Next gen Xbox could remove backwards compatibility and add PS5 games says report GameCentral Published May 21, 2025 1:10am Xbox’s next gen plans are an enigma (Valve/Microsoft/Metro) New details about the next gen Xbox console suggest it will focus on support for Steam and Epic Games Store, potentially bringing Sony first party titles to Xbox. Although Microsoft has announced the next gen Xbox, and strongly implied that at least one model will be portable, there’s no concrete official information about it so far. It’s also very hard to guess what form it might take, given how poorly the Xbox Series X/S has sold and how much Microsoft has begun to focus on Game Pass and multiformat support recently. However, In recent days multiple sources have begun talking about the console supporting both Steam and Epic Games Store, implying that the new Xbox will be even more of a ‘PC in a box’ than usual. Something that should, in theory, allow PlayStation 5 games onto Xbox via the back door. Xbox boss Phil Spencer has talked about the idea of adding Epic Games Store and Steam to Xbox consoles before, although nothing has ever come of it. Nevertheless, Windows Central editor Jez Corden claims that Microsoft has been in contact with Valve and that testing of Steam on Xbox may already have begun. Although making the next gen Xbox console a PC makes sense on some levels (despite it sounding very similar to Valve’s failed Steam Machines concept) anything bought on Steam or Epic Game Stores means a cut of the money going to those companies – 30% in the case of Steam. Not only does that mean less money for Microsoft but it disincentives developers from making native Xbox versions of their games, since the PC version will already be compatible with the new Xbox hardware. These are major changes to the Xbox ecosystem but Corden also raises the possibility that in order to improve Windows compatibility, Microsoft is considering dropping backwards compatibility with older Xbox games. That seems like a public relations nightmare, but according to Corden the Microsoft document he saw, which suggested the possibility, is ‘a few years old’ and the idea may already have been dropped – although it’s certainly interesting that it was ever considered. Recent job ads seem to imply that Microsoft is still pushing for full backwards, and forwards, compatibility for Xbox consoles, while information from leaker eXtas1s suggests that cross-compatibility is still a big priority for Microsoft. More Trending Although eXtas1s’ track record is far from spotless, his information broadly matches with that of Corden, along with mention of Xbox emulation on PC and new tiers for Game Pass, including cloud-only and ad-supported options. He also claims that price rises are likely, particularly on PC. A next gen Xbox that is essentially a PC masquerading as a console does seem a logical move for Microsoft, and yet neither of these reports address the one concrete detail Microsoft has provided so far, that the new format will feature the ‘largest technical leap you’ve ever seen in a hardware generation.’ That has always seemed extremely unlikely, given the increasingly small improvement in graphics each generation, with the only explanation that seems to make any sense being something to do with AI – even though Microsoft’s attempts to extol the virtues of the technology, in regards to video games, has so far gone down poorly. It’s possible that they consider the integration of Xbox and Windows 11 support to be a technological leap but it’s not clear that ordinary gamers will be excited about the prospect or that its benefits will be obvious to mainstream customers. The next gen Xbox is currently a mystery (Microsoft) 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

