‘The Sims 4’ on Steam: 3 things players need to know before switching the way they play
Jun 23, 2020 10:33 am UTC| Technology
The return of several EA-published games to Valves Steam has been known since the last fall, and it has finally happened after the EA Play Live 2020. The Sims 4 is included in the lineup and fans of the life simulation...
Jun 23, 2020 10:33 am UTC| Technology
It is safe to say that many gamer hearts were a little broken when the PlayStation 5 event took place and Rockstar Games only announced an update to the current game for the next-generation console. It has hardly stopped...
Finding beauty in code – 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages
Jun 21, 2020 11:42 am UTC| Technology
Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, gaming and streaming services for entertainment, or social media platforms to organise everything...
Social media platforms need to do more to stop junk food marketers targeting children
Jun 21, 2020 11:41 am UTC| Technology
In Australia and around the world, junk food companies are targeting children on social media. In our new study, we found most major social media platforms have restrictions on the advertising of tobacco, alcohol and...
As libraries go digital, paper books still have a lot to offer us
Jun 21, 2020 11:40 am UTC| Technology
In Simon Weckerts Google Maps Hacks, a performance art work, a man pulls a little red wagon filled with 99 cell phones through Berlin. Drawing on the nostalgia of the Radio Flyer wagons and globes of my childhood, the...
Jun 21, 2020 11:36 am UTC| Technology
In 2016, the mobile game Pokémon Go sent hundreds of millions of players wandering the streets in search of virtual monsters. In the process it helped popularise augmented reality (AR) technology, which overlays...
Algorithms are designing better buildings
Jun 21, 2020 03:39 am UTC| Technology
When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion but the impact of computers on the practice of building design. Thanks to computer-aided...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects