And yet, here we are, with further dungeons and dragons to come. Where else could they possibly be? Whether or not they add any dragons to dungeons will be entirely of their own volition. © Wizards of the Coast Also briefly teased for 2025 was Project Sigil, Wizards own in-house virtual tabletop system. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present.
Update: August 27, 10:26 p.m. ET: SpaceX wont attempt a launch on early Wednesday morning. Teams will continue to monitor weather for favorable launch and return conditions. Conceptual image showing what the upcoming spacewalk might look like.© Polaris Program via X Update: August 27, 4:30 p.m. ET: The second attempt to launch the Polaris Dawn mission is now scheduled for 3:38 a.m. ET on Wednesday, August 28. The live broadcast, available at SpaceXswebsiteand viaX, is scheduled to begin at 12:05 a....
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) famously provided humankind with thefirst image of a black holein April 2019. An image of a black hole is really an image of the black holes shadow. In the collaborations recent studypublishedtoday inThe Astronomical Journalthe team describes the method by which they improved the telescopes resolution. An artist’s impression of radio observatories on Earth listening to the radio universe.Illustration: ESO/M. Kornmesser Instead, the collaboration observed shorter wavelengths of light, yielding sharper images....
The leaves are changing color, and everything is pumpkin-flavored again. It also means its high time for a new iPhone. Apple has announced itsGlowtime eventwill take place onSept. © Apple 9at its Cupertino headquarters. Well be there, in person, to report on whats new from the next batch of iPhones. Were expecting theiPhone 16to debutcan you believe its been this many generations already? ©twitter.com/sonnydickson Apples event imagery indicates a glowing good time at its annual mobile hardware event....
If youre not a degenerate gambler, then you may not even know what Polymarket is. Polymarket is hot right now. The Wall Street Journal issharing its modelingand breathlesslyreporting on its predictions. A look at Polymarket’s prediction for the 2024 election as of August 26, 2024.© Polymarket screengrab. Famed prognosticator Nate Silversigned on as an advisorand Peter Thielhelped raise$70millionin venture capital for the site. If you want to gamble on the U....
The phone iscodenamed zhuque, which refers to the Vermilion Bird in Chinese mythology. It will also be entirely devoid of physical buttons. Conversely, a buttonless phone is less accessible for folks with motor skill limitations. ©SmartPrix It would be called, aptly, the Capture Button. And the volume rocker still shows signs of existence, at least in the design leaks circulating all year. Still, its fun to imagine life with a buttonless smartphone....
Thats why its no surprisethe video game adaptationBorderlandsis coming home this week, just three weeks after its release. The price may sound high, but not when you consider thats how much a movie ticket might cost. So why the quick turnaround? Don’t look down on Borderlands just cause it’s coming home 3 weeks after release.Lionsgate Production began and then things went quiet. That was not to be. Thats, simply put, bad....
Governments dont ask when they want to censor something. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. And this is where things get tricky. Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” in Tahoe City, California, US, on Friday, July 19, 2024.© Photographer: Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty Images This was all completely normal stuff, but Trump supporters cried foul, of course....
But you miss 100% of the shots you dont take! The researchers noted that current and planned telescopes are increasing the speed of that search. Namely, theVery Large Arrayand theMeerKAT telescopewill both help search for alien signals at radio wavelengths. Australia’s Murchison Widefield Array, which looks like a bunch of robot spiders in grids across a rural Australian landscape.Photo: SETI I just hope aliens are familiar with standard radio communication protocolsroger, over, and so on....
If youre looking at theAsus TUF Gaming A14this time ofyear, youre probably getting the early jump onback-to-school shopping. The newAMD Ryzen 9 AI HX 370 chipeasily beats Intels Meteor Lake lineup from earlier this year. It feels more like an ultrabook than a gaming laptop. © Artem Golub / Gizmodo It runs quietly, even under stress, and can still play graphics-intensive games at fair framerates. It’s only held back by its short battery life and limited RAM....
I never thought about Lydia ever being a mom. She answered a ton of those questions, and it felt so right. I just remember every year or two, wed get together, she said to EW. © Warner Bros. And, you know, hed pace around and be like, This isnt like a sequel. What mistakes do they make? What do they do? Where are the relationships? He was very fascinated by that and family and the connection of the three women....
Some of the most famous dinosaurs included in the sets were theropods likeTyrannosaurus rexandAllosaurus. Back then, the land was part of the Gondwana supercontinent. Trace fossils oftenreveal details of dinosaur lifethat cannot be learned from the animals fossilized bones. Theropod tracks from northern Cameroon.Photo: SMU News from the future, delivered to your present.
Any tabletop roleplaying game going through the transition process of launchinga new editionis bound to have growing pains. If you wanted to use those 2014 versions? Well, do it yourself, so sayeth one of the biggest roleplaying game publishers in the world. © Andrea Piparo/Wizards of the Coast You will need to create a homebrew copy of it and enable homebrew content on your character sheet. Then, you’ve got the option to add it to your character sheet....
