You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $18,000 fine In South Korea, where video gaming is something…
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $18,000 fine
In South Korea, where video gaming is something of a national sport, the National Assembly passed an amendment outlawing “boosting” — a gaming practice whereby skilled players are hired to play matches for someone else, thereby boosting that person’s ranking. The penalty for boosters could include a two-year suspended prison sentence and an $18,000 fine — and presumably a serious loss of street cred. [ IGN] 2 human-made objects
NASA’s Voyager 2 probe has zoomed past the edge of the heliosphere, out of our solar system and officially into interstellar space. It is the second human-made object to journey into this great beyond, after its big sibling, Voyager 1, which did it in 2012. Remarkably, Voyager 2’s gear — including a cosmic ray subsystem, a low energy charged particle probe, and a magnetometer — still functions. The probe launched in 1977. Godspeed out there in the darkness.
