WTF?! It's something many people have thought about: when a lottery jackpot reaches an enormous figure, would it be possible to buy every combination of numbers to guarantee a win? There are plenty of reasons why this is usually impossible or just doesn't work, but a team that included a legendary gambler showed it could be done by winning a $95 million Texas lottery jackpot. The story started in the spring of 2023, when London banker-turned-bookmaker Bernard Marantelli wanted to buy every ticket combination in an upcoming Texas lottery to guarantee the jackpot win, which was closing in on $95 million. With tickets priced at $1 each and 25.8 million combinations, the profit would be almost $60 million, writes the Wall Street Journal. This assumes no one else picked the winning combination; otherwise, the prize would have been split. Marantelli put together a team that included famed Tasmanian gambler Zeljko Ranogajec (aka John Wilson), who bankrolled the operation. His reputation for pulling off capers at gambling venues had earned him the nickname "The Joker." The plan was to use the machines that allow people to play the lottery by picking their numbers and receiving a printed ticket. In 2023, Texas allowed online lottery-ticket vendors to open shops to print tickets for their customers. Marantelli flew to Texas and established four makeshift ticket-printing hubs, including a warehouse and a defunct dentist's office. They acquired official lottery terminals from a struggling online lottery vendor, Lottery.com, and printed nonstop for three days. The team had converted each number combination into a QR code, which were scanned into the terminals by crew members using their phones. They were printing over 100 tickets every second to purchase 99.3% of every possible combination of the six numbers from 1 to 54. // Related Stories The printed tickets were organized into boxes so the winning numbers could be easily located. Surely enough, one of the tickets won the jackpot. It was the only winner. After taking a lump sum payout of $57.8 million, the team walked away with a profit of around $20 million. via The Wall Street Journal Lottery.com executive Greg Potts wrote in an internal email "This is a huge win for the company," highlighting that the firm would make a profit of nearly $264,000 on its sales commission. The win was claimed anonymously under the name "Rook TX," and soon became public knowledge when the Houston Chronicle broke the story. Texas officials, including Governor Greg Abbott, ordered investigations, and self-appointed Texas-gambling watchdog Dawn Nettles sued Lottery.com and the winners for defrauding regular players. The defendants have not yet responded to the allegations. "If the investigation turns up information that would lead to a potential prosecution, that should be undertaken," Abbott said last month. "And if the investigation leads to, let's say, inadequate measures that they have at the Commission, those measures need to be reformed." Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick called the scheme "the biggest theft from the people of Texas in the history of Texas", more than "all the bank robberies, all the train robberies in the Old West, everyone who's stolen anything" combined. Bulk buying lottery tickets is technically legal. A lawyer representing Rook TX told The Wall Street Journal that "all applicable laws, rules and regulations were followed." Since the win, others have tried to repeat the formula. Retailers have received offers to lease out their lottery terminals for mass ticket printing. The Texas Lottery Commission has tried to make this practice more difficult, including no longer providing low-traffic lottery outlets with extra terminals. The commission has also pushed out a software update that limits the number of tickets a terminal can sell in a day. Masthead: Philip Oroni

If you own one of Nvidia’s best graphics cards, the latest driver update might be an interesting one for you. According to users who downloaded the patch, the drivers bring an up to 8% boost in synthetic benchmarks. But, seeing as most of us don’t spend all of our time benchmarking our GPUs, what are the actual benefits of the 572.02 graphics driver? The first reports of these driver improvements showed up on Reddit and were then picked up by publications like VideoCardz. Some users have found that they saw performance gains in synthetic benchmarks, ranging from 3% to 8%. Recommended Videos This isn’t something that happens often. Nvidia’s aim with this driver was to resolve a number of issues, including black screens, crashes, and overall stability problems. Performance gains weren’t mentioned as part of the update changelog. Users are seeing various other benefits. Some claim to be seeing a slight improvement in frames per second (fps), and others note that the idle power consumption was reduced following the driver update. However, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows in those Reddit comments, because some users have also found that their GPUs aren’t doing quite as well as before. Related One user who owns an MSI Shadow OC RTX 5080 GPU says that their card’s overclocking capabilities got worse after the patch. From a stable overclock of +400/+1,250, their GPU can now only hold +300/+800. Meanwhile, another user says that the latest driver caused “a ton of stuttering, frame loss, [and] weird clock behavior.” It’s possible for all those stories to be true. Nvidia’s RTX cards might now fare better in benchmarks, but this doesn’t mean much in terms of gaming gains, and it’s hard to say what caused the crashes reported by a couple of users. We’ll be monitoring the situation and will keep you posted if there are any issues with the driver. Editors’ Recommendations

