Author: Bernie

Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE), a leading sports and entertainment company known for their multiple sports properties including the NBA’s Washington Wizards, WNBA’s Washington Mystics, and NHL’s Washington Capitals, has named Nisum a “key technology development partner,” and said that the digital consulting firm will play an important role in supporting IT strategy for the entertainment giant. Based in Silicon Valley, Nisum provides strategic and development support to leading Fortune 500 companies, helping them to transform digitally and grow their businesses leveraging cutting-edge technologies. According to a statement, Nisum will support MSE’s IT strategy initiatives to leverage best-in-class technology to…

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“In the future, they should not make these kinds of announcements until they actually do it,” says Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics. Global plastic production has been projected to double in the next 20 years, according to the World Economic Forum, and yet in the US, for example, advocates claim that the vast majority of plastic, 95 percent, is never recycled.Paolo Taticchi, a corporate sustainability expert at University College London, says Lego can be considered “quite credible” in its efforts to decarbonise because the company has invested so much in this endeavor. For instance, in 2015 Lego put down…

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Apple’s iOS 17 brought a host of new features, including the option to leave video messages on FaceTime. While younger generations typically dread hearing their phones ring and seeing that someone has left a voicemail, Apple’s new video version might be a hit. Now, when you call someone on FaceTime, if there’s no answer you’ll have the option to record and send a video message. Please note: Both you and your recipient must be running iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 to send and receive FaceTime video messages.Step by step: How to send a FaceTime video messageStep 1: Go to the…

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It’s time to get your weekend face on because it’s here, folks. The Autumn Equinox is behind us, which means fall is upon us. It’s a great time of year. The weather is becoming bearable, the leaves are changing, Halloween is coming up, and there are still plenty of games coming out this season and through the end of the year to keep all of us occupied. To kick off the season, we are flying amongst the stars, trying out a new version of an old pal, and experiencing a bit of horror. A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2…

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Amazon is set to host a second major shopping event for the year, called Amazon Prime Big Deal Days. The massive event will offer some of the best deals of the year — equaling deals you’ll get during Black Friday, Prime Day, and so on. Best. Deals. Sales. Your inbox. Sign up for our exclusive daily deals list, sent every AM. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. We’re pouring through the deals to find all of the best ones out there — including all the best Prime Big Deal Days…

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Schematic of the proposed a multi-objective adaptive optimization model predictive control method. Credit: Ke Wei et al. The zinc smelting industry is facing new challenges in meeting China’s carbon peak and carbon neutrality targets. To address these challenges, researchers from Central South University in China have developed a control method that reduces carbon emissions from zinc oxide rotary kilns while maintaining high profits. Their findings have been published in the journal Engineering. Zinc oxide rotary kilns play a crucial role in the zinc smelting process. However, traditional stability control methods are no longer suitable for the industry’s multi-objective control tasks.…

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Forward-looking: Gamers with AMD graphics cards have anxiously awaited the company’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS 3 Frame Generation technology. Now that it’s here, users with a broad range of GPUs have another tool for increasing gaming performance in some titles, but how the two solutions compare remains to be seen. Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum received PC updates on Friday to take advantage of AMD’s FSR 3. Ascendant Studios plans to implement the technology into the console versions of Immortals of Aveum. Several more games are to follow. Like Nvidia’s DLSS 3, FSR 3 evolved out of AMD’s upscaling solution,…

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Synology Diskstation DS1522+ specs: Drive bays: 5 | Max capacity: 108TB | Max w/expansion units: 270TB | RAM: 8GB DDR4 (32GB max) | 1GB Ethernet ports: 4 | 10GB Upgrade: with Gen3 x2 upgrade | USB 3.2 ports: 2 | eSATA ports: 2 | M.2 slots: 2By far, the standout feature of any Synology NAS is the company’s exceptional Diskstation Manager (DSM) software. While the Synology hardware is on par with many other NAS offerings, it’s when that hardware is combined with the DSM software that Synology’s offerings truly become noteworthy.Also: We test the Synology DiskStation DS1817+ RAIDSynology’s DS1522+ ships with built-in enterprise-grade…

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12 years later, The Binding of Isaac remains my go-to roguelite. There have been some incredible Rogue-inspired games since, but nothing has quite stuck its disgusting, fly and poop-covered hooks in me like Edmund McMillen’s tale of a crying child fighting his murderous mother using the power of his tears. Yes, I’m in therapy, why do you ask?

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It’s that time of the year where delivery couriers are rushing around town trying to deliver as many new iPhones to the masses. We already received our iPhone 15 Pro Max which and even completed its review, but we also got another package containing the iPhone 15 Plus. Let’s see what this one brings to the table ahead of its full review. We picked out the Blue version of the 15 Plus, but as you can see, the color is really washed out to the point that you might easily mistake it for white. Apple really dulled the iPhone 15…

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