Month: September 2024

Cygni: All Guns Blazing review – a thrilling new space frontier

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(KeelWorks; Konami; PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox)The Scottish studio’s debut game is a fiendishly innovative take on the classic space battle genre Years before Star Wars, video game designers had begun to explore galactic dogfighting. In 1962, Spacewar!, the first formal computer game, was a rudimentary but influential attempt: two narrow triangles swirled around the gravity …

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How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers

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In recent months, followers of influential liberal bloggers have been interviewed by police as China widens its net of online surveillance Late last year, Duan*, a university student in China, used a virtual private network to jump over China’s great firewall of internet censorship and download social media platform Discord. Overnight he entered a community …

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‘It’s just black sky up there’: 50 years on, the transatlantic flight speed record remains unbroken

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Two men flew between New York and London at three times the speed of sound. No other aircraft has since been as fast as the Blackbird SR-71, explains crew member Noel Widdifield On 1 September 1974 two men made the fastest ever journey between New York and London. The astonishing trip – at three times …

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