Amazon has made Uber Eats as its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States, effectively ending the e-commerce giant’s existing deal with Grubhub.
Under the new partnership announced Thursday, Amazon Prime members will be able to order food from Uber Eats directly through Amazon.com and the Amazon Shopping app. Importantly, Prime members won’t need to create an Uber account and won’t pay a delivery fee on orders of more than $25, the companies said.
The commercial agreement with Grubhub that gave Prime members access to Grubhub+ ends Thursday, according to an Amazon spokesperson, who said the company continuously evaluates its third-party offers. Amazon said that through that process it identified an opportunity to deliver an even better restaurant delivery experience.
The new partnership deepens an already extensive relationship between Amazon and Uber. The companies have existing agreements spanning cloud computing, Zoox robotaxis, and the integration of Uber Eats into Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa+ assistant.
It also allows Amazon to give its Prime members another sweetener to justify that annual membership fee. To help kickstart the initiative, Amazon and Uber are offering Prime members $20 off their first order of $25 or more during the first two weeks.
Amazon’s ouster of Grubhub ends a once-close relationship. Amazon first struck a deal with the company in 2022, offering Prime members a free Grubhub+ subscription.
Two years later, Amazon expanded its commercial agreement and made the free Grubhub+ membership an ongoing offer for Prime members. Amazon also reached a deal with Grubhub’s then-owner, Just Eat Takeaway.com, to increase its equity stake in the food delivery company as much as 18%.
Under that performance-based agreement, which was set to renew annually, Amazon could receive warrants representing an additional stake in Grubhub. But just months later, Just Eat Takeaway announced plans to sell Grubhub to Wonder. According to Just Eat Takeway’s annual report, Amazon elected in December 2024 to cash out on its outstanding exercisable warrants.
Amazon and Grubhub’s commercial partnership continued, however, until now.
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Some of the quests in The End of the Sun began in an unusual way – with objects we discovered in small museums across Poland. Sometimes, an old tool or a fascinating piece of traditional craftsmanship inspired us so much that we decided to build part of the game’s story around it.
When we first started creating The End of the Sun, a first-person adventure inspired by Slavic folklore, we wanted to build a world that would do more than tell an engaging story. We wanted it to feel truly alive, with every building, object, and detail having its own history.
As a Slavic sorcerer investigating the mystery of an abandoned village, you enter a world inspired by Polish culture, ancient beliefs, and traditions rarely explored in video games. To bring that world to life, we decided to look beyond our computer screens and explore the real places where pieces of this history are still preserved.
From Polish Museums to a Living Game World
One of the most important techniques we used was photogrammetry, which allowed us to bring real-world objects directly into the game as detailed 3D models.
We partnered with local ethnographic museums in Poland, including the Open-Air Museum in Szymbark and the Grociarnia Ethnographic Museum in Jastrzębia. Thanks to their support, we were able to scan hundreds of historical objects, including entire buildings.
We’ve always believed that we’re surrounded by remarkable cultural heritage worth sharing, and creating The End of the Sun gave us an opportunity to introduce some of it to players around the world.
There’s also something special about preserving these objects digitally. Over time, some of the original artifacts may deteriorate or disappear, but their digital recreations can help preserve a record of them for future generations.
After taking thousands of photographs during our research trips, we began recreating these objects and buildings inside the game. Even now, when we compare our original photographs with screenshots from The End of the Sun, we’re sometimes surprised by just how closely the virtual world resembles the real one.
But creating authentic-looking environments was only the beginning. We wanted these objects to become something more than decorations.
When Historical Artifacts Inspire Gameplay
From the start, our goal was to make historical objects an integral part of the experience, rather than simply filling the environments with interesting props. We wanted you to interact with them, discover how they worked, and learn something about the everyday lives of the people who once used them.
For example, one of the game’s quests introduces you to a traditional hand mill used for grinding grain into flour. You can examine its individual parts and discover how the mechanism works. Other quests involve using traditional tools for twisting rope or sharpening a knife.
We also included optional “Learn More” points throughout the game world. When you encounter an unfamiliar object, you can discover what it was used for and learn a little about its history.
This approach helped us introduce traditional crafts, customs, and Slavic beliefs naturally, without interrupting the adventure with lengthy historical explanations.
Interestingly, the relationship between historical artifacts and gameplay sometimes worked in the opposite direction. Instead of looking for objects to fit a quest we had already designed, we occasionally discovered an artifact so fascinating that we adapted parts of the story around it.
These objects also became an important part of environmental storytelling. A carpenter’s workshop or a collection of weaving tools can tell you something about a character’s profession, personality, and everyday life.
Sometimes, the environment can tell a story more effectively than dialogue. All you need to do is slow down, look around, and pay attention to the details.
In fact, approximately 80% of the objects you encounter while exploring the game’s locations were scanned from real-world originals. Each one carries small imperfections, signs of wear, and traces of its previous use – details that would be difficult to recreate with the same authenticity when modeling everything from scratch.
Walking through one of our cottages can sometimes feel like exploring a small, interactive museum. But rather than presenting these objects behind glass, we’ve placed them in a world where you can discover their purpose and the stories behind them.
Capturing the Details of Polish Culture and Nature
Our world isn’t built exclusively from museum collections. We also wanted to capture the beauty of Poland’s natural landscapes and the richness of its traditional craftsmanship.
