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Broncos’ Russell Wilson has roller coaster debut in Sean Payton’s offense; inside QB’s outing vs. Cardinals – CBS Sports
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Roller coaster with big crack has a second structural issue, inspectors say – Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
- Roller coaster with big crack has a second structural issue, inspectors say Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
- Report: Roller coaster from viral video of cracked beam shuts down after second break WKRC TV Cincinnati
- 2nd break found on North Carolina roller coaster, weeks after Fury 325 ride was closed at Carowinds amusement park KABC-TV
- Channel 9 confirms second break in Carowinds’ Fury 325 WSOC Charlotte
- Another crack in the coaster? ‘Weld indication’ found on Cedar Fair-owned park ride after July repairs WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland
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Ubisoft PC games returning to Steam starting with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Anno 1800, and Roller Champions
Ubisoft [1,202 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/ubisoft”>Ubisoft‘s PC [16,367 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/pc”>PC games will return to Steam starting with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Anno 1800, and Roller Champions [5 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/roller-champions”>Roller Champions, the company announced. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be available on December 6.
“We’re constantly evaluating how to bring our games to different audiences wherever they are, while providing a consistent player ecosystem through Ubisoft Connect,” a Ubisoft representative told Eurogamer. “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Anno 1800, and Roller Champions are among the Ubisoft titles that will be releasing on Steam.”
All three games are currently available on PC via Epic Games [321 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/epic-games”>Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Store. Ubisoft’s last full game for PC made available via Steam was Starlink: Battle for Atlas, which launched on April 30, 2019.
iOS 16 Crash Detection accidentally triggered by roller coasters — here’s what we know
iOS 16‘s Crash Detection feature might promise to be a life-saver, but it appears to be getting confused by roller coasters.
Available on the iPhone 14 range, Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch SE (2022) and Apple Watch Ultra, Crash Detection uses a variety of sensors to automatically call emergency services if it detects you’re in a car crash. While this is a smart feature that could save your life, some users have found it doesn’t always work, while others found Crash Detection gets accidentally triggered on roller coasters; hardly an emergency situation.
First reported by the Wall Street Journal (opens in new tab), Kings Island theme park in Warren County Ohio has been dealing with a spate of accidental calls to emergency services triggered by crash detection. Including the call that led to the initial report, the Wall Street Journal was given access to six additional calls caused by roller coasters at Kings Island.
The culprit for this Crash Detection misdetection appears to be the sudden deceleration featured on some roller coasters according to expert John Stevenson, who the Wall Street Journal interviewed.
At the end of rides, some coasters can quickly go from 40 mph to 0 mph, including the Mystic Timbers roller coaster at Kings Island, which was the cause for at least one of the false alerts. Such intentional sudden deceleration and the g-forces produced seemingly causes Crash Detection to activate. This is likely due to the very rapid slowing down of a roller coaster as it enters a corners being akin to the sudden deceleration experienced in a car (or other means of transport) crash.
Crash Detection: How it works
While Apple went into slight detail on just how Crash Detection works during its September event, we have got more clarification on the feature in recent days. TechCrunch (opens in new tab) sat down with Apple executives Ron Huang, Vice President of Sensing & Connectivity and Kaiann Drance, Vice President of Worldwide iPhone Product Marketing, who gave more insight into just how the feature works.
Turns out, the reason that Apple hadn’t previously stated exactly how Crash Detection works is that it is not always activated by the same parameters. However, it appears that the main sensor involved is the g-force detection in Apple’s accelerometers. The new phones and watches recently unveiled at Apple’s September event can detect up to 256Gs of g-force, which is why Apple only just released this feature that Pixel users have already had for some time.
Aside from the accelerometer, the other key sensor is the internal gyroscope, which can detect quick speed changes. However, Apple users a wide variety of other sensors from GPS to microphones, even Bluetooth and Apple CarPlay. According to Apple any cocktail of these sensors can cause Crash Detection to be activated, as long as multiple data points suggest a crash.
Can I turn off Crash Detection?
Yes, you can! While I would not recommend turning off the feature given that it is a potentially life-saving feature, there is a way to do it. Keep in mind that Crash Detection is designed so that little things such as dropping your phone or low-speed fender benders do not set off a call to emergency services. So the risk of an accidental call is low.
Still, if you’re about to hop on a roller coaster and want to make sure you don’t get scolded for a false alarm, here is how to turn off Crash Detection (opens in new tab). If you are on your iPhone, open your Settings app, tap Emergency SOS and turn off “Call After Severe Crash.”
To turn off the feature on your Apple Watch, pull out your iPhone, open the Apple Watch app, tap Emergency SOS in the My Watch tab and then turn off “Call After Severe Crash.”
That’s all there is to it. If you are still getting used to iOS 16 or your new iPhone 14, make sure to check out our guide on how to use everything new for your iPhone. We even have a look at 11 hidden iOS 16 features you need to try, none of which will get accidentally activated by a roller coaster.
5 guests at Six Flags Great Adventure injured after riding ‘El Toro’ roller coaster in Jackson Township, New Jersey
Chopper 6 was overhead as ambulances could be seen near the base of the “El Toro” roller coaster.
JACKSON TWP., New Jersey (WPVI) — Five people were taken to an area hospital after an incident at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
Chopper 6 was overhead as ambulances could be seen near the base of the “El Toro” roller coaster.
Officials with Six Flags say several guests reported back pain after riding the roller coaster Thursday evening.
Five guests were taken to an area hospital to be evaluated.
Video shows crews using flashlights on the tracks of the ride.
Six Flags did not indicate what happened but said the ride is closed for inspection.
El Toro is one of the tallest wooden rollercoasters in the world with a maximum speed of 70mph.
State officials fined the park after the same ride partially derailed last summer.
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The Concept Art Behind Roller Skating Shooter Rollerdrome
One of my favourite Fine Art posts for the year was our showcase for OlliOlli World, so it’s a huge pleasure that we’re able to be looking at art from Roll7’s latest game (Rollerdrome, which is out this week) so soon.
We’ve looked at the game a few times on the site already; it’s basically a deathmatch shooter, which combines skating tricks with third-person gunplay. And where OlliOlli World was an adorable cartoon adventure that looks like it should have its own animated series, Rollerdrome’s cel-shaded aesthetic looks like a comic from the 1980s met a gory sci-fi movie from the 1970s. And I mean all of that in the best way possible.
I should note here that while Rollerdrome is from the same studio as OlliOlliWorld—Roll7—these are actually different artists. Everything you’re seeing below is the work of Kim Hu and Grégoire Frot, and you’ll also find links to both their portfolios in their names below:
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Rollerdrome Is Like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater But With Guns
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5 Hot Tips To Survive The Fiery New Skating Shooter From OlliOlli World Devs
Rollerdrome is an indie rollerskating murder game from the OlliOlli crew out on Playstation 4, 5, and Steam starting August 16. Rollerdrome is a single-player third-person shooter that sends you rolling toward your fate on bulletproof white skates. Rollerdrome is a shaken can of soda, exploding with color and energy, and I was able to preview it to deliver you hot gossip on what to expect and how to play.
Legoland roller coaster crash leaves dozens injured in Germany
One person suffered severe but not life-threatening injuries and 15 people were taken to hospital with light injuries after the incident in the Bavarian town of Günzburg, a police spokesperson told CNN.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but investigators are working at the crash scene, the spokesperson added.
The incident was the second recent roller coaster accident in the country.
On Saturday, a 57-year-old woman died when she fell out of a roller coaster car in the Rhineland-Palatinate village of Klotten, local police told CNN. Investigators have yet to present their findings on the cause of the fatal accident.
Ubisoft’s Roller Champions will soon be cancelled, it’s claimed
Ubisoft [736 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/ubisoft/”>Ubisoft’s free-to-play sports title Roller Champions [15 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/roller-champions-2/”>Roller Champions will soon conclude development, just months after launch, it’s claimed.
Speaking on the Xbox Era podcast, Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb claimed that “Roller Champions is gonna be cancelled after Season 3,” reading a message from a source.
VGC has requested comment from Ubisoft.
Announced in 2019 and launched in May 2022, Roller Champions is a free-to-play online sports game developed by Ubisoft Montreal [210 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/ubisoft/ubisoft-montreal/”>Ubisoft Montreal.
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The game has received several seasons of content following its launch, and according to Ubisoft’s recent financial call, is tracking better than Hyper Scape [17 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/hyper-scape/”>Hyper Scape, Ubisoft’s now-cancelled battle royale.
However, this reportedly hasn’t translated into much popularity. At the time of writing, less than 100 people were watching the game on Twitch.
Developed by Ubisoft Montréal, Hyper Scape was a free-to-play, 100-player battle royale FPS set in a futuristic urban environment called Neo-Arcadia.
The game launched in open beta form in July 2020. However, just a year after its release Ubisoft had stopped releasing major updates for the game.
During an earnings call on Thursday, Ubisoft confirmed it had cancelled Ghost Recon Frontline, Splinter Cell VR and two unannounced games.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora [11 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora/”>Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora was also delayed. Previously set to be released in calendar 2022, it will now arrive during the company’s fiscal year beginning in April 2023.
WTO strikes global trade deals after ‘roller coaster’ talks
GENEVA, June 17 (Reuters) – The World Trade Organization agreed the first change to global trading rules in years on Friday as well as a deal to boost the supply of COVID-19 vaccines in a series of pledges that were heavy on compromise.
The deals were forged in the early hours of the sixth day of a conference of more than 100 trade ministers that was seen as a test of the ability of nations to strike multilateral trade deals amid geopolitical tensions heightened by the Ukraine war.
Delegates, who had expected a four-day conference, cheered after they passed seven agreements and declarations just before dawn on Friday.
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Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told them: “The package of agreements you have reached will make a difference to the lives of people around the world. The outcomes demonstrate that the WTO is in fact capable of responding to emergencies of our time.”
Earlier she had appealed to WTO members to consider the “delicate balance” required after nearly round-the-clock talks that have at times been charged with anger and accusations.
The package, which the WTO chief called “unprecedented”, included the two highest profile deals under consideration – on fisheries and on a partial waiver of intellectual property (IP) rights for COVID-19 vaccines.
The accord to curb fishing subsidies is only the second multilateral agreement setting new global trading rules struck in the WTO’s 27-year history and is far more ambitious than the first, which was designed to cut red tape.
At one stage, a series of demands from India, which sees itself as the champion of poor farmers and fishermen as well as developing countries, appeared set to paralyse talks but accommodations were found, trade sources said.
The WTO’s rules dictate that all decisions are taken by consensus, with any single member able to exercise a veto.
‘LOT OF BUMPS’
“It was not an easy process. There were a lot of bumps, just like I predicted. It was like a roller coaster, but in the end we got there,” an exhausted but elated Okonjo-Iweala told a final news conference.
The deal to ban subsidies for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing or fishing of an over-fished stock has the potential to reverse collapsing fish stocks. Though pared back significantly, it still drew approval.
“This is a turning point in addressing one of the key drivers of global over-fishing.” said Isabel Jarrett, manager of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ campaign to reduce harmful fisheries subsidies.
Okonjo-Iweala said it was the first step after 21 years of talks towards what she hoped would be a more comprehensive deal.
The deal on a partial IP waiver to allow developing countries to produce and export COVID-19 vaccines has divided the WTO for nearly two years, but finally passed. It has also drawn the fiercest criticism from campaign groups that say it barely expands on an existing exemption in WTO rules and is too narrow by not covering therapeutics and diagnostics.
“Put simply, it is a technocratic fudge aimed at saving reputations, not lives,” said Max Lawson, co-chair of the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
One agreement also reached was to maintain a moratorium on e-commerce tariffs, which business says is vital to allow the free flow of data worldwide. read more
Overall, many observers said the deals should boost the credibility of the WTO, which was weakened by former U.S. President Donald Trump’s crippling of its ability to intervene in trade disputes, and set it on a course for reform.
European Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said the WTO meeting had clinched outcomes of global significance despite unprecedented challenges.
“The profound divergences here amply confirm that a deep reform of the organisation is urgently needed, across all its core functions,” he said, adding he would work to get it agreed at the next ministerial conference due in 2023.
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