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North Carolina State University researchers have developed a thin stretchable material that can be embedded with electronics. The scientists believe that the fabric has practical applications in the biomedical field, but tested it by playing a game of Tetris using a sleeve of the material as a controller, showing that... https://bit.ly/2xmR82a

ARM-based hardware is eating the world and is slowly permeating the PC desktop and server markets in the process. Hardware startups, however, are stuck between a rock and a hard place, and are forced to adapt by optimizing their operational and R&D costs to keep the lights on. https://bit.ly/2KQvhDj

Tesla recorded 88,400 sales between January and March, along with a profit of $16 million. Despite the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, this marks the third quarter in a row that the company has recorded a profit. https://bit.ly/3bTPgNg

The livestream in question showed an artist drawing a large teaser image for the game in real-time (though it may have been pre-recorded) within what looks to be Adobe Photoshop. We're not history experts ourselves, and the image above doesn't seem to reveal much as far as the Assassin's Creed... https://bit.ly/35exGRQ

Western Digital last week came clean with regard to which recording technologies its drives use after reports surfaced that it and other vendors were utilizing slower tech in some drives to keep manufacturing costs down without explicitly stating as much. https://bit.ly/3f3jaks

Sony's DualShock 4 is a really good controller that can double as your full-time PC gamepad as well. If you have an aging DS4, you may have noticed that it does not hold a charge as long as it once did. In this guide, we'll show you how to save... https://bit.ly/3cX7BJB

The US Department of Defense this week officially released video footage of “aerial phenomena” that first went mainstream in December 2017 courtesy of To the Stars… Academy of Arts & Sciences, a company co-founded by Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge, and stories from The New York Times. https://bit.ly/2YcV8xi

PUBG will available for free with a Stadia Pro subscription, while Stadia Free members will have to shell out $30 for the base game to play. Fortunately, PUBG includes cross-play support so you'll be able to play with your friends on console. https://bit.ly/2VKtpCh

Galax already has some colorful white and black RTX 20-series cards in its roster, but the new EX cards are its first pink products. https://bit.ly/3eX4J13

That's right: if you download the game on Steam between today (April 27) and May 1, it'll be yours forever -- or, at least until the day Steam shuts down, which is hopefully a long way off. Total War: Shogun 2, for the unaware, was first released back in 2011 to rave reviews. https://bit.ly/2Y92yl1

Alien Day, similar to Star Wars Day, is observed by fans of the franchise each year on April 26. It is a reference to LV-426, the moon on which Aliens is set. https://bit.ly/3cQpIkm

Earlier this month, Facebook introduced stricter limits for WhatsApp message forwarding in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19 misinformation and fake news. Specifically, it made it impossible for any user to share viral messages with more than one chat a time in the hopes that they're less inclined... http://dlvr.it/RVYpqm