China #1 in quantum entanglement, teleports object 300 miles

Jak Connor | Science, Space, Health & Robotics | Jul 15, 2019 5:00 AM CDT

The human race has made another milestone in the quantum entanglement field where they have managed to teleport an electron to a low-orbiting satellite 300 miles away.

China #1 in quantum entanglement, teleports object 300 miles

According to a team of researchers in China, scientists have managed to use quantum entanglement to teleport an electron 300 miles away. An MIT Technology Review said that this is the furthest the technology has managed to teleport an object, the scientists findings have been published in a paper online at arXiv.

This isn't the first test of its kind, for about a month these scientists have conducted many tests and have beamed up millions of photons from their ground site located in Tibet. The team said that "This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite up-link for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward global-scale quantum Internet."

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Russian space probe expected to discover 100,000 galaxies

Jak Connor | Science, Space, Health & Robotics | Jul 15, 2019 3:00 AM CDT

The global understanding of how the universe works could get another injection of information after a new Russian space probe conducts its 6.5 year survey of the cosmos once it reaches its destination.

Russian space probe expected to discover 100,000 galaxies

Russia partnered with Germany has successfully launched a new space probe telescope called Spektr-RG, and after its 100 day journey to Lagrange Point 2 it will be surveying the surrounding galaxies. Spektr-RG will be surveying for 6.5 year survey that is expected to gather information on 100,000 galaxies clusters, hundreds of thousands of active stars and 3 million supermassive black holes.

With this new information that will be recovered, its believed that the human race as a whole will be given a better understanding of how the universe is mapped. Not only will this new map be great, scientist also expect to gain a better understanding of how black holes form and the distribution of matter is throughout the universe. Dark energy is also on the list of theories that should gain some level of information.

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HitRecord picks Watch Dogs 3 soundtrack despite controversy

Jak Connor | Gaming | Jul 15, 2019 2:00 AM CDT

Ubisoft has a goal of letting fans contribute towards some of the upcoming titles soundtracks, by doing this they have partnered with Joesph Gordon-Levitt's HitRecord.

HitRecord picks Watch Dogs 3 soundtrack despite controversy

Last year, Ubisoft announced that they wanted musicians to contribute to Beyond Good and Evil 2 using HitRecord. Artists can send in art, music and story elements but wouldn't necessarily get paid for their contributions, only if they were selected by the game studio.

Some artists found it unfortunate that Ubisoft was asking artists to compete their work for a price, instead it could be argued that Ubisoft adopt a more traditional incentive that would be commission work. In a recent partnership announcement from Ubisoft will still be working with HitRecord to curate the music for Watch Dogs: Legion despite the controversy kick back from artists.

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NASA spacecraft will 3D print solar panels... WHILE IN SPACE

Jak Connor | Science, Space, Health & Robotics | Jul 15, 2019 1:00 AM CDT

NASA has partnered up with Made In Space to demonstrate a new spacecraft that will 3D print spacecraft components in Earth's lower-orbit.

NASA spacecraft will 3D print solar panels... WHILE IN SPACE

Made In Space and NASA will soon be bringing Archinaut One to lower-earths orbit when the launch of the Rocket Lab Electron rocket takes to the skies from New Zealand in 2022. The spacecraft will be "positioned in low-Earth orbit, the spacecraft will 3D-print two beams that extend 32 feet (10 meters) out from each side of the spacecraft." The craft will be equipped with solar panels that will generate five times more power than normal solar panles the same size spacecraft. These solar panels will act as energy sources for when the craft is manufacturing.

Here is the official description: "Once it's positioned in low-Earth orbit, the spacecraft will 3D-print two beams that extend 32 feet (10 meters) out from each side of the spacecraft. As manufacturing progresses, each beam will unfurl two solar arrays that generate up to five times more power than traditional solar panels on spacecraft of similar size. The in-space technology demonstration marks the start of the second phase of a partnership established through NASA's Tipping Point solicitation."

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AMD's new Radeon RX 5600 series leaked with Navi 14 GPU

Anthony Garreffa | Video Cards & GPUs | Jul 14, 2019 11:20 PM CDT

AMD just launched its new Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards (my review on those here) and in between we've had teases of the other SKUs in the Radeon 5900/5800/5700/5600 series graphics cards which use different Navi GPUs along the family.

AMD's new Radeon RX 5600 series leaked with Navi 14 GPU

The latest rumor is about Navi 14 that will go into the Radeon RX 5600 series graphics cards, based on the same 7nm RDNA architecture but knocked down from the Navi 10 GPU on the RX 5700 series. The new Navi 14 GPU should include 24 RDNA compute units (with 64 stream processors), for 1536 stream processors in total compared to the 2560 SPs inside of the Navi 10 GPU with Navi 14 taking up to 1900MHz GPU clocks, max.

