As she met her fellow captains and competitors, all multiweek winners on the game show (including me), she was surprised how familiar everyone seemed to be with each other. Back in 2014, when she made her first appearance, "I didn't know a single person who had ever been on the show," Julia told me. But this time, she marveled, "everyone else seems to have known each other, either personally or by reputation, for decades." They shared years of experience on Jeopardy's secret farm team: quiz bowl. Of the 18 "All-Stars" in the tourney, all but Julia and two others had played the academic competition known as quiz bowl in high school or college.

The Hugo Awards are some of the most important prizes in genre fiction, including science fiction and fantasy. Among past winners we see Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, and most recently, N.K. Jemisin, who made history for winning Best Novel three years in a row for every book in her Broken Earth series. This year, nestled among nominees for novels, short stories, and even individual episodes of The Good Place and Doctor Who, is an unexpected contender for the Best Related Work category: the primarily women-run fan fiction website Archive of Our Own. Archive of Our Own (often known as "AO3" for short) is an online platform for fan works-- creative work based on existing media like novels, books, and video games, produced by fans of the originals. The nearly 5 million works archived there--4,690,000 as of this writing--represent almost 2 million registered users and countless more who visit the site every day, consuming content and leaving comments.

Old English epic poem Beowulf is the work of a single author, say researchers. Scientists used computers to analyse the text and noticed grammatical and stylistic similarities throughout – suggesting it was the work of one person. This included consistent use of punctuation, similar vocabulary and the creation of unusual words made by joining two mundane words together. The poem is one of the most famous Old English tales. It tells of a man rescuing the Danes from a fearsome monster and its mother before later being killed by a dragon.

Flying cars may be more environmentally friendly than conventional vehicles when used to make journeys of over 22 miles (35 kilometres), reports new research. For shorter commutes, however, George Jetson and his boy Elroy might be better staying on the ground if they want to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers found flying cars that take-off and land vertically could cut down greenhouse gas emissions by half compared to using regular ground-based vehicles. Flying cars may be more environmentally friendly than conventional vehicles when used to make journeys of over 22 miles (35 kilometres), reports new research. Our transportation systems face increasing demand and congestion and is challenged with reducing the greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the effects of climate change.

It is estimated that one in three rare and genetic diseases show up in these features, which could aid an earlier diagnosis. Researchers from Curtin University in Australia have developed a tool, as part of the Cliniface project, which scans the face, creating a 3D image. It then measures the distance between facial features and compares them with the average measurement for their ethnicity, sex and age according to their system. By way of example, they use Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), an umbrella term used to describe the range of effects caused by alcohol exposure in the uterus. Researchers have developed a too, called Cliniface, which scans the person's face and then creates a 3D image of it.

While Qualcomm has integrated several gaming-specific technologies into its Snapdragon mobile processors, on Tuesday the company announced something a little different: a version of its Snapdragon 730 optimized for gaming, dubbed the Snapdragon 730G. Though mobile gaming may be an idle pastime with American consumers, it's a way of life overseas. Over 586 million mobile gamers are in China alone--twice the population of the United States, according to Qualcomm's Hiren Bhinde at Qualcomm's technology summit last December. It isn't clear which phones and mobile devices Qualcomm has in mind for the Snapdragon 730G, but recent gaming phones from Asus ROG and Razer indicate that Qualcomm was designing for what they hope will be a trend. Though most premium smartphones use Qualcomm's 8-series CPUs like the Snapdragon 855, the new 7-series chips are designed for a slightly cheaper but still premium phone.

This summer, Ubisoft and MGP Live will debut the Assassin's Creed Symphony -- a concert series bringing the game's soundtrack to stage. As the saga of Assassin's Creed plays out on screen, a live orchestra and choir will perform the score. The just-released trailer, which you can watch below, promises an "immersive experience," complete with holograms of your favorite characters. Tickets are on sale now, but so far, only a handful of dates have been announced. In the states, you may have to catch the symphony in Los Angeles or San Francisco -- though Ubisoft promises it will announce more shows soon.

As NASA faces pressure to get astronauts to the Moon and considers human exploration of Mars, it will need to sort out a few major details -- like how to keep extraterrestrial habitats functioning even when there aren't any human occupants. To do this, NASA selected two new, university-led Space Technology Research Institutes (STRIs) and tasked them with developing automated Smart Habitats, or SmartHabs. One, the Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration (HOME), will develop autonomous systems, machine learning, robotic maintenance and onboard manufacturing for autonomous and self-maintained smart habitats. The HOME team includes researchers from the University of California, Davis; University of Colorado Boulder, Carnegie Mellon University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Howard University, Texas A&M University and the University of Southern California -- as well as Sierra Nevada Corporation, Blue Origin and United Technology Aerospace Systems. The other STRI, Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats institute (RETHi), will focus on SmartHabs that use autonomous robotics to adapt and recover from disruptions.

It is one of the pains of every PC users life: regularly being told off for unsafely removing a USB drive from their computer, and being told they could have ruined the data contained within it. But that difficulty is now over after Microsoft made a change to the way that Windows 10 devices deal with those USB sticks, allowing them to be ripped out at any time. Until now, PC users have been told to make sure they safely eject any USB drives that's plugged into their computers. It means either clicking through menus to do so or ignoring it and being harangued and threatened with the possibility of losing data. We'll tell you what's true.

Twitter has limited the number of accounts people can follow in one go, as tries to stop the rapid spread of spam and bots. People will now be banned from following more than 400 accounts in an attempt to make conversations on the platform more "healthy". It already stopped them from following more than 1,000. The move is part of a broad attempt to improve the platform, which has been repeatedly accused of encouraging disagreement as well as malicious and fake accounts. We'll tell you what's true.