After a leaked image of the same recently emerged, NetEase Games has confirmed that the Fantastic Four will join the Marvel Rivals roster. Their first trailer arrives on January 6th, 8 AM PST.With the image showcasing The Thing, Human Torch, Mr. Fantastic and The Invisible Woman, the question arises: Are all four playable? If so, will they arrive all at once or interspersed throughout Season 1 (which begins this month)? What role does their robot H.E.R.B.I.E. play?Theres also the matter of the environment: New York City during a Blood Moon, where dozens of bats (potentially vampires) roam the skies. This may be the next map that players will battle it out in. Unlike Season 0: Dooms Rise, Season 1 will last three months and include a full Luxury Battle Pass for $9.99. Stay tuned for more details when it goes live, including potential balance changes.Marvel Rivals is available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC. Check out our review here. Its crossed 20 million players since launching last month.Get ready to welcome Marvels First family in Marvel Rivals. Trailer on January 6th at 8:00 AM PST / 16:00 UTC. Be there. #MarvelRivals #FantasticFour #NewYorkCity pic.twitter.com/4Cjh9mXSi3 Marvel Rivals (@MarvelRivals) January 2, 2025

January has only just started, but theres ample hype for next months releases, especially Warhorse Studios Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. After going gold in early December, global public relations manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling revealed that review codes would be dispatched in the next few days.The exact timing is unknown, but Stolz-Zwilling said they would arrive four weeks ahead of the games release. Interestingly, he also said to expect some (final) first impressions next week, which could mean new previews based on select portions of the review build.Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 launches on February 4th for PC, Xbox Series X/S and PS5 (with the launch date brought forward by one week). It features 4K/30 FPS and 1440p/60 FPS graphical modes on consoles alongside support for PS5 Pro on release.On PC, it requires an Intel Core i7-13700K or AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32 GB RAM and a GeForce RTX 4080 or Radeon RX 7900 XT to run at Ultra settings. Head here for more information on the system requirements.We are sending out #KCD2 review codes in the next few days (yes. 4 weeks ahead of release )!!!From now on, everything will be in the lap of the Review-Gods (pls be kind). Not gonna lie I am nervous but also excited AF. 6years of work are leaving the nest.If you pic.twitter.com/4hQdrU02GW Sir Tobi (@SirTobi28) January 2, 2025

Founder and CEO of Black Myth: Wukong developer Game Science, Feng Ji, has taken to Chinese social media platform Weibo to talk about the development of the game, and the troubles it faced on Xbox Series X/S.Celebrating the fact that the action RPG received its fair share of awards during the 2024 Steam Awards, including the one for Game of the Year, Feng Ji thanked fans of the game for their support. Although there were no big surprises, I was still a little bit emotional after taking them all, said Feng Ji in a rough translation of the post on Reddit. Your combat capabilities are so terrifying, and the only thing missing is the Xbox robe It seems a bit inappropriate, but the 10 GB shared memory, without several years of optimization experience, it is really difficult to use it. In the post, Feng Ji is referring to the fact that the Xbox Series S has a smaller shared memory pool, which totals up to 10 GB shared RAM between its CPU and GPU. As Microsoft requires games coming to Xbox Series X/S to have complete parity on both consoles, developers often have to grapple with the lower hardware specs of the Xbox Series S when compared to the Series X and PS5. Its an issue thats affected releases like Baldurs Gate 3, which launched without local co-op on Series S.Black Myth: Wukong is yet to make its way on to Xbox Series X/S, and is currently only available on PC and PS5. Back in December, the game got an update that allowed it to make use of the more beefed up hardware available in the PS5 Pro.The last we heard about Black Myth: Wukong on Xbox Series X/S, it had been rated for release on the platform by ESRB back in October. The studio has yet to officially confirm a release date for the Xbox version.

