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A 3D mature storm two hours into a simulation with the new implementation. The clouds are colored in gray, the semi-transparent blue shading represents the presence of rain, and the light and dark blue shadings represent temperature, showing where the air is cold due to evaporating rain. A sample of the 3D unstructured grid used for the simulation is shown in the background. Credit: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (2023). DOI:…

It’ll hit the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service on June 23 After a short drought, we’re finally getting more Switch Online + Expansion pack games in the form of the Super Mario Advance series. Now, the service is hosting another Game Boy Advance (GBA) Fire Emblem on June 23. In case you’re wondering: yes, this entry is also called Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. As it arrived in 2003 on the GBA, Blazing Blade was the first entry that was localized outside of Japan and helped put the series on the map worldwide. As…

LAS VEGAS —  Having grown up in England and played in the Arsenal academy, Folarin Balogun knows something about passionate soccer rivalries.But it’s unlikely even that background prepared for him what he experienced Thursday when he made his U.S. national team debut in a 3-0 win over Mexico in a CONCACAF Nations League semifinal that ended with both teams missing multiple players to red cards.The victory, which ran the Americans’ unbeaten streak against Mexico to six games, also earned the U.S. a berth in Sunday’s…

Whisper Aero says its electric aircraft propulsion systems are "20% more efficient and 100x quieter than anything else on the market." They're designed for drones, planes and possibly eVTOLs, and there's also a funky-looking concept plane.eVTOLs and delivery drones promise to bring large numbers of aircraft closer than ever before to urban life. Most people find today's drones annoyingly loud and wouldn't want them whirring overhead on a daily basis, and Whisper has raised some US$40 million and bagged some military…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Northumbria University and King's College London have published findings outlining the extent that textile fibers transfer during controlled assault scenarios. Their work, recently published in the academic journal Science & Justice, is the first time the number of fibers…

Customer vehicles sit parked outside an Advance Auto Parts automotive supply store in La Grange, Kentucky.Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Advance Auto Parts plummeted nearly 30% during premarket trading Wednesday after the company's first-quarter earnings significantly missed Wall Street's expectations and executives slashed the retailer's yearly guidance and quarterly dividend.The Raleigh-based auto parts supplier blamed its dismal first-quarter results and bleaker outlook on higher-than-expected costs…

Learn why and how mastering Rust can advance your career in the cybersecurity sector Developers have shown a stronger desire to study and master the Rust programming language during the past several years, but they are not the only ones. Ransomware gangs are increasingly coding or rewriting their software in Rust, according to recent findings by cybersecurity researchers. According to a security assessment issued in December by Trend Micro, the Agenda group recently released a version of its ransomware that had been…

Pocket Plumbing As previously announced, Nintendo has brought three classics of the Game Boy Advance era to the Nintendo Switch Online archives. As of today, Expansion Pack subscribers can revisit the Super Mario Advance trilogy, consisting of Super Mario Advance (2001), Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (2001) and Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (2002). For those yet to experience these pint-sized classics, they are essentially revamped editions of some classic Super Mario Bros. titles, namely Super Mario…

Artificial intelligence’s next major evolution is close at hand and warrants the formation of a global oversight force similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says. “Now is a good time to start thinking about the governance of superintelligence—future AI systems dramatically more capable than even AGI,” Altman ominously said in a blog post co-authored by Open AI president Greg Brockman and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. Within 10 years, artificial intelligence systems may…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The pixel size of satellite imagery is getting finer and finer in the last decade with the development spaceborne cameras. What is in store for Earth observations if the 10-cm satellite imagery is available in near future? Forest remote sensing scientists believe it may open a new era for the detection of tree heights. …