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Sosho-Kan at Kyoto University of the Arts / Takenaka CorporationSave this picture!© Taizo FurukawaUniversity•Kyoto, Japan Architects: Takenaka Corporation Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3778 m² Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2024 Photographs Photographs:Taizo Furukawa Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers:  Kunishiro Tiles, YKK AP Lead Architects: Masataka Nakamura, Mai Yanagida, Masashi Suzuki More SpecsLess Specs Save this picture! Text description provided by the architects. The new academic building of Kyoto University of the Arts, which sits across their main campus by Shirakawa Road - one of Kyoto's major north-to-south arteries - is accessible to many locally owned businesses and residential areas. The Sosho-kan building is designed to bring their newly established department to life. The four-year art education program serves as a place for students to study and embed their memories and sense of place with other students and faculty members.Save this picture!Save this picture!As architects, the concept of bringing life into this new faculty building was inspired by the lively interactions among students creating art through fragments of open spaces in the existing main campus, such as the external staircases leading to the classrooms, sun-shaded spaces near the vestibules, and small alcoves that naturally serve as meeting points. The idea of continuity in designing spaces and bringing connections to the outdoors, to feel a sense of community, and expand the view to bring the memories of campus life into this four-story building, we wanted to create a place where students' college memories can be deeply embedded.Save this picture!This four-story brick-tiled reinforced concrete building consists of three simple horizontal layers: commons, corridor, and rooms, running parallel to the main Shirakawa road. From this axis, they intersect perpendicularly with brick-tiled walls with symbolic arches that break the monotonal central corridor and bring in-and-out openings to offer glimpses of daily activities. The continuous series of designed arches in these brick tiles forms a symbolic visualization. The crossings serve an alley running into the streets, bringing intimacy to classrooms and restrooms, a micro-scale experience of a university campus.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The eastern layers of common spaces are designed to foster spontaneous encounters and offer students a sense of connection and belonging. At the heart of the building is a large four-story atrium with a glass-block skylight, with connected interior and exterior brick-tiled walls, which serves as the main circulation hub for students and fills the space with soft, indirect natural light streaming in from the skylight. In summer, cooled air from the underground floors is drawn into the ventilation system to reduce the external thermal load, while in transitional seasons, the air handling units on each floor can be switched off to ventilation to bring in natural air. This design not only creates visual openness to the atrium but also strengthens the connection to the outside.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The volumes in the northeastern part of the building are stepped back due to northern regulation lines, creating small terraces that serve as a transitional zone between inside and outside. These terraces further enhance the connection to nature and provide informal gathering spaces. The site is also connected to a small street running perpendicular to Shirakawa Road, which serves as a welcoming threshold to the bicycle spaces underground. This small campus building connects the campus and nature, capturing moments of interaction and a sense of community throughout their four years of student life. Save this picture! Project gallerySee allShow less Project locationAddress:Kyoto, JapanLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeTakenaka CorporationOffice••• MaterialBrickMaterials and TagsPublished on May 20, 2025Cite: "Sosho-Kan at Kyoto University of the Arts / Takenaka Corporation" 20 May 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1030320/sosho-kan-at-kyoto-university-of-the-arts-takenaka-corporation&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

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Sharks don’t have bones. Instead, their skeletons are made from mineralized cartilage that helps them constantly move through water. To understand the internal “sharkitecture” that helps keep these animals strong and graceful, researchers are putting sharks under the microscope. A new study, published in ACS Nano, found some surprising results. After analyzing shark cartilage, there appear to be two different regions within it. And each appears to have vastly different structures. These structures have shown a resistance to destruction and could inspire strong, flexible materials for the future. Analyzing a Shark Skeleton An X-ray nanotomography reconstruction of the intermedial cartilage of a blacktip shark. The colors indicate the thickness of the struts, with red representing thicker areas and blue indicating thinner ones. (Image Credit: Florida Atlantic University)Sharks are powerful and efficient creatures. Thanks to their skeletal frame, made of mineralized cartilage, their spines can act like a spring, which stores and releases energy as they move their tails, according to a press release. Wanting to better understand how this cartilage helps keep sharks atop the ocean’s food chain, researchers from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), in collaboration with the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) in Germany, and NOAA Fisheries, have analyzed blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) and mapped out their internal structure. The team used synchrotron X-ray nanotomography with detailed 3D imaging and in-situ mechanical testing to create the map. The results showed that on a nano level, the blacktip shark’s cartilage had two distinct regions, the corpus calcareum and the intermediale. Though both of these regions are made up of densely packed collagen and bioapatite, they have vastly different internal structures. Strong Microscopic Structures According to the study, in each region, the cartilage is porous and also has thick struts that help the skeleton with strain from multiple directions. This is a key adaptation as sharks are continuously moving and putting pressure on their spines.  Researchers also found microscopic needle-like bioapatite crystals, similar to those in human bones, that were lined up with strands of collagen. This is another factor that gives shark cartilage extra strength and flexibility. Along with that, the research team also noted helical fiber structures, also with collagen, which suggests the cartilage is designed to prevent any cracks from spreading, and help to distribute staring and force. “Nature builds remarkably strong materials by combining minerals with biological polymers, such as collagen – a process known as biomineralization. This strategy allows creatures like shrimp, crustaceans, and even humans to develop tough, resilient skeletons,” said Vivian Merk, senior study author and an assistant professor in the FAU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in a press release.“Sharks are a striking example. Their mineral-reinforced spines work like springs, flexing and storing energy as they swim. By learning how they build such tough yet adaptable skeletons, we hope to inspire the design of next-generation materials,” Merk added in the release. Shark Inspiration for MaterialsThe research team applied pressure to microscopic pieces of the shark’s vertebrae and found deformations, smaller than one micrometer. The team only noticed fractures in the vertebrae after a second round of pressure was applied. But even then, the fractures were only found within one mineralized plane, proving how strong the material was. “After hundreds of millions of years of evolution, we can now finally see how shark cartilage works at the nanoscale – and learn from them,” said Marianne Porter, study co-author and an associate professor in the FAU Department of Biological Sciences, in a press release. “We’re discovering how tiny mineral structures and collagen fibers come together to create a material that’s both strong and flexible, perfectly adapted for a shark’s powerful swimming. These insights could help us design better materials by following nature’s blueprint,” Porter added in the release.Article SourcesOur writers at Discovermagazine.com use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article:A graduate of UW-Whitewater, Monica Cull wrote for several organizations, including one that focused on bees and the natural world, before coming to Discover Magazine. Her current work also appears on her travel blog and Common State Magazine. Her love of science came from watching PBS shows as a kid with her mom and spending too much time binging Doctor Who.

