New buried-growth process enables 2D arrays of position- and orientation-controlled diamond qubits

Researchers at Kanazawa University, in collaboration with Diamond and Carbon Applications (Germany), have developed a ...
Hyperallergic

Dice Are 6,000 Years Older Than Previously Believed, Study Says

Late Pleistocene, Early Holocene, Middle Holocene, and Late Holocene diagnostic and probable prehistoric Native American dice (images courtesy Robert J. Madden) New research published in the journal ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Are These the Earliest Known Dice in the World? Native Americans May Have Used Them to Play Games of Chance More Than 12,000 Years Ago

Cultures around the world have been playing games of chance for millennia. Previously, historians had discovered examples of dice dating back some 5,500 years. But new research may push back that ...
Science Daily

Ancient bone dice reveal 12,000-year history of gambling in America

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before similar tools appeared elsewhere. These bone “binary lots” acted like ...
Live Science

Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals

Indigenous people in the western United States invented dice more than 12,000 years ago, offering archaeologists the world's oldest evidence of gambling and possibly the oldest use of probability, a ...
Polygon

Dice a Million is Balatro with dice, and it's taken over my life

I love games where you make increasingly bigger numbers. Games like Balatro, Luck Be a Landlord, and Nubby’s Number Factory have consumed immense amounts of my time. While many people this month have ...
Phys.org

Neutral-atom arrays, a rapidly emerging quantum computing platform, get a boost from researchers

Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...
IGN

Dice Goblin's Den - Official Demo Launch Trailer

Check out the Demo Launch Trailer for Dice Goblin's Den, a 2D side-scrolling tower defense roguelite developed by babachoo. Players will defend Goblins from menacing heroes seeking to end their lives ...
Variety

Fever Acquires Ticketing Platform Dice After Securing $100 Million in Funding

Live entertainment and tech platform Fever said on Thursday it acquired the U.K. ticketing and discovery platform Dice. Fever’s acquisition will allow fans to continue enjoying everything Dice has to ...
Ars Technica

Your next gaming dice could be shaped like a dragon or armadillo

Most people are familiar with conventional cubical six-sided dice, but there are also polyhedral versions like the 20-sided dice used in ancient Rome and to play Dungeons and Dragons. Researchers have ...
Gameranx

Team Asobi Drops “Hidden Praise” For Nintendo At DICE Awards After Astro Bot Win

The power of 1…and 64. It will seem sad to say, but we absolutely live in a time when many developers and publishers won’t give “proper praise” and credit to other systems and games unless they ...