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Microsoft Cuts Price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate | IGN
https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-drops-price-xbox-game-pass-ultimate

Microsoft Drops Price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate - IGN
Microsoft has dropped the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 per month to $22.99 per month, while PC Game Pass is being reduced from $16.49 per month to $13.99 per month. Both changes are effective immediately. Meanwhile, new Call of Duty games will no longer be included as day-one releases in either service, and instead will be added "during the following holiday season (about a year later)," according to Microsoft. Call of Duty games that are already part of any tier of Game Pass a…

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But at least the air is still cool
#oncallduty #pikett

Normally, feeling the air rushing out of the Metro station as you’re on the escalator makes me think I’ve just missed my train. But in this weather, it’s a welcome opportunity to cool off.

Binding as an enabling mechanism for cross-modal plasticity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763426001521 "Multiple sources of connections can provide cross-modal input to the deprived visual regions";

Bit into a chocolate truffle from a local candy shop that was a kind of hemispherical shape, perhaps made from a flat chocolate base that had a blob of filling put on it and then encapsulated in more chocolate.
And as I'm looking at the seam between the two segments the first thing that comes to mind is... Wouldn't it be cool to freeze one of these in LN2, cross section, polish, maybe ion mill, then do like SEM/EBSD to look at the cocoa butter grain structure around the weld li…

A recent upgrade to a commercial cell phone tower near the U.S. National Science Foundation #VeryLargeArray (NSF VLA) briefly disrupted some observations, but operations are back to normal following a cooperative effort between the NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and the wireless provider: https://public.nrao.edu/news/quiet-sky/

The need to call customer service is often, in reality, a failing of UX: a bug, an explicit decision to employ a dark pattern. ‘Why is my account not letting me do x or y’: bug. ‘Why can’t I cancel the website?’: dark pattern. ‘Why can’t I schedule this appointment right now’: UX failing. 1/2

Q&A with Steven Soderbergh about using AI to visualize 10% of his John Lennon documentary after running out of "time and money", facing a backlash, and more (Jake Coyle/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/john-lennon

Steven Soderbergh on John Lennon and AI
The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments. In “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” Steven Soderbergh pp those surviving tapes into a new documentary that debuted Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. But his decision to fill in some visuals using Meta's AI software has prompted an outcry. One of America’s leading filmmakers was using AI? In a film about a Beatle, no less? Soderbergh…

Five good things instead of three today:
1. Passed mid term project review with flying colours, technical officer proclaimed himself "impressed" (phew).
2. Visited super cool facility at DTU and learned a lot about measuring sunlight. Hopefully the start of some interesting new collaborations
3. Took my 2 wonderful teens out for vegan hotpot dinner in Vesterbro to celebrate end of their exams.
4. Lay out in garden listening to the blackbirds and identified 5 separate bee species within 10 mins
5. Tea and TV on the sofa with aforementioned teens just relaxing.
Perfect day really.
#threegoodthings

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Devil: 10 May - 17 May
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Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 8.1 is now available Intellect is happy to…
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