Month: January 2021

After the COVID-19 pandemic caused WWE to change its 2020 WrestleMania plans, moving the event from Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium to the company’s Performance Center in Orlando, and splitting the card over two nights, fans have been wondering what was in store this year.

Originally, WrestleMania 2021, aka WrestleMania 37, was to take place in Los Angeles, but now, with the COVID crisis still raging, plans have changed once again.

The company has announced that ‘Mania 37 will take place over two-nights, April 10 and April 11, at the venue that was ditched last year, Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay.

WWE also announced that WrestleMania 38, in 2022, will take place on Sunday, April 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas – the site of 2016’s WrestleMania 32.

Furthermore, WrestleMania 39, in 2023, will happen on Sunday, April 2, at SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park in Inglewood, CA – which was the site originally planned for this year’s WrestleMania.

No word yet on what attendance is expected to look like for this year’s ‘Mania, at Raymond James Stadium, which can hold 65,000 people. Will WWE run at half, or less, capacity for the sake of fans’ safety or will it try and fill ip the arena? Like last year, plans could change as we get closer to the event, and WWE’s Tropicana Field “ThunderDome,” in Tampa Bay, where they’ve been filming weekly Raws and SmackDowns, could be a last-minute switch.

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Welcome to our Sunday Deals page, where the digital goods are plentiful and cheap. Best Buy is currently running a great sale on several Digital Nintendo Switch titles, so if you’re not the kind to worry about owning a physical copy, you can save yourself a few dollars and some space on the shelf by downloading these discounted games. The Final Fantasy art books continue to be discounted at Amazon, and Western Digital has put one of their NVMe SSDs on sale, and it’s no slouch, as it’s one of the highest end models they have!

The Best Deals for January 17th

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Dell and Alienware RTX 30XX Gaming PCs

Alienware gaming PCs are generally more expensive than most other brands, but you get what you pay for in terms of quality and customer support. Unlike most other vendors, Dell designs its own cases and cooling systems. Their desktops (especially the entire Alienware lineup) feature great build quality and brand-name components. Dell’s customer service is also considered one of the best in the business, especially if you opt for the higher tiered packages.

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HP RTX 30XX Gaming PCs

HP OMEN PCs offer high quality construction at a price that usually beats out most other competitors. Like Dell, HP designs their own chassis. The OMEN 30L and 25L gaming PCs are understated yet very well built. They’ve been around for a while and their customer service is reliable.

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Those who own Hitman and Hitman 2 on PC will be able to import locations into Hitman 3 for free, although not at launch.

IO Interactive announced the news on Twitter and revealed that, even though the import feature won’t be available on January 20 when the PC version launches exclusively on the Epic Games Store, the Hitman 1 GOTY Access Pass will be free to all players who pre-purchase or purchase Hitman 3 in the first 10 days after release to help make up for it.

IO Interactive assures that players will not need to repurchase these older games and that the import feature will be available in “the coming weeks.”

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As of this writing, only Hitman and Hitman 3 are available for purchase/pre-purchase on the Epic Games Store, and there is currently no way to show that you purchased Hitman 2 from another store.

As detailed in Hitman 3’s pre-launch guide, players will be able to carryover their progression from Hitman 2 at launch through a web browser. While that process hasn’t been detailed yet, it will require an IOI Account.

For those who don’t own a previous version of Hitman and wish to play previous levels in Hitman 3, Access Passes for both Hitman and Hitman 2 will be available for purchase. Furthermore, there will an 80% discount on the Access Passes on the Epic Games Store for the first 14 days after launch.

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Luckily, console players don’t have to worry about any of this and will be able to take advantage of previous levels if they own Hitman and/or Hitman 2 at release.

For more on Hitman 3, check out every location that will appear in the game and our final preview.

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It can take seven months – or more – to get to Mars. NASA can send supplies to the International Space Station if need be, but the same isn’t true of the distant planet. Instead, astronauts spending any time on Mars will have to rely on what’s known as in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) – using what’s around to replace objects brought from Earth. That includes food, which will eventually have to be grown there, to support any long-term residents. Instead of hauling bags of fertilizer in the spacecraft, researchers are trying to figure out how to make do with what’s on the ground, that is, Martian soil.

Thanks to NASA’s rovers and landers, scientists know about the pH and mineral makeup of the planet’s soil, which is known as regolith. Mars gets its red color from the oxidation of its rocks, regolith, and dust. Below the dust is the crust, which contains iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and more elements, according to NASA. But their presence isn’t enough to ensure plants can thrive there. The nutrients may not exist in a usable, or bioavailable, form. The levels of some may be toxic.

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Some studies have shown it’s theoretically possible to grow plants in replicated Martian soil, but there aren’t big enough samples of actual Martian regolith to be certain. Since there’s no way to do farming trials on Mars itself, scientists try to replicate conditions on Earth. Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology recently tried to grow Arabidopsis thaliana, a weed, and Lactuca sativa, lettuce, in a trio of Martian Regolith Simulants. These simulants are mixtures of artificial and natural materials that mimic the basalt-like Martian surface. The scientists found that neither plant in the synthetic soil without the addition of supplemental nutrients.

“These findings underscore that ISRU food solutions are likely at a lower technological readiness level than previously thought,” the researchers wrote in the study, which will be published in Icarus. For example, it’s a mistake to assume the regolith is uniform over the entire planet. “Our strategy was, rather than saying this simulant grows plants so that means we can grow plants everywhere on Mars, we need to say that Mars is a diverse planet,” ocean engineering and marine sciences associate professor Andrew Palmer told Florida Tech News.

In another new study, also published in Icarus, researchers break down the preparation of five new types of Mars simulants. Laura Fackrell, a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia in Athens, and her colleagues created the mixtures specifically formulated with characteristics of Martian regolith that might make it difficult to grow plants. TThe soil might have high salinity or a low level of organic matter. Such conditions might require future Mars residents to add other minerals and components to their gardens before planting. “Specific types of bacteria and fungi are known to be beneficial for plants and may be able to support them under stress conditions like we see on Mars,” Fackrell told TNW.

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To test the mock Mars dirt, Fackrell tried growing several plants, including a moth bean. They hold up better with less water than other options she tried, “But they’re not necessarily super healthy,” Fackrell told Science News.

It will be years before humans reach Mars, but in the meantime, research into growing plants in difficult environments could translate to Earth, where temperatures are rising. Fackrell studied microbes that live in hot springs. “Anything we learn about farming on Mars could help with farming in challenging environments on Earth that help us build to a sustainable future,” she told Florida Tech News.

For more Mars news, read about how there was once a salty lake on the red planet, and how a study revealed lakes beneath the surface of Mars.

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Cyberpunk 2077 is available now and, if you can get the game to run on your system, it tells a complete story. However, CD Projekt Red has DLC planned for the open-world RPG, and earlier said this content was planned for early this year. With the game’s troubled launch, which even included it being pulled from the PlayStation Store, that timetable now looks unlikely. But just when will we get Cyberpunk 2077 DLC?

When will Cyberpunk 2077 DLC release?

In a post on the game’s official website in January 2020, CD Projekt Red outlined a new roadmap for Cyberpunk 2077 in 2021. This roadmap still has free DLC releasing in 2021, but the studio says it wants to address the most pressing issues with Cyberpunk 2077 before it moves onto this content. More information is going to be shared “in the coming months,” but there isn’t a firm timetable for a release date.

The post also lists the free next-gen updates on Xbox Series X|S and PS5 as coming out after this DLC. If you’re waiting for those versions before you play Cyberpunk 2077 at all, that should at least mean all the free DLC will be available by the time those versions are out.

We expect there will likely be paid content to supplement the free DLC eventually, as was the case with The Witcher 3. However, because this content isn’t listed on the roadmap, it will probably be at least a year before we see it. Additionally, a separate team at CD Projekt Red continues to work on a multiplayer component for Cyberpunk 2077, and it’s also not planned to launch until next year at the earliest.

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