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Image : The Game Awards Do you like video games? Do you like watching video game creators win awards? Do you like free stuff? Then you’ll love Valve’s new giveaway: Watch this year’s Game Awards through SteamTV, and you’ll have the chance to win a new 512GB Steam Deck , which typically retails for $649. The video game developers may get the awards, but we’ll be the real winners of the night. The rules are relatively simple . In order to qualify, you need to live in the U. S. , Canada, UK, or EU, and have made a purchase on your Steam account between Nov. 14, 2021 and Nov. 14, 2022. That means, if you bought a game in roughly the past year, you’re good. But you also can’t just buy something on Steam right now and hope to compete: If your last purchase was after Nov. 14, it won’t count. With those qualifications met, you can register for the giveaway on the official site here . Interestingly, you can enter the giveaway by mail. Grab a four-inch by six-inch note card and print your n...

The Sherloc technology currently installed on the Mars Rover, in a handout photo. HO/The Canadian Press The same technology used to search for signs of ancient life on Mars could be key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the Canadian oil sands. At least that’s what members of the Pathways Alliance – an industry consortium of this country’s six largest oil sands companies – appear to believe. On Thursday, the group announced Impossible Sensing Energy, the Calgary-based affiliate of U.S. space exploration company Impossible Sensing, as the winner in an industry-sponsored global competition aimed at helping to accelerate the wide-scale use of steam-reducing technologies in oil sands operations. The company won with a proposal to use optical imaging technology, adapted from its Sherloc system currently installed on the Mars Rover, in an oil sands application. Just as optical imaging can be used to search for faint traces of potential carbon-based past life on Mars, it can also det...