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ويعد متنزه "وايت ساندز"، المعروف برماله البيضاء الناعمة، أحد أغنى المناطق بالأدلة الأثرية في أميركا الشمالية، حيث سبق العثور فيه على أكبر مجموعة آثار أقدام بشرية تعود للعصر الجليدي. لكن الاكتشاف الجديد الذي نشره موقع SFGate، يضيف بعدا غير مسبوق لفهم حياة البشر الأوائل في القارة. وبحسب الدراسة التي شارك فيها علماء من جامعات بورنماوث وكورنيل وأريزونا، وهيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية، فقد كشفت التحليلات عن مسارات محفورة في الرمال لا تتطابق مع آثار الأقدام، بل تبدو ناتجة عن زحافات استخدمت لنقل أوزان ثقيلة أو أطفال، فوق الأرض الطرية أو الموحلة في محيط بحيرة أوتيرو القديمة. وأوضح الباحثون أن هذه الوسائل البدائية، والتي صنعت على الأرجح من عصي طويلة وسلال أو شبك، تشبه عربات يدوية من دون عجلات، وكانت تسحب بواسطة مقابض لتحريك البضائع أو الأشخاص. وقد قاد هذا الاكتشاف إلى تعديل التقديرات السابقة التي كانت تحدد ظهور تقنيات النقل البري بـ4000 عام قبل الميلاد، لتصبح 20,000 عام قبل الميلاد. وفي تصريح لعالم الآثار دانيال أوديس من متحف الشمال، أوضح أن الفريق العلمي قام بإعادة تصنيع زحافات مشابهة لتلك التي خلفت المسارات، وجرى اختبارها في ظروف مماثلة، حيث أظهرت تطابقا شبه تام مع المسارات القديمة المكتشفة. وأضاف أوديس: "الزحافة كانت أداة عملية وبسيطة، تعكس قدرة الإنسان القديم على التكيف والابتكار، وقد استخدمت لنقل الصيد والبضائع وربما حتى الأطفال الصغار، كما تشير بعض آثار الأقدام الصغيرة المجاورة للمسارات". يشار إلى أن هذا الكشف يغير كثيرا من الفرضيات السابقة حول توقيت وصول الإنسان إلى أميركا الشمالية، حيث كانت التقديرات تشير إلى نحو 15 ألف عام، بينما تؤكد الأدلة الجديدة أن الوجود البشري في المنطقة يمتد إلى ما قبل 23 ألف عام، وفقا لتحليل بذور وحبوب لقاح محفوظة في طبقات الأرض مع آثار الأقدام. ويأمل الباحثون أن تفتح هذه الاكتشافات الباب لمزيد من الدراسات حول تطور التقنيات والأنماط الحياتية للإنسان القديم، في ظل أدلة مادية نادرة كتلك التي تحتضنها رمال وايت ساندز.

Catan 6th Edition $50 See at Amazon One of the most popular strategy board games of all time has received a new edition. Catan's 6th Edition is now available to purchase at Amazon for $50. The new edition is the same game you know and love, just with quality-of-life improvements, a fresh coat of paint, and an improved rulebook that will make it easier than ever for new players to learn the basics.Multiple of Catan's most-played expansions have also received updated editions. Fans can get the 6th Edition of the Seafarers Expansion for $50 and Cities & Knights for $55. If you want to play with more than four players, Catan Studio updated the 5-6 Player Expansion add-ons for the base game as well as the two expansions.Catan Board Game 6th Edition & ExpansionsCatan Board Game (6th Edition) -- $50Catan: Seafarers Expansion (6th Edition) -- $50Catan: Cities & Knights Expansion (6th Edition) -- $55Catan Board Game - 5-6 Player Expansion (6th Edition) -- $30Catan: Seafarers - 5-6 Player Expansion (6th Edition) -- $30Catan: Cities & Knights - 5-6 Player Expansion (6th Edition) -- $32Catan Board Game - Replacement Card Set (6th Edition) -- $14Catan: Cities & Knights - Replacement Card Set (6th Edition) -- $14 See all Catan 6th Edition Products Catan 6th Edition $50 Catan first launched in 1995, with each new edition slightly tweaking its appearance and gameplay. The fifth edition in 2015 marked a big change for the brand, as it moved from “The Settlers of Catan” to simply “Catan.” This new sixth edition doesn’t do anything quite so radical, but it does offer a more inclusive adventure and an improved eco-friendly design.Here’s a look at everything that’s changed:Updated graphics: You’ll now find brighter artwork and modern designs that make the game easier to parse. This also includes new character illustrations with greater diversity.Premium, eco-friendly components: Components are crafted with less plastic and an eye for sustainability. You’ll also find new textured hex tiles and updated card trays that make it easier to stay organized.Smart storage: The 5-6 Player Extension Pack contents can now fit inside the base game box, so you can more easily transport all your pieces.Improved rulebook: While the rules are the same, the rulebook has been updated with clearer graphics and gameplay examples, helping new players learn the basics. See at Amazon If you own other Catan expansions, you should be able to use them with the new 6th Edition. The rules remain the same across all editions, but you’ll have to deal with conflicting art styles.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Nintendo has dropped some bad news for Japanese consumers looking to get the Switch 2 console directly from the company, as it has confirmed that a "significant" number of customers there will not be selected as winners of the My Nintendo Store lottery sale. In a statement, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa apologized for the situation and said that applications had exceeded the company's expectations."To deliver Nintendo Switch 2 to all of you, we have been procuring a large number of components in advance and proceeding with production," Furukawa said on Nintendo's Japanese X account (via a VGC translation). "On April 2, we announced the details of Nintendo Switch 2 and began accepting applications for a lottery sale on the My Nintendo Store. As a result, we received applications from an astonishing 2.2 million people in Japan alone. However, this far exceeded our prior expectations and greatly surpasses the number of Nintendo Switch 2 units we can deliver from the My Nintendo Store on June 5. Consequently, it is with great regret that we anticipate a significant number of customers will not be selected in tomorrow's lottery announcement on April 24." Nintendo will host a second lottery event in Japan, but Furukawa stressed that Switch 2 supplies will still be limited. The company also plans to improve on production of the Switch 2 past the initial launch period, and it currently recommends that Japanese fans make plans to purchase the console from other retailers and online store.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has many trophies/achievements to be on the lookout for. A lot of these trophies will come naturally over time, such as getting your first perfect game or playing secret levels in the EOST game mode. Some trophies/achievements are also easy to obtain but require players to explore specific elements of the game, such as creating their own music playlist or using a character that has custom colors.

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An AI agent is only as accurate, relevant and timely as the data that powers it. Now generally available, NVIDIA NeMo microservices are helping enterprise IT quickly build AI teammates that tap into data flywheels to scale employee productivity. The microservices provide an end-to-end developer platform for creating state-of-the-art agentic AI systems and continually optimizing them with data flywheels informed by inference and business data, as well as user preferences. With a data flywheel, enterprise IT can onboard AI agents as digital teammates. These agents can tap into user interactions and data generated during AI inference to continuously improve model performance — turning usage into insight and insight into action. Building Powerful Data Flywheels for Agentic AI Without a constant stream of high-quality inputs — from databases, user interactions or real-world signals — an agent’s understanding can weaken, making responses less reliable and agents less productive. Maintaining and improving the models that power AI agents in production requires three types of data: inference data to gather insights and adapt to evolving data patterns, up-to-date business data to provide intelligence, and user feedback data to advise if the model and application are performing as expected. NeMo microservices help developers tap into these three data types. NeMo microservices speed AI agent development with end-to-end tools for curating, customizing, evaluating and guardrailing the models that drive their agents. NVIDIA NeMo microservices — including NeMo Customizer, NeMo Evaluator and NeMo Guardrails — can be used alongside NeMo Retriever and NeMo Curator to ease enterprises’ experiences building, optimizing and scaling AI agents through custom enterprise data flywheels. For example: NeMo Customizer accelerates large language model fine-tuning, delivering up to 1.8x higher training throughput. This high-performance, scalable microservice uses popular post-training techniques including supervised fine-tuning and low-rank adaptation. NeMo Evaluator simplifies the evaluation of AI models and workflows on custom and industry benchmarks with just five application programming interface (API) calls. NeMo Guardrails improves compliance protection by up to 1.4x with only half a second of additional latency, helping organizations implement robust safety and security measures that align with organizational policies and guidelines. With NeMo microservices, developers can build data flywheels that boost AI agent accuracy and efficiency. Deployed through the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, NeMo microservices are easy to operate and can run on any accelerated computing infrastructure, on premises or in the cloud, with enterprise-grade security, stability and support. The microservices have become generally available at a time when enterprises are building large-scale multi-agent systems, where hundreds of specialized agents — with distinct goals and workflows — collaborate to tackle complex tasks as digital teammates, working alongside employees to assist, augment and accelerate work across functions. This enterprise-wide impact positions AI agents as a trillion-dollar opportunity — with applications spanning automated fraud detection, shopping assistants, predictive machine maintenance and document review — and underscores the critical role data flywheels play in transforming business data into actionable insights. Data flywheels built with NVIDIA NeMo microservices constantly curate data, retrain models and evaluate their performance, all with minimal human interactions and maximum autonomy. Industry Pioneers Boost AI Agent Accuracy With NeMo Microservices NVIDIA partners and industry pioneers are using NeMo microservices to build responsive AI agent platforms so that digital teammates can help get more done. Working with Arize and Quantiphi, AT&T has built an advanced AI-powered agent using NVIDIA NeMo, designed to process a knowledge base of nearly 10,000 documents, refreshed weekly. The scalable, high-performance AI agent is fine-tuned for three key business priorities: speed, cost efficiency and accuracy — all increasingly critical as adoption scales. AT&T boosted AI agent accuracy by up to 40% using NeMo Customizer and Evaluator by fine-tuning a Mistral 7B model to help deliver personalized services, prevent fraud and optimize network performance. BlackRock is working with NeMo microservices for agentic AI capabilities in its Aladdin tech platform, which unifies the investment management process through a common data language. Teaming with Galileo, Cisco’s Outshift team is using NVIDIA NeMo microservices to power a coding assistant that delivers 40% fewer tool selection errors and achieves up to 10x faster response times. Nasdaq is accelerating its Nasdaq Gen AI Platform with NeMo Retriever microservices and NVIDIA NIM microservices. NeMo Retriever enhanced the platform’s search capabilities, leading to up to 30% improved accuracy and response times, in addition to cost savings. Broad Model and Partner Ecosystem Support for NeMo Microservices NeMo microservices support a broad range of popular open models, including Llama, the Microsoft Phi family of small language models, Google Gemma, Mistral and Llama Nemotron Ultra, currently the top open model on scientific reasoning, coding and complex math benchmarks. Meta has tapped NVIDIA NeMo microservices through new connectors for Meta Llamastack. Users can access the same capabilities — including Customizer, Evaluator and Guardrails — via APIs, enabling them to run the full suite of agent-building workflows within their environment. “With Llamastack integration, agent builders can implement data flywheels powered by NeMo microservices,” said Raghotham Murthy, software engineer, GenAI, at Meta. “This allows them to continuously optimize models to improve accuracy, boost efficiency and reduce total cost of ownership.” Leading AI software providers such as Cloudera, Datadog, Dataiku, DataRobot, DataStax, SuperAnnotate, Weights & Biases and more have integrated NeMo microservices into their platforms. Developers can use NeMo microservices in popular AI frameworks including CrewAI, Haystack by deepset, LangChain, LlamaIndex and Llamastack. Enterprises can build data flywheels with NeMo Retriever microservices using NVIDIA AI Data Platform offerings from NVIDIA-Certified Storage partners including DDN, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure Storage, VAST Data and WEKA. Leading enterprise platforms including Amdocs, Cadence, Cohesity, SAP, ServiceNow and Synopsys are using NeMo Retriever microservices in their AI agent solutions. Enterprises can run AI agents on NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure, networking and software from leading system providers including Cisco, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo. Consulting giants including Accenture, Deloitte and EY are building AI agent platforms for enterprises using NeMo microservices. Developers can download NeMo microservices from the NVIDIA NGC catalog. The microservices can be deployed as part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise with extended-life software branches for API stability, proactive security remediation and enterprise-grade support.