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Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Nexon announced its upcoming free-to-play third-person action RPG shooter, The First Descendant, will be available for crossplay open beta from September 19 to September 25. The beta will be free to play on all supported platforms, including Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam. The developers have taken player feedback from previous beta tests and made significant improvements to the game, including improved frame rate performance, HDR and Nvidia DLSS 3 support, and new parkour…

In a wood-paneled office overlooking Taipei and the jungle-covered mountains that surround the Taiwanese capital, Morris Chang recently pulled out an old book stamped with technicolor patterns.It was titled “Introduction to VLSI Systems,” a graduate-level textbook describing the intricacies of computer chip design. Mr. Chang, 92, held it up with reverence.“I want to show you the date of this book, 1980,” he said. The timing was important, he added, as it was “the earliest piece” in a puzzle that came together for him — altering not only his career but also the course of the global electronics industry.The insight that…

Christopher Mah, a biologist at the Smithsonian, was scouring the shelves of the museum for deep-sea starfish when he had an idea: Why not see if any of the specimens were preserved with their last meal still digesting inside of them, to help understand their natural diet?Following this whim, he cut open a preserved stellar sea creature from Antarctica, but instead of food, he found new life frozen in time within the creature’s coelomic cavity. There were around 10 baby sea stars, each the spitting image of their parent, which like many starfish was probably hermaphroditic.Dr. Mah described the brooding…

Have we gotten Jim Gaffigan wrong all along?A Midwestern-born father of five, Gaffigan is known for clean, family-friendly stand-up on the most inoffensive subjects (kids, food). He’s safe enough to open for the Pope and regularly grouse on “CBS Sunday Morning.” But his consistently funny new special “Dark Pale,” his 10th, pushes against that vanilla image. The pandemic, he tells us, has made him question mortality, and in one wonderfully macabre bit, Gaffigan, dressed in a black suit and shirt, imagines his own funeral. He wants an open casket, with him sitting up, crumbs on his shirt, arms occasionally rising…

Diana Taurasi is already the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer, and now she’s reached a new milestone: 10,000 career points. She did so in emphatic fashion with an incredible 42-point performance in the Phoenix Mercury’s 91-71 win over the Atlanta Dream on Thursday night. Taurasi only needed 18 points to make history, and she got there in the third quarter with a deep 3-pointer — a fitting way to go about it, considering she’s also the league’s all-time leader in made 3-pointers. Careening off a screen, Taurasi took a pass from Moriah Jefferson and fired a quick triple that caught nothing but net.…

What just happened? Apple’s third-quarter earnings were a case of good news, bad news for the Cupertino giant. The company did experience a year-on-year decline in hardware sales, but things weren’t as bad as analysts expected. Moreover, its services business – Apple’s fastest-growing segment – saw an 8% YoY increase. Apple’s hardware categories didn’t have a great quarter. The $39.67 billion revenue brought in from iPhone sales represented a 2% fall compared to the same quarter a year ago. Mac revenue was down 7% to $6.84 billion, and iPad revenue dropped a massive 20% to $5.79 billion. Tablet shipments were…

Harness the power of lightBright light helps keep our internal clock in sync with the outside world, traveling through specialized cells in the retina and signaling the part of the brain that sets the body’s master schedule. So, for longer trips, seek out or avoid bright light at specific times, said Dr. Olson. Starting a few days before your trip, gradually shift the light and dark times of your origin toward that of your destination, using dark glasses, sunlight or other light sources.In the first few days of your trip, figuring out the best times to get light can be…

A new analysis has found that the White House’s signature environmental justice program may not shrink racial disparities in who breathes the most polluted air, in part because of efforts to ensure that it could withstand legal challenges.The program, called Justice40, aims to address inequalities by directing 40 percent of the benefits from certain federal environmental investments toward disadvantaged communities. But the Biden administration, in designing the program, purposely omitted race from the process of calculating who could benefit. The Supreme Court recently struck down race-based affirmative action in college admissions, a ruling that some believe could affect federal environmental…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which is manufacturing the world’s most advanced microchips, conducts business on the island of Taiwan, dead center in one of the most geopolitically volatile places on the planet.That makes people in Washington very nervous. TSMC dominates the semiconductor industry; it’s a company that the United States can’t do without, 80 miles off the coast of China.The U.S. government has appropriated tens of billions of dollars to strengthen America’s own semiconductor sector and help fund TSMC’s nascent operations in the United States, far from China, which has never renounced the use of force to absorb Taiwan.But TSMC…

When a probe smashed into a small asteroid last year, the collision did more than change the asteroid’s orbit — it blasted a few dozen hefty boulders into space too. Last September, NASA steered the DART spacecraft into Dimorphos, a moonlet of the larger asteroid Didymos, to test a strategy for knocking any future Earth-bound asteroids off course (SN: 10/11/22). About three months after the impact, the Hubble Space Telescope spied a halo of 37 previously unseen objects accompanying the space rock duo in their orbit around the sun, researchers report in the July 21 Astrophysical Journal Letters. The boulders…