Month: May 2022

Daily Deals (5-20-2022)

Hulu is running a deal that lets you subscribe to the company’s ad-supported tier for $1 per month for the first three months, which means you can save as much as $18 in that time (although you’ll have to put up with ads). Meanwhile Sling …

Hulu is running a deal that lets you subscribe to the company’s ad-supported tier for $1 per month for the first three months, which means you can save as much as $18 in that time (although you’ll have to put up with ads). Meanwhile Sling TV is slashing the prices of its TV-over-the-internet service in […]

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Branchenverband: Förder-Milliarden würden Glasfaserausbau ersticken

Bitkom-Präsident Berg meint, “ein Förderexzess treibt nur die Preise nach oben und bringt keinen einzigen zusätzlichen Breitbandanschluss”. Doch warum sind die Milliarden nicht mehr gewollt? (Bitkom, Glasfaser)

Bitkom-Präsident Berg meint, "ein Förderexzess treibt nur die Preise nach oben und bringt keinen einzigen zusätzlichen Breitbandanschluss". Doch warum sind die Milliarden nicht mehr gewollt? (Bitkom, Glasfaser)

Blizzard offers refund for nerfed $25 Hearthstone card

Original buyers get in-game gold—and they can keep the card.

Shine bright like a diamond.

Enlarge / Shine bright like a diamond.

Last month, Hearthstone broke a long-standing precedent by selling a single cosmetic card upgrade for a whopping $25 (or a similar amount of in-game currency). Now that the expensive card's power level is being scaled back, Blizzard is offering a generous refund to players who made that purchase—and it's letting them keep the ultra-rare card, to boot.

Drek'Thar has been an extremely popular Hearthstone card since its release in December alongside the Fractured in Alterac Valley set. Thanks to the card's ability to draw and summon two minions from your deck whenever cast (if your deck is constructed correctly), Drek'Thar was showing up in upward of 20 percent of all competitive decks this month, according to HSReplay.net statistics, and decks with the card were winning more than 60 percent of the time.

A diamond is forever

For months, Hearthstone players could find a Legendary Drek'Thar in regular packs, craft a copy by using in-game dust gained from excess cards, or earn a "free" Golden copy by completing various in-game quests. Starting April 5, though, Blizzard added a way to obtain a new version of Drek'Thar: pay $25 (or 3,000 in-game gold) to purchase an ultra-rare "Diamond" upgrade.

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Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chips for premium & mid-range devices

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor is coming soon to smartphones and other mobile devices, with the company promising up to 10% faster performance than the original Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and up to 30% lower power consumption. You’ll…

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor is coming soon to smartphones and other mobile devices, with the company promising up to 10% faster performance than the original Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and up to 30% lower power consumption. You’ll likely have to wait until this fall to get your hands on a phone with the new […]

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MINISFORUM Neptune HX90G is a compact desktop with AMD Radeon RX 6650M discrete graphics

MINISFORUM has been making small form-factor desktop computers for a few years at this point, but the company has recently started cranking up the horsepower, first by launching models with high-performance processors, and more recently introducing mi…

MINISFORUM has been making small form-factor desktop computers for a few years at this point, but the company has recently started cranking up the horsepower, first by launching models with high-performance processors, and more recently introducing mini PCs with support for discrete graphics, although the first MINISFORUM PC with that option requires an external graphics […]

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New study estimates how long mined metals circulate before being lost

In some cases, we’re throwing out one metal while extracting another.

Image of a pile of metal fragments.

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Almost every aspect of modern society relies on materials that are limited on Earth. In order to live within the limits set by our planet, we have to figure out how to make the most of what we extract and reuse whatever we have extracted. A new study released this week looks into how close we are to reaching that ideal for 61 different metals.

Along the way, its authors figure out how long different metals stay in circulation before they're lost and identify the stage at which those losses take place. While a lack of recycling is a major roadblock on the way to a circular economy, it's far from the only one. For many metals, including some critically important ones, we discard huge amounts that are present in ores we mine for different elements.

Mind your metals

Tracking that many metals through their entire life cycle is a huge task, but the authors were able to build on previous work by Japanese researchers who developed a software model called MaTrace. The model is designed to track the flow of materials from production to loss, estimating losses at each stage of the material's life cycle based on empirical data.

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