Let the games begin (Activision)Black Ops 6 is staging a crossover with Netflixs Squid Game this week, featuring modes and cosmetics inspired by the series.Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 is one of the best received entries both critically and commercially, with the game becoming the fastest selling Call Of Duty ever.Developed by Treyarch and Raven Software, the latest instalment boasts new movement mechanics and a return to the classic prestige system. At last months The Game Awards, Black Ops 6 even landed four nominations.After previous games featured crossovers with shows like The Boys and The Walking Dead, Netflixs Squid Game is the latest series to enter the world of Call Of Duty.When does the Black Ops 6 Squid Game event start in the UK?The Black Ops 6 Squid Game event begins Friday, January 3 at 6pm GMT in the UK across Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC. This translates to 10am PT/1pm ET in the US.The Squid Game crossover will last for three weeks in total, concluding on Friday, January 24 at 6pm GMT in the UK and 10am PT in the US.What modes are in the Squid Game event?Various limited-time modes will be available across Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer, Zombies, and Warzone for the event.In multiplayer, there is a spin on the shows Red Light, Green Light game with the giant animatronic Young-Hee doll. Players have to survive three two-minute rounds in the Red Card Stadium, where you try to eliminate other players when Young-Hee shouts Green Light, and stop any movement on Red Light or be killed instantly.Another multiplayer mode is Pentathlon, where you play a series of modes to determine the overall winner. This includes classic modes like Domination and Kill Confirmed, alongside two new variants: Piggy Bank Team Deathmatch and Roulette.In Piggy Bank Team Deathmatch, your kills contribute to a giant piggy bank which drops at some point in the match. Roulette, meanwhile, sees players awarded double points for taking out enemies with a one-shot roulette handgun, although it might blow up in your hands with every shot fired. Young-Hee is calling the shots (Activision)In the Squid Game Moshpit playlist, traditional modes like Team Deathmatch, Domination, and Hardpoint are given a twist using the Red Light, Green Light, piggy bank and roulette handgun mechanics.As for Zombies, Young-Hee makes an appearance in Dead Light, Green Light, with each call determining how much essence you earn and how difficult the enemies will be. In Warzone, you can take on a series of challenges where underperforming squads will be eliminated.All modes in the Black Ops 6 Squid Game crossoverMultiplayerRed Light, Green LightPentathlon (with Piggy Bank Team Deathmatch and Roulette)Squid Game MoshpitZombiesDead Light, Green LightWarzoneSquid GameWhat are the rewards in Call Of Dutys Squid Game?During this event, all players will earn points on the free track of the Squid Game Event Pass. The unlocks on this track include contestant operator skins, Squid Game-themed backgrounds, double XP tokens, and a cleaver melee weapon.If you purchase the premium track for 1100 COD points (around 8), youll be able to unlock the Front Man operator, along with various weapons and equipment skins.More TrendingThere will be operator bundles available to buy separately too, between the Pink Guards Tracer Pack, the VIPs Tracer Pack, and the Young-Hee Tracer Pack. At the time of writing, the price for these bundles has yet to be announced. Get your cosmetics (Activision)Emailgamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below,follow us on Twitter, andsign-up to our newsletter.To submit Inbox letters and Readers Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use ourSubmit Stuff page here.For more stories like this,check our Gaming page.GameCentralExclusive 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

Were going to go out on a limb here and say that even if youre one of the worlds biggest photo and video enthusiasts, we have a deal on an external hard drive that you will never outgrow. Amazon has just dropped a 44% off deal on the massive 20TB version of the Seagate Expansion desktop USB hard drive, making it very possibly the last $280 you ever spend on external storage.See at AmazonHow big is 20 terabytes? Enough to hold roughly 10 million photos or 10,000 hours of HD video. So, very possibly an entire lifetime of photos, home videos, and other files can be safely backed up to the Seagate Expansion HD, and then further protected by Seagates Rescue Data Recovery Services should disaster strike.Drag, Drop, and RelaxThe Seagate Expansion HD can be used as a pure drag-and-drop device, and can also be set as the destination for your laptop or desktop computers native backup program. (Youll have to reformat it to work with Macs Time Machine app, but thats an easy process.) Its both Mac and PC compatible, and the file transfers move quickly and reliably via the USB 3.2 connection. Itll take mere minutes for the Seagate Expansion HD to go from unboxing to actively backing up your most valuable