After their victory, Trevor speeds through on a POW motorbike, causing Abigail to blush. With her sister's help, they take down the Jupiter Queen. Her sister, Beatriz, is informed of this and arrives. She later makes another appearance in the Extra Ops "Queens Battle", where she is fighting a Jupiter Queen but struggles to defeat it. As Abigail destroyed the Sand Marine, she saw Trevor pass by on the same motorbike and wanted to go with him, but continued searching for Allen Jr. Instead, a POW ran out on a motorbike to find Trevor and the Sand Marine focused its attention on her. While roaming the desert she found a Sand Marine, and believing he may have been held prisoner, blasted a hole through it. after he was reported missing after a failed operation. Dion, Romy and Kriemhild are also members of this squad.įirst appearing in the Extra Ops "Sand Locker", she is assigned to locate Allen Jr. She specializes in long-ranged combat, using customized laser drones to attack her enemies from afar.Īlong with her position as one of Morden's most loyal officers, Abigail is also in command of ACE, an elite fighting squad. Unlike most of the other officers in the Rebel Army, Abigail maintains a professional attitude when speaking to Morden, and is rather disturbed when others speak casually to him. Despite not being the best in a specific category, she became well known for her decision-making and completion of her tasks, one which Rebel High Command eventually decided that she would serve by General Morden's side. Originally a cadet, she was tutored by Ariadna who she had feelings for, though she was unable to admit them since she ended up as one of the Professor's experiments. She also helped Grazia form the Blaze Brigade by supplying her with funds and equipment. The two are very close to each other and she affectionately calls her "Betty". She has a younger sister, Beatriz, who also serves in the Rebel Army as an officer. Despite being on opposing sides, she continues her duties to the Rebel Army. Ībigail is a high-ranked female officer of the Rebel Army. At some point in the war between the Regular and Rebel armies, she developed a crush on Trevor Spacey - her face turns red when thinking about him. Abigail was a graduate student of a military academy. After hearing that Donald Morden has led the Rebel Army's coup, she joined the Rebel Army when she grew up. Abigail was born in the ice-covered land of the East Europe.
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Checkpoints aren't respected in Fireteam Finder.The Dragon's Breath catalyst quest doesn't progress in S23 activities.The Seasonal Challenge that rewards 4000 Bright Dust requires that all 66 challenges be completed to receive the reward instead of letting players skip three like in past seasons.Some quest waypoints direct players to seasonal spaces before they have access. Festival of the Lost quests are still appearing for some players.The Offering to the Oracle is unable to be turned in at the Oracle Engine.All of the Gilding Triumph’s descriptions incorrectly state that Title Gilding resets annually instead of every Season.The Dragon's Bite Artifact Perk could be activated in the Crucible.The Scorching Wish buff continuously applies Scorch to players through various means in The Coil activity.The Gambit Legacy Armor chest piece costs 15,000 Legendary Shards to focus instead of Glimmer.The Veteran's Flair transmat effect is missing from player Collections.Ghost Activity Mods use placeholder icons.New Dungeon and Seasonal armor sets appear in player Appearance screens even when not unlocked.Some rocket launchers no longer appear in their preview screen.The Balisarius-D pulse rifle is not being rewarded for players who complete their Competitive Crucible placement matches.The Deconstruct perk does not properly refund ammo on fusion rifles.Some weapons purchased from Banshee-44 may have a different masterwork than what was shown in the weapon preview.The Osmosis perk is not activating on some scout rifles.While Full-Auto Melee is active, glaives will almost always melee twice.The Mindbender's Ambition shotgun no longer glows after dealing damage to enemies.Veist Auto Rifles can be rotated partially off the screen while viewing them via the inspection page.To access Iron Banner, players must reach Guardian Rank 4, complete the Crucible introductory quest, then speak to Lord Saladin and complete the Iron Banner introductory quest.The Powerful Friends and Radiant Light armor mods require at least 1 armor charge to activate.The "Solo Legendary Lost Sectors" Guardian Rank objective can be completed with both Master and Legendary Lost Sectors. If you plan to Cross Save but will use another character set, it's recommended to set up Cross Save before logging in.
Did he streak across Syracuse? Probably not. He got out of the tub shouting Eureka! and streaked across Syracuse, the tale goes.ĭid he understand volume and specific gravity? Probably so. How was he going to do this? He lowered himself into the bath and suddenly realized he could measure the crown’s volume by the amount of water displaced and solve the problem. When the crown arrived, the king, suspicious the goldsmith had substituted silver for some of the gold and kept it for himself, asked Archimedes to determine if the crown was pure gold without harming it. King Herio II had commissioned a new royal crown, for which he provided the gold. Let’s consider another famous eureka moment-the Greek mathematician Archimedes and the story of how he solved a problem for the king of Syracuse by taking a bath. But I do not think the apple went plonk on his head. I think you could look at it as a core of truth. Keith Moore, the Royal Society’s librarian, wryly describes the apple story as “an 18th-century sound bite.” Is it fair to accuse Newton of being a spin-doctor, or worse, lying? People remember it, tell it, and it gets better with the retelling. So, what could be better than coming up with the idea he was a wunderkind? It’s a nice visual story about inspiration. Leibniz published first, but Newton thought of it earlier. Another reason there was an agenda to promote the story was that Newton had been involved in a dispute with the philosopher-mathematician Leibniz over the discovery of calculus. What gives the tale such long legs?įirst of all, Stukeley's Memoirs of Newton is one of the few sources we have about his early life. I can imagine Stukeley, who was intelligent but also very naïve, saying to Newton, Oh, really? So then the story was embellished-the apple didn’t just fall it fell on Newton’s head. They are having tea under apple trees in Newton's garden in Kensington, so they get to talking, and Newton says, Well, you know I first saw the idea of gravity sitting under the apple tree when I was a young man in Woolsthorpe. (Also see “ Why Newton Believed a Comet Caused Noah's Flood.”) By then, he was “The Great Man,” the statesman of science gathering his acolytes around him. Newton is telling the story as an old man to a young disciple. It was 1726, in London, and Newton was no longer the young genius trying to get on. Stukeley wasn’t told the story by Newton in Lincolnshire, where the tree is. It was written by William Stukeley, his friend and first biographer, who quotes Newton as saying his thinking on the nature of gravity “was occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood.” Doesn’t that validate the story? The story of Newton and the falling apple is recorded in an 18th-century manuscript in the Royal Society in London. The following conversation with Roos took place at Newton’s birthplace, Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England, near the apple tree said to have inspired his theory of gravitation, and in London. While Anna Marie Roos, a historian of science at the University of Lincoln, advises us to take some “eureka moments” with a grain of salt, she thinks they do have much to say about the creative process. Today, the flash of insight is measurable using brain scans, which show a part of the right hemisphere lights up at that moment. Or, as Archimedes reputedly said when insight struck, Eureka! These are iconic “light bulb” moments in the history of science. Greek polymath Archimedes takes a bath and figures out how to calculate volume and density. A falling apple prompts physicist Isaac Newton to formulate his laws of gravity. Before the next-generation sequencing (NGS) era, a few studies of single-gene causes of CP involving families with two or more members affected by the disorder were performed. 3 Genetic forms of CP account for ~2% in European populations, 4 but recent research studies have suggested that genetic variants contribute to CP more than expected. 2 On the other hand, metabolic studies carried out in those patients with unknown etiology have had very low performance. This group of patients can be considered to have idiopathic or cryptogenic CP. Hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy, periventricular leukomalacia, brain malformations, intrauterine infections, and neonatal strokes are the most frequent causes of CP however, up to 20% of patients with CP do not have an etiological diagnosis. 1 CP is a heterogeneous condition in terms of etiology as well as in types and severity of impairments. The motor disorders of CP are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cognition, communication and behavior, epilepsy, and secondary musculoskeletal problems. NGS facilitate better understanding of new phenotypes of certain genetic diseases.Ĭerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture development, causing mobility limitation attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The appropriate selection of cases optimizes the diagnostic yield. Sequencing techniques in CP of uncertain etiology provides a diagnostic yield of 55%. Based on our findings, next-generation sequencing should be considered in patients with cryptogenic CP as the first line of genetic workup. The accurate and precise patients’ selection, the use of a high-throughput genetic platform, the selection of adequate target genes, and the application of rigorous criteria for the clinical interpretation are the most important elements for a good diagnostic performance. We report 11/20 patients (55%) with different pathogenic or potentially pathogenic variants detected by exome sequencing analysis: five patients with mutations in genes related to hereditary spastic paraplegia, two with mutations in genes related to Aicardi–Goutières syndrome, three with mutations in genes related to developmental/epileptic encephalopathies, and one with a mutation in the PGK1 gene. However, the next-generation sequencing study showed a high diagnostic yield. Chromosomal microarray analysis did not show any pathological or probable pathological structural variant. Chromosomal microarray and exome sequencing techniques were performed in all patients. The present study was carried out in 20 families with one family member affected with idiopathic CP. Recent research studies focused on genetic diagnosis in patients with CP of unknown etiology. Cerebral palsy (CP) is a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder that causes movement and postural disabilities. The PS5 doesn't support your old PS1, PS2 and PS3 titles, either.