The upcoming James Bond game 007 First Light has been delayed until 27 May 2026. The much-anticipated title was due to be released on 27 March, but will now come out two months later. It will be the first video game featuring the British spy since 2012's 007 Legends. In a statement developer IO Interactive, which also makes the Hitman series, said the game was fully playable from beginning to end - but extra time was needed to further polish it. It is being developed in association with Delphi Interactive, which is also behind the upcoming Fifa game due to be released on Netflix ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

I've been reviewing smart lighting for years. Here are tips on how to prep, what to choose, and the smart lights that work best in each room. The importance of light in our daily lives is often underestimated. It can motivate and make you feel energized or create a cozy feel and help you relax. We've never had more choice or control over the light in our homes, so if you're still using regular bulbs and lamps, it's time to switch to smart lighting. I've been testing and reviewing smart lighting for years, and I've learned loads about what works and what doesn't.

The interior of Jeff Bridges's garage, in Santa Barbara, California, has the ramshackle ease of an extravagant dorm room: a tiger-print rug, a potter's wheel, guitars, a rogue toothbrush, taped-up printouts of ideas he finds provocative or perhaps grounding ("Enlightenment is a communal experience"), and piles of books, from Richard Powers's "Bewilderment" to "Who Cares?! A black-and-white portrait of Captain Beefheart, incongruously dressed in a jacket and tie, hangs on a wall near an electric piano. When I arrived, on a recent afternoon, I did not take note of a lava lamp, but its presence didn't feel out of the question. Bridges was wearing rubber slides and a periwinkle-blue cardigan. He excitedly spread out a large furry blanket on a recliner and invited me to sit down: "Your throne, man!" he said. Earlier this month, Bridges released "Slow Magic, 1977-1978," a series of songs he recorded when he was in his late twenties, an emergent movie star, and involved in a regular Wednesday-night jam session with a coterie of musicians and oddballs from the west side of Los Angeles (the jams were organized by Steve Baim, who attended University High School with Bridges; they took place in various beach houses and, occasionally, at the Village, the recording studio where, around the same time, Fleetwood Mac was making "Tusk"). "Slow Magic" is great and also bonkers. On "Kong," Bridges recounts a story line he pitched for a potential "King Kong" sequel (in 1976, Bridges starred as the long-haired primatologist Jack Prescott in a "Kong" remake produced by Dino De Laurentiis); the track features animated narration from the actor Burgess Meredith, and its lyrics are centered on the revelation that Kong is actually a robot. "It's a sad story, but he was just a monkey machine!" Bridges wails in a tottering falsetto. On "Obnoxious," a weirdly tender song about feeling sad and having a stomachache ("I went to the bathroom / And threw up"), there are echoes of Frank Zappa and the Band. What I like most about the record is how social it feels: friends in a room, being dumb, intermittently (even inadvertently) doing something miraculous. "When recording technology kept improving, I said, 'Oh, I don't need anybody!

Many competitive clustering pipelines have a multi-modal design, leveraging large language models (LLMs) or other text encoders, and text-image pairs, which are often unavailable in real-world downstream applications. Additionally, such frameworks are generally complicated to train and require substantial computational resources, making widespread adoption challenging. In this work, we show that in deep clustering, competitive performance with more complex state-of-the-art methods can be achieved using a text-free and highly simplified training pipeline. In particular, our approach, Simple Clustering via Pre-trained models (SCP), trains only a small cluster head while leveraging pre-trained vision model feature representations and positive data pairs. Experiments on benchmark datasets including CIFAR-10, CIFAR-20, CIFAR-100, STL-10, ImageNet-10, and ImageNet-Dogs, demonstrate that SCP achieves highly competitive performance. Furthermore, we provide a theoretical result explaining why, at least under ideal conditions, additional text-based embeddings may not be necessary to achieve strong clustering performance in vision.

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A "Festival of Robotics" conjured images of dancing androids and canape-serving cyborgs, or at least one of those Boston Dynamics monstrosities that resembles a fleshless Terminator but moves like a gymnast. Held on a wet day at BT's Adastral Park R&D facility, it did feature one of Boston Dynamics' mechanized dogs, which performed some lively robot dressage before it scampered off at pitbull speed, presumably on a kill mission. But there was not much festival atmosphere. "The rain has had a squashing impact on our ability to have a beer tent and open summer garden, but we will have dancing and other exciting things such as robot wars," said a spokesperson at a mid-morning presentation. Perhaps the robots came out to dance and fight in the evening, long after reporters had departed.

Attention networks have successfully boosted accuracy in various vision problems. Previous works lay emphasis on designing a new self-attention module and follow the traditional paradigm that individually plugs the modules into each layer of a network. However, such a paradigm inevitably increases the extra parameter cost with the growth of the number of layers. From the dynamical system perspective of the residual neural network, we find that the feature maps from the layers of the same stage are homogenous, which inspires us to propose a novel-and-simple framework, called the dense and implicit attention (DIA) unit, that shares a single attention module throughout different network layers. With our framework, the parameter cost is independent of the number of layers and we further improve the accuracy of existing popular self-attention modules with significant parameter reduction without any elaborated model crafting. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets show that the DIA is capable of emphasizing layer-wise feature interrelation and thus leads to significant improvement in various vision tasks, including image classification, object detection, and medical application. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the DIA unit is demonstrated by novel experiments where we destabilize the model training by (1) removing the skip connection of the residual neural network, (2) removing the batch normalization of the model, and (3) removing all data augmentation during training. In these cases, we verify that DIA has a strong regularization ability to stabilize the training, i.e., the dense and implicit connections formed by our method can effectively recover and enhance the information communication across layers and the value of the gradient thus alleviate the training instability.

Can John Deere become one of the leading AI and robotics companies in the world alongside Tesla and Silicon Valley technology giants over the next decade? That notion may seem incongruous with the general perception of the 185-year-old company as a heavy-metal manufacturer of tractors, bulldozers and lawnmowers painted in the signature green and yellow colors. But that is what the company sees in its future, according to Jorge Heraud, vice president of automation and autonomy for Moline, Illinois-based Deere, a glimpse of which was showcased at last January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Deere unveiled its fully autonomous 8R farm tractor, driven by artificial intelligence rather than a farmer behind the wheel. The autonomous 8R is the culmination of Deere's nearly two decades of strategic planning and investment in automation, data analytics, GPS guidance, internet-of-things connectivity and software engineering. While a good deal of that R&D has been homegrown, the company also has been on a spree of acquisitions and partnerships with agtech startups, harvesting know-how as well as talent.