files.With a drive as enormous as the Seagate 20TB Expansion HD, you can use it for backups and also as an ideal device for saving space on your PC or laptops hard drive. When the built-in storage on a computer pushes maximum capacity, it can affect performance, and also leave you to deal with those annoying repeated your hard drive is nearly full popup messages. Offloading files to the Seagate 20TB Expansion HD is a permanent fix for that issue.Safe From DisasterAccidents will happen. So will fires, water damage, and any number of other natural or unnatural disasters that often doom digital files. Seagate has included its Rescue Data Recovery Services in the purchase price of the Expansion HD, so your backup is backed up by experts who specialize in restoring damaged drives or extracting files and data from damaged drives and copying them onto a new, accessible device.This isnt a pocket-sized hard drive, but its the perfect size for a desktop or workstation, and at just 6.9 x 1.4 x 4.8 inches and 2.59 pounds it is easily portable. But the main appeal to this Amazon deal for 44% off the Seagate Expansion External Hard Drive is pure size 20 terabytes of it for just $280 while this deal is still active.See at Amazon

Samsungs starting 2025 with a bang when it comes to great offers on their top-line Galaxy S24+ phone. Theres a $200 instant savings deal on the unlocked 256GB model of the S24+ that brings the price down to $800, but were really loving the offer of up to $650 in instant trade-in credit that would make the Galaxy S24+ easily the best smartphone youve ever bought for just $350.See at SamsungBetter yet, this deal is for an unlocked 256GB Galaxy S24+, which means you can bring it to any of the big 3 providers Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T and have it up and running instantly. Even they would be hard-pressed to offer you a deal as good this one from Samsung which could get you as much as 65% off of a brand-new Galaxy S24+.Beauty, and a BeastThe Galaxy S24+ is, to put it mildly, a truly gorgeous phone. The 6.7-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2x display really pops, with resolution of 1440 x 3120 pixels and support for HDR10+ for the deepest blacks and the whitest whites. It can be pumped up to as much as 2600 nits of brightness, and the 120Hz refresh rate is the final touch to make the Galaxy S24+ a true marvel when youre streaming, gaming, or browsing.Behind that beautiful screen sits Samsungs ultra-powerful 10-core Exynos 2400 chipset and Xclipse 940 graphics-processing unit to ensure that you can multitask, run numerous apps simultaneously, or take video calls, all without lag or choppy performance. If its superior video performance youre looking for, the Galaxy S24+ shoots 8K video at a crisp 30 frames per second.The Samsung Galaxy S24+ also has a 3-camera setup that rivals any competitor, with a 50 megapixel main lens, a 10 MP telephoto lens that can achieve 3x optical zoom, and a 12 MP ultra-wide lens for optimal landscape imaging.Unleash the AIGalaxy AI features are all over the Galaxy S24+, including the amazing Circle to Search which lets you use your finger or a Samsung S Pen to circle text or an object of interest on your screen and instantly have Google search for it. Live Translation, Chat Assist, and Photo Assist also make the Galaxy S24+ one of the best AI-deploying mobile devices anywhere.Samsung boosted the battery of the Galaxy S24+ to accommodate all of these amazing features, giving it up to 25 hours of Wi-Fi internet time, 29 hours of video playback time, or a crazy 88 hours of audio playback time on a single charge.When a huge trade-in offer like this pops up from Samsung, suddenly you look at your current devices in a whole new light: How much can I get for this so I can upgrade to a Galaxy S24+ phone? Head to Samsung now and see how close you can get to the $650 max credit.See at Samsung

Mike Flanagan wants his takes onCarrie andThe Exorcist to be timely. Get a look at the season finale ofOutlander. Plus, whats next onSilo. To me, my spoilers! Carrie/The Exorcist In response to a fan on bluesky(via Screen Rant), Mike Flanagan stated his upcoming unique takes on Carrie and The Exorcist feel surprisingly timely. Wicked: For Good Meanwhile, director John Cu warned the second half of Wicked gets messy in a new interview with Variety. It gets messy. I think if theyre following the emotions of this movie, [fans of the first film] walk with us. In the same interview, Ariana Grande promised the titular musical number will be quite a meal.The scene that leads up to itand afterwardsis quite a meal. I do remember, at a point, leaving my body and hovering for, like, the whole week. Heart Eyes Bloody-Disgusting reports the upcoming Valentines Day-set slasher movie, Heart Eyes, has been rated R for strong violence and gore, language and some sexual content. The War Between the Land and the Sea In the latest issue ofDoctor WhoMagazine (via The Radio Times), Russell T. Davies stated his Doctor Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea is still way, way off, but adds he also believes it will be one of the greatest shows of [his] entire career.Its my job to hype, but the hype for that show is still way, way off its far from transmission. Here, right now, in the cool, dry downloads of a distant gaze, I can tell you thats one of the greatest shoots of my life and one of the greatest shows of my entire career. You can doubt me and cry hype and get left behind. Oh my God, its good! Silo Spoiler TV has a synopsis for The Book of Quinn, todays new episode of Silo. Click through for images.Juliette discovers somethings happened to Solo. Bernard makes an offer to Walker. Lukas meets with Salvador Quinns descendants. Outlander Finally, Starz has released a trailer for next weeks season finale of Outlander, A Hundred Thousand Angels. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

Alvar Aalto's Finlandia Hall Reopens in Helsinki After Extensive Renovations Led by Arkkitehdit NRTSave this picture!Helsinki, Finlandia Hall - interior. Image Tuomas Uusheimo via Helsinki PartnersOriginally designed by Modernist architect and designer Alvar Aalto in 1971, Finlandia Hall represents one of Helsinki's most important modernist works of architecture. In early 2022, an extensive renovation project began, led by Finnish architecture firm Arkkitehdit NRT, aiming to make the venue more accessible to the wider public and create additional services while respecting Alvar Aalto's original design. After three years of renovation, Finlandia Hall officially reopens on Saturday, 4 January 2025.Save this picture!Commissioned in 1962 by the city of Helsinki and completed in 1971, Alvar Aalto's Finlandia Hall was conceived as the initial element of a larger city center plan. The building's design features a main auditorium and a smaller chamber music hall, originally envisioned as a separate elevated structure. The building is structured to face Terrace Square, while underground tunnels were to connect it to other cultural buildings planned along the shore of Tl Bay. Interior design was primarily handled by interior designer Pirkko Sderman and the architect Elissa Aalto, as the building was conceived as a "Gesamtkunstwerk", a total work of art. The main auditorium holds 1750 seats, the chamber music hall 350. A congress wing was added in 1975, featuring conference rooms and halls of various sizes and a concave glass faade adapted to make space for the old trees growing on site.Save this picture!The renovation project conducted by Arkkitehdit NRT prioritized preserving the building's original appearance while modernizing its interior and improving accessibility. Extensive underground work created nearly 2,000 square meters of new technical space, without altering the exterior. Upgrades include new lifts, accessible seating, bathrooms, a new kitchen, and updated LED lighting. Related Article Notre Dame Rebuilt: A Journey of Restoration for France's Iconic Cathedral The renovation, completed within schedule and budget, also aimed to follow sustainable building principles, with over 60% of doors and 70% of windows refurbished, and 7km of reclaimed moldings reused. Recycled facade marble was sold for repurposing. Energy efficiency improvements include new windows, insulation, and waste heat recovery.Save this picture!Save this picture!The renovated Finlandia Hall will offer new exhibition spaces, a caf, restaurant, and shop, and repurposed employee apartments now serve as accommodation. A key feature is the opening of the previously inaccessible northern section to the public, creating a "Finlandia Experience." This includes a wine caf, a design shop, and the opening of a new exhibition showcasing Alvar Aalto's work and Finnish history, designed by Atelj Sotamaa.Save this picture!In other restoration-related news, a new European Citizens' Initiative calls for EU legislation to encourage the reuse of existing structures, prioritizing the potential of existing public and private buildings. The extensive renovation of the fire-damaged Notre Dame in Paris has also reached a major milestone with the official reopening of the cathedral in December 2024, while restoration works continue in parts of the structure.Image gallerySee allShow lessAbout this authorCite: Maria-Cristina Florian. "Alvar Aalto's Finlandia Hall Reopens in Helsinki After Extensive Renovations Led by Arkkitehdit NRT" 03 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1025295/alvar-aaltos-finlandia-hall-reopens-in-helsinki-after-extensive-renovations-led-by-arkkitehdit-nrt&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?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

