Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie adaptation sounds like a recipe for solid sci-fi proof: Oscar winner Cate Blanchett as the wise-wielding Lilith; Jack Black as the suave Claptrap; and even Jamie Lee Curtis.
But according to Engadget’s Devindra Hardawar, it squanders its story potential and all its screen talent. Absolutely smashing, right here.
Maybe I should go see the new Deadpool.
– Matt Smith
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Put it on roofs, put it on cars, put it on baseball caps.
Instead of bulky silicon-based solar panels, scientists at the University of Oxford have created an ultra-thin layer of material that can be applied to the exterior of objects that receive sunlight. It is made by stacking light-absorbing perovskite layers just over a micron thick. The new material is also 150 times thinner than traditional silicon wafers and can produce power 5 percent more efficiently. However, this technology is still in the research phase, and the university does not mention the long-term stability of the newly designed perovskite panels, which is always limited compared to traditional photovoltaic technology.
It has more RAM, storage and battery life than the original model.
Thanks to some design tweaks and major hardware upgrades, ASUS has turned the ROG Ally Xi into the flagship Windows gaming handheld it was meant to be. It might be the best handheld gaming PC out there, to put it bluntly.
