Paul Cousins presents a multi-channel installation in which the listener becomes the performer.

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Put your hand up if you'd forgotten that every Assassin's Creed game is, strictly speaking, set in the present day. I know I had. That's not the actual distant past you're parkouring through. That isn't actual Renaissance architecture you're clambering on. It's a holographic Animus simulation, conjured from ancestral memories flash-frozen within your DNA - convenient, inasmuch as it means that any inconsistencies are your DNA's fault, not Ubisoft's. If the ledge-mantling animations are glitchy, that's simply because you have bad genes.

We can both be forgiven for losing sight of Assassin's Creed's modern day narrative frame. Ubisoft themselves have downplayed it since the era of Desmond Miles, the watery Peter Parker figure who served as puppetmaster protagonist for AC games up to Assassin's Creed 3. In Assassin's Creed Shadows, however, they're planning to bring back the modern day setting in a big way, though details are scanty.

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"Where’s my Neo-Volkite pistol, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2?" was my perhaps slightly ungrateful reaction upon booting the action game up after the previous patch. "I didn’t even know what a Neo-Volkite pistol was until five minutes ago, but now this whole game is trash until I get one!." As promised in the roadmap, the last big update added a whole new Operations map, complete with a gargantuan new pseudo-boss in the form of a hierophant bio-titan. It did not, however, give me my beloved pistol. It’s fine. It’s in now, along with a few, less Neo-Volkite updates to other weapons.

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If you wanted to return to GTA Trilogy, now might be the best time as the game has finally got an update after three years which makes it closer to the much better mobile version

Ryzen and Epyc chips have two main issues; L3 cache latency, and 'preferred core' tech.

Zapping the skin with electricity could stop bacteria that live there harmlessly from entering the body and causing blood poisoning

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ESA's Proba-3 mission, designed to create a solar eclipse in space, is leaving Europe to head to its Indian launch site. The mission's two spacecraft, designed to align precisely in orbit so one will block the Sun for the other, have departed from Redwire Space's facilities in Kruibeke, Belgium. The pair will be transported to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre near Chennai, India, to prepare for th

Zapping the skin with electricity could stop bacteria that live there harmlessly from entering the body and causing blood poisoning

Scientists have created a groundbreaking novel bioinspired adhesive patch, "Dental Tough Adhesive (DenTAI)" with robust mechanical properties for the treatment of common oral health disorders.

Novel adhesive neck patch, developed by UCLA bioengineers, represents a significant stride in speech technology for individuals facing disabilities, particularly

The Nikhil Siddhartha starrer attempts to merge a personal story with secret files pertaining to Subhas Chandra Bose and the result is a listless thriller, thanks to several old tropes

Milk prices are ruling high as supply is constrained by lumpy skin disease and high fodder costs

A pigeon becomes a regular visitor to a terrace with lush foliage

How communication between soldiers and their families have changed over the years

Bioluminscent bacteria pair with electronics to detect blood in the gut

There exists no evidence to support the popular view that pirates wore a black patch over one eye.

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From reviving a struggling financial sector, to a spike in cases in Odisha, to making India a Covid-19 testing superpower

Germany gets a respite while Brazil emerges as a hotspot, and gyms open in Beijing

The rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis), which has not been seen in the eastern United States in five years, has been found by a Smithsonian […]

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Falling levels of insect pollination are causing declining yields of important agricultural crops. However, new research from South Africa now indicates that planting small patches of native flowers in agricultural fields can be a profitable and sustainable method of increasing pollination and yield.

The importance of 'stepping stone' patches of habitat for biodiversity has been underestimated, a new study suggests. The researchers developed a new connectivity model, which better captures the effects of stepping stones on species movement.

Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been implemented throughout Europe to mitigate against the negative effects of agricultural intensification. Although these schemes have shown positive effects on the abundance and richness of certain species and taxa, the impact of AES on reproduction of target species at the local and landscape scale is poorly understood. This large-scale study looked for the effect of selected AE measures on bumblebee reproduction. Results indicate that bumblebee reproduction is significantly higher on sown flower patches when compared to conventional management. Although the increase is most pronounced at the plot scale, higher reproduction was found in landscapes surrounding larger sown plots (at least one hectare) compared to smaller sown plots.

The Ocean Cleanup is ready to launch plastic-eating System 001 to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

This infographic breaks down how plastic pollution is killing marine life and what you can do to prevent it.

Kitschy nostalgia and clean-tech collide along Route 66, America's Mother Road, thanks to Solar Roadways.

I've been covering the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the past year or so and just wrote about it here on MNN last week.

Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography traveled out to a spot of sea 1,000 miles from shore and were sad to find plastic everywhere.

For a mere $10,000, you can book a seat on a 20-day working cruise to a giant patch of floating plastic trash.

Material from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be collected, melted down and rebuilt into a floating paradise for green tourism.

A new study by two graduate students from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego found that a little over nine percent of the fish that swim ne

The trash accumulating in the Pacific Ocean — scientists estimate there are 1.5 million tons of tsunami debris alone — is arriving on the West Coast.

New research finds that the Great Lakes are becoming polluted with the same plastic particles responsible for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.