It seems that we’d have to wait a little longer before we can burn a city with Keanu Reeves, as the game Cyberpunk 2077 will be delayed to November 19, 2020. While the game may be finished “both content and gameplay-wise,” head of studio Adam Badowski and co-founder Marcin Iwinski states via Twitter that they’d spend the additional time ironing things out in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, to ensure that the game will stay with the players for the years to come.

The studio has also tipped its hat about a wave of hands-on preview articles from members of the press, and these will apparently be timed to the studio's "Night City Wire" live-streamed event coming on Thursday, June 25.

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While game release delays like these can sometime spark outsized levels of online anger, it's always good to remember the words attributed to legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

Are you looking forward to the game’s release?

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Marta Grossi lives in Milan, Italy--the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in her country. Locked down since March 8, she's needed space to be creative. She found it in her own bathroom sink, which she paints and repaints with colorful images of less confined life.

Grossi calls her series Wash Your Hands and Keep Creative. She explains that:

Few weeks ago I thought about the perception of things, about how many times we are reminded to wash our hands since we met the corona virus. The sinks of all the world are now becoming silent companions, we look out every day - and under this tragic circumstances - a simple piece of furniture is changing in front of our eyes.

Ben Hed of Pet Foolery took some famous illusion photos of pets and drew them as if they were real. Click to the right to see all of them. These are some fine animals, and I'd like to sign up to adopt one, especially the cat with antlers. I have plenty of cucumbers. -via Bored Panda

If you’re looking for more articles or stories to read about in your quarantine time, try this list of the strangest unsolved mysteries compiled by Reader’s Digest! From the mysterious Voynich manuscript to the ghost ship Mary Celeste, these cases will surely make you think! Check out the full list here. 

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This Japanese teacher took a great deal of time and effort to check one of their students’ essays. If you tasked your students with writing an essay in any language, I’m sure you wouldn’t expect someone to turn in an essay written in a Runic alphabet! The teacher was able to check the student’s essay after transcribing the essay to Romaji in three hours. 

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If your back hurts after spending time browsing the Internet or doing work from home, then maybe it’s your posture that’s the root of the problem. I’m sure it is the cause of my back problems. While we can’t really go to physical therapists for advice during a pandemic, we can learn vicariously through Buzzfeed as they consult physical therapists about posture.  

You wouldn’t want to forget this Bag-uette as you go to France. It’s not edible, however, but you can put an authentic baguette inside it, protecting it from unwanted microbes and pollution. This ensures that you won’t go hungry as you travel across the romantic streets of Paris.

I hope they make a croissant bag, too!

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The current toilet on the International Space Station (the photo above) has been there ever since the 1990s. Astronauts have struggled with aim (especially when doing number two), and they also found it clunky to use (especially for the women). The aged toilet also is now prone to accidents. Just last year in February, the Russian media reported that it burst, spilling gallons of fluid, which the unlucky astronauts had to wipe off with towels. Suffice it to say, it’s about time that the toilet is replaced with a new one, and NASA is doing just that.

A NASA spokesperson told Space.com that the new and improved lavatory could be headed to the ISS as early as this fall, but a spacecraft has yet to be picked out for the special delivery.

The goal of the new toilet is also to make sure that we don’t have to leave human waste behind and thereby risking cross-contamination on distant planets.

They also have future goals in mind.

More details over at Futurism.

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So what if college and professional sports are cancelled? Welcome to the American Hedgehog Bowling Association match between reigning champ Pepper and the 11-week-old newcomer Tuck! Rest easy, the hedgehogs are not thrown down the lane as you may have imagined, but instead are the athletes playing under their own steam in this riveting bowling match. -via Laughing Squid

Beginning in 1881, European nations raced to colonize Africa, until almost all of the continent was under the rule of various faraway countries. In 1935, as tensions that led to World War II were building, Italy invaded Ethiopia.  

The continent’s only remaining nation to avoid colonization in Europe’s Scramble for Africa, has just been invaded by Benito Mussolini. And more than seven thousand miles away, in a historic display of Pan-Africanism and Black Nationalism that took place across the United States, this was the Black American community drafting itself to defend the Empire of Ethiopia when no one else would. Today’s forgotten chapter of history connects to a number of fascinating stories about America’s first Black aviators, taking us from the streets of Harlem to Africa, with an unexpected stop in the English countryside following the little-known footsteps of the last Emperor of Ethiopia (who just so happens to be regarded as the incarnation of God by the Rastafarian religion).

Because Ethiopia was not an official ally of the US, the government prevented most volunteers from going off to fight. But those who managed to get there left a mark. Read about the volunteers who fought for Ethiopia and the legacy the conflict left at Messy Nessy Chic.

