Fortnite Festival is Rock Band without the plastic instruments
What that means is you’ll be hitting notes along to popular songs, but instead of doing that on a toy guitar or drum set, you’re using a game controller or mouse and keyboard. The basic flow is identical, though: notes move down a lane, and you have to hit (or hold) the corresponding button in…
Pregnant megamouth shark washed up on beach is first ever seen
Megamouth sharks are rarely seen by humans BIOSPHOTO / Alamy A megamouth shark that stranded in the Philippines is the first pregnant individual ever recorded in this rare species. The finding confirms that megamouths (Megachasma pelagios) are ovoviviparous: their eggs develop inside the mother’s body and she gives birth to live young. Discovered by scientists…
Bitcoin Core’s ‘v26.0’ Upgrade Aims to Impede Eavesdropping, Tampering
“This proposal for a new P2P protocol version (v2) aims to improve upon this by raising the costs for performing these attacks substantially, primarily through the use of unauthenticated, opportunistic transport encryption,” according to the proposal. A key benefit is that “encryption, even when it is unauthenticated and only used when both endpoints support v2,…
Helping computer vision and language models understand what they see | MIT News
Powerful machine-learning algorithms known as vision and language models, which learn to match text with images, have shown remarkable results when asked to generate captions or summarize videos. While these models excel at identifying objects, they often struggle to understand concepts, like object attributes or the arrangement of items in a scene. For instance, a…
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on his new film Monster
A building is on fire; we don’t know why. A principal at an elementary school trips a kid at the grocery store; we don’t know why. A student gets in a fight with a classmate, leading to a messy altercation with a teacher; we don’t know why. Monster is a return to form for veteran…
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels hit another all-time high
CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are still rising globally Jose A. Bernat Bacete/Getty Images This year’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are projected to reach 36.8 billion tonnes by the end of 2023 – another all-time high. The finding, from the annual Global Carbon Budget report, adds to the long list of alarming…
Debate Over Censorship and Innovation Ignites in Blockchain Communities
Solana, the layer-1 smart-contract blockchain, has seen its SOL token jump sixfold this year, vastly outperforming its dominant rival, Ethereum, whose ether (ETH) is up just 92%. According to the digital-asset analysis firm Messari, the gains for Solana have coincided with signs of strong transactional activity on the network: Weekly active addresses on Solana have…
A. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care | MIT News
An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and fellowship awards to his name, A. Michael West is nonchalant about how he chose his path. “I kind of fell into it,” the mechanical engineering PhD candidate says, adding that growing up in suburban California, he was social, athletic — and good…
Shipwrecks are havens for wildlife in areas threatened by fishing
Wrecks can be valuable habitats for corals, sea anemones and other animals on the sea floor Marcus Rose Shipwrecks can provide an important refuge for marine life in areas subject to heavy fishing pressure, despite being an unnatural part of the ecosystem. Bottom trawling, which involves dragging nets across the seafloor, has a devastating impact…
JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Sen. Elizabeth Warren Team Up to Bash Crypto
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has never been shy about trashing crypto, even while his giant Wall Street bank became a leader in using blockchain technology to move billions. At a U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday, he slammed the industry again, to the delight of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is trying to impose restrictions to…