Though Elizabeth Street Garden has been granted a stay pending a ruling in the Appellate Court, the garden faces ongoing uncertainty. The fight to preserve the outdoor sculpture gallery and its distinctive place in the community continues.In October, Elizabeth Street Garden received an eviction notice and the likelihood of housing development planned for the site seemed imminent. The ruling was later amended to pending and the garden has been granted a stay until the case is revisited in February 2025.

The snazzy abode late PoMo kingpin John Portman used to call home in Sea Island, Georgia, is up for sale. For anyone with an extra $40 million lying around, Entelechy II can be yours. Just call Sothebys.The estate Entelechy II by John Portman on Sea Island, Georgia is up for sale. It was finished in 1986 and boasts seven bedrooms among other features.

miHoYo has revealed the next big update for Honkai: Star Rail Version 2.7, A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn. It goes live on December 4th and adds two long-awaited characters Fugue, a limited 5-star version of Tingyun, and Sunday. Check out the trailer below to see them both in action.The story sees the Astral Express preparing to journey to Amphoreus, the mysterious Eternal Land, stopping by Penacony one last time. However, Sunday suddenly re-emerges and seeks a performance for his own reasons. What this could mean remains to be seen, but another mystery surfaces in Fugue. Following the events of Version 1.2, shes restored thanks to Ruan Mei. Players will escort her back to the Xianzhou Luofu, though it wont be straightforward.As for their skills, Sunday is an Imaginary character on the Path of the Harmony. He can forward allies actions and increase their damage. Meanwhile, his Ultimate can restore energy for a single party member and boost their Critical Damage. Fugue is a Fire character of the Nihility who hits enemies with Cloudflame Luster at the start of battle, which deals Weakness Break Damage upon hitting zero. Her Ultimate also dishes out Fire damage and shaves away enemy toughness.Stay tuned for more details when Version 2.7 goes live. Honkai: Star Rail is available for iOS, Android, PS5, and PC.

Overwatch 2s next hero is confirmed, and its a new Tank Hazard of the Phreaks. He debuts in Season 14 starting December 10th, but how does he play? If you didnt play him over the weekend, check out the latest gameplay trailer below.As a Brawl Dive tank, Hazard can vault over walls and grab ledges. The latter comes into play when utilizing Jagged Wall, his first ability, which creates a solid wall to block damage and push enemies back. He can also cause it to emit from walls, providing more access to high ground.Spike Guard is his main means of tanking, blocking damage while firing spikes that home in on foes in range. Violent Leap is a gap closer, which initiates a powerful slash with knockback. His Ultimate, Downpour, sends down spikes from the sky, slowing opponents and setting them up for a dive.Hazard is as a strong alternative to Doomfist and Winston, though time will tell how he slots into the current meta. Stay tuned for more details when Season 14 arrives in the coming weeks.

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The new console will build on the Playstation Portal (pictured) which was reportedly originally intended to work as a standalone device. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony is currently making a new handheld gaming console that allows users to play PlayStation 5 games anywhere. According to Bloomberg, the console is being developed to compete against Nintendo and Microsoft in the portable gaming market, and is likely years away from launch if Sony decides to release it at all.Nintendo is a leading figure in the handheld gaming industry, with a next-generation successor to its popular Switch console expected to arrive next year. Microsoft is also developing its own handheld Xbox prototype, though Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has recently cautioned that the device is a few years out. The handheld gaming category has also benefitted from a PC-platform expansion in recent years thanks to new... Continue reading

Wolfs director Jon Watts told Colliderrevealed to Deadline that he had backed out of the project because he no longer trusted [Apple] as a creative partner after the company made a u-turn on its wide theatrical release.The New York Times reported in August that Apple pulled the theatrical run for Wolfs because it was concerned it was spending too much on films after suffering multiple high-profile box office disappointments. At the same time, its limited-run approach worked out for Doug Limans The Instigators, which analysts cited by the Times said was the most-watched streaming movie in its first week and drove around 50,000 signups to Apple TV Plus. Similarly, Wolfs became by far the most viewed feature film ever released on Apple TV Plus, as Deadline writes. But Watts was unhappy with the experience, telling the outlet he was completely shocked by Apples last minute shift from a wide theatrical release, and asked the company not to announce he was writing a sequel. They ignored my request and announced it in their press release anyway, seemingly to create a positive spin to their streaming pivot. And so I quietly returned the money they gave me for the sequel. I didnt want to talk about it because I was proud of the film and didnt want to generate any unnecessary negative press. I loved working with Brad and George (and Amy and Austin and Poorna and Zlatko) and would happily do it again. But the truth is that Apple didnt cancel theWolfssequel, I did, because I no longer trusted them as a creative partner.RelatedLiman described a similar experience making Road House for Amazon in a July interview with IndieWire. (He praised Apple, however, saying it was above board about The Instigators being made for streaming.) And director Steve McQueen recently told the outlet in his own interview that he cannot say Im not sad about Apple only giving his WWII film Blitz a limited release.By all accounts and in spite of some directors unhappiness, Apple seems set on being cautious with its theatrical risks from now on. As Bloomberg reported in September, the companys shifting plans mean spending less money per movie, with one or two big theatrical swings a year with movies like the upcoming F1.

