Tackles

Swords, eikons, and action, oh my This is a special version made for media to experience. Contents may differ from the final version. Each of the mainline, numbered Final Fantasy entries takes a departure from its predecessors. The series maintains its thematic through-lines in its summons, its monsters, and in names like Cid; but each release, especially from the PlayStation 2 onwards, reinvents itself too. Final Fantasy XVI is certainly no different. We got a chance to go hands-on with a build of Final Fantasy XVI,…

Senator Dick Durbin waves his cell phone at a crowd of advocates calling for change.Screenshot: Senate Committee on the Judiciary / Gizmodo“The last search on his phone before Carson ended his life was for hacks to find out the identities of his abusers,” said Kristin Bride, the parent of a child suicide victimand a social media reform advocate. Bride testified before a panel of senators about the cyberbullying that led to her son’s death and the other problems that plague kids online. “These are not coincidences,…

Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming presidential election, on Monday blamed the Muhammadu Buhari administration for the recent downgrade of the nation’s credit rating. Mr Abubakar said he would steer away the course of the Nigerian economy from the gloomy direction it is headed towards a robust fiscal sustainability. The former Nigerian vice president made the disclosure in a statement seen by PREMIUM TIMES in reaction to Friday’s downgrade of Nigerian…

Nigeria’s former minister of education and co-founder of the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ movement, Oby Ezekwesili, has criticised the former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, over claims that he led the Economic Management Team during the administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo. In a series of tweets posted on her official Twitter page Tuesday, Mrs Ezekwesili asked Mr Abubakar to “stop misleading” the public, adding that the PDP…

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) on Sunday expressed concerns over the passage of the 2022 Finance Bill by the National Assembly. A statement by Muda Yusuf, director of the think tank, said the “hasty passage” of the bill calls to question the representation role of the National Assembly, adding that there was no room for public hearing and engagement with stakeholders in the consideration of the bill. On Wednesday, the National Assembly passed the Finance Bill, a legislation that…

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The terrible conversation in the hospital consulting room – everyone’s final rite of passage – is the starting point for this deeply felt, beautifully acted movie from screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro and director Oliver Hermanus: a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1953 film Ikiru, or To Live.A buttoned-up civil servant works joylessly in the town planning department; he is a lonely widower estranged from his grasping son and daughter-in-law. In the original, he was Mr Watanabe, played by Takashi Shimura. Now he is Mr Williams,…

Folks blessed with a soft touch seem to have no problem getting to grips with delicate objects, but it can be a tough ask for robots. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have taken a strength-in-numbers approach with a gripper that curls multiple thin tubes around a fragile object.The SEAS team notes that many of the robotic grippers in use or in the lab combine machine-learning algorithms, complicated feedback control systems and numerous sensors with operator…

The days of sharing a Netflix password with several friends or family members are almost over. This Monday, the streaming service is launching Profile Transfer, which is a feature that preserves all information from a profile when the user needs to create a new Netflix account of their own. The information comes from Variety and it’s the latest tackle on password-sharing, which the company thinks is one of the biggest problems of the platform – but not forbidding users to stream 4K content unless they pay the…

A new, privately funded venture announced today it has recruited more than 20 top scientists and is pouring $15 million raised so far into Long Covid research, with plans to launch clinical trials of treatments as soon as possible. The scientist who spearheaded the Long Covid Research Initiative (LCRI), microbiologist Amy Proal at the Washington state–based nonprofit PolyBio Research Foundation, says the goal is to bring in $100 million. Half would be dedicated to trials, which…