It's been a long time coming, but Fall Guys has finally arrived in Fortnite. The bean-based competition game begins its integration into the Fortnite ecosystem in several different ways--with Fortnite creative islands by Fall Guys developer Mediatonic, the ability for users to publish their own Fall Guys maps and, most importantly, an all-new Fall Guys-themed mini-game for battle royale and Zero Build.Let's start with that. With this week's update, Fortnite battle royale will now host a Fall Guys mini-game that players can participate in by praising one of the statues of a Fall Guys bean person located around Classy Courts. Once you do, you'll be transformed into a bean person and made to play Fall Guys in an obstacle course in the sky. You'll have 120 seconds to complete it for loot--the faster you get it done, the better your loot will be. You can only complete it once per match, but you get three tries. And once the bean statues are in the storm you're locked out.A glimpse at the Fall Guys obstacle course in Fortnite battle royale.This is similar to a feature from Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7, during which players could be abducted by aliens and made to play a competitive mini-game. But in this case, the choice to participate is entirely yours. Along with the mini-game will be a series of "Where We Fallin'" quests for rewards, including a bean person back bling.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Since its reveal, it has been made abundantly clear that Assassin's Creed Shadows is unlike any Assassin's Creed before it, combining gameplay elements that bridge the gap between the series' past and its present in an attempt to appeal to fans of classic Assassin's Creed as well as more modern fans and newcomers. Despite being met with a considerable amount of controversy for its depiction of feudal Japan and a non-Japanese protagonist, Assassin's Creed Shadows still has a lot to offer in its diverse combat options, dynamic open world, and innovative stealth system. There may even be something worthwhile here for fans of the cozy genre, should they find themselves intrigued enough to brave the waters.

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Everyone's yard is different, and as such, the tools you need are likely to differ from garden to garden. Perhaps you have a lot of concrete and could go nuts with a weed burner, or you're gaga for bulbs and could benefit from an auger. Still, for most people, the basic tools will more than cover all your needs. These are the tools I have multiples of, as I use them so ten I am prone to leaving them around the yard. Any of these tools will make a delightful gift to a gardener, as they can always use another well crafted version. A high-quality spade shovelShovels come in lots of shapes, like flat edge, which are fantastic for scraping the ground, and scoop shovels for moving mulch or compost. But a basic spade, with its triangular shape, is meant to dig into any ground, no matter how soft or hard it is. A good shovel will allow you to put all your weight into it, and even give you a little purchase to stand on it. I don't personally enjoy wooden handles: I find they are prone to cracking and aren't comfortable on my skin. I have really come to enjoy the Radius line of tools, with the ergonomic handled short shovels. These remove a lot of the weight from a traditional shovel, making it easier to move around the garden. If you like a traditional shovel with a long handle, choose a sturdy steel one. Radius Original Green PRO Stainless Steel Garden Shovel $73.55 at Home Depot Shop Now Shop Now $73.55 at Home Depot A hand trowelThe handheld version of the above, a hand trowel is meant for getting up close to the soil and digging as much as you need to plant your basic start. These are also useful for moving a small amount of potting soil or fertilizer. The hand spade can dig in, but also hold about a cup or two of dirt. A good handle is essential, here. Rubber can decay in the sun, and so many hand spades have weak metal and snap in half. This is where it's worth it to spend a little money. I probably own 20 spades that I leave all over the garden so much that I stand in the center of my garden, spinning around, desperate to find one. Of the ones I own, none performs as well as the Burpee wooden hand spade, which I'd have never chosen for myself, but turns out to be my One True. Burpee 13" stainless steel trowel $11.14 at Amazon $15.99 Save $4.85 Shop Now Shop Now $11.14 at Amazon $15.99 Save $4.85 A hori horiA hori hori is like a jackknife for the garden. A straight, long hand tool with a serrated edge, a hori hori doesn't hold any soil but can cut through almost anything. Use it overhand to dig into soil that can't be broken up by a trowel; use the serrated edge to cut through iris tubers or roots. I use it in fall to quickly get bulbs into the ground, since it can take out soil with such a small circumference that it doesn't interfere with plants nearby. Perwin hori hori garden knife $24.99 at Amazon $34.97 Save $9.98 Shop Now Shop Now $24.99 at Amazon $34.97 Save $9.98 A pair of prunersBefore I walk out the door every day to go into the garden, the last thing I grab is a pair of pruners. Like all my basic tools, I have several of them tucked around the garden. Pruners are how you cut flowers, deadhead, trim berry branches, cut twine or prune tomatoes. The best garden pruners are made by Felco, who have a wealth of models; ideally, you'd go to a garden supply store and test them. I love a pair with a swiveling handle to reduce hand stress. Whatever your model, these Cadillacs of garden tools are well worth the money. If you're looking for simple, I always have a few pairs of Fiskars around, too. Felco pruning shears $62.46 at Amazon $66.99 Save $4.53 Shop Now Shop Now $62.46 at Amazon $66.99 Save $4.53 Several bucketsI am highly suspect of a garden without a few buckets aroundspecifically, the five-gallon plastic buckets you get at box stores. They have infinite usesI carry them around the garden to weed and actually stash them in corners for that purpose, so there's always someplace to put weeds. You can move a bucket of soil by hand, fill the bucket with water to quench a plant, create a batch of fertilizer or use it to wash something. You can collect berries or move rocks. They're not the most resilient, so you'll end up replacing them over time, but I love that whenever I simply need a vessel for a random garden chore, a bucket is usually the answer. 5 Gallon Orange Bucket at Home Depot Shop Now Shop Now at Home Depot

