July 2022

In the past, if players wanted to buy additional content of BioWare games such as DLC, they could only use a virtual currency called BioWare Points. This virtual currency was rarely discounted, and the game itself was often much cheaper than DLC, causing players to complain. To partially solve this problem, EA has bundled BioWare

The Kremlin officially announced the dismissal of Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin and his replacement by Yuri Borisov. Both served as deputy prime ministers in charge of the defense industry, and being head of the astronautics is effectively a demotion. Rogozin has acted as aggressive as a wolf warrior over the past few months, making

Entity-listed drone maker DJI is lobbying the U.S. Congress to try to block a bill that would bar the federal government from procuring its drones. DJI has hired two lobbying firms—Han Yu International Law Firm and Vogel Group—to persuade members of Congress not to support the American Safe Drone Act (ASDA), which bars the U.S.

India plans to introduce a right-to-repair law to give consumers the ability to repair their devices through third parties, combating a growing culture of planned obsolescence. India’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs said it formed a committee to develop a legal framework for the right to repair, which will include mobile phones, tablets, consumer durables, cars

Artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI released DALL-E 2 in April, the successor to DALL-E due in 2021. Both AI systems can generate stunning images from natural language text descriptions; they can make images that look like photos, illustrations, paintings, animations, and basically any artistic style you can express in words. DALL-E 2 has many improvements

The city’s lights flicker all night, severely disturbing the phenology of urban plants—the changes that occur when the stamens bloom in the spring, and the leaves change color and fall in the fall. A new study published in the journal PNAS Nexus shows how nighttime lights prolong the growing season in cities, affecting everything from

Smart thermostats activate grid demand spikes at bad times of day, according to a study by Cornell University researchers. “Many homes use smart thermostats to lower the room temperature during winter nights,” said Max Zhang, a professor in Cornell University’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “Programming it to raise the room before you