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The leaker claims he's got to the centre of the galaxy already, in about 30 hours No Man's Sky leaker claims to have reached the centre of the galaxy already Eurogamer.net

That's simply wrong, the specific application of an equation is exactly what you can patent - which is why the company was set up, and granted patents in Europe and the USA, like this one: Patent US7620527 - Method and apparatus for synthesizing and analyzing patterns utilizing novel ... -...

For clarification, you cannot patent a mathematical formula in Europe or the USA. What you can do is patent an application of a formula, in both Europe and the USA, and that is what this company has apparently done in both territories. Roughly speaking, you can't say "pay me money to use this...

Some company is now claiming they have a patent on the formula used by NMS to create it's terrain. Why No Man's Sky fans are worried about a patented Superformula Eurogamer.net

Live feed of the WADA report on Russian doping in the last winter Olympics, or as one commentator puts it "If you're not following Richard McLaren's press conference, basically everything NY Times wrote in May about Russian doping was true." Russian government oversaw widespread doping at Sochi...

The poster is not what it seems

From what I've read on the net this gives a significant upgrade in FPS for AMD cards but the NVidia results are more of a mixed bag. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, if it can be sorted with an updated driver.

Find out if there really is a Catch the Pigeon mode, and if so, can we be the Vulture squadron and fight over who gets to be Muttley. Why Battlefield 1 fans are in a flap about a pigeon mode Eurogamer.net

There seem to have been a lot of late goals in this tournament. There's a couple of decent looking matches in the next round, Croatia v Portugal on Saturday and Italy v Spain on Monday. I drew Iceland in the office sweepstakes. I'm happier now than I was at the time

Sounds like you might be in luck, the only bit this review liked was the ending: "It?s consummately stupid, but at that point, stupid feels like an improvement." Independence Day: Resurgence shows no signs of intelligent life - review?*

The match commentator said that 10% of the Iceland population was inside the stadium supporting the team.

He's a really bad loser, which only makes the result more amusing. Cristiano Ronaldo: Portugal captain criticises Iceland's 'small mentality' - BBC Sport

At least it was over quickly.

If I was going to develop an MMO these days I'd make / remake the old Paranoia RPG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parano...e-playing_game) ). The whole set-up of the game has grouping as a requirement, but with the added bonus of killing off some of your own teammates as a personal, secret...

Making flat lenses that are better and probably much cheaper than conventional lens. I'm not sure how far the tech would scale up; the obvious market would be cameras. Flat lens promises possible revolution in optics - BBC News