(credit: Aurich Lawson)
Oracle's lawyers have made their final pitch to paint Google as a copyright outlaw, and the decision is now up to a 10-person jury. The jurors are deliberating in a room on the 19th floor of the US Federal Courthouse in San Francisco. Deliberations have gone on for two days now, and the jury will return...
Evolve is an asymmetrical multiplayer game where a team of hunters chase down a monster. It was made by the hugely talented Left 4 Dead developers over six years before being released early in 2015, and I thought it was great. But publisher 2K, so convinced of the game's quality, put in place various DLC packages and...
Timeline of the early Universe, showing the Dark Ages and the First Light, when reionization allows starlight to travel long distances. (credit: ESO)
Early in the Universe's history, something ionized most of the diffuse hydrogen gas that’s spread between galaxies. But until now, the source responsible for this ionization has been largely mysterious—a conundrum so persistent,...
Enlarge / New Caledonian crow uses a tool to grab insects deep inside a piece of wood.
Though we've long known that crows use tools to get food (and occasionally to amuse themselves), scientists have lacked definitive evidence. Which is why two intrepid researchers invented the crow tailcam, to record the inventiveness of these...
