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The planet this putative mini Neptune moon orbits, the Jupiter-sized Kepler b, completes an orbit of its star every days at a distance 1. Presuming the candidate is genuinely a moon, it would orbit the planet once every 4.

The fact that only this single candidate emerged from the analysis of 70 cool giants could suggest that large gaseous moons are "not super common" in the cosmos [ Rankings aside, there were plenty of red flags throughout to show us how remarkable the year was for temperature extremes. In late June and early July, the Pacific Northwestern US and Western Canada struggled with record-smashing temperatures that buckled roads and melted power cables.

In the desert further south, California's Death Valley reached a blazing degrees Fahrenheit Across the Atlantic, Europe experienced sweltering heat, too.

A reading of The World Meteorological Organization is still working to vet those records. Heat trapped in the world's oceans also reached record levels in , according to research published this week. Ocean heatwaves are likely twice as common now as they were in the early s, and they can be devastating for marine life and coastal communities. They kill coral, take a toll on fishing and crabbing industries, and can even make droughts worse onshore.

Temperatures might have been even hotter in , were it not for a La Nina event. La Nina is a recurring climate phenomenon defined by cooler-than-average waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific, which has predictable effects on weather patterns worldwide.

The square kilometers of regularly spaced icefish nests, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, has astonished marine ecologists. In February , the RV Polarstern -- a large German research ship -- was breaking through sea ice in the Weddell Sea to study marine life. While towing video cameras and other instruments half a kilometer down, near the sea floor, the ship came upon thousands of centimeter-wide nests, each occupied by a single adult icefish -- and up to eggs.

Sonar revealed nests extending for several hundred meters, like a World War I battlefield scarred by miniature craters. High-resolution video and cameras captured more than 12, adult icefish Neopagetopsis ionah.

The fish, which grow to about 60 centimeters, are adapted to life in the extreme cold. They produce antifreezelike compounds, and -- thanks to the region's oxygen-rich waters -- are among the only vertebrates to have colorless, hemoglobin-free blood. Assuming a similar density of nests in the areas between the ship's transects, the researchers estimate that about 60 million nests cover roughly square kilometers, they report today in Current Biology. Because of their sheer numbers, the icefish and their eggs are likely key players in the local ecosystem.

Yahoo Japan is telling its 8, employees they can work anywhere in the country -- and even be flown into work when the job requires it -- bucking the trend of companies looking to return workers to offices in the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The Japan Times reports: The program takes effect April 1 and allows employees to commute by plane, which wasn't previously an option, the company said in a statement Wednesday.

Ninety percent of the company's employees are now working remotely, according to President Kentaro Kawabe, who tweeted that an overwhelming majority of them said their performance has held steady or improved at home. This doesn't mean we're denying the benefits of the office -- you'll be able to fly in when needed," he added. The company has had an "office anywhere" remote work system in place since , however it had capped the number of work-from-home days before the virus took hold to five days a month.

CoinTelegraph reports: The announcement was sent on a mailing list for Bitcoin developers, bitcoin-dev, at UTC on Wednesday from an email address appearing to belong to Dorsey. The announcement stated the fund will help provide a legal defense for Bitcoin developers, who are "currently the subject of multi-front litigation.

The announcement went on to describe the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund as a "nonprofit entity that aims to minimize legal headaches that discourage software developers from actively developing Bitcoin and related projects.

Initially, the fund will include volunteers and part-time lawyers for developers to "take advantage of if they so wish," although, the email also states that "the board of the Fund will be responsible for determining which lawsuits and defendants it will help defend. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Major car manufacturers aren't giving up on their efforts to stymie Massachusetts' right to repair legislation.

Less than two years after residents in the state voted in favor of updated right to repair laws that would let independent auto repair shops receive telematics data from vehicles, groups representing auto manufacturers are now introducing their own new proposals that would delay the law's implementation. If passed, the two new proposals, first viewed by Motherboard, would push back the starting date of Massachusetts' right to repair law to , three years later than the original start date.

Though supporters of the proposal argue the extra years would give automakers more time to comply with the laws, the efforts were derided by critics like Massachusetts Right to Repair Coalition Director Tommy Hickey.

When the law goes into effect, The Drive notes, it would require any automaker doing business in the state to allow this telematics data to be accessible through a smartphone app.

The auto industry has argued making such tools more widely available could come with cybersecurity and vehicle safety risks, though that line of argument has often come across as more akin to fearmongering than actual concern for consumers' well-being.

One ad paid for by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation tried to convince viewers a sexual predator could use vehicle data to stalk and prey upon their victims. From the late s through the early s, a generation of young people living behind the Iron Curtain designed and released their own video games and arcade cabinets.

Now, you can play English translations of some of these lost classics of early gaming. One is a text adventure where a Soviet military officer hunts and kills Rambo. According to Stanislav Hrda, one of the programmers who created the games on offer, making video games was something only kids did. Thus, video game programmers became mainly teenagers. That is why hundreds of such video games were created in the s in Czechoslovakia.

