Amorphous Material Patterns are enigmatic items that have the potential to turn into any other item if Reconstructed in The First Descendant, giving you Codes and Blueprints. Let’s go over how it all works. Table of contentsHow to open Amorphous Material Patterns in The First DescendantHow to get Amorphous Material Patterns in The First DescendantHow to unlock and beat Colossi in The First DescendantHow to get Shape Stabilizers in The First Descendant How to open Amorphous Material Patterns in The First Descendant To get Codes and Blueprints in The First Descendant, you need to first open Reconstruct Amorphous Material Patterns, which you can only do at certain Reconstruction Devices. You will only be able to use these Reconstruction Devices after having beaten a specific Colossus in a Void Intercept Battle. Screenshot: PC Invasion This system is effectively an over-glorified mystery box system, although certain Shape Stabilizers can be used to increase the odds o...

If you prefer to use a controller with your third-person games, then support is essential. Here are the best settings for your controller when playing The First Descendant. Does The First Descendant have controller support? Yes, The First Descendant does have controller support. However, it is still pretty nasty and will take some tweaking to feel comfortable. To play with a controller on a PC, simply plug in or connect your chosen handheld device in whichever way you usually would. Personally, I use a third-party controller rather than an Xbox or PlayStation one. This means I also have to use XOutput to map and tweak my settings. If you’re using a PlayStation or Xbox controller, you will have native support through Steam, so you don’t need to worry about setting up your controller to play The First Descendant. If controller support and settings optimization aren’t bothering you, you might want to look into fixing The First Desendant’s lag and stut...

Some kills in Modern Warfare 3 will leave you scratching your head. In this case, it’s how to get hipfire kills with an LMG in MW3 and MWZ without releasing the trigger. Apparently, it can be done, so follow along. MW3: How to get hipfire kills with an LMG without releasing the trigger in MWZ Getting these kills is not as easy as getting typical Hipfire Clean Kills. It requires you to engage with more than one enemy at a time. When I first attempted these kills, it took me a while to understand how to get them. The first thing you want to do is look for enemies grouped up. Next, without using ADS, fire at one target and then quickly move over to the next without letting go of the trigger. I recommend using an LMG with good stability and a big magazine.  Image: Activision This all sounds great on paper because you can just spray and pray while firing away. However, in reality, and from experience, you’re going to be ganged up on if you play too aggressively. So it’...

Challenges that ask you to jump through hoops are nothing new in Call of Duty, but some require more work than others. With this in mind, let me explain how to get Akimbo Handgun kills while sliding in MW3 and MWZ. How to get Akimbo Handgun kills while sliding in MW3 Screenshot: PC Invasion Before diving into specifics, let me briefly explain what Akimbo Handguns are. Akimbo is an attachment you can use with any Handgun, and you can find it in the Rear Grip section. Akimbo disallows a few attachment choices but lets you dual-wield for double the firepower. The downside is that Akimbo is inaccurate, and you can’t aim down the sights. Still, you can run around and slide as normal with dual handguns and outplay your opponents with speed. The best Handgun for Akimbo Handgun kills while sliding in MW3 and MWZ The Akimbo attachment is usually a late unlock for any handgun, so I recommend using it on any weapon you have available. I’ll be rocking the Akimbo FTAC ...

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In a recent report, “Powering Human Advancement,” The Heritage Foundation laid bare the truth that the driving force behind wealth creation and raising human development standards is the innovative harnessing of energy. As historian Vaclav Smil sees it, “Energy is the only universal currency.” Therefore, policymakers should endeavor to allow their citizens abundant access to energy and to the wealth and prosperity it affords. Unfortunately, government bureaucrats have taken for granted the practical realities that energy abundance has on reducing poverty for its citizens. Subsequently,  these policymakers are taking a dangerous path of forced energy scarcity that is deindustrializing countries like Germany. America cannot turn its back on the energy abundance that made it the most advanced and greatest nation on Earth. The universal currency of energy provides us with reliable rules-of-thumb for gauging human advancement. In nations with an energy use of only 500 kWh of energy per capita, there is often only subsistence-level agricultural production, and incomes hover around $1,000 per year. When energy consumption per capita eclipses 10,000 kWh per capita, there is a drastic decline in poverty. At this point, societies tend to have one doctor per 1,000 residents and see a drastic reduction in child mortality. At 20,000 kWh per capita, the people have enough accumulated wealth to begin serious investments towards mitigating air and water pollution. America exceeded 10,000 kWh per capita around the 1920s. This ushered in a period well remembered for material prosperity that saw the beginnings of mass-electrification and majority access to improved water sources.   By the 1960s, America had eclipsed 20,000 kWh per capita, and the march of progress continued. This period saw near universal access to electricity and sanitized water systems causing infant mortality rates to decline and life expectancy to increase rapidly. This increase in energy consumption is also directly correlated with improvements in GDP, agricultural productivity, health indicators, and overall human development. In fact, the U.S. saw GDP per capita rise from $4,000 in 1900 to over $60,000 in 2018, a clear demonstration of how increasing energy access drives economic growth and improves living standards. The American Experiment has thrived as innovators created new businesses and jobs that increasingly harnessed energy with greater efficiency to build our modern wealth of material goods. This new wealth has one source – the intangible value created by the energized innovators and entrepreneurs that push our technological frontiers and expand the dream of tomorrow. It is not the individual innovator that benefits most from their creation, it is the rest of society. As long as the government does not become captured by special interests, the voluntary exchange of wealth, the exchange of time and skills, allocates toward whoever can solve the scarcity of time the best. This free market, under properly ordered liberty, is the only system that allows individuals and their families to maximize their utility, their pursuit of happiness, and their indirect service to the rest of society through innovative pursuits. With an energy abundance, the physical toil that defined much of human existence has been alleviated–for which we should be thankful. As “gratitude is the heart of conservatism,” policymakers should be humble in this time of energy abundance and avoid punishing the creation of wealth, the fruits of easing scarcity for others. Policymakers must prioritize facilitating the work of innovators and entrepreneurs to discover new methods of harnessing energy and increasing energy access. This is the only true path to accumulating the wealth necessary for human advancement worldwide. When policymakers create radical energy policy, onerous regulations, and slush funds for favored groups, the resulting progressive corporatism strains our collective confidence in our time-tested marketplaces. The poverty these policies induce doesn’t largely fall on those government bureaucrats or wealthy business owners–it falls on families in the form of high prices, lower wages, and loss of access to products. If we are to reverse our recent economic malaise and secure our nation for generations to come, policymakers must acknowledge that the innovative harnessing of energy is the driver of prosperity. Thoughtful and grateful policymakers would be wise to respect the free innovative and entrepreneurial process by heeding the wisdom of the old Greek proverb that “Society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” The post Energy Innovation Is Key to Prosperity appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity Monday made it more difficult for both special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to prosecute former President Donald Trump, throwing their indictments into serious question. The decision, which found former presidents are entitled to “at least presumptive immunity” from prosecution for all “official acts,” will force Smith to go back to the drawing board as Judge Tanya Chutkan weighs which portions of the indictment fall into that category and are covered by immunity. The process not only means a trial before the election is a virtual impossibility, but paired with another ruling this term on the obstruction statute connected to two charges in the indictment, it likely will leave Smith with little more than a shell of a case. “I think it could take several months for the trial court to decide what are official and unofficial acts,” University of California, Berkeley law professor and former President George W. Bush Department of Justice official John Yoo told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Both sides must have a fair chance to research and argue the issue before the judge undertakes her analysis.” When paired with the Fischer v. United States case, where the Supreme Court majority found the DOJ’s interpretation of an obstruction statute used to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants and connected to two counts of Trump’s indictment too expansive, Yoo told the Daily Caller News Foundation there is “little left” of Smith’s case. Yoo argued in a recent Fox News column President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland would “be wise to shut down the special counsel investigation, blame its failures on the Supreme Court, and leave the question of Trump’s responsibility up to the people in November.” John Malcolm, vice president for The Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Constitutional Government, told the Daily Caller News Foundation it is “very unclear” whether any viable charges “remain against Trump in either D.C. or Atlanta.” “Judge Tanya Chutkan certainly has her work cut out for her,” he told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Fischer ruling alone makes it “hard to see” how the two charges alleging Trump “obstructed, attempted to obstruct, and conspired to obstruct an official proceeding” will survive, he said. “As to the immunity decision, the court essentially ordered Chutkan to dismiss all charges pertaining to Trump’s conversations with Justice Department officials, and made clear that he would also enjoy immunity for any actions he undertook while in office that were within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his authority as president,” Malcolm continued. The case was on hold for months as Trump’s appeal was pending before the Supreme Court, forcing Chutkan to cancel the initially scheduled March 4 trial date. While a trial almost certainly won’t be rescheduled before the election, it’s possible that Chutkan will schedule a public hearing on the immunity issue in the coming month that enables prosecutors to present some of their evidence against Trump, The New York Times reported Monday. The immunity ruling impacts more than the federal election interference case brought by Smith: it impacts every one of Trump’s criminal cases. Though it’s already on hold while Trump and his co-defendants seek to disqualify Willis over her “improper” relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed, the immunity ruling likewise spells bad news for her case against Trump in Georgia. “The [immunity] holding applies to all cases, so it would require that state DAs survive the same test that they are prosecuting a president for non-official acts,” Yoo told the Daily Caller News Foundation. As for Smith’s Florida classified documents case, Malcolm explained that the “removal of some of the documents in question from the White House may be deemed [an] official act.” “This will also present a problem for special counsel Jack Smith, assuming that the judge does not rule that the case should be dismissed altogether because his appointment to the position violated the appointments clause and was, therefore, unconstitutional,” he said. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas questioned the constitutionality of Smith’s appointment, writing he is “not sure that the office for Special Counsel has been ‘established by Law,’ as the Constitution requires.” “If there is no law establishing the office that the Special Counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution,” Thomas wrote. “A private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a former President.” Judge Aileen Cannon recently held hearings in Florida to consider the issue. The immunity decision has already had an impact on Trump’s Manhattan case, where a jury convicted him in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Judge Juan Merchan agreed Tuesday to move Trump’s sentencing date from July to September after his attorneys argued the ruling means the verdict should be set aside. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Jack Smith and Fani Willis Have ‘Little Left’ to Throw at Trump After Immunity Ruling appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Privacy company Proton has unveiled Proton Docs, a new addition to its suite of encrypted tools. This new document editor integrates seamlessly into Proton Drive and shares a close resemblance with Google Docs, featuring a familiar interface complete with a formatting toolbar and live user indicators. This launch is a significant step for Proton, marking its expansion beyond its origins as an email service to now encompass a comprehensive array of applications, including a calendar, file storage system, and password manager. Given the widespread acclaim and usability of Google Docs, it’s not surprising that Proton Docs would draw aesthetic and functional inspiration from it. However, the real differentiation lies in its stringent privacy safeguards; Proton asserts that every aspect of usage—from document edits to cursor movements—is secured with end-to-end encryption, distinguishing itself markedly from its competitors. According to Proton, the company worked with the team it recently acquired from Standard Notes, but Standard Notes will continue to operate. “We built docs in Proton Drive as a joint project with the team from Standard Notes, who share our core values around privacy and security,” Proton wrote in an announcement. Currently available in a web-only, desktop-optimized version, Proton Docs features all the essential functionalities one would expect, including multimedia support and collaborative editing options. Moore hinted that future expansions to additional platforms are on the agenda, aligning with the ambition to match Google’s offerings comprehensively. Despite the dominance of tech giants like Google and Microsoft in the productivity software market, Proton is making steady progress in providing viable alternatives that prioritize user privacy. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Proton Docs Debuts: A New Era of Encrypted Productivity appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Precision time-keeping is moving on from atomic clocks and embracing the revolution that is optical atomic clocks. Over the last few years, these instruments have gone further and further in the precision timekeeping they can demonstrate. Their level now is outstanding, well beyond the capabilities of regular atomic clocks.Atomic clocks use cesium atoms cooled to a temperature near absolute zero. By measuring the resonant frequency of these atoms, it can keep a beat. The most advanced atomic clocks do not lose more than a second in 300 million years. However, scientists realized it is possible to do better – using a “web of light”, or technically an optical lattice, it is possible to trap and measure tens of thousands of atoms.The lattice in this case holds 40,000 strontium atoms at just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. The ticking of this clock is a transition between specific energy levels for the electrons in this atom. Using this, researchers were able to measure time with an uncertainty of 8.1 parts per tenth of a billionth of a billionth.You might wonder why it is useful to have such high precision. Aren’t atomic clocks precise enough for humanity? The answer is yes and no. Atomic clocks' astounding precision has helped in many different aspects of our lives. One that is used often is GPS: Having optical clocks take their place would push accuracy to at least 1,000 times higher. But it will also open new ways to test fundamental physics.“There will be very interesting discoveries that are waiting for us if we get to the times that are sensitive to the very small space-time curvature,” senior author Professor Jun Ye told IFLScience when it was announced he had won the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.One of the possibilities is using these clocks to study general relativity. Atomic clocks, especially on GPS satellites, experience that already – but the boost in precision allows us to check if our assumptions are correct to a more stringent level, and maybe see things we have not seen before.“We're exploring the frontiers of measurement science,” Ye said in a statement. “When you can measure things with this level of precision, you start to see phenomena that we've only been able to theorize about until now.” “This clock is so precise that it can detect tiny effects predicted by theories such as general relativity, even at the microscopic scale. It’s pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with timekeeping.” The precision might not feel revolutionary in the map app of your phone, but as humanity continues to explore the solar system it will make a lot of difference. It might just open the door for breakthroughs in quantum computing.“If we want to land a spacecraft on Mars with pinpoint accuracy, we're going to need clocks that are orders of magnitude more precise than what we have today in GPS,” added Ye, who’s from the National Institute of Standard and Technology and the University of Colorado Boulder. “This new clock is a major step towards making that possible.” A paper describing the results will be published next week in Physical Review Letters.