Purdubik's Cube record of 0.103 seconds is faster than a human brain's reaction time. Credit: Purdue University / Elmore Family School of ECE Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Mitsubishi’s bragging rights for designing the world’s fastest Rubik’s cube-solving robot have officially been stolen by a team of undergrads in Indiana. Earlier this month, Purdue University announced four collaborators in its Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) successfully designed and built a bot that not only set the new Guinness World Record—it absolutely demolished the multinational company’s previous time. Meet Purdubik’s Cube: a machine capable of completing a randomly shuffled Rubik’s cube in just 0.103 seconds. At 1-2 times faster than the blink of a human eye, the feat is difficult to see, much less comprehend. Mitsubishi turned heads (and blocks) in May 2024, after its TOKUFASTbot solved a Rubik’s cube puzzle in just 0.305 seconds. Short for TOKUI Fast Accurate Synchronized Motion Testing Robot TOKUFASTbot shaved 0.075 seconds from the previous all-time record through a combination of compact, high-power, servomotors, a specially designed color-recognition AI algorithm, and sophisticated motion-control technology typically used in the company’s manufacturing plants. It was an impressive accomplishment from a company with vast resources at its disposal. But Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana soon began wondering if there was any room left for improvement. “They said, ‘You know what? I think we can do better,’” ECE head Milind Kulkarni said in the university’s accompanying video. Patrohay and his teammates then managed to conceive their own bot design in a matter of months before building the final Purdubik’s Cube model over a single semester. Their results are not only faster than blinking an eye, says Patrohay. “Human reaction time is 100-200 [milliseconds], as well. So we’re faster than that,” he said. “Basically, before you even realize it’s solved, we’ve solved it. Before you even realize it’s moving, we’ve solved it.” As with TOKUFASTbot, the limitations at this point were less about the robot itself and more about the physical limitations of the puzzle toy. “The cubes themselves just kind of disintegrate. The pieces just snap in half and fall apart,” said Patrohay. To sidestep these problems, the team needed to optimize the mechanical interior of their test Rubik’s cubes. This required a custom built interior replacement core to better hold all the pieces together, as well as adjustments to the individual color blocks. Patrohay expressed hope ahead of Purdubik’s Cube Guinness World Record trial on April 21 that their machine could trim off a few more milliseconds to firmly set their record under a tenth of a second. However, it appears that 0.103 is currently the time to beat moving forward. It’s hard to imagine a robot solving a Rubik’s cube much faster than that, but then again, that’s what most people were saying this time last year.

Skip to content News Health & Medicine Biden’s prostate cancer is incurable, but it is treatable The former president’s diagnosis raises awareness of the most common cancer among U.S. men "Cancer touches us all,” former U.S. President Joe Biden posted on X. He shared this picture of himself with wife Jill Biden and their cat, Willow, after it was revealed he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to the bone. @JoeBiden By Meghan Rosen 5 hours ago With Joe Biden’s recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer, the former U.S. president joins a growing group of people newly coping with the disease. Biden, 82, represents one of more than 300,000 new cases of prostate cancer estimated to occur in the United States in 2025. And the incidence of this disease, the most common cancer in males, is rising. From 2017 to 2021, the incidence of prostate cancer increased about 3 percent per year, researchers reported in the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer released April 21. Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

Nature, Published online: 20 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01600-3Samples could provide an objective measure of diets and help to unravel their contribution to disease.