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China's Tencent ups investment in France's Ubisoft

Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)

Ubisoft said that Tencent was to buy a 49.9 percent stake in the holding company of the Guillemot family which founded the French creator of "Assassin's Creed" ...

Steel sector cracks on Ukraine, energy price spikes

Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)

The first half of this year saw global output of the metal slide 5.4 percent over the same period last year to a total 1.1 billion tonnes, according to the Worl...

NASA awards LISA mission laser instrument contract

Sep 05, 2022 (SPX)

The total value of the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is $11,906,675, and the period of performance is from Sept. 1, 2022, through April 1, 2025. The work will be...

AFRL experiments with heat flow to manipulate quantum materials

Sep 02, 2022 (SPX)

"The question we're exploring in our lab is, what are the limits of cryogenic-free phonon engineering for shielding delicate quantum systems from the noisy ther...

Selfridges targets 'circular' sales for almost half its goods

Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)

Selfridges' goal is for 45 percent of transactions to be for so-called "circular" goods and services -- either second-hand, rented, repaired or recycled -- by 2...

Google's immersive Street View could be glimpse of metaverse

Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)

There was not yet talk of online life moving to virtual worlds when a "far-fetched" musing by Google co-founder Larry Page prompted Street View, which lets user...

AI spurs scientists to advance materials research

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

Engineers rely on this knowledge daily. Knowing the exact melting temperatures is a critical parameter for building any high-performance materials. From the bui...

Digging through patents to make mining greener

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

All of these depend in some way on the industry that extracts and processes the raw materials used to make most green technologies: the mining industry. But the...

Outpost raises $7M seed round to develop reusable satellites for Earth return service

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

The company has developed, and flight tested a novel re-entry method that enables satellites to safely return to Earth with precision landing. This technology n...

Space Station experiment to probe origins of elements

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

Scientists can now probe deeper. Which kinds of stellar processes produce which elements? And which kinds of stars are involved? A new experiment called TIGERIS...

Chinese giant acquires French game studio Quantic Dream

Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)

It marks NetEase Games's first major push in Europe, having already invested in the studio in 2019. Quantic Dream said it "will still operate independently". "T...

Tencent buys stake in Japanese gaming firm behind Elden Ring

Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)

Tencent, the world's largest games publisher by revenue, has performed dismally since Beijing imposed a limit on gameplay for children of three hours per week l...

Scientists identify liquid-like atoms in densely packed solid glasses

Aug 30, 2022 (SPX)

However, this all-solid notion has now been challenged. Prof. BAI Haiyang from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently sh...

PPE can be recycled to make stronger concrete

Aug 29, 2022 (SPX)

The RMIT team is the first to investigate the feasibility of recycling three key types of PPE - isolation gowns, face masks and rubber gloves - into concrete. P...

Virtual reality revives Iraq's war-ravaged heritage

Aug 29, 2022 (AFP)

Islamic State group fighters captured a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014, seizing the northern city of Mosul as their stronghold and vandalising o...

AFRL partners with NASA, academia, industry on spacecraft flight experiment

Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)

A SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft delivered the experiment named 16 Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE-16, to the ISS July 16, 2022. It c...

ESA astronaut rad-detectors on Artemis

Aug 28, 2022 (ESA)

A set of five ESA Active Dosimeter - Mobile Units (EAD-MUs) will map the deep space and lunar radiation environment in as complete a manner as possible, allowin...

Working in Tandem: NASA's Networks Empower Artemis I

Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)

Although uncrewed, Artemis I will test essential systems for future crewed missions to the lunar region, including the first-ever launch of NASA's most powerful...

AFRL's oscillating heat pipes are even cooler in space

Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)

"We now have a treasure trove of data," said Jon Allison, the thermal thrust lead, for the Spacecraft Component Technology Branch of the AFRL Space Vehicles Dir...

NRL fungal experiment launches as Artemis I payload

Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)

"We're interested in factors that affect eukaryotic survival in space," said Jennifer Yuzon, postdoctoral scientist for NRL's Laboratory for Biomaterials and Sy...