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LOVE ABDUCTED There’s more aliens in the universe than love interests for you on Earth, astrophysicist claims

He told The Sun: "Given the universe is probably infinite (for practical purposes), there are probably more alien worlds in the universe than love partners here on Earth.

"Although then you have to consider the aliens loving each other. So maybe love does win in the end."

However, Wooding thinks our chances of making contact with this alien life are relatively low at the moment.

He explained: "Aliens should be out there somewhere though, given that we now find nearly every star has at least one planet.

"The main issue I think is that we currently rely on the technology of the alien civilization being compatible with ours, which we might be overestimating.

"Our sensors are now getting to the point where we can detect what is in the atmosphere of exoplanets, so that might be another way to detect life at least.

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How big is the map in Dying Light 2 Stay Human – Dying Light 2 Map Size

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Techland has talked a lot about the size of Dying Light 2 Stay Human since it was revealed. They have even gone as far as to say that the game should take people over 500 hours of game time to 100% complete it. With that kind of time investment, you would think that Villedor is a massive city. So how big is the map in Dying Light 2 Stay Human?

Dying Light 2 Stay Human’s map may not be as big as you might have guessed, but it is still much bigger than the first game’s world. According to the developers, it is somewhere between six and seven square kilometers or a couple of square miles. Looking at it from the in-game map may make it feel smaller, but traversing the city and dealing with the verticality of the Central Loop makes it feel much bigger.

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APAC, Europe, America region to become a profit hub for Motor Driver Chip market partakers over 2021-2026

The latest research literature on the Motor Driver Chip market outlines the trajectory of this industry vertical with regards to the factors positively or negatively impacting the business dynamics, market segmentation and competitive landscape. The study predicts that the business domain is projected to register XX% CAGR, subsequently accumulating USD XX valuation over the projected timeframe 2021-2026. Additionally, it focuses on the different methodologies that can help stakeholders in effectively addressing the troubles caused by the Covid-19 pandemic while simultaneously defining the possible growth opportunities during the projected period.

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U.S. Refining Output At Stake As Union Prepares To Strike

A trade union representing refinery workers and oil refining companies are both preparing for a strike in case wage negotiations that have been going on for a few days end with industrial action.

According to a Reuters report, the United Steelworkers union is currently holding talks with workers to decide on a new contract that would cover people working not only in refineries but also chemical plants and pipelines. The discussions follow the USW's rejection of a contract proposed by Marathon Petroleum, the lead negotiator for the industry.

The rejected contract had stipulations for a 9-percent wage rise over a period of three years, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources. According to the same sources, both sides are preparing for industrial action, with refiners training replacement workers in case the strike goes ahead.

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Amazon helps stocks steady but prospects for rate hikes loom over markets

Asian equity markets fought for a footing on Friday, supported by an Amazon-led bounce in U.S futures, but oil's rise to a seven-year high kept traders on edge over prospects that interest rates will rise to curb global inflationary pressures.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan ticked up 0.4 percent, led by a 1.5 percent rise for the Hang Seng index in its first day of trading after this week's Lunar New Year holidays. Japan's Nikkei fell 0.4 percent.

Overnight the euro posted its sharpest jump in more than a year after European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde left the door open to rate hikes this year and said inflation was running hotter for longer than expected.

The Bank of England raised rates to 0.5 percent and nearly half its policymakers wanted a bigger increase. The S&P 500 had its worst day in nearly a year.

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"We're seeing the environment is really changing in terms of central bank stances, which were previously so camped in growth-supportive territory, but now are shifting rapidly to fighting inflation," said Rob Carnell, chief economist at ING in Singapore.

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Shell hands billions back to investors as soaring energy bills lift profits

Shell today defended handing multi-billion dollar payouts to investors after 2021’s blistering rise in natural gas and oil prices helped propel annual profits to a seven-year high.

The energy giant announced a 4% increase in quarterly dividends to 25 cents (18p) per share and the expansion of its share buyback programme to $8.5 billion (£6. 3billion) after full-year adjusted earnings soared four-fold from £3.5 billion in 2020 to £14. 2 billion.

The recovery sharpened in the fourth quarter, when earnings came in above City forecasts at £8.2 billion compared to a £3 billion loss a year earlier.

CEO Ben van Beurden accepted his company had benefited from “tightness in the market” as millions of UK families face a 54% hike in energy bills.

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Dying Light 2 - Review

Popping out for a bite to eat took on a brand-new meaning with 2015’s Dying Light, and now again with its bigger, darker, and even more dystopian sequel. Light and dark plays a big part in this vampiric tale, including ray tracing editions for new-gen consoles and higher-end PCs. So, let’s sample the bits and bytes of Dying Light 2 Stay Human.

Parkouring our way through the console & PC versions, we have a collection of modes and settings to work through. The last-gen versions weren’t ready in time for coverage in this review, so we instead will concentrate on the Xbox Series X, Series S, and PS5 along with our AMD-powered PC with an RX6800 GPU. First up, let’s examine the three modes Techland’s proprietary Chrome engine (or C-engine) offers – on Series X and PS5, at least

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God Of War Ending Explained

At a glance, "God of War" (2018) might seem like a fairly straightforward game about a shirtless man grunting as he swings an axe into giant monsters, but there's actually a surprisingly nuanced story buried underneath all the bravado. It builds upon the long and complicated timeline established in the original series while establishing a new beginning for Kratos after moving away from ancient Greece and starting a family. The narrative interweaves characters from both Greek and Norse mythology with several new characters of Santa Monica Studios' own creation.

