Like a lot of tech companies, Lumon Industries is instituting a return-to-office policy for employees, but of course, this version looks a little scarier than real life. At least, that’s how it seems based on the first proper trailer for season 2 of Severance.

Following last season’s incredibly tense finale, the show picks up with Mark S (Adam Scott) heading back to Lumon to find things a little different than he remembers them, including a number of his coworkers. But some things haven’t changed — namely, the disorienting office hallways and the unyielding intensity of Milchick (Tramell Tillman), who looks intimidating even while holding party balloons.

For the uninitiated, Severance is a sci-fi story about a medical procedure — the titular severance — that allows Lumon employees to separate their memories between work and home, essentially creating two people in one body. It’s an extreme solution to the problem of work-life balance. The outies, as they’re known, remain oblivious to what goes on in the office, while the innies remain trapped in a hellish existence they can never escape. Well, except for the occasional Music Dance Experience.

The show is led by director Ben Stiller and creator / writer Dan Erickson. The first season (which is out on Blu-ray soon) featured a killer cast, many of whom will be returning. In addition to Scott and Tillman, the cast includes Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette.

Lomography has unveiled a new addition to its range of instant cameras, dubbing the Lomo Instant Wide Glass the ‘world’s best instant camera’. That’s a bold claim when the market has otherwise been dominated by Polaroid and Fujifilm Instax – so do instant photography lovers finally have a viable alternative?

It seems as though the best instant camera claims are based on the quality of the Wide Glass’s lens: a 90mm multi-coated glass lens, with 35mm effective focal length and minimum focus distance of just 0.3m. It’s a lens that Lomography says is the sharpest in any instant camera. That really does sound like some serious glass, especially when you compare it to the simpler optics of, say, the Fujifilm Instax Wide 400.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their breakthrough work predicting and designing the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life.

Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said the award honoured research that made connections between amino acid sequence and protein structure.

That was actually called a grand challenge in chemistry, and in particular in biochemistry, for decades. So, it’s that breakthrough that gets awarded today, he said.

Baker works at the University of Washington in Seattle, while Hassabis and Jumper both work at Google Deepmind in London.

Baker designed a new protein in 2003 and his research group has since produced one imaginative protein creation after another, including proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors, the Nobel committee said.

“The number of designs that they have, produced and published, and … the variety is absolutely mind blowing. It seems that you can almost construct any type of protein with this technology,” said Professor Johan qvist of the Nobel committee.

Hassabis and Jumper created an artificial intelligence model that has been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified, the committee added.

Linke said scientists had long dreamt of predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins.

Four years ago in 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper managed to crack the code. With skillful use of artificial intelligence, they made it possible to predict the complex structure of essentially any known protein in nature, Linke said.

Another dream of scientists has been to build new proteins to learn how to use nature’s multi-tool for our own purposes. This is the problem that David Baker solved,” he added. “He developed computational tools that now enable scientists to design spectacular new proteins with entirely novel shapes and functions, opening endless possibilities for the greatest benefit to humankind.

Last year, the chemistry award went to three scientists for their work on quantum dots tiny particles just a few nanometres in diameter that can release very bright coloured light and whose applications in everyday life include electronics and medical imaging.

Six days of Nobel announcements opened Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine prize. Two founding fathers of machine learning John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the physics prize.

The awards continue with the literature prize on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on October 14.

The prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (USD 1 million) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.

It’s November, which means two things: You never want to want a piece of candy corn again, and you are already figuring out how many slices of pumpkin pie you can have without feeling too guilty about your waistline.

Well, November has more in store for you besides food and regret; there’s also some really cool Netflix shows to watch! From a show about a real-life sports hero to a second season adapting one of the most successful video games of all time, these three shows are guaranteed to get your mind off your tummy … at least for a while.

Need more recommendations? Check out the best new shows to stream this week, as well as the best shows on Netflix, best shows on Hulu, best shows on Amazon Prime Video, and best shows on Disney+.

Arcane season 2 (November 9)

I’m not worried. For starters, the new season brings back several key creatives, including lead stars Hailee Steinfeld as Vi and Fallout‘s Ella Purnell as Jinx. Season 2 picks up after the explosive events of season 1’s finale after Jinx launches a stolen Hextech gemstone at the Piltover council. Jinx and Vi are still at odds with each other, but they may have to overcome their differences to make it out in one piece. The series will roll out in three chunks: first on November 6, then November 16, and concluding on November 23.

The Madness (November 28)

Don’t let the title fool you; The Madness isn’t a horror series, although it does depict people doing horrible things. Let me explain. All Muncie Daniels (The Color Purple‘s Colman Domingo) wants to do is write in peace. A longtime political pundit, Muncie travels to the Poconos to write the next great American novel. Instead, he finds only trouble.

A white supremacist has been murdered, and Muncie is the only witness. What makes things worse is that he’s seen as the prime suspect for the murder, and evades authorities to clear his name. Along the way, he’ll have to reconnect with estranged friends and family to bring the true killers to justice.

Senna (November 29)

Ferrari‘s Gabriel Leone takes on the title role in a show that promises to showcase the drivers “journey of triumphs, disappointments, joys, and sorrows, unveiling his personality and personal relationships.” The show begins with Senna’s move to England to advance his career and will depict everything up to his last race at the San Marino Grand Prix. It’s not a story everyone knows, so Senna should appeal to those looking for a real-life rags-to-riches tale featuring one of racing’s best competitors.

Google launched its Pixel 9 series of smartphones with its latest custom Tensor G4 chipset. The company is already working on its next-gen Tensor G5 and Tensor G6 processors. The former will power the upcoming Pixel 10 flagship, while the latter will be utilized in the Pixel 11. Ahead of an official announcement, the Google Tensor G6 processor’s codename has been leaked. The Tensor G5’s codename was already leaked earlier.

This will be the codename of the Google Tensor G6 chipset

According to Android insider Mishaal Rahman, Malibu will be the codename for the Google Tensor G6 chipset. The tipster found the codename inside a new AOSP (Android Open Source Project) patch. The same patch has revealed the codename of the Google Tensor G5 processor as Laguna as well. There’s not a lot of information, but the codename for the Tensor G5 SoC was leaked earlier as well.

Google collaborated with Samsung Foundry to manufacture its earlier Tensor chipsets. However, the company has partnered with Taiwan’s TSMC to build its next-gen Tensor G5 and Tensor G6 chipsets. The reports earlier suggested that TSMC’s foundries are ready to mass produce at least the Tensor G5 chipset.

TSMC is going to manufacture the upcoming Google processors

The Tensor G5 will be built on TSMC’s second-gen 3nm process node or N3E. However, the company will switch to its next-gen newer 2nm fabrication process to manufacture the Google Tensor G6 processor.

Google switching to TSMC to build the next-gen Tensors is Samsung’s loss. If the reports are to be believed, Samsung Foundry’s manufacturing process was inferior. The problem manifested itself in creating throttling and heating issues in the Samsung-made chips in recent years. These include the first couple of Tensor SoCs and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

By switching to TSMC, Google’s Tensor chips will offer better performance and fewer heating problems in theory. Notably a Business Korea report last month also suggested that TSMC is going to be responsible for manufacturing the next-gen Tensor processors.