Painted around 1730, the angels were covered up in 1912. David L. Ryan / The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesConservators are working to restore colorful angels painted nearly 300 years ago at BostonsOld North Church, a historic house of worship made famous byPaul Revere.Founded in 1723 in the North End neighborhood, the Old North Church is the oldest surviving church building in Boston. Its congregants wereAnglicans, a minority compared to the manyPuritans living in Boston during the colonial era.Around the year 1730, church leaders hired a congregation member named John Gibbs to paint 16 angels on the interior upper arches. Gibbs also painted angels on the organ case and an altar panel, reportsEpiscopal News Services Tracy J. Sukraw.Everywhere you looked in the church, you would have seen angels, Reverend Matthew Cadwell, the churchs vicar, tells Episcopal News Service. It would have been so different from any Puritan church that you would have stepped foot in. A member of the Anglican church's congregation, John Gibbs, painted the angels nearly 300 years ago. David L. Ryan / The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesFor more than 180 years, the winged cherubs adorned the wallsuntil 1912, when church officials had them covered up with layers of thick white paint.They stood guard while a 15-year-old named Paul Revere was tasked with ringing the churchs bells. Decades later, they were still there when Revere made his famous midnight ride to warn of the approaching British army.On the evening of April 18, 1775, Revere learned that the British were heading from Boston to the nearby towns of Lexington and Concord. He contacted Robert Newman, the sexton of the Old North Church, and asked him to hang two lanterns from the buildings tower. This covert symbol was meant to communicate that the British were rowing across the Charles River, rather than marching on land.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow memorialized this moment in his 1860 poem Paul Reveres Ride. He mentioned the church by name and popularized the phrase one if by land, and two if by sea.Its not clear why the angels were painted over, but theyve remained hidden for the past century.The churchs interior may have been painted white amid a resurgence of this colonial revival aesthetic during the early 20th century, says Lisa Howe, a director at Building Conservation Associates, a consulting firm hired to explore the churchs painted-over history, to theBoston Globes Julian E.J. Sorapuru.Painting everything white everywhere was an approach, she adds. And if you look at this church, it kind of has that colonial look. So theres the misperception that, Oh, of course, it was always painted white. And thats not the case.Now, ahead of the 250th anniversary of Reveres ride, conservators are bringing the angels back into the spotlight. Since September, theyve focused their efforts on eight of the angels; they hope to restore the other eight by the spring, per the Boston Globe.Historic Paint Restoration: Uncovering Hidden AngelsWatch on The $465,000 project allows our visitors to see a little bit of the church as Paul Revere would have known it, says Nikki Stewart, executive director of Old North Illuminated, the nonprofit foundation that helps preserve the historic site, toWCVB-TVs Brianna Borghi. But also it really deepens the interpretations of the religious history of the church because, in that founding era, the church would have been very richly decorated.The restoration has been a slow and careful process, as the angels were covered by seven layers of paint, reports theAssociated Press Michael Casey. Conservators applied solvent gel to soften the paint before carefully shaving away the layers using plastic scrapers. They then used cotton swabs to gently clean and retouch the underlying angels.They were surprised to see that each figure has its own character,Gianfranco Pocobene, a conservator working on the project, tells the AP.Theyre not copies, Pocobene adds. Theyre all in different poses, which gives them a really wonderful rhythmic kind of pattern across the surface of the church.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.Filed Under: American History, American Revolution, Art, Arts, Boston, British History, Christianity, Conservation, History, Painters, Painting, Paul Revere, Religion, Renovation and Restoration

The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages government buildings, just announced a major nuclear energy contract. The announcement comes on the heels of several big tech companies making a flurry of nuclear energy deals last year. The 10-year, $840 million contract is for 10 million megawatt-hours of electricity, which the GSA says is the equivalent of whats needed for more than 1 million homes annually. The agency awarded the contract to Constellation, which operates the nations largest nuclear fleet, and recently announced an agreement with Microsoft to restart a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island. Nuclear energy makes up a significant portion of the GSA deal, about 4 million megawatt-hours, according to Constellation spokesperson Paul Adams. Silicon Valley is increasingly turning to nuclear energy to satiate rising electricity demand from AI data centers. The federal government is the nations single largest energy consumer, making this contract a big boon to the nuclear industry. This agreement is another powerful example of how things have changed.Frustratingly ... nuclear energy was excluded from many corporate and government sustainable energy procurements. Not anymore. This agreement is another powerful example of how things have changed, Joe Dominguez, Constellation president and CEO, said in a press release. The United States government joins Microsoft and other entities to support continued investment in reliable nuclear energy that will allow Constellation to relicense and extend the lives of these critical assets.Constellation says it generates 10 percent of the nations carbon pollution-free energy. A majority of its output is nuclear energy, but it also produces hydro, wind, and solar power. It also generates electricity from gas-fired power plants, although the company has set a goal of reaching 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040 compared to close to 90 percent today. Constellation and the GSA declined to answer questions about how much of the electricity included in the contract will come from each source aside from nuclear power plants. Altogether, its the biggest energy procurement contract the GSA has signed in its history.This historic procurement locks in a cost-competitive, reliable supply of nuclear energy, GSA administrator Robin Carnahan said in a press release. Were demonstrating how the federal government can join major corporate clean energy buyers in spurring new nuclear energy capacity and ensuring a reliable, affordable supply of clean energy for everyone.The contract will allow Constellation to extend licenses for existing nuclear power plants as well as invest in new equipment and technology that should result in 135 megawatts of additional capacity. The GSA agreed to purchase 2.4 million megawatt-hours of electricity from that added capacity over 10 years. Outside of GSA buildings, the deal also extends to 13 other agencies, including the departments of Veterans Affairs and Transportation as well as the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the National Park Service, the Social Security Administration, and the US Mint.The GSA is framing the contract as a way to lock in more affordable prices as data centers drive up electricity demand and increase competition for limited clean energy sources:In the face of uncertainty over future electricity prices and increasing electricity demand from data centers and AI facilities, for instance, this contract provides federal agencies with budgetary stability and protections from future price increases by keeping their electricity costs fixed for 10 years, while also continuing to bolster the domestic nuclear industry.Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft have all inked splashy nuclear energy deals over the past year. In September of last year, Microsoft and Constellation announced a plan to restart a shuttered reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the site of the worst nuclear energy accident in US history. The Biden administration has also made nuclear energy a key part of its plan to transition the US away from fossil fuels to energy sources that dont cause climate change. Last October, the Department of Energy announced a $1.52 billion loan to help restart a retired nuclear generating station in Covert Township, Michigan. And while President-elect Donald Trump plans to undo progress made toward clean energy, the Trump campaign agenda included efforts to support nuclear energy production.

