Author: Vidya Saras

Ubisoft’s tactical multiplayer game Champions Tactics: Reforged is preparing for release on Steam to bring the title to a wider audience as it enters Season 3.Season 3 introduces new content and updates to existing gameplay systems designed to continue developing the game’s core mechanics, which prioritise planning and team coordination. The title was previously accessible to early players through Ubisoft’s own platform and will now be positioned alongside other competitive strategy titles on Steam.The Steam version has no confirmed release date but is now available for wishlisting. Source: Champions TacticsWhat’s new in Season 3?Champions Tactics Season 3 adds a new…

Yellow Wallet upgrade integrates Fusion Swap technology from 1inch, delivering a seamless and secure cross-chain token swapping experience. Yellow Network has upgraded its Yellow Wallet by integrating Fusion Swap technology from 1inch, delivering a seamless and secure cross-chain token swapping experience with built-in protection against excessive fees. 1inch, a prominent decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator, is known for optimizing trades by pulling liquidity from multiple platforms to ensure users get the most favorable rates across various blockchains. Its Fusion Swap technology marks a major improvement for decentralized finance (DeFi) users, as it leverages a specialized execution model that safeguards traders from…

Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity and drinking water in your home. When you go to the bathroom and flush the water, the sewage goes into a huge sewage system. That system is created and maintained by the state. But in the libertarian mindset, it is easy to take for granted that you just use the toilet and flush the water and no one needs to maintain it. But of course, someone needs to.There really is no such thing as a perfect free market. In addition…

Ad Policy Single-family homes in a residential neighborhood in Aldie, Virginia, on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Nathan Howard / Bloomberg via Getty Images) On this episode of American Prestige, Yoni Appelbaum, a deputy executive editor at The Atlantic, joins the program to talk about his book Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. We discuss mobility in the US and how that might sacrifice community for opportunity, the “frontier” as a way of taking land and easing class antagonism, the birth of American zoning from anti-Chinese practices in 19th-century California, the move toward the…

Pattie Maes, the Germeshausen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and head of the Fluid Interfaces research group within the MIT Media Lab, has been awarded the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award. She will accept the award at CHI 2025 in Yokohama, Japan this April.The Lifetime Research Award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction (HCI) is considered both fundamental and influential to the field. Recipients are selected based on their cumulative contributions, influence on the work of others, new research developments, and being an active participant in the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction…

Oracle has since requested Wayback Machine (Archive.org) to take down the archived URL. Independent cybersecurity researchers are taking to the internet to criticize Oracle’s efforts at coverup. Meanwhile, the threat actor posted a long video of an internal Oracle meeting, presumably from the breach, solidifying their claims. “In cybersecurity, denial doesn’t neutralize the danger, transparency does,” CloudSEK co-founder and CEO Rahul Sassi told CSO. “This investigation is not about blame, it’s about accountability. It’s about empowering every security team, every customer, and every vendor in the supply chain to act before attackers do.” Affected data from the breach included JKS…

Egg rolls are a classic takeout favorite. What if you could enjoy all the delicious flavors without the deep-fried food? Enter eggroll in a bowl, a healthy and super easy twist on the beloved dish. This dish features a handful of simple, nutritious ingredients like ground meat, coleslaw mix, and a punch of coconut aminos. Eggroll in a bowl comes together in no time and is packed with flavor. It’s the perfect weeknight meal for busy families or anyone looking for a nutritious (and tasty!) dinner. This dish has all the components of an egg roll—savory, crispy, and lightly tangy-…

Today we’re sharing a creative demo that showcases a scanning light effect using a depth map. The scene is rendered with WebGPU via Three.js and react-three-fiber, and enhanced using TSL shaders for dynamic visual depth. This demo includes three variations of the effect, each showing a different visual direction. The goal is to demonstrate how combining depth information with post-processing can create a fun scanning effect that makes everything feel alive: Behind the Effect Image and Depth Map The visual effect is based on a combination of a base image and a corresponding depth map. The depth information is used…

Last week, astronomers unveiled exciting new images of planets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani star systems — and it was all thanks to a creative use of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).William Balmer, a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of the study, spoke to Space.com about how the images were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, and why these results represent a major leap forward in our understanding of exoplanets, how they form and the search for extraterrestrial life.”Direct imaging is critical for studying distant planets because it tells us the most…

After Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) disastrous performance against Mumbai Indians (MI) in their IPL 2025 match at the Wankhede Stadium, Piyush Chawla has raised concerns over the team’s approach and shot selection, especially by Venkatesh Iyer and Rinku Singh. Kolkata Knight Riders’ batting line-up collapsed terribly, as the defending champions were bowled out for just 116 at Wankhede Stadium, with half of the side crumbling for a mere 45 runs, and 26 being the top score against the Mumbai Indians on Monday. Piyush Chawla slams KKR’s reckless batting approach after embarrassing collapse against Mumbai Indians Chawla, who played for both…