From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era - Frontiers

Does the current decline in reading mean a decline in thinking? Thinking is natural to humans. But a decline in reading may signal a worrisome decline in a particular TYPE of thinking. Late last month at The Spectator, literary editor Sam Leith noted that “Even popular books are getting shorter and easier to read: their sentences are shorter, their paragraphs are shorter.” He also recounted a revealing anecdote:

(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)EA Sports announced Tuesday that its Fight Night boxing video game franchise will return, ending a long break for a series that has not released a new instalment since 2011. The announcement came through a newly created EA Sports Fight Night social media account. “To everyone who stayed in our corner: Fight Night is coming back,” the post read. The accompanying image showed a pair of boxing gloves hanging above a ring with the line “The fight is never over.”EA did not reveal a title, platforms, a release window, gameplay details or which studio is developing the game. No trailer was released with the announcement. The most recent game in the series, Fight Night Champion, was released in 2011. EA has since focused its combat sports efforts on its EA Sports UFC series, and fighters including Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have appeared in those games. Return Follows Earlier Reports of Cancelled PlansInsider Gaming reported in September that an earlier plan to revive Fight Night had been cancelled about a year ago.

Some of Formula 1’s most populat drivers are already serious about photography. Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris have both been seen with Leica cameras, and Norris runs a separate Instagram account for his photos. That overlap goes well past the drivers, or even the intricate pieces that goes into both cars and cameras, says Mike Giannattasio, president of Leica Camera North America.