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RPG Cast – Episode 725: “Not Every Idea in the Factory Is a Good One”

Ryan slip 'n slides his health away. Robert lives on the side of danger and poor choices in video games. Meanwhile, Chris makes his own bathtub Geralt.

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RPG Cast – Episode 726: “Princes of the Mew-niverse”

Chris realizes WoW is the new Diablo. Phil bakes a potato into two. Kelley becomes a cat in a frog suit. And we're dressing beds with old t-shirts.

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RPG Cast – Episode 727: “PlayStation go VRRR”

Chris gets hit by the valley girl truck-kun and can't leave the hinterlands. Sam makes a Sony Pony Button in order to become the true Unicorn Overlord. Kelley becomes a cat and pantomimes WoW lore while building Lego Minifigures that can punch dinosaurs.

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RPG Cast – Episode 728: “Cats With Jiggle Physics”

Kelley makes a Morgen Wonk. Chris loves the smell of Gundam in the morning. Phil plays some Mathfinder while listening to his favorite new band, Creepy Lego Waifus. The cake has arrived.

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RPG Cast – Episode 729: “Zelda Goes to IKEA”

Kelley becomes a Battletoads Jedi. Chris visits Atelier Risa the pleasure planet. Robert will pay the price of free-to-play. Josh patents our new adult animation series.

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RPG Cast – Episode 730: “Never Played a JRPG”

Kelley tells us about her new clawed abomination: the cat-raptor. Chris tries to figure out who cross Ross is and why he's so angry. Robert is "surprised" to find horse girls show up on the sheet. Josh is definitely here for the icons.

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RPG Cast – Episode 731: “Dragon Quest: Start Your Own Taco Adventure”

Kelley uses familiars to click her buttons. Josh scribbles in comic sans over your collector's edition with a sharpie. Which is good because Chris can't handle yet another collector's edition. They're all doing better than Ryan, though, who is suffering from Wizardry PTSD.

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RPG Cast – Episode 732: “Excited PoE Noises”

Kelley starts a Reddit fight. Robert learns about purrkour gaming. Pascal makes plans to be a booth babe. Chris eats the mic like it's meat flavored cereal. Mung beans.

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RPG Cast – Episode 733: “You Don’t Have to Go Home but You Can’t Fish Here”

Kelley builds a fan mod alternate LEGO Sonic build. Josh learns not to read the wiki...any wiki. Matt digs through Infinity's trash to find out when the money ran out. Chris is watching the anime...but it's not good either.

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RPG Cast – Episode 734: “You Have Died of Festive Dysentery”

Josh gives us a time to head pat update. Kelley has "unfriendly" written on her vet notes. Robert has spent 10,000 years in the friend zone. Chris designs a pirate city building game with cat girls and heavy metal music, that everyone can love.

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RPG Cast – Episode 735: “Dodge Dragonero”

Chris proclaims that WoW isn't a battery drainer, it's the Warlord of Draenor. Kelley has a soda-fresh Steamdeck. Josh discovers the fifth horseman of the apocalypse: politics. Robert wraps himself in a towel and puts himself in the oven.

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RPG Cast – Episode 736: “Meowsable Pile of Secrets”

Chris warns about goblins and bugbears living together. Josh learns he's the most likely to be loaded into the soul cannon first. Kelley only watches the bottom half of Looney Tunes. And Robert has 99 problems but an EVA waifu ain't one.

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RPG Cast – Episode 737: “India’s Best Divorce Lawyer”

Chris requires pirate games to be on the ocean. Kelley's over capybaras. Josh is betrayed by his potato peeler's safety guard. Also, everybody hates Wakka.

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RPG Cast – Episode 738: “Golf Innit”

Chris goes and touches grass in WoW. Matt brings about the apocalypse through dating. Phil is striking from Persona 5. Now let me tell you all the uses for earwax...

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RPG Cast – Episode 740: “Truck-Kun in the Background Is Slightly Less Blurry”

Chris saw a wizard in Tokyo in Trader Vic's, his robe and wizard hat were perfect. Kelley got tired of Alf memes. Josh shoved his Steam Link in a closet somewhere. Gamers suck, tune in next week for monitor cast.

