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No Man’s Sky is an almost impossibly huge game, an entire virtual universe filled with 18 quintillion planets, each one different from the next thanks to the powers of procedural generation. Instead of a typical review, for the next week I’m going to be writing daily dispatches from No Man’s …

Probably like you, I’ve been watching quite a lot of the Olympics. Possibly unlike you, I’ve been watching very little on my TV. Why would I, when an app from NHK — Japan’s public broadcaster — is giving me such a better experience? What the NHK app, and other regional …

A sound bar is a great and straightforward way to boost your TV’s audio quality, and Yamaha has just released its latest entry-level device. The $200 YAS-106 is the upgrade to the YAS-105, and adds support for 4K and HD audio (via HDMI) which should make for better sound quality than …

Get ready for a new type of pizza party. A 3D printer originally designed to feed NASA’s astronauts on their missions to Mars is now being built to make pizza for hungry fans at sports stadiums. Tech celebrity and engineer Anjan Contractor launched BeeHex in 2015 with a mission to …

By default Windows 10 reserves around 80% of your internet connection’s bandwidth for the operating system and the applications installed on it. You can … source

The US government will announce a new policy today allowing more research into the medical uses of marijuana, report Reuters and The New York Times. Licenses will be given to a number of universities to cultivate the plant for research purposes. Previously, only one institution — the University of Mississippi — has …

Smart homes can be very complex — there can be a ton of different toggles and apps and commands you can yell at Alexa to make everything work, which is fine if you live by yourself. But if you have kids or guests or babysitters who need to turn on …

An A-10 Warthog, for those of you who don’t know, is a giant flying tank. Which is not an exaggeration. Except it kills other tanks. With a Gatling-type 30mm cannon that can fire off 4200 rounds per minute. Now picture a mini, remote-controlled version of the Warthog — one that …

Bill Maris, the investor who started Google Ventures, one of the influential tech financiers in Silicon Valley, is departing, as Recode reported earlier today. Maris, a neuroscientist by training, built Google Ventures (now called GV) into one of the more idiosyncratic venture firms — relying on data science for its …