With traditional trade shows like E3 and Gamescom canceled in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Microsoft plans to bring a portion of the showroom experience to its living room. As part of Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, Microsoft will make dozens of demos for upcoming Xbox One games available …
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UK CMA seeks to curb dominance of online advertising from Google and Facebook
The logos of the Facebook and Google applications are displayed on a tablet. Denis Charlet | AFP via Getty Images Britain’s competition regulator has established recommendations for new regulations to address the dominance of Google and Facebook in the online advertising market. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on …
Read More »The United States sees a record number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day
Wednesday’s total dwarfs the previous high of new cases reached on June 26, when 45,255 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the U.S. There have been more than 2,685,000 coronavirus cases in the country, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 128,000 people have died. At least five states …
Read More »Yale University to Open Campus with No Sophomores in Fall and No Freshmen in Spring
Juniors and seniors may choose to live in on-campus housing for both semesters. The decision will allow the university to reduce its student population living on campus universities to about 60% of normal, said President Peter Salovey and Chancellor Scott Strobel. Additionally, most undergraduate courses will be taught remotely so …
Read More »A binary star as a cosmic particle accelerator.
Using the HESS high-energy stereoscopic system, astrophysicists have identified the colliding stellar winds of the double star Eta Carinae as a new type of very high-energy cosmic gamma radiation (HEV) source. Credit: DESY, Laboratory of Scientific Communication Using a specialized telescope in Namibia, a team of researchers led by DESY …
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