Filtering, scanning, and updating data are important operations in databases, and many data structures are used to perform these operations. In real-world situations, its important to manage multidimensional data, and the Kd-tree and its variations are popular structures used for this purpose. Various research studies have focused on improving data structures by learning the distribution of data and queries using machine learning models, which has led to the development of learned indexes. A significant challenge with learned multidimensional indexes is that many do not support data update operations, and even when the updates are supported, the time complexity for these operations is often not specified. Due to update operations, the search performance significantly decreases when the distribution of data stored in the data structure becomes skewed.Kd-tree, R-tree, and Z-order curves handle multidimensional data using a special sorting technique. In contrast, learned indexes combine machine learning models with traditional ones like B-trees and Bloom Filters to enhance performance by taking advantage of the distribution of data and queries. Although efficient, learned indexes face challenges with data updates, as distribution changes affect accuracy and search efficiency. Multidimensional learned indexes like Flood, Tsunami, Lisa, RLR-tree, and Waffle address this. However, Flood and Tsunami lack update support, and the time complexity of Lisa, RLR-tree, and Waffle remains unexplored.The University of Tokyo proposed FlexFlood, a data updating algorithm that ensures fast search even if data distribution changes. It is a flexible variant of Flood that supports efficient data updating by adaptively modifying the internal structure of the existing learned multidimensional index.FlexFlood maintains fast search performance even when data distribution changes due to updates. It achieves this by dynamically re-partitioning cells: splitting cells with too many vectors, merging cells with too few, or balancing vector counts between neighboring cells. These adjustments require significant data movement, and the algorithm ensures efficiency by amortizing the update cost and proving the overall time complexity of O(DlogN) under certain assumptions. This makes FlexFlood slightly slower than updatable Flood for updates but better suited for maintaining high search speed with skewed data distributions.Results showed that FlexFlood outperformed SB-Kdtree and R-tree by 1.1 to 2.9 times in update tests but was slightly slower than the updatable Flood, taking up to 2 times longer. FlexFlood performed 3.3 to 10 times better in search queries than the updatable Flood and surpassed SB-Kdtree and R-tree on most datasets. It fell behind R-tree on the Open Street Map dataset but outperformed SB-Kdtree.In conclusion, the proposed FlexFlood supports efficient data updating. The experimental results showed that FlexFlood does not reduce the search speed and has the upper hand over classical data structures. Also, the researchers proved the amortized time complexity of data updating is O(DlogN) under two experimentally valid assumptions. Conversely, FlexFlood does not guarantee optimality regarding the sort dimension and the number of cell divisions after data updates. Therefore, there is scope for further research, and Flexflood can act as the baseline!Check out the Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. If you like our work, you will love ournewsletter.. Dont Forget to join our55k+ ML SubReddit. Divyesh Vitthal Jawkhede+ postsDivyesh is a consulting intern at Marktechpost. He is pursuing a BTech in Agricultural and Food Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a Data Science and Machine learning enthusiast who wants to integrate these leading technologies into the agricultural domain and solve challenges. Read this AI Research Report from Kili Technology on 'Evaluation of Large Language Model Vulnerabilities: A Comparative Analysis of Red Teaming Techniques'

Best Buy just unloaded a tremendous deal on Xbox controllers as part of its Best Buy Black Friday Sale. For a limited time, you can bundle your choice of a Ghost Cipher or Sky Cipher Xbox wireless controller and a Fire TV Stick 4K for just $51.98. You'll see this discounted price in your shopping cart. This is a bargain considering the fact that a similar bundle costs $74.99 on Amazon (although it also comes with one month of Game Pass Ultimate).As a bonus, this bundle will allow you to play Game Pass games without an Xbox console (you'll still need to get yourself an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription). If you choose that route, however, we recommend getting the Fire TV Stick 4K Max instead, which offers a faster Wi-Fi 6e wireless connection The total will come out to be $62.98.How to Get This Xbox Controller and Fire TV Stick Bundle:Step 1: Add one of these controllers to your cartGhost CipherXbox Wireless ControllerSky CipherXbox Wireless ControllerStep 2: Add one of these Fire TV Sticks to your cartAmazon Fire TV Stick 4KAmazon Fire TV Stick 4K MaxStep 3: Confirm the $20 discount in your cart before you check outThis deal also works on most of the other Xbox controller colors except for Carbon Black and Robot White. However, these two color schemes look way, way cooler. The Cipher Editions are absolutely gorgeous controllers, with a translucent clear or blue top case, rubberized grips, and metallic triggers and D-pad. The interior components are colored silver to match the overall theme. Aesthetics aside, this Xbox wireless controller is identical to the one that's bundled with the Xbox Series X and S console. Standard features include s hybrid D-pad, button mapping with the Xbox app, a 3.5mm audio jack that works with any wired headset, and a share button to upload screenshots and video.You Can Play Xbox Games Without an Xbox ConsoleThe Xbox app was made available for the Fire TV Stick 4K and 4K Max starting July of this year. Through this app, gamers can log into their account and access games that are available through Xbox Cloud Gaming. Not every game supports Xbox Cloud Gaming, but the list includes hundreds of titles like Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Starfield, Fortnite, Mortal Kombat 11, and more. Because you're connecting to a remote server that hosts the game itself, your Fire TV Stick isn't using any of its processing power to run the game, which is why you don't need a powerful Xbox console to play. This is an excellent low-cost alternative to console or PC gaming, however there are some conditions:You'll need to be an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriberYou'll need a Bluetooth controllerYou'll want a very fast and stable Wi-Fi connectionWhen Is Black Friday 2024?Were in the home stretch: Black Friday falls on November 29 this year. All month long, retailers have been rolling out sales, ramping up to massive discounts on Black Friday and through the weekend into Cyber Monday. There are already some fantastic deals available on PS5 consoles (including PS VR2) and controllers, video games for all platforms, AirPods Pro, and tons more.Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.