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The first Star Trek Beyond trailer has arrived, and it looks beyond terrible
2015-12-15 13:30:35| Extremetech
The new Star Trek trailer is out, but the film it shows doesn't look much like Trek -- even starting from JJ Abrams' 2009 reboot.
Paris pact on climate change: Whats fear got to do with it?
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Fear is not a good adviser, says German leader Angela Merkel. She offered that advice recently about a fear in Europe of Muslim migrants. But she might as well have been talking about global warming. Take the climate-change accord reached Dec. 12 by every nation on Earth. It certainly was driven by heightened concerns about potential threats from a rise in global temperatures. But after 23 years of trying to achieve a pact for universal action, negotiators finally found a way to an agreement beyond...
Why AI still sucks in video games and how DirectX 12 could change it for the better
2015-12-14 13:14:40| Extremetech
It's 2015 -- why does the AI in most games still suck? We delve into why AI has actually gotten worse as graphics have gotten better, and explore how DirectX 12 could indirectly improve things by giving graphics room to scale across threads.
Paris climate deal is agreed but is it really good enough?
2015-12-12 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: History has been made in Paris - but perhaps not the kind of history we hoped. The climate summit in Paris may come to be remembered as the moment when the world`s leaders let the last hope of limiting warming to 2 °C slip away from us. The Paris agreement, which covers the period 2020 to 2030, is a better deal than many expected, and if countries stick both to the spirit and the letter of the agreement, it could give us a good chance of limiting global warming to under 4 °C and perhaps even under...
A climate deal has been made in Paris! Heres what it says
2015-12-12 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
On Earth: Well, that was easy. I mean, not that easythere apparently was some late-night posturing and maybe even some shoutingbut negotiators from 195 nations in Paris actually managed to hammer out a climate change deal. The agreement will incorporate the carbon reduction goals that each country proposed prior to the meeting, with a goal of keeping the global average mean temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius over the long term. The negotiators may have overshot their self-imposed deadline, but if...
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