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Published on 03/24/2023 at 16:05

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If you don’t want to ruin yourself (at the same time, who would?) and above all want to play in peace, know that this weekend there are free games, other free-to-play games as well as many discounts to be found . As usual, it happens right below. Happy reading everyone.

Summary

• Free games this weekend
  • Free to Play, Free to Play and Free DLC on the Epic Games Store (PC)
  • Free games on Steam
  • Free to play on GOG.com (PC)
  • Game free to play on Uplay (PC)
  • Games free to play on PS5/PS4
  • Games free playable on Xbox
• Free games with subscription
  • PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra and Premium
  • PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium
  • Xbox Live Gold
  • Xbox Game Pass for PC, Xbox and cloud
• Promotions, cheap games: the best offers
  • Best Deals on Steam (PC)
  • The best game offers for PS5 and PS4
  • The best deals on Xbox games
  • The best deals on Nintendo Switch games
• Pre-orders and reservations: Offers on upcoming hits
  • PlayStation/Xbox
  • Nintendo Switch
  • computer

Free games this weekend

Free to Play, Free to Play and Free DLC on the Epic Games Store (PC)

• Far Cry 5 : This first-person shooter, signed by Ubisoft, plunges you into the American countryside with a criminal cult to destroy and lots of weapons to collect. A classic from the 2010s, free to play until March 27th Here.

• Chess Ultra : Chess, everyone knows. But Chess Ultra pushes the formula even further with a high-quality atmospheric experience, highly advanced AI, VR compatibility, smooth multiplayer, and other goodies. It’s the free game of the week and it’s available on PC by clicking here.

• World of Warships – Starter Pack: Ishizuchi : World of Warships is a fairly strategic naval battle game that is free to play. If you ever know that Epic Games is giving away this big DLC ​​worth €19.30, including the Japanese Level IV warship Ishizuchi, a port berth, 11 epic camouflages, 11 shared economy bonuses and 5 reward containers. meeting at this address to get your property back.

Free games on Steam

• Chenso Club : by subscribing to the Fanatical newsletter Here, it is possible to recover absolutely free a Steam key for this very edgy 2D action and platform game, all in pixel art. A deliberately old-school title that’s usually worth €9.99.

• mud life : a game with a specific artistic direction in which you’ll embody a street artist who has to graffiti everywhere and impose his style. If you add the game to your library before March 30th, you can keep it permanently. It happens just there on Steam.

Free to play on GOG.com (PC)

• Lorelai : Game released in 2019 only for PC, Lorelai is the third part of a trilogy designed by R. Michalski, the previous two games were The Cat Lady and Downfall. This is quite a terrifying adventure, akin to a psychological thriller: it’s mostly free Here instead of costing €9.75.

Game free to play on Uplay (PC)

• Far Cry 5 : Uplay, the Ubisoft platform available on PC, also allows you to download Far Cry 5 and play it for free for several days. If you do well, there’s a way to complete it before it becomes a charge again.

Games free to play on PS5/PS4

• Far Cry 5 : Ubisoft’s FPS is also fully playable on the PlayStation for several days. Do it!

• Marvel’s Midnight Sun : A great action tactics game released last December featuring all the Marvel heroes, a thick story and clever gameplay. It is free to play until Sunday 7:59 p.m.

Games free playable on Xbox

Free Play Days are a cool initiative from Microsoft: If you’re a Game Pass or Xbox Live with Gold subscriber, you can play full games for a set amount of time once in a while. That falls on whole weekends, which can even overflow on Monday! Enough to have time to finish them, for some. Here’s this week’s batch:

• Marvel’s Midnight Sun : nothing more and nothing less than one of the best Marvel games of recent times. Not only does the title have an exceptional cast, but it’s built on an ultra-rich narrative and pretty darn deep gameplay, because yes, it’s an action-tactical game. That changes the situation.

• Far Cry 5 : The penultimate episode of the Far Cry saga is also the most commercially successful. Head to the American countryside this time to face a totally forbidden criminal cult with lots of guns and vehicles. An effective FPS.

• Bass master fishing 2022 : a complete and realistic fishing game, under license and with 8 real locations, 10 professional fishermen and a whole career. A game for enthusiasts.

