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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

When I first heard Rogue One was going to be directed by Gareth Edwards, for some reason I mistook it for being directed by Gareth Evans. I was looking forward to seeing Iko Uwais escaping with the plans while slicing his way down through floor after floor of Stormtroopers.

Apparently it was too much like a war movie which wasn't what the execs or the test audience expected from a Star Wars film. The new scenes will "lighten then mood, bring some levity into the story and restore a sense of fun to the adventure".

A nice little article on how car engine efficiency can be improved, focusing on something called turbulent jet ignition (TJI) which takes the thermal efficiency past 45% (from 20% - 35%, depending upon the car you have right now). As a bonus it also results in cleaner emissions, and presumably...

The new Titan might take a little longer to appear than the old one because the supply of HBM2 memory is still limited, and AMD have a priority agreement with SK Hynix so NVidia have an even smaller pool of chips (Samsung also make the memory as well but I don't think they are as far along as...

Probably something like their Tesla P100 which has the same Pascal architecture and 16 nm chip process with fast clock speeds, but put together with HBM2 memory. The problem is you can't get the cards (yet) unless you buy one of these: The NVIDIA DGX-1 Deep Learning System | NVIDIA All you...

That's pretty much the story of Khan's career, he's always been careless with his guard and with a 20lb weight difference there's no way he'd be able to take a good punch. Apart from Canelo vs GGG, we might finally get Khan vs Kell Brook which should be a great grudge match.

Back in the day, before Battlefield 1942...

The original complaints were about the "light entertainment" clashes, but the submissions that ITV made to the government went on to complain about dramas clashing as well. It's a fundamental argument that commercial channels would make more money (obviously) if they didn't have to compete for...

Funnily enough this (and programs like Line of Duty) was so good that the commercial networks complained about it, leading to a UK government report which proposes in future that the BBC should only make "less popular" programs to avoid damaging advertising revenue.

Vettel might be with Ferrari now but it seems he still has some power at Red Bull... Max Verstappen replaces Daniil Kvyat at Red Bull for rest of season - BBC Sport

You kind of can, through the camera mode or if you have VR, although it's a disembodied experience. There's no reason to do so though other than have a look at the scenery or get to grips with just how large the ships when you can see and walk around them in "real" 3d. It's a bit like wanting...

Unfortunately he's the kind of man that the richest European clubs are listening to, because he's going to make them richer. Anyone who spouts crap like "That [meaningless summer competition] is something they would like to integrate into their portfolio? when talking about a competitive sport...

It seems the Elite VR experience can be improved with some herbal assistance

Someone looked into this just last year. It seems certain that there is a vault of his "unreleased" music, and there's a vast amount of it, so there's going to be a lot of material coming out assuming there's no legal wrangles with his estate. It's also clear, however, that he didn't keep this...

If this works, it could solve a lot of nausea issues with FPS (and MMO?) games in VR. In effect, attach one Vive controller to the front of your pants (yeah...) so that it tracks the direction your hips are pointing, then hold the other controller in your hand and use the grip to control your...

100GW of ground based lasers required. As they say, "A number of hard engineering challenges remain to be solved before these missions can become a reality", and I'm sure the Chinese and Russians are going to love the idea of 100 GW of lasers that can hit small targets in orbit over a period of...

It could be done if you stored any visited worlds on servers so that player-made changes would persist, although I think you'd have to limit what players could build to certain structures. This isn't that game though. Wasn't this written by four people to start off with? I can understand why...

You underestimate the size of the game http://www.gamespot.com/articles/how.../1100-6435316/ Also, as I understand it, there aren't any game servers, so there's no global way to store any changes you make to the worlds, nor any client-server architecture to support traditional multiplayer. I...

That was over fast.

Supreme Commander springs to mind, there was a lot of zooming and panning with that game IIRC. There's a teardown of the Rift hardware on: Oculus Rift CV1 Teardown - iFixit

Here's an article from last year on the EMDrive that tried to put things in perspective. Heret invented an impossible space engine - despite what you may have read

IIRC most of the media stories last year focused on the experiment showing thrust being created by the EM drive, but only a few went on to mention the same experiment showed the drive was producing more thrust when it was switched off. The conclusions to take from this is that it's really...

Don't know how Alonso walked away unscathed from this one...

Ian McShane:

My take from reading the reviews is that if you liked exploring in Elite : Dangerous you'll probably love this.