We don't know what else the Radeon RX 5600 will feature, and whether it would still have 8GB of GDDR6 -- although, I think it will. NVIDIA launched its new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER (my review here) with 8GB of GDDR6, up from the 6GB of GDDR6 on the regular RTX 2060. AMD would need to keep 8GB of GDDR6 on its Radeon RX 5600 series, while chopping down performance from the RX 5700 series.

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DLSS improves Monster Hunter World performance by over 50%

Anthony Garreffa | Gaming | Jul 14, 2019 10:52 PM CDT

Monster Hunter World's new Update 6.1 will go live as of July 17, with it bringing support for NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology.

DLSS improves Monster Hunter World performance by over 50%

NVIDIA has released some of its internal benchmarks running at 4K with DLSS enabled in the latest version of Monster Hunter World, with over 50% performance improvements in performance with DLSS enabled and the Update 1.6 patched Monster Hunter World.

The flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has a 53% improvement with DLSS enabled in Monster Hunter World, up from 46.7FPS to 71.6FPS -- crossing the magic 60FPS line. The second-fastest RTX 2080 (and soon to be RTX 2080 SUPER) goes from 34.7% to 54.9% which is another huge improvmenet, and interestingly NVIDIA includess the RTX 2070 and RTX 2060... not the new RTX 2060 SUPER and RTX 2070 SUPER in these MHW benchmarks with DLSS enabled.

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AMD Radeon VII fulfills its purpose now that Navi is here

Anthony Garreffa | Video Cards & GPUs | Jul 14, 2019 9:36 PM CDT

AMD released the world's first 7nm GPU earlier this year with the Radeon VII (my review on that here) with it packing Vega 20 on 7nm, with a huge 16GB of super-fast HBM2 memory. I exclusively reported that AMD was only making 5000 units of its Radeon VII and trhere would be no custom boards, ever.

AMD Radeon VII fulfills its purpose now that Navi is here

Well, fast forward 6 months and we have no custom boards and now the Radeon VII is reportedly end of life (EOL) just as the new Navi-based Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards (my reviews on those cards here) are released. Cowcotland has confirmed with their sources that the Radeon VII is no longer in production and that the cards that are on shelves and etailers' warehouses are the only cards left.

The move makes sense with my reports from 6 months ago, and underlined now that Navi is here and doing better numbers in games with lower power consumption, heat, and noise. AMD would be chewing up 7nm node fab time as well as HBM2 memory.

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No Man's Sky dev teases new ambitious game

Derek Strickland | Gaming | Jul 14, 2019 1:13 AM CDT

No Man's Sky is turning three this year, and Hello Games is shifting towards another smaller-scale but highly-ambitious project.

No Man's Sky dev teases new ambitious game

Hello Games is a true underdog story about a dev team who lost the big game and then came back to win the World Series. They've caught the spotlight by turning No Man's Sky into a huge sprawling online cosmic wonderland, but the team is ready to make something new. Now Sean Murray teases another project outside of its new The Last Campfire game--something quite daring but more condensed than No Man's Sky.

"We've got something else going on at the studio. It's exciting, and it's unfortunately going to be ambitious," Murray said at the recent Brighton Develop event in the UK.

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Microsoft patents Switch-like detachable controllers

Derek Strickland | Gaming | Jul 13, 2019 10:15 PM CDT

Microsoft's new Project xCloud game streaming service could get its own transforming wireless mini controllers similar to the Switch.

Microsoft patents Switch-like detachable controllers

Microsoft recently published a very interesting patent that gives some clues on its upcoming streaming plans. The patent, which was filed in 2017 and published this month, shows two very Switch-like controllers that detach from a charging base. The controllers are specifically made for touchscreen devices and gamers can apparently use each half to play games similar to the Switch's JoyCons.

This small and compact splitting controller is a perfect fit for the new Project xCloud streaming subscription, which beams Xbox games directly to on-the-go devices like phones, tablets, and laptops. Playing fully-fledged console and PC games on a phone isn't really possible without an actual controller, and this new peripheral should be a separate mobile-optimized accessory sold alongside the service.

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Alien: Isolation dev working on 'ground-breaking FPS' game

Anthony Garreffa | Gaming | Jul 12, 2019 11:00 PM CDT

Creative Assembly is hard at work on their next-gen "ground-breaking FPS" game, but we didn't know much about the secretive new IP until the latest rumor coming from a new job opening at the Alien: Isolation and Total War developer.

Alien: Isolation dev working on 'ground-breaking FPS' game

The company is looking to hire a new hero designer to work on their next-gen "ground-breaking FPS" game, a new role that will see someone lead the creative process for "exciting playable chargers" that each have "a range of amazing thought and play provoking specialties". This sounds like other hero-based shooters like my favorite game: Overwatch, and very close second: Apex Legends, and that ain't a bad thing.

Creative Assembly hopes the new hire will have a "broad understanding of monetization, rewards, and art production", as well as hoping that the new staffer will provide "guidance on visual design and cosmetics". This last bit screams cosmetic items that should intertwine with micro-transactions in the unnamed hero-based FPS.

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