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For the first time since 2016, we got to see Chris Bosh on the basketball court.The Hall of Fame big man was in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for Goran Dragic's farewell game — Bosh and Dragic were teammates at Miami — and spoke with BasketballNews' Mindaugas Bertiz about a variety of topics, including his decision to retire from basketball at age 31 due to a blood clot.”It was really hard. To be honest, my career was over. Anytime you deal with something like that, loss or death, you go through deep grief. I went through that for a few years. And I…

NBA: Denver Nuggets vs San Antonio SpursFor the first time since 2016, we got to see Chris Bosh on the basketball court.The Hall of Fame big man was in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for Goran Dragic's farewell game — Bosh and Dragic were teammates at Miami — and spoke with BasketballNews' Mindaugas Bertiz about a variety of topics, including his decision to retire from basketball at age 31 due to a blood clot.”It was really hard. To be honest, my career was over. Anytime you deal with something like that, loss or death, you go through deep grief. I went through that…

Key Takeaways inZOI's character creator employs techniques such as live-link face integration with Unreal, but of greater concern is generative AI. Krafton has been very open about its use of generative AI to cut costs, raising ethical concerns about industry duties and copyright infringement. inZOI doesn't appear to have implemented much generative AI so far, but it's clear that Krafton is using it heavily in the game's development. Crafton's upcoming life sim, inZOI, has been described by avid gamers as a Sims killer. Given that EA's Sims series has dominated the genre for decades, and as a result has been…

Moses SawasawaGOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese freelance photographer Moses Sawasawa, who began his career in 2015 at age 18, has been working with The Associated Press since 2021 to cover humanitarian issues, culture, health and daily life. He grew up in a time of conflict but has instead focused on capturing everyday activities with his camera. He is most fascinated by people, especially women and children, who are almost omnipresent in his photos.Why this photo?This photo was taken a few days after the World Health Organization declared MPOX a global emergency. Most MPOX cases are in children, with about 70%…

Magny-Cours. The battle for the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe supported by AWS title intensified at the Sprint Cup's penultimate race weekend at Magny-Cours (France). BMW M Team WRT drivers Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weltz (both Belgium) took first and second place in the #32 BMW M4 GT3 to secure a narrow lead in the overall standings. The BMW M Motorsport team also achieved podium finishes in the Silver and Bronze classes. The Sprint Cup season finale takes place in Barcelona (Spain) from 11 to 13 October. Vanthoor and Wertz made strong comebacks in both races. On Saturday they moved…

© Agenzia Nova – Reproduction prohibited Italy is a country “in the spotlight” in the EU “because it has the largest National Recovery and Recovery Plan in Europe,” Raffaele Fitto, Minister for European Policy, PNRR, Cohesion Policy and the South, said at the Rimini conference, during a panel called “Single Market, Euro and PNRR: What is Economic Development for the EU?”. In fact, “it has a debt of 120 billion euros. Therefore, the quality of the waste of resources is important,” she explained. “It is unthinkable to move towards 'European' enlargement without asking ourselves the question of the costs of…

American rapper Macklemore claims he cancelled Dubai show because UAE supplied weapons to Sudanese paramilitariesDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. rapper Macklemore said he canceled a concert scheduled for October in Dubai because of the United Arab Emirates' role in the “ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis” in Sudan. The UAE denies providing weapons to the Rapid Assistance Forces, a Sudanese paramilitary group that has been fighting Sudanese forces in a conflict that has killed more than 18,800 people since 2023. Macklemore's comments reignited debate over the UAE's role in the war. In an Instagram post on Saturday, the Grammy…

So I hope that AI can help. AI won't solve everything, but it could shorten the lifecycle for example. I think game development takes too long, like 5 years per game. You have to predict what the zeitgeist will be 5 years from now, especially in a fast-changing world. So it's all down to luck, and I hope that AI will help streamline the process and make manual work faster. Ideally, we can shorten it to 3 years, have more iterations, and cut the budget a little bit. I don't think it will actually cost less, but at least you…

Jakob Ingebrigtsen smashed the 3,000m world record, set 28 years ago, by more than three seconds at the Diamond League meet in Silesia, before Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record.Norway's Ingebrigtsen looked in disbelief as he crossed the line in 7 minutes 17.55 seconds, beating the previous record of 7 minutes 20.67 seconds set by Kenya's Daniel Komen in 1996.Komen's record was the longest-held world record in an individual men's track event.In the pole vault, Sweden's Duplantis cleared 6.26 metres, beating his personal best by one centimetre when he won gold at the Paris Olympics earlier this…

Taiwan has dominated the Little League World Series before, winning 17 times between 1969 and 1996. Since then, no Taiwanese team has won the title and only one has made it to the finals. That may change in 2024.Chinese Taipei won four straight games, outscoring their opponents 32-3, to qualify for the international tournament finals and advance to the finals.The team won again in the international finals, beating Venezuela 4-1 to seal Chinese Taipei's best Little League World Series finish in 15 years, and a win against U.S. champion Florida on Sunday will clinch the long-awaited championship.The complete 12-player roster…