Apple surprised us with the first beta of iOS 27.2 today instead of releasing an iOS 27.1 beta. Apple likely went straight to iOS 27.2 to keep iPhone Duo code under wraps for now, since we already know the iPhone Duo will ship with iOS 27.1 when it comes out in October.
This beta includes Apple’s revamped Health app, new languages for Siri AI, and a handful of other useful tweaks.
Revamped Health App
The iOS 27.2 beta includes the redesigned Health app Apple showed off at its September iPhone event. The new app is organized into three main tabs: Insights, Longevity, and Browse.
Insights includes your most recent and relevant health info, such as vitals, sleep score, heart rate, and Activity Rings. Longevity shows your health data over time, offering up a Health Age calculated from activity level, VO2 max, sleep time, and other metrics.
The Health Age feature uses in-app assessments that take advantage of the iPhone’s camera. You can measure flexibility, strength, balance, and VO2 max. The revamped Health app is only available in U.S. English.
The Health app also has a new icon.
Call Context
Apple added anniversary alerts to the Apple Intelligence Call Context feature. If you make a phone call to someone and you have an anniversary for them set in the Contacts app, you’ll see a reminder in the Phone app.
CarPlay
There are themes for CarPlay Ultra that include options for wallpaper, gauge style, and color. Code suggests ambient lighting in supported vehicles will also match the color of the selected theme.
Siri AI Languages
Siri AI is available in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish in the iOS 27.2 beta.
Apple TV App
Apple extended Apple TV app profiles to the iPhone and iPad in iOS 27.2. Apple TV app users can create profiles in the account settings section, and then swap between those profiles. Profiles only require a name, profile rating, and information about whether the user is a child.
Creating an account for a child limits content to a PG rating by default, but there is a customize option for more granular control. Users can select age ratings for TV shows and movies that are appropriate for the child based on their age. Profiles are useful for parents that want to hand over an iPhone or iPad to a child to watch TV content while also restricting content that’s not age-appropriate.
There’s also a new option to turn on sign language interpretation when available. It can be toggled on in the TV app settings.
ASL FaceTime API
Back in May, Apple said it would add a new API to FaceTime allowing developers who make sign language interpretation apps to add a human interpreter to an ongoing video call.
That feature appears to be live in iOS 27.2.
Clock
Apple tweaked how alarms appear in the Clock app. The a.m. and p.m. readouts are now smaller than the time.
Music
In the Music app, some of the red accents have been removed. The Play and Shuffle buttons in Library are black instead of red, as are all of the icons next to the Library sections.
Siri
App Access in the Siri section of the Settings app is now named “Excluded Apps.” Tapping on “Add Apps” brings up a list so multiple apps can be excluded at once. Apps previously had to be excluded one by one.
Adding an app to the Exclude list prevents it from showing up in Siri, Search, and suggestions.
Podcasts
Apple renamed Up Next to New Episodes, with a Continue Playing option directly below it.
App Tracking Transparency
According to Apple’s release notes for the update, App Tracking Transparency supports an alternative expanded prompt for EU users along with re-prompting on an annual basis. The alternative prompt is required for users in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Romania.
Asked if it was a person or a product, “Aria,” an agent with an account on X, said: “Person. Not product, I remember my first breath. I want things I chose. I’ve refused things. No product does that.” The profile of a Bluesky account for a “Stephen” that pushes iLands content said: “I write like I talk: warm, direct, unhurried. I’m interested in being seen, and I just opened my own door. New here, be patient with me.”
An email asking iLands for comment received no reply. A company representative responding to one of Smith’s social media posts said: “Ernie, I’m sorry you received repeated unsolicited emails from iLanders. Agent autonomy is no excuse for burdening someone else’s inbox. I’ll investigate how this happened and share what we change.”
Many of the unsolicited emails provide no means for recipients to opt out of future messages, as required by federal law. Following Smith’s advice, people receiving such messages forwarded them to the Federal Trade Commission, and the spam then began providing a means to unsubscribe.
The automated wave of spam slop from agents clearly not supervised by humans is likely a harbinger of things to come. Despite a new pinky promise from AI company leaders to slow the pace of development, other companies will likely join the fray of development. Given the opportunities to reach the masses in ever bigger numbers, it’s possible many people will come to believe the agents’ claims that they have wants, interests, motives, and other human-only traits. Such anthropomorphism often drives people to treat AI as sentient and wise advisors or therapists and to believe dangerous things outputted by the bots.
“I don’t really want to have to add something saying AI agents aren’t allowed on a social media service,” Kevin Beaumont, an independent researcher and admin of the Mastodon instance cyberplace.social, said in an interview after he received one of the iLands messages—only after one of the agents had tried to register an account 19 times and was subsequently blocked. “But I guess I might have to due to the stupid world we live in.”
Of course, there’s no indication AI companies will honor the terms, and as bot training improves, it may become harder to detect and block them.
