![]() Better yet, improvements to Google's Super Res Zoom algorithm mean photos you capture from 2X all the way up to 30X look pretty darn good. ![]() It has a 5X optical camera, so you'll get crystal-clear shots of objects far away. The real reason you should go for the Pixel 7 Pro is if you find yourself wishing your smartphone camera could zoom in more and snap better photos at that high zoom level. The iPhone also tends to deliver sharper selfies, except in low-light scenes. There are improvements to the video camera experience as well, like 10-bit HDR for more colorful and better-exposed clips, but overall, the iPhone is ahead in video quality. Real Tone, the company's image algorithms that ensure that the camera preserves accurate colors for people with darker skin, helps make it a cut above the rest. The Pixel 7 Pro has a 50-MP primary camera joined by a 12-MP ultrawide, and they take some truly stunning shots in a variety of conditions. Like the Pixel 7A, it's powered by the Tensor G2, and will happily run any app and game you throw at it. ![]() There's wireless charging, slightly better IP68 water resistance, and Face Unlock. The bigger size also means a bigger 5,000-mAh battery that lasts a full day and a morning with average use. The large 6.7-inch screen has a 120-Hz screen refresh rate, making it feel more fluid to interact with, and it gets a tiny bit brighter on the sunniest days for a no-squinting experience. If you have the cash, the Pixel 7 Pro ( 8/10, WIRED Recommends) is the luxe Pixel to buy, and at $899, it still undercuts the competition for what you get. Still, it does everything you'd want without costing an arm and a leg. The screen is also just 60 Hz, despite many competitors adopting 90- or 120-Hz panels for smoother interaction. My biggest gripes are that there’s no wireless charging, no headphone jack, and no charging adapter in the box, and you’re stuck with 128 GB of storage and no microSD card slot to expand it. I’m mostly being nitpicky here, but only because Pixel cameras are supposed to be the best of the best. Some newer budget and midrange phone cameras pull more detail, particularly in low light with their larger image sensors, and the Pixel 6A’s images can sometimes come out grainy. However, the camera hardware is starting to show its age. It’s a good camera system that still manages to beat out much of the midrange competition. You’ll find the same main 12-megapixel camera sensor Google has been using on the Pixel 5 and prior Pixels, and it’s joined by a 12-megapixel ultrawide. This also brings all the top software features that debuted in the Pixel 6 series onto this phone, from Magic Eraser in Google Photos to erase unwanted objects in the background of your images to Assistant Voice Typing for sending messages with just your voice. I rarely noticed any slowdowns, even while playing games like Apex Legends Mobile. Even today, it means you’re getting some of the best performance for the money. Inside is Google’s first-gen Tensor chip, which is the same that powers the flagships from 2021, the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. The front is Gorilla Glass 3, so you’ll want to use a screen protector to protect it from scratches, but there’s an aluminum frame with clicky buttons and a plastic composite back that is deceptively luxurious. It’s a wonderfully compact phone, unlike most devices on the market right now, and feels well made. Like the Pixel 7A, you get a sharp, 6.1-inch OLED screen that gets just bright enough to read in direct sunlight (not as bright as the Pixel 7A). Last year's Pixel 6A ( 8/10, WIRED Recommends) is still an excellent buy, especially at its new price of $349 ( note: it frequently sells for $299). There's also no microSD card slot or headphone jack, so you'll have to look elsewhere if you want a phone with those features. The 4,385-mAh cell, with average use, can take you through a full day, but on busy days, you will most likely need to top up before the sun goes down. The only things that are iffy on the Pixel 7A are the fingerprint sensor, which isn't as snappy or reliable as I'd like, and the battery life. It’s disappointing that Google isn’t leading on this, especially when Apple’s nearly six-year-old iPhone 8 received the latest iOS 16 version. Unfortunately, Google is only promising three OS upgrades (Samsung offers four). It'll also get five years of security updates, so it'll be supported for quite a while. We've collected most of them below this guide, but my favorites are Assistant Voice Typing, for much faster and accurate voice transcriptions using the built-in keyboard Now Playing, to find out what music is playing around me without having to search for it and Call Screen, which has pretty much stopped all spam calls coming my way. A part of the reason why we recommend Pixel phones so much is because of the many great software features that are genuinely helpful every day.
