Sony has announced plans to launch PlayStation games on “additional console platforms beyond PlayStation platforms as early as 2021.” The first announced series for the change is Sony’s long-running baseball sim series MLB The Show. Ars Technica reports: The gazillion-dollar question, of course, is which other console platforms we might expect the series to launch on. Neither Sony nor MLB had…
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Mars-Zubenelgenubi conjunction December 12
This next week, before dawn, watch as the red planet Mars sweeps by the Zubenelgenubi, the constellation Libra’s alpha star. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/mars-zubenelgenubi-conjunction-december-12…
Ford Will Turn McDonald’s Used Coffee Bean Husks Into Car Parts
Ford will soon start using coffee chaff from McDonald’s to manufacture auto parts like headlamp housings and other interior and exterior components. “In addition to making Ford vehicles a little bit ‘greener,’ the coffee chaff — or the waste produced by coffee during the roasting process — will apparently also help the company make parts that are 20 percent lighter,” reports…
Amazon Proposes a Home Robot that Asks You Questions When It’s Confused
An anonymous reader shares a report: AI models invariably encounter ambiguous situations that they struggle to respond to with instructions alone. That’s problematic for autonomous agents tasked with, say, navigating an apartment, because they run the risk of becoming stuck when presented with several paths. To solve this, researchers at Amazon’s Alexa AI division developed a framework that endows agents with…
Dog turns on microwave, sets house on fire
A dog that was left home alone in South-East England recently managed to set his owner’s home ablaze. The bizarre incident occurred after the adventur… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/332656/dog-turns-on-microwave-sets-house-on-fire…
Did this huge black hole swallow a star from the inside out?
A recently discovered black hole in a distant spiral arm of the Milky Way, 70 times as heavy as the sun, might have swallowed a star from the inside out, and scientists are baffled. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/did-huge-black-hole-lb1-swallow-star-from-inside-out…
Doctors Are Turning To YouTube To Learn How To Do Surgical Procedures
Some doctors say that medical students and residents are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training. The video-sharing platform hosts tens of thousands of surgery-related videos, and the number keeps climbing every year. CNBC reports: CNBC found tens of thousands of videos showing a wide variety of medical procedures on the Google-owned video platform, some of them hovering…