Monday, November 18
Daily News Stuff 18 November 2019
Slow News Edition
Slow News Edition
Tech News
- Google Stadia will launch with 22 games, not 12. (Thurott.com)
None of the added games are Tomb Raider, which is another plus, but none of them are huge titles either.
- The blades of modern wind turbines are made of super-strong composite materials. Only problem with that is there's no easy way to dispose of old and broken blades. (Star Advertiser)
They can't be recycled, so they end up as landfill, and they are huge.
- A newly discovered form of carbon can act as a permanent magnet. (Science)
The researchers were trying to create pentagraphene - graphene, but pentagonal rather than hexagonal, and no, I have no idea how that would work either - and instead got a weird film that is reflective, conductive, and magnetic.
The molecular structure hasn't been confirmed yet, and it hasn't been independently replicated, but it looks interesting.
Disclaimer: Some say the world will end in 1984,
Some say in Brave New World.
At this point though there's no mistake -
We're living in Connie Willis's Remake.
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You can do pentagonal tiling, and you can even do it with one tile form, but the resulting sheet looks weird, because you basically need two mirrored forms most of the time.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, November 19 2019 02:54 AM (Iwkd4)
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So, immediately after "Tomb Raider" I see a reference to huge titles. Which I completely misread, due to the former reference...
Posted by: kurt duncan at Tuesday, November 19 2019 05:25 AM (mEm0n)
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I wish I could claim that was intentional.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, November 19 2019 02:38 PM (PiXy!)
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