While exploring the village and its surroundings, you will encounter rocks of different shapes and sizes that we scanned in local nature reserves. We also paid close attention to smaller decorative details. For example, the game features intricate bobbin lace from a local gallery, while cottage interiors and everyday objects are decorated with beautiful hand-painted floral patterns inspired by the village of Zalipie, famous for its colorful painted houses.
These details might seem small individually, but together they give the world its identity. They help make the village feel like a place where people once lived, worked, and celebrated their traditions. We wanted you to experience this cultural heritage naturally, through exploration and curiosity, rather than feeling as though you were being given a history lesson.
A Village That Changes with Time
Our approach to environmental storytelling extends beyond individual objects to the buildings themselves.
The cottages we scanned in open-air museums aren’t simply static 3D models placed into the game. Because The End of the Sun unfolds across all four seasons and different points in time, we carefully modified these buildings to reflect changes throughout the story.
A cottage might show signs of damage or neglect at one point, only to appear renovated at another. We wanted you to notice these differences and experience the passage of time through the environment itself.
Nature plays an equally important role in creating that atmosphere. We made sure the vegetation reflects the character of the Central European climate, with landscapes changing naturally between the seasons.
To make the world feel even more alive, we also recorded authentic sounds of nature ourselves, visiting outdoor locations throughout all four seasons. These recordings became part of the game’s soundscape, helping us recreate not only the appearance of these places but also their atmosphere. Combining real historical objects, carefully recreated buildings, changing seasons, and authentic environmental sounds allowed us to create something that feels both rooted in history and alive with mystery.
For us, the most fascinating part of this process was discovering how much character real objects already possess. Their imperfections, signs of age, and tiny details tell stories of their own. By bringing them into The End of the Sun, we hope players will feel a connection to the people, traditions, and places that inspired our world.
We can’t wait for you to explore this mysterious Slavic village, uncover its secrets, and discover these pieces of history for yourselves when The End of the Sun is out today on XBOX Series X|S.
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Become a tracker of mythical beings and supernatural forces. Wield the power of the fire of time, explore an ancient land, solve unusual riddles, and experience extraordinary adventures, all part of a greater, captivating story. Find your target, bring order to the chaos of time in the mysterious village, and uncover the secrets that lie within!
You are the Ashter – a Slavic fire mage who wields time. You arrive in a village where reality has been distorted, and the villagers have left behind only smoldering hearths. Through your ability to bond with fire, you see what is hidden from others – traces, mythical beings, and spirits of past events. Will you be able to harness your powers to stop the ancient powers and change the inhabitants’ fate?
The End of the Sun is a mystery-filled first-person adventure and exploration game set in a Slavic fantasy world. The core gameplay focuses on discovering an open world using a magical map and forming connections with bonfires. Each bond reveals new traces and events invisible to ordinary people. Fully kindled bonfires become gateways to time travel.
1. TRACK – Merge with fire and let it guide you
Step into the role of a supernatural tracker. Follow the trail of a mythical being and uncover secrets hidden among blazing bonfires. Each hearth you connect with is a unique investigation, filled with unusual riddles and serving as a gateway to the ancient Slavic world – a realm of magic, fantastic creatures, mythology, and forgotten rituals. Every fire of time you ignite is a piece of the larger tale.
2. UNLEASH THE POWER – Use the flames to travel through time and shape human destinies
Feel the might of the fire of time. Influence the paths of heroes’ fates – restore the course of events to its rightful track and discover new fragments of an epic story. Travel across four seasons, separated from each other by many years. Witness the lives of the same heroes at different stages, during the greatest Slavic festivals. Time and hearths are intertwined. Your actions affect the world around you – make changes and carefully observe the consequences.
3. INVESTIGATE – Explore a mysterious village, born from the real world and museum treasures
Hundreds of museum artifacts and entire buildings, brought into the game from the real world through photogrammetry, open before you a land where every detail matters. Freely roam the ancient village and its one-of-a-kind surroundings. As you explore this open world, conduct a supernatural investigation rooted in Slavic mythology – more authentic and immersive than ever before.
With a heavy dose of 2000s nostalgia and a premise that feels like a Total Request Live parody, MP3 has dropped on Dropout, bringing with it a trio of wacky music videos each week. While the show is being touted as Dropout’s first scripted show in seven years, Paul F. Tompkins assures fans of the streaming comedy platform that there’s still plenty of improv in the mix.
“We shot it sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm style,” said the comedian, who’s previously appeared on Dropout shows like Game Changerand Very Important People.He explained that show creators Zach Reino and Jess McKenna gave Tompkins and co-stars Jeremy Culhane, Aparna Nancherla, and Skye Townsend an outline of each episode. “It’s like: Here are the scenes. Here’s what we want to get to, and then we have so much room to play within that. It’s nice to have that. Like, improv is fun, but it is nice to have that sort of safety net underneath you.”
In a Zoom interview with Tompkins, Nancherla, and Townsend, Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko learned the origins of MP3′s goofy VJs, and how Culhane got kisses from a comedy icon.
MP3 lets its cast build their characters.
MP3 centers around an unusual father-son team of former boy band member Dane Cartel (Culhane), who’s hosted Music Presentation 3 for years, and his father, MP3 director Thomas Cartel (Tompkins). But recently Thomas has brought in two new co-hosts, the dryly odd Chia (Nancherla), and the ever-chipper Dr. Muse-Tina (Townsend), which is causing on-set tensions and shenanigans.
Townsend (Black Lady Sketch Show) explained how Reino and McKenna allowed her a lot of creative input into Dr. Muse-Tina’s look.
The origin of Dr. Muse-Tina, from her baby bangs to her bleached eyebrows, braces, and beyond.
Skye Townsend plays Dr. Muse-Tina in Dropout’s new show, “MP3.” Credit: Shadae Lamar Smith
“Everybody brought on board was brought on board with trust, and they just let us play,” she said of the production. “The name was established and her origin story, that she has lived a life that’s unbelievable, but possibly she did everything she said,” Townsend explained.
From there, Townsend offered a look into her vision of the character with a visual aid. “I love to do mood boards,” she shared, “And so coming in, I just did a full mood board with, like, a bio and like — what do her teeth look like? Here are three different options for her mouth. Can she get rid of her eyebrows? And if not, can they be bleach blonde?… Then, the first day of work, when we tested hair and makeup, I saw the mood board sitting there. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, we’re doing it!’ They put on the wig and they cut the [baby] bangs, and they just kept getting shorter… I was blown away by the fact that they were like, ‘Hey, if this is how you envisioned her, go crazy.'”
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But what does Dr. Muse-Tina’s big, bold look mean to Townsend? She said, “This is a person where her confidence and her excitement for life, she just wants to rock it. And so I think, like, there was just never too much for this character… It just makes her so chaotic, because she’s supposed to be this person who has lived the wildest life ever, and it shows on the aesthetic.”
Aparna Nancherla pulled personal inspiration into Chia.
Skye Townsend, Aparna Nancherla, and Jeremy Culhane co-host Dropout’s new show, “MP3.” Credit: Shadae Lamar Smith
Puchko pointed out that the workman’s jumpsuit Nancherla wears in the first episode of MP3 is similar to the one the comedian wore in her Dropout stand-up special, Hopeful Potato. Nancherla confirmed, “A lot of the wardrobe was, like, from my own wardrobe. So, for Chia, [it] was kind of like, where does Aparna end and Chia begin? And there is some overlap, but there’s also a lot about Chia that I think is a question mark, and that was kind of fun to explore. Like, I feel like I discovered a lot as we were shooting of, like, who is this person? How did she end up here? I think that was a really fun thing, because that really leans into the improv of it all — just, like, kind of figuring it out as you go.”
To that end, when asked what Nancherla makes of Chia describing herself as a “noise professor,” the comedian offered, “I think it’s someone who is just very completely, like, enamored and at the same time flummoxed by the idea of sound.”
Paul F. Tompkins plays against expectations in MP3.
Paul F. Tompkins plays Thomas Cartel in “MP3.” Credit: Shadae Lamar Smith
In the first episode of MP3, Thomas Cartel is established as a loving but stern father to a nepo baby ex-boy bander, and a director who makes casting decisions on Hinge dates. His look, which includes a Kangol hat and a soul patch, reads skeevy, but there’s more to Thomas than meets the eye.
“What’s interesting to me about this character,” Tompkins said, “is that he absolutely looks like the most disgusting person, an overaged club guy who still thinks he’s very cool-looking. But there’s nothing in his personality that suggests he was in any way problematic. That he was just in a boy band, and that was fun. And then he decided to start a record label, and now it’s a TV show, and isn’t that fun too? And now his son’s doing it. So, he’s like this kind of sweet middle-aged dad who looks like a guy you would cross the street from if you saw him walking towards [you].”
Tompkins reveals how Culhane brought “kisses” into MP3.
Jeremy Culhane plays Dane Cartel in “MP3.” Credit: Shadae Lamar Smith
One sign of Thomas’ non-toxic masculinity is his unreserved affection for Dane. Sure, the two quarrel on set. But they make up when Dane requests kisses, and Thomas delivers a concentrated flurry on his son’s forehead.
“I gotta say, that got established so early on,” Tompkins recalled. “It was one of the first exchanges that Jeremy and I had. He just went ‘Kisses,’ and I was like, ‘Yes, kisses.’ And then he leaned forward, and I just I decided, Okay, yes, it’s got to be one million rapid-fire kisses on his forehead, and this is something that they do all the time to reset their relationship.”
For more on MP3, look for Mashable’s full Say More interview with Tompkins, Nancherla, and Townsend on Friday. Plus, we’ve got an upcoming interview with MP3 creators Zach Reino and Jess McKenna coming your way.
Blueprints have feelings, too. Or at least they should, when they get wrongly aligned in a coordination meeting, the fifth time they defend themselves when they are misunderstood. Navisworks services, including engineering design services, intend to eliminate all of the aforementioned embarrassing moments, so that a construction project in the AEC industry will not end up as a nervous wreck. Complexity is removed from the blueprints, and they all have a wonderful “conversation” before the coffee even kicks in.
It is at this point that scouting for the appropriate people in the sector becomes an idea that shifts from strategy to potentially an adventure. Not all organizations and/or private individuals possess the correct strategy in regard to leveraging precision and problem-solving skills. However, this is exactly when the likes of Cad Crowd step in and ensure that this entire process is quite agreeable. The reasons for this are linked to the fact that the people they involve themselves with are rather accustomed to Navisworks and the demands of the real world regarding this specific sector.