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Comcast vs. Brendan Carr Trump’s FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage "Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public," Brendan Carr claims. Jon Brodkin – Apr 17, 2025 4:36 pm | 69 President-elect Donald Trump speaks to Brendan Carr, his intended pick for Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, as he attends a SpaceX Starship rocket launch on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. Credit: Getty Images | Brandon Bell President-elect Donald Trump speaks to Brendan Carr, his intended pick for Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, as he attends a SpaceX Starship rocket launch on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. Credit: Getty Images | Brandon Bell Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only   Learn more Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr accused Comcast of "news distortion" because its subsidiary NBC isn't parroting the Trump administration narrative on the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. "Comcast knows that federal law requires its licensed operations to serve the public interest. News distortion doesn't cut it," Carr wrote in a post on X yesterday. Carr's use of the phrase "news distortion" is significant because he has been invoking the FCC's rarely enforced news distortion policy to pressure licensed broadcasters that he perceives as being biased against President Trump. For a detailed look at Carr's fight against media, read our feature: "The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC's news distortion policy." Carr, who recently wore a pin depicting Trump's head on his lapel, provided no substantive argument that NBC is guilty of news distortion. Historically, the FCC has enforced the policy in only the most extreme cases where there is evidence of misconduct, such as a bribe, or instructions from management to distort the news. As a 1985 ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said, the FCC policy makes "a crucial distinction between deliberate distortion and mere inaccuracy or difference of opinion." In his post yesterday, Carr alleged that "Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public—implying that Abrego Garcia was merely a law abiding US citizen, just a regular 'Maryland man.'" Carr wrote that "Abrego Garcia came to America illegally from El Salvador, was validated as a member of the violent MS-13 gang—a transnational criminal organization—and was denied bond by an immigration court for failure to show he would not pose a danger to others." "Why does Comcast ignore these facts of obvious public interest?" Carr asked. SCOTUS ruled US must facilitate man’s release Abrego Garcia's lawyer said in a lawsuit that he has no affiliation with MS-13. During a 2019 immigration court proceeding, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "offered a Gang Field Interview Sheet ('GFIS') generated by PGPD [Prince George County Police Department]," the lawsuit said. "The GFIS explained that the only reason to believe Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was a gang member was that he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie; and that a confidential informant advised that he was an active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique." The MS-13 Westerns clique is said to operate in New York, "a state that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia has never lived in," the lawsuit said. The Gang Field Interview Sheet was reportedly filled out by an officer who was later suspended and indicted for providing confidential information to a sex worker. The Supreme Court last week upheld a key portion of a District Court order on the deportation, saying that the lower court's "order properly requires the Government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador." Carr made his statement on X yesterday while sharing a post by White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, who said it's "SHAMEFUL that CNN and MSNBC refuses to take Angel Mom Patty Morin as she recounts the terrible tragedy of how an illegal killed her sweet daughter, Rachel." Victor Martinez-Hernandez was convicted of killing Rachel Morin earlier this week. The White House has attempted to link this murder to Abrego Garcia's deportation, but they are entirely separate cases. Carr’s fight against media Carr's post yesterday, combined with his recent actions to enforce the news distortion policy, suggest that he is likely to open a proceeding if a formal complaint is lodged against any NBC stations. Carr showed he is willing to investigate news distortion complaints into ordinary editorial decisions when he revived complaints against CBS and ABC that were thrown out under the previous administration. Carr has focused in particular on the CBS complaint, which concerns the editing of a CBS 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. The conservative Center for American Rights alleged that CBS distorted the news by airing "two completely different answers" to the same question. CBS published unedited video and