Tag: cool
How Nerds candy became cool again — and found its way to the Super Bowl
Replaying Phantom Liberty? This new Cyberpunk 2077 mod is all about finding Dogtown’s cool hidden secrets
If you’re looking for a fresh reason to delve back into Cyberpunk 2077’s brilliant Phantom Liberty expansion, a new mod that aims to encourage and help you out as you hunt for all of Dogtown’s hidden gear and secrets is well worth checking out.
While it’s fun knowing that work has kicked off at CD Projekt on the game’s highly-anticipated sequel and that the team working on it is looking like it’s shaping up to be the kind that could produce something really cool, it’s still going to be a good while until it arrives. So, why not head back to Kurt Hansen’s fiefdom and hunt down some stuff you might’ve missed, with a little mod help?
That mod is ‘Pacifica Typhoon – Dogtown’s Hidden Gems’, the latest undertaking of modder Darkcopse, who’s previously given folks the chance to hack all of Night City’s vending and arcade machines, because why not, right? This time around they’ve had a go at creating “an immersive way to find almost all of the 46 hidden gems, sweet spots, cyber-junkies, and iconic weapons in the Phantom Liberty DLC”.
Cool Planet to double its workforce, creating 150 new jobs
Cool Planet will be recruiting all across Ireland, for positions in engineering, sales, grid services, project management and more.
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A fan built a website to help you find cool designs to make in Tears of the Kingdom
If you’re needing some help coming up with some cool ideas for creations in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, someone built a website for just that.
One of the most surprising new abilities that Link now has in Tears of the Kingdom is Ultrahand. Put quite simply, with it you can build just about anything that you can imagine. Seriously, people have already made a whole variety of creations (as well as some pretty obscene ones). But for the average player, such big ideas might be a little bit intimidating, especially if you don’t have a reference point. Thankfully, one player has set up a whole website fully dedicated to sharing your builds, and everything it took to make them.
Reddit user akrewhq shared the website they built, zeldabuilds.gg, on the Tears of the Kingdom subreddit, proving to be a very popular post. If you head on the site you’ll only find a handful of creations at this point in time, all of them presumably created by the creator of the site, though it is possible to make your own account. The site has a few creations you might have seen around the internet, like Gumby!
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has a simple way to share cool secrets and locations with friends
If you find something cool that you want to share with a friend in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, there’s one simple thing that makes it easy to do.
Prior to and in the earlier days of the internet, the easiest way to share something cool you discovered in a game was just by talking with your friends. A lot of us didn’t grow up with things like Discord and Twitter, so if there were secrets to be found, you mostly had to do it yourself, and there was a lot of joy going up to your friend saying “hey did you find this cool sword?” Tears of the Kingdom easily elicits that feeling of wanting to share fun discoveries with, well, just about anyone that will listen to you. And thankfully there’s a super easy way to do so: map coordinates!
Earlier today the Nintendo UK Twitter account shared how you can tell your friends of any “interesting” places you might come across by simply giving them the exact coordinates of it on your map. “If you find an interesting location while exploring Hyrule in The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, you can share the coordinates displayed on the minimap with friends so they can check it out too!” Not only that, they followed it up with a location on the Great Sky island you might not have discovered yet yourself, even handing out the coordinates so you can go take a look.
Microsoft has finally fixed a cool Windows 11 Spotify feature – so what took so long?
This is the ultimate 3-in-1 Apple charger — and it’s got one very cool feature
Scientists discover microbes that can digest plastics at cool temperatures
In a potentially encouraging sign for reducing environmental waste, researchers have discovered microbes from the Alps and the Arctic that can break down plastic without requiring high temperatures. Although this is only a preliminary finding, a more efficient and effective breakdown of industrial plastic waste in landfills would give scientists a new tool for trying to reduce its ecological damage.
Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute WSL published their findings this week in Frontiers in Microbiology, detailing how cold-adapted bacteria and fungus from polar regions and the Swiss Alps digested most of the plastics they tested — while only needing low to average temperatures. That last part is critical because plastic-eating microorganisms tend to need impractically high temperatures to work their magic. “Several microorganisms that can do this have already been found, but when their enzymes that make this possible are applied at an industrial scale, they typically only work at temperatures above [30 degrees Celsius / 86 degrees Fahrenheit],” the researchers explained. “The heating required means that industrial applications remain costly to date, and aren’t carbon-neutral.”
Unfortunately, none of the microorganisms tested succeeded at breaking down non-biodegradable polyethylene (PE), one of the most challenging plastics commonly found in consumer products and packaging. (They failed at degrading PE even after 126 days of incubation on the material.) But 56 percent of the strains tested decomposed biodegradable polyester-polyurethane (PUR) at 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit). Others digested commercially available biodegradable mixtures of polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) and polylactic acid (PLA). The two most successful strains were fungi from the genera Neodevriesia and Lachnellula: They broke down every plastic tested other than the formidable PE.
Plastics are too recent an invention for the microorganisms to have evolved specifically to break them down. But the researchers highlight how natural selection equipping them to break down cutin, a protective layer in plants that shares much in common with plastics, played a part. “Microbes have been shown to produce a wide variety of polymer-degrading enzymes involved in the break-down of plant cell walls. In particular, plant-pathogenic fungi are often reported to biodegrade polyesters, because of their ability to produce cutinases which target plastic polymers due [to] their resemblance to the plant polymer cutin,” said co-author Dr. Beat Frey.
The researchers see promise in their findings but warn that hurdles remain. “The next big challenge will be to identify the plastic-degrading enzymes produced by the microbial strains and to optimize the process to obtain large amounts of proteins,” said Frey. “In addition, further modification of the enzymes might be needed to optimize properties such as protein stability.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/scientists-discover-microbes-that-can-digest-plastics-at-cool-temperatures-173419885.html?src=rss
What’s better: cool spellcasting gestures, or seizing control of a rolling boulder trap?
Last time, you decided that unit veterancy is better than rerolling dice. I’m not surprised, given that rerolling dice is a pretty niche thing only seen in a handful of games, but oh what a glorious niche thing! Fine, fine. We continue. This week, I ask you to choose between the mechanism for controlling magic and the mechanism for controlling a big daft rock. What’s better: cool spellcasting gestures, or seizing control of a rolling boulder trap?