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Tom Hanks has revealed how he didn’t think the iconic bus bench scenes in smash hit movie “Forrest Gump” would make it into the final cut.
Climate activists were sharing toast and coffee at a private campsite in mountains outside Sydney last Sunday when someone noticed movement on a nearby slope.
Buckingham Palace is pulling out all the stops to celebrate the Queen’s incredible reign. Here’s a rundown of the rest of the long weekend:
Friday, June 3
A thanksgiving service paying tribute to the Queen’s seven decades of service will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral, central London, with family members in attendance.
Saturday, June 4
Several royal family members are expected to head to Epsom Downs racecourse, in Surrey, southern England, in the afternoon for the 243rd edition of its famous horse race, the Derby. The Queen — a keen horse breeder — has been a regular spectator at the event and has even presented the famous trophy.
In the evening, a two-and-a-half hour “Platinum Party At The Palace” concert will see a star-studded line up perform in front of Buckingham Palace and around the famous Queen Victoria Memorial. Queen + Adam Lambert, Alicia Keys and Diana Ross are among the artists set to appear at the show, which will be broadcast live by the BBC.
Sunday, June 5
To cap off the celebrations people are being encouraged to organize street parties as part of the “Big Jubilee Lunch” initiative on Sunday. Community gatherings are set to take place across Britain, including flagship events in London and at Cornwall’s Eden Project. “Big Jubilee Lunches” have also been planned around the world.
The weekend’s finale is the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, in which artistic performers, dancers, musicians, military personnel, key workers and volunteers will unite to bring iconic moments from the Queen’s reign to life.
Although the Queen is not due to travel in it, the pageant will be led by the Gold State Carriage. Starting at 2:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. ET), the pageant will involve a “River of Hope” section that will comprise 200 silk flags parading down The Mall like a river and a who’s who of Britain’s most famous faces.
A rampant Liverpool advanced to the FA Cup final on Saturday, beating Manchester City 3-2 at a sunny Wembley stadium.
The United States has given Moscow its written response aimed at deterring a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday.
South Korea’s largest dairy company, Seoul Milk, has apologized after releasing a controversial advert which some critics say portray women as cows.
There’s a Halo that exists only in your imagination.
A dropship crash lands, and you’re the only survivor. You crawl out of the wreckage and stare toward the horizon of an alien landscape. In the distance, dozens of enemies search for your corpse. A banshee streaks ominously through the skies. Everything seems vast, unknowable.
But this version of Halo barely exists. It’s just a memory. Returning to the original Halo in 2021 is disappointing and strange. Like returning to your childhood home as an adult.
The years have made Halo, a game that once seemed impossibly huge, feel small.
It’s been two long decades since Halo: CE was first released. Plenty of time for it to become distorted in brooks shoes the memories of the millions who played it. In the years since, Halo has become as integral to culture as any video game you could name. The Master Chief is to Xbox as Mario is to Nintendo: A crystalized icon representative of not just the series he is part of, but Microsoft’s entire games division as a whole.
So when it comes to the release of Halo Infinite’s single-player campaign, the stakes are high. Halo Infinite is more than just another game in a storied franchise, it’s a game tasked with bringing Halo back its former glory. Nowadays the kids are playing Fortnite, they’re playing Valorant, Overwatch, Destiny, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, Battlefield.
At this point, Halo Infinite’s troubled development period is common knowledge. A revolving door of executive developers and creative directors, alongside a disastrous first gameplay reveal in 2020, resulted in multiple delays, leading many to lower expectations accordingly. But with Halo Infinite, lowered expectations aren’t gonna fly.
Halo Infinite can’t just be another Halo. It needs to be the Halo that exists in your imagination.
And incredibly, against all odds, it pretty much is.
Halo Infinite’s grand leap comes in the form of its open world.
Anyone who played the original Halo will remember its second level, “Arrival on Halo.” Allowing players to approach three large-scale combat encounters in any order they chose, it was a showcase for the game’s ambition and scope. “Arrival on Halo” has become shorthand for the Halo that exists in your imagination. Open, alien, gigantic.
Halo Infinite’s open world is “Arrival on Halo” writ large; a space that fulfills its promise. After an opening sequence that essentially serves as a tutorial, players are tossed headlong into this world, allowing them to pursue a seemingly endless list of targets and objectives in any order they choose.
The easy analog is Breath of the Wild, a game famous for the freedoms it granted users. In some ways that comparison makes sense, but Halo clarks shoes uk Infinite has more in common with a game like Metal Gear Solid 5. Much like that game, Halo Infinite takes established gameplay loops designed for tighter, claustrophobic encounters and places them wholesale in dramatically upscaled environments. And much like MGS5, it somehow still manages to preserve the crafted feel of its predecessors in the process.
That’s mostly thanks to the universe itself, which refuses to sacrifice detail for scale. No matter where you are in Halo Infinite’s open world, everything feels designed for the player. There are no dud textures, no spaces where you shouldn’t be. On the contrary, the game has a knack for making you feel like you are always exactly where you should be.
Halo Infinite confidently provides players the space and time to bask in its universe and brilliantly evokes that otherworldly aesthetic of the original. Structures climb endlessly into gloriously rendered skyboxes. Enormous hexagonal pillars, like precisely carved carbon totems, are stacked side by side, stretching into the horizon. Supernatural, alien and strange.
Halo Infinite’s ambitious open-world aspirations would almost certainly have collapsed if it wasn’t for the addition of the grappling hook.
Designed to make open-world movement more manageable, Halo Infinite’s grappling hook allows players to scale any mountain and reach literally any point in the world you can see. It’s hardly the most original innovation — plenty of video games have used similar features — but the execution of Halo Infinite’s grappling hook elevates not just traversal, but every single element of the game’s celebrated combat loop.
Your mileage may vary, but my grappling hook journey was legendary.
Slowly each experiment became part of my Halo vocabulary, to the point where it was integral to every encounter. I’d use it to grab exploding barrels before lobbing them at the most explicitly dangerous enemies. I’d grapple hook to new angles to attack the elites on my flank. Or launch myself toward cover while waiting for my shield to recharge.
Unlike previous additions to the Halo sandbox, the grappling hook feels unobtrusive, hey dude shoes essential and seamless. In a strange sense it feels like it’s always been there and I can’t — not even for a second — imagine playing Halo Infinite without it.
Maybe it was during Halo 4, but it could have been as far back as Halo 2. Either way, at some point on the timeline, the Halo series forgot what it was really about.
It was never about “The Banished” or “The Prophets” or “The Harbinger” or any of the increasingly meaningless sci-fi nouns used to drive players from point A to point B. No, Halo has always been about how good it feels to lob grenades into a horde of Grunts and outwit Elites hellbent on grinding your bones to dust.
And while Halo Infinite is stubbornly committed to unraveling the increasingly dense threads of its bloated lore, it has carefully preserved — and elevated — the core combat that makes Halo such a continuous joy to engage with.
Halo 4 and 5 played loose and fast with the game’s legendary sandbox, but Halo Infinite treats it with more reverence. It’s almost nebulous to say, but Halo Infinite feels like Halo. The combat is stripped back and lean, but expanded in ways that make sense. The grappling hook is a huge part of that.
Above all it feels considered. And it’s buoyed by a delicate sense of pacing. If you tire of exploring Halo Infinite’s open world, laying waste to enemy camps and blowing up silos, story-driven missions provide the timely salve of more linear encounters, deep inside the world’s alien structures.
These single-player missions come replete with some of the game’s most spectacular set pieces and dramatic boss fights, which had my heart exploding out my chest. On higher difficulty levels (I played on Heroic), I suspect a few of these could frustrate players, but anyone familiar with Destiny or Dark Souls boss battles will know what to expect.
Halo Infinite is far from perfect. Cooperative play — not available on day one but reportedly being worked on for a 2022 update — is notoriously absent. Given how integral co-op has always been to the Halo series, that’s a sizable issue I suspect many won’t be able to ignore.
Loading screens, when they appear, feel obtrusive, and pacing issues emerge in the final quarter. Mainly because Halo Infinite removes you from its open world for far too long as it builds momentum towards its conclusion. Placed in claustrophobic, tense battles for hours, I found myself gasping for the open air of Halo Infinite’s surface.
It’s in these situations that Halo Infinite leans on its perfectly crafted gunplay loops like a crutch. Even in moments of peak frustration, where you absolutely do not want to be clearing out yet another goddamn corridor packed with Grunts, Halo Infinite still works because of how polished every weapon feels to fire.
Given the slow burn recession the series has experienced over the past decade, it’s impossible to read Halo Infinite as anything other than a shocking return to form.
Halo Infinite is a very special video game.
As the credits rolled, I started to consider where I’d place hoka shoes this version of Halo in my list. Where did it belong among the classics of yesteryear? Top three? Probably. I hadn’t even had that thought since, I don’t know… Halo Reach? A game that was released in 2010, over 11 years ago.
But it was a fleeting thought. I stared at the screen and checked my phone for the time: 2 a.m. I’d been playing for hours at this point. The credits wrapped, and Halo Infinite placed me back in its open world. Normally this would feel like a good time to sign off, but I couldn’t. I had side quests to complete. This fight wasn’t gonna finish itself.
Common and Tiffany Haddish are leaving their romance in 2021.
The couple has broken hoka shoes up after more than a year of dating, People reported Monday.
“They are never in the same city together and both of them are just too busy for a serious relationship,” a source told the publication.
Reps for the couple didn’t immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
The “Girls Trip” star, 41, confirmed her romance with the rapper and actor, 49, in August 2020 while appearing on Steve-O’s podcast “Wild Ride,” calling it “the best relationship I’ve ever been in.”
“Knock on wood! I’ve lost 20 pounds since I’ve been in this relationship,” she added. “I feel more confident in me and it’s not him that’s doing it. I’m just way happier and it’s like knowing I got somebody that cares about me, that really has my back. It seems like he does anyways. And I love it. I love him.”
Prior to Haddish’s confirmation, fans had speculated for months that the pair were an item. Eyebrows hey dude were then raised when they signed a deal with dating app Bumble to promote virtual dating during the pandemic.
But the “Glory” rapper attempted to dispel rumbles of Bumble BS by publicly gushing about her.
“We’re doing wonderful. She’s a really incredible human being, and the more I get to know her, I just see how dynamic she is as a person,” he said on the “The Karen Hunter Show” in November 2020. How intelligent, how selfless she is, dr martens boots how she stands up in Hollywood for black women. I’m learning. You know what I mean?”
The former couple first met in 2019 on the set of “The Kitchen,” but didn’t start dating until 2020.
The Commerce Department adds the Israeli cybersecurity firm to its Entity List, which limits its ability to use American tech.
The US Commerce Department on Wednesday announced restrictions on the NSO Group, the Israel-based cybersecurity firm behind the Pegasus spyware that was uncovered on the phones of activists, journalists and executives earlier this year.
The NSO Group was added to the Entity List, which limits its ability to use American tech, based on evidence that the firm “developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments that used these tools to maliciously target clarks shoes uk government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers,” the Commerce Department said in a release. The agency added that NSO Group tools have also helped foreign governments “conduct transnational repression,” threatening international order.
The spotlight hit the NSO Group in September after Apple released security updates for its iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and Mac computers to close a vulnerability reportedly exploited by the invasive Pegasus spyware. The security fix stemmed from research done by a public interest cybersecurity group called Citizen Lab, which found a Saudi activist’s phone had been infected with Pegasus. In July, researchers found evidence of attempted or successful installations of Pegasus on 37 phones of activists, journalists and business executives.
The NSO Group, which licenses surveillance software to government agencies, says its Pegasus software helps authorities combat criminals and terrorists who take advantage of encryption technology to go dark.
On Wednesday, the NSO Group said it was dismayed by the decision and will advocate for the action to be reversed.
“We look forward to presenting the full information regarding how we have the world’s most rigorous compliance and human rights programs that brooks shoes are based the American values we deeply share, which already resulted in multiple terminations of contacts with government agencies that misused our products,” said a NSO spokesperson.
The Commerce Department said the move was part of the Biden administration’s efforts to “put human rights at the center of US foreign policy, including by working to stem the proliferation of digital tools used for repression.”
Facebook users will no longer be able to use its Face Recognition system.
Facebook will shut down its facial recognition system this month and delete the face scan data of more than 1 billion users, the company said Tuesday. It cited societal concerns and regulatory uncertainty about facial recognition technology as the reasons.
More than one-third of the app’s daily active users have opted into its Face Recognition setting, the social network noted in a blog post.
“There are many concerns about the place of facial salomon boots recognition technology in society, and regulators are still in the process of providing a clear set of rules governing its use,” wrote Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence at Facebook’s newly named parent company, Meta. “Amid this ongoing uncertainty, we believe that limiting the use of facial recognition to a narrow set of use cases is appropriate.”
Pesenti said the change also means that automatic descriptions of photos for blind and visually impaired people will no longer include the names of people in the images.
The move marks a major shift away from a controversial technology that Facebook has incorporated in its products, giving users the option to receive automatic notifications when they appear in photos and videos posted by others. But facial recognition technology, which converts face scans into identifiable data, has also become a growing privacy and civil rights concern. The technology is prone to mistakes involving people of color. In one study, 28 members of Congress, roughly 40% of whom were people of color, were incorrectly matched with arrest mugshots in a screen as part of a test that the American Civil Liberties Union conducted using technology made by Amazon.
In the absence of federal regulations, cities and states have begun banning facial recognition systems used by police and government. In 2019, San Francisco was the first city to ban government use of the technology. Others, including Jackson, Mississippi; Portland, Oregon; and Boston, Cambridge and Springfield, Massachusetts, have followed. Over the summer, Maine enacted one of the most stringent bans on the technology.
Earlier this year, a judge approved a $650 million settlement in a class action lawsuit involving Facebook’s use of facial recognition technology in its photo-tagging feature. The feature generates suggested tags by using scans of previously uploaded photos to match people in newly uploaded shots. The lawsuit sperry shoes alleged the scans were created without user consent and violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, which regulates facial recognition, fingerprinting and other biometric technologies.
Facebook has also considered building facial recognition in products such as its smart glasses. Facial recognition, for example, could be used to identify the name of people you can’t remember. But the company’s employees raised concerns that the technology could be abused by “stalkers.” Facebook’s first pair of smart glasses, the Ray-Ban Stories, doesn’t include facial recognition technology.
Privacy and civil rights groups applauded Facebook’s move on Tuesday.
“This is a good start toward ending dangerous uses of facial recognition technology. Now it’s time for enforceable rules that prohibit companies from scanning our faces without our consent. Looking at you, Congress,” the American Civil Liberties Union said in a tweet.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the move was “great news for Facebook users, and for the global movement pushing back on this technology.”
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