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Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

Assassin’s Creed Origins walks, talks, climbs and stabs like an Egyptian

June 13, 2017 by Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

Easily the worst kept secret in the run up to E3 2017, the new Assassin’s Creed has finally been officially unveiled at it’s taking the series back to its roots with an Ancient Egyptian soft reboot.

Playing as Bayek, a roving guardian who helps found the Assassin’s Brotherhood, we’ll explore Ancient Egypt at its height. It’s the era of the pharaohs, so expect to clamber up pyramids and descend into deep, labyrinthine tombs.

That classic AC feel is there – including fluid parkour movement, stealth action and plenty of ways to kill your chosen target, but there’s plenty of innovations to prove that layoff was worth it.

There’s a greater focus on RPG elements now – Bayek can be levelled up (much like the Fryes in 2015’s Syndicate), with new abilities and skills unlocked via spending Ability Points. Weapon loadouts can be customised as you play, with new weapons dropped as loot by enemies or uncovered from chests. These weapons have unique stats so exploration often rewards players with new gear.

Combat has also been given an overhaul. Stealth kills are still there, but melee has now been updated. You can block with shields, dodge and slash with a variety of weapons. We can’t help but feel the likes of Dark Souls and The Witcher have left a lasting impression on the studio that brought us 2013’s Black Flag. You even get an eagle that you can use like a drone to tag enemies.

Assassin’s Creed Origins arrives for PS4, Xbox One, Xbox One X on 27 October 2017. The PC version will launch shortly after.

Filed Under: Gaming Tagged With: assassins creed, E3, gaming

Accidentally invented battery has the power to keep working forever

September 15, 2016 by Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

A team of researchers working at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) has accidentally invented a laptop battery that has the power to seemingly last forever, and it could change the landscape of commercial computing forever.

Usually, laptop batteries have a charge cycle that supports between 300 and 500 uses, from zero battery to full charge, before eventually failing or degrading beyond safe use.

The UCI nanobattery, however, supported 2,00,000 charge cycles in test conditions over a three-month period. It performed, “with 94–96 per cent average Coulombic efficiency,” according to the team behind the wonder battery – in other words, it was still operating like a near brand new one at the end of it.

It’s a pretty impressive set of figures, especially when you consider it was discovered by pure chance. UCI doctoral candidate Mya Le Thai was the one who made the inadvertent invention a reality when she coated a set of gold nanowires in manganese dioxide, then applied a “Plexiglas-like”, electrolyte gel.

These nanowires usually degrade after limited use, but when the researchers at UCI tested Mya’s versions, they found they were almost entirely intact and ready for further use.

Sadly, the nanobattery itself is still very much in the developmental stage, meaning it’s probably a long way from integration into the commercial market, but when it finally does see the light of day, it could change the landscape of laptop battery use (and much more) forever.

Via: The Drive

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: technology

Track your waistline (and your steps) with this Samsung-powered smart belt

September 6, 2016 by Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

Rising out of Samsung’s experimental Creative Lab (and shown off at CES earlier in the year), the design has now been picked up sports tech company Welt and its taken to Kickstarter to get the funding it needs to bring the design to the masses.

That design uses a magnetic sensor which tracks where on the belt your waist is currently sitting, with a size range from 28 to 44 supported as standard. Along with a step-monitoring pedometer, the data is fed directly into the official Welt app so you can track your decreasing tum with up-to-date measurements.

The belt itself uses Bluetooth 4.1 to keep that data fresh and offers over 20 hours of battery life per full charge. Welt says you can also use the belt to keep an eye on your eating habits, with warnings of over or under-eating built in to keep your diet safe and regular.

The design is selling like hot cakes on the crowdfunding site, too, having smashed its $30K goal in a matter of hours. If you’re quick you can grab an early-bird version of the belt for $99. Shipping is tentatively set for January 2017.

Via: Kickstarter

Filed Under: Wearables

Google pulls the plug on its still-in-development modular smartphone, Project Ara

September 6, 2016 by Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

Google has revealed its plans for introducing a modular smartphone to the market have been canned, as the firm realigns its intentions to work on other hardware such as tablets and regular-phone projects.

Originally announced in 2013, Project Arya was created to give users the ultimate level of customisation. Rather than buying a single model, you could choose the battery size, the camera type, the screen size and more, and build a phone just the way you wanted. The idea, which came to life under Motorola, was meant to take advantage of the open-source nature of Android, but it seems the concept was a little too far ahead of its time.

n 2014, Google set up a trial with users in Puerto Rico, with the option to use up to 30 different modules to a basic hub. It was a novel idea, but it was soon cancelled, with the big G blaming too many iterations clogging up its progress.

Earlier in the year, more Project Ara news surface, with Google confirming the smartphone was still coming, but that its level of customisation would be less grand than previously stated. It certainly wasn’t a good sign to say the least.

That’s not to say that modular smartphones are dead – the LG G5 launched recently comes with a clip-on camera grip and Bang & Olufsen high-def sound processor – but it was met with a lukewarm reception at best.

Alas, Project Ara is dead. We hardly knew thee.

Via: BBC News

Filed Under: smartphones

Hail a taxi in Singapore and it might just end up being a self-driving one

August 26, 2016 by Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

Planning to make to trip to Singapore anytime soon? Then there’s a good chance the next time you hail a cab you might be slipping into a driverless taxi. Starting today, nuTonomy will offer rides to Singapore residents in specially equipped Mitsubishi i-MiEV or Renault Zoe electric vehicles.

Much like previous tests conducted by Uber and the like, nuTonomy won’t be sending out its taxis without supervision, at least not yet anyway. Each operating taxi will have a qualified engineer in the driver’s seat to monitor its performance, who will step in to assume control should its progress go a little awry.

The testing phase will operate with a 2.5 square mile zone and will be free to residents and users for a limited time as the firm tests how well its self-autonomous vehicles and AI perform in a real-world scenario.

With 5.5 million residents in the region, the new scheme is aiming to help reduce congestion in a city that’s already choked up with motorists. nuTonomy isn’t the only firm working on self-driving cars in Singapore – Delphi also has its own scheme planned for the city, but it appears nuTonomy is moving at the faster pace with a planned full rollout for 2018.

Only a few dozen residents have signed up to the scheme so far, but the firm is confident it will be pulling in plenty more as word of mouth of its performance starts to spread.

Via: Associated Press

Filed Under: Cars Tagged With: Car, Singapore

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