Enlarge / A numbered and tagged California Condor in the wild. Early March last year, an endangered California condor—one of less than 350 of its kind surviving in the wild—perched on an Arizona cliff face staring into space for days. It’s probably sick from lead poisoning, thought Tim Hauck, the condor program director with The…
Peter Watts is the author of some of the darkest and most thoroughly researched science fiction novels ever written. One of his early fans was horror author Theresa DeLucci, who read his debut novel Starfish while working at Tor Books in the early 2000s. “I had never really read a lot of hard science fiction,…
Publisher Humble Games and developer Sector D2 have announced and released Project Wingman: Frontline 59 for PlayStation 5 with PlayStation VR2 support via PlayStation Store for $29.99 / £24.99 / €29.99. It is an enhanced version of Project Wingman. Project Wingman first launched for PC via Steam, GOG, and Humble Store on December 1, 2020,…
You may know NordVPN from its popular ambassador program, taking social media by storm as influencers sign up to make money advertising the virtual private network. But despite its popularity, it didn’t make the list of the nine top providers we published in June. After vigorous testing, I concluded it was a bit overhyped for…
A group of engineers have now created what they call an acoustic swarm. This swarm of intriguing little robots – which move around like little Roombas – can wheel around an area, helping to control the separation of audio from multiple conversations in one room. Essentially, these swarms could let you mute other people’s conversations…