What is ALAC? The ALAC format option in iTunes is short for Apple Lossless Audio Codec (or simply Apple Lossless), and it does not compress your music to the extent that sound quality is impacted. The audio is still compressed like AAC, but the big difference is that the sound quality remains identical to the source. This lossless audio format is similar to other formats you may have heard about, such as Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)....
After being forced to leave hometown club Napoli because of the actions of a stalker who nearly ruined his career, Quagliarella is enjoying the most productive period of his professional life. The Sampdoria striker matched Gabriel Batistuta’s record Serie A scoring streak Saturday by finding the net in his 11th straight match. “Just the idea of hearing the name of a champion like Batistuta gives me goosebumps,” Quagliarella said after scoring twice and setting up another goal in Sampdoria’s 4-0 win over Udinese....
Fauci, who has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for almost four decades, made the comments in an interview with Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) on October 13. The non-profit watchdog, Project On Government Oversight (POGO), claimed the footage was released publicly upon its request. POGO later updated its piece to clarify CIGIE planned to make the video publicly available before the watchdog’s queries....
RELATED: Things We Loved About Age Of Empires 4 And things We Don’t Currently, Age of Empires 4 has eight different Civilizations. Each of them is unique and offers a variety of playstyle. Unsurprisingly enough, all these Civilizations share the same needs for the resources scattered on the map. Later in the match, the gameplay will revolve around who can better dominate these commodities. To reach the point of dominance, players have to make sure they start the game correctly....
That’s the welcome mat for longtime coach Frank Solich’s house at Ohio University, which he has occupied since 2005 and still isn’t done renovating. The latest addition might be his best yet: That showed in a 38-10 victory against Toledo (8-2, 5-1) in Mid-American Conference play — #MACtion, that is — on Wednesday night. Ohio (8-2, 5-1), a consistent winner since Solich’s arrival, took another step toward its first MAC championship since 1968....
The show is slated to release its third season on Netflix August 27, guaranteeing more office hijinks that made Aggretsuko a hit. What started out as a gag work featuring the Sanrio character Retsuko, the red panda who happens to be an office worker, caught on with audiences in 2018 and found enough success to warrant a second season the next year and now a third in 2020. On the surface she appears to be a demure and diligent office worker, but her inner personality is vicious and only surfaces in public during sessions of karaoke....
Scary Aguero tackle hurt Luiz, says Conte Earlier this week, Aguero was handed a four-match suspension by the Football Association (FA) following his red card for a shocking tackle on Chelsea’s David Luiz towards the end of City’s 3-1 defeat on Saturday. The Argentine, who has 10 goals from 12 Premier League outings this season, has already missed three games after the FA took retrospective action for an elbow on West Ham’s Winston Reid....
Argentina star Aguero was unable to add to his 31-goal haul this season but was instrumental in a slick first-half display as Gabriel Jesus and Kevin De Bruyne breached the visitors. Guardiola has regularly asked Aguero to improve his all-round contribution to the City cause this season and the top scorer lost his first-team place to Jesus earlier this year. The forward duo started together for only the second time and Aguero’s link-up play illuminated the opening period, most notably when a deft backheel played in De Bruyne to set up Jesus’ opener....
One particular advantage of DLC is that it has the potential to be completely divergent from the game it’s based on in ways that players may not have expected. In recent years, the Far Cry games have experimented with DLC in fairly unique ways, especially with the recent Villains DLC for Far Cry 6. However, where Elden Ring is concerned, a certain fan has gone a rather odd direction in terms of DLC ideas for Elden Ring....
A US company claims it is speeding up the path to fusion power by using machine learning. TAE Technologies has trimmed computing tasks that once took months to just a few hours using AI. It’s one of many companies using AI to help with research. “What we still don’t know about fusion—e.g., how to reach and maintain stable fusion conditions—is hiding in the data,” Diogo Ferreira, a professor of Information Systems at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, who studies the application of AI in fusion research told Lifewire in an email interview....
