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    Blox Fruits: How To Get All Berries
    While exploring locations in Blox Fruits, players can farm various resources. Most of them are needed to complete quests, but some will help craft Dragon or Aura skins. This guide will detail how to get all the Berries in Blox Fruits.
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    Call of Duty Addresses Spam Reporting Concerns
    Call of Duty has confirmed that spam reporting other players may result in account penalties for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone gamers. The series has had issues with cheaters, but spam reporting in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone is against the rules.
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    Attack On Titan: Every Titan And Their Special Ability
    At the start of Attack on Titan, there was much mystery surrounding the origin of the Titans. However, as the series progressed, the bigger mystery was centered around the Titan Shiftershow these titans were different from the pure titans and what made each of them special.
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    Capitalism debuts 34-legged table that "democratises discomfort"
    Design collective Capitalism has unveiled The Uncomfortable table, which has 34 legs to ensure that all dinners have an awkward eating experience.Named The Uncomfortable, the unconventional table plays on the common frustration of being sat at the end of the table with an inconveniently placed leg during family gatherings and celebrations.Capitalism has created a 34-legged table as their debut project"In almost all middle-class Spanish families, there's always someone stuck with the leg," explained the creatives behind the Capitalism project. "We decided to democratise the discomfort with a table where everyone gets a leg.""Our goal is quite simple: we want people to think, 'Damn, I got the leg'. The difference is that, with this table, everyone has the chance to experience that feeling equally."The table is purposefully designed to distribute inconvenience equallyMeasuring 2.75 meters in length, the table's 34 legs were purposefully designed not for structural necessity but to distribute inconvenience equally among all diners. This deliberate focus on discomfort prioritises concept over practicality."The concept challenges traditional design by not aiming to be useful or functional but instead addressing this inequality in an ironic way," the group told Dezeen.Read: Paul Coenen adds "shrink-wrap" pattern to aluminium furniture collectionOver half of the legs were designed and produced by Capitalism, while the remainder were sourced pre-made, several of which were taken from popular table designs in Spain."Since our goal was to represent a collection of tables within a single piece, many of the legs were taken from tables that have been bestsellers in Spain," said the group. "Others were custom-designed to balance the composition and create contrast."Some of the legs are custom-designed while others are pre-madeEach leg was crafted and treated differently, with chrome-plated and galvanised steel legs shining alongside copper and methacrylate ones.The contrasting materials were intended to create a visual cacophony that highlights the table's disruptive intent and mirrors the diversity of family dynamics across Spain.The chaotic sprawl of legs was unified by a four-centimetre-thick solid oak tabletop that was finished with a blend of teak oil, linseed oil and additional varnishes that enhance both its durability and natural aesthetic."We wanted the table to feel timelesssomething that wasn't tied to any specific style or era, yet somehow belonged to all of them," said the collective."The robustness and longevity of oak worked perfectly in our favour to achieve this."The legs are crafted from a mix of materialsThe piece is currently on display at CUPRA City Garage. Capitalism, an anonymous group linked to the creative world, describes itself as a collective that reflects on and questions the paradoxes of modern society.Other furniture recently featured on Dezeen include a reissue of an IKEA steel-framed shelf and a marble door punctuated by nine porthole windows.The photography is by Miguel de Guzmn / Imagen Subliminal.The post Capitalism debuts 34-legged table that "democratises discomfort" appeared first on Dezeen.
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    People With Extreme Wealth Should Give It Awayor Be Penalized
    The gap between the ultra-rich minority and the vast majority has never been greater. But a wave of activist millionaires is asking for higher taxes.