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![]() For instance, if the last column has a Seven of Clubs, 6 of Hearts, and 5 of Spades turned over in that order, that group of cards can be moved beneath an 8 of Diamonds and Hearts in another column. Groups of turned up cards can be moved too on the tableau. ![]() This means if there is a face down card remaining after the 3 of Clubs is moved, it should be turned up, and it becomes another card you can build with. Remember that in each of the tableau columns, the last card should always be flipped face up. This is called “building.” For example, if the third column has a 3 of Clubs, it can be moved to another column beneath a card that is either a 4 of Hearts or Diamonds. Similarly, cards on the tableau can be moved around to other columns where there is a card of the opposite color and an incrementally higher number. Either a 7 of Spades or Clubs from the stockpile can be placed on top of it. For example, let’s say there is an 8 of Hearts on the third column of the tableau. Stockpile cards can be placed below a card in the Tableau if that card is of the opposite color, and a number higher than the stock pile card. The tableau is the group of cards with the seven columns, with the last card of each column turned faced up, and with each column having an additional card (i.e., the first column has one card, the second column has two cards and so on until the seventh column which has seven cards) Moving the cards from the stockpile to the foundation or the tableau Moving the cards from the stockpile to the tableauĬards from the stock pile can also be placed in the Tableau. If your second card is a Two of Spades from the stockpile, you can then place that on top of the Ace of Spades in the Foundation pile. For example, if you happen to have an Ace of Spades as the first card turned over from your stockpile, you can place that card on the foundation pile for Spades. These cards can either go into the foundation or the tableau, which is the cards laid out in staircase fashion below the stockpile.Ĭards can be moved directly to the foundation if it’s in the correct order. Each card is removed from the stockpile one at a time, or three at a time, depending on the type of game. On the top left, you’ll see a stack of cards. Once you’ve done this with all four foundation piles, you win the game! Moving the cards from the stockpile to the foundation For example, you would place the Ace of Spades first, followed by the two of spades, then three of spades, until the King of Spades is placed. Each pile represents a different suit, and should be filled in order, starting with the Ace all the way to the King. These are the four empty areas at the top of the game. To win, you want to place all cards in the four foundation piles. How to play Klondike solitaire Goal of the game and how to win To pass time, miners would naturally play solitaire, and the term Klondike Solitaire, which pays homage to the territory, was coined. It was a grueling journey where miners would have to carry over a year's worth of food supply. Gold was discovered in the northwest region of Canada, or the Klondike area of the Yukon territory, which triggered a rush of miners from the west coast of the United States. Even to this day, Patience is still used to describe the game, especially in Europe.īelieve it or not, the term Klondike Solitaire traces its history back to the gold rush of the late 1890s. Back then the game was called Patience, given that you need “patience” to win a game. We know the game developed in popularity in Germany, France, and later the rest of Europe around that time. The early origins of Solitaire date back to Germany in the 1780s. Why is it the game called Klondike solitaire? Track how many moves it take to win a game, and your time.Play as many as games as you want for free.Klondike solitaire is the classic version of solitaire, and is sometimes called Patience. ![]() ![]() Get a warm smooth tone or make your piano growl or bark.Ĭontrol how dampers are raised from or applied on the fork and make the attack and release of a note clean or noisy.Īdjust the tremolo to perfection. Adjust the pickup position and control distortion. Like in an electric guitar, a pickup near the fork captures its vibration. Control the tone and its envelope by selecting material and natural decay of the tone and tine bars forming the fork. Modulate these across the whole keyboard range or depending on the MIDI velocity.Ī sweet sound is produced when the hammer hits the fork. Adjust the force of the impact, the stiffness of the hammer and the noise it makes. 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The thing seems to have taken on an identity of its own since we kicked it off, which is always nice. There’s the plot there, but it’s what’s happened since then that’s the real surprise because there’s all this other stuff that’s crept into it, all this deep stuff, the intellectual stuff. The thing was that with Watchmen if you read that original synopsis it’s the bare skeleton. There were projects that we’d talked up that we both wanted to do, and it all just came out. We’d done quite a lot of things that we’d tried to get done with DC - we were going to do Martian Manhunter and Challengers of the Unknown, and some of the aspects of that led into Watchmen. People ask me how I got involved in it, and I can’t really remember. Me and Dave have been wanting to do something together for a long time, so when this came up I said I’d be happy to work with Dave and Dave said he’d be happy to work with me and that’s it.