Incase, the brand that took over Microsofts accessories line, has revealed a compact ergonomic keyboard designed by the company. With a price of $119.99, the wireless keyboard features a split, contoured design, a cushioned palm rest, and a dedicated Copilot button.The keyboard also comes with ultra-responsive scissor keys with 1.3mm travel, meaning you wont have to press down very far when typing. You can connect up to three devices to the keyboard via Bluetooth, and its powered by two AAA batteries that Incase says will last up to 36 months. Image: IncaseAfter Microsoft discontinued its non-Surface line of mice, keyboards, and other PC accessories in 2023, Incase partnered with the tech giant to bring back its designs while using the same components and supply chain as Microsoft.Though this Incase ergonomic keyboard is nearly as expensive as the $129.99 Logitech Ergo K860, its still much cheaper than higher-end ergonomic options, like the Nuio Flow and ZSA Voyager, both of which cost $365.Incase says it will release the keyboard in early 2025. The company has several other Microsoft-designed accessories planned as well, but it currently only has two mice and a Bluetooth keyboard available for purchase on its website.

Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees. The proposed settlement, reported by Bloomberg, could pay many US-based Apple product owners up to $20 per device for up to five Siri-enabled devices. It still requires approval by a judge.If approved, the settlement would apply to a subset of US-based people who owned or bought a Siri-enabled iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, iMac, HomePod, iPod touch, or Apple TVbetween September 17th, 2014 and December 31st, 2024. A user would also need to meet one other major criteria: they must swear under oath that they accidentally activated Siri during a conversation intended to be confidential or private. Individual payouts will depend on how many people claim the money, so if you apply, you could end up receiving less than the $20 maximum cap.RelatedThe initial class action suit against Apple followed a 2019 report by The Guardian, which alleged Apple third-party contractors regularly hear confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex while working on Siri quality control. While Siri is supposed to be triggered by a deliberate wake word, a whistleblower said that accidental triggers were common, claiming something as simple as the sound of a zipper could wake Siri up. Apple told The Guardian that only a small portion of Siri recordings were passed to contractors, and it later offered a formal apology and said it would no longer retain audio recordings.The plaintiffs in the Apple lawsuit one of whom was a minor claimed their iPhones had recorded them on multiple occasions using Siri, sometimes after they hadnt uttered a wake word.Apple wasnt the only company accused of letting people hear confidential recordings. Google and Amazon also use contractors that listen in on recorded conversations, including accidentally captured ones, and theres a similar suit against Google pending.