a transcript that shows it simply aired two different sentences from the same response in different segments, but Carr has kept the proceeding open and seems to be using it as a bargaining chip in the FCC review of CBS-owner Paramount's transfer of TV broadcast station licenses to Skydance. Carr's handling of the CBS complaint has been condemned by both liberal and conservative advocacy groups—and former Democratic and Republican FCC commissioners and chairs—who say the FCC's approach is a threat to the constitutional right to free speech. Carr has also sent letters to companies—including Comcast—alleging that their diversity policies are "invidious forms of discrimination in violation of FCC regulations and civil rights laws." Carr last month threatened to block mergers pursued by companies that enforce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. We contacted Comcast and NBC today and will update this article if they provide any response to Carr's news distortion allegation. Jon Brodkin Senior IT Reporter Jon Brodkin Senior IT Reporter Jon is a Senior IT Reporter for Ars Technica. He covers the telecom industry, Federal Communications Commission rulemakings, broadband consumer affairs, court cases, and government regulation of the tech industry. 69 Comments

At first glance, the Bathhouse spa in Brooklyn looks not so different from other high-end spas. What sets it apart is out of sight: a closet full of cryptocurrency-­mining computers that not only generate bitcoins but also heat the spa’s pools, marble hammams, and showers.  When cofounder Jason Goodman opened Bathhouse’s first location in Williamsburg in 2019, he used conventional pool heaters. But after diving deep into the world of bitcoin, he realized he could fit cryptocurrency mining seamlessly into his business. That’s because the process, where special computers (called miners) make trillions of guesses per second to try to land on the string of numbers that will earn a bitcoin, consumes tremendous amounts of electricity—which in turn produces plenty of heat that usually goes to waste.   “I thought, ‘That’s interesting—we need heat,’” Goodman says of Bathhouse. Mining facilities typically use fans or water to cool their computers. And pools of water, of course, are a prominent feature of the spa.  It takes six miners, each roughly the size of an Xbox One console, to maintain a hot tub at 104 °F. At Bathhouse’s  Williamsburg location, miners hum away quietly inside two large tanks, tucked in a storage closet among liquor bottles and teas. To keep them cool and quiet, the units are immersed directly in non-conductive oil, which absorbs the heat they give off and is pumped through tubes beneath Bathhouse’s hot tubs and hammams.  Mining boilers, which cool the computers by pumping in cold water that comes back out at 170 °F, are now also being used at the site. A thermal battery stores excess heat for future use.  Goodman says his spas aren’t saving energy by using bitcoin miners for heat, but they’re also not using any more than they would with conventional water heating. “I’m just inserting miners into that chain,” he says.  Goodman isn’t the only one to see the potential in heating with crypto. In Finland, Marathon Digital Holdings turned fleets of bitcoin miners into a district heating system to warm the homes of 80,000 residents. HeatCore, an integrated energy service provider, has used bitcoin mining to heat a commercial office building in China and to keep pools at a constant temperature for fish farming. This year it will begin a pilot project to heat seawater for desalination. On a smaller scale, bitcoin fans who also want some extra warmth can buy miners that double as space heaters.  Crypto enthusiasts like Goodman think much more of this is coming—especially under the Trump administration, which has announced plans to create a bitcoin reserve. This prospect alarms environmentalists.  The energy required for a single bitcoin transaction varies, but as of mid-March it was equivalent to the energy consumed by an average US household over 47.2 days, according to the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, run by the economist Alex de Vries.  Among the various cryptocurrencies, bitcoin mining gobbles up the most energy by far. De Vries points out that others, like ethereum, have eliminated mining and implemented less energy-­intensive algorithms. But bitcoin users resist any change to their currency, so de Vries is doubtful a shift away from mining will happen anytime soon.  One key barrier to using bitcoin for heating, de Vries says, is that the heat can only be transported short distances before it dissipates. “I see this as something that is extremely niche,” he says. “It’s just not competitive, and you can’t make it work at a large scale.”  The more renewable sources that are added to electric grids to replace fossil fuels, the cleaner crypto mining will become. But even if bitcoin is powered by renewable energy, “that doesn’t make it sustainable,” says Kaveh Madani, director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health. Mining burns through valuable resources that could otherwise be used to meet existing energy needs, Madani says.  For Goodman, relaxing into bitcoin-heated water is a completely justifiable use of energy. It soothes the muscles, calms the mind, and challenges current economic structures, all at the same time.  Carrie Klein is a freelance journalist based in New York City.