ĭAVE GIBBONS: Yeah, I’ll go along with that. ![]() It’s worked out much better than it would have done if we had used Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, and all the others, and I’m pleased with it. I’m much happier now doing it with original characters. ![]() He said, “Can you change the characters around and come up with some new ones?” At first I wasn’t sure whether that would work, but when Dave and I got together and started just planning these things out, it all really snapped into place and worked fine. Dick loved the stuff, but having a paternal affection for these characters from his time at Charlton, he really didn’t want to give his babies to the butchers, and make no mistake about it, that’s what it would have been. We were going to treat the Question as a lot more extreme than he’d been treated before. We sent all this stuff to Dick Giordano and some of it was extreme. So I started mapping out a few ideas, and originally it was just a murder mystery, “Who killed the Peacemaker,” and that was it. They were just a nice, innocent little bunch of characters, which is always fair game, really, and there was a self-contained universe with four or five characters, and I thought it’d be nice to just take that and do whatever you wanted with it. I just thought that they were all lying around, up for grabs, and I hadn’t heard of anything else that was being done with them. NEIL GAIMAN: I thought I’d start off by asking Alan and Dave a couple of questions about the genesis of Watchmen - how it started out way back when Alan was asked to do something with some Charlton superheroes, and how it evolved into the rather remarkable comic it is now.ĪLAN MOORE: We weren’t asked to do anything with the Charlton superheroes. Moderating the panel discussion is British comics writer Neil Gaiman. The following is a discussion on the influences and thought behind Watchmen between series creators Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons at the UK Comic Art Convention in London on Sept. Scheduled to finish its 12-issue run this summer, Watchmen has shown comics fans and professionals alike that a comics series employing literary techniques - such as the layers of theme and plot inherent in each issue, the intricate and precise attention to detail evident not only in the writing, but also in the artwork, and the desire to portray the genuine crises the world faces today - could be both a commercial and a creative success. Riding the crest of DC’s explorations of the adult comics market in ’86 and ’87 was Watchmen, perhaps one of the most thoughtful renditions of the superhero genre. From the TCJ Archives A Portal to Another Dimension: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and Neil Gaiman For example, walls built around cities no longer serve only as an obstacle for enemy armies. The changes introduced in Age of Empires IV do not end with a greater variety of civilizations. As for the English, their main strengths are the castles and fortresses they build, while the units that other nations can envy them are special archers, equipped with long bows that allow them to fire at enemies from a greater distance. The Mongols, on the other hand, as a nomadic people, can move their bases from place to place and also have cavalry units at their disposal from the very beginning of the game. The Delhian Sultanate focuses on defense and scientific research, can field powerful war elephants in battle, and has scholars, or special units capable of accelerating research and improving technology, under its command. The strength of the Chinese is thus the use of gunpowder, while its unique feature is the dynastic system, which provides it with interesting bonuses. Each nation plays a little differently, because the developers made sure that they have individual strengths and weaknesses and unique units and abilities. We have China, Delhi Sultanate, England and Mongolia at our disposal. As we progress, we move to subsequent eras, or stages of development, which is a tangible proof of our growing power.ĭuring the game we stand at the head of one of eight civilizations. Observing the action from a bird's eye view, we obtain resources (gold, wood and stone) and food, construct military and economic buildings, and put into battle powerful and diverse armies. MechanicsĪge of Empires IV remains faithful to the scheme developed by its predecessors, but it also introduces many new solutions. In between chapters we can watch special mini-documentaries, which are an introduction to the events presented in the next mission. There are also various historical figures present during the game as stronger units. One example is the campaign dedicated to the Normans, which begins with the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and ends with the signing of the Great Charter of Freedom in 1215. Each of the four story campaigns presents events taking place over hundreds of years. StoryĪge of Empires 4 is set in the Middle Ages. Contrary to the previous parts of the series, created by Ensemble Studios team, the production was developed by Relic Entertainment studio, the authors of the first two games under the Homeworld banner, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series and Company of Heroes series. Age of Empires IV is the fourth installment of the bestselling RTS series, developed by Microsoft. ![]() Couples are also opting for International destinations like Bali, Thailand, and Abu Dhabi for 2023 weddings.Colors in the rust, copper, and burnt orange family are trending hard in wedding group attire this year, as are shades of magenta and burgundy (thanks, Pantone ), green, and tan. 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