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Valve Steam Deck To Support AMD FSR Technology Across All Titles

Valve’s Steam Deck handheld gaming console will ship out with integrated support for AMD’s Fidelity Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling technology, based on an article published by Phoronix.

According to PC Gamer, FSR will be available for the games that support the upscaling feature but more importantly, Valve aims for the technology to be available across the board for all titles, even if they do not natively support it.

As a quick primer, AMD’s FSR renders a game at a lower resolution and then proceeds to upscale it to the set resolution of the output. By doing this, gamers are able to enjoy the game at higher framerates, compared to running it at its native resolution, albeit at some cost of in-game details.

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Reportedly Delayed Until 2023

Rocksteady's next DC game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been delayed until 2023.

As reported by Bloomberg, the upcoming Suicide Squad game has been pushed back a year after initially announcing a 2022 release window. Warner Bros. Games is gearing up several releases for this year including Hogwarts Legacy and Lego Star Wars.

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Godfall developer Counterplay Games is hiring to make a 'co-op fantasy shooter

The creators that brought us Godfall are seemingly preparing for their next major product, and it looks to be an all-new IP. Counterplay Games was recently observed to have new hiring pages up and, if the descriptions in the positions are anything to go by, it looks like the Godfall dev is preparing to make a new “cooperative action fantasy shooter.”

The listings for new jobs and the tease of a new game were seen on the Counterplay Games website’s career pages. According to one such listing for a Producer, Counterplay has an unannounced new IP in mind: the aforementioned co-op fantasy shooter. Other listings such as Senior Writer and Animation Programmer also seem to be related to this next project. Whatever Counterplay has up its sleeves, the promise of a co-op fantasy shooter means it will likely play in major contrast to previously released title Godfall, and assures us that it’s not simply a spinoff or sequel to Counterplay’s previous release.

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Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode system beats thousands of human experts in coding contest

An artificial intelligence tool developed by Google beat thousands of seasoned programmers in a series of coding competitions.

The AlphaCode system, created by Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind, ranked in the top 54 per cent of competitors after going up against 5,000 human software engineers.

Oriol Vinyals, a research scientist at DeepMind, said that the milestone brought Google one step closer to creating a fully-autonomous problem-solver, which is widely seen as the holy grail of AI development.

He said that being part of the AlphaCode team was a “dream come true” and that he never expected it to achieve “human average against competitors”. He said: “I have been fascinated by programming competitions my whole life. We’re excited by [AlphaCode’s] potential for helping programmers and non-programmers write

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Mäder to become third athlete to represent Ghana at Winter Olympics

Alpine skier Carlos Mäder is set to be Ghana’s sole representative at the Winter Olympics here after a positive COVID-19 test dashed skeleton racer Akwasi Frimpong’s hopes of qualifying for a second successive Games.

Mäder will become the third athlete to represent the African nation at the Winter Olympics after Alpine skier Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong at Vancouver 2010 and Frimpong at Pyeonchang 2018.

The 43-year-old is set to carry his country’s flag at the Opening Ceremony, scheduled to be held on Friday (February 4) before competing in the men’s giant slalom.

"So proud to start for Ghana at the Olympic giant slalom and so honoured to carry the flag at the Opening Ceremony," Mäder wrote on Instagram.

"Was a long, hard but exciting journey over the past four-five years - very thankful that I could make all these amazing experiences and friendships for life, 'big thanks' to everybody that supported me on this way."

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Benjamin Mendy's life and net worth ahead of footballer's pre-trial rape hearing

Footballer Benjamin Mendy is expected to enter his plea today at Chester Crown Court.

The Manchester City defender was suspended by the club after he was alleged to have committed serious sexual offences.

Mendy, of Prestbury, Cheshire, stands accused of seven counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, which were previously denied on his behalf by his lawyer.

After being held in custody since August, Mendy was granted bail in early January.

The charges relate to the period between October 2020 and August 2021, and Mendy was originally meant to face trial this month, alongside co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie.

The trial has now been put back to June 27 at the earliest.

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MATCHDAY: Valencia tries to return to Copa semifinals

Valencia hosts Cádiz in a single-elimination game in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey. Valencia is looking to return to the semifinals after a two-year absence. It won its eighth Copa title — and first since 2008 — in the 2018-19 season. Valencia's only two victories in its last six matches came in Copa games — against Cartagena in the round of 32 and Atlético Baleares in the round of 16. It sits 10th in the Spanish league. Cádiz only made it to the Copa semifinals in 1990. It defeated Levante before the international break to end an eight-game winless streak in the league. Also Wednesday, Rayo Vallecano hosts 2003 Copa champion Mallorca, which reached the semifinals in 2009. Rayo is playing in the last eight for the first time since 2002.

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Beijing 2022: Team GB’s James Woods eyes long-awaited Winter Olympics medal in Freestyle Ski events

Woods, from Crosspool, became the first British man to win a World Championship gold on snow three years ago but his two previous Winter Olympic appearances have been near misses, a fifth in Sochi and fourth in PyeongChang.

On both occasions he was nursing a niggling injury, this time around there are no such problems, although an untimely Covid diagnosis over Christmas nearly cost him his qualification, meaning he is flying in under the radar when it comes to British medal hopes.

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England Nations League clash with Germany to be played at Allianz Arena

England’s Nations League fixture away to Germany will take place at the Allianz Arena in Munich.

The German FA confirmed on Wednesday the venues for their home matches for the remainder of 2022, with the England game on June 7 a stand-out fixture on the calendar.

England were victorious the last time the two countries met, winning their Euro 2020 round of 16 match 2-0 courtesy of goals from Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane.