4 cool new projects to try in COPR for January 2020
COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora. Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the Fedora set of packages. Software in COPR isn’t supported by Fedora infrastructure or signed by the project. However, it can be a neat way to try new or experimental software.
This article presents a few new and interesting projects in COPR. If you’re new to using COPR, see the COPR User Documentation for how to get started.
Contrast
Contrast is a small app used for checking contrast between two colors and to determine if it meets the requirements specified in WCAG. The colors can be selected either using their RGB hex codes or with a color picker tool. In addition to showing the contrast ratio, Contrast displays a short text on a background in selected colors to demonstrate comparison.
Installation instructions
The repo currently provides contrast for Fedora 31 and Rawhide. To install Contrast, use these commands:
Pamixer is a command-line tool for adjusting and monitoring volume levels of sound devices using PulseAudio. You can display the current volume of a device and either set it directly or increase/decrease it, or (un)mute it. Pamixer can list all sources and sinks.
Installation instructions
The repo currently provides Pamixer for Fedora 31 and Rawhide. To install Pamixer, use these commands:
PhotoFlare is an image editor. It has a simple and well-arranged user interface, where most of the features are available in the toolbars. PhotoFlare provides features such as various color adjustments, image transformations, filters, brushes and automatic cropping, although it doesn’t support working with layers. Also, PhotoFlare can edit pictures in batches, applying the same filters and transformations on all pictures and storing the results in a specified directory.
Installation instructions
The repo currently provides PhotoFlare for Fedora 31. To install Photoflare, use these commands:
Tdiff is a command-line tool for comparing two file trees. In addition to showing that some files or directories exist in one tree only, tdiff shows differences in file sizes, types and contents, owner user and group ids, permissions, modification time and more.
Installation instructions
The repo currently provides tdiff for Fedora 29-31 and Rawhide, EPEL 6-8 and other distributions. To install tdiff, use these commands:
Video: Watch Several Full Scenes From The Sonic The Hedgehog Movie
Yes, this is a real scene from the film…
The Sonic the Hedgehog movie is rapidly approaching and a number of complete scenes are starting to find their way online. If you want a sneak peek at the film before you head off to the cinema, sit back and enjoy these clips.
We start with this one, where Sonic confronts Dr. Robotnik and kicks his friends off the roof of a super-high building. As you do.
Next up, Fluffy Sonic!
And finally, a scene called ‘This One is Cute’, where Sonic and Tom find themselves in a pretty sticky situation.
What do you think? Are you enjoying the humour? Do you think Sonic’s redesign is looking good? The film arrives in theatres on 14th February – so that’s just a couple of weeks away!
The posters reveal all the new movie's main cast members, standing against a variety of colorful smokey backgrounds. There's Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz, Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce, Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges as Tej Parker, and Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey, plus John Cena, who will be making his debut in the Fast franchise. Check the posters out below.
The trailer will be revealed as part of a concert titled The Road to F9, which is taking place in Miami. The concert begins at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET on Friday, and you can livestream the event on the Fast Saga YouTube page. The show will feature performances from Cardi B--who is rumored to be in the movie--Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth, Ozuna, and of course, Ludacriss.
F9 is directed by Justin Lin, who has helmed four of the previous films in the series. The cast also includes Guardians of the Galaxy's Michael Rooker, plus Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren, who will be reprising their roles from The Fate of the Furious as cyberterrorist Cipher and Magdalene Shaw--Deckard Shaw's mother--respectively.
Welcome to SickGaming's Official Monthly 3v3 Rocket League Tournament! (US)
I've been collecting tons of items throughout my years of playing Rocket League and I've decided to give it back to the community.
(Not without a little work)
Through winning this tournament, you can get your hands on some mula, or some awesome UNIQUE in game items.
I'm ranked CHAMP, so there's not much more to this game for me besides getting some people together of similar interest, and battling it out. (In a tournament) It's nicer to have comms but not a MUST. At least be competent with Quick-Chat call outs.
Tournament Info
Dates: March 7, 2020 (Every First Saturday of the Month!)
Time: 9 PM - 11 PM EST
Servers: US
Bracket Size: 7 So far!
Best of 1, Semi-Finals Best of 3
DFH Stadium
1st Place Prize: $100 Paypal/Facebook
2nd Place Prize: 15 Rare Items or Higher
3rd Place Prize: 15 Low Level Items
We are always accepting new teams.
If you wish to enter. Comment below with the following criteria.
Code:
1. Name of your Team: (Please nothing vulgar, PG-13 at least)
2. Name of players:
3. Ranks of Players: (In Same Order)
For 24+ years, Java technology has advanced the world we interact with every day. With Oracle’s stewardship, Java technology continues to offer developers innovative functionality to build out the next generation of applications that bring utility to us, both personally and professionally.
And during the history of Java, it’s been represented by the highly recognized Duke personality. Back in the early days of Java development, Sun Microsystems’ Green Project team created its first working demo—an interactive handheld home entertainment controller called the Star7. At the heart of the animated touch-screen user interface was a cartoon character named Duke.
The jumping, cartwheeling Duke was created by one of the team’s graphic artists, Joe Palrang. Joe went on to work on popular animated movies such as Shrek, Over the Hedge, and Flushed Away.
Duke was designed to represent a “software agent” that performed tasks for the user. Duke was the interactive host that enabled a new type of user interface that went beyond the buttons, mice, and pop-up menus of the desktop computing world.
Duke was instantly embraced. In fact, at about the same time Java was first introduced and the first Java cup logo was commissioned, Duke became the official mascot of Java technology. In 2006, Duke was officially “open sourced” under a BSD license. Developers and designers were encouraged to play around with Duke and for the first time had access to Duke’s graphical specifications through a java.net project. Efforts around Duke are now hosted as “Project Duke” at OpenJDK.
At Oracle, we celebrate Duke, too. A living, life-size Duke was a popular feature at every JavaOne developer conference, and now at Oracle’s flagship developer event…Oracle Code One.
This year, Oracle is releasing a new Duke personality that embodies the open and innovative spirit and how Java continues to propel itself into the future. Please help us welcome Cloud Surfer Duke!
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Using AI to advance the health of people and communities around the world
The health of people and communities around the world has been improving over time. For example, the steep decline in child and maternal mortality is a key indicator of positive momentum.
However, progress has not been equal across the globe, and there is a great need to focus on societal issues such as reducing health inequity and improving access to care for underserved populations. While researchers work to unlock life-saving discoveries and develop new approaches to pressing health issues, advancements in technology can help accelerate and scale new solutions.
That is why we are launching AI for Health, a new $40 million, five-year program to empower researchers and organizations with AI to improve the health of people and communities around the world. The program is underpinned with a strong foundation of privacy, security and ethics, and was developed in collaboration with leading health experts who are driving important medical initiatives. AI for Health is the fifth Microsoft AI for Good program, a $165 million initiative to empower researchers, nonprofits and organizations with advanced technologies to help unlock solutions to the biggest challenges facing society today.
The AI for Health initiative will focus on three key areas:
Quest for discovery. Accelerating medical research to advance prevention, diagnoses and treatment of diseases
Global health insights. Increasing our shared understanding of mortality and longevity to protect against global health crises
Health equity. Reducing health inequity and improving access to care for underserved populations
AI for Health is a philanthropic initiative that complements our broader work in Microsoft Healthcare. Through AI for Health, we will support specific nonprofits and academic collaboration with Microsoft’s leading data scientists, access to best-in-class AI tools and cloud computing, and select cash grants.
I am honored to lead AI for Health as part of my mission at Microsoft to fuse AI and data to address the world’s greatest challenges. As a tech company, it is our responsibility to ensure that organizations working on the most pressing societal issues have access to our latest AI technology and the expertise of our technical talent.
The Role of AI in Health
Over the last 30 years, health professionals around the world have reduced the number of annual child and maternal deaths by half. This monumental achievement demonstrates that great progress can be made when the global health community works together to create positive change, but we have an opportunity go further, to accelerate research and scale new solutions. This is where AI for Health can help.
While great progress has been made in reducing child and maternal mortality, these improvements have not been equal across the globe. For example, Finland’s child mortality rate is 43.7 compared to Somalia’s at 1,899.2 per 100,000 live births, and the U.S. maternal mortality rate is 29.9 compared to Chad’s at 383.3 per 100,000 live births. Even in countries such as the U.S. that have made great progress in reducing child mortality, the probability of a child surviving to their fifth birthday depends heavily on the zip code where that child was born and varies dramatically by demographics.
There are real health issues in which AI can play an important role, and it may be our best option to accelerate research or expand the reach of new solutions, especially in areas that may lack attention from the commercial health sector.
For example, technology can help scale screenings for diabetic retinopathy – an issue facing 463 million people – to expand the reach of ophthalmologists, as there are only 210,000 in the world. Or in cases such as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), where it is tough for organizations to invest in research given the size of the affected population, but there are huge knock-on effects to better understand and mitigate against general infant death.
But to truly make an impact, we need to make sure that medical experts and researchers have access to the best technical talent possible, people who can provide their expertise to get the most value out of technology. Currently, AI talent is disproportionately concentrated in the tech industry.
More than 50% of AI professionals work in tech, and less than 5% are operating within the health and nonprofit sectors. As a result, medical researchers are hampered due to AI talent shortages worldwide.
To succeed, we recognize there must be a balance between privacy and innovation. Therefore, we are working hard to deliver advanced privacy technologies based on the work Microsoft and academic researchers invented years ago, called differential privacy, which makes it possible to extract useful insights from datasets while guaranteeing the privacy of individuals. This is being undertaken in collaboration with Microsoft and Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
At Microsoft and across the tech industry, we also have a responsibility to ensure that new technology is human-centered and developed in a manner consistent with broadly held societal values. We are taking a principled and transparent approach to the development of technology, and we are hopeful the world will see what a compelling force for good AI can be when it’s used responsibly in partnership with innovative organizations.
Empowering Grantees
Microsoft has a unique opportunity to extend its contribution to the world by dedicating data science expertise, technology and resources to help solve pressing health issues. The AI for Health program will operate via collaborations that leverage our best AI tools and technical expertise from Microsoft to further quests for medical discovery, uncover global health insights and increase health equity across underserved populations. A handful of our current projects include:
We are also deepening our explorative partnerships with three leading nonprofits – BRAC, PATH and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – to propel additional advancements in the important fields of maternal mortality, tuberculosis treatment and pediatric cancer.
You can explore the below Power BI, an interactive visual analysis of global health information.
We look forward to working with researchers, academics, nonprofits, health industry professionals and policymakers around the world as we accelerate research and insights, such as the work we have undertaken in the SIDS space to improve data quality and collection with the Scarlett’s Sunshine on Unexpected Death Act. Together, we can improve the health of people and communities globally.
Improved some performance issues in the Chamber of Suffering encounter that could reduce framerates.
Fixed an issue where players could die when transitioning from the Necropolis encounter to the Tunnels of Despair.
Fixed an issue where players could get out of the environment in the Tunnels of Despair.
Garden of Salvation
Improved a performance issue that could occur when chunks of land return, or are removed during the Sanctified Mind encounter.
Improved the visual indication for when a tether source hub is on or off.
Added text notification when a Vex sacrifices on a relay.
Nightfall: The Ordeal
Reduced weekly completions needed to bring it in line with other challenges.
Players now need three completions on Adept, two completions on Hero, or one completion on Legend or Master.
Director
Players can now shortcut directly to their Roster by selecting their empty fireteam slots, or by invoking the Roster shortcut on Director Map screens.
When an activity is selected, fireteam leaders can navigate left and right to get to Quests and Roster respectively, then back to return to the selected activity.
Rewards
Weapons
Seasonal Bow mods should now work reliably with Hush.
Fixed an issue where Onslaught would reduce damage at 2x Rampage stacks despite not increasing Rate of Fire.
Adjusted scope feedback and camera shake on Hard Light firing.
Eriana’s Vow no longer gets more ammo when swapping from other Special ammo weapons in Gambit. Starting ammo in Gambit increased from six to ten.
Fixed an issue where swapping from Two-Tailed Fox to another Power weapon would generate more ammo than intended.
Fixed an issue where Leviathan’s Breath started PVE activities with more ammo than intended.
Fixed an issue where Xenophage started PVE activities with more ammo than intended.
Armor
The Empowered Finisher Dawn mod will no longer consume Super energy if you do not have a mod equipped that is capable of benefiting from the Charged with Light buff.
The Ever Ready Dawn mod will now stack correctly with weapon dexterity leg armor mods applicable to the weapons it covers.
The Heavy Handed Dawn mod will no longer trigger after the death of Telesto bolts. Increased the number of enemies that must be near the player to trigger the ammo-granting benefit from two to three.
Several class item armor mods will now correctly provide diminishing returns when multiple copies of the mod are equipped. These mods include Perpetuation, Innervation, Invigoration, Insulation, and Absolution.
Wormgod Caress and Winter’s Guile no longer retain the status of their buff if the armor piece is unequipped.
The perk on Synthoceps now deactivates immediately when the armor piece is unequipped.
The Transcendent Blessing Outlaw mod will now correctly appear in players’ inventory; previously, it would only be visible in the mod flyout when socketing a mod.
Grenade Launcher Scavenger will no longer award Special ammo for Grenade Launchers when the player picks up Primary ammo bricks.
The last finisher removed from favorites will no longer override the fallback default class finisher.
Giddy Laugh rare emote now has a valid icon and can be selected for equipping on the emote wheel.
Shadowkeep campaign Exotic armor no longer has a potential to show up in Xur’s weekly inventory.
Gunsmith now properly assesses the owned status of Unflinching Machine Gun and Unflinching Hand Cannon mods.
Power and Progression
Fixed an issue that caused the amount of XP earned not to show up next to the XP progress bar.
NOTE: This issue may still exist for players after they reach Seasonal Rank 100, but all XP earned will still apply to Seasonal Ranks above 100.
Changed the progress bar description on the Weekly Strike challenge from “Bounties completed” (which was incorrect) to “Strikes completed”.
Completion values for some of the destination Obelisk Weekly Bounties have been reduced.
Fixed an issue where the “Green with Envy” pursuits could stop progressing correctly.
Players who were in this state should have their progress updated retroactively.
Combat
Gameplay
Fixed an issue in which Roaring Flames was buffing Solar Weapon Damage while standing in a Well of Radiance.
Fixed an issue in which Sunbreaker Titans were able to self-heal by bouncing a Throwing Hammer off a wall.
Fixed an issue that prevented Warlocks from using Blink after switching weapons or cancelling sprint.
Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the Sunbreaker Titan’s Mortar Blast to deal little to no damage.
Fixed an issue that allowed Sunbreaker Titans to gain stacks of Roaring Flames by destroying Telesto projectiles.
Increased the Sunbreaker Titan’s Mortar Blast damage by 70 percent in PvE.
Players will remain in spaceflight instead of going to a black screen when they load into a PvP match faster than their peers.
Bounties and Pursuits
Fixed an issue that could prevent players from obtaining the Black Armory Key Mold quest from Ada-1 on multiple characters.
Acquisition of Black Armory rare bounties significantly improved.
Players that complete all available weekly and daily bounties will acquire a rare bounty within five days.
Black Armory Keys taking up space in Pursuits will be removed if a player has already completed the Mysterious Box Izanagi’s Burden quest chain and unlocked the Exotic in their Collections.
The Gambit Prime “Collector” bounty will now progress from picking up Luna destination materials.
Fixed an issue affecting the “Newest” sorting option in Pursuits.
Newly acquired quests, or quests that get updated, will now be properly sorted to the top.
General
In Collections, the “Playin’ the Odds” Gambit emblem will now properly register as unlocked and can be reacquired accordingly.
Fixed an issue that was impacting the Unveiling Triumph.
Eris is now ready to present her final Lore entry to players who need it.
The Unveiling Lore Triumph now correctly reads #/11 Lore pieces and will unlock upon obtaining the final Lore piece.
Fixed an issue where certain randomized dialogue would play more or less frequently than intended.
Fixed an issue that was causing notifications to appear again after transferring items using the Bnet D2 API.
Improved performance when receiving certain messages from the server.
Largest impact will be in the Tower, but should help everywhere.
Fixed an issue that caused FOTL items to be stuck in the postmaster as invisible items for some players.
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Harassment/Personal Attacks/Privacy Violation
Gory Violence/Explicit Sexuality
Illegal Activity
Hacking/Cheating
Spoilers/Stolen Content
Soliciting/Phishing/Impersonation
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Mojang brings fixes with this latest release. Those on the Nintendo Switch will have to wait just a bit longer before you receive this update.
