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How this sales director addresses the challenges of remote work
Nitro’s Martina Wilde discusses how she has adjusted to remote working and managing a hybrid team, and gives her top tip for staying productive.
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How Zesty aims to meet cloud infrastructure management challenges
Half-Life mod challenges you to play Half-Life 2 backwards
A new Half-Life mod challenges you to try and beat Half-Life 2 with all the levels, assets, and characters turned back to front, as Valve’s iconic, Steam FPS gets a strange new rework that makes it feel almost like a completely different game – a warped kind of Half-Life 3 that’s arrived from a parallel dimension.
Breakthrough: Air Pollution/Cancer Research Challenges the Science on Tumors
The BBC is calling it “a discovery that completely transforms our understanding of how tumours arise.”
The team at the Francis Crick Institute in London showed that rather than causing damage, air pollution was waking up old damaged cells. One of the world’s leading experts, Prof Charles Swanton, said the breakthrough marked a “new era”. And it may now be possible to develop drugs that stop cancers forming.
The findings could explain how hundreds of cancer-causing substances act on the body. The classical view of cancer starts with a healthy cell. It acquires more and more mutations in its genetic code, or DNA, until it reaches a tipping point. Then it becomes a cancer and grows uncontrollably…. The researchers have produced evidence of a different idea. The damage is already there in our cell’s DNA, picked up as we grow and age, but something needs to pull the trigger that actually makes it cancerous….
Around one in every 600,000 cells in the lungs of a 50-year-old already contains potentially cancerous mutations. These are acquired as we age but appear completely healthy until they are activated by the chemical alarm and become cancerous. Crucially, the researchers were able to stop cancers forming in mice exposed to air pollution by using a drug that blocks the alarm signal.
The results are a double breakthrough, both for understanding the impact of air pollution and the fundamentals of how we get cancer.
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Kubernetes Day 2 challenges — Isovalent brings secure connectivity, nabs funding
Halo Infinite The Yappening Event: All Cosmetics and Challenges
Halo Infinite is back with another free limited-time event, The Yappening. Unlike Alpha Pack or Interference, this event doesn’t serve any narrative purposes but instead offers players free premium cosmetics. In the event, players can get 10 cosmetics for free, as long as they participate in the limited-time mode. Here’s everything you’ll need to know about the Halo Infinite The Yappening Event.
The Yappening challenges
The Yappening event is live in-game and will only be here until September 19. During this two-week event, players will have 10 challenges to complete. To complete these challenges, you’ll need to play The Yappening. Players are thrown into one of six Big Team Battle games in this mode.
Here are the 10 challenges you’ll need to complete to finish your event pass.
UK Challenges $69 Billion Microsoft/Activision Deal, Citing Potential Harm To Gamers
“Microsoft is one of three large companies, together with Sony and Nintendo, that have led the market for gaming consoles for the past 20 years with limited entries from new rivals,” the CMA said. “Activision Blizzard has some of the world’s best-selling and most recognizable gaming franchises, such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. The CMA is concerned that if Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard it could harm rivals, including recent and future entrants into gaming, by refusing them access to Activision Blizzard games or providing access on much worse terms.”
The CMA said these “concerns warrant an in-depth Phase 2 investigation,” so Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have been ordered “to submit proposals to address the CMA’s concerns” within five working days. “If suitable proposals are not submitted, the deal will be referred for a Phase 2 investigation,” which would “allow an independent panel of experts to probe in more depth the risks identified at Phase 1,” the CMA said. Besides Microsoft’s Xbox console, the CMA noted Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform and the Windows operating system. “The CMA is concerned that Microsoft could leverage Activision Blizzard’s games together with Microsoft’s strength across console, cloud, and PC operating systems to damage competition in the nascent market for cloud gaming services,” the announcement said. “A Phase 2 investigation (PDF) can result in a merger being prohibited or a requirement to sell some parts of the business,” notes Ars. “A Phase 2 investigation is typically limited to 24 weeks but can be extended by up to eight weeks.”
“After a final report, ‘the CMA has a statutory deadline of 12 weeks (extendable by up to six weeks for special reasons) to make an order or accept undertakings to give effect to its Phase 2 remedies.'”
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Scaling Software Development Team: Challenges and Solutions
Scaling your software development team is a sign that things are going well, that the business is flourishing and that…
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