The author landed a job in a newsroom right after graduating. Courtesy of Melissa Noble 2025-04-18T10:07:02Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? I always wanted to be a journalist even though I knew it was a tough industry. I landed a full-time job right after graduating from college. Having work experience and realistic expectations helped. Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a print journalist. In high school, a few teachers tried to steer me in a different direction because getting a job in the media was so difficult even then, but I was determined to make it happen.I studied for a double degree in journalism and business management and graduated in 2007. Despite the naysayers, I immediately landed a full-time cadetship job at a newspaper. I believe three things got me over the line.I did as much work experience as possibleWhen I wasn't at university, I did as much work experience as I could. While my friends were busy enjoying their time off school by going to the beach or the movies, I was cutting my teeth in a newsroom. My degree required a minimum of one internship, but I wanted to do extras.I often found it super intimidating and felt out of my depth, but I gained real-world experience that proved to be invaluable. Doing work experience meant that by the time I graduated and was out there looking for a job, I already had my byline published in multiple publications and a portfolio of work to show prospective employers.In my one and only job interview, the chief of staff wasn't interested in my university grades. In fact, I don't think he even asked about them. He wanted to see examples of my published work. The work experience I'd done definitely paid off.I perseveredWhere I lived on the Gold Coast in Australia, there was only one daily newspaper, the Gold Coast Bulletin, and I was desperate to work for them.Back then, there was a scholarship program that high school seniors could apply for. It was a four-year program alternating work and study, with a guaranteed position as a newspaper journalist upon completion. Successful candidates could study for their Bachelor of Journalism at Bond University and work as a paid cadet journalist at the Gold Coast Bulletin on a semester-on, semester-off basis. I applied, but I missed out.Even though I was extremely disappointed, I didn't let it discourage me. They say that there are many pathways to the same destination, and it's so true. I went to university for four years, then reapplied for a job with the Gold Coast Bulletin in 2007.When I called and asked the chief of staff if they had any work available, he said they didn't. I dropped off my résumé and portfolio anyway with reception. Later that afternoon, he called me back and said to come for an interview.The chief of staff gave me a chance and offered me a position on the copy desk, which basically involved answering phones and writing about kids' sporting achievements. It opened a door, and I was grateful that my perseverance paid off.I was realistic about having to work my way upThough the copy desk wasn't exactly where I wanted to be, the newsroom was, and I knew that I had to start somewhere.I'd also conceded that if I didn't land a job at the Gold Coast, I was willing to move elsewhere to get started in a career in journalism. I think that being flexible and having realistic expectations about working your way up to where you want to be is really important as a graduate.I ended up working at the Gold Coast Bulletin for three years, then traveling and working odd jobs while overseas. I returned to a newsroom as a print journalist in Melbourne in 2014, and then in 2015, I started my own copywriting business. Nowadays, I work from home and write freelance parenting, travel, and lifestyle articles for a range of publications. I still love my work.I always tell my kids to reach for the stars and follow their dreams, even if they seem difficult to achieve. I did, and I never looked back. Recommended video

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, went into a US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Vermont on Monday for his scheduled naturalization interview. But instead of being granted citizenship, he was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which started the process to deport him. In a memo reviewed by the New York Times, Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that Mahdawi’s activities — like the protests he helped lead at Columbia — undermined US foreign policy and threatened the Middle East peace process.What happened to Mahdawi is alarming on many levels. Mahdawi has legal status as a permanent resident and has lived in the United States for the past decade. He wasn’t charged with a crime, but, like Mahmoud Khalil, another Palestinian Columbia student and green card holder, was detained and ordered to be deported simply for having and expressing views that the secretary of state does not like. And what’s especially notable about Mahdawi’s case is that he wasn’t arrested at his home or kidnapped off the street; ICE surprised him during a scheduled appointment with immigration services. In other words, he was arrested during a voluntary interaction with the federal government.This is not the only case where the government has punished immigrants for following the rules. For years, the IRS has encouraged undocumented immigrants to file their taxes, promising to keep their data private so that they won’t be targeted by immigration agencies. But under the Trump administration, the IRS recently reached an agreement to share sensitive data on undocumented taxpayers with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This is just one of many promises that the federal government has walked back since Donald Trump returned to the White House. The message that sends to immigrants is clear: You have no reason to trust us. Interacting with us might put you in danger. And the result will be more and more immigrants being pushed to live in the shadows.