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Ixty minutes – It reminds us how much time Nintendo spent on Wednesday afternoons and that no other video game makers have produced such joy. It was the Nintendo live stream we’ve been waiting for: Dive deep into a new console After a lot of speculation. Certainly, Switch 2 is the company’s first real hardware sequel. This is not a radical new kit, but an updated, sploaded version of its predecessor. But the update is an interesting part.
Naturally, I’m getting a larger (7.9 inch, to be precise) screen that appears in full HD at 1080p. But we’re rethinking the Joy-Con controller that clicks on the console via a powerful magnet, rather than a hard slider, which we all put in the wrong way. The buttons are also large so adults can play Mario Kart with similar skills. However, the main new feature of the controller is the new rollerball, which allows each one to operate as a mouse. This allows for new point-and-click features and some interesting control options. I love showing this at a wheelchair basketball game. There, the controller is simulated by sliding it over a long surface to push the wheels.
Nintendo Switch 2.
The new Mario Kart game, Mario Kart World, looks pretty nice. It’s probably inspired by things like Forza Horizon and Test Drive Unlimited and offers an open world to drive. There are also circuit races and endurance competitions where you drive from one side of the map to the other. According to the trailer shown during the live stream, 24 drivers will be able to participate in each race. This will most likely take part in the history of the series. There is also a free roam mode where you can explore where you want or take a scenic drive with friends.
“With Friends” was definitely the theme of the stream. A new C button on Joy-Con opens the GameChat facility. This allows you to start group discussions with friends and family who also own the Switch 2 console. If you also purchase a Switch 2 camera, there is also a video chat option. Like the candy coloured version of Zoom, your companions will be visible along the bottom of the screen when you play the game, and you can chat all of them, even if you’re playing something else. Several trailers shown during the presentation even suggest that video footage from friends will be incorporated into the game itself. This is where Nintendo is always doing its best. Finding new ways to embarrass yourself or to confuse or please your older relatives.
Donkey Kong: Bananza 2 on the Switch. Photo: Nintendo
Was this a knockout victory for Nintendo? Well, there was a Many As for the game’s announcement, I didn’t get a new 3D Mario Adventure, but it sometimes comes after a while after its release. Also, fans have already made Tutankyu about the game’s price. The machine is on sale for an acceptable £395.99 (or £429.99 bundled with Mario Kart World), but Mario Kart World appears to be a retailer for £75. There’s a lot, but Mario Kart 8 lasted throughout the Switch’s lifespan, with most owners getting hundreds of hours of entertainment.
The pre-order process, which opens on April 8th, will be interesting. Scalper turned the release of the Xbox Series X and PS5 into an ugly and expensive drama using Sony’s Machine It’s on sale for $2,000 At some point thanks to limited availability.
Nintendo is good at joy and this really looks like a lovely machine. But amidst a far cry from joy, fans (and their parents) are looking very closely at pre-order and sales figures over the coming weeks.
What to do
The tough brain challenge… Rosewater. Photo: Grundislav Game
I’ve been a Western Adventure Games sucker ever since playing Accolade’s classic Western law for the Commodore 64. Rose water Following journalist Harley Leger, a steampunk-infused point-and-click puzzle, arrives in the prestigious frontier town for work in a local newspaper, but instead gets caught up in a treasure hunt.
Created by Grundislav Games, this is the spiritual successor to the studio’s 2018 title, Lamplight City, but it can come to this fresh one. It’s full of interesting characters and tough brain challenges, and the crisp pixel art is the treatment of Rootin, Tutin. sorry.
Available at: PC, Mac
Estimated playtime: 15-20 hours
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was originally intended for the Wii U. Photo: Nintendo
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Probably, Nintendo Switch 2 News, timing it to match the polygon There are works About playing Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Wii u,This was the intended platform of the previous machine before it reached the switch. Many people have forgotten that they actually got the Wii-U release, but was that… OK? But an interesting read.