1. CAD Crowd
Cad Crowd is the premier provider of solutions within the AEC industry that understands the importance of having proper Navisworks solutions in partnership with professional engineering design consulting. The website brings businesses in contact with design engineering professionals in the field of clash resolution, coordination model development, construction sequence, and reviews in the field of Navisworks. The aspect of engineering design consulting might be relevant to architectural, structural, or MEP designs, within the stipulated standards and timelines as defined in the concerned projects.
The Drafting Company offers Navisworks solutions that can improve the process of project and model coordination for organizations in the AEC industry handling complex projects. Professionals from the organization are hired for conflict resolution, construction scheduling solutions, or model solutions in order to reduce design errors. Apart from the solution of Navisworks, The Drafting Company is a solution-oriented company focusing on design building or structural drafting. The solution helps in synchronizing the designs of the company with the coordinated projects. The Drafting Company judges the solutions on the criteria of fulfilling the need of the project, completing the project on a timely basis, or compatibility of the solution with the current process of the organization in the AEC industry.
AI engineers assists various industries such as architecture design companies, engineering, and construction using Navisworks solutions to provide the right tool for coordination and model collaboration analysis. The company is assisting in promoting clash resolution, design analysis, and construction planning to increase the level of interdisciplinary coordination. In their design solutions for engineers, a-i-engineers assists companies with the design alignment of their detailed design and coordinated models for structural, civil, and MEP design services. AI engineers are utilizing its Navisworks solutions to prevent revisions and provide improved project understanding with the right application of accurate technology, which is their focus for their design solution suitable for construction purposes.
Image Grafix provides Navisworks solutions to achieve effective coordination, collision detection, and model review in the construction industry. The company provides supportive services related to construction sequence solution services, model coordination services, and visual analysis solution services to achieve effective collaboration and minimize site-related issues of construction projects. The engineering design solutions provided to the customers of the company, www.image-grafix, include architectural engineering designs, structural designs, and MEP drafting designs with proper coordination of the designs as per the requirements of the construction. The Navisworks solutions provided to the customers of the company, www.image-grafix, aim to achieve effective incorporation of designs with proper constructability and appropriate engineering to make effective decisions related to construction projects.
ARKANCE offers solutions for Navisworks that are developed and tailored according to the needs and requirements of the construction industry. These solutions are designed to manage complex projects. The services and skills of the company encompass building model coordination, clash resolution management, and simulation analysis for construction simulation. The simulation analysis plays a significant part in the efficient implementation of a well-organized construction process. The skills and services of the company are further extended with the design services for architecture, structures, and building system design, therefore enabling the company to have the combined design delivery from the conceptual design phase to the construction phase.
Cideon provides Navisworks solutions for improving the integrity of AEC collaboration and model-based collaboration solutions. The company provides clash detection solutions, construction sequencing solutions, and design validation solutions that enable the reduction of any conflict to a minimal level before the construction stage. The engineering design solutions provided by the company include mechanical engineering solutions, electrical design solutions, and structural design solutions that enable the designs to be in accordance with the application of coordinated models. The company, Cideon, emphasizes the implementation stage and enables successful collaboration between Navisworks and the existing design environment.
AMCBridge assists AEC companies in offering the highest level of service in relation to Navisworks so that coordination, visualization, and interdisciplinary communication can be achieved. The company assists clients with clash resolution, model merging, and construction planning to identify discrepancies. The website offers a multidisciplinary engineering design solution since engineering designs have to be aligned with coordinated models. The goal of the AMCBridge is to optimize process flow and reliability to assist the client in incorporating the Navisworks tool into the engineering design process. A balanced approach will assist the client in achieving the desired goal of the project, which is the implementation of the project with the same level of accuracy in engineering and construction documents.
The solutions for Navisworks are provided by the experts you hire in CEGConsultancy. In essence, the site provides support to the AEC industry as far as project coordination and clashes/model reviews for building projects are concerned. Construction sequence analysis is also supported by the company to highlight efficient coordination of designs for building construction. Engineering designs are also provided onsite through architectural designs, structural engineering services, and MEP designs. These are significant for the AEC industry to maintain consistency in the coordinated designs for building construction. The Navisworks skills and engineering design support are provided by CEGConsultancy, so reworks are avoided in the coordination of designs for building construction.
Ellipsoid designs offers a service linked with Navisworks, which facilitates an effective solution for complex issues in terms of coordination for multi-disciplinary projects within the AEC industry. While there is clash detection, checking, or construction visualization, the process of the organization facilitates the efficiency of the process of effective coordination. Engineering design, such as architecture, structure, or building systems, is provided by Ellipsoid-Designs, focusing on the validation of the effective design intent behind the process of coordination. At Ellipsoid-Designs, there is effective coordination facilitated by the effectiveness of the process of the workflow, ensuring that the result from Navisworks links with the engineering result.
This firm itself is involved in the delivery of the foremost necessary tools of Navisworks with the aim of supporting AEC coordination, clash resolution, and construction planning. This firm assists its clients in the process of model building and 3D visualization in such a way that any potential clashes are known early on. The design process of this firm involves architectural, structural, and MEP design. They are interested in how the results of Navisworks and the engineering drawing are integrated to enable a smooth transition from the design stage to the construction stage. The result of this integration impacts collaboration positively and leads to reduced rework and optimal combined results.