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RPG Cast – Episode 741: “Make A The Rum!”

Today's cast gets dangerously close to a patent law cast as Chris finds a new pirate game to ignore. Kelley wants truck-kun to be isekai'd into a person. And Josh asks, "What do you get from petting the bear?" No one answers.

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RPG Cast – Episode 742: “Hard Candy Wii U Discs”

Kelley hot boxes her cat. Chris authorizes Lunar to bring back Bill Clinton jokes. And Robert suffers feline gacha girls for us all.

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RPG Cast – Episode 743: “There’s a Body in My Inventory”

Chris got extra hands and became too weird even for SMT. Kelley got to the boat song and noped out. Phil destroyed half the furniture in his living room. Now go give your cat some nose drops.

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RPG Cast – Episode 744: “11.5-Bit Graphics”

Chris is unmasked as The Corporate Body. Tam talks about anime and waifus. Kelley is excited about text size. Josh explains the meaning of "time to shipwreck." Subscribe to our latest offering, The Monthly Litterbox.

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RPG Cast – Episode 746: “Extra Life 2024”

Chris gets killed by Dick Van Dyke. Kelley is done with VR now. Sam had a busy work week of dressing up as a blanket ghost. And Josh sails into invisible walls.

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Neowiz to Publish Western RPG by Poland-Based Developer Zakazane

Neowiz announced it has signed a global publishing rights partnership with Warsaw, Poland-based developer Zakazane to publish the first title from the studio. The game from Zakazane is a single-player noir western RPG.

Zakazane is led by Jan Bartkowicz, Piotr Chomiak, Radosław Gwarek, and Marta Sobek, and features developers who previously worked at central European game companies, including  CD Projekt RED and 11 bit studios.

"Neowiz is committed to delivering remarkable, story-driven games that resonate with gamers worldwide, and we’re actively searching for talented developers with a passion for well-crafted narratives,” said Neowiz co-CEO Seung-Cheol Kim.

"When we first met Zakazane, we felt an immediate kinship around their passion for developing projects that profoundly captivate audiences. Their upcoming neo-western RPG will be a key addition to our portfolio and reflects our ambition to build lasting franchises across PC and consoles. Together, we will create a brand that unites quality and storytelling for gamers to cherish for years to come."

Zakazane CEO and co-founder Jan Barkowicz, "We found a great understanding of our vision with Neowiz, who got excited about our debut title the minute we showed them the demo. In conversations that followed, they never tried to steer us away from our principles but rather to make sure we stick to our guns. It’s clear both sides understand that games can become important to people on a personal level, making them both valuable works of culture and good business."

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

Full Article - https://www.vgchartz.com/article/463035/neowiz-to-publish-western-rpg-by-poland-based-developer-zakazane/




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VED: Purification is a free prologue to the full hand-drawn RPG, complete with Stetson hats and Evil Dead trees

Got an email about this. Looks cool. Is free. “I’ll write about that,” I thought. “I’ll write about that for Rock Paper Shotgun, a place that semi-regularly posts articles about cool and free games.” So here we are. If you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop, assuming the only reason I’d open an article in a superfluous and straightforward manner is because I’m about to deliver some sort of third sentence twist, you’re completely wrong! There’s no twist at all. I’m simply going to deliver some information about the game in a neutral tone. You can find VED: Purification, a free prologue demo to RPG VED, here.

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The Warframe devs want you to come try their luxurious fantasy action-RPG Soulframe

Warframe developers Digital Extremes have announced a new round of early access for their 2025-bound fantasy action-RPG Soulframe, which I saw a bit of last year and think is pretty promising. They're now adding 2000 players to a Preludes build of the game every week, with each invite email including an additional four invite codes, so you can get your friends involved.

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King’s Field with a bird RPG Dungeons of Blood and Dream is out in 1.0 now

Sin enjoyed the roguelike stylings of Dungeons of Blood and Dream when she played it in early access back in July, calling it a “baffling, bizarre thing that lives on the border of janky, retro, and punk”. As of yesterday, it’s now out for realsies, promising psychedelic dungeon crawling, the stabbing of assorted gribblies, and lots of little details that make you go “ooo, that’s nice. I’m glad they put that in there.”

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Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades



Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Enjoy today’s videos!

One of the most venerable (and recognizable) mobile robots ever made, the Husky, has just gotten a major upgrade.

Shipping early next year.

[ Clearpath Robotics ]

MAB Robotics is developing legged robots for the inspection and maintenance of industrial infrastructure. One of the initial areas for deploying this technology is underground infrastructure, such as water and sewer canals. In these environments, resistance to factors like high humidity and working underwater is essential. To address these challenges, the MAB team has built a walking robot capable of operating fully submerged, based on exceptional self-developed robotics actuators. This innovation overcomes the limitations of current technologies, offering MAB’s first clients a unique service for trenchless inspection and maintenance tasks.

[ MAB Robotics ]

Thanks, Jakub!

The G1 robot can perform a standing long jump of up to 1.4 meters, possibly the longest jump ever achieved by a humanoid robot of its size in the world, standing only 1.32 meters tall.

[ Unitree Robotics ]

Apparently, you can print out a functional four-fingered hand on an inkjet.

[ UC Berkeley ]

We present SDS (``See it. Do it. Sorted’), a novel pipeline for intuitive quadrupedal skill learning from a single demonstration video leveraging the visual capabilities of GPT-4o. We validate our method on the Unitree Go1 robot, demonstrating its ability to execute variable skills such as trotting, bounding, pacing, and hopping, achieving high imitation fidelity and locomotion stability.

[ Robot Perception Lab, University College London ]

You had me at “3D desk octopus.”

[ UIST 2024 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology ]

Top-notch swag from Dusty Robotics

[ Dusty Robotics ]

I’m not sure how serious this shoes-versus-no-shoes test is, but it’s an interesting result nonetheless.

[ Robot Era ]

Thanks, Ni Tao!

Introducing TRON 1, the first multimodal biped robot! With its innovative “Three-in-One” modular design, TRON 1 can easily switch among Point-Foot, Sole, and Wheeled foot ends.

[ LimX Dynamics ]

Recent works in the robot-learning community have successfully introduced generalist models capable of controlling various robot embodiments across a wide range of tasks, such as navigation and locomotion. However, achieving agile control, which pushes the limits of robotic performance, still relies on specialist models that require extensive parameter tuning. To leverage generalist-model adaptability and flexibility while achieving specialist-level agility, we propose AnyCar, a transformer-based generalist dynamics model designed for agile control of various wheeled robots.

[ AnyCar ]

Discover the future of aerial manipulation with our untethered soft robotic platform with onboard perception stack! Presented at the 2024 Conference on Robot Learning, in Munich, this platform introduces autonomous aerial manipulation that works in both indoor and outdoor environments—without relying on costly off-board tracking systems.

[ Paper ] via [ ETH Zurich Soft Robotics Laboratory ]

Deploying perception modules for human-robot handovers is challenging because they require a high degree of reactivity, generalizability, and robustness to work reliably for diverse cases. Here, we show hardware handover experiments using our efficient and object-agnostic real-time tracking framework, specifically designed for human-to-robot handover tasks with legged manipulators.

[ Paper ] via [ ETH Zurich Robotic Systems Lab ]

Azi and Ameca are killing time, but Azi struggles being the new kid around. Engineered Arts desktop robots feature 32 actuators, 27 for facial control alone, and 5 for the neck. They include AI conversational ability including GPT-4o support, which makes them great robotic companions, even to each other. The robots are following a script for this video, using one of their many voices.

[ Engineered Arts ]

Plato automates carrying and transporting, giving your staff more time to focus on what really matters, improving their quality of life. With a straightforward setup that requires no markers or additional hardware, Plato is incredibly intuitive to use—no programming skills needed.

[ Aldebaran ]

This UPenn GRASP Lab seminar is from Antonio Loquercio, on “Simulation: What made us intelligent will make our robots intelligent.”

Simulation-to-reality transfer is an emerging approach that enables robots to develop skills in simulated environments before applying them in the real world. This method has catalyzed numerous advancements in robotic learning, from locomotion to agile flight. In this talk, I will explore simulation-to-reality transfer through the lens of evolutionary biology, drawing intriguing parallels with the function of the mammalian neocortex. By reframing this technique in the context of biological evolution, we can uncover novel research questions and explore how simulation-to-reality transfer can evolve from an empirically driven process to a scientific discipline.

[ University of Pennsylvania ]




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EA FC 25 TOTW 8: All players for latest Team of the Week as Gyokeres gets upgraded



EA FC 25 players have a whole new Team of the Week to grind for, and there are some fantastic cards among them, including Sporting CP's hotshot striker Viktor Gyokeres.




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MSI MPG Velox 100R Chassis Review

Andy delves deep into the caverns of this chassis. Worth £130?




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3D Action RPG ‘Alterna Vvelt: Blue Exorcist Another Story’ From Aniplex Gets a New Trailer Ahead of Its Launch on Mobile and PC

At Anime NYC this weekend, Aniplex USA shared more details for its upcoming 3D action RPG Alterna Vvelt: Blue Exorcist …




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Casual RPG ‘Disney Pixel RPG’ From GungHo for iOS and Android Gets New Gameplay Trailer, Listed for October 7th

Last month, GungHo announced a new casual RPG for mobile in the form of Disney Pixel RPG (Free), due later …




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Sonos Arc Ultra review: New tech powers a big audio upgrade

2024 has been a rough year for Sonos. The company’s would-be triumphant entry into the crowded headphones market was overshadowed by a disastrous app redesign. In the fallout of the botched software update, the company decided to delay products that were ready to be shipped to give itself more time to right the course. Consumer trust eroded, and people who already owned Sonos gear were living in a cycle of constant frustration.

Thanks to a number of rumors, we already knew that one of the pending product releases was the Arc Ultra ($999). A few weeks ago the company decided not to wait any longer to reveal it. While the design is mostly unchanged from the Arc that debuted in 2020, there are several key changes on the inside that make this a better all-in-one solution for people who don’t want to add more speakers to their living room setup. Sonos is promising better bass performance thanks to new speaker tech that’s debuting in the Arc Ultra, but just how good can it be?

The refined design of the original Arc was a massive upgrade from that of the Playbar, and showed a progression from Sonos’ compact Beam soundbar. Honestly, the aesthetic is pretty timeless, in my opinion, and it’s a look that should age well for years to come. That said, it makes sense that Sonos would keep the design for the Arc Ultra, only making some minor changes to the exterior.

The Arc Ultra still comes in both black and white options, allowing you to choose what looks best in your living room or home theater. Sonos updated the controls to mirror what’s available on the newer Era 100 and Era 300 speakers, moving them to a top-facing bar at the back. There’s a volume slider on the right with play/pause and skip controls in the center. On the left side, Sonos gives you a microphone control so you can mute the built-in mics as needed.

And that’s really it in terms of design changes that you can see. The Arc Ultra is slightly shorter height-wise than the Arc, and it’s a little wider than its predecessor. Neither of which make a huge difference, and they won’t drastically change how you position the speaker beneath your TV.

Sonos' new sound motion woofer is situated on the right side of the soundbar
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Inside, Sonos has re-engineered the Arc Ultra to improve audio performance. The biggest piece of this overhaul is the new Sound Motion woofer that enables better bass performance before you add a standalone wireless sub. The achievement here, thanks to the acquisition of audio company Mayht, is that the new component lays flat, taking up less room than a traditional cone-shaped woofer. The Sound Motion driver also helps deliver increased clarity and depth, on top of doubling the bass output of the original Arc.

Sonos redesigned the entire acoustic architecture of the Arc Ultra during the process of adding the Sound Motion woofer. The soundbar now houses three more drivers than the arc, a list that includes seven tweeters (two of which are upfiring), six mid-range drivers (midwoofers, as Sonos calls them) and the aforementioned woofer for a total of 14. The company also employs 15 Class-D digital amplifiers along with far-field mics for tuning and voice control.

There’s still only a single HDMI (eARC) port, which allows most modern TVs the ability to control the soundbar’s volume and mute options from your TV remote. Moreover, the Arc Ultra is compatible with Wi-Fi 6 and newly-added Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity allows you to stream from any device. And of course, AirPlay 2 is still on the spec sheet. One last thing I’ll mention here is that the Arc Ultra doesn’t ship with an optical adapter if you prefer that connection. The company will sell you one for $25.

Since the Arc Ultra is a Sonos product, there are a lot of core features that are the same as they are on the company’s other devices. You can use the soundbar as part of a multiroom setup and Trueplay tuning is here to adjust the audio to the acoustics of the room. There’s still an adjustable EQ with options for bass, treble and loudness and a Night Sound mode makes things less boomy when someone in your house may be trying to work or sleep.

While Trueplay will give you the best sound customization for the sonic characteristics of your living room, Sonos is enabling a Quick Tune feature for the first time on the Arc Ultra. Here, the soundbar will use its internal mics, as opposed to your phone, to offer a certain degree of improvement. The company says it wanted to give people the option of something quicker than Trueplay, although the full-fledged tuning process doesn’t take very long at all.

Speech Enhancement has been a handy feature on Sonos soundbars for a while, giving you the ability to improve dialog clarity as needed. Before now, it was an all-or-nothing feature, but on the Arc Ultra, the company introduced three levels of speech boost to give you more options to better suit your needs. This means the soundbar can help you hear clearly over background noise or simply follow along better by elevating dialog above the rest of the soundtrack mix.

Sonos moved the controls to a bar along the back
Billy Steele for Engadget

The trademark feature of Sonos’ Ace headphones is the ability to beam the audio from a compatible soundbar to the cans for a private home theater. That TV Audio Swap tool is available on the Arc Ultra, so you can instantly send the sound to the headphones with the press of a button. In fact, Sonos bundles the Arc Ultra and Ace headphones in a $1,373 set. What’s more, the Ace supports spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, so you can count on immersive sound even when you’re employing it on an individual basis.

Despite all of the problems that Sonos has had with its app, some of which it's still working to resolve, I didn't encounter any issues during my testing. The software crashed on me once when the Trueplay tuning process completed, but everything had already run its course and I didn’t have to repeat it. Other than that, the app has worked reliably over the last week while I’ve been putting the Arc Ultra through its paces. Most importantly, the software is stable and the full suite of controls for the new soundbar is available at launch.

The original Arc already sounded great, so Sonos really had its work cut out for it to further improve the audio quality for the Arc Ultra. Thanks to the improved bass of the Sound Motion tech, a change that also takes up less space, the company says it had the ability to then overhaul the mid-range and high-frequency components as well. By using multiple sizes of mid-range drivers and tweeters, Sonos was able to tweak the speaker positioning inside of the soundbar for improved projection and more immersive sound.

In addition to the enhanced bass performance, the second thing that was immediately apparent on the Arc Ultra was those improvements to the dimensional sound. Whether it was a quidditch match in a Harry Potter movie or zooming F1 cars in Drive to Survive, the soundbar now has better directional, immersive sound than its predecessor. Sonos says the Arc Ultra now renders Dolby Atmos content in a 9.1.4-channel setup, versus 5.0.2 with the Arc, which further contributes to the enveloping audio. Interestingly, I haven’t seen any of the competition claim four up-firing channels from the soundbar like Sonos does here (those that do are usually accounting for up-firing drivers in the rear speakers). You can really hear the difference from the second you fire up the Arc Ultra, and the effect is consistent across content sources.

There's still just one HDMI port, but Bluetooth connectivity is now included
Billy Steele for Engadget

The increased bass performance makes the Arc Ultra a much better speaker for music without a separate subwoofer. You won’t get the bombastic low-end tone the newly updated Sonos Sub 4 can produce, but there’s enough from the soundbar to give Kaytranada’s Timeless, Phantogram’s Memory of a Day and Bilmuri’s American Motor Sports plenty of booming backbone when a track demands it. There’s also still the trademark Sonos clarity I’ve come to expect over the years, which means finer details like the texture of synths, layered guitars and the nuance of acoustic instruments cut through the mix cleanly.

And speaking of clarity, the company’s new Speech Enhancement settings are also a big improvement. Being able to select how much of a boost this feature offered depending on either my needs right then or based on the overall tuning of the content is really nice. It allowed me to max out the dialog when watching movies after my toddler was asleep so that speech didn’t suffer when sound effects were louder during intense scenes of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

There’s no doubt the Arc Ultra packs in deeper, more immersive sound than its predecessor, but some people will still want a more robust setup to wring every ounce of audio out of a Sonos living room setup. The high-end choice for this is what Sonos calls the Ultimate Immersive Set, which includes the Arc Ultra, two Era 300s and the Sub 4. Right now, that will cost you $2,561. For something less expensive, you can get the Arc Ultra and the new Sub 4 (normally $799) for $1,708 (Premium Entertainment Set). And therein lies the biggest problem with Sonos soundbars: expanding your living room setup to get the most immersive experience gets very pricey very quickly when the centerpiece is already $999.

If you can live without all the conveniences of Sonos products, you can get an all-in-one package from Samsung for $1,500. With the Q990D, you’ll get the soundbar, two rear speakers and a wireless subwoofer in the same box. The setup offers 11.1.4 audio for excellent Atmos sound, thanks in part to up-firing drivers in the rear speakers. Samsung offers a host of handy features, from Q-Symphony audio with TV speakers, SpaceFit Sound Pro room calibration, Adaptive Sound audio enhancement, a dedicated gaming mode and more. The Q990D remains my top pick for the best soundbars for a lot of reasons, a key one being everything you could need comes in one all-inclusive package.

The Arc Ultra is an obvious improvement over the Arc in the sonic department. New technology delivers on its promise to boost bass, clarity and immersive before you start adding extra components. Expanded features like Speech Enhancements and a quick-tune option offer new tools for dialing in the sound, while the stock Sonos experience remains intact. And thankfully, that includes an app that’s more stable than it was a few months ago. The Arc Ultra is still pricey at $999, but it exhibits a lot more sonic prowess than its predecessor for only $100 more.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/audio/speakers/sonos-arc-ultra-review-new-tech-powers-a-big-audio-upgrade-130011149.html?src=rss





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Income from Renting under House Property Income or PGBP

Income from rental property has different connotations depending on whether it is treated as house property or business income –· Rental income f




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Aquaplus Unveils To Heart Remake's Spring 2025 Launch, Project Kizuna RPG

To Heart remake slated for Switch, PC with full-3D graphics




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Альянс DPGA при ЮНИСЕФ признал Линукс общественным благом

Дистрибутив Федора Линукс признан «цифровым общественным благом» Альянсом цифровых общественных благ (DPGA) при ЮНИСЕФ. Среди причин – следование Федоры стандартам, продвижение лучших решений, создание инновационной платформы для оборудования, контейнеров и облаков, позволяющее разработчикам создание индивидуальных решений для пользователей. Важно и бесплатное распространение дистрибутива с неограниченными правами использования, копирования, изменений, объединения, публикаций, распространения, сублицензирования, продажи копий, […]




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Joint initiative to upgrade agricultural circular businesses in Viet Nam

UNDP and IWMI announced a joint initiative to assist smallholder farmers and small- to medium-sized enterprises to adopt circular economy models for the coffee and rice value chains.

The post Joint initiative to upgrade agricultural circular businesses in Viet Nam first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI).




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Instagram upgrades DMs with focus on creators

Instagram on Friday announced an update to DMs, its direct messages inbox, which will improve the experience for those who receive a lot of inbound messages, like creators and influencers. Now, the app is introducing tools that will allow users to sort and filter their “message requests” — meaning those messages that don’t arrive in […]

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NEET PG 2023 Application: नीट पीजी के लिए आवेदन आज से शुरू, जानिए हर लेटेस्ट अपडेट

NEET PG 2023 Application Starts: नेशनल बोर्ड ऑफ एग्जामिनेशन इन मेडिकल साइंसेज (NBEMS) आज 5 जनवरी 2023 को नेशनल एलिजिबिलिटी कम एंट्रेंस टेस्ट के लिए नीट पीजी 2023 की रजिस्ट्रेशन शुरू करेगा। इसकी अधिक जानकारी छात्रों को आधिकारिक वेबसाइट




