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The file size for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has seemingly been reduced ahead of the game's launch next week.In February, it was reported that Tears of the Kingdom would have a file size of 18.2GB, making it the biggest Nintendo Switch game of all time made by Nintendo. However, according to the updated store page for the game, the title will now be only 16GB. You need a javascript enabled browser to watch videos.Size:640 × 360480 × 270 Want us to…

On September 16, 2022, a homemade motion-detecting camera set up by Daichi Fujii near Mount Fuji, Japan, captured green laser light from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite. It’s the first time the ICESat-2 team has seen footage of the lidar instrument at work. The satellite has six beams; the left-most beam in the image is Beam 4, the stronger beam next to it is Beam 3. The two shorter and fainter green streaks in the image are the beams scattering off higher clouds, and the dot that appears next to those faint streaks is the…

Image via Marvel Studios Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is fast approaching, and with it the daunting reminder that we’re running out of time to grant our hearts the necessary callouses to make it through this one without sobbing. Indeed, with what’s seemingly a new reminder every day that this is the end of the Guardians as we know it, we’ll all have to be prepared for a tragic death or two once Vol. 3 hits theaters. And nothing has telegraphed this quite like the trailers have (Dave Bautista’s imminent MCU…

A recent Australian study discovered fundamental differences in immune responses between the AstraZeneca and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. The AstraZeneca vaccine elicited an unexpected memory-like response, potentially explaining its rare association with blood clotting, while the Pfizer vaccine induced stronger B and T cell activity. Booster doses, particularly mRNA ones, were found to be crucial for enhancing immune responses.Scientists identify key differences in immune responses to the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines.A…

This view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during the mission’s close flyby on September 29, 2022. The agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore the moon when it reaches orbit around Jupiter in 2030. Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Image processing: Kevin M. Gill CC BY 3.0Research reveals a new explanation for how the icy shell of <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div…

Pancreatic cancer is a formidable and often aggressive form of cancer that arises in the pancreas, a vital organ responsible for producing hormones and digestive enzymes. This disease is particularly challenging to diagnose and treat, as it often goes unnoticed until it reaches advanced stages.Immunotherapy has proven to be a successful treatment approach for various cancer types, but its efficacy in pancreatic cancer is limited and exhibits disparities between men and women. Scientists at the Karolinska Institute have…

An intuitive explanation of the Tabu Search optimization algorithm and how to apply it to the traveling salesman problemPhoto by Clint Adair on UnsplashIn one of my previous posts, we discussed the meta-heuristic optimization algorithm Simulated Annealing. This is a stochastic search algorithm that is used to try to find the global optimum in combinatorial optimization problems such as the famous traveling salesman problem (TSP) and knapsack problem.There is another similar algorithm named the Tabu Search, which can be…

Introducing maximum likelihood estimation, maximum a posteriori estimation and Bayesian InferencePhoto by fabio on UnsplashIn this post we will introduce the concepts MLE (maximum likelihood estimation), MAP (maximum a posteriori estimation) and Bayesian inference — which are fundamental to statistics, data science and machine learning, to name just a few fields. We will explain each method using the same example of an unfair coin toss, derive results analytically and numerically (for Bayesian inference) and show…

Image via Marvel Studios Michael Peña is a scene-stealer even when he’s not in the movie. One of the biggest talking points ever since Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania hit theaters last week has been the absence of Peña’s fan-favorite Luis from the familial adventures. Director Peyton Reed has said his piece on the matter, but fans aren’t buying it. Reed has revealed, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, that Luis was never in the plans for Quantumania, unfortunately. As much as the director loves the…

Image via Marvel Studios Peyton Reed, the director behind Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, has finally answered fan questions about the Quantum Realm as the threequel gives us a closer look at the mysterious hidden world. The film that’s going to kick start Marvel Phase Five and introduce the next big bad has its general release tomorrow. Reed really had his work cut out for him as the director has had to create a follow-up to 2018’s Ant-Man and The Wasp whilst also setting up for the cosmic scale battles…