Free games with subscription

As usual, you can get your hands on multiple games each month if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber. For March 2023, here are the three affected titles:

For more information, we recommend that you refer to our news by clicking on Here.

As a reminder, if you haven’t already subscribed to Sony’s service, PS+ subscriptions are available from €8.99 by clicking here.

Finally ! Since March 21st, a whole bunch of new games (17 to be exact) have been added to the catalog made available to PlayStation Plus Extra and PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers. In particular, there is Tchia, a sparkling game that has been available on the market since yesterday. We’ll let you take a close look at all of this here:

Ghostwire Tokyo (PS5)
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (PS5)
oasis (PS5/PS4)
chia (PS5/PS4)
Immortals Fenyx Rising (PS5/PS4)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Extraction (PS5/PS4)
Life is Strange: True Colors (PS5/PS4)
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot (PS5/PS4)
Life is strange 2 (PS4)
Street Fighter V: Champion Edition (PS4)
Untitled goose game (PS4)
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD (PS4)
RAGE 2(PS4)
NEO: The world ends with you (PS4)

If you’re a PlayStation Premium subscriber, three old-school titles are also being given away. These are three games from the very first (and mythical) PlayStation:

For more information, we recommend that you refer to our news by clicking on Here.

Xbox Live Gold

For those who are still subscribed to Xbox Live Gold, you should know that several free games for the month of March (and even beyond) are waiting for you. There are four in number:

For more information, we recommend that you refer to our news by clicking on Here.

And if you haven’t already subscribed to Xbox Game Live Gold, you can do so here if you feel like it.

Xbox Game Pass for PC, Xbox and Cloud

Xbox Game Pass subscribers? A new game arrived this week, here it is:

For more information, see our article dedicated to all Xbox Game Pass arrivals for the first half of March 2023. at this address.

Xbox Game Pass subscriptions are available here: Xbox Game Pass PC / Xbox Game Pass Xbox.

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Best Deals on Steam (PC)

• ForzaHorizon 5 : available at €35.99 Instead of €59.99, it’s quite simply one of the best car games in history since it scored 19/20 in our columns, just that.

• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order : While you’re waiting for Star Wars Jedi Survivor, which will arrive in a month, you should know that the first part (which is really excellent) is also available at a completely broken price €3.99. That’s a 90% discount anyway.

• Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered : A very cool superhero game, once exclusive to PlayStation and now available in a gorgeous, unbridled version for PC. she is with €40.19 instead of €59.99, i.e. -33%.

• Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade : an extraordinary remake for an absolute cult game. This PC edition is even nicer and also includes the Intergrade expansion: instead of costing €79.99 (it’s expensive), the title is €45.59.

• Disco Elysium: The Final Cut : Here is one of the best games of the generation, benefiting from a lush writing, a crazy universe and a brilliant scenario. Go for it, especially at this price point as it’s only set to €9.99 instead of 39.99. An extraordinary role-playing game.

The best game offers for PS5 and PS4

• Resident Evil 4 : The remake of Capcom’s cult game is finally available today and yes, it’s excellent. Carrefour only offers the PS5 version €49.95 instead of €69.99 while the PS4 version is at €49.95 Also. Do it. , and on the Xbox Series at €49.95 Also. At this price more than interesting.

• Dying Light 2: Stay Human : Released about a year ago, this first-person action-RPG set in a zombie universe is ambitious and devilishly successful in every facet. An intense and plump experience sold for €35.77 at a Fnac dealer, ie €39.66 with shipping costs.

• stray : a charming little game with a charming little cat that won the Pégase for the best French game of 2022. What good arguments, especially since Amazon is offering it at a discount: it’s at €29.99 instead of €39.99.

• Gran Turismo 7 : The game has just received an update that makes it fully playable in virtual reality with the PSVR2, making it a real must-have. A Fnac dealer sells it for €44.99, ie €49.98 with shipping costs. You can’t get cheaper for new and boxed.

The best deals on Xbox games

• Resident Evil 4 : This is the most anticipated game of the moment and it was just released today! This huge banger is available for the Xbox series at the mini price of €49.95, so don’t be begged. Please note that the game will not be released for Xbox One.

