Thank you for the update! Looking towards the update getting pushed so that the long load times are solved!
More than a decade after it was initially announced, the live-action Watch Dogs movie has officially begun production.
Yes, but at the same time, it depends on the instance policy as a whole.
Some instance admins prefer to not interfere with how mods handle their communities (which is also a valid stance, I'm not criticizing it), but that means that in the end it wouldn't have that much impact. And most of the users wouldn't probably see the posts in the support community.
The last time I encountered a power trip mod, I created another community on the same topic, brought other people who were unsatisfied over, and the new community is much more active than the initial one.
It takes quite a while though.
Gary Sinise discusses his classic role of Lt. Dan in “Forrest Gump” as the Best Picture Oscar-winning classic turns 30.
In a stunning reversal, David Ellison's Skydance Media and the Shari Redstone-controlled Paramount Global are back at the altar.
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In Ridley Scott’s sequel, a new generation of warriors clashes in a savage Rome: “It’s pretty gnarly.”
The Most Disappointing Movie Sequels: From the Exorcist to the Hangover
Didn't know PVV only had Geert Wilders as a sole member, seems very strange
A group of protesters watched from behind the fences at Huis ten Bosch Palace as a new Dutch cabinet was sworn in. #EuropeNews
The Bear Season 3 premiere episode drew 5.4 million views globally in its first four days of streaming,
Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has been set to open the 81st Venice Film Festival on August 28
At Fossil Butte National Monument, in Wyoming, restrooms are decorated with coprolites, which is prehistoric fossilized poop from 52 million years ago, found in the area.
https://www.nps.gov/fobu/planyourvisit/visitorcenterexhibits.htm
LEGO Metroid action figures from miniaturization wiz Qin (@_QIN_) pack detail and articulation into tiny 4" frame.
Bionic leg makes walking quicker and easier for amputees, trial shows | Patients reported less pain and less muscle atrophy following the pioneering surgery required for control of the bionic leg.
Enabled by augmented muscle afferents, a bionic leg under continuous neural control restores biomimetic adaptations to various walking speeds, terrains and perturbations.
From the article: A brain-controlled bionic leg has allowed people with amputations to walk more quickly and navigate stairs and obstacles more easily in a groundbreaking trial.
The device allows the wearer to flex, point and rotate the foot of the prosthetic using their thoughts alone. This led to a more natural gait, improved stability on stairs and uneven terrain and a 41% increase in speed compared with a traditional prosthetic. The bionic leg works by reading activity in the patient’s residual leg muscles and uses these signals to control an electrically powered ankle.
“No one has been able to show this level of brain control that produces a natural gait, where the human’s nervous system is controlling the movement, not a robotic control algorithm,” said Prof Hugh Herr, a co-director of the K Lisa Yang Center for Bionics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the senior author of the study.
“Not only will they be able to walk on a flat surface, but they’ll be able to go hiking or dancing because they’ll have full control over their movement,” he added.
Herr is himself a double amputee, having lost both legs to severe frostbite after being caught in a blizzard during a rock climbing trip in 1982. Despite having his original amputations decades ago, he hopes to have revision surgery to be able to benefit from a pair of similar bionic legs in the future.
“I’m thinking of doing that for both of my legs in the coming years,” he said.
In the trial, published in Nature Medicine, seven patients were given the bionic leg and compared with seven patients with traditional amputations. Patients reported less pain and less muscle atrophy following the pioneering surgery required for control of the bionic leg, which preserves natural connections between leg muscles. The patients were also more likely to feel that their prosthetic limb was part of their body.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/01/bionic-leg-walking-quicker-easier-amputees-trial
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