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Apple Will Let You Upgrade to ChatGPT Plus Directly Through the Settings in iOS 18.2: Here’s How

Apple has introduced iOS 18.2 developer beta 2, enhancing its Apple Intelligence suite with new features. A notable addition is the option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus directly from the Settings app. Initially, Apple Intelligence offered only the free version of




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Brighten Your Living Space with Easy Smart Home Automation Upgrades

In the fast-evolving world of smart home automation, tech enthusiasts are always on the lookout for easy upgrades. These upgrades can enhance convenience, security, and energy efficiency. Whether you're a seasoned techie or a curious beginner, there are simple yet effective




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LPG price hike: હોળી પહેલા ઝટકો, મોંઘુ થયુ એલપીજી ગેસ સિલિન્ડર, અહીં જાણો કેટલા થયા ભાવ

LPG price hike: હોળી પહેલા જ સામાન્ય જનતા પર મોંઘવારીનો જોરદાર ઝટકો પડ્યો છે. માર્ચ મહિનામાં ઘરેલુ અને કૉમર્શિયલ સિલિન્ડરની કિંમતોમાં વધારો કરવામાં આવ્યો છે. 8 મહિના પછી ગેસ સિલિન્ડરના ભાવમાં 50 રુપિયાનો વધારો કરવામાં આવ્યો છે. વળી, કૉમર્શિયલ ગેસ સિલિન્ડરના




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ரேஷன் அட்டை இருந்தால் போதும் ரூ.450க்கே LPG சிலிண்டர் கிடைக்குமாம்!!

ராஜஸ்தான்: இந்தியாவில் பல்வேறு மாநில அரசுகளும் மக்களுக்கு அத்தியாவசிய பொருட்கள் கிடைப்பதை உறுதி செய்ய பல நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுத்து வருகின்றன. அந்த வகையில் ராஜஸ்தான் மாநிலத்தில் ரேஷன் கார்டு வைத்திருப்பவர்களுக்கு 450 ரூபாய்க்கு சமையல் எரிவாயு சிலிண்டர் வழங்கப்படும் என அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. பொதுவாக ரேஷன் கார்டுகள் மூலம் ஏழை எளிய மக்களுக்கு மலிவு விலையிலும் இலவசமாகவும்




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Madras University Distance Education 2024: UG, PG and Specialized Courses, Admission Criteria

Madras University's Institute of Distance Education (IDE) has built a reputation for providing flexible, high-quality education with a broad portfolio of programs. From undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) degrees to diploma and certificate courses, IDE offers paths across Arts, Science, Management,




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Aprilia Tuareg Rally 660 Gets A New Design And More Upgrades: Showcased At EICMA 2024

With a victory at the 2023 Africa Eco Race, Aprilia's Tuareg 660 solidified its place in the adventure bike game. The success story was created by riders like Chris Birch, Pol Tarres, and Jacopo Cerutti. Recognizing a growing demand in ADV




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IIMC Announces Exam Dates for PG Diploma Courses

The dates for the entrance exam for PG Diploma courses has been announced by the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). The PG diploma courses offered are as follows for the academic year 2016-17. The courses offered are English journalism




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NEET PG: Result will be Out Soon; Know How to Check the Result

NEET PG: The National Eligibility Entrance Test, NEET PG 2023 result is expected to out soon on the official website at natboard.edu.in, once it's released.According to the information bulletin, The NEET PG result will be released by March 31, 2023. The




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KC Mahindra Education Trust released the scholarship for Indian students in PG Programmes

KC Mahindra Education Trust Scholarship: The KC Mahindra Education Trust has announced its scholarship programme for postgraduate studies abroad. The KC Mahindra Scholarship programme aims to enable Indian students to pursue their higher education dreams. Candidates can register themselves by visiting




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Lucknow University PG Admission 2023 Begins; Check Important Schedule, Fees & More

Lucknow University PG Admission 2023: The University of Lucknow has started the application process for its postgraduate (PG) programmes from today, April 11, 2023, in online mode. Candidates who want to get admission into various PG courses at Lucknow University can register