Two key OpenAI personnel are leaving the company, while another one is taking a months-long leave of absence. As reported by The Information, OpenAI president Greg Brockman is taking a sabbatical, while his fellow co-founder John Schulman is bidding the company farewell and joining its rival Anthropic. Peter Deng, its VP for consumer product who joined last year, is leaving OpenAI, as well. Deng used to lead product developments at Meta and Uber.In a post on X/Twitter, Brockman said his leave of absence will last through end of year and that it's his "first time to relax" since the founding of OpenAI nine years ago. He also reportedly assured staff members that he's coming back after his vacation. Brockman temporarily left OpenAI last year when the company's board ousted its CEO, Sam Altman. They were both reinstated just a few days later, whereas the board was disbanded and replaced.Im taking a sabbatical through end of year. First time to relax since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago. The mission is far from complete; we still have a safe AGI to build. Greg Brockman (@gdb) August 6, 2024 John Schulman also posted the note he sent to OpenAI staff on X, where he said that his departure stems from his "desire to deepen [his] focus on AI alignment" and to "return to hands-on technical work." He clarified that he wasn't leaving OpenAI due to lack of support for alignment research and that the company's executives have apparently been "very committed to investing in this area." At OpenAI, Schulman helped lead the post-training team that refined its large language models. After the company disbanded the "Superalignment" team that was in charge of steering powerful AI models that could pose a threat to humanity in the future, OpenAI said Schulman would be in charge of any future safety efforts.I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today:I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided John Schulman (@johnschulman2) August 6, 2024 These departures follow several major previous changes in OpenAI's rank of leaders. Before the Superalignment team was disbanded, Jan Leike, one of its heads, wrote on X that "safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products" within the company over the past years. Company co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever also left in May. He was involved in Altman's dismissal as a board member, though he later said that he regretted his participation in the board's actions. While he remained Chief Scientist after the event, he reportedly never truly returned to his duties. The Information also notes that OpenAI recently hired its first CFO and chief product officer, which may have had an effect on Deng's role within the company.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/two-more-openai-leaders-are-leaving-the-company-110012003.html?src=rss

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Michael Bloombergs organization Bloomberg Philanthropies is announcing a $600 million gift to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools.Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and the billionaire founder of Bloomberg LP, will make the announcement Tuesday in New York at the annual convention of the National Medical Association, an organization that advocates for African American physicians.This gift will empower new generations of Black doctors to create a healthier and more equitable future for our country, Bloomberg said in a statement.Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared with white Americans, an Associated Press series reported last year. Experts believe increasing the representation among doctors is one solution that could disrupt these long-standing inequities. In 2022, only 6% of U.S. physicians were Black, even though Black Americans represent 13% of the population.The gifts are among the largest private donations to any historically Black college or university, with $175 million each going to Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Morehouse School of Medicine. Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science will receive $75 million. Xavier University of Louisiana, which is opening a new medical school, will also receive a $5 million grant.The donations will more than double the size of three of the medical schools endowments, Bloomberg Philanthropies said.The commitment follows a $1 billion pledge Bloomberg made in July to Johns Hopkins University that will mean most medical students there will no longer pay tuition. The four historically Black medical schools are still deciding with Bloomberg Philanthropies how the latest gifts to their endowments will be used, said Garnesha Ezediaro, who leads Bloomberg Philanthropies Greenwood Initiative.The initiative, named after the race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma more than 100 years ago, was initially part of Bloombergs campaign as a Democratic candidate for president in 2020. After he withdrew from the race, he asked his philanthropy to pursue efforts to reduce the racial wealth gap and so far, it has committed $896 million, including this latest gift to the medical schools, Ezediaro said.In 2020, Bloomberg granted the same medicals schools a total of $100 million that mostly went to reducing the debt load of enrolled students, who schools said were in serious danger of not continuing because of the financial burdens compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.When we talked about helping to secure and support the next generation of Black doctors, we meant that literally, Ezediaro said.Valerie Montgomery Rice, president of Morehouse School of Medicine, said that gift relieved $100,000 on average in debt for enrolled medical students. She said the gift has helped her school significantly increase its fundraising.But our endowment and the size of our endowment has continued to be a challenge, and weve been very vocal about that. And he heard us, she said of Bloomberg and the latest donation.In January, the Lilly Endowment gave $100 million to The United Negro College Fund toward a pooled endowment fund for 37 HBCUs. That same month, Spelman College, a