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Netflix gets an interactive Minecraft choose-your-own-adventure show

Nov28
by on November 28, 2018 at 6:33 am
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The latest addition to Netflix’ roster of shows comes from the popular Minecraft gaming franchise, along with an interesting twist: you can actually choose your own ending. Minecraft: Story Mode – which was developed by the last remaining employees at troubled studio Telltale Games before it tragically closed down – lets you make choices to determine how the story progresses across its five episodes. The first three are already out, and you can stream them right now. So yeah, it’s not exactly a game, because you can’t control characters’ movements and actions. You’ll start off with a quick introduction to…

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Controversial new test could be used to screen embryos for intelligence

Nov28
by on November 28, 2018 at 1:43 am
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A new test promises to fan the flames of ethical debate surrounding designer babies. For the first time, couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) could soon be able to screen a respective embryo for complex traits, like low intelligence and disease risk. For now, Genomic Prediction, the firm that developed the new method of testing, says it will only offer the ability to identify embryos deemed likely to have a “mental disability.” The same method used to test for mental disabilities, like Down and Patau syndromes, however, could one day be used to identify those embryos with the greatest probability…

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Google makes it easier to pair Bluetooth headphones to all your Android devices

Nov27
by on November 27, 2018 at 11:44 pm
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Bluetooth headphones sound a lot better than they did a few years ago, but they’re still generally a pain in the butt to pair to multiple devices. Relatively few headphones allow you to be paired multiple devices, and even then, you still have to go through the pairing process with each new device. Apple is the only company that’s really simplified the multi-device pairing process, tieing Bluetooth headphones with its W1 chip to your Apple ID, and allowing them to automatically work across your Apple devices – and only your Apple devices. Now Google is taking a page out of Apple’s…

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Scientists’ new approach to invisibility is more HG Wells than Harry Potter

Nov27
by on November 27, 2018 at 11:35 pm
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Novel research into cloaking technology conducted at a Spanish university has produced a potential method for making objects invisible from the inside out. Maybe the titular character in HG Wells’ classic novel “The Invisible Man,” who arrives at his transparent state by injecting himself with a special formula, was on to something after all. The research, conducted by a team lead by Alberto Serna and Luis Molina of the University of Extremadura in Spain, recently published a research paper in the Nature science journal titled “Multilayer homogeneous dielectric filler for electromagnetic invisibility.” In the work, the team describes a method…

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