PDEngineers has been serving the construction industry with their Navisworks tasks that promote efficient coordination, model project review, clash prevention, design coordination, and construction sequencing with the use of improved multidisciplinary coordination tasks. The design services provided by PDEngineers can comprise a range of tasks such as structural design services, mechanical drawing services, and electrical design services combined in coordinated models. The company emphasizes the integrity of the design and, therefore, can serve its clients with integrity at various levels.
CCTSGroup offers a range of tools for Navisworks needed in the construction industry by providing assistance, coordination, visualization and collaboration processes. Different processes offered by the organization include a clash detection process, a model federation process, or a construction planning process, which assist in the improvement of understanding regarding the set of projects being implemented. Different engineering design processes offered by CCTSGroup include a range of processes related to architecture, structures, as well as MEP processes related to different streams, which will ensure the generated design meets the criteria of the coordinated model. CCTSGroup emphasizes the smooth integration of Navisworks processes.
Revit BIM Services offers solutions to the construction sector with regard to collaboration, clashes, and checking models. The firm offers engineering design services in architectural design, structural design, and MEP designs. The designs offered by the firm must coordinate or be in harmony, as far as the designs in Navisworks are concerned. The offered service of Revit BIM Services aims at promoting efficiency and effectiveness with the goal of minimizing clashes of various designs that are used to produce a project. The use of Navisworks designs offered by the firm eliminates any collaboration problems within a particular project.
The company offers Navisworks solutions, which help to coordinate various models in the construction industry. The company also offers services that help in resolving as well as detecting clashes in construction projects, as it plays an important role in identifying possible construction clashes during the early stages of construction and engineering projects. The engineering designs offered in solutions and services provided by the company include architectural designs, structural designs, and MEP designs, with an agenda to concentrate on accuracy in relation to models coordinated by the company. The services offered at TMA BIM help to promote collaboration in the construction industry as they use Navisworks and engineering designs required in successful construction projects.
Tesla Outsourcing Services offers AEC companies the services of modeling coordination, clash resolution, and construction sequencing by Navisworks. The company brings together multidisciplinary integration and the capability of achieving accuracy in the process, improving clash resolution. The engineering design of the company involves architecture, structural design and analysis, and MEP engineering, which combines with Navisworks engineering design. The company improves efficiency and relevance to improve the process of communication. The capability of the company in the area of Navisworks engineering design ensures the success of the implementation process.
The Navisworks tools in India CAD Works assist in helping management with potential clashes with regard to the model view of construction, architecture, and engineering firms. This company makes the construction sequence and collaboration easier for the management in managing construction clashes. Engineering designs, with respect to the tools and services from this company, are composed of architecture, structure, and MEP designs. These designs are intended to be model-aligned. The primary objective of this company, India CAD Works, is to increase accuracy and timeliness with the inclusion of the Navisworks tools in the prevailing engineering designs.
Pro Tech Solutions offers Navisworks solutions to the construction industry which aims to coordinate and collaborate. The company assists in the resolution of clashes, BIM modeling services, and construction simulation. The engineering designs include architectural, structural, and MEP designs, where the results are coordinated with the models. Pro Tech Solutions maintains consistency throughout the whole process, accuracy, and appropriate management of the process, which helps the company manage inconsistencies. There is a higher understanding of the project, and the whole process maintains consistency throughout the document process that leads to the successful implementation of the project.
Silicon Engineering Consultant offers the solution of Navisworks in order to support the AEC industry in multi-disciplinary coordination, clash, and model review. Silicon Engineering Consultant is presently supporting cooperation in the construction industry through construction sequencing, model integration, and visualization. Engineering designs of Silicon Consultant include architecture, structures, and MEP designs in order to provide appropriate model coordination according to the appropriate designs. The prime aim of Silicon Consultant is to support appropriate integration related to the whole workflow, accuracy, and document transfer. Using the strength of Navisworks and appropriate engineering designs from Silicon Consultant, they can support appropriate communication between the teams of a project in order to reduce inconsistencies.
Engisoft Engineering is presently supporting the AEC industry through Navisworks services related to the process of model checking, clash sensing, and coordination. The company is supporting construction teams related to the construction sequence process and multi-disciplinary cooperation in reducing inconsistencies even before the beginning of the construction process. Engineering designs related to the support for the construction process by the company include architectures, construction structures, and the MEP process in order to gain designs from the whole coordinated model. Engisoft Engineering is of the opinion that the construction process should be combined correctly, giving its customers the benefit of having appropriate documentation that leads to taking appropriate decisions. They offer the Navisworks service of Navisworks, alongside the construction process through their appropriate designs.
Vista Projects offers different solutions related to Navisworks that benefit companies working in the construction industry through model coordination, clash detection, and construction sequence simulation. They support collaborative working processes that enable harmonious alignment among teams relating to architectures, structure, and MEP. The whole process of the engineering designs at the company ensures that the whole coordinated model is properly connected with their designs. The aim of Vista Projects is the whole process related to efficiency and accuracy, which enables whole integrability. Navisworks, together with the engineering designs of the company, assists in the reduction of errors and ensures the optimal constructability and output.
Hitech BIM Services provides solutions for Navisworks that assist in the construction planning, BIM modeling, and clash detection. They also assist in the visualization and the merging of the models in an optimized multidisciplinary collaboration, as well as the clash reduction. The engineering design, architecture, structural engineering, and the MEP constitute some of the aspects that are part of the engineering design process, which relates to the coordinated models. Navisworks technical support services assist with engineering designs, ensuring feasibility in construction, documentation accuracy, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
Studio Krew provides services with the use of the Navisworks services that target the process of organizing and reviewing in the AEC. The organization specializes in offering services that include the construction and the creation of images that are aimed at the prevention and clarity of projects. The engineering design of the organization includes architectural, structural, and MEP engineering that are aimed at the creation of a model that includes the designs that are collective and accurate. The organization is guided by a goal that includes process accuracy, integration, and teamwork. The organization takes into consideration the use of expertise in the knowledge of the Navisworks and the use of the engineering design process for engineering designs that are aimed at maximum effectiveness in project coordination and process rework for complex building project implementation plans.
Advenser is a global engineering outsourcing firm that provide services like virtual design, Building Information Modeling, and CAD design services, including Navisworks. The software can be applied in the field of the organization and the AEC for coordination and resolution. The company assists in the sequencing of the construction, the merging of the models, and the visualization for improved cooperation of the disciplines. The firm offers engineering design, including architecture, structural, and MEP designs, which are in sync with the coordinated models. Efficiency, accuracy, and reliability in document production are considered important for the company. With Navisworks and engineering design expertise, this firm is capable of conflict reduction, constructability, and project coordination.
HRPBIM offers Navisworks solutions for model coordination, conflict resolution, and construction visualization. The firm is proficient in and promotes cooperative processing that leads to proper model alignment in architecture, structural, and MEP models. HRPBIM’s engineering design expertise also includes integrated model design that is in sync with one another. HRPBIM emphasizes efficiency in processing, accuracy, and smooth construction processing. The firm also emphasizes efficiency in project processing with integrated Navisworks solutions and engineering design expertise for conflict elimination, increased constructability, and cooperative documentation to support successful communication and error-free construction project processing in construction and architecture.
TrueCADD also offers Navisworks solutions for model coordination, clash resolution, and construction planning. The firm supports visualization and model aggregation to prevent errors and ensure effective collaboration. Engineering design expertise of TrueCADD involves architecture drawings, structural, and MEP engineering designs to develop models in sync with correct designs. At TrueCADD, major emphasis is placed on efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness in model processing. The firm leverages expertise in Navisworks solutions and engineering design expertise.
AECOM also uses Navisworks solutions for model coordination, clash resolution, and construction sequencing. The firm also supports visualization and collaboration to facilitate coordination in architecture, structural, and MEP models. AECOM Engineering design expertise is given to all business sectors to ensure models are in sync with detailed designs. AECOM also places paramount emphasis on accuracy, efficiency in construction project processing, and expertise in construction and architecture. The firm also leverages expertise in Navisworks solutions and engineering design expertise to gain accuracy, better constructability, and project document uniformity.
Choosing Navisworks solution providers and engineering design consultants is not simply an IT investment decision. It is rather an investment in quality of life, and in your entire construction organization. The skills will help eliminate conflicts, streamline project workflows, and transform coordination meetings into value-added discussions. The right skills will enable your organization to spend less time solving a problem and more time finding a solution that will actually work. While investigating the best organizations in the industry, you also need to remember that flexibility and skills matter most in 99% of all cases.
This is actually where Cad Crowd excels. This kind of solution will enable organizations in the AEC industry to collaborate with professional architectural 3D modeling professionals who have the skills and innovative ideas in Navisworks. Lastly, should the next task require a focus on engineering assistance and enhanced coordination, the current search process on the Cad Crowd website will be the best possible time to search their site. Contact us for a free quote.
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For months, election deniers had alleged without evidence that the vote would be rigged to flip results in favor of Democrats, that mail-in ballots would be compromised, and that a wave of noncitizens would vote in such numbers to alter the outcome of the election.
None of this happened, and in reality the country appeared to roundly reject the policies implemented by President Donald Trump and his administration.
For months, hundreds of election deniers in state and federal races had campaigned on promises to investigate past elections or overhaul voting procedures. But a WIRED review of some of the most pivotal races involving election deniers found that almost all of them lost and none of them, or the network of activists and groups backing them, have raised any questions about the results.
In Arizona’s governor race, Andy Biggs, who was among the members of Congress who challenged the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021, conceded to incumbent Democrat Katie Hobbs and made no mention of voter fraud or election rigging. Instead, he blamed voters not turning out to vote: “We just didn’t get our turnout quite as full as we wanted to.”
Mike Rogers, who was running for a Senate seat in Michigan against Abdul El-Sayed, had been a critic of Trump’s election denial comments, but in the months leading up to Tuesday’s vote had begun to voice skepticism about the security of America’s elections. In the end it didn’t matter, as Rogers was decisively defeated. Rogers has not publicly commented on the outcome of the election, and did not respond to a request for comment.
In Wisconsin, Tom Tiffany, who objected to certifying Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020, was beaten by his Democrat opponent David Crowley in the race for governor. Just weeks before the midterms, Tiffany had welcomed the FBI’s baseless investigation into the state’s elections. On Tuesday night, Tiffany conceded defeat without any reference to election rigging.