• Gotham Knights : a superhero game to be played alone or with four players in the Batman universe. The price is €31.80 (ie €40.79 with shipping costs) at a Fnac dealer. It’s good to know that it was only released a few months ago.

• Saints Row – Infamous Issue : The reboot of the Saints Row saga was released last year and can be seen here at a very attractive price. This is the Notorious Edition that comes with a Steelbook and tons of bonuses: instead of being priced at €99.99, it is €46€52 at Amazon.

• steel crates : An effective and successful Souls-like, with context collapsing in the middle of the French Revolution, but with killer automatons throughout. The game is also available from Micromania at a sacrificed price €19.99 and not €59.99.

• Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion : The remake of this PSP game is a prequel to the legendary Final Fantasy VII. It was only released in December and its price is enclosed €39.99 instead of €50.99.

The best deals on Nintendo Switch games

• Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon : imagine that this spin-off is frankly successful and has received the nice mark 16/20 in our columns. It’s available today, it’s exclusive to Switch, and it’s really charming: the game is sold €44.18 instead of €59.99 when it comes out today.

• Metroid Prime Remastered : A great remake for a great game, quite simply. Know that it can be found at €34.90 at Amazon, but be careful, the delivery time is a bit long. It is still the lowest price on the market for new goods.

• Dragon Ball Z Kakarot : The very beautiful Dragon Ball Z Kakarot allows you to relive a large part of Goku’s life in a 3D action and adventure game. It’s also half price on Switch at Amazon €29.99 instead of €59.99.

• Dragon Quest Treasures : This exclusive Switch game set in the Dragon Quest universe, only released in December, is indeed a colorful and sparkling action and exploration game. Micromania offers it at half price, ie €29.99 instead of €59.99. Rather friendly.

• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope : A very current action-strategy game, frankly good and that you must have in your Switch toy library. he is with €28.99 Only on Amazon, so enjoy.

Pre-orders and reservations: Offers on upcoming hits

On the pre-order page, some highly-anticipated titles are being offered at lower prices on some platforms.

PlayStation/Xbox

• street fighter 6 : Capcom’s next fighting game is going to be pretty darn good, no doubt about that. If you want to pre-order it as cheaply as possible (its release is scheduled for June 2nd, 2023), know that the PS5 version is available €49.99the PS4 version at €49.99 and the Xbox one at €49.99 also at Carrefour. You will also receive a €10 voucher.

• Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy : If it has already been released on PS5 and Xbox Series, it must continue to be offered on PS4 and Xbox One. The release is scheduled for April 4th: the PlayStation 4 version is included €46.90 instead of €69.99 and around €46.90 on Xbox One, at CDiscount.

• DiabloIV : The return of this legendary hack’n’slash franchise will take place on June 6, 2023. The PS5 version is at €59.99the PS4 one at €59.99 and the Xbox too €59.99 at Carrefour. There is also a €10 voucher.

• Final Fantasy XVI : Unsurprisingly, this PS5 exclusive is highly anticipated. The price is €79.99, but Fnac is offering the game for pre-order €74.99. There is nothing better at the moment.

• Assassin’s Creed Mirage : Slated for 2023, the next Assassin’s Creed will be a return to the sources of infiltration and fans are inevitably very excited. Note that Fnac opens pre-orders for PS5 at €49.99 (with shipping costs), on PS4 at €49.99 also and on Xbox Series/One below €49.99 Also.

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Slated for March 17th, this highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order sequel should be spoken for forever. To tell the truth, it’s even bloody expected! On the Xbox Series, you can pre-order the game from Carrefour at €60.95 and on PS5, at €60.95 also at Carrefour.

• dead island 2 : After years of waiting, this insane FPS with zombies to take down in all brutality will finally be released on April 21st. Carrefour offers it cheaper on all platforms, including postage: on 49.95 on PS5, at 49.95 on PS4 and at €49.95 also on Xbox Series/One.

Nintendo Switch

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom : The next gaming phenomenon of 2023, this is him. The release is scheduled exclusively for Nintendo Switch on May 12th. There aren’t really any offers for Preonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon|sponsored=false] : This spin-off of the famous saga of action games intends to change the game. It’s a distant vision adventure, exploration and platformer game and prequel! It can be pre-ordered at 49.99”’ instead of €59.99 at E.Leclerc.

• Pikmin 4 : the return of a cult franchise! Cultivate your Pikmin and best manage your cute little people in this highly anticipated exclusive game. The release is scheduled for July 21, 2023 and Carrefour is only launching pre-orders 44.49e instead of €59.99.

• Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy : This Switch version will be released later than the others, on July 25, 2023. It’s at €59.99 at Fnac. Full pot for PS5/Xbox Series costs €79.99 and for PS4/Xbox €69.99. To give you an idea.

• Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe : This remake of the Wii game promises to be as extravagant as ever, with new content and the ability to play both solo and multiplayer. pre-order is over €44.99 at Amazon instead of €59.99.

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• The Last of Us Part I : Great news, The Last of Us franchise is FINALLY coming to PC! This will happen via the remake of the first episode, The Last of Us Part I, which first released on PS5. Scheduled for March 28th, Gameplanet is offering to pre-order the game on Steam at €53.99 instead of €59.99.

Have a nice weekend everyone… and above all a good game!

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This is the story of American physicists who on March 8th published in the most prestigious scientific journal in the world experimental results revealing the existence of an exotic phenomenon, never before observed at room temperature, that of superconductivity, in a material of their invention . Such a discovery would normally evoke a chorus of praise, but this time it prompted a symphony of doubts instead. Just two weeks after this publication, the first results contradict the controversial scientific claim.

To understand where we are going with this story, we must first understand where we are coming from. Discovered in 1911 in mercury cooled to -269 °C, superconductivity is a state of matter that allows electric currents to flow without resistance. The possibilities offered by this wonder of nature immediately had physicists dreaming, who would receive no fewer than five Nobel prizes for advances in this niche in the decades that followed. The main challenge was to find materials that are superconducting at warmer temperatures.

A breakthrough came in the 1980s with the development of “high-temperature” superconducting ceramics whose magic lasts even beyond -196°C. Some superconductors have found their way into special applications where helium or liquid nitrogen is used to keep them cold. They are therefore now at the heart of most magnetic resonance tomographs in hospitals. Magnetic levitation trains also benefit from this, as do some underground cables.

At the same time, research continues. Since 2015, new temperature records have been set with “hydrides”, i.e. compounds with a high proportion of hydrogen. These prove to be superconducting at temperatures as low as -13°C, but at gigantic pressures (150-200 gigapascals), on the order of those found halfway to the center of the Earth. Only a few laboratories in the world manage to achieve such pressures with “diamond anvils”. The temperature problem may have been going away, but a new constraint, that of pressure, replaced it.

Then, on March 7, at the American Physical Society’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, Ranga Dias, a University of Rochester professor, presented to a packed room new findings that were due to be published the following day in Nature magazine. His research group has created a material, a nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride, that is superconducting at temperatures of up to 21 °C and pressures of around 1 gigapascal. This pressure may seem high – it is ten times that of the deepest oceanic chasms – but in the world of advanced materials it is considered close to ambient conditions.

The material in question is obtained by crushing lutetium, one of the rarest rare earths, for several hours and injecting it with nitrogen and hydrogen. The result is a blue crystal that turns pink under moderate pressure while also becoming superconducting, according to the reported results. “Do you know the movie Back to the Future? Mr. Dias asked the audience during the presentation regarding this film work in which a character moves on a flying skateboard. “Things like that could now be possible,” he said, according to the trade press.

Not the first time

To be too good to be true ? ” Very fast [après avoir lu la publication dans Nature], I came to the conclusion that I didn’t believe it at all. Incidentally, most of the experts in the field that I talk to about this are of the same opinion,” replies Louis Taillefer, a professor at the University of Sherbrooke and an internationally renowned experimenter in the field of superconductors. Mr. Taillefer bases his opinion on the analysis of the experimental data, which he believes has serious flaws – a background signal in the resistance curve would be unduly subtracted – but also on the story of Mr. Dias, who does not inspire confidence.

Because this isn’t the first time this researcher has claimed to have found the holy grail of high-temperature superconductivity. In October 2020, he and his collaborators claimed such a feat with a hydrogen, carbon, and sulfur-based material, again in the journal Nature. This paper, which had quickly raised doubts in the scientific community, was then withdrawn by the publisher in September 2022 for an “atypical” treatment of the data that the authors had not explained. Other physicists, after analyzing the raw data, claimed it was downright fabricated. Simultaneously, allegations of plagiarism regarding Mr. Dias’ doctoral thesis have surfaced.

In interviews given this month, Mr Dias firmly denied the allegation of data falsification. He also claimed to have performed new experiments that were verified by other scientists and submitted a new paper to the publisher confirming his 2020 findings. Regarding the accusations about his thesis, he declared that they were “a mistake”. Neither Mr Dias nor his university responded to interview requests from Le Devoir.

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After initial skepticism, the scientific community is now busy trying to understand or reproduce the latest discovery from the Dias lab. “I think everyone is working on it,” says Lilia Boeri, a professor at Rome’s La Sapienza University and a theorist of high-temperature superconductivity. She is one of the unbelievers who test if they can explain the inexplicable.

Ms. Boeri has just specialized in hydrogen-rich superconductors, such as the lutetium compound that is being talked about so much now. “I’ve studied these systems a lot,” she told Le Devoir. If the results [de M. Dias] are true, then it is very unlikely that it is a superconductor as we have predicted. Until recently, the theory brilliantly explained the laboratory-measured properties of superconducting hydrides. The physicist, who finds it difficult to believe in the new results, nevertheless acknowledges that “it is the essence of great discoveries to find something unexpected”.

In fact, the ball is usually in the camp of the experimenters. Already two groups of Chinese researchers have published results online that have not yet been peer-reviewed and contradict those of the University of Rochester. Before measuring the electrical resistance of a sample of nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride, competing laboratories must synthesize this material, the exact recipe of which remains secret for the time being. They are therefore forced to create their own crystal, which changes from blue to pink. And if they don’t find superconductivity there, critics can still claim they baked the wrong cake.

Here the story takes an incredible new turn: Mr. Dias and Ashkan Salamat, another author of the recent publication, are co-founders of a technology start-up, Unearthly Materials, which intends to “propel the century of superconductivity forward”. They just filed a patent application for their lutetium hydride. In an interview with The New York Times, Mr Dias said he would be happy to share the recipe for the material with independent researchers who could test it or send them samples, but that intellectual property issues had to be considered first decided. The researcher and entrepreneur previously said that Unearthly Materials raised $20 million from Spotify and OpenAI-related investors; One of Mr Dias’ representatives later denied the allegation.

The commercial ramifications of the case therefore risk slowing down the process of uncovering the truth. “One message we must try to get across is that there can be fraud in our field; I don’t think physicists are virtuous by default, but we’re fortunate to have the experience, the comparison with nature that’s the final judgement,” notes Michel Côté, a physics professor at the University of Montreal who researches superconductor modeling. “The truth is discovered when consensus is formed in the community, and not with a single article,” adds the one who also belongs to the “skeptic” camp.

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Fortnite fans rejoice! Epic Games, its publisher, offers software called Unreal Editor that allows players to create their own levels. Enough to spark interest in this very popular game.

With around 350 million users worldwide, Fortnite is undoubtedly one of the most popular games. And although its principle has evolved without radically changing – it’s still an online game of the Battle Royale type in which 100 players can compete on a “map”, a kind of gigantic virtual arena – it has has undergone some important changes in its latest versions. Thus, a few months ago, Chapter 4 marked Fortnite’s transition to Unreal Engine 5, a next-generation graphics engine that offers better visual representation with more detail and ray tracing – a ray tracing technique – for players to make his world more realistic than ever make.

And so that fans can go even further in their universe, Epic Games, the publisher of Fornite, has just developed its Creative Mode, a tool that will allow the most daring to personalize the game by creating their own levels. This software, called Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), available on Epic’s website since March 22, allows games and experiences to be designed, developed and published directly in Fortnite, according to the publisher.

Unreal Editor: Fortnite personalized by and for players

This editor adds new features to Fortnite’s creative mode. With it, players can create custom content such as building materials – very useful in the game to protect yourself from enemies or to monitor an area from above – but also “textures, animations and audio content” as well as new sets and visual effects. and even collaborate live with other players. We also note the arrival of a new programming language called Verse. In its beta version, it is a “prototype API and framework, but Verse’s capabilities will grow as the language evolves.” Verse will become a fully supported programming language that will be loaded into the Unreal Engine,” to use the words of Epic Games.

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With the current Fortnite creative mode, the player can build and modify islands by controlling a character on the game map.With this version 2.0, he will have access to the new tools of the UEFN without having to impersonate one. Each player’s creations are shared with the rest of the global community of 270 million players as soon as they are published on the online gaming platform. Developers accustomed to using the Unreal Engine – which inspired the Unreal Editor – won’t feel out of place, as they’ll find the software’s familiar interface. But be careful, the editor will be limited: of course it will not be possible to use the new creative mode as if we were using the entire Unreal Engine and therefore do anything. The tools will then be further developed to “add more functions […]giving developers control over even more aspects of their Fortnite experiences and expanding the capabilities of the Verse API and framework. The Unreal Editor for Fortnite is now available for download. And, another piece of good news, the publisher is implementing the new Creator Economy 2.0 program, which should use 40% of the net revenue generated by the Fortnite store to reward creators, making it even more creative!

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Subjects : Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG

BRP gives back to the community by investing in the next generation of design professionals through this competition

ROVANIEMI, Finland, March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — BRP Inc. (TSX: DOO) (NASDAQ: DOOO) yesterday proudly announced the winners of its fifth international design competition. 42 students from six universities north of the 45th parallel participated in this edition, which took place from September 9th to December 20th, 2022. Participants were invited to design an alternative personal transportation device capable of accommodating an occasional passenger and offering storage space for everyday necessities. The product had to facilitate access to cities in a safe and sustainable way. They also had to take into account the conditions associated with the northern climate, such as snow and ice.

The participants demonstrated creativity, ingenuity and vision in tackling key issues related to sustainable urban mobility. I thank them for their hard work and commitment in developing innovative solutions and concepts. I would also like to express my gratitude to the teachers and mentors, as well as the members of the jury, said Denys Lapointe, Chief Design Officer at BRP. It is an honor for the BRP team to contribute to the professional development of young talents in our field who are challenged to help create a better world, he added.

A rich learning
The competition allowed students to practice their academic, technical and creative skills while benefiting from the advice and mentoring of BRP staff. The latter received the support of the World Design Organization (WDO) for the first time in its history, while participants were invited to consider and incorporate some of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into their concepts.

The winners were announced at the Arctic Design Week Forum in Rovaniemi, Finland. The event, which celebrates its 15th anniversary under the motto Better Future with Arctic Smartness, promotes expertise and business related to Nordic design while inspiring designers, students, scientists and artists from around the world. . The 10 finalists from the competition attended Arctic Design Week along with some of their teachers and members of the BRP team.

And the winners are…

The big winner is Madilynn Cadaret, from College for Creative Studies (Detroit, USA). Madilynna seduced the jury members with her concept of an autonomous vehicle and her bold presentation of a 1+1 personal transport vehicle accessible to three generations and usable by people with reduced mobility. She showed great rigor in her analysis, which made her concept particularly original. She recommended translucent side panels and incorporated an interesting tire concept to ensure excellent performance in the toughest conditions. She went so far as to introduce the inner workings of the device and recommend the use of durable materials.

Madilynn is being offered a six-month paid internship at BRP’s Laurent Beaudoin Design and Innovation Center in Valcourt, Canada.

Arash Dehsaraeisabet, also from the College for Creative Studies, came second and received a cash prize of 2000 euros. Arash presented an innovative two-in-one concept, a scooter that converts into a one-wheeled vehicle to make getting to your destination easier. The members of the jury recognized the thorough research he conducted to meet the challenge of this year’s competition. Arash offered minimalist architecture and clever solutions to cope with northern climate conditions like snow and ice. He presented a product characterized by its circular design, allowing the integration of a fully retractable roof.

Ultimately, Yingqi Wu from the University of Qubec Montreal won third place and was awarded 1000 euros. The jury was impressed by the handling of the overall form of Yingqi’s pure and refined design. His presentation was very detailed, and he also included an attractive two-in-one solution for inner-city and inter-city travel, allowing the main module to be used for long distances and then turning it into a skateboard-like system for the journey .

