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  • Bubs@lemmings.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzAntybooties
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    7 months ago

    From an article I found online:

    A team led by Matthias Wittlinger, a biologist at the University of Ulm, Germany, made modifications to desert ants […]. After setting up an ant home outside the lab, the researchers let 25 ants take a 10-meter trip from their nest, then collected them. For one group, the team glued tiny stilts to the insects’ legs. For another, they clipped the legs down to stumps. And for a control group they left the legs alone. Then the researchers gave each ant a piece of food and set it free. With morsels of food in their jaws, the ants immediately headed home. If desert ants do indeed use an internal pedometer, then the modifications should mess up their calculations.

    Not only did the stilted and stumpy ants not make it home, but they also misjudged their distances exactly as the researchers predicted. The ants on stilts went about 5 meters too far before stopping to search for the nest, whereas the stumpy ants stopped about 5 meters too short […] (Control ants got back home just fine.) After the modified ants were returned to the nest, they were able to go out and get back home just as accurately as normal ants, which should be the case if they’re keeping track of the number of steps.





  • Pasting the first section of the article because of the stupid anti-adblocker on Mobile:

    • Shinobi Warfare’s developer is rewarding players for positive reviews, violating Steam’s terms of service agreement.
    • The controversial practice was revealed by a Reddit user, leading to concerns about inauthentic reviews flooding the game.
    • Despite reports to Steam support, Shinobi Warfare continues to face backlash for questionable tactics and content appropriation.

    Shinobi Warfare, a 2D turn-based RPG multiplayer game, is being called out by Steam users after it was discovered that the developer has been rewarding players with in-game currency for leaving a positive review. The lucrative reward has led to the game receiving an ‘overwhelmingly positive’ review badge, but goes against the platform’s terms of service agreement.

    The discovery was made by Reddit user Glavurdan, who took to the Steam subreddit yesterday to reveal their findings. The post has multiple images of the questionable practice, with the most notable being on the Shinobi Warfare Discord server, where an admin on the server offered players 1,000 in-game gems to leave a positive review.


  • Was hoping for more about the game takedowns, but not much of anything was said:

    LP: […] how does The Pokémon Company handle Cease & Desist letters with regards to fan projects? How did you find them, and where did you draw the line on what’s allowed and what the company thinks needs to be shut down?

    DM: Short answer: […] someone from the company would send me a link to a news article, or I would stumble across it myself. […] I say this to my students: the worst thing on earth is when your “fan” project gets press, because now I know about you.

    LP: Oh. Oh no.

    DM: But that’s not the end of the equation. You don’t send a takedown right away. You wait to see if they get funded (for a Kickstarter or similar); if they get funded then that’s when you engage. No one likes suing fans.






  • Who could have seen that coming? /s

    An industrial grade robot is no joke. I hope whoever set up that robot got sued.

    You either need a weak enough robot that it can’t really harm you, or you need several measures to prevent exactly this from happening. Either make all the joints compliant or set up PSD’s/invisible fences to prevent the robot from operating when hands are near the boards.