The nerf and buffs that ‘Clash Royale’ Season 2 has brought down
Aug 16, 2019 06:02 am UTC| Technology
Clash Royale Season 2 is now in full swing, and the player base is busy grinding it out to acquire all the new skins, emotes, and rewards that SuperCell has added this time around. The second season has adopted a beach...
Aug 16, 2019 06:02 am UTC| Technology Sports
With only a few weeks left before the official release of NBA 2K20, developers are unveiling more gameplay features almost every day. One of the recent announcements confirmed the addition of Legendary and All-Decade...
‘Black Ops 4’ new mode injects exhilarating zombie gameplay to the classic Battle Royale setup
Aug 16, 2019 06:02 am UTC| Technology
The new content of Black Ops 4 dropped three days ago, and the games player base has been having a blast with the new modes. One of them, Pandemic, injects a twist to the popular Battle Royale mode where teams try to kill...
We use satellites to measure water scarcity
Aug 15, 2019 17:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Today, more than 700 million people around the world drink water from unsafe or untreated sources, such as wells, springs and surface water. About half of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, in more than...
How Twitter is helping the Scots language thrive in the 21st century
Aug 15, 2019 17:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Rude, crude and extremely funny, Scottish Twitter has garnered much attention in recent years for its uniquely Celtic wit and for the specific ways it uses language. Journalist Eve Livingstons recent article for The...
Regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon is hard given their bewildering complexity
Aug 15, 2019 17:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Back in the 1990s a lifetime ago in internet terms the Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells published several books charting the rise of information networks. He predicted that in the networked age, more value would...
AI is in danger of becoming too male – new research
Aug 15, 2019 17:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming smarter every day, beating world champions in games like Go, identifying tumours in medical scans better than human radiologists, and increasing the efficiency of...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects