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Your library going digital comes with real perks. One of the most immediate is not having to switch discs or cartridges to play different titles. It's annoying to get up and swap the disc between your current single-player adventure and a multiplayer shooter you play with friends, for instance. And carrying cartridges around with your Switch 2 adds extra bulk to your suitcase or backpack. Similarly, a lack of physical media means your collection doesn't take up space on your shelf.

LG TVs add'delete' option for Copilot A premature post from a game publisher might have spilled the beans about Nintendo cartridges with less storage capacity. Gamers who prefer physical copies of their favorite titles may be getting a major win with the Switch 2. In an unexpected announcement from retro video game publisher ININ Games, Nintendo reportedly has two new smaller cartridge sizes for its Switch 2 console. ININ Games later deleted its posts mentioning these smaller Switch 2 cartridges and issued a correction on its website and social media pages . However, the publisher reiterated that will be released on a physical cartridge, but that no further technical details regarding cartridge specifications have been officially confirmed. There has been no official announcement or confirmation from Nintendo concerning cartridge storage capacities, ININ Games said in a statement.

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Drafting patent claims is time-intensive, costly, and requires professional skill. Therefore, researchers have investigated large language models (LLMs) to assist inventors in writing claims. However, existing work has largely relied on datasets from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). To enlarge research scope regarding various jurisdictions, drafting conventions, and legal standards, we introduce EPD, a European patent dataset. EPD presents rich textual data and structured metadata to support multiple patent-related tasks, including claim generation. This dataset enriches the field in three critical aspects: (1) Jurisdictional diversity: Patents from different offices vary in legal and drafting conventions. EPD fills a critical gap by providing a benchmark for European patents to enable more comprehensive evaluation. (2) Quality improvement: EPD offers high-quality granted patents with finalized and legally approved texts, whereas others consist of patent applications that are unexamined or provisional. Experiments show that LLMs fine-tuned on EPD significantly outperform those trained on previous datasets and even GPT-4o in claim quality and cross-domain generalization. (3) Real-world simulation: We propose a difficult subset of EPD to better reflect real-world challenges of claim generation. Results reveal that all tested LLMs perform substantially worse on these challenging samples, which highlights the need for future research.

We used contrastive neural networks to learn useful similarity scores between the 144 cartridge casings in the NBIDE dataset, under the common-but-unknown source paradigm. The common-but-unknown source problem is a problem archetype in forensics where the question is whether two objects share a common source (e.g. were two cartridge casings fired from the same firearm). Similarity scores are often used to interpret evidence under this paradigm. We directly compared our results to a state-of-the-art algorithm, Congruent Matching Cells (CMC). When trained on the E3 dataset of 2967 cartridge casings, contrastive learning achieved an ROC AUC of 0.892. The CMC algorithm achieved 0.867. We also conducted an ablation study where we varied the neural network architecture; specifically, the network's width or depth. The ablation study showed that contrastive network performance results are somewhat robust to the network architecture. This work was in part motivated by the use of similarity scores attained via contrastive learning for standard evidence interpretation methods such as score-based likelihood ratios.

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In 2002, a group of five Italians made the local news: they were going to be the first company in the country to develop a game for Nintendo's popular portable, the Game Boy Advance. The cadre pulled together a few hundred euros and some computers to prepare for the project. They had no experience making games. They didn't even have a programmer. All they had was a love for video games, a shared hatred of working for bosses, and endless optimism.