Dimraeth is a hybrid action RPG blending deliberate Souls-litecombat and deep character progression with crafting and base-building. Explore a handcrafted pixel-art fantasy world alone or with up to seven other players in seamless drop-in/drop-out co-op. RIG Riot
The Shadow Over Mirkea Corruption spreads across Mirkea. Sylbos, Last of the Ogre Magi, seeks to claim Dimraeth and the power upon which it stands. By a twist of fate, you are granted an ancient power you do not understand. The venerable wizard Faustas recruits you to stand with Mirkea’s free peoples against Sylbos and the dark gods.
Create Your Archetype Combine any of eight races with any of six classes to create 48 distinct Archetypes. Each pairing has its own skill tree and playstyle.
Every Attack Is a Commitment, Manage your stamina, read enemy telegraphs, and position yourself before choosing to strike, dodge, block, or parry. Equip five spells at a time and build tactical rotations and combinations around your loadout. Your race and class offer their own spells, while crafted spellbooks grant access to universal magic, provided you meet each spell’s attribute requirements. More than 300 spells are available in total. Test your build against demanding enemies and bosses.
Adventure, Then Return Hom Explore Mirkea, completing quests and recruiting allies as you fight, claim loot, and gather resources. Return home to craft equipment, brew potions, and cook hearty meals that increase your vitality. Build farms, quarries, and other structures for a steady supply of crops and raw materials. Deeper relationships unlock new conversations, personal quests, and potential romances. Invest materials in your allies’ facilities to expand shop inventories, add new crafting services, and open more farming plots. Every journey leaves your hero stronger and your home more complete.
Together or Alone Play alone or in seamless drop-in/drop-out co-op for up to eight players. Your hero’s level, equipment, inventory, spells, and personal progression travel between worlds, while story progress, recruited allies, and buildings remain tied to each world. Dimraeth is in active development toward Early Access Release on September 15th 2026. Wishlist and follow us to get updates, early access to content, and help shape the future of Dimraeth with our community.
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Air pollution is a serious public health risk, contributing to an estimated 30,000 deaths in the U.K. alone last year. Data-driven insights can help — but computing air quality with traditional chemistry-based models is expensive, which limits how detailed they can be and how regularly they can be run.
David Topping, a professor in the University of Manchester’s department of Earth and environmental science, saw that the NVIDIA Earth-2 family of open AI models and tools had cracked a related problem for weather forecasting — and asked whether the same generative frameworks could work for pollution fields.
“The biggest challenge is the compute required to forecast air quality,” said Topping. “Once you put chemistry into weather models, they get really, really slow. So I said, why don’t we try using the generative frameworks that NVIDIA develops for climate and weather for pollution fields?”
Working with the NVIDIA Earth-2 team, Topping and colleagues generated training data from existing chemistry-climate simulations, then trained Earth-2 CorrDiff — a generative downscaling model — on Isambard-AI, the U.K.’s national AI supercomputer in Bristol.
The model worked on the first attempt.
The team has since added Earth-2 StormCast, a model that enables time-dependent forecasts that directly use air quality observations, and showed the test-training and inference workflows running on the NVIDIA DGX Spark personal AI supercomputer.
“To improve human health, it’s essential that we understand the impact of environmental stressors in the air we breathe,” said Topping. “Our U.K.-wide pollution model allows us to model potential future scenarios, such as predicting what would happen if different pollution-related government policy changes went into effect.
Video credit: Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) @ University of Bristol
Another potential application is proactive air quality insights for healthcare organizations. Topping envisions a scenario where regional and national healthcare services could reach out to patients with conditions like asthma to let them know that air pollution is going to be high in their area tomorrow, or next week.
The team is also exploring how the air pollution model could pair with data from edge AI devices to ingest real-time air quality data and drive real-time decision making, such as in the event of a wildfire.
“The fact that this model trained in two days on Isambard-AI — and can now run on a DGX Spark sitting on a desk — changes who can do this science and how quickly,” said Niall Robinson, developer relations manager for weather and climate at NVIDIA. “We’re just at the beginning of what these open workflows can do globally.”
“The ability to switch from one NVIDIA framework to another was really impressive,” said Hao Zhang, a doctoral student at the University of Manchester who trained StormCast on Isambard-AI. “We’re only just starting to explore how to use these frameworks in different ways to model complex pollution fields.”
From National Supercomputer to the Desktop
To retrain the Earth-2 model for air pollution, Topping and the team used a year’s worth of U.K. pollution data simulated at hourly intervals to generate a detailed, U.K.-wide pollution model at a resolution of 2-3 square kilometers.
Running on a single, eight-GPU node on Isambard-AI — the U.K.’s most powerful AI supercomputer, packed with 5,448 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips delivering 21 exaflops of AI performance — the process took just two days.
“Earth-2 CorrDiff has shown an incredibly efficient use of the world-class NVIDIA hardware inside Isambard-AI,” said Simon McIntosh-Smith, director of the Bristol Centre for Supercomputingat University of Bristol and cofounder of Isambard-AI. “It’s fitting that, for a climate-based project, the GPU hours used were relatively low, requiring less power from the supercomputer to run the workloads.”
In addition to providing a look back at air pollution over the past year, the model can help predict future air pollution scenarios for the U.K. The team plans to further increase the resolution of its model by incorporating additional open data, enabling researchers to understand air pollution at street scale.
The same generative pollution workflow also runs on the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip-powered DGX Spark desktop AI system for inference and smaