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Enlarge / One of the helpful study participants. Noah Whiteman (University of California, Berkeley) The phrase “every color of the rainbow” isn’t quite as all-encompassing as it sounds. For one thing, the color chips in your hardware store’s paint aisle host some colors you’ll be hard-pressed to point to in …

Blockchain gaming has to walk before it runs. That’s why Polyient Games, a spinoff of incubator Polyient Labs, is starting to invest in early-stage infrastructure companies that will enable blockchain games. Blockchain is the technology that uses peer-to-peer decentralized networking to build a transparent and secure ledger. It is the …

Ralph Fiennes stars in The King’s Man, a prequel to the successful Kingsman franchise. Any trailer that features Rhys Ifans chewing up the scenery as the mad mystic Rasputin is going to be a winner, and that’s just what we get in the final trailer for The King’s Man, Director …

Rogue Games announced that Matt Casamassina has taken over as CEO of the indie game publisher after the departure of Mike DeLaet, who left to pursue another opportunity. Previously chief strategy officer at Rogue, Casamassina cofounded the company with former CEO DeLaet in 2017 to bring a new kind of …

Enlarge / The moon is seen behind an antenna on the site of the radiotelescope of Nancay on October 03, 2019, near Vierzon, Central France. Guillaume Souvant | Getty Images In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, there’s really only one big question: Where is everybody? This question has haunted alien …

With coronavirus cases on the decline in most European nations, countries have been gradually rolling out their contact tracing apps in the hopes of avoiding a second wave of cases that require extensive economic lockdowns. While the introduction of the apps has gone relatively smoothly in countries such as Germany, France, …

Enlarge / The key art for this year’s conference. Liveblog starts in: View Liveblog Today, Apple announced more details about its 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), including some initial details about online sessions and the start time of the keynote. Said keynote is slated to begin on Monday, June 22, …

AI researchers from more than 30 countries around the world came together this week for the AI City Challenge, a competition to spur the development of better machine learning via tasks such as detecting car accidents and tracking a vehicle across a network of cameras. Now in its fourth year, …

Blogger outreach is developing relationships and is maintaining the same with some relevant bloggers as well as offering them high-value and relevant content which their audience and readers will find useful and engaging. It can, therefore, increase your organic search visibility when bloggers with established and trusted sites link to …

Enlarge / The cheerful purple chassis is by far the best thing about Walmart’s cheapest laptop. Jim Salter One glance at the specs on Walmart’s cheapest laptop—the EVOO EV-C-116-5—makes it clear to any technical enthusiast that the device is not exactly going to be a powerhouse. But the little laptop …