The fifth Dota 2 International was the longest and most lucrative since Valve introduced the game to the world in 2011. After a week of group stages, 16 of the best teams in the world met in Seattle’s KeyArena to compete for greater and greater...
Valve doesn’t need to make Half-Life 3. It has Steam and Dota and Counter- Strike. But it should. Since the shocking ending of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, I’ve been dying to find out what happens to Gordon and Alyx. But Valve doesn’t care. It’s busy...
The first close-up images of Pluto and its moon Charon have been sent back to Earth by the New Horizons spacecraft following its historic flyby. The probe passed the dwarf planet at 11:49:57 UT on 14 July and began transmitting data back a few days later....
It’s possible that our hands-on with two stages of Fox McCloud’s return didn’t manage to capture the moment when it all clicks into place. All we know is that the time we spent playing it was some of the most frustrating we’ve encountered with a...
Traffic is swelling on roads around the world and in Brazil the wealthy are looking to avoid this altogether – by taking to the skies in personal helicopters. As such, novel designs such as the Volocopter are becoming increasingly popular among the urban elite. Key...
It has been 50 years since Intel’s Gordon Moore noticed that the power of computer chips was doubling about every year. He coined this phenomenon ‘Moore’s Law’. Since then, we’ve seen enormous changes in the way the world works and in the types of technology...
It’s perhaps the closest thing to Mordor ever discovered: researchers at the University of Cambridge have observed a planet so teeming with volcanic activity that it can swathe itself in great clouds of ash and smoke. Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the team recorded thermal...
NASA’s calling it the ‘Soft-Robotic Rover with Electrodynamic Power Scavenging’ – but the concept of this aquatic rover was inspired by the squid and so the catchier ‘squid rover’ has stuck. It certainly resembles this terrestrial mollusc. The squid rover will plummet into the dark...
In May, following federal allocation of funds for the coming year, NASA announced the selection of a series of scientific instruments it would use to investigate potential life on an icy moon, along with a 2020s mission to Europa. This is one of Jupiter’s largest...
These portable chillers save us all from wilting sandwiches at a picnic, but how do they work? Iceboxes are usually rather ugly looking things made out of bulky plastic with a thick lid. But attractive aesthetics are sacrificed for good reason – the name of...
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