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The world of adaptive controllers can often feel expensive and overly complicated for a player with disabilities. Paying $100-plus for a base controller and then an extra $80-plus for extensions that you aren't sure will work for you feels intimidating and, at the end of the day, like a significant investment for something that may not provide the ideal experience. However, adaptive, ergonomically designed, and affordable equipment is a hole in the market that Sony is now attempting to fill with the…

Screenshot: HuluThe mystery of “Who killed Tim Kono?” is coming to ABC. Emmy-nominated Hulu Original comedy series Only Murders in the Building is the latest title to shift from streaming to broadcast, with the first three episodes of season one arriving in early 2024.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedAccording to an ABC press release, the first three episodes of Only Murders—which stars Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez as New York City neighbors who start a true-crime podcast investigating…

Evolution is unfolding all around us as species tussle to survive or find ways to coexist, but it's still a relatively rare privilege to stumble across examples of life in the wild adapting right before our eyes.So you can imagine researchers' surprise when they realized a genus of fungi appears to be straddling the biological boundaries ecologists have long used to describe them.Using genetic and chemical analyses, a Danish-led team of mycologists surveyed 10 plant species from five dispersed locations looking for…

MIT’s StableRep system uses synthetic images from text-to-image models for machine learning, surpassing traditional real-image methods. It offers a deeper understanding of concepts and cost-effective training but faces challenges like potential biases and the need for initial real data training.MIT CSAIL researchers innovate with synthetic imagery to train AI, paving the way for more efficient and bias-reduced machine learning.Data is the new soil, and in this fertile new ground, MIT researchers are planting more than…

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 mobile platform could feature considerable performance and efficiency gains, according to a cryptic post by known leaker Revegnus on X (formerly Twitter). The post claims that Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chips can achieve a multi-core score of 10,000 in Geekbench 6 benchmarks. Additionally, Revegnus says that the chips only draw 8 watts of power, which is extremely low for that level of performance. For reference, Apple’s A17 Pro chip — the gold standard of mobile processors — reaches about 7,200 in…

Firefighters are battling multiple brush fires that broke out miles from one another in the Santa Clarita Valley amid triple-digit temperatures Tuesday.A brush fire near the edge of the Angeles National Forest swelled from 4 acres to 100 acres in less than two hours Tuesday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. County firefighters were assisting crews from the Angeles National Forest in fighting the Agua fire, which was reported at 2:12 p.m. near Soledad Canyon and Agua Dulce Canyon roads in…

The EuroAsia grid interconnector – the longest and deepest in the world – will connect Greece, Israel, and Cyprus.  EuroAsia’s 525kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable will be the world’s longest – it will run 310 km (190 miles) from Israel to Cyprus, and 898 km (558 miles) from Cyprus to Greece, for a total of 1,208 km (751 miles). That’s the same distance as between St. Petersburg and Berlin. It will also be the world’s deepest grid interconnector: It will run across the…

By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press Wondering if you should choose to accept the latest “Mission: Impossible” entry? Maybe you’re sick of all the bombast at the movie theater lately? Well, put it another way: Do you really want to disappoint Tom Cruise? On the first day cameras were rolling for “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One,” Cruise drove a motorcycle off an actual 4,000-foot Norwegian cliff and then parachuted down. He did it for you. The least you can do to repay him is watch his movie, right? If you do…

Global warming took off in the mid-1970s when the rise in global mean surface temperature exceeded natural variability. Every decade after the 1960s has been warmer than the one before and the 2010s were the warmest on record. But there can be a lot of variability from one year to the next.Now, in 2023, all kinds of records are being broken. The highest daily temperatures ever recorded globally occurred in early July, alongside the largest sea surface temperature anomaly ever.June had its highest global mean surface…

Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: July 05, 2023, 10:34 ISTLondon, United Kingdom (UK)Toyota says it has made a technological breakthrough that will allow it to halve the weight, size and cost of batteries, in what could herald a major advance for electric vehicles, a media report said.The world’s second largest carmaker was already pursuing a plan to roll out cars with advanced solid-state batteries, which offer benefits compared with liquid-based batteries, by 2025, The Guardian reported.On Tuesday, the Japanese…