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The Morning After: Final 'Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom' trailer showcases Link's allies

Plus robots and a familiar villain.

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Nintendo shared one last trailer of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom before it launches on May 12th. It teases the whole Hyrule world – including the floating island – as well as Link's allies, who will fight alongside him. The plot is typical Zelda fare: You have to find the princess and defeat Ganon. But the fused weapons and vehicles both seem to be major parts of how the game will play. You can even build a robot to take on enemies that have their own battle platform. Robot Wars, but make it Zelda?

– Mat Smith

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How to choose the best pizza oven

What you need to look for when shopping for one.

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ASUS' ROG Phone 7 uses AI to automatically record your wins and losses

The new external cooler doubles as a subwoofer.

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ASUS ROG

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Researchers used machine learning to improve the first photo of a black hole

The photo algorithm was trained on over 30,000 black hole simulations.

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Researchers have used machine learning to tighten up a previously released image of a black hole. As a result, in a report published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the portrait of the black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy, over 53 million light years away from Earth, shows a thinner ring of light and matter surrounding its center. They used PRIMO, “a novel dictionary-learning-based algorithm” that learns to “recover high-fidelity images even in the presence of sparse coverage” by training on generated simulations of over 30,000 black holes. It’s an impressive new use of AI, even if the result isn’t particularly visually stunning. And don't get any ideas, Samsung...

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