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Random: Rejoice! Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s Coconut Mall Has Been ‘Fixed’

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Wave 2 of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s Booster Course Pass might have just dropped. But wait, stop your engines. Why not go and check out Coconut Mall before diving into the new courses?

Why would you want to do that, you ask? Well, Nintendo might have brought in Wave 2 today, but it’s also confirmed that it’s updated one of the courses that came in Wave 1.

In both the Wii version and the Mario Kart Tour version of this fan-favourite track, there are cars towards the end of the course that can drive into your character and knock you out. A bit unsporting, but it became pretty iconic. You could shove opponents into them, and it made for a little twisty, turny driving towards the end of a lap. This wasn’t present when Coconut Mall debuted in Deluxe in March, and lots of fans weren’t happy about it:

But Nintendo has taken note, and alongside these new courses, the Big N has gone back and updated the course to make those Shy Guys drive those cars! You go, Shy Guys. We believe you can hit all of our foes.

They don’t move in exactly the same pattern that they have done in previous versions, but we’re pleased that Nintendo has gone back and updated this track with this much-requested feature.

We’ll add that one back into the rotation then!

How do you feel about this fix? Are you happy that the cars in Coconut Mall move again? Let us know!



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Abortion survivors, in wake of Supreme Court ruling, reveal their ‘trauma’ but rejoice in a ‘new dawn’

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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday that sends abortion-related decisions back to the states, three abortion survivors appeared on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday to share their personal experiences and that of their mothers — and how their lives played out after the early trauma they experienced.

Melissa Ohden, Priscilla Hurley and Micaella Clay spoke on Saturday morning about what they went through — and how they feel today.

“I survived a failed saline infusion abortion attempt back in 1977,” said Ohden.  

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“After being poisoned and scalded in the womb over a five-day period, I was accidentally born alive in the final step of that abortion procedure,” she revealed. 

Demonstrators gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2022, the day the high court issued its monumental ruling on abortion.
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As Ohden, an Iowa native, says on her own website about her circumstances, “I don’t believe God originally wrote abortion into my life, as God is the creator of life, but when it was introduced by man, or in my case, a woman, He rewrote the story of my life around it, to create the story of a life that is more intricate, more redemptive [and] more grace-filled than anything anyone else could have planned or written.”

It wasn’t until her teens that she learned the truth of how she was born.

Ohden is founder of the Abortion Survivors Network.

“God is the creator of life, but when it was introduced by man, or in my case, a woman, He rewrote the story of my life around it.”

Micaella Clay, for her part, explained that she was “born through an aspiration vacuum” when her birth mother did not realize how far along her pregnancy had been. Clay survived the abortion attempt — which she was told took place likely at the end of the second trimester or early in the third trimester. 

She said she experienced lot of health challenges in her life as a result of the “traumatic birth” she endured.

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Priscilla Hurley also shared her personal story — which included two abortions that she herself went through until she was able to “break the cycle.”

“My survival story started obviously in the womb,” said Hurley, adding that her mother was “a grieving widow” with four children who decided “to cross the border into Mexico” for an abortion once she learned she was pregnant again.

An anti-abortion demonstrator protests in front of the Supreme Court building, on the day arguments were heard in the Mississippi abortion rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 1, 2021.
(REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

Hurley survived the abortion attempt and said she was probably around 12-15 weeks gestation around the time the procedure took place, she said.

Several months later, Hurley was born — with her mother assuming there had likely been a twin. 

“There’s a lot to be said about the trauma of abortion,” added Hurley.

She finally “came to faith in Christ at [age] 31 after I gave birth to my son.”

She said “the trauma” in her life started for her in the womb and then “played out” for quite some time. 

She said she had two abortions herself — and that for a period of time, she worked at an abortion clinic.

“But something has to break the cycle,” she said — and for her, she finally “came to faith in Christ at [age] 31 after I gave birth to my son,” she said.

Women are shown holding a “Jesus Saves” sign in Washington, D.C.
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And that is “what broke the cycle for me,” she said.

The women also described their feelings of relief and joy now after the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday.

“The reality is that the abortion that was meant to end my life and had no constitutional basis, ever, impacted my own children — and so now this enters a new dawn for our country and for generations,” said Ohden.

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In the wake of Friday’s ruling, a variety of faith leaders have shared their thoughts with respect to the lives of the unborn. 

Dr. Tim Clinton, president of the American Association of Christian Counselors, told Fox News Digital in a statement after the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion on Friday, “Life has won, justice has been done and our work to care for America’s moms has just begun.”

Clinton, who also serves as executive director of the James Dobson Family Institute and recurring co-host of “Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk,” said as well, “This is the legacy of a generation of evangelicals, Catholics and others who had the courage to engage in the public square, to vote their values and to push against the cultural forces that would even sacrifice children to advance their agenda. We rejoice.”

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To learn more about the three women’s stories of surviving abortion, watch the video at the top of this article, or click here to access it. 

Maureen Mackey is managing editor of lifestyle for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent on Twitter at @maurmack.

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Meteorite hunters rejoice: Antarctica probably harbors 300,000 undiscovered space rocks

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An artificial intelligence program suggests there may be hundreds of thousands of meteorites left for scientists to discover on the icy fields of Antarctica and reveals what may be the most likely places to unearth them, a new study finds.

