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What every kind of gamer should play on Xbox Game Pass If you like shooters I can’t, in good conscience, talk about a Microsoft-based gaming product and not bring up eitherHaloorGears of War. Luckily both are represented in the Game Pass —Haloin the form of theMaster Chief Collection. If you’re on console, you should have access to essentially all of theGearsgames, including the recentGears 5. As for shooters outside Microsoft’s wheelhouse, I can’t recommend the first twoMetrogames enough — the first in particular....

What exactly is an algorithm and how does it work? Input When you get dressed in the morning, what information do you need? First and foremost, you need to know what clothes are available to you in your closet. Then you might consider what the temperature is, what the weather forecast is for the day, what season it is and maybe some personal preferences.To a computer, input is the information needed to make decisions....

Only five days ago,Facebook launched its new Subscribe featurewhich allows users to follow the public feeds of other users without having to friend them. The service is meant to compete with Twitter and Google+’s ability to provide an asymmetrical social network, where instead of having to confirm friend requests, users can independently subscribe or follow any other user on the platform. To gather a bit of feedback on how active social network users have been responding to the new feature,we reached out to our community with the following questions: “Has anyone actually been using the Facebook Subscribe feature?...

What facial recognition and the racist pseudoscience of phrenology have in common Facial recognition and phrenology Technology commentators have panned these facial-recognition technologies as ‘literal phrenology’; they’ve also linked it to eugenics, the pseudoscience of improving the human race by encouraging people deemed the fittest to reproduce. (Galton himself coined the term ‘eugenics,’ describing it in 1883 as ‘all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had....

Pulsars are one of the more intriguing objects in the sky, radiating regular flashes of electromagnetic energy, which can (sometimes) be seen from Earth. Flashing with astonishing regularity, these objects are stellar corpses of massive stars that met their demise in supernovae. When beams of energy are aligned just right, they can be seen from Earth as regular pulses of light. Occasionally, pulsars produce unpredictable giant radio pulses (GRPs) — short-lived bursts of energy far more powerful than the flashes coming from the stellar corpse itself....