“Part of the Trump administration’s strategy is to sow as much chaos, fear, and panic as they can in this moment to really make our communities feel as unsafe as possible,” said Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition. “While they continue to say that they’re doing all that they can around safety and security, we know that that is not their point. Cruelty is.”The IRS promise to undocumented immigrants that their data would remain confidential had been working: Undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in taxes in 2022, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Now, that’s all jeopardized, and the acting commissioner of the IRS is resigning, at least in part because of the deal between her agency and DHS, CNN reported. Details of the data-sharing agreement are sparse because much of what has been made public has been redacted, so it’s unclear what kind of data the IRS will be passing on to immigration authorities or when. What’s available so far makes clear that ICE can request data from the IRS on immigrants who are under investigation, including those who have overstayed in the country for more than 90 days. But while attorneys in the Justice Department have argued that the new agreement is lawful and “includes clear guardrails to ensure compliance,” that does very little to assure immigrants that the act of filing their taxes — or putting any trust in the federal government more broadly — won’t come back to haunt them later.Seeing the IRS break with precedent will only discourage people from filing taxes and puts them at serious risk. “It’s like a broken promise. It’s like a betrayal,” one immigrant told NBC News.“Instead of being thanked for their contributions and for them actually following tax compliance, now — because they followed the law, because they filed [their taxes] — their data is now being shared to be used against them for immigration enforcement,” Awawdeh said.It’s not just undocumented immigrants who are worriedThe IRS breaking its promise to undocumented immigrants goes a long way in undermining trust in the federal government. But the government is also betraying immigrants with legal status, as Mahdawi’s case shows. Hundreds of thousands of migrants scheduled immigration-related appointments on a government-issued app during the Biden administration, just as they were encouraged to do. But under the Trump administration, the federal government has targeted those same people who had been legally living and working in the United States. Now, tens of thousands of them have been notified that their legal status is being terminated and that they will have to leave the country within a week. Since President Donald Trump’s assault on universities and his crackdown on pro-Palestinian student activists, foreign students and legal immigrants have been living in fear of their visas or even green cards being revoked because they support Palestinian rights. Some stories are especially unnerving, like the case of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University student who was essentially kidnapped by plainclothes officers while walking down the street and is now being held in a Louisiana detention facility. The Trump administration has also warned Harvard that it will block the university from enrolling international students if it does not share information about its student body with the federal government, including details on foreign students who have taken part in “dangerous” activities.Even if immigrants become naturalized citizens, the Trump administration is still giving them cause for concern in what should otherwise be routine interactions with the government. Over the weekend, for example, Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney who has been a US citizen for 10 years, was detained at the US-Canada border while going through customs, where he says US Customs and Border Protection handcuffed him and looked through his emails on his phone. Atallah says that the officers didn’t give him an explanation for why he was being detained. “Even if you ask questions, they say, ‘We don’t know, it’s the government,’” he told NBC’s Boston affiliate.“It’s pushing people further into the shadows.”