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    The humans behind the robots
    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here.Heres a question. Imagine that, for $15,000, you could purchase a robot to pitch in with all the mundane tasks in your household. The catch (aside from the price tag) is that for 80% of those tasks, the robots AI training isnt good enough for it to act on its own. Instead, its aided by a remote assistant working from the Philippines to help it navigate your home and clear your table or put away groceries. Would you want one?Thats the question at the center of my story for our magazine, published online today, on whether we will trust humanoid robots enough to welcome them into our most private spaces, particularly if theyre part of an asymmetric labor arrangement in which workers in low-wage countries perform physical tasks for us in our homes through robot interfaces. In the piece, I wrote about one robotics company called Prosper and its massive effortbringing in former Pixar designers and professional butlersto design a trustworthy household robot named Alfie. Its quite a ride. Read the story here.Theres one larger question that the story raises, though, about just how profound a shift in labor dynamics robotics could bring in the coming years.For decades, robots have found success on assembly lines and in other somewhat predictable environments. Then, in the last couple of years, robots started being able to learn tasks more quickly thanks to AI, and that has broadened their applications to tasks in more chaotic settings, like picking orders in warehouses. But a growing number of well-funded companies are pushing for an even more monumental shift.Prosper and others are betting that they dont have to build a perfect robot that can do everything on its own. Instead, they can build one thats pretty good, but receives help from remote operators anywhere in the world. If that works well enough, theyre hoping to bring robots into jobs that most of us would have guessed couldnt be automated: the work of hotel housekeepers, care providers in hospitals, or domestic help. Almost any indoor physical labor is on the table, Prospers founder and CEO, Shariq Hashme, told me.Until now, weve mostly thought about automation and outsourcing as two separate forces that can affect the labor market. Jobs might be outsourced overseas or lost to automation, but not both. A job that couldnt be sent offshore and could not yet be fully automated by machines, like cleaning a hotel room, wasnt going anywhere. Now, advancements in robotics are promising that employers can outsource such a job to low-wage countries without needing the technology to fully automate it.Its a tall order, to be clear. Robots, as advanced as theyve gotten, may find it difficult to move around complex environments like hotels and hospitals, even with assistance. That will take years to change. However, robots will only get more nimble, as will the systems that enable them to be controlled from halfway around the world. Eventually, the bets made by these companies may pay off.What would that mean? One, the labor movements battle with AIwhich this year has focused its attention on automation at ports and generative AIs theft of artists workwill have a whole new battle to fight. It wont just be dock workers, delivery drivers, and actors seeking contracts to protect their jobs from automationit will be hospitality and domestic workers too, along with many others.Second, our expectations of privacy would radically shift. People buying those hypothetical household robots would have to be comfortable with the idea that someone that they have never met is seeing their dirty laundryliterally and figuratively.Some of those changes might happen sooner rather than later. For robots to learn how to navigate places effectively, they need training data, and this year has already seen a race to collect new data sets to help them learn. To achieve their ambitions for teleoperated robots, companies will expand their search for training data to hospitals, workplaces, hotels, and more.Now read the rest of The AlgorithmDeeper LearningThis is where the data to build AI comes fromAI developers often dont really know or share much about the sources of the data they are using, and the Data Provenance Initiative, a group of over 50 researchers from both academia and industry, wanted to fix that. They dug into 4,000 public data sets spanning over 600 languages, 67 countries, and three decades to understand whats feeding todays top AI models, and how that will affect the rest of us.Why it matters: AI is being incorporated into everything, and what goes into the AI models determines what comes out. However, the team found that AIs data practices risk concentrating power overwhelmingly in the hands of a few dominant technology companies, a shift from how AI models were being trained just a decade ago. Over 90% of the data sets that the researchers analyzed came from Europe and North America, and over 70% of data for both speech and image data sets comes from YouTube. This concentration means that AI models are unlikely to capture all the nuances of humanity and all the ways that we exist, says Sara Hooker, a researcher involved in the project. Read more from MelissaHeikkil.Bits and BytesIn the shadows of Arizonas data center boom, thousands live without powerAs new research shows that AIs emissions have soared, Arizona is expanding plans for AI data centers while rejecting plans to finally provide electricity to parts of the Navajo Nations land. (Washington Post)AI is changing how we study bird migrationAfter decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists. (MIT Technology Review)OpenAI unveils a more advanced reasoning model in race with GoogleThe new o3 model, unveiled during a livestreamed event on Friday, spends more time computing an answer before responding to user queries, with the goal of solving more complex multi-step problems. (Bloomberg)How your car might be making roads saferResearchers say data from long-haul trucks and General Motors cars is critical for addressing traffic congestion and road safety. Data privacy experts have concerns. (New York Times)