MIT scientists have completed one of the most demanding calculations in fusion science using a machine learning technique. According to a recently published paper, the method reduced the CPU time required to make the calculations while maintaining the accuracy of the solution. It’s part of a growing effort to use AI to help solve the math and engineering problems of mastering fusion power. “AI is a tool that allows scientists to iterate faster on experiments, make better predictions about how plasma will act in extreme conditions, and build new fusion devices in a more precise manner,” Andrew Holland, CEO of the Fusion Industry Association, told Lifewire in an email interview....
The development comes days after Gaurav Bidhuri became the first Indian wild card to win a medal at the World Championships, in Hamburg. “This is a huge boost for us,” Boxing Federation of India (BFI) president Ajay Singh said. “This shows that the world fraternity has accepted us back into the fold. We can only go higher from here,” he added. India had already received a shot in the arm with the arrival of the 2021 edition of the World Championships to New Delhi....
India won one gold, one silver and a bronze in various categories in the recently-concluded World Archery Youth Championship. Mixed pair of Jemson Ningthoujam and Ankita Bhakat clinched the recurve team gold. This is India’s first world title at the youth championships since Deepika Kumari’s victories in 2009 and 2011. Ningthoujam also returned with another medal when he along with Shukmani Gajanan Babrekar and Atul Verma lost to a much-favoured Korean squad in the final of the men’s team event to settle for silver....
The 13 finalists will each receive a $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as a member of the 2021 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class Presented by Fidelity Investments. MORE: Sporting News midseason All-America team The finalists will all travel to the 63rd NFF Annual Awards Dinner Presented by Las Vegas on Dec. 7, where one of them will be named the winner of the 32nd Campbell Trophy and have his postgraduate scholarship increased to $25,000....
Last month, the Ushanath Banerjee-chaired disciplinary committee decided that the five concerned teams will be fined an amount of 10 lakhs, while East Bengal was supposed to slip 5 lakhs for the incident. On the other hand, Mohun Bagan’s penalty would be decided later since they did not register their team for the tournament. As per the reports of The Times of India, the same disciplinary committee which met on Saturday changed their judgement in a miraculous turn of events and decided to impose heavier fines (27....
From marshmallow-topped candied yams to green bean casseroles and fluffy mounds of buttery mashed potatoes in between, the mouth-watering side dish is often the one on the table alluringly calling out to you to go for that second (and maybe third) plate. With air fryers becoming must-have kitchen items in recent years, bringing all of these dishes from a pile of raw ingredients to a piping hot bowl of delicious decadence has been made that much easier, as the turkey dominates in the oven....
The meeting of the now-independent Particulate Matter Review Panel will take place on October 10-11 at an event held by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the UCS announced in a blog post. On the agenda is a full review of the EPA’s assessment of the science, with the expertise of professionals from a broad-range of related scientific disciplines. The now-20 strong panel (there were originally 26 members) will consider the various known and unknown affects of particulate matter on human health and based on the current science, calculate how much air pollution (with an adequate margin of safety) is passable without being a significant threat to human health....
A trio believed to be workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were pumped to snap a picture with the Seahawks cornerback on Thursday, so much so that they quickly shared it on Facebook. The problem: It wasn’t Sherman. It was Waka Flocka Flame, the Atlanta based rapper who brought the song “No Hands” into our lives. MORE: 2016 NFL Mock Draft | Edelman back! | Stop blaming NFL refs Sherman and Wacka Flocka are both 6-3, in their late 20s and rock long drea—wait, what am I doing?...
The 22-year-old was handed his first call-up by Gernot Rohr following his impressive performance for his Egyptian side Al Ahly. However, the former CS Sfaxien player could not make the trip to Wroclaw due to visa issues where the three-time African champions piped Poland 1-0, thanks to Victor Moses’ effort. And after teaming up with the rest of the squad along with Oghenekaro Etebo, Mikel Agu and Gabriel Okechukwu for the warmup game with Mladen Krstajic’s men, the attacker has taken to the social media to express his excitement....