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New Industry Site Game Business There is an interview With Alan Tuscan, head of the Netflix games. He sees Wii-style family video games as the future of the platform. “For party games, I think you can use your phone as a very innovative controller. Every phone that has a gyroscope, you have a microphone, so you have a speaker, do you have a touchscreen? Um, as you can, Sony showed PlayLink technology on the PlayStation 4 a few years ago. Maybe Netflix will hang a little more there.
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As a fan of the strange horror game of the mid-1990s, I was so happy to meet Christian Donlan. Written for Eurogamer About Harlan Ellison’s twisted terror adventure, I I have no mouth and I need to scream. The story of the last survivors of a computer-initiated nuclear war, tortured by their approvers, could not be made in a more timely manner.
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This week I continued Blue skiing To ask questions and this concise enquiry game Rainer Sigur:
“Where is the game counter?culture? Does it exist? ”
My equally concise answer is: it’s complicated. This depends on how the term is interpreted.
My copy of the concise Oxford English Dictionary defines counterculture as follows: It could mostly embrace the entire independent game development community, but it could be more specific.
Perhaps Bennett Foddy’s hyper-challenging game is countercultural, as it is not intuitive to purposefully control. Or maybe www.theguardian.com
What lessons can we learn from the remarkable medical expertise of wildlife?
20 years ago Jaap de Roode made discoveries that changed his scientific career. While studying the ecology and evolution of parasites and their hosts, he came across something truly surprising. The butterfly of the monarch, whom he was studying, appeared to be using the medicinal properties of the plant to treat itself and its offspring.
At the time, the notion that insects might be able to receive self-medicine appeared to be far away. Currently, De Roode is a world expert in the fast-growing field of animal medicines, and has his own lab at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He spoke New Scientist about his work, his new book, Naturopathic Doctor: How Ants, Apes and Other Animals Heal themselves, and his belief that animals have medical knowledge that can be used to improve our own health.
Self-medical behavior of chimpanzees and wool bear caterpillars (bottom) is also being studied
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Graham Lawton: How did this realm go?
Jaap de Roode: It started out as a random observation while working in Tanzania in the 1980s. Kyoto University’s Michael Huffman was working with national park ranger Mohandi Seyf Kalunde to investigate the role of older chimpanzees in society. While tracking down something called Chausiku, they realized she had retreated, and she was taking a nap during the day and had diarrhea. They saw her go to the plant called Vernonia also known as bitter leaves. She stripped off the bark and began sucking on the pith. This is not usually part of their diet. Seifu, a traditional healer, told Huffman that he was using it as…
Source: www.newscientist.com
“9 valuable lessons I learned from TikTok, including how to avoid stale potato chips” | TikTok
The average TikTok user is approximately 1 hour every day on the app. However, the app is set to be banned in the US, and US users' screen time is about to decline rapidly.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal against a law banning social media platforms, citing national security concerns. TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance had challenged the law, arguing that it violated free speech protections for its more than 170 million users in the United States. But the ruling was upheld by a unanimous vote, requiring the app to find an approved buyer for the U.S. version by Sunday or be blocked. Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden has said he has no intention of enforcing the ban, instead deferring to that decision. President-elect Donald Trump's administration. While there are rumors that the ban may still be thwarted, a major U.S. exodus has already begun as users flock to alternative Chinese video-sharing app Red Note.
many Users have been Post a “Farewell TikTok” video. The app was first released in the US in 2016. Some of them satirize or mock national security concerns as users bid farewell to “China's personal spies.” Others are more heartfelt, such as a video montage of a teenager turning 18 or a newborn puppy growing into a white-haired dog. Many comments said, “I grew up with this app.”
But that is“What I learned on TikTok that changed my life” video that is the most attractive. While social media is regularly criticized for spreading fake news and harming mental health, these videos show there is a more positive side, at least for some people.
one video by Brigitte Muller piled up Over 1 million views. Her advantage is to use a yoga mat underneath sofa Use cushions to prevent them from slipping off, spray vodka on vintage clothing, etc. Gets rid of musty odor. Thousands of users flocked to the comments section to learn everything from recognizing the characteristics of neurodivergence to making jammy eggs. Some people describe TikTok as the parent or grandmother they never had.
So, in honor of TikTok's final hours (at least in the US), I'm sharing nine of my own favorite lessons.
1. Always roll limes and lemons before squeezing them to maximize the amount of juice. I also ditched the glass lemon squeezer and replaced it with a fork.
2. I envy those houses. architectural digest Does your sofa always seem to have fluffy cushions instead of squishy ones? The secret is Purchase a cushion insert that is 2 inches larger than the cover.
3. To prevent the cutting board from slipping, put a wet tea towel down. And somehow Place a damp kitchen towel next to the onion. meanwhile Chopping stops the eye streaming.
4. You are tying the dressing gown incorrectly. Remove the tie and rethread it through the loop so that it hangs in front of you. after that Instead of tying it at the back, Pull the ends together at the front and voila! It will not open unexpectedly again.
5. A former American POW tells us How to keep a bag of potato chips fresh without using rubber bands or clips. TLift the bag and fold the two corners so that the top forms a triangle. Next, roll the other side under and curl it completely, creating two “pockets” on the other side. Turn it over and keep it in place Clips are never stale again.
6. Instead Do you leave your cosmetics scattered near the sink? I dumped my bag by the front door when I entered the house and now follow this mantra: “Don’t put it down, please put it away.” IIf you use something and then immediately put it back in its original place, No need to organize it later.
7. How to use Turntable – aka Lazy Susan – Storing spices means they don’t have to be rooted deep in the back of your cupboard That particular seasoning seemed like I would never find it.
8. Turn the box mold to make it easier to grate the cheese. put the grater aside. The same goes for can openers. put it on top of the canrather than using it from the side. Stops sharp and jagged edges.
9. Hair dryer helps remove stubborn stains glass and plastic adhesive labels. You can also remove address labels from cardboard boxes. Very useful for reusing after purchasing on eBay or Vinted.
Source: www.theguardian.com
Lessons from history: Strategies for defeating a wild emu
COP load of this
As COP29, the latest round of international climate negotiations, struggles in Azerbaijan, Feedback watches bemused from afar. We have previously covered several COPs and are still on most of the relevant mailing lists. So, as I write this on November 18th, we know that the Climate Action Network's Fossil of the Day is South Korea. That's because South Korea single-handedly blocked a deal by high-income countries to end oil and gas subsidies. Yes, that's enough.
Holding a conference dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a country as heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports as Azerbaijan was always likely to backfire. Feedback believed that diplomacy was about understanding other people's motives, but apparently no one could reconcile what the Azerbaijani government wanted. Soon, President Ilham Aliyev announced that oil and gas “gift from god'', the country's chief negotiator was photographed saying in his opening speech. Apparently they are arranging it A meeting to discuss fossil fuel trading.
Then the conference actually started – or rather, it didn’t really start. On the first day, work stalled within the first hour as several countries objected to the rest of the meeting's agenda. This is how I spent my first day Renegotiating the agendawhile the delegates sat around with nothing to do. Still, climate change is not an urgent problem.
Feedback would like to think things are only uphill from here, but the experience of the past decade suggests otherwise. And I still get shivers when I think about the last night of one of the COPs we attended. It was well past the evening, so the agreement was signed and the party was supposed to start. But then we see young diplomats carrying stacks of take-out pizza boxes into the negotiating room, and we realize that even in the best case scenario, we'll be there until the early hours of the morning. I noticed. Feedback does not endorse this experience or any cases of caffeine addiction associated with it.
Find your inner villain
News Editorial Assistant Alexandra Thompson calls our attention to a brilliantly titled paper about the psychology research repository PsyArXiv.What it means to be a true badass: An experimental investigation of a commonplace concept.”. Its authors, Briana Nguyen and Michael Prinzing, set out to explain what we mean when we say someone is a “bad person.” It's not clear, since both Genghis Khan and Malala Yousafzai could be called villains, but “they are about as different as you can imagine,” they say. Well, quite a bit.
Researchers used a series of online surveys to find out what kinds of people were counted as bad guys and what kinds of people were not. From this, it became clear that “badass'' is a two-layered concept. It has a superficial meaning of being physically strong or having a “fearsome presence.” But there's also a deeper inner meaning about “moral resilience and courage.”
According to the author, Yousafzai embodies this inner evil, while Khan embodies more of the external evil. Feedback is less certain. We read a biography of Khan by John Mann, and he showed remarkable courage in a difficult situation. Still, the distinction between inner and outer badasses sounds plausible.
Feedback sometimes enjoys this kind of research, which delves into the subtle meanings of everyday terms, in quiet moments. A classic example is Harry Frankfurt's book About bullshit. Frankfurt was a philosopher who distinguished between lying (telling a falsehood with the purpose of clearly misleading someone) and bullshit (telling a lie, regardless of its truth or falsity, in order to serve one's own purpose).
About bullshit is useful to read because it explicitly states what we all implicitly understand. Once the concept is clear, it's easier to find examples, which is why June's paper was frankly titled.ChatGPT is bullshit“It's also great to have a term that is accurate and allows for the overused swear words. We think Frankfurt was the worst.
emu in flight
On November 15th, CBS News published twowild and untrainedAn emu (are there other types?) has escaped in South Carolina. They had apparently escaped three months earlier, but their escape didn't garner any attention until 43 monkeys escaped from a medical research facility in the same state. As of November 18th, Six of the monkeys remained at large.. Faced with hordes of marauding monkeys on the run, journalists began looking for similar stories and found (or rather, didn't find) rogue emus.
Feedback doesn't get any lower than at your local police department.Not EMU-SED“However, we would like to reiterate the following point. matthew downhour About Blue Sky: “Okay, if you didn't want them to get out of control and be irresponsible, why did you name them like that?“?That's a good question because the emus' names are Thelma and Louise.
If US authorities are unable to recapture the bird, they may take notes from the Australians. fought a famous short war against wild emus in 1932. surely, The emu decisively won the conflict.But failure is the best teacher.
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Lessons from Uninhabitable Venus: Exploring the Potential for Extraterrestrial Life
Given the diversity and complexity of endogenous and extrinsic processes that contribute to the maintenance of habitable conditions over geological and biological timescales, it is unclear how rocky planets become habitable and their status. Fully understanding how it is maintained is a fundamental challenge for planetary scientists and astrobiologists. In the face of this challenge, it is essential to exploit the full range of atmospheric evolution data for rocky planets within the solar system. Although Venus represents an apparent fringe member of planetary habitability, its contribution to understanding the prevalence of long-term temperate surface conditions in large rocky worlds remains poorly recognized. Upcoming missions to Venus, including NASA's VERITAS and DAVINCI, and ESA's EnVision mission, will begin to crystallize this understanding.
Kane and Byrne describe Venus as an anchor point where planetary scientists can better understand the conditions that prevent life on exoplanets. Image credit: Kane & Byrne, doi: 10.1038/s41550-024-02228-5.
“We often assume that Earth is a model of habitability, but when we consider this planet in isolation, we don’t know where the boundaries and limits are. Venus gives us that. '' said Dr. Stephen Cain, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Riverside.
“Although they also feature a pressure cooker-like atmosphere that could flatten humans in an instant, Earth and Venus share some similarities.”
“They have roughly the same mass and radius. Given their proximity to the planet, it’s natural to wonder why Earth looked so different.”
Many scientists believe that solar flux, the amount of energy Venus receives from the sun, caused a runaway greenhouse effect that doomed Earth.
“If Earth receives 100% of the solar energy, Venus collects 191%. Many people think that’s why Venus looks different,” Dr. Kane said.
“But wait a minute. Venus doesn’t have a moon, but that gives Earth something like ocean tides and affects the amount of water here.”
In addition to some of the known differences, more NASA missions to Venus will also clarify some of the unknowns.
Planetary scientists have no idea how big its core is, how it arrived at its current relatively slow rotational speed, how its magnetic field has changed over time, or the chemistry of its lower atmosphere. i don’t know.
“Venus has no detectable magnetic field. That may be related to the size of its core,” Dr. Kane said.
“The size of the core also gives us information about how the planet cools. Earth has a mantle, and heat circulates through its core. What’s going on inside Venus? I don’t know.”
