Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Yale researchers have identified a particular immune response pathway that leads to severe illness and death in people infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The study was published April 28 in the journal Nature. Researchers have known that once the COVID-19 virus infects the lungs it can trigger what has been called…
In context: It seems more and more these end users cannot reliably own anything. Many game and software developers have moved to games/software-as-a-service models (GaaS and SaaS, respectively). Manufacturers could apply the same idea to anything requiring firmware. We live in a time where a company has more control over our purchased devices than we…
System Restore is a Windows feature that can help fix certain types of crashes and other computer problems. Here’s how it works, how to set it up, and how to use it when things go awry. We’re going to be using Windows 11 in this article, but System Restore has been around a long time…
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When it comes to online games, we all know the “report” button doesn’t do anything. Regardless of genre, publisher or budget, games launch every day with ineffective systems for reporting abusive players, and some of the largest titles in the world exist in a constant state of apology for harboring toxic environments. Franchises including League…
Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory A small asteroid hit Earth’s atmosphere over the Norwegian Sea before disintegrating on March 11, 2022. But this event wasn’t a complete surprise: Astronomers knew it was on a collision course, predicting exactly where and when the impact would happen. Two hours before the asteroid made impact, K. Sarneczky at the…
A new, highly sensitive system for detecting the production of hydrogen gas may play an important role in the quest to develop hydrogen as an environmentally friendly and economical alternative to fossil fuels, according to Penn State scientists. “We have built a new system for detecting hydrogen evolution that is the most sensitive in the…
On Wednesday, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, announced during a virtual event that it was applying artificial intelligence capabilities to power a range of tasks, such as universal translation and a new generation of AI assistants, across its future metaverse platform and existing family of apps. An early digital assistant that can make recommendations…
In brief: Last week some of Elden Ring’s system requirements briefly appeared on Steam. Their incompleteness and disappearance suggested FromSoftware posted the notably steep specifications in error. However, the full spec sheet officially released today shows those specs were not a mistake. Elden Ring’s official Twitter account posted the game’s official PC system requirements Tuesday,…
James Dahlman and Phil Santangelo. Credit: Georgia Tech / Rob Felt James Dahlman and Phil Santangelo are helping to define an evolving era in medicine, one in which messenger ribonucleic acid—mRNA—can be delivered directly to cells to fight against disease. And their latest groundbreaking study could clear the way to faster therapeutic discoveries. Long before…