historically Black womens college in Atlanta, received a $100 million donation from Ronda Stryker and her husband, William Johnston, chairman of Greenleaf Trust.Denise Smith, deputy director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, said the gift to Spelman was the largest single donation to an HBCU that she was aware of, speaking before Bloomberg Philanthropies announcement Tuesday.Smith authored a 2021 report on the financial disparities between HBCUs and other higher education institutions, including the failure of many states to fulfill their promises to fund historically Black land grant schools. As a result, she said philanthropic gifts have played an important role in sustaining HBCUs, and pointed to the billionaire philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scotts gifts to HBCUs in 2020 and 2021 as setting off a new chain reaction of support from other large donors.Donations that have followed are the type of momentum and support that institutions need in this moment, Smith said.Dr. Yolanda Lawson, president of the National Medical Association, said she felt relief, when she heard about the gifts to the four medical schools. With the Supreme Courts decision striking down affirmative action last year and attacks on programs meant to support inclusion and equity at schools, she anticipates that the four schools will play an even larger role in training and increasing the number of Black physicians.This opportunity and this investment affects not only just those four institutions, but that affects our country. It affects the nations health, she said.Utibe Essien, a physician and assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, who researches racial disparities in treatment, said more investment and investment in earlier educational support before high school and college would make a difference in the number of Black students who decide to pursue medicine.He said he also believes the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and the backlash against efforts to rectify historic discrimination and racial inequities does have an impact on student choices.Its hard for some of the trainees who are thinking about going into this space to see some of that backlash and pursue it, he said. Again, I think we get into this spiral where in five to 10 years were going to see a concerning drop in the numbers of diverse people in our field.Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and non-profits receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of APs philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.Thalia Beaty, Associated Press

Local studio RA! has created a blocky house called Casa LL with polystyrenepanels and concrete in Tepoztln, Mexico.The 481-square meter (5,178-square foot) home was completed by the Mexico City-based team of Cristbal Ramrez de Aguilar, Pedro Ramrez de Aguilar and Santiago Sierra, who lead RA!.Located on a lot under the cliffs of Tepozteco, the "geometric composition of the house responds to a fragmentation of prisms that join and separate to shape its internal spaces," the team said.RA! have designed a Mexican house made out of polystyrene panels and concrete"They come together to create amplitude and disperse to retreat into solitude."Using concrete that plays off the hues of the surrounding mountains, the sections of the house were designed to resemble stones from the cliffs but sculpted for habitation.The concrete was applied to a three-dimensional wire structure that wrapped expanded polystyrene panels to create an insulated wall assembly.The single-storey Casa LL is oriented inward to a set of internal courtyards and passagewaysThe result is a sand-coloured monolith with board-formed impressions on one side and smooth texture on the other.With now exterior-facing windows, the single-story home is oriented inward towards internal courtyards and passageways."Each of the volumes denies the views from the street, thus creating the volumetric gesture through which the house begins to be discovered," the team said.The separated program blocks are in a roughly L-shaped form, opening the house to the surrounding mountains.Entering at the corner of the L, residents walk into a small courtyard surrounded by service spaces, a home gym and a free-floating studio block.The concrete sand-coloured monolith structure of Casa LL resembles cliff sculpted for habitationTo the right of the entrance is a separate family suite with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a small kitchen and living room. All of the spaces look towards the main backyard through sliding glass doors.Moving directly forward from the entrance, residents enter the main portion of the house with a large kitchen, dining and living space open to the garden through floor-to-ceiling windows.After crossing the property's alleys, an expansion reveals the vast garden that overlooks surrounding mountains"Once crossing the access alleys between the large blocks that compress us and guide us inside, a transition occurs where there is a brutal expansion towards the generous garden and the view of the mountains," the studio said.A library-style family room and outdoor dining space connect to a third courtyard tucked into the corner of the property.Read: Cylindrical voids accommodate trees at Mexican lake house by MCxA GroupThe primary suite sits on the far side of the plan with glazing on either side to open to the main garden and a smaller, more private garden.The large bathroom with twin walk-in closets holds the edge of the house.A library-style family room and living area connects to a third courtyard in the corner of the propertyNarrow plantings along both the exterior walls and interior courtyard spaces create the impression that the walls of the house were raised straight out of the ground, according to the studio.Previously, RA! designed a restaurant with a bar shaped like an upside-down pyramid and another restaurant that was clad in broken white tiles, both in Mexico City.The photography is by Mariana Achach.Project credits:Architecture: RA!Design team: Cristbal Ramrez de Aguilar, Pedro Ramrez de Aguilar, Santiago Sierra, Daniel Martnez, Lourdes GamezMaterials: Covintec, CemexMEP Engineering: Antonio VillarrealStructural Engineering: Daniel ManzanaresThe post RA! turns Mexican house in on itself with interior courtyards appeared first on Dezeen.