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    Here are MIT Technology Reviews best-performing stories of 2024
    Another year is coming to a close, so lets look back at the MIT Technology Review stories that resonated most with you, our readers.We published hundreds of stories in 2024, about AI, climate tech, biotech, robotics, space, and more. There were six new issues of our magazine, on themes including food, play, and hidden worlds. We launched two newsletters, to share tech industry analysis from our editor in chief and to step people through the basics of AI. And we hosted 11 exclusive conversations with our editors and experts in our subscriber-only event series, Roundtables.What did people enjoy most? Heres a quick look at some of the stories that performed best with our audience:10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2024Every year as we compile this annual list, we look for promising technologies poised to have a real impact on the world. It represents the advances that we think matter most, and the 2024 edition included weight-loss drugs, chiplets, and the first gene-editing treatment. The 2025 list is dropping in early January. To find out what made the cut, join us for a special live Roundtables event, Unveiling the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025, on Friday, January 3, at 12:30 p.m. ET. This is a subscriber-only event. Register to attend or subscribe for access.)What is AI?Everyone thinks they know, but no one can agree. Senior editor Will Douglas Heaven explored the problem in this in-depth feature storyand explained why it matters for all of our futures. He covers the origins of modern AI and digs into the ongoing debate among experts about this technologys capabilities and potential.The AI Hype IndexTheres no denying AI moves fast, and it can be hard to know whats worth your attention. Thats why we started plotting everything you need to know about the state of AI in a new matrix, along axes that run from Hype to Real and Doom to Utopia.What are AI agents?Major tech companies are now developing AI tools that can do more complex tasks, like sending emails or booking plane tickets, on your behalf. Heres how they will work.Super-efficient solar cells: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024Solar cells that combine traditional silicon with cutting-edge perovskites could push the efficiency of solar panels to new heights. Thats why we put them on our list of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2024.Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born todayAs part of our 125th anniversary issue, contributor Kara Platoni spoke with a dozen experts to sketch out how technology might influence the life of someone born today over the next 125 years.The messy quest to replace drugs with electricityIn the 2010s, the field of electroceuticals was born, attracting much fanfare and investment. Contributor Sally Adee explored how the field fizzled and how its being revived as an effort to turn gene expression on and off with electric fields.15 Climate Tech Companies to WatchFor the second annual edition of this list, our reporters and editors chose 15 companies from around the world that we think have the best shot at making a difference on climate change.Weight-loss drugs: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024Drugs like Wegovy and Mounjaro have quickly become embedded into American life. In 2024, they even earned a place on our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list. The long-term implications are unknown, but plenty of people are using semaglutides anyway, and many lose around 15% of their body weight.Dont miss out on even more emerging technology coverage and subscriber-only stories.Subscribe today for unlimited accessto expert insights that you cant find anywhere else.
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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Patch 1.1.3 Fixes Crashes, Control Issues, and More
    Following last weeks major patch 1.1, GSC Game Worlds S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has received several smaller patches to fix issues. The latest, patch 1.1.3, is now available and fixes a bug with the story mission The Road to the Foundation, where an important character may disappear.Other fixes include skipping shader warm-up to temporarily prevent crashing during compilation, correcting ACCESS VIOLATION ERROR crashes, and a bug where inverting axis options wouldnt be saved when restarting. Also, if you ever lost control after shooting, reloading and examining an artifact, that should be fixed.Patch 1.1.3 is the final patch for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl this year, but GSC Game World has much more in the pipeline. Its also preparing a content roadmap for the beginning of 2025 and will also release a next-gen patch for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy to update it for Xbox Series X/S and PS5. Stay tuned for more details in the coming months.Patch 1.1.3Fixed an issue when Richter could disappear from the Enerhetyk Palace of Culture during the The Road to the Foundation mission.Added temporary solution to avoid crash on shader compilation by skipping shaders warm up.Fixed a few ACCESS VIOLATION ERROR crashes.Fixed an issue when invert axis options could not be saved after restarting the game.Fixed an issue when controls could be lost after shooting, reloading and then examining the artifact.
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