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Respawn addresses netcode, servers, and why its not upgrading Apexs tick rate soon in deep-div
2024-07-19
For a layman, words like “tick rate” and “netcode” can be hard to understand—so Respawn brought in the experts. Lead engineer Samy Duc explained a series of issues and common scenarios that happen to players in Apex Legends, their causes, and what the developers are doing to fix them in a 5,000-word blog post today.
In addition, Duc touched on a highly debated topic: The reason why Apex runs at a 20 Hz tick rate—and why upgrading it may not have as significant an impact as some fans think.
UNLV gunman resigned as professor after making sexual comment in class, former student says
2024-07-19
The man who fatally shot three people last week at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, had resigned from another school, despite having tenure, after a female student accused him of making a sexual comment about her appearance.
Kristin Marshburn said she was sitting in the front row of Anthony Polito's business course at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, in 2016 when he walked in and made the remark.
Cases of norovirus are spreading across the United States and are higher than usual at this point in this season, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As of Feb. 9, more than 15% of weekly tests for norovirus are coming back positive, the highest seen since mid-March 2022. Additionally, 225 outbreaks have been recorded between Aug. 1, 2022 and Jan. 2, 2023, compared to 172 at this point last year, CDC data shows.
Who Did It Better? Samantha Or Genelia?
2024-07-19
Currently, an interesting comparison and a discussion related to who is the best amongst Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Genelia D’Souza is going on in social circles. Well, while Genelia lost her form and retired from being a star heroine almost a decade ago, Samantha is still the reigning queen though her health condition slowed her down a bit. Then why this comparison anyway?
Apparently, the Marathi movie ‘Ved’ is the official frame-to-frame remake of the super hit Telugu film “Majili”, the last movie that featured the then-married couple Samantha and Naga Chaitanya together.
Haley not winning a Super Tuesday state will signal most of her voters are backing Biden: Chuck Todd
2024-07-17
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson is starting his own streaming service, promising to “tell the unadorned truth” to fans for $72 a year, he announced Monday.
Commentary, interviews, Carlson-flavored news reports and documentaries, even an advice show will be offered on the Tucker Carlson Network, which is essentially staffed by the people who used to work for him at Fox.
The new venture comes more than seven months after Fox abruptly fired Carlson, its most popular host.
Long-time "Wheel of Fortune" co-host Vanna White extended her contract and will continue turning letters on the venerable game show until at least the middle of 2026, producers said Tuesday.
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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. It looks like my guest, Sterling K. Brown, is about to be in the cultural zeitgeist again. He co-stars in the new movie "American Fiction," which is on many critics' 10 Best lists and is likely to be nominated for Oscars. In the popular miniseries "The People V. O.J. Simpson," about one of the most controversial trials of the 20th century, Brown played Christopher Darden, one of O.