“The interior of a rocky planet also influences its atmosphere. That is the case for Earth, and our atmosphere is primarily the result of volcanic gas emissions.”
Schematic cross-section of Earth and Venus. Major internal and atmospheric components are shown to scale. Image credit: Kane & Byrne, doi: 10.1038/s41550-024-02228-5.
NASA is planning two missions to Venus (DAVINCI and VERITAS) for the end of this decade, and Dr. Cain is supporting both.
The DAVINCI mission will explore the acid-filled atmosphere and measure noble gases and other chemical elements.
“DAVINCI measures the atmosphere from top to bottom. This is extremely useful for building new climate models and predicting this type of atmosphere elsewhere, including on Earth, as the amount of carbon dioxide continues to increase. ,” Dr. Kane said.
Although the Veritas mission will not land on the surface, it will allow scientists to reconstruct detailed 3D terrain, which could reveal whether the planet has active plate tectonics or volcanoes.
“Currently, our global map is very incomplete. Understanding how active a surface is and understanding how it has changed over time are very different. We need both types of information,” Dr. Kane said.
Ultimately, Dr. Kane and his co-author, Dr. Paul Byrne of Washington University in St. Louis, advocate such a mission to Venus for two main reasons.
One is that with better data, we can use Venus to confirm that our inferences about life on distant planets are correct.
“The somber thing about searching for life elsewhere in the universe is that we will never have in-situ data on exoplanets. We will never go there, land on them, or measure them directly. I don’t intend to,” Dr. Kane said.
“If we think there is life on the surface of another planet, we may never realize we are wrong and end up dreaming of a planet without life.” I guess.”
“We can only get it right by understanding the Earth-sized planets we can visit. Venus gives us that chance.”
Another reason to study Venus is that it can predict what Earth’s future will be.
“One of the main reasons we study Venus is because of our sacred duty as stewards of this planet to protect its future,” Dr. Kane said.
“My hope is that by studying how Venus came to be today, we can learn lessons from it, especially if it had a benign past that is now in ruins. The question is when and how.”
of review paper It was published in the magazine natural astronomy.
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Stephen R. Cain and Paul K. Byrne. 2024. Venus as an anchor point for planetary habitability. Nat Astron 8, 417-424; doi: 10.1038/s41550-024-02228-5
Source: www.sci.news
The Post Office Horizon Scandal: Valuable Lessons for Big Tech Companies to Learn
TThe Post Office Horizon scandal has long been a frustrating one to follow as a technology reporter. Because even though it stems from the failure to deploy a large-scale government IT project, it’s not about technology at all.
In such stories there is a desire to uncover the specific fault lines that caused the disaster to occur. Taking Grenfell Tower as an example, the entire system was flawed and the investigation into the fire revealed gory details, but it is also clear that the fatal error was in covering the building with combustible panels. Identifying that fulcrum leads both ways to further questions (how were the panels deemed safe, and was the building able to be safely evacuated despite their flaws?), but the catastrophic It is clear where it is.
I feel like there should be comparable focus points in the Horizon system. “What happened at Horizon that led to so many false accounts?” is a question I’ve asked many times over the decade since I first learned of the scandal. Thanks to Computer Weekly for the coverage. I searched for systems in the hopes of finding some important crux, a terrible decision around which all subsequent problems swirl, that could be sensibly explained to provide a technical foundation for a very human story of malice and greed. I’ve been looking into architecture.
Still, the conclusion I’m forced to draw is that Horizon was really, really broken. From toe to toe, the system was terrible. Each postmaster had fundamentally different flaws, so a plethora of technical errors, worst practice decisions, and lazy cutbacks were probably part of the reason the Postal Service continued to fight for so long. Masu.
One system continued to accept input even when the screen froze, writing transactions to the database invisibly, while other systems simply had edge-case bugs in the underlying system that caused transactions to change. It just couldn’t lock when it shouldn’t have. There was also a problem with the network with the central database, causing transactions to be dropped without warning whenever there was a problem with the data connection.
Still, if you want to trace the point in time when bad IT became a crisis, you need to look completely into the technology past. The Post Office declared Horizon to be functional as legal tender. Everything that happened after that was a logical conclusion. If Horizon works, the cause of the error should be in the subpostmaster operation. If they say they haven’t made a mistake, they must have committed fraud. If they committed fraud, a conviction is morally right.
But Horizon didn’t work.
Today’s big technology companies aren’t so cocky as to claim that their software is perfect. In fact, the opposite is accepted as reality. The phrase “all software has bugs” is repeated too often and casually, implying that users are demanding too much of the technology they rely and work reliably on.
But they often still act as if they believe the opposite. My inbox is constantly filled with unmanageable people who have been falsely flagged as spammers, scammers, or robots by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple’s automated systems. These people have lost years of shopping, lost access to friends and family, and lost the pages and profiles on which they built their careers. I can’t help them all and still do my day job, but strangely enough, the cases I decide I can contact a large company for are almost always easily resolved. It turns out.
No one would argue that even the worst software Google has put out is as broken as Horizon. (The Post Office says the current version of the software, created in 2017, has been found to be “robust compared to comparable systems.”) But the real culprit is broken software with flaws. If you’re acting like something isn’t supposed to be there, that’s serious. The tech industry may have more lessons to learn from this scandal than it’s willing to admit.
Source: www.theguardian.com
Transforming Autobiographies into Interactive Black History Lessons with GenAI
We often talk about the negative aspects of AI, but what about the positive aspects, such as being able to interact with authors and historical figures based on feeding their writing into large-scale language models? james lowry He may not be a household name, but his history is part of the black experience in America. Lowry grew up in Chicago, spent time in the Peace Corps in the early 1960s, and was the first black person hired as a consultant at McKinsey in 1968.
He has dedicated his life to getting major companies to invest in historically underrepresented communities. He has recently published books such as: change agent. Looking at his life. His partner at Upfront Ventures, General Kobie Fuller, is turning to a customized approach to generative AI (which he calls his Kobie AI) as a way to reimagine blog posts as an interactive medium. It is working.
He has experimented with several themes, from bartending to emotions in marketing. The latest one is Jim Lowry AI for DEI. He fed Lowry’s book into a large-scale language model to allow users to ask questions about diversity, equity, and inclusion. The results were impressive. Fuller says he has the privilege of speaking with Fuller whenever he wants, and that this technology uniquely gives others that ability.
“This book is amazing. It basically presents the book in this interactive format where you can explore all the greatness of the gym,” Fuller told TechCrunch.
Lowry says he wrote the book as a way to educate people about his experiences in the world, but not everyone will read the book, and it’s important to note that AI will allow people to share their experiences in the world. He also recognizes that it gives him an opportunity to understand the department. In his life, you don’t have to read 300 pages, just ask a question.
james lowry Image credits: boston consulting group
“I thought this would be powerful in terms of sharing the insights and wisdom that I’ve accumulated over the years with a lot of people. Even if people buy a book, they don’t necessarily read the entire book. No. What I would say is, I think using AI in this way is another part of this effort that is very powerful,” Rowley said.
This AI starts with a prompt asking the user to get started.
I have dedicated my life to working in DEI, and I understand that this story is very sensitive for many people. If you have any questions, we’re here. I also get to share some wisdom from my life’s journey. what’s on your mind?
Then you ask questions, and the answers you get are surprisingly sophisticated, perhaps because they’re based on what Laurie actually says and does. Students, historians, DEI experts, or anyone interested can ask questions about DEI issues and get detailed answers. You can also ask about specific experiences in Lowry’s life, such as meeting Senator Robert F. Kennedy while serving in the Peace Corps. -1960s.
This gives people the opportunity to interact with Lowery through his work, which will remain his legacy and pass on to future generations as an educational tool to understand his experiences as a Black man working in American business. It will be given to you.
While Fuller is researching this technology, he’s excited about the power of generative AI and how it can help people make sense of other people’s experiences, and perhaps even help others. It shows how it can be used to serve as a vehicle for interacting with important experiences. Historical figure.
Source: techcrunch.com