Įyeing up the PS5 as an entertainment hub as well as a games machine? The PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition are a great choice. However it's worth noting that to do this you'll need to use the PS5's disc drive to transfer the game discs to the next-gen console. In terms of games, you can able to transfer most PS4 games to PS5 and in most cases, enjoy free upgrades such as increased frame rates. In July 2022, Sony went further, adding native 1440p support, bringing the PS5 in line with the Xbox Series X and Series S, which have supported 1440p since launch. In April 2022, Sony boosted the PS5's appeal by adding VRR (variable refresh rate), which should reduce screen tearing and smooth out gameplay. Instead, silky-smooth 4K at 60Hz is the performance target, with 120Hz available via some games, sometimes at the cost of resolution and/or certain graphical features. The way Sony has designed and integrated the PS5’s storage makes it so fast (more than twice as fast as that of the Series X) that it boosts overall console performance. Spec-wise, both PS5 consoles feature the same AMD Zen 2-based CPU, the same 16GB GDDR6 / 256-bit memory, and the same 825GB SSD. So, "whichever PS5 you choose, you’ll enjoy the same breathtaking, next-gen gaming experiences". In a post on the official PlayStation blog, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan confirmed that both PS5 consoles share identical power and features, including 4K graphics, ray-tracing support and PS5 3D audio. It's also familiar enough to ensure that existing PS4 gamers can quickly find their way about.Īll in all, the PS5's is a striking design that has split opinion. The user interface, which includes a new home screen with game ‘cards’, is fresh, super-stylish, logical and snappy. In terms of the PS5's disc drive, we'd peg it at about 5dB quieter than the Xbox, so opting for Sony's most expensive next-gen console won't intrude on your movie soundtrack. Talking of which, the PS5 is not completely inaudible in a silent room (like the Xbox Series X), but the consistent whirr is quiet enough to be drowned out by any sound coming from your TV or sound system. The latest disc-less version now weighs 3.4kg, instead of 3.9kg.īoth consoles have a sculpted, sci-fi look to them and can be vertically rather than horizontally (you'll have to unscrew and reposition the included pedestal stand, mind).īoth devices have the same distinctive design elements, namely a high, white-collared shell that's separated from the black body of the unit by finned gaps to aid ventilation. This seems to be down to a number of internal changes to the motherboard, as well as the cooling and SSD enclosure. The updated disc model weighs in at 3.9kg, much lighter the 4.5kg launch version. In August 2022, it emerged that Sony had quietly refreshed the design of both PS5 consoles. Consequently, the Digital Edition is 12mm slimmer towards the base and around half a kilo lighter. The main difference between the two models, looks-wise, is that one has a disc drive and one doesn't. The PS5 is an imposing machine (39 x 26 x 14cm). PS5 vs PS5 Digital Edition: design and build It's worth noting that Amazon customers need to sign up for an email invite to buy a PS5 when stock arrives (see our PS5 restock page for full details).ĭespite rising inflation, the cost of living and the war in Ukraine reducing demand for pricey consumer electronics, Sony expects PlayStation 5 supply issues to last until 2024. As of late 2022, supply has eased and there are regular PS5 restocks at major retailers such as Amazon, Walmart, PlayStation Direct, Game and Best Buy. After all, if you're getting less functionality you should pay less, right? Pricing the Digital Edition cheaper than the 'full-fat' PS5 mirrors the approach has taken with its Xbox Series X and all-digital Xbox Series S. The disc-less PS5 Digital Edition is the cheaper option here. But in August 2022 Sony announced price hikes in the UK and Australia. The standard PlayStation 5 debuted at £449 / $499 / AU$749. Now, if people install Flash onto their Macs, Flash will still remain “off by default.” This means that each time a person uses Apple’s Safari browser to visit a website with Flash, they must give the website permission to run the tech.Īpple did not cite any specific timeline for phasing out Flash by the end of 2020. For its Mac lineup of personal computers, Apple said it began moving away from Flash in 2010 when it didn’t pre-install those computers with Flash. AppleĪs Apple (AAPL) notes in its blog post on the announcement, Apple has never supported Flash on its iOS-powered mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad. Microsoft plans to eliminate all support for Flash by the end of 2020, and people will no longer be able to run Flash in both the Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. After re-enabling Flash, people will “will continue to require approval for Flash on a site-by-site basis.” Microsoft will then disable Flash by default in its two browsers in middle or late 2019, but people will be allowed to re-enable Flash in those browsers. Again, Internet Explorer users can continue to visit website with Flash like they normally do. In mid-to-late 2018, however, the Edge browser will require permission from users to run Flash each time they visit a website that uses Flash. Internet Explorer users can continue using Flash without needing to give permission. The Edge browser will remember their choice so that they only need to give permission once. From 2017 through 2018, people will need to give permission to the Edge browser to run Flash when they visit a website that use the tech. Microsoft gave a timeline of how it plans to stop supporting Flash for its old-school Internet Explorer browser and its newer Microsoft Edge browser. The company said that it would “remove Flash completely from Chrome toward the end of 2020.” Until then, if people visit a site that uses Flash, they will be prompted to give the web site permission to run Flash. Now, however, only 17% of PC and Chrome users visit websites with Flash, and that percentage “continues to decline.” The search giant noted that three years ago, 80% of people who used its Chrome browsers on desktop computers visited a website that incorporate Flash in some way. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.As Google notes in a blog post, Flash’s popularity has greatly declined over the years. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. And the Adobe Flash Player has now been laid to rest.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. But they operated on open standards not a proprietary one, so Web browsers adapted new standards. SALTER: And it was really frustrating because Flash was so good at bringing new people into making things.ĬHANG: Salter says the technologies that took its place weren't as easy to learn. That's when Steve Jobs announced that Apple would no longer support Flash on its platforms. Hey, Strong Bad, what's up? Can you play the guitar?ĬORNISH: Salter says people started to migrate away from Flash around 2012. MATT CHAPMAN: (As Strong Bad, singing) Oh, tap your toes and check your email. And it's where we get kind of all of the cool early experiments like "Homestar Runner." SALTER: No one had really imagined having a tool like that for an individual to make something interactive. But in the early 2000s, people like Salter found Flash miraculous. Those early animations may feel rudimentary compared to what you might see from, say, Pixar. SALTER: It took us out of a fairly static, text-based Web to an animated, interactive space and really shaped a whole generation of artists and animators.ĬHANG: Flash helped people create games and stories and other playable work and post them online. Adobe announced end-of-life plans in 2017 and officially ended support on January 1.ĪNASTASIA SALTER: Adobe Flash was the tool that reimagined the Web.ĬORNISH: Anastasia Salter is an associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida. "Salad Fingers" was one of the many Web cartoons, games and animations that Flash made possible, but Flash has been on its way out for years. Long live Adobe Flash Player.ĭAVID FIRTH: (As Salad Fingers) Hello. A moment now to remember a pioneering Internet technology. It may take a while for you to learn how each tool works with Adobe After Effects, but the time you spend mastering it will definitely be worth it. The latter lets you remove unwanted items from a video without the need to mask or cut frame by frame. New tools recently added to the app including the AI-powered Roto Brush 2, which makes rotoscoping easy, intuitive and accurate, and the almost magical Content-Aware Fill. You can even play around with VR tools, add moving objects and make selective colour adjustments - the only limit will be your imagination. In fact, you can animate almost any aspect of your video, using either keyframes or expressions to set things in motion. You'll also be able to use Creative Cloud to retrieve the latest version of Adobe After Effects in future, by clicking the Download/Install/Update button.Īt Adobe What you can do with Adobe After EffectsĪdobe After Effects gives you a huge amount of creative freedom when it comes to your special effects.įor instance, you can animate titles, credits and lower thirds, either by using presets or from scratch. From there, you log in to your Adobe account. Once After Effects is installed on your PC or Mac, you'll need to launch the Creative Cloud app. When you download Adobe After Effects, the Creative Cloud desktop app will download and install at the same time. Whether you choose the free trial or one of the subscription options, the next step is to download the app itself. However the app will still open and run via the pre-installed Rosetta 2 technology, and you're unlikely to see any difference in use. Mac users can continue to use the 24.0 version on Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac. The 24.0 versions of After Effects are not supported on Rosetta. Installing the 24.0 versions of After Effects on macOS 11.0 or older isnt possible. Note that Adobe After Effects does not currently run natively on Apple's new MacBook Air M1 and MacBook Pro M1. Support for macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) has been discontinued. The free trial of Adobe After Effects CC is only available on your desktop, though Adobe does offer a collection of free mobile apps for both iOS and Android. If you want to buy After Effects on its own, this will cost $27.62 a month on a yearly plan or $41.43 for individual months. If you think you'll use lots of Adobe apps, you can subscribe to the entire Creative Cloud suite for $69.72 a month on the yearly plan, rising to $104.59 a month if you don't want to commit to the full 12 months and just want to pay month-by-month. There are multiple subscription options in Creative Cloud. Download After Effects CC for Windows and macOS: AdobeĪfter the 7-day free trial ends, you’ll have to pay for After Effects CC.You'll need to start by heading to the Adobe After Effects page on the Creative Cloud website, then choosing what kind of subscription you want.Īdobe offers a free 7-day trial of After Effects for Windows and Mac, so if you're not sure whether it's right for you, this is a great option to start with. Here’s where you can download Adobe After Effects CC for Windows and Mac, along with what you can do with the motion effects software once you’ve installed it.