The authors from the ranks of teenagers portrayed their friends, but also heroes from films that were distributed on VHS tapes or from the pop-cultural world of the West from the occasionally available comics, films, TV series and books.

So before you win, you are killed ten times by Rambo. English versions are available here and can be played in the Fuse emulator. The Slovak versions can be played online through the project's website. China is continuing to hold off from issuing new game licenses to app developers producing for the App Store and other platforms, in regulatory inaction that has reportedly led to the shuttering of around , small game studios and related companies in the country. By contrast, , video game firms shut down during all of Apple Insider reports: Under Chinese law, game developers must be licensed in order to sell games in the App Store and in other app marketplaces.

While regulators stopped issuing new licenses in late , it seems that the ban on new licenses is set to continue into The National press and Publication Administration NPPA , which issues licenses for games in China, is continuing to abstain from publishing lists of new approved games. Following on from a suspension that started at the end of July, the South China Morning Post reports it has now become the longest suspension of new game licenses since a nine-month blackout in Regulators decided to suspend game license approvals in July as approvals for new games were considered "a bit too aggressive" in the first half of , reports indicated.

At the time it wasn't advised how long the hiatus would last, except that one unnamed source said it would be for "a while. Apple has been suspending updates and pulling games from the China App Store that didn't have a license from the NPPA since July , to comply with local laws. The report speculates that the freeze "may be connected to a government crackdown on gaming addiction. Each player gets 15 minutes for all moves plus a second-per-move increment at the World Rapid Chess Championship.

But players only get three minutes for all moves plus a 2-second-per-move increment in the World Blitz Chess Championship. So what happened? World chess champion Magnus Carlsen entered both events, and A little-known year-old from Uzbekistan made a clean sweep of Magnus Carlsen and the global chess elite on Tuesday, incidentally setting a world age record.

The year-old world No 2, Alireza Firouzja, was third but Carlsen was well adrift in 12th place. He said: "Some days you just don't have it. I was nowhere near close to the level I needed to be today. After 13 rounds he was in a quadruple tie on 9. An angry Carlsen denounced the rules as "idiotic. Either all players on the same amount of points join the play-off or no one does Speaking of "play-to-earn" games , Paul Butler, writing in a blog post : In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people performing useless work, as a sort of subconscious self-preservation instinct of the economic status quo.

The book cites ample anecdotal evidence that people perceive their own jobs as completely disconnected from any sort of value creation, and makes the case that the ruling class stands to lose from the proletariat having extra free time on their hands.

It's a thoughtfully presented case, but when I read the book a few years back, I was skeptical that any mechanism to create bullshit jobs could arise from a system as inherently Darwinian as capitalism.

I've recently been exploring the themes around web3 to see if there's a "there" there, and Graeber's book has been on my mind again. One of the most apparently successful examples of web3 that people point to, aside from art NFTs, is so-called play-to-earn games.

The most successful of these is Axie Infinity, a trade-and-battle game reminiscent of Pokemon. In a crypto economy crowded with vapourware and alpha-stage software, Axie Infinity stands out. Not only has it amassed a large base of users, the in-game economy has actually provided a real-world income stream to working-class Filipinos impacted by the pandemic. Score: 2. While the game idea can't be copy protected, the "in-game items, equipment, and locations" parts could be, depending on how original they are.

Same ideas go for the items and equipment. I've never played PUBG, so can't say how original they are to begin with. I thought that was where Lot's daughters Genesis If the other company straight out copied the images used for the location, that is a copyright infringement. The judge will carefully compare images, but won't allow zooming. Re:Is there even a case here?

Score: 4 , Informative. Reply to This Parent Share twitter facebook. Legally a company can ask for an injunction. They could ask the sales be held in escrow, etc. There are legal avenues; PUBG should know about them. Even if it is compliant with Singapores laws that doesn't give them a blanket right to sell it everywhere.

They are selling the game in the US so what will matter is what the US copyright laws and courts say, if they were only selling in Singapore then Singapore's laws would be all that matters. This again? I feel like we already went through this with Figher's History back in the 90's.

Admittedly I haven't looked at the clone game, but I suspect there's probably little to no case here. See also Tetris v. Xio Score: 2. Brass balls Score: 1. What is wrong with competition? The page complaint Score: 2. Ideas were overtly copied Krafton is trying to claim that the sum of the similarities rises to a level of there being a case of copyright infringement.

It was made by an experienced modder and is descended from deathmatch modes found in very many FPS games. Ripoff artist sues others for ripping off ripoffs Score: 2. Seriously, you "new breed" of game designers are just pathetic. But pathetic. Does anyone still play PUBG? Suing who? Wait, I get it: Boeing can sue God for allowing birds to fly on public air space. It makes all sense now to me.