— Murad Awawdeh, New York Immigration Coalition’s president and CEOThe Trump administration is, in other words, targeting people with every kind of immigration status, from undocumented immigrants to lawful permanent residents to naturalized citizens. Refugees are also under threat: A Venezuelan man who had refugee status was deported to El Salvador, where he’s now detained in a notorious maximum security prison, all for having a tattoo that authorities thought signaled gang affiliation. (Trump has even suggested sending native-born American citizens to that prison, saying, “The homegrowns are next.”)All of these actions put immigrants — undocumented or otherwise — in an impossible position: If they don’t listen to the government, they risk running afoul of the law. But taking the government at its word might be what actually leads to their arrest and potential deportation. That means any contact with the government will feel especially risky, be it visiting the DMV, going through airport security, or reporting a crime to local law enforcement.“It’s pushing people further into the shadows,” Awawdeh said. “One of our bigger fears, in addition to the way in which we have been seeing the administration targeting our communities, is that when [members of] our communities are actually victims of crimes, that they are not going to step forward, they’re not going to seek help.”The steps that the Trump administration is taking are part of a bigger push to not only reduce immigration but to further establish tiered citizenship, where immigrants are a permanent underclass who can’t ever trust that the government will respect their rights, even after they become citizens. “This is the country that we’re living in right now,” Awawdeh said, “where the number one focus is to create a second-class citizenry.”See More:

Star Wars Outlaws trailer shows what PS5 games look like on Switch 2 Adam Starkey Published April 18, 2025 10:58am Updated April 18, 2025 10:59am Proof the Switch 2 can run PS5 games (Ubisoft) Ubisoft has announced a release date for Star Wars Outlaws on Nintendo Switch 2, as a popular character returns for the game’s second DLC. Star Wars Outlaws may have underperformed for Ubisoft but it’s still one of the better Star Wars games of recent years, even if it isn’t quite up there with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The open world action adventure is getting a second chance on the Nintendo Switch 2, and now Ubisoft has confirmed the port will be released on September 4, 2025. The release date was revealed at Star Wars Celebration, alongside some footage of the Switch 2 version and, as you’d expect from a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S title, it looks like the visuals have been knocked down a few notches to get it running on the handheld. The footage hasn’t been uploaded to Ubisoft’s official channels yet but it was shown during a livestream, so the video quality isn’t as good as it should be. Even so, it doesn’t look terrible, considering Outlaws is one of the better looking current gen games of recent years. Other current gen games confirmed for the Switch 2 include Split Fiction, Borderlands 4, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, and Two Point Museum. Little is known about Borderlands 4 yet, but Outlaws is still probably the most technically advanced of these titles. Elsewhere at the event, Ubisoft debuted footage from Star Wars Outlaws’ second DLC, A Pirate’s Fortune, which is set to be released on May 15. As shown in the trailer, Kay and Nix team up with pirate Hondo Ohnaka, a character from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels voiced by Jim Cummings. The pair will face off against Stinger Tash and her Rokana Raiders, as you infiltrate the Khepi Tomb. (Yes, that is a real sentence that makes sense if you’re a Star Wars fan.) Speaking of Star Wars nerdiness, at the 40 second mark in the trailer you can see what looks very much like the Stinger Mantis starship from EA’s Star Wars Jedi games. There’s meant to be 17 year gap between the two games, in terms of Star Wars chronology, and given the bad guy is (hilariously) called Stinger Tash, it may well be she is the original owner. If so that’ll be a rare example of something being invented in a Star Wars game created by one third party publisher and then reused in another. The DLC will also include cosmetic items inspired by the TV series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, including an outfit for Nix, a trophy for the speeder, and a trinket for both the speeder and the Trailblazer. More Trending A Pirate’s Fortune is the second of two planned story expansions for Star Wars Outlaws. The first, Wild Card, was released in November and starred Lando Calrissian. If you haven’t played Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft has released a free demo across Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC where you can explore Tatooine for up to three hours. However, you can’t transfer your save progress from the demo to the actual game. A new strategy game titled Star Wars Zero Company, developed by Respawn and Bit Reactor, is also set to be showcased at Star Wars Celebration on Saturday, April 19. There’s no indication any other video games will be featured though, so who knows what’s happened to Quantic Dream’s Star Wars Eclipse. A new strategy game is set to be unveiled this weekend (EA) Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. GameCentral Sign up for exclusive analysis, latest releases, and bonus community content. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy

While Star Wars Celebration’s main focus might be the film and TV arms of the franchise, Lucasfilm Publishing has built up its own dedicated fan base with its tie-in novels, including the High Republic initiative. After kicking off in January 2021, the era is wrapping up soon with the June release of the final book in its third phase, Charles Soule’s Trials of the Jedi. But what lies ahead for Star Wars readers? Lucasfilm Publishing’s Star Wars Celebration panel, “Stories From a Galaxy Far, Far Away” was a good place to start for some answers. The Tokyo panel teased “the latest publishing news from the prequel trilogy to the sequel trilogy and beyond, including news on the grand finale of The High Republic,” with Adam Christopher, Tessa Gratton, Marc Guggenheim, Lydia Kang, Ethan Sacks, Phil Szostak, Alyssa Wong, and Marvel’s C.B. Cebulski on hand to make the announcements. The biggest reveal was something on the more visual side: an Andor art book is coming! Here’s the description from the official press release: “The Art of Star Wars: Andor (The Complete Series) takes fans behind the scenes of the critically acclaimed Disney+ Star Wars series set in the early days of the Rebellion and following Rogue One‘s Cassian Andor as he grows from thief to rebel spy.” “Interviews conducted by The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian author and Lucasfilm creative art manager Phil Szostak with Academy Award-nominated showrunner/head writer Tony Gilroy, Lucasfilm art department ‘visualists,’ and key crew and creatives will give an in depth look at every facet of the creative process that brought this unique Star Wars story to the screen. With hundreds of stunning ship and vehicle designs, character studies, weapons, gadgets, storyboards, and so much more, this book is the ultimate visual companion to Andor.” The bad news is that The Art of Star Wars: Andor will set you back $50, and won’t be out until March 2026. The panel today also included more discussion of the final High Republic book, Trials of the Jedi, mentioned above. Other new titles announced: comics Star Wars: The High Republic – The Battle of Eriadu and Star Wars: The High Republic – The Beacon; the Jecki and Yord-focused Padawan adventure The Acolyte: The Crystal Crown; another art book, Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation; and comics Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories – Codebreaker, for Poe Dameron fans; and new issues of Star Wars: Legacy of Vader; and Star Wars: Jedi Knights. Last week, ahead of the panel itself, Lucasfilm Publishing dropped some early news about upcoming releases—including Adam Christopher’s Star Wars: Master of Evil Darth Vader novel; lavish two-volume art book Doug Chiang: The Cinematic Legacy and the Star Wars Legacy; Halloween-themed Star Wars: I Find Your Lack of Candy Disturbing, featuring art by Jeffrey Brown; and Disney+ behind-the-scenes deep dives The Art of Star Wars: The Acolyte and The Acolyte Visual Guide. Other previously announced releases include an updated new edition of Star Wars: The Blueprints, as well as an updated new edition of Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy. But that’s not all! At another Lucasfilm Publishing panel earlier in the day, “Manga Mania!”, the company also shared what’s coming from that arm of the company. That includes a Kickstarter initiative for a two-volume The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope—The Manga; manga adaptations of Star Wars: Thrawn and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order; and aspiring Jedi tale Star Wars: Path of the Lightsaber. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

House of Courtyards / Felipe Hess ArquitetosSave this picture!© Fran ParenteHouses•Brazil Architects: Felipe Hess Arquitetos Area Area of this architecture project Area:  345 m² Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2023 Photographs Photographs:Fran Parente Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers:  Alvorada, Arkos, Ash, Bertoia, Cremme, CristalPool, Dpot, Duriplast, Futon Company, Garimpo, HAY, Saarinen, São Gabriel rústico, Tauna, Tok StokMore SpecsLess Specs Save this picture! Text description provided by the architects. Located in a residential condominium in the interior of São Paulo, the design for this weekend residence takes advantage of the natural characteristics of the land: a steep slope and large rocks.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The slope of the lot, which extends from the main access road to the perimeter limit, inspired a discreet layout, integrating the construction into the natural landscape. To achieve this, the residence was partially buried, blurring the boundary between indoors and outdoors, so that the landscaping becomes an extension of the horizon.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The single-story construction develops around a central landscaped courtyard, and the main volume gently touches the existing rocks on the property. At the back, the bedrooms, protected by wooden shades, open to the rear courtyard, prioritizing privacy.Save this picture! Project gallerySee allShow less About this office MaterialConcreteMaterials and TagsPublished on April 18, 2025Cite: "House of Courtyards / Felipe Hess Arquitetos" [Casa dos Pátios / Felipe Hess Arquitetos] 18 Apr 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1029237/house-of-courtyards-felipe-hess-arquitetos&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save世界上最受欢迎的建筑网站现已推出你的母语版本!想浏览ArchDaily中国吗?是否 You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream