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Bandai Japan has released the first look at the next Kamen Rider henshin device! The Zeztz Driver used by upcoming Kamen Rider Zeztz runs on mysterious new devices called Capsems. The default for Zeztz is the red Impact Capsem which unlocks the base form Kamen Rider Zeztz Physicam Impact. Spinning the Capsem in the Driver unlocks a unique animation along with sounds and lights. Three other Zeztz have been teased- *Blue Technolom Stream *Green Esprim Recovery *Purple Paradigm Wonder The base Zeztz Driver with only the Impact Capsem will cost 6930 Yen while an expanded release fearing the Stream, Wonder » Continue Reading.

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The No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger is receiving an upgrade! With the latest challenge underway, GozyuWolf is upgraded into Wild GozyuWolf with red and gold armor. And with a new form comes a new weapon! The OrcaBosoter 5050 is a new handheld device with the ability to channel Sentai Ring and Gozyuger armor. Combining OrcaBooster with TegaSword creates TegaSword Akatsuki!

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From the antique-store department: Apple added the 2013 "Trash Can" Mac Pro to its vintage products list alongside the 2019 13-inch MacBook Air, 2019 iMac, 2018 iPad Pro models, and the 128GB iPhone 8. The cylindrical Mac Pro remained on sale until December 2019, when Apple replaced it with the redesigned "Cheese Grater" model.

Products typically reach vintage status five years after their last distribution date. The 2013 Mac Pro's radical cylindrical design prevented internal component upgrades and created thermal limitations that Apple acknowledged in 2017. "I think we designed ourselves into a bit of a thermal corner," Apple hardware chief Craig Federighi said at the time.

Apple also moved several AirPort devices to its obsolete list, including the second-generation AirPort Express and AirPort Time Capsules. The 2013 Mac Pro's radical design created thermal limitations that Apple acknowledged in 2017.

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Darkfuse Reputation & Mechanica Mounts - Farm 5000 Market Research Per Hour

A new Darkfuse Solutions reputation farm spot has been discovered in Undermine, yielding up to 5000 Market Research per hour!

Speak with Kaydee Racketring and sign a contract with the Bilgewater Cartel (optional).

Search for "Darkfuse Reputation Farm" or similar keywords in the LFG tool and join a raid group.

Head to the Blown a Gasket world quest area and defeat slimes to earn Market Research.

If you've joined the Bilgewater Cartel and haven't completed the world quest, interact with the Leaky Gasket to spawn additional slimes.



The amount of Market Research you can earn per hour depends on several factors:

Reach Friendly with Darkfuse Solutions, then purchase and use the Experimental Goblin-FUEL Supplement to boost Market Research drops.

If you have a lot of Resonance Crystals, you can spend them on Prototype Auto-Advertiser, usable every 5 minutes, for even higher gains.

The more players that click on the Leaky Gasket, the more slimes will spawn!

Slimes despawn quickly, so make sure to loot them every 10-15 seconds to avoid losing Market Research.

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From the tough-luck department: The U.S. government has canceled a proposed $900 million project to study in unprecedented detail the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Science magazine: Known as CMB-S4, the project envisioned new arrays of ultrasensitive microwave telescopes at the South Pole and in Chile's Atacama Desert. Their goal: to detect patterns in the ancient light that would prove the newborn universe expanded in an exponential growth spurt called cosmic inflation.

The project, which could have delivered smoking gun evidence for a key theory in cosmology, was supposed to be a joint venture between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE). However, yesterday, the agencies sent an unsigned statement to the leaders of the collaboration saying the project is off. "DOE and NSF have jointly decided that they can no longer support the CMB-S4 Project," it reads.

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From the if-you're-keeping-the-count department: An anonymous reader shares a report: This week has seen the shortest days of the year so far. According to data from the U.S. Naval Observatory and the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, Tuesday's rotation was about 1.34 milliseconds less than 24 hours. More quick spins are expected this week, later this month and in early August, according to predictions from the website Time and Date.

This isn't completely out of the ordinary: Our world's spins have been faster than usual lately. The average day has mostly shortened over the past decade, and within the past five years or so, the full rotation has clocked in at a hair less than 24 hours more often than not. Factors driving the change include movements at Earth's core, atmospheric changes and the moon's position.

But long-term trends do not suggest that the days will shorten in perpetuity. In fact, it is just the opposite. For many millenniums, the days have been growing longer. A Tyrannosaurus rex that lived 70 million years ago would have experienced an average daily rotation of about 23 1/2 hours, studies have found.

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From the story-of-our-lives department: Denmark's Parliament adopted a law in May raising the retirement age to 70 by 2040, up from the current 67, affecting anyone born after December 31, 1970. The country indexed its official retirement age to life expectancy in 2006 and revises it every five years, with the age set to increase to 68 in 2030 and 69 in 2035.

Few Danes actually work until the legal retirement age -- in 2022, when the official age was 67, the actual average retirement age was around 64, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. About 20% of Danish retirees leave work because they cannot find employment or are too sick to continue. The universal public pension currently provides 7,198 kroner ($1,130) per month, supplemented by mandatory and optional employer-funded pensions.

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From the finding-the-limit department: Four years of research following the 2021 western North American heat wave has revealed both the meteorological conditions that fuel extreme temperatures and evidence that heat has physical limits. The 2021 event "shocked everyone, including specialists working on the subject. People were completely stunned," said Robin Noyelle, a postdoctoral researcher in climate science at ETH Zurich.

Scientists now focus on temperature departures from local averages rather than absolute readings. The most anomalously warm temperature was recorded in Antarctica, where temperatures rose 39C above average in March 2022. North Pole temperatures surged 20C higher than normal in February, reaching the melting point in winter.

Research has identified five key factors that enable extreme heat: cloudless skies, high pressure, dark surfaces, lower altitudes, and lack of water. "Basically all of these conditions are met in Death Valley, but not in many other places in the world," said climate scientist Friederike Otto. Scientists insist that there are heat limits, though these upper bounds will rise with global warming, they caution.

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From the truth-justice-and-the-quarterly-way department: Warner Bros. releases a $225 million Superman reboot this week that executives consider the studio's final chance to build a successful cinematic universe rivaling Marvel's dominance. The film, written and directed by James Gunn, serves as the foundation for DC Studios' planned expansion into multiple films and television shows.

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav appointed Gunn and producer Peter Safran to lead the newly unified DC Studios in 2022, ending decades of corporate infighting that prevented the company's superheroes from matching Marvel's success. The Disney-owned Marvel Cinematic Universe has generated $32 billion across 36 films since 2008. Warner executives want the movie to gross over $500 million globally, according to WSJ. If successful, this would mark the first year since 2008 that DC outperforms Marvel at the box office.

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Artist Eddie Del Rio has treated us with new Transformers Rise Of The Beasts Concept Art images via his Instagram account. Rise Of The Beasts Scourge – Initial quick sketches of what would be Scourge. Rise Of The Beasts Scourge weapons – Some of the early weapons designs for Scourge. Rise Of The Beasts Mirage– Two early head ideas of the Autobot warrior. Rise Of The Beasts Scourge’s blade – First design of the villain’s melee weapon. Rise Of The Beasts Scourge Arm Cannon – Some more ideas for Scourge’s cannon which look pretty » Continue Reading.

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From the planned-obsolescence department: New submitter RJFerret shares a Belkin support page: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to end technical support for older Wemo products, effective January 31, 2026. After this date, several Wemo products will no longer be controllable through the Wemo app. Any features that rely on cloud connectivity, including remote access and voice assistant integrations, will no longer work.'

List of devices found in the link (four Thread based unaffected).

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That was quicker than usual! The cabin's sprinkler system often makes it really hard to keep anything lit.

Posted by AzT from TFW2005


The Comic-Con programming schedule rollout continues, with the following Transformers-related panels listed for Friday: 12:00pm – 1:00pm PDT, Shiley Special Events Suite, San Diego Central Library Make ‘Em Laugh: Using Jokes, Puns, and Goofy Ideas to Hook Reluctant Readers This panel makes the case for comedy as a secret weapon and as a reading and teaching tool. Moderator Joshua Pruett (Gyro and the Argonauts) and creators Amy Chase (Abuzz and Miraculous Chibi), Marz Jr. (Transformers: Worst Bot Ever—Meet Ballpoint!), Emmanuel Guerrero (Cactus Kid), Suzanne Lang (Grumpy Monkey School Stinks!), and Max Lang (Grumpy Monkey School Stinks!) take a lively » Continue Reading.

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From the how-about-that department: A Russian professional basketball player has been arrested in France at the request of the United States, which reportedly accused him of being involved in a ransomware group that allegedly targeted hundreds of American companies and federal institutions. From a report: Daniil Kasatkin, 26, was detained in June at Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport shortly after arriving in the country with his fiancee, according to local media reports. He is currently being held in extradition custody, with a U.S. warrant reportedly issued against him. Kasatkin previously studied and played basketball in the U.S., at Penn State University.

The unnamed ransomware network Kasatkin is suspected of being part of is believed to have targeted nearly 900 entities between 2020 and 2022. Local media, citing court proceedings in Paris, reported that Kasatkin allegedly helped negotiate ransom payments, though the extent of the damage caused by the attacks has not been disclosed.

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From the reality-check department: An anonymous reader shares a report: JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon did not pull his punches when he spoke at Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs.

"You're losing," he said of European competitiveness with the U.S. and Asia, in comments reported by the Financial Times. "Europe has gone from 90% U.S. GDP to 65% over 10 or 15 years. That's not good."

"We've got this huge, strong market and our companies are big and successful, have huge kinds of scale that are global. You have that, but less and less," Dimon said on Thursday.

Posted by Tony_Bacala from The Toyark


Today’s the day, Superman and the rebooted DCU is hitting theaters across the world.  McFarlane Toys have dropped their 1/6 scale resin statue featuring the new Superman movie look as well.  Read on to check out pics deets and links, ...

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From the closer-look department: Fertility rates have fallen to historically low levels [PDF] in virtually all high-income countries due to a fundamental reordering of adult priorities rather than economic factors, according to a new National Bureau of Economic Research study. Economists Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip B. Levine analyzed cohort data and found rising childlessness at all observed ages alongside falling completed fertility rates.

Total fertility rates have dropped below replacement level in nearly all OECD countries, with many sustaining rates below 1.5. Some East Asian countries including South Korea, Singapore, and China now have fertility rates at or below one child per woman. The researchers concluded that period-based explanations focused on short-term income or price changes cannot explain the widespread decline. Instead, evidence points to "shifting priorities" involving changing norms, evolving economic opportunities, and broader social and cultural forces that have diminished parenthood's role in adult lives.

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From the changing-things-up department: An anonymous reader quotes a report from Dexerto: It's been ten years since YouTube first introduced its trending page in 2015, and the platform is finally sunsetting the program in favor of a new system. [...] As announced by YouTube in a support thread on July 10, 2025, the site is now set on introducing Charts, a new system for ranking popular content on its platform. "Back when we first launched the Trending page in 2015, the answer to 'What's trending?' was a lot simpler to capture with a singular list of viral videos that everyone was talking about," the post reads. "But today, trends consist of many videos created by many fandoms, and there are more micro-trends enjoyed by diverse communities than ever before."

As a result, YouTube says that its Trending page has seen "significantly" less traffic in the last five years, prompting them to make a change. Now, YouTube Charts will break up trends from one, all-encompassing page into separate, category-specific lists. The current Trending page will be moved to a Trending Now section, where the site's most popular content overall will be shown. However, viewers can now look for specific trends in certain categories on YouTube Charts for things like music videos, top podcasts, movie trailers and more. In the meantime, YouTube says that its Gaming Explore page will be home to trending gaming videos, and it will continue to serve personalized content to users via recommendations on their home feeds.

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From the deja-vu department: An anonymous reader shares a report: HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand for new phones and tablets over the last decade, has announced that it will "scale back" its US operations, and appears to have stopped selling both HMD and Nokia devices entirely.

[...] Based in Finland, HMD was formed in 2016 in order to purchase the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014. It also secured a license to use the Nokia name on smartphones and tablets, with a focus on affordable and midrange hardware.

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From the new-world-order department: The University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is overhauling its approach to computer science education as AI reshapes the tech industry. Director Magdalena Balazinska has declared that "coding, or the translation of a precise design into software instructions, is dead" because AI can now handle that work.

The Pacific Northwest's premier tech program now allows students to use GPT tools in assignments, requiring them to cite AI as a collaborator just as they would credit input from a fellow student. The school is considering "coordinated changes to our curriculum" after encouraging professors to experiment with AI integration.