Zelda fans can now get the Great Deku Tree Lego set at major retailers. Launched last September as a Lego Store exclusive, the first building set based on The Legend of Zelda is now available at Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. The superb 2,500-piece Great Deku Tree Display Model is a 2-in-1 package that lets fans build the Deku Tree as depicted in Breath of the Wild or Ocarina of Time.Buy The Great Deku Tree Lego Set at:AmazonBest BuyWalmartTargetLego StoreIt's worth noting the Great Deku Tree is currently on backorder from the Lego Store and won't ship for two months, so it's certainly possible other retailers will sell out, too. As of now, all major retailers have the Great Deku Tree in stock and can ship it now. Lego The Legend of Zelda: Great Deku Tree costs $300, but My Best Buy Plus/Total members save 10%, which drops the price down to $270. My Best Buy Plus costs $50/year, so new members will already be getting $30 of that fee back with this one purchase. All in-stock Lego sets are eligible for this perk, including the brand-new Mario Kart lineup. The Lego Mario Kart lineup is more budget friendly, with all six vehicle playsets adding up to $220. If you bought all of the Mario Kart sets and the new Zelda set, the membership will be fully paid off.Continue Reading at GameSpot

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While corporations from Lowes to Harley-Davidson abandon their once-vaunted efforts at improving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their human relations, one company has dedicated itself so heavily to these efforts that its physically designed DEI into its new office.Virgin Media O2, the recently merged media and telecommunications company based in the U.K., has just opened a new headquarters in London, which has been designed specifically to accommodate diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Led by the architecture and design firm Gensler, the office covers the top six floors of an existing buildingfloors four through nineincluding some ground floor customer-facing retail space. And all of its 81,750 square feet have been carefully considered to meet the needs of an uncommonly wide range of users. The furniture is designed to accommodate a variety of human shapes, sizes, and mobility levels. Workspaces on each floor are positioned near windows offering the wellness benefits of natural light and great views. There are private workstations, where users can block out all sounds, and meeting rooms equally comfortable for people in wheelchairs, on two feet, or streaming in via video call. Informal meeting areas were designed on each floor to enable the kind of professional and social cross-pollination valued by large companies. Dubbed accidental meeting points or AMPs, theyre meant for small gatherings, informal discussions, or simply taking a tea break. Some also offer areas where employees can go to get work done away from their own workspace. With each floor themed according to one of VM O2s telecommunications servicesincluding sports broadcasts, gaming, music, and streamingAMPs are outfitted in different colors and designs. The gaming floor, for example, has a carpet resembling pixels; the sports floor has bleacher-style seating; and the black and white furniture on the music floor was inspired by piano keys. So people seeking more vibrancy or more quietude can go to the AMP that best fits those needs. One of the main ways in which to create and design space for everyone is making sure that you have variety, says Megan Dobstaff, a design director at Gensler who led the project.[Photo: Courtesy ofGareth Gardnerfor Gensler]Designing a DEI-centric officeTo develop the DEI design, Gensler collaborated with BW: Workplace Experts, and received significant guidance from VM O2 employee focus groups, DEI representatives, and an in-house brand team. These consultations helped shape how Genslers designers accommodated people with different sensory sensitivities, mobility levels, and neurodiverse conditions.Working with VM O2s DEI employee representative group, nicknamed Ultraviolet, was especially informative. They offered the designers specific examples of team members who had been undeserved or ignored by previous office environments. Accommodating them was often easier than expected, says Dobstaff: Adding easily controlled dimmers throughout the space on all floors and temperature controls to meeting rooms, testing colors for optimized tonal contrasts in furniture coverings so the edges would be visible to partially sighted people and others for those with color blindness. Theres no reason why we shouldnt be driving that forward, and making space purposeful for all the different types of people who are going to be using it, Dobstaff adds.In terms of specific accessibility and inclusion, VM O2s offices have gender-neutral toilets, also retreat rooms with blackout curtains for neurodivergent employees and visitors experiencing overstimulation or a panic attack. There are multi-faith rooms with Wudu facilities where adherents can wash their feet in gender-separate spaces and pray. There are sinks accessible to people of all statures, microwaves in the ninth-floor caf that can be opened by right-handed people and others for left-handed people, and cabinets that can be opened by people who have no hands.[Photo: Courtesy ofGareth Gardnerfor Gensler]Dobstaff says the project was more focused on diversity and accessibility than any other shed worked on but expects other projects to take DEI office design issues more seriously going forward.What it taught me is we should never just be making a design decision for an arbitrary reason, she says. Theres always some type of consideration that you could add basically to any design decision, whether thats sensory, whether thats visual, whether its accessibility, or cognitive. Theres always something.

