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Steam is much more than a digital marketplace for PC games. Over the years, Valve as expanded the platform in various ways, turning it into more of a social media platform. Along with achievements, you’ll earn trading cards for playing games. Trading cards offer desktop-resolution art from the game, which you can download and do with as you please. You can also use trading cards to craft badges, which show on your profile page and contribute to your Steam level....

Prime Day kicks off tomorrow, June 21 and 22, but you don’t need to wait until then to get the bestPrime Day deals! Amazon has already dropped several amazingearly Prime Daydeals on must-have hardware like the Amazon Echo Dot and theAmazon Fire HD 10, the Amazon Echo Dot, and more. But with so many great deals out there already, how do you know the price won’t drop further between now and the officialPrime Day dates?...

August is going to be a big month for game news thanks toGamescom, but not so much for releases until the end. That’s when we’ll get our hands onMetal Gear Solid: Deltaand thePS5exclusiveLost Soul Aside.As always, we also have some great newPlayStation Plus gameson the way on August 5, but that means we have one more weekend to fill before getting our hands on another excellent month of games. I’ll be the first to say that navigating the backlog of games on PS Plus is cumbersome to say the least, but there are tons of top-tier games hidden in those menus you may not know are there....

Summary After initially not liking David Corenswet’s superhero suit for James Gunn’sSuperman, I am now excited about theDC Universecostume.Supermanmight be my most anticipated superhero movie, and there is a key reason behind that. I first found out about Corenswet when I watched the first season of Netflix’sThe Politicianin 2019.From the moment he appeared onscreen, I knew that he should be the next Superman. The cherry on top of the cake was the fact that he didn’t only have the looks but also the skills to lead theDCU’s movies and seriesas Superman....

Is Mandy ever in The Big Bang Theory? Mandy is a key character in later seasons of Young Sheldon, but is she ever in The Big Bang Theory? Here’s what you need to know. It’s no secret thatYoung Sheldonis incrediblyinconsistentwith The Big Bang Theory, even possibly leading toplot issuesfurther down the line in Season 7. Not only have character’s personas completely changed, but stories fans knew to be true have been completely turned on their head, such asGeorge’s affair....

As well as admiring beautiful pictures of space, you’re able to also listen to those pictures viasonifications. These take images and translate them into eerie sounds to illustrate the wonderful and strange phenomena of our universe. NASA’s latest sonification illustrates the rings of X-rays that have been observed echoing around a black hole in the V404 Cygni system. The sonification was made using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, both of which look in the X-ray wavelength....

Soon after Elon Musk tweeted a drone video showing a new white light in the shape of an X atop the company’s headquarters in San Francisco on Friday, theAssociated Press(AP) reported that the city had decided to launch in investigation over concerns that the sign’s installation may have broken rules. The X logo is replacing the iconic Twitter bird as Musk continues efforts to rebrand the social media platform that he acquired in October....

NASA has completed the first full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor, the next-generation solid rocket booster for the space agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) lunar vehicle. The 140-second test took place at Northrop Grumman’s Promontory production and test site in Utah on Thursday and was livestreamed on YouTube. You can watch the rocket blasting at full power via the video player embedded at the top of this page....

NASA is targeting Friday, September 6, for the return flight of Boeing Space’s troubled Starliner spacecraft, the agency revealed on Thursday. The vehicle will come home from the International Space Station (ISS) nearly three months later than originally planned and without the crew that it arrived with. The flight, the outcome of which could determine the Starliner’s future, is expected to take about six hours, NASAsaid in a blog poston Thursday....

It’s not just people who are sharing what they’re grateful for during Thanksgiving today — Mars rovers are, too. In a post on X, NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012, shared a message saying: “These stunning views of the Red Planet are a reminder of how vast and mysterious our universe is. What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving?” Accompanying the post is a remarkably detailed view of the rover’s rocky surroundings on the distant planet....

From drones tofour-legged robots like Boston Dynamics’ Spottofish-inspired swimming robots, there’s no shortage of interesting approaches being taken to robotics locomotion in 2019. But one of the biggest potential leaps forward is the development of machines that are able to transition from one kind of movement to another. That’s something researchers from Imperial College London and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology have been working on. They have developed a new bio-inspired robot that’s able to both swim and, when necessary, propel itself out of the water to glide....

Summary The Hunger Gamesbook series continues in 2025, with author Suzanne Collins writing another entry in the dystopian novel series. The core stories in the young adult series include a trilogy following Katniss Everdeen, as well asThe Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, a prequel about a younger Coriolanus Snow.The Hunger Gamesmovieshave adapted all the author’s work for the big screen, with stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Tom Blyth portraying core characters from the books....

Summary A newPlayStationrumor could mean great things for fans of the PlayStation 3 era of gaming. On PlayStation, backwards compatibility isn’t as straightforward as its main console rival, Xbox, as while Xbox lets players insert their old discs or boot up digital copies for select games from past console generations that players may have already purchased, Sony’s approach is locked behind the PlayStation Plus subscription, as PS+ Extra covers PS4 and PS5, while PS+ Premium includes downloadable or streamable versions of select games from thePlayStation, PS2, and PSP generations, as well as streamable PS3 titles....