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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics Catalog lineup for July 2023 announced
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced the July 2023 Game Catalog lineup for Extra and Premium subscribers, and Classics Catalog titles for Premium subscribers. Get the details below. All titles will be available from July 18. Catalog Games The Ascents (PS5, PS4) – Meet new allies and enemies and find loot as you explore the brimming cyberpunk world of action–shooter RPG The Ascents. Aim low or high, switch weapons and equip lethal gadgets, take cover and use the destructive environment to your advantage and keep adjusting your tactics as you face new enemies. Customize your character with cyberware that suits …
Would You Press a Button on an Extraterrestrial Gadget?
In my last class before the summer break, I asked all students in the classroom: “If you were to recover an extraterrestrial gadget, would you press its buttons?” This question is relevant as I prepare to lead the Galileo Project team on an expedition to retrieve the relics from the first interstellar meter, IM1, in the Pacific Ocean. The material strength of this meteor was higher than all other 272 meteors in the CNEOS catalog of NASA, so there is a chance that we will recover a large piece of it – as suggested in a recent paper that I…
Catalog of Missing Devices Illustrates Gadgets that Could and Should Exist
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched its “Catalog of Missing Devices”—a project that illustrates the gadgets that could and should exist, if not for bad copyright laws that prevent innovators from creating the cool new tools that could enrich our lives. “The law that is supposed to restrict copying has instead been misused to crack down on competition, strangling a future’s worth of gadgets in their cradles,” said EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow. “But it’s hard to notice what isn’t there. We’re aiming to fix that with this Catalog of Missing Devices. It’s a collection of…
Garden catalog season gives gardeners a chance to explore, shop for next year’s seeds
January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level of gardening, the catalogs are starting to arrive frequently and en masse. “It used to be you would get either a vegetable catalog or a fruit catalog or flower catalog,” says Richard Hentschel, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator. “Many catalogs now contain something for everyone, including the garden gadget addicts.” It used to be that Swiss chard was green, but now it is also available in shades of pink, orange, yellow, gold, white and purple. Illinois gardeners should…
Garden catalog season gives gardeners a chance to explore, shop for next year’s seeds
January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level of gardening, the catalogs are starting to arrive frequently and en masse. “It used to be you would get either a vegetable catalog or a fruit catalog or flower catalog,” says Richard Hentschel, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator. “Many catalogs now contain something for everyone, including the garden gadget addicts.” It used to be that Swiss chard was green, but now it is also available in shades of pink, orange, yellow, gold, white and purple. Illinois gardeners should…
How 3d Printing Is Helping Fight Coronavirus Despite All Odds
3D Printing is reinventing itself by trying to meet the acute shortage of medical devices, objects and even quarantine rooms As we sit down to write how 3D printing is fighting against Coronavirus, the officially confirmed cases of Coronovirus disease worldwide are over 2.46 MN with over 165,000 deaths. The sheer size of the Covid-19 threat makes it important for everyone to join hands and fight this dreadful pandemic. Historically, 3D printers have been used mostly for prototyping industrial items. Sometimes, 3D printed objects have also been used for aesthetic purposes, like printing a miniature of your favorite super-hero. Different…