Crashes / Performance
Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
Fixed several crashes that could occur when loading into world on Nintendo Switch
Placing a compass and locator map in the crafting grid no longer causes the game to crash (MCPE-57882)
Fixed a crash that could occur when travelling through a Nether Portal with another entity (MCPE-58568)
Fixed a crash that could occur when converting a world with fireworks equipped in a crossbow
Fixed a crash that could occur with raids on converted worlds
Fixed a crash that could occur when loading the ‘Extreme Speed Runner’ Marketplace world on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
General
Classic skin choices no longer revert after reloading the game (MCPE-55278)
Fixed .mcworld and .mctemplate files not importing on devices running iOS 13
Fixed the LittleBigPlanet world and textures not being usable if the game was installed from disc
Fixed issues with the ‘Chroma Hills’ texture pack not loading on Nintendo Switch
Split-screen players can no longer be left in a limbo state when joining the game while the primary player quits at the same time
Gameplay
Projectiles can now be shot through the gap between two honey blocks
Players no longer bounce when being pushed and pulled by honey blocks and pistons (MCPE-53815)
Mobs
Fixed an issue that prevented mobs from spawning under transparent blocks (MCPE-59682)
Please note, that this fix will revert the changes made in MCPE-54241, which will require further work and will be fixed in a future update
Bees no longer fly in and out of a beehive or nest that is on fire (MCPE-53872)
Fixed tamed wolves not breeding by increasing their breeding priority (MCPE-59570)
Tamed parrots sitting on the player’s shoulder are now transitioned after world conversion
Fixed Pillagers not attacking players after world conversion
Fixed players not obtaining Bad Omen when killing a Pillager Captain after world conversion
Items
Tridents no longer bounce continuously on the sides of honey blocks (MCPE-53626)
Honey Bottles now show the proper item tooltip (MCPE-61195)
Undyed Shulker Boxes now retain their color after world conversion (MCPE-36744)
User Interface
A confirmation prompt now appears if purchasing Realms on Nintendo Switch
Fixed an issue that could cause text to overlap when using different window resolutions in the Marketplace
Commands
Beehives and bee nests now have proper textures when placed with the ‘/setblock’ command
Defining an execute location no longer breaks the “detect” argument
Add-Ons
Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent Behavior Pack animations from working on Android (MCPE-56117)
The sensing component (used for ranged attacks) now calculates the view direction like it used to, making it so mobs can see their target on the y-axis
Fixed an issue that was preventing players from being teleported and rotated smoothly
Fixed the order of ‘on_exit’ and ‘on_entry’ events being reversed in animation controller state transitions
Local space for particles attached to entities will once again inherit the locator’s bone rotation
All versions of 1.14 are compatible with multiplayer. Happy gaming!
Update: A very recent update stated that Byleth is available right now, although as you may have found out for yourselves we’re still waiting for the fighter to drop. In our excitement, we pushed a button early – our apologies! We’ll be sure to update again when the fighter is actually available.
If all goes according to plan (and it’s worth noting that it might not), then Byleth should be launching today (January 28th at 6PM PDT) in North America and tomorrow (January 29th at 3AM CEST) in Europe. Pre-orders for the Fighters Pass Vol.2 should also be going live at the same time.
The announcement came during today’s livestream hosted by series director, Masahiro Sakurai, revealing that both the male and female versions of the character will star. They’ll be available to buy as Challenger Pack 5 (or receive if you already own the Fighters Pass) on 28th January.
Both the male and female versions received their own, iconic ‘challenger approaches’ style screen during the presentation:
Did you expect another Fire Emblem character to be Fighter No. 5? Are you excited to check Byleth out for yourself in the game? Share your thoughts with us below.
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you can feast your eyes on our weekly video show above. Be sure to come back every Friday to find out what’s happening This Week on Xbox!
Sci-Fi Twin-Stick Shooter Hovership Havoc is Available Now on Xbox One As developer and designer,I started working on Hovership Havoc almost four years ago. It was originally just a mini-game in a much larger project I was working on at the time. I decided to scale things down and focus on one of my mini-games which was a top-down space shooter… Read more
Feeling in Lumini: How the Flow of a Swarm Creates Experiences On January 22, Lumini will launch on Xbox One. Lumini is a relaxing flow-adventure game that we initially released back in 2015 for PC. It is a game where you experience friendship, loss, sacrifice and joy in a journey where it is your responsibility to help a swarm of previously… Read more
CES 2020: PC Gaming Experiences Designed for Everyone This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas kicked off 2020 with a look at what’s in store for a variety of players this year, with exciting innovations for PC gaming and Microsoft’s device partners announcing some of the best upcoming hardware and software in the industry… Read more
Bleeding Edge Blasts into Retail Stores This March We’re edging closer to fans teaming up and causing chaos in Bleeding Edge, our new 4v4 brawler! Today we’re thrilled to announce that Bleeding Edge will also be available on shelves at launch on March 24 at select retailers globally on Xbox One, with the retail version debuting… Read more
Next Week on Xbox: New Games for January 21 to 24 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One! Every week the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console. To find out what’s coming soon to Xbox One, read on below… Read more