For adidas, the 3D printing industry lacked the production-grade elastomers needed for a demanding athletic footwear application. Prints are often painfully slow, require wasteful part supports that are ultimately thrown in the trash, and use materials that are vastly inferior to those used for production, resulting in weak and brittle parts. 3D printers are generally not designed for manufacturing scale. Confronted with this challenge, the adidas team shifted its focus to the possibility of 3D printing midsoles to unlock the design freedom needed to enhance shoe performance.ģD printing has previously been used mostly to prototype products in development before they were produced with traditional manufacturing techniques. Although they can be assembled from multiple parts through a labor-intensive process, this introduces multiple potential points of failure. Midsoles cannot be injection or compression molded in one piece with properties that vary across the part. But their latest idea-creating shoes with variable properties across the midsole to improve shoe performance for different sports-presented a difficult hurdle. In close collaboration with the Carbon team, adidas is leveraging the Carbon DLS process and EPU 41 3D printing material.Īdidas continues to challenge the industry with its relentless focus on innovation to improve the performance of athletic apparel. Together, we are developing the first mass-production process that makes previously impossible midsole geometries with revolutionary 3D-printable materials, paving the way for custom, high-performance shoes that meet the unique needs of each customer. Menu icon Three short horizontal bars, aligned parallel to each otherĪdidas and Carbon are creating the next breakthrough in athletic footwear, leveraging the Carbon Digital Light Synthesis™ (Carbon DLS™) 3D printing process to bring a new product and platform to life: Futurecraft 4D. Galaxy S9 Intelligent Scan / Photo: Samsung Pro 5.) Dual Aperture For Better Photo Lighting Controls If you still have a pair of headphones with an auxiliary plug, then you can still use it with the Galaxy S9 since it has a 3.5mm port. This comes in handy if you have speakers set up in multiple rooms.Īnother specification worth mentioning in terms of sound is the 3.5mm headphone jack. Since the Galaxy S9 has Bluetooth 5.0 support, you will also be able to play sound on two devices (such as smart speakers) at the same time. I highly recommend using this feature while you are watching a movie. Plus the Galaxy S9 has Dolby Atmos compatibility. And the speakers were tuned by premium sound company AKG. The stereo sound on the Galaxy S9 is 1.4 times louder than the Galaxy S8. Samsung drastically improved the sound quality in the Galaxy S9 from its predecessor. This means you can feel comfortable using the Galaxy S9 in the shower and while you are swimming in a pool. And it is resistant to submersion up to a maximum depth of 1.5 meters (4.92 feet) underwater for up to thirty minutes. The Galaxy S9 is IP68 certified so this means that it can withstand dust, dirt, and sand. Opening games only take a few seconds and stock apps just pop open right away. The Snapdragon 845 gives a 25% performance boost to the device, making the Galaxy S9 one of the fastest Android devices available on the market. The processor built into the Galaxy S9 is blazingly fast. Specifically, the Galaxy S9 has a beautiful 5.8-inch Super AMOLED display. With the Galaxy S8, Samsung introduced its edge-to-edge screen called “Infinity Display.” That same screen design carried over to the Galaxy S9.įor the Galaxy S9, Samsung trimmed the bezels even more so it looks much brighter and smoother than previous generation Galaxy devices. Here are the Galaxy S9 pros and cons for you to consider: The Pros Pro 1.) Beautiful AMOLED Display If you are wondering whether to upgrade to the Galaxy S9, then you should consider the pros and cons. |
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