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“Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to macOS later this week after it was originally set to debut in early 2025. Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will officially be available for Apple silicon devices for the first time tomorrow (July 17th) from Apple’s own Mac App Store, Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG.com. … There will be graphics presets that are optimized for each Apple silicon model, and more powerful Apple silicon chips will also fully support features like path tracing, which is a film-like full ray tracing mode that greatly improves lighting and occlusion in the game.”

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“If you want to detect a gravitational wave, you have to design something extraordinary. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime — distortions in the very fabric of spacetime itself — that propagate at the speed of light and that alternately stretch/expand space in one dimension, perpendicular to the direction of the wave’s propagation while compressing/shrinking space at a 90 angle to the expanded dimension. Even the strongest of these oscillating, compressing-and-rarifying motions cause very tiny changes in distance: of the scale of a few atoms for an object the size of planet Earth. And yet, with the right technology, like a high-precision laser interferometer, we can detect these changes directly, pinpointing the origin and properties of the astrophysical event that generated these gravitational waves.”

“Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of U.K. volunteers. The world's biggest human imaging project says it has now hit its target of scanning the brains, hearts, and other organs of 100,000 people — the culmination of an ambitious 11-year study. ‘Researchers are already starting to use the imaging data, along with other data we have, to identify disease early and then target treatment at an earlier stage,’ says Prof Naomi Allen, chief scientist at U.K. Biobank. The data is made available at low cost to teams around the world to find new ways of preventing common health conditions from heart disease to cancer.”

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“But why does food taste better by a campfire? The answer, it turns out, has less to do with the food itself and more to do with the multisensory symphony surrounding it. It’s chemistry, psychology, evolution, nostalgia, joy, and the ancient pull of that warm glow that has gathered us for millennia beneath the stars. ‘When you’re around a fire, you’re kind of in the pot,” says evolutionary biologist Robert Dunn … ‘You’re fully experiencing the results of the cooking and of the eating.’”