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Breakthrough Prize ceremony will be aired live on National Geographic Channel

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The Breakthrough Prizes is a series of international annual awards that honor outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, mathematics and life sciences. They were founded in 2012 by Silicon Valley innovators Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan (Facebook), Sergey Brin (Google), Anne Wojcicki (23andMe), Jack Ma (Alibaba), Cathy Zhang (Alibaba), Yuri Milner (DST Global) and Julia Milner.

The prizes are awarded to scientists who have remarkable achievements in their fields. Each of the Breakthrough Prize laureates receives a $3 million dollar prize at an official ceremony. For the 2016 Breakthrough Prizes, the ceremony will be held Sunday, November the 8th and it will be broadcasted live on US National Geographic Channel, with a one-hour version to be scheduled on Sunday, November 29th, on FOX. It will be produced by acclaimed producer Don Mischer.

The host of the ceremony that will be held in Silicon Valley will be Cosmos executive producer and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. This year’s ceremony will feature the Breakthrough Junior Challenge for students, in which a student with an original scientific idea or principle will be awarded $400,000. Since 2013, the Breakthrough Prize has awarded more than $160 million dollars to its recipients.

“With the unparalleled global reach of the National Geographic brand and the power of FOX, we’re taking Breakthrough Prize to the widest possible audience,” said executive producer and director of television Don Mischer. “With Seth hosting, we look to have fun celebrating the world’s foremost leaders in physics, life sciences and mathematics in hopes of inspiring a new generation of disruptors.”

For more information about the Breakthrough Prize, access the link bellow.

https://breakthroughprize.org/

Who doesn’t enjoy listening to a good story. Personally I love reading about the people who inspire me and what it took for them to achieve their success. As I am a bit of a self confessed tech geek I think there is no better way to discover these stories than by reading every day some articles or the newspaper . My bookcases are filled with good tech biographies, they remind me that anyone can be a success. So even if you come from an underprivileged part of society or you aren’t the smartest person in the room we all have a chance to reach the top. The same message shines in my beliefs. All it takes to succeed is a good idea, a little risk and a lot of hard work and any geek can become a success. VENI VIDI VICI .

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The Demo Festival for The Game Awards is being held by PS Store

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As part of The Game Awards, The PS Store is hosting a Demo Festival that appears to bring a number of pre-release testers to PS5 users. At the time of this writing, the tab on the PS Store only has two demos. The Mountain King and You Suck at Parking are for Bramble. The list should, however, expand given that a Forspoken demo is currently all but guaranteed.

Although neither listing currently mentions an expiration date, given that the promotion is connected to The Game Awards, it’s possible that they will do so sooner rather than later. The deals in a new PS Store sale that coincides with Geoff Keighley’s program are available through December 12th, 2022.

If any other demos are released, we’ll update this post. What game do you hope to start first?

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Anyone willing to pay can now access the Tesla FSD driver assistance beta

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Elon Musk announced in a tweet that Tesla is opening up its so-called full self-driving (FSD) beta to anyone who has paid for it after gradually opening it up over the past few years. In North America, he added, “Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta is now available to anyone who requests it from the car screen, assuming you have purchased this option.”

With automated features like automated city steering, automatic parking, smart vehicle summoning, and traffic light/stop sign recognition, FSD builds on Tesla’s “Autopilot” driver-assist feature. The feature is a paid upgrade that costs $15,000 after a $3,000 price increase in September.

Tesla initially stated that it would introduce fully autonomous driving features in 2018, but they didn’t actually do so until July 2021, to a select group of “careful and expert drivers.” The version 9.0 beta saw a wider release, but testers could only participate in an early access program. Tesla removed the requirements for at least 100 Autopilot miles and an 80 safety score on the most recent FSD release, so now anyone can get it.

However, Tesla is widely implementing FSD at a time when regulators are closely monitoring it. In a recent expansion of its investigation into a string of Tesla crashes involving first responders, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is now looking at most models. It is also looking into more than 30 incidents involving Autopilot in a separate investigation.

Musk has long promised fully autonomous vehicles without a human driver. Most recently, he said he believed it might come this year, but in Tesla’s most recent earnings report, he backtracked on those statements. Following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the price of Tesla’s stock has been falling precipitously recently.

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Microsoft Acknowledges Sony Has Better Games

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The unreasonably high proposal by Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard has led to a drawn-out and difficult period of discussions. Without going into too much detail, the short version of this is that Sony is attempting to block the purchase, while Xbox, of course, is urging regulators to approve it. The most recent assertions have been made public, and according to Microsoft, Sony’s first-party work is superior than its own.

The business argues that because Sony has more exclusive titles, it doesn’t have require games like Call of Duty to be successful. Microsoft claims that many of Sony’s first-party games are higher quality than its own creations, despite this. To put it another way, the company has admitted in writing that its own games fall short of those produced by Sony.

Apparently “equal in size to Activision and roughly double the size of Microsoft’s game publishing company,” the article continues by referring to Sony as “the dominating console provider” and a “strong games publisher.”

It is merely one of numerous refutations to Sony’s own account regarding the entire song and dance (which, by the way, makes allusions to the inevitable PS6). To try and secure this deal, Microsoft is at pains to show out that Sony will be OK without Call of Duty, framing itself as the underdog while making the aforementioned arguments. All of this is very taxing, don’t you think?

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