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� � � � � � Off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot charged with attempted murder after trying to stop engines midflight  - NBC News    A man arrested in the killing of a Baltimore tech entrepreneur was suspected of raping a woman days before and was already under surveillance, police say Michael Gambon, the actor best known for playing Dumbledore in the 'Harry Potter' films, dies at 82 Morning Rundown: Biden impeachment inquiry's first hearing, Powerball jackpot nears $1 billion, and Kansas City's love story with Taylor Swift Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium A Tribute to the Nintendo Engineer Masayuki Uemura - The New Yorker    It isn’t quite fair to call the engineer Masayuki Uemura, who died on December 6th, at the age of seventy-eight, an unsung architect of the global game industry. He is widely known among gamers for his work designing the Family Computer, the game console that became the Nintendo Entertainment System abroad, and its successor, the Super Famicom, known outside of Japan as the Super Nintendo. After retiring from Nintendo, in 2004, he remained deeply engaged with the industry, directing the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies in Kyoto until stepping down in March of this year. Despite the cravings that Uemura’s machines invoked in the young—and not so young—customers who coveted them, his creations were inevitably overshadowed by the content that they were designed to serve up: the games themselves, the virtual adventures that were eagerly consumed by countless players around the planet. But these games would not have reached their destinations without Uemura’s consoles. Like bridges between worlds, his fantasy-delivery devices linked the Japanese and Western imaginations, with repercussions that are still being felt today. Nintendo is revered as the home of Mario and Pokémon, a forge of fantasies with truly Earth-spanning pull, from Animal Crossing to The Legend of Zelda. But the company, founded in 1889 as a manufacturer of traditional gaming cards called hanafuda, struggled for relevance in the postwar era. In fits and starts of experimentation, Nintendo achieved a small measure of success by exploring new markets for playing cards, board games, and toys. Uemura joined in the early seventies. Nintendo’s R. & D. head, an engineer named Gunpei Yokoi, poached him from Sharp to assist in the building of amusements that used light-guns, in which customers shot beams at projections of targets on a movie screen. Continued here � � � � � � What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis? - Scientific American    The Cochrane Library, a trusted source of health information, misled the public by prioritizing rigor over reality The COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, but in May officials ended its designation as a public health emergency. So it's now fair to ask if all our efforts to slow the spread of the disease—from masking, to hand washing, to working from home—were worth it. One group of scientists has seriously muddied the waters with a report that gave the false impression that masking didn't help. The group's report was published by Cochrane, an organization that collects databases and periodically issues “systematic” reviews of scientific evidence relevant to health care. This year it published a paper addressing the efficacy of physical interventions to slow the spread of respiratory illness such as COVID. The authors determined that wearing surgical masks “probably makes little or no difference” and that the value of N95 masks is “very uncertain.” Continued here � � � � � � Bill Gates: 'There Is More To Life Than Work' | Entrepreneur - Entrepreneur    By Emily Rella • May 18, 2023 Bill Gates spoke at the commencement ceremony for Northern Arizona University last weekend, where he doled out life advice to soon-to-be graduates about preparing for work-life balance in the "real world." The May 13th speech was creatively crafted as the advice he wished he had been given had he not dropped out of college, aptly titled, "5 Things I Wish I Heard at the Graduation I Never Had." Continued here

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