Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? – Issue 616
I’m currently playing some games that I’m not allowed to discuss yet. But I also decided to try out a new PC game called No Rest for the Wicked, and I’ll be playing that this weekend too.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Hints At Tragic Fate For Star Trek: Prodigy’s Captain Gwyndala
As a huge Star Trek fan, I’m already hooked on the new series! It opens with the cadets of Starfleet Academy just starting to settle in, getting to know their classmates and instructors. And get this – Robert Picardo is back as The Doctor! Apparently, the Emergency Medical Hologram from Voyager has really climbed the ranks and is now the Chief Medical Officer aboard Captain Ake’s ship. But things quickly go south when the USS Athena gets ambushed by Nus Braka and the Venari Ral, who are after the ship’s warp drive. It’s a really exciting setup!
Topological Waves at Material Boundaries
New research reveals how magnetic Weyl semimetals can host unique, localized waves with potential for advanced photonic technologies.
How to Use Repair Kits in Hytale (Or Salvage Items)
Okay, so if something breaks, the first thing you need is a workbench. Then, you go to the tools section and grab the repair kit. To actually fix things, you’ll need to gather a few things: two pieces of linen, one iron ingot, and a piece of light leather. It’s pretty straightforward once you have those!
I wrote the book on Tomb Raider – here’s how Sophie Turner and Alix Wilton Regan will rewrite Lara Croft’s history
I’ve worked with the Tomb Raider franchise throughout my career. A testament to that is the book I published in 2021 about the first two games, and I’m releasing another one later this year.
Where was A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms filmed?
Forget the typical power struggles and royal scheming. This story focuses on an exciting adventure and the surprising bond between Ser Duncan the Tall, played by Peter Claffey, and his young companion, Egg, played by Dexter Sol Ansell.
Inside Nina Dobrev’s Busy Life Since Ending Engagement to Shaun White
Just a week after news broke that Nina Dobrev and Shaun White had called off their engagement, the actress—known for The Vampire Diaries—spent time on the Italian coast in September with friends. The group included Zac Efron, Miles Teller and his wife Keleigh Sperry, and Chace Crawford with his girlfriend Kelsey Merritt.
How to Enter Different Dimensions in Hytale
To start traveling between dimensions, you first need to unlock the ancient gateway. This requires at least 100 memories, which will also give you the pieces needed to build a portal at the Arcanist’s workbench. Luckily, collecting 100 memories is quite achievable.
Bitcoin’s Wild Ride: AI Crash or Cash Bash? 🚀💸
In a hilarious (yet terrifying) update on his YouTube channel, Luke Gromen, the brain behind FFTT, spills the beans on why inflation might take a backseat to an “order of operations” that’ll make your head spin. 🌀 And guess what? AI is the new kid on the block, ready to deflate your dreams faster than a popped balloon. 🎈✨
Distorting Spacetime: How Broken Symmetry and Cosmic Strings Warp Black Hole Shadows
![For charged black holes with a charge-to-mass ratio of [latex]Q/M = 0.5[/latex], an angular momentum-to-mass ratio of [latex]L/M = 1[/latex], and a cosmological constant of [latex]\Lambda = -0.001/M^2[/latex], the effective potential governing null geodesic trajectories demonstrates configuration-dependent behavior, revealing how spacetime curvature influences the paths of massless particles near these objects.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.10303v1/x12.png)
New research explores how violations of fundamental symmetry and the presence of exotic matter alter the geometry around charged black holes, potentially leaving observable traces in gravitational wave or electromagnetic signals.