Ability

Destiny 2's latest major update is here, coinciding with the beginning of Season of the Wish, and it brings with it some big shake-ups to gameplay including changes to Crucible, abilities, armor mods, and more. Here's the rundown.Ability changes are coming in as part of Update 7.3.0, including a change to melee slides and shoulder charges that reduces their potential for lethality. Bungie has also halved melee lunge suppression time for players who are hit by certain displacing melee abilities. Bungie has…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain When Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the year for 2023 was "authentic," it did so with over a month to go in the calendar year. Even then, the dictionary publisher was late to the game. In a lexicographic form of Christmas creep, Collins English Dictionary announced its 2023 word of the year,…

When Reid DeSpiegelaere, chief development officer at Every Child Pediatrics, talks about his work’s mission, he points to the name of the nonprofit organization, Every Child Pediatrics. “We see every child,” DeSpiegelaere said. “We’ve never turned a child away.” That holds true regardless of a family’s ability to pay for medical services, from routine check-ups, vaccines and nutritional guidance to behavioral and mental health care. Every Child Pediatrics primarily sees kids who are uninsured or on Medicaid, offering a…

Spotify, the music streamer that continues to prove hugely popular among both iPhone and Android users, is reportedly testing a new feature that actually disables an existing one. Yes, you read that right.Not only is the new feature the ability to turn another feature off, but that feature is actually one of the very best things about Spotify. Perhaps the reason that some people use Spotify over competing music streaming services like Apple Music and others.That feature is personalized recommendations, something that…

The Predicted Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and the 5-Point Unrealistic Optimism Scale—Sociodemographic, Socioeconomic and Educational Attainment Controls Included. Note. Bars (with 95% confidence intervals) represent the predicted probabilities of unrealistic optimism, for those high (+2 standard deviations from the mean) and low (−2 standard deviations from the mean) on cognitive ability. Credit: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin…

The analysis revealed a strong statistical link between higher cognitive ability and having voted "Remain". Credit: TheDigitalArtist, Pixabay, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) A new analysis suggests that a person with higher cognitive ability may have been more likely to vote "Remain" in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and that a spouse's cognitive skills may also be linked to Brexit voting decisions. Chris Dawson…

WhatsApp is rolling out an update that allows users on iOS to link their email address to their WhatsApp account. The messaging app currently allows users to log in to their account using their registered phone number — adding an email address will allow for an additional avenue of access to WhatsApp. Email addresses will not be visible to contacts, and adding one can prove useful when it is not possible to receive an SMS code to log in to WhatsApp.As part of the update to WhatsApp for iOS…

With the Android 14 update, Google has done away with the ability to access notifications using the app icon long press method. This method became popular over the years and was a fun and quick way to see notifications on each app easily. All users needed to do was to long press on the app’s icon from the homepage and a pop-up window will appear showing off a handful of details. Among these details will be the notifications on the app, so users can quickly glance through them. Due to the small size of the pop-up window,…

The Lancet report states that 2023 has already turned out to be the hottest year on record. And now, each year sees an increase in the number of heat-related deaths. Even after half of November, winter has not arrived entirely in Northern India, including Delhi. The earth's average temperature is rising annually, which is the reason behind this. The world has been focusing on this temperature rise due to a report published in the British journal Lancet.The Lancet report states that 2023 has already turned out to be the…

Overwatch 2's Roadhog is the latest hero in Blizzard's shooter to receive a rework, and it brings some major changes to how players will approach playing the hook-focused tank.As detailed in a recent livestream, nearly every aspect of Roadhog, aside from his hook, has been touched in some form. His primary weapon, Scrap Gun, is losing its secondary fire ability. The number of pellets fired with Scrap Gun's primary fire is being reduced as well, but each pellet will deal more damage, and the attack will…