of duties, cruelty and maltreatment for being in “possession of inappropriate images taken without consent.”
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These Self-Assembling Nanoflowers Are As Beautiful As They Are Tiny
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A nanorose may not smell as sweet as an organic one, but the red petals on this micron-scale flower are unquestionably just as beautiful. At Harvard University, materials scientists have perfected an underwater chemical reaction that results in these gorgeous, self-assembling nanoflowers.
The microscopic structures are crystals that build themselves, one molecule at a time, on a glass surface submerged in a beaker of water, barium chloride, and sodium silicate. When carbon dioxide from the air natural [...]
Microsoft Could Be Saving Xbox One’s Best for E3
Microsoft’s new Xbox One video game console, announced with fanfare on Tuesday and set to arrive for the holidays, is certainly a step forward — but the early reaction has been mixed at best. Much of the massive attention it caught from Twitter users, for example, seems to be anything but positive.
Though the Xbox 360 has topped the NPD sales charts for video game systems for an impressive 28 months, it’s coming up on its eighth birthday — an eon in the video game world — and it is long overdue for replacemen [...]
Holder says drone strikes since 2009 have killed four U.S. citizens
On the eve of a major address by President Barack Obama on his counterterrorism policy, the Obama administration revealed Wednesday that drone strikes since 2009 had killed four Americans overseas – one of whom, Anwar al-Aulaqi, was targeted in Yemen because he’d planned and was planning terrorist attacks on the United States – principally the plot to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Eve 2009.
Three others who were not “specifically targeted” were killed in circumstances the administration did not explain.
The revelation came [...]
Venezuela plans toilet paper relief
22 May 2013
Last updated at 06:21 ET
Toilet paper is snapped up as soon as it appears in Venezuelan shops
Venezuela’s National Assembly has backed plans to import 39 million rolls of toilet paper, in an effort to relieve a chronic shortage.
Lawmakers voted to approve a $79m credit for the country’s ministry of commerce, which will also be used to buy toothpaste and soap.
The products are currently in short supply in Venezuelan shops.
The oil-rich nation relies on imports, but currency controls have restricted [...]
Carl Froch ramps up rivalry ahead of Mikkel Kessler rematch
Carl Froch stares at the goose bumps that have risen on his muscular left arm and a shiver runs through him. There have never been any doubts that his fight with Mikkel Kessler at the O2 Arena in south‑east London on Saturday night in defence of his IBF super-middleweight title was going to be anything but an uncompromising reprise of their encounter in Denmark three years ago, but the Nottingham boxer has reached a frightening pitch of intensity.
And what shocks as much as the language that follows is his disregard for the perceived frie [...]
Bundesliga boss attacks Fifa decision to hold 2022 World Cup in Qatar
The chief executive of the Bundesliga has issued an outspoken attack on Fifa‘s decision to hold the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, describing it as “hard, if not impossible” to play the tournament in the Arabian Gulf’s fierce heat of summer.
Speaking in London before Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund contest Saturday’s Champions League final at Wembley, Christian Seifert said the Bundesliga and other leagues are “very upset” that they may have to reschedule their domestic competition to allow the Worl [...]