The Biden administration released long-awaited final rules Friday for a tax credit that will send billions of dollars to producers of cleaner hydrogen.The new rules drew cautious praise from environmental groups, who said they would likely reduce planet-warming emissions but included loopholes that could still reward producers of dirty hydrogen.The administration is trying to ramp up hydrogen production to displace fossil fuels as an energy source for sectors of the economy that emit massive greenhouse gases, yet are difficult to electrify, such as long-haul transportation and industrial manufacturing, including steel-making.Most hydrogen today is made from natural gas, contributing to climate change. But hydrogen can also be made by splitting water with solar, wind, nuclear, or geothermal electricity, yielding little if any planet-warming greenhouse gases.A year ago, theTreasury Department proposed a tiered systemwhere firms that produce hydrogen by splitting water could qualify for the full credit of $3 per kilogram.Now, the final rule could also extend the full credit to firms that use natural gas to make hydrogen if they use technology to capture and sequester the emissions, and to firms that make hydrogen from natural gas alternatives sourced from wastewater, animal manure, and landfill gas. Hydrogen produced from coal mine methane would likely qualify for lower tiers of the credit.Administration officials said the credit is based only on the lifecycle emissions of the hydrogen production process, rather than on how the hydrogen is produced. The credit is part of theDemocrats Inflation Reduction Actpassed in 2022, but it has support from some Republican members of Congress.Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said the act, along with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is the worlds most ambitious policies to support the clean hydrogen industry.The environmental group Earthjustice said the rules support clean hydrogen projects that by and large do not worsen climate and health-harming pollution. But the group said theyre also concerned that dirty hydrogen producers will enjoy the benefits of this important climate program, too.Conrad Schneider, senior director at the Clean Air Task Force, an advocacy group, said the final rules do benefit the climate. If the hydrogen qualifies for a credit, that means its being made with lower carbon emissions than the fossil fuels its displacing, he said.We have a number of industry sectors that are hard to decarbonize, aviation, marine shipping, steel production, that are currently using fossil fuels, he said. Having a tax incentive like this for the production of clean hydrogen will create a fuel that replaces those unabated fossil fuels and helps the climate.But Schneider said accurately tracking the emissions of hydrogen produced with natural gas could be impossible if the Trump administration weakens regulations on methane and emissions reporting requirements.The Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association includes more than 100 members involved in hydrogen production, distribution, and use, including vehicle manufacturers, industrial gas companies, renewable developers and nuclear plant operators. Frank Wolak, the associations president, said they are relieved the rules are finally in place. The big question now, he said, is whether the tax credit will move the industry forward and give firms the confidence to make investments, or whether the provisions work for some and not for others.Jennifer McDermott, Associated Press

Greg Epstein is the Humanist chaplain at Harvard University and at MIT, where he advises students, faculty, and staff members on ethical and existential concerns from a humanist perspective. He has served for over 20 years in elected and appointed interfaith leadership roles as an advisor for the non-religious. He himself is an atheist, agnostic, Humanist.Tech has changed roles. It used to be a mere tool that people could use for bettering and strengthening humanity. Now, it has achieved a religiosity that threatens to make us the servant worshipers of a dangerous Big Tech agenda. We need to stop genuflecting to our black mirrors a hundred times a day and pull all that is digital down from the heavens, back into the toolbox.Below, Epstein shares five key insights from his new book,Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the Worlds Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation.Listen to the audio versionread by Epstein himselfin the Next Big Idea App.1. Tech has come to play a role in our lives that surpasses any industryTech has come to look more like a religion. If you compare the mythological kingdom of Silicon Valley to the size and scope of other world religions today, it would now be the biggest.We tend to say that tech is an industry, but that description makes no sense because theres no longer any major industry that isnt a tech industry. If a new religion of the traditional kind had emerged and acquired billions of devotees (and dollars) in the way that our current fervor for AI, social media, surveillance capitalism, and all things digital have, if everyone you knew suddenly started praying or worshiping at a traditional altar as often or as fervently as we genuflect before our stained glass black mirrors (at least 150 times a day, on average), then we would and should ask ourselves whether that new creed had taken on undue influence over our lives.2. Big Tech is dominated by some weird ideasBig Tech has become a basic feature of daily life, and it has come to be dominated by some extremelyweirdideas. Many of those ideas are weirdly theological. Like Way of the Future (WOTF), a religion founded by Anthony Levandowski, a former Google and Uber AI engineer who made hundreds of millions before being convicted for IP theft against Google, avoiding jail when Donald Trump pardoned him. Levandowski, upon filing paperwork to found a new church, told the IRS that his new faith focused on, The realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence, developed through computer hardware and software. He believes humans are creating something that will soon be a god that, like the jealous one in the Bible, will be angry to discover that we didnt start worshiping it sooner.I wish my book research hadnt turned up literally countless similar examples, like The Singularity. According to Ray Kurzweil, the AI legend who helped pioneer Googles Gemini, The Singularity is the supposedly fast-approaching moment when tech allows us to overcome death, making human life meaningful. This contradicts thousands of years of secular and religious philosophy by implying that life hasnt been meaningful until now.3. A new traditional religion dominated by strange ideas would be questionedWe desperately need more critical thinking about why Big Tech is selling such grand ideas and lofty ideals. Many of the most important weird tech ideas I explore inTech Agnosticdirectly influence the movement of billions of dollars.Heaven is a genuinely beautiful and meaningful concept for many. Im fine with that, even though I am among those who, like John Lennon, prefer to Imagine theres no such thing. The problem is that in the hands of infallible extremists or absolute monarchs, the concept can justify almost anything: Sure, society isnt fair or equitable or safe, your family is suffering, and the future looks bleak. But stop complaining and obey my commands, say such rulers. If you do, youll go to paradise. If not, go tothe other place.This classic theological trope appears in a 2003 essay, Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development, by Nick Bostrom, a former longtime Oxford professor who was among the worlds most decorated figures in AI until he was forced to close his Future of Humanity Institute in April 2024. In the piece, Bostrom argued that for every year that sufficiently advanced technology is not developed, and colonization of the universe is delayed, there is a corresponding opportunity cost of the trillions of hypothetical future digital lives that tech could bring to the universe.In other words, if you dont pump billions into the coffers of AI leaders now, youre denying the birth of billions of AI people in a celestial tech future. By doing so, you might be committing genocide. The influential tech billionaire investor and founder Marc Andreessen makes the same case in his famous 2023 Techno-Optimist Manifesto. He writes: We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. [. . . ]Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.Yikes. Facing a claim like that, its harder to raise more earthly concerns like AIs huge carbon footprint amid the global climate crisis or AI disinformation harming democracy. Thats precisely the agenda behind Big Beliefs like Tech Heaven.4. We need a Renaissance of agnosticismOne of the biggest blessings skeptical Humanism can offer a world of tech-certainty, in which AI chatbots freely and frequently hallucinate garbage answers and advice (like Google Geminis suggestion to use glue to keep cheese from sliding off pizza), is that its honorable to admit not knowing an answer. Patient, thoughtful agnosticism may be slower, but it can help form better answers to lifes hardest questions, like Is the theology I believe in true? Or, How to govern a diverse society? Or, Should I glue mozzarella and sauce to my pizza crust? Okay, some questionsdohave easy answers.Seriously though, our society needs to be more proud of what my friend Lesley Hazleton, author ofAgnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, calls a spirited delight in not knowing.5. Technology belongs as a toolnothing moreThere is a deep beauty worth fighting for: Acknowledging, even celebrating, our limitations, imperfections, and mortality. Our flawed yet resilient capacity to love is valuable. We need to return technology to the status of tools that are in service to our deep and common humanity.This article originally appeared in Next Big Idea Club magazine and is reprinted with permission.