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Bungie Day: Celebrate Bungie's Self-Made Holiday With Some Halo ...
Gaming is chalk full of traditions. Whether it be the big stuff, like showing up to a midnight launch for your favorite game, or the small stuff, like tea bagging a downed opponent. You can expect gamers devoting themselves to nostalgia or bias on any given day. Today, if you?re a Bungie or Halo fan, you may be ready to celebrate a tradition of your own.
As today marks one more in a long line of Bungie Days.
A holiday that started in 2007, it was Bungie?s way of saying thank you to the fans. They did this through a number of ways, like exclusive goodies or game announcements that were quite a treat at the time. Bungie also encouraged everyone who?s anyone to enjoy them a flag capturing good time of Halo.
Well, Bungie Day has come around, ?and once more we are reminded of how Bungie has helped to change gaming with their own brand of video game awesomeness.
While it may be true that Halo now falls under the duties of 343 Industries, that doesn?t mean we are so soon to forget the decade long contribution Bungie made to the franchise. A special interview with the creator of Halo, Jason Jones, sees the Bungie mastermind regale gamers with stories about the original Halo, and the legendary power of the Halo 1 pistol.
The interview is a three parter, so expect the next two parts of the interview in the days to come. This years Bungie Day is of a slightly different nature, as the event has stretched into a week long affair. ?Bungie Day? week technically started on the 2nd, with Bungie revealing and announcing a whole host of top notch swag and goodies for any fans of their studios.
You can find the Bungie Day Hub here. Bungie Day week is promised to go for the next few days, but the 7th is really the day that matters most (according to Bungie?s world domination policy, that is).
So, if you are a fan of console shooters, the crazy that is Bungie, or just the work that Master Chief has done, rejoice! Since Destiny is extraordinarily not out yet, you can celebrate Bungie?s past while waiting for their future. Go play a couple games of your favorite Halo, and think happy thoughts as you wait impatiently for Bungie?s next attempt at conquering the world, when Destiny finally launches?later this year?
Happy Bung7e Day!
Article from Gamersyndrome.com
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Realistic robot carp created: First robot fish with autonomous 3-D movement in Asia
June 26, 2013 ? A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has developed a robot fish that mimics the movements of a carp. This robot which is essentially an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is ready for applications, as it can be programmed to perform specific functions, for example, for underwater archaeology such as exploring nooks and corners of wreckage -- or sunken city which are difficult for divers or traditional AUVs to access. Other applications include military activities, pipeline leakage detection, and the laying of communication cable.
The team comprises Professor Xu Jianxin, Mr Fan Lupeng, graduating Electrical Engineering student and Research Fellow, Dr Ren Qinyuan. Mr Fan worked on the project for his final year which won the High Achievement Award at the Faculty's 27th Innovation and Research Award. It will also be featured at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, a top international conference on intelligent robots, in Tokyo on 3-7 November 2013.
Said Prof Xu, "Currently, robot fish capable of 2-D movements are common, meaning that these models are not able to dive into the water. Our model is capable of 3-D movements as it can dive and float, using its fins like a real fish. Compared to traditional AUVs, they are certainly more mobile, with greater manoeuvrability. If used for military purpose, fish robots would definitely be more difficult to detect by the enemy."
Fish robots are also quieter and consume less energy, compared to traditional AUVs. Said Mr Fan who studied the movements of real life carps for three months, in order to develop their robot, "We chose to study carps because most fish swim like them. There is no literature at all on designing a mathematical model on the locomotion of fish and so we had to start from scratch. We used a camera to capture all the possible movements of a carp and then converted the data mathematically so that we could transfer the locomotion of real carp to our robot using different actuators."
This has been most challenging as fish use a lot of different muscles to move, and many actuators are required to enable the robot to move in the same manner.
Added Dr Ren, "Some fish can achieve almost 180 degree turning in a small turning radius through bending their body while traditional underwater vehicles have a much larger turning radius. Hence it is quite a feat for us to achieve this movement in our robot fish."
Other challenges included waterproofing the fish body, the motor and the control box. The fins and tails also need to be flexible and the team decided to use very fine (1mm) acrylic board for these. Buoyancy and balance for the robot is maintained by using plastic foams attached to both sides. For the diving mechanism, their robot fish is equipped with an internal ballast system to change density. The system is sophisticated enough to enable the fish to dive suddenly, as well as to the precise depth intended.
The team has constructed two fish robots. The larger prototype is about one and half metres in length, weighing about 10kg and it can dive to a depth of 1.8 metres. The smaller robot is about 60 centimetres long and weighs a mere 1.5kg. It is developed for investigation on 2D motion control and motion planning in a small place, and it can only swim at water surface.
"To my knowledge, the world's smallest fish robot is one about 12.7 centimetres (5 inches) in length. It was designed by MIT for specific military purpose and could go to a depth of 1.5 metres," said Dr Ren.
Moving forward
Underwater vehicles have long gone past the days of the submarines, said Mr Fan. Fish robots, besides being a micro submarine, can also be fully autonomous and can be programmed to perform many difficult and dangerous tasks.
The team hopes to make their robot fish even smaller and more realistic. Said Mr Fan, "We intend to equip it with more sensors like GPS and video camera to improve autonomous 3-D movement. We also intend to test out our fish with more challenging tasks such as object detection."
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UK banks' insurance bill tops 10 billion pounds and rising
By Huw Jones
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's banks have paid out more than 10 billion pounds for mis-selling loan insurance, the Financial Conduct Authority said on Thursday, and the bill is rising with no deadline set for claims.
Separately, the FCA said it will levy a hefty fine next month on a firm for poor handling of complaints about insurance it sold to cover the loss or theft of mobile phones.
The FCA - launched in April after the financial crisis convinced legislators the Financial Services Authority was too lenient a regulator and had to be scrapped - is mandated to protect consumers and end years of mis-selling products.
It said banks have paid 10.1 billion pounds to customers hit by the country's biggest financial mis-selling scandal. Compensation is still being paid out at the rate of about 400 million pounds a month.
The Bank told five British banks last week to increase their capital buffers by a collective 13 billion pounds by December, partly because of the rising bill for mis-selling payment protection insurance (PPI).
Banks have made PPI provisions of about 14 billion pounds and had hoped that the FCA would set a deadline for claims, but talks with the regulator broke down.
In a review of mobile phone insurance (MPI), the watchdog said there is a gap between what the customer expects from a policy and what it gets from a sector dominated by nine, unnamed firms.
Some products were not designed to meet customers' needs, terms and conditions were unclear and unfair, and claims were poorly handled, the FCA said.
"Although the costs of MPI are relatively low, with premiums for some policies as little as a few pounds a month, the product is widely held with over 10 million customers," the FCA said.
One man lost his phone in the back of cab and made a claim after being unable to recover it, but it was rejected on the basis he'd left the phone unattended in a public place.
Another claimant was rejected because of "mis-use" of his phone - it had not been used in the last two weeks.
"We have begun communicating the findings to the firms that took part in the review and they are making improvements," FCA director of supervision, Clive Adamson said.
The review is the latest example of how the regulator is stepping in earlier and scrutinising the products themselves more closely, compared with looking at sales practices in the past long after evidence of mis-selling had emerged.
(Reporting by Huw Jones; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-banks-insurance-bill-tops-10-billion-pounds-113743494.html
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