House 8 / Marcos Bertoldi ArquitetosSave this picture! Eduardo MacariosHousesCuritiba, BrazilArchitects: Marcos Bertoldi ArquitetosAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:596 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2023 PhotographsPhotographs:Eduardo MacariosManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Abrasil, Alma Light, Alubauen, Alumifer, Casagrande Flores e Jardins, Deca, Docol, Espao Interativo, Mara Piscinas, Michelangelo Mrmores, S.C.A, Schco Lead Architects: Marcos Bertoldi, Felipe Chimanski More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. The 2,124 m sloping lot with a native woodland at the rear, defined the project by imposing a building setback, preserving a lawned garden and a pool at the back, while respecting the protection zones required by local environmental regulations. The L-shaped ground floor plan concentrates the social areas, service spaces, and a studio. The shorter leg of the L features a single-story double-height volume dedicated to the main living spaces of the house, which are complemented by a powder room and a wine cellar located in the lower volume beneath a green roof. The longer leg comprises three levels, starting with garages in the basement, service areas on the ground floor, and bedrooms on the upper floor. The bedrooms are positioned to the north, with the master suite facing east and overlooking the woodland.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The social area, glazed on all four sides of the rectangular layout, benefits from eastern sunlight on its side facing the pool and western light on the street-facing faade. To ensure privacy, the western openings begin at a height of over 3 meters above the floor. In the social area, technique and aesthetics converge. The pursuit of slender proportions in the roof slab and the lateral exposed concrete walls is achieved through two inverted beams that connect these planes without allowing them to touch. The result is the perception of an exploded volume, composed of detached panels that allow light to enter from various angles. These inverted beams also anchor a large prismatic block of exposed concrete, which hovers above the social area, projecting outward toward the woodland with a cantilever of over 5 meters. This block contains the family room, illuminated by an English courtyard, and the remainder of the private areas of the house.Save this picture!The exposed concrete structure and enclosures are raised off the ground. The walls laid directly on the terrain are covered in gray ceramic bricks, contrasting in texture and volume with the lightness of the exposed concrete elements. The main entrance, featuring an amphitheater-like staircase and plaza, is also finished in the same material. The house number '8' is incorporated into a black metal railing, visible through two circular cutouts. The most striking feature of the landscaping is a cascading arrangement of Paran white marble blocks, which aids in stabilizing the existing slope.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessAbout this officePublished on January 03, 2025Cite: "House 8 / Marcos Bertoldi Arquitetos" [Casa 8 / Marcos Bertoldi Arquitetos] 03 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1025087/house-8-marcos-bertoldi-arquitetos&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?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

A video on how to create procedural terrain and landscapes with geometry nodes and smart material for rock an grass, blender 4.3 tutorial.TexturesRock: https://polyhaven.com/a/rock_face_03 Grass: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1usGfJzxpglzpSYfMRekEApbiPeuF3vmY/view?usp=drive_link 3D Assets(Free & Paid) https://chuckcg.gumroad.com/ https://www.artstation.com/chuckcg/store?tab=digital_product https://blendermarket.com/creators/3d-models Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chuckcg Water shader for blender: https://chuckcg.gumroad.com/l/sxbcnw?layout=profile How to add vegetation and trees: https://youtu.be/gHSxy76yz0s How to create rocky surfaces: https://youtu.be/g9T3vDtTAPk #blender #b3d #3D

Rangers at Yellowstone National Park are often asked to predict when the next massive volcanic eruption will occur there.A team of USGS scientists, who surveyed the parks underground magma reservoirs, recently confirmed the standard response, probably not any time soon. But they have pointed out that the area where such activity is likely to occur has shifted, according to a report in the journal Nature.Reservoirs of Molton RockIts not like theres been a pattern of frequent, massive eruptions there; the area has seen only three major events over the past two million years. Those events are labeled caldera forming, because the molten rock vacating the underground reservoirs leaves an empty space, which leads to the land above collapsing, ultimately forming a bowl-shaped basin.Beneath those basins, called calderas, sit reservoirs of magma. The recent survey shows that the magma within them has not stood still. It now appears to be shifting to the northeast of the Yellowstone Caldera. For the past 160,000 or so years, the magma reservoirs have mainly existed beneath the caldera.However, a number of geologic factors suggest that, despite the movement, the reservoirs are not eruptible, according to the paper. That doesnt necessarily mean that the region will be completely devoid of volcanic activity just that it wouldnt be as cataclysmically explosive as the previous Big Three.Mapping the MagmaYellowstone is a destination largely because of