Investing in the next generation for a better future
The BRP International Design Competition is another example of the motorsport industry leader’s commitment to playing an active role in creating a better future for all. In 2022, BRP unveiled its ambitious Corporate Social Responsibility program, which drives value creation around three key pillars: Environment, Social and Governance.

about the competition
Students from College for Creative Studies (Dtroit, USA), Humber College (Toronto, Canada), Universit du Qubec Montral (Montral, Canada), Rubika (Valenciennes, France), Universit des Applied Sciences LAB (Lahti, Finland) and Lapin yliopisto – University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland) were invited to participate in this fifth edition.

About BRP?
BRP Inc. is a global industry leader in powersports products, propulsion systems and boats built on more than 80 years of ingenuity and customer focus. With a portfolio of distinctive and leading brands that include Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Sea-Doo personal watercraft and pontoons, Can-Am off-road and on-road vehicles, Alumacraft and Quintrex boats, Manitou pontoons and Rotax marine propulsion systems includes as Rotax engines for karts and recreational aircraft, BRP paves the way for exciting adventures and provides access to experiences in various playgrounds. The company completes its product range with a dedicated portfolio of parts, accessories and apparel to fully optimize the driving experience. Committed to responsible growth, BRP is developing electrical models for its existing product lines and exploring new categories of low voltage and auxiliary products. Headquartered in Qubec, Canada, BRP has annual sales of $10 billion in more than 130 countries and employs nearly 23,000 resourceful and motivated people worldwide.

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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI chatbot, is shaking up the world of chatbots by taking an App Store-inspired approach and opening up a universe of possibilities for developers and users.

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Not a week goes by that we don’t hear about advances in the field of dialog agents and, more generally, artificial intelligence. A week after the arrival of GPT-4 (in ChatGPT), OpenAI announces new third-party plugins for ChatGPT. What could only be considered a minor novelty is actually a significant and promising development in the field.

These plugins provide access to third-party knowledge sources, tools and databases, including the Internet. OpenAI is available in alpha for ChatGPT waitlisted users and developers and plans to prioritize a small number of ChatGPT Plus developers and subscribers before rolling out broader access.

Source: Open AI

The most intriguing plugin is undoubtedly OpenAI’s web browser plugin, which allows ChatGPT to pull data from the web to answer various questions put to it.

A ChatGPT limitation overcome thanks to a plugin

Without this plugin, knowledge of ChatGPT is limited to information prior to around September 2021. This plugin pulls content from the web using the Bing Search API and displays the websites it has visited to compose a response, citing its sources in ChatGPT responses. This is comparable to the experience that one can have with Microsoft’s Bing (based on GPT-4) but also with the future Google Bard.

A chatbot with access to the Internet carries risks. This can result in the chatbot using unreliable sources. Meta’s BlenderBot 3.0, which has since been discontinued, also had web access and quickly went astray (it had criticized its creator, Mark Zuckerberg). Among other things, conspiracy theories and offensive content were used.

This is because the live web is less organized than a static data set and therefore less filtered. Search engines like Google and Bing use their own security mechanisms to reduce the likelihood of unreliable content appearing at the top of results, but these results can be tampered with.

On the other hand, search engines have a lot of power over the data that feeds the language models associated with the Internet. Google was caught prioritizing its own services in its searches, for example responding to a travel request with data from Google Places rather than an external source.

It is likely that a specific set of rules will need to be established for plugin developers, imposing certain restrictions and limits on them in order to ensure the security and quality of the plugins offered on the ChatGPT platform.

An approach inspired by the App Store

OpenAI encourages developers to consult its documentation and API to design plugins for ChatGPT. Several partners such as Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, OpenTable and Zapier have already created their own plugins.

By using the Expedia plugin, users can design an itinerary via chat with ChatGPT based on the travel dates provided by Expedia. This includes real-time availability and prices for flights, hotels, vacation rentals, activities and rental cars.

With our new AI plugin, a traveler can start a conversation #ChatGPT to plan their next trip – complete with access to up-to-date information on availability and prices of flights, hotels, vacation rentals, activities and car rentals around the world. https://t.co/cVgLL6qln9 pic.twitter.com/YAIaj9zrEd

—Expedia Group (@ExpediaGroup) March 23, 2023

This move is reminiscent of Apple’s App Store when it launched on the iPhone, as it changed the way apps were developed and distributed. By allowing third-party developers to create and host their own applications on its platform, Apple has revolutionized the mobile industry by making it easier for users to access a variety of applications.

We use plug-ins like applications

Similarly, by offering plugins for ChatGPT, OpenAI creates an ecosystem where developers can design and share their own extensions, improving user experience and opening new possibilities for AI-powered chatbots.

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This week’s event is the release of Resident Evil 4 Remake on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC and PS4. Eight years after the release of the original game on PS2, Xbox and GameCube, Léon S. Kennedy is back in a remake version better than ever, fully optimized for the latest consoles.

Available from March 24th, Resident Evil 4 Remake is already seeing its price drop on PC and PS4. On the ENEBA website you can save -15% on your purchase thanks to the promo code RR4FR. The price of the standard version of Resident Evil 4 Remake is 42.73 euros instead of 49.99 euros. The deluxe version is also subject to a great offer. You can also save 3% on this special version on the ENEBA website, the price of which appears at 49.10 euros instead of 50.60 euros.

On Amazon, it’s the PS4 version (in physical form) whose price plummets with a -29% reduction. This reduces the price of the game to just 49.99 euros instead of 69.99 euros. The Xbox Series X version is also affected by this great offer of -29. The price is also displayed at 49.99 euros instead of 69.99 euros.

Only the PS5 version is not eligible. Resident Evil 4 Remake is still available on this platform at a price of 69.99 euros.

Unfortunately, the Deluxe and Collector’s Editions are all sold out.

Resident Evil 4 Remake will appear on multiple platforms at a great price from the day it launches. To take advantage of the offers, go here:

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Resident Evil 4: The best Resident Evil is back

Considered by many fans to be one, if not the, best Resident Evil, this fourth installment was released in January 2005. After the relaunch of Resident Evil 2 and 3, it’s the logical continuation for Capcom by offering a remake of this much appreciated work.

Resident Evil 4 puts you in the role of US special agent Leon Scott Kennedy, six years after the tragic events of Raccoon City (in Resident Evil 2 & 3). It’s the first part of the main franchise, so it doesn’t take place in the famous Raccoon City. This time you are sent to Spain by the US government to rescue the daughter of the President of the United States. The latter was kidnapped and held hostage by Los Illuminados, a mysterious violent cult worshiping an ancient parasite. Your mission will not be easy.

Resident Evil 4 marks a turning point in the history of the saga and brings with it major changes. With this remake version you are entitled to greatly improved graphics and gameplay, some new features and compatibility with PlayStation VR2 for a special mission.

Resident Evil 4 Remake has been available for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PS4 since March 24, 2023. Great deals are available for PC, PS4 and Xbox Series X from launch day. You can save up to -29% on the purchase of your game. The summary of the offers can be found below:

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Many Winnipeggers have been sharing photos of the Northern Lights on social media over the past few days. According to astrophysicist Robert Lamontagne, this phenomenon keeps occurring because solar activity creates ideal conditions for these nocturnal lights to form.

According to him, the northern lights are formed when electrically charged particles coming from the sun interact with our earth’s atmosphere 80 km above our heads.

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Northern Lights in Winnipeg on March 23, 2023. Photo by @by.habibb

Robert Lamontagne states that these particles are more numerous if the number of solar flares is important.

We are in the growing part of the activity cycle that is expected to peak in late 2024, early 2025. In the next few years, the number of solar flares will increase, explains Robert Lamontagne. He states that the Sun’s activity lasts about 11 years.

“If the particle flux is very important, it is found to excite the upper atmosphere molecules that produce this luminous phenomenon.”

— A quote from Robert Lamontagne, astrophysicist

Boreal Predictions

Aurora predictions are possible 12 to 24 hours in advance thanks to space weather, warns Robert Lamontagne.

The particles require between 12 hours and 3 days [après une éruption solaire] to get into the atmosphere,” he explains.

He adds that the particles are attracted to the Earth’s magnetic poles, which explains why the phenomenon occurs particularly near the north and south poles, although exceptions can occur.

Intense auroras are sometimes seen along the United States-Mexico border, reports Robert Lamontagne.

The expert advises watching the Northern Lights on dark nights with no full moon and no clouds.

With information from Jérémy Laniel