In Ohio, billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, who baselessly said in the past that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen by “big tech,” lost his race for governor to Amy Acton. On Tuesday night, Ramaswamy told his supporters that he had called his opponent to concede defeat and wish her well. He did not mention election rigging or voter fraud.
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More than 118 million users watch microdramas every month as the serialized format has taken off in India. EloElo’s Story TV is one of the top apps for microdramas, with over 33 million active users, according to analysts.
Banking on that scale, the company has raised $80 million in Series C from Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal. This round brings its total fundraising to $130 million, with a valuation of $500 million.
Given India’s massive internet population of more than a billion and the country’s appetite for entertainment content, it presents a big market opportunity, with analysts expecting the industry to cross $3-$4 billion in annual revenue by 2030. Last year, dedicated apps like Story TV, Kuku TV, and Quick TV were among the top downloaded video streaming apps in the country.
Founded in 2020 by former Flipkart exec Saurabh Pandey, the Story TV platform has taken off in the last few years with a catalog of over 5,000 titles in six languages. Pandey told TechCrunch that because of the snackable content format, users log 95 minutes on the app on average through multiple sessions in a day.
“I fundamentally believe that the next billion users will probably not grow up on a diet of watching television; they will grow up on a diet of watching content on their phones, right? And this content has to be, and this entertainment, designed very differently. It’s not going to be appointment viewing. It’s going to be within certain slots throughout the day. And a lot of this was earlier solved for short clips, but serialized storytelling was never solved,” Pandey said about the microdrama format.
He believes that there still will be a place for big-screen viewing with family or friends, but the majority of entertainment consumption would be done through mobile.
All microdrama platforms compete against platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, where creators are posting content for free. Some of them are also creating a way for creators to post serialized content. Pandey thinks that producing quality content on the platform will entice users to choose StoryTV over other free platforms. The company points to its partnerships, such as the one with Indian TV production company Balaji Telefilms, to produce content.
The company offers different kinds of subscriptions ranging from monthly, quarterly, and yearly to unlock content. It also offers some free content supported by ads, which might not be as lucrative a medium to make money as subscriptions, according to reports.
Monetization is a challenge in India, as users often stick around for free content, but few convert to paid users. A report from analyst firm Redseer indicates that more than 40 million people have paid for microdrama at least once, but only 15-17 million users pay for it on a monthly basis. A separate survey by Ormax Media suggested that 72% of people haven’t ever paid while consuming microdrama.
At the moment, StoryTV falls into the first camp with its Dolphin AI platform. Started as an internal tool to improve video creation, the company is now planning to make the tool widely available. It can act as an editor with templates and an array of models to create images, audio, and video, according to its website.
EloElo’s vision is to have people use this tool for marketing campaigns and ads as well. Notably, while Indian platforms like Pocket and Kuku have built AI tools and given them to creators, it is likely to accelerate their content pipeline. But at InVideo, there hasn’t been a scaled effort to provide a good alternative to CapCut or Instagram Edits to creators from India.
Pandey believes that human involvement is still paramount to producing good stories, and AI tools are still creative directors for steering.
“My belief in involving AI is that AI is a really fast race car where AI is the engine, but you need an extremely capable Formula One driver to be on the steering wheel. That, for me, is the creative director or the showrunner. AI is supposed to work with them, augmenting their skill set. AI can help write stories, but so far the best stories I have loved have all had a very high human x AI element to it,” he said.
Besides microdrama, the company also has a vertical video learning app, Master, competing with the likes of Seekho and Kuku’s Guru, and an AI companion app, Voxy AI. The company said that it has more than 40 million monthly users across its apps. While it didn’t bifurcate users by app, the majority of users belong to Story TV.
EloElo currently has 240 people and wants to hire to increase the size of its AI and machine learning research team. The company is also deploying a good chunk of its capital to produce more original titles.
MIT Investment Co., along with existing investors like Play Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Waterbridge Ventures, and Griffin Gaming Partners, invested in the round.
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Early election night results for the 2026 midterms suggest a strong showing for the Democrats, and that’s putting it mildly. It’s only 9:30 p.m. ET as of this writing, and the path to victory in the House for the Republicans looks impossible. In the Senate, their odds are vanishing. The idea that some of the states still currently on the board for the Democrats—like South Carolina and Texas—would be up for grabs tonight would have sounded like the deluded fantasy of your MS NOW-addled grandma on election night in 2024. But here we are.
And that makes it a good time to remember that Elon Musk paid an estimated $474 million for these results. He is the largest single donor in these midterms (whose activities are known to the public).
According to the New York Times, who investigated Musk’s financing on political causes during this election cycle, Musk donated, for instance, $168 million to a GOP Senate super PAC called the Senate Leadership Fund. “Almost all” of that $168 million went to support Republican Ken Paxton’s Senate effort, the Times says. He also reportedly gave $10 million to the Paxton-specific Lone Star Liberty PAC.
While there’s still a conceivable universe where Paxton could win and become junior Senator in Musk’s home state, Paxton’s opponent James Talarico’s lead was downright authoritative as of this writing. If Talarico wins, he’ll be the first Democrat Senator from Texas in almost four decades. (Updated at 12:37 a.m. ET:Paxton conceded, and it gets even worse for Musk: incumbent Governor of Texas Greg Abbot, who Musk also materially supported, has lost his race as well.)