volcanic activity. The hot liquid rock beneath the crust fuels the geysers, hot springs, and boiling mud pots that attract swarms of tourists to that corner of Wyoming. So how did the geologists come to their conclusion? First, not all magma is created equally. It is formed from different kinds of melted rock. Some contain more silica, some hold more basalt. Some is rich in minerals like iron or magnesium, some less so.These differences are important for two reasons. First, these different mineral mixes give off a variety of magnetic and electrical fields which geologists can measure. Thats exactly what the USGS scientists did essentially mapping the magma reservoirs throughout the Yellowstone Caldera area.The differences also give hints about how fast the magma flows, based on its mineral composition. For example, the magma nearest the surface of the Yellowstone Caldera contains a lot of silica, which lends the molten rocks a sticky, viscous, and slow-moving quality.Seven ReservoirsThe geologists magma-mapping efforts revealed seven distinct regions. Some reservoirs feed into each other kind of like the Great Lakes. They lie between 2.5 miles to 30 miles underground. They were perhaps most surprised by the northeast pocket both due to its location and composition. Earlier estimates had not placed this area as a potential producer of volcanic activity. The magma also is layered like a parfait, with two flavors. The lower level is rich in basalt, while the upper level contains a lot of silica. The lower level essentially helps keep the upper level warm.The upper-level chambers of silica-rich molten rock measure between 240 cubic miles to 300 cubic miles. Thats a lot of magma. Indeed, it is comparable to the amounts that were likely emitted during each of the previous three large eruptions.What are the Odds for Eruption?However, that magma is not likely to go anywhere anytime soon, wrote Mark Stelton, a USGS scientist stationed at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, in an online column called Caldera Chronicles.Stelton wrote that the short-term chance of an eruption is akin to the probability of getting bonked in the head by a baseball while standing outside a major league stadium. Predicting the frequency of a major Yellowstone eruption requires factoring how often such events happen within a given time period.Based on our current knowledge of Yellowstones eruptive history, the annual probability of a volcanic eruption is on the order of 0.001 percent, but even this low number is probably an overestimate for the short term, Stelton wrote in the column. There are no signs of an impending volcanic eruption based on monitoring data, and we know that the magmatic system beneath Yellowstone is mostly solid.Article Sources:Our 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:Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in newspapers, but switched to scientific magazines. His work has appeared in publications including Science News, Science, Nature, and Scientific American.

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Physicists are putting the finishing touches on the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, or JUNO, which will delve into the secretive ways of neutrinos, a family of extremely lightweight subatomic particles with no electric charge, and their antiparticle partners, antineutrinos.Set to start taking data in summer 2025, JUNO aims to determinewhich of the three types of neutrinos is heaviest. It will be the largest detector of its type in the world.At the heart of the detector, located 700 meters underground in China, sits a roughly 35-meter-wide acrylic sphere. It will be filled with 20,000 metric tons of liquid scintillator, which emits light in response to particles produced when a passing antineutrino interacts with a proton in the liquid. Tens of thousands of photomultiplier tubes will eye the scintillator for antineutrino-induced glimmers. Surrounding the sphere, water will fill a cylindrical pit to help filter out subatomic particles that are not antineutrinos but might mimic them. Scientists began filling this pit with water on December 18.Once operational, the detector will scrutinize antineutrinos released as plentiful by-products from two nuclear power plants, each about 50 kilometers away.The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory is nestled into the mountains of Kaiping, in southern China. The detector sits 700 meters below the surface. JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images A stainless-steel structure, about 40 meters in diameter, supports the JUNO detector. IHEP JUNOs 35-meter acrylic sphere (seen here from underneath) will eventually hold 20,000 metric tons of liquid scintillator. IHEP Workers install photomultiplier tubes (gold) that will search for antineutrino-induced flashes of light from the liquid scintillator contained within the 35-meter acrylic sphere. JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images Tens of thousands of photomultiplier tubes (gold) will surround the acrylic sphere (top). YueXiang Liu, IHEP