Deep within the planet Earth, unseen by our eyes, are gigantic blobs of hot rock that extend hundreds of miles in every direction. These humongous blobs, which go by many names like "thermo-chemical piles" and "large low-shear velocity provinces" (LLSVPs) still baffle scientists up to this day.

Geologists don't know much about where these blobs came from or what they are, but they do know that they're gargantuan. The two biggest blobs, which sit deep below the Pacific Ocean and Africa, account for nearly 10% of the entire mantle's mass, one 2016 study found — and, if they sat on Earth's surface, the duo would each extend about 100 times higher than Mount Everest. However, new research suggests, even those lofty analogies may be underestimating just how big the blobs really are.

In a study published June 12 in the journal Science, researchers analyzed the seismic waves generated by earthquakes over nearly 30 years. They found several massive, never before-detected features along the edges of the Pacific blob.

Know more about this study over at Live Science.

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Like us humans who emit different sounds to mean different things, narwhals do the same, and scientists have identified some of the sounds that these creatures make, in order to better understand what they do.

Evgeny Podolskiy, a geophysicist at Hokkaido University in Japan. Podolskiy and his colleagues study the soundscape of glacial fjords. They are noisy places, where icebergs crash into the ocean and air bubbles fizz out of melting ice. These fjords are also home to narwhals.

The animals are sometimes called Unicorns of the Sea because of their single long spiraled tusk. And they are shy, which makes them hard to study. So Podolskiy teamed up with local Inuit hunters, who snuck up on narwhals in kayaks and captured audio.

Listen to the many sounds that narwhals emit over at Scientific American.

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For a long time, people rarely got a glimpse of an intact, giant squid. It seems that the situation changes as a dead yet intact giant squid was washed ashore at a beach in South Africa. Actually, humans have never successfully captured a live giant squid, and the dead specimens that wash ashore are usually partial. Salon has more details: 

The first-ever video footage of a giant squid in its natural habitat was captured just  seven years ago, in 2013.

Adéle Grosse of Cape Town told Live Science that when she saw the large tentacled sea creature on the beach, her initial instinct was to try to save its life.

"At first, I just wanted to get it back into the ocean. [But] on closer observation, one could see that it was dead," Grosse explained. She explained that she and her husband discovered the beached giant squid during a morning walk in Brittania Bay and that they were taken aback by its appearance.

"Oh my word, seeing it at first really took my breath away. Honestly, it looked like a majestic prehistoric animal," Grosse told Live Science. She is unsure how it died, although she noted that "we had big swells the night before, and it was my understanding that the swell washed up this beautiful squid onto the beach in the early hours of the morning. We looked for bite marks or injuries and could not really find anything."

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Malala Yousafzai, who at age 15 was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for the education of girls in Pakistan in 2012, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, has graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Redditor starstarstar42 sums up the family celebration.

Doesn't matter if you've won a Nobel Prize. Doesn't matter if you are the voice of your generation. Doesn't matter if you are an inspiration to people of all ages and religions around the world. Doesn't matter if you graduated from one of the top schools on the planet. Doesn't matter what you've accomplished because...

...some relative will always be there to give you bunny ears in a photo.

That wasn't the only indignity showered on the graduate.



She handled it like a pro. -via reddit

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Bees are one of the most important creatures on the planet, as they play a major role in helping plants grow and reproduce by pollination. And so we must protect them at all costs. But what if bees do become extinct one day? Scientists have been trying to think of alternatives to bees in case that happens. Just recently, some scientists have developed high-tech drones that blow soap bubbles to pollinate flowers.

It’s a “really cool” approach, says Henry Williams, a roboticist at the University of Auckland, who was not involved in the work. But some biologists are skeptical that drones will ever be an effective replacement for bees.

Several groups have devised devices that mimic pollinating honey bees. In 2017, Eijiro Miyako, a materials chemist at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, adapted a 4-centimeter-long toy drone to pollinate flowers. He and colleagues glued horsehairs to the underside of the drone and coated the hairs with a gel to make them stickier and more flexible. The idea was that, just as on a bee, the hairs would pick up pollen from one flower and deposit it on another. Steered by remote control, the drone pollinated lilies, but it damaged the flowers with its propellers.

Miyako visualized a way to fix that problem while blowing bubbles in a park with his 3-year-old son. The child had cried when Miyako used up the last of the bubble solution. To soothe his son, Miyako bought a toy bubble gun. Watching the stream of bubbles—and seeing one bump his son’s forehead—Miyako thought it might be a way to gently deliver pollen to flowers.

And so Miyako, along with his colleague, tested his soap bubble hypothesis.

Check out Science Magazine for more details about this bubbly study.

(Image Credit: Eijiro Miyako/ Science Magazine)