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To be absolutely clear, Musk’s buyer’s remorse probably hasn’t kicked in yet. If I were in his situation, having invested all that money, I would still be coping by telling myself, It’s a good thing I spent so much, it’s really close! Maybe in the end, it’ll turn out my donations made the difference. And hey, maybe that’ll be true.
But for what it’s worth, that’s looking less likely at this point than the Democrats taking both houses of Congress. In fact, a Paxton victory looks less likely at the moment than a Democrat win in Kansas, where the Democratic nominee for Senate just won a county by double digits that President Trump won by 40 points in 2024.
And to be clear, this was a nationwide effort for Musk, not a singleminded focus on Texas. The Times writes that he put $216 million into America PAC, his own super PAC, which supports Republican field operations nationwide.
My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement…
His current pinned tweet purports to spell out why. He claims to fear a scenario in which, over the next several years, the Democrats take over every branch of government and lock Republicans out from meaningfully voting. “This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word,” Musk writes.
Whatever happens, Elon Musk forked over an amount of money that could have built a pretty nice data center in rural Ohio, another state where the GOP is not looking especially strong tonight.
It seems like he does, occasionally, have flashes of self-awareness when it comes to his political activities. He spent an estimated $276 million on Trump in 2024, and may look at that as a success, but he also spent an estimated $20 million on an election last year for a Wisconsin supreme court justice who then lost, and then claimed he was—at least for a while—giving up political spending, saying “I think I’ve done enough.” Last month he said he “got carried away” with his budget-slashing DOGE activities.
But he’s also sunk an enormous amount of his dignity into his effort to please President Trump. Politics-wise, he’s paid the better part of $1 billion for a first-class, one-way ticket on the S.S. MAGA, and if I were him I’d be counting the lifeboats right about now.
When the Greybeards invite you to High Hrothgar in Skyrim, you have to climb a mountain to reach them. There’s a messenger called Klimmek waiting in the village of Ivarstead at the bottom to warn you what an arduous journey this is going to be. To get to the top of the Throat of the World, he says, you have to work your way up The 7,000 Steps.
It’s well-documented that there aren’t actually 7,000 steps carved into the side of the mountain. Some of them are buried under the snow, making an exact count impossible, but the actual number is closer to 700. And even if you argue that The 7,000 Steps refers to the number of footsteps it takes to ascend the mountain, according to the dedicated researchers at the Ultimate Elder Scrolls Portal it only takes “approximately 2,400 footsteps” to get there.
While not responsible for the rough layout of Skyrim’s terrain, I was responsible for refining the shapes of High Hrothgar. I would look at the mountain from various viewpoints and tried to keep the shape interesting. My work on the “Throat of the World” was not limited to sculpting the mountain, but also included cluttering and dressing the mountain with visual effects, plants, and objects. This of course, included the infamous 7,000 steps. Now, I love trying to be as faithful to lore or real-life as possible and I did my darndest to find a way to fit all 7,000 steps into the storied path. However, my best attempt to do so included extending far past Ivartstead, wrapping around the mountain and ending near Whiterun in the frozen tundra. It turns out, 7,000 is quite a lot! By the way, my work did NOT include enemy encounters, so I take no responsibility for the Frost Troll that was the woe of many players.
Of course, like most open world games, Skyrim isn’t designed to scale—otherwise the capital city of Solitude would have a population of less than 100 people. But in the same way that for every named NPC we should assume there are a bunch of people off-camera, distances are compressed so that it doesn’t take a week to get anywhere. For every step we watched the Dragonborn climb there are another nine implied steps we don’t see, and even more frost trolls.
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A new report from Bloomberg says Dishonored developer Arkane might not be as doomed as it appeared last month, as multiple companies have made offers to acquire the studio.
Citing “people familiar with the negotiations,” the Bloomberg report says Ubisoft is among Arkane’s suitors, as are at least two other unnamed gaming companies. Xbox has also considered selling the studio to its own management, effectively making it independent, although whether that option is still on the table isn’t clear.
Despite producing an enviable slate of acclaimed immersive sims over the years (until it was compelled by senior leadership to do otherwise), Arkane fell victim to the Xbox “reset” in July that saw thousands of employees laid off (with more still awaiting their fates) and four studios cast adrift. Arkane avoided being the fifth, reportedly thanks to France’s “Florange Law” that compelled Xbox to search for a buyer before pulling the plug.
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The deadline for that search was November 13, after which Arkane would be shuttered—but a few weeks ahead of that date, Microsoft extended it by a month, to “explore options, including finding a partner to support the studio through the development work still ahead,” a reference to the Marvel’s Blade game Arkane currently has in development. That extension suggested there was at least some hope that Arkane might find a new home, instead of being closed.
Going from Xbox to Ubisoft could be viewed as a “frying pan to fire” move, given Ubisoft’s own ongoing financial struggles, layoffs, and closures. But Arkane’s immersive sim expertise could be a good fit for some of Ubisoft’s biggest properties, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and—yes, I’m just going to say it—Splinter Cell, which would be magnificent in the style of Dishonored. Arkane and Ubisoft both being French companies can’t hurt, either.
I’ve reached out to Xbox and Ubisoft for comment on the report, and will update if I receive a reply.
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