LLMs have demonstrated impressive capabilities in answering medical questions accurately, even outperforming average human scores in some medical examinations. However, their adoption in medical documentation tasks, such as clinical note generation, faces challenges due to the risk of generating incorrect or inconsistent information. Studies reveal that 20% of patients reading clinical notes identified errors, with 40% considering them serious, often related to misdiagnoses. This raises significant concerns, especially as LLMs increasingly support medical documentation tasks. While these models have shown strong performance in answering medical exam questions and imitating clinical reasoning, they are prone to generating hallucinations and potentially harmful content, which could adversely impact clinical decision-making. This highlights the critical need for robust validation frameworks to ensure the accuracy and safety of LLM-generated medical content.Recent efforts have explored benchmarks for consistency evaluation in general domains, such as semantic, logical, and factual consistency, but these approaches often fall short of ensuring reliability across test cases. While models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 exhibit improved reasoning and language understanding, studies show they struggle with logical consistency. In the medical domain, assessments of LLMs, such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, have demonstrated accurate performance in structured medical examinations like the USMLE. However, limitations emerge when handling complex medical queries, and LLM-generated drafts in patient communication have shown potential risks, including severe harm if errors remain uncorrected. Despite advancements, the lack of publicly available benchmarks for validating the correctness and consistency of medical texts generated by LLMs underscores the need for reliable, automated validation systems to address these challenges effectively.Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington have developed MEDEC, the first publicly available benchmark for detecting and correcting medical errors in clinical notes. MEDEC includes 3,848 clinical texts covering five error types: Diagnosis, Management, Treatment, Pharmacotherapy, and Causal Organism. Evaluations using advanced LLMs, such as GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, revealed their capability to address these tasks, but human medical experts outperform them. This benchmark highlights the challenges in validating and correcting clinical texts, emphasizing the need for models with robust medical reasoning. Insights from these experiments offer guidance for improving future error detection systems.The MEDEC dataset contains 3,848 clinical texts, annotated with five error types: Diagnosis, Management, Treatment, Pharmacotherapy, and Causal Organism. Errors were introduced by leveraging medical board exams (MS) and modifying real clinical notes from University of Washington hospitals (UW). Annotators manually created errors by injecting incorrect medical entities into the text while ensuring consistency with other parts of the note. MEDEC is designed to evaluate models on error detection and correction, divided into predicting errors, identifying error sentences, and generating corrections.The experiments utilized various small and LLMs, including Phi-3-7B, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and OpenAIs GPT-4 series, to evaluate their performance on medical error detection and correction tasks. These models were tested on subtasks such as identifying errors, pinpointing erroneous sentences, and generating corrections. Metrics like accuracy, recall, ROUGE-1, BLEURT, and BERTScore were employed to assess their capabilities, alongside an aggregate score combining these metrics for correction quality. Claude 3.5 Sonnet achieved the highest accuracy in detecting error flags (70.16%) and sentences (65.62%), while o1-preview excelled in error correction with an aggregate score of 0.698. Comparisons with expert medical annotations highlighted that while LLMs performed well, they were still surpassed by medical doctors in detection and correction tasks.The performance gap is likely due to the limited availability of error-specific medical data in LLM pretraining and the challenge of analyzing pre-existing clinical texts rather than generating responses. Among the models, the o1-preview demonstrated superior recall across all error types but struggled with precision, often overestimating error occurrences compared to medical experts. This precision deficit, alongside the models dependency on public datasets, resulted in a performance disparity across subsets, with models performing better on public datasets (e.g., MEDEC-MS) than private collections like MEDEC-UW.Check out the Paper and GitHub Page. 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. Dont Forget to join our60k+ ML SubReddit. Sana Hassan+ postsSana Hassan, a consulting intern at Marktechpost and dual-degree student at IIT Madras, is passionate about applying technology and AI to address real-world challenges. With a keen interest in solving practical problems, he brings a fresh perspective to the intersection of AI and real-life solutions. 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The Fantastic Four are coming to Marvel Rivals, its developer has confirmed.In a first-look image, below, we see Marvel Rivals take on Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and Thing, as well as the robot H.E.R.B.I.E. The superhero team are sitting in the Fantasticar, and we also see the Baxter Building in the background.The Fantastic Four's design for Marvel Rivals. Image credit: NetEase / Marvel.Marvel Rivals developer NetEase tweeted to say a trailer showing Fantastic Four is set for January 6 at 8am PST. One early question fans have is whether H.E.R.B.I.E. is playable alongside the main Fantastic Four members. We'll find out soon enough.It's worth noting that the Fantastic Four image also includes what look like bats flying across a sky lit by a blood-red moon. Could this vampiric tease suggest Blade is coming in Season 2?Marvel Rivals is a smash hit for NetEase, securing 10 million players in just three days and 20 million in two weeks. The free-to-play superhero team-based PvP shooter launched on December 6 across PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S, and while Sony and Microsoft do not make player numbers public, Steam makes Valve stats available.On Steam, Marvel Rivals peaked over its launch weekend with 480,990 concurrent players, which was enough to put it in the top five most-played games on Valve's platform. Its the 20th highest concurrent player number ever seen on Steam, ahead of the likes of Helldivers 2, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Destiny 2.Marvel Rivals launched with Season 0, with Season 1 set for January 9, according to the in-game battle pass countdown timer. It seems likely Fantastic Four will be made available with the release of Season 1.Check out IGNs Marvel Rivals Review to find out what we think. And keep an eye on the latest Marvel Rivals codes for free skins, and vote on the strongest Marvel Rivals characters in our community tier list.Image credit: NetEase / Marvel.Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.