Nearly two-thirds of all meteorites recovered on Earth originate in Antarctica. The cold, dry nature of the frozen continent helps preserve these extraterrestrial rocks, and the dark colors of these stones make them stand out against ice and snow. Meteorites were originally part of planetary bodies, and so these space rocks from the bottom of the world have yielded many valuable clues about the nature, origins and evolution of the rest of the solar system.

When meteorites fall on Antarctica, they usually land in the snow-covered regions that span 98% of the continent. Over time, snow accumulates there, compacts and becomes ice, embedding these space rocks within ice sheets that flow toward the margins of the continent.

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Most ice-entrapped Antarctic meteorites end up in the ocean. However, some of them get concentrated on the surface of these ice sheets in areas of “blue ice,” where wind and other factors can result in bare ice with an azure hue. 

If the way the Antarctic ice is flowing and other features of the climate and terrain are right, meteorites can remain exposed on the surface of blue ice, where researchers can easily recover them during field missions. Nearly all Antarctic meteorites found to date were recovered from blue ice areas.

Many of today’s known meteorite-rich blue ice areas were found by sheer luck and past experience on costly reconnaissance missions. Now scientists have developed a new strategy based on artificial intelligence.

“We found some unexplored areas with a great potential to find meteorites,” study lead author Veronica Tollenaar, a glaciologist at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, told Space.com.

In the new study, researchers had artificial intelligence software analyze satellite data of the entire surface of Antarctica. Their aim was to identify the zones most likely to harbor as-yet-undiscovered meteorites on the frozen continent based on their similarities to areas where scientists had previously unearthed space rocks. They focused on optical, thermal and radar data of surface features such as temperature, slope and velocity of the ice.

The AI program accurately identified nearly 83% of known meteorite-rich Antarctic zones. All in all, it identified more than 600 potentially meteorite-rich zones on the continent, including many currently unexplored ones, a number of which are relatively close to existing research stations on Antarctica.

“By visiting these locations and using new recovery techniques in the field, such as surveys with drones, we are about to enter a new era of Antarctic meteorite recovery missions,” Tollenaar said.

A newly devised “treasure map” to find meteorites in Antarctica, created with the aid of an artificial intelligence program. Also indicates the Antarctic research stations (as listed by COMNAP, https://www.comnap.aq/). (Image credit: Veronica Tollenaar)

The new findings suggest that the more than 45,000 meteorites recovered to date from Antarctica comprise just 5% to 13% of all the meteorites there. “Our calculations suggest that more than 300,000 meteorites are still present at the surface of the ice sheet,” Tollenaar said. “The potential remains enormous.”

Given that their AI program is not 100% accurate, researchers might sometimes go to a site the software found promising and not discover any meteorites, Tollenaar cautioned. Still, although unsuccessful missions will prove disappointing, their data will hopefully help refine the AI to make it better in the future, she said.

The scientists detailed their findings online Wednesday (Jan. 26) in the journal Science Advances. They also explain the results in a very user-friendly way at this website.

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5G Pixel 6 series owners, rejoice! The delayed January update is here to fix your phone

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The January update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro is now available following a delay that prevented owners of the hot new Pixel models from installing the software that they hoped would exterminate the bugs that have impacted Google’s hot new handsets. Once the update has been installed on a Pixel 6 or Pixel 6 Pro, bugs like the one that prevented device owners from making emergency calls should be gone forever.

Software update for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

On the Google Pixel update page, Google writes, “The software update for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro will begin rolling out to devices on January 14. This update includes all the fixes indicated below as well as all fixes for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro in the December 2021 update post. The update will be available for all devices over the following week, but exact timing may vary depending on your carrier and country.”

So let’s go back and once again look at the issues that you can fix on your 2021 Pixel handsets:

 

Framework
  • Fix for an issue causing Pixel 6/6 Pro screen to unlock after missed call when no screen lock is set.

Network & Telephony

  • Improvements for data connectivity on certain networks and conditions.
  • Fix for issue preventing the use of Call Screen feature when phone is being used over certain wireless carriers.
  •  Fix for issue that prevented those Pixel 6/6 Pro users with Microsoft Team app installed from making emergency calls.

Power
  • Fix for issue preventing Pixel Stand setup to start apps are updated under certain conditions.
  • Fix for issue causing higher battery usage in the background under certain conditions.

System

  • Fix for issue that showed either too much data usage, or too little data usage on the network menu for some carriers.
  • Fix for issue causing device to reboot under certain conditions after installing an OTA software update.

User Interface

  • Fix for issue causing a black frame to surface when dismissing the Assistant overlay on the lock screen.
  • Fix for issue that under certain conditions, caused a memory leak in system UI.
  • Fix for issue causing navigation bar to be hidden when switching from landscape to portrait and vice versa in certain conditions.
  • Fix for issue causing PIP window to render incorrectly for certain apps.

Wi-Fi

  • Fix for issue that caused Wi-Fi network to lose connectivity under certain conditions.
  • The update, which weighed in at a svelte 215MB, can be installed on your Pixel 6 or Pixel 6 Pro by going to Settings > System > System update.

In our previous story about owning the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, we said that if you want either phone, don’t let fears about the fingerprint scanner and battery life prevent you from purchasing either model.

Pick up the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro right now!

Whether it has been the luck of the draw or something else, the biometric gods have looked down favorably on my 6 Pro and the fingerprint scanner has worked even better over the last few days. The December and January updates are about to work their magic, so don’t miss out on buying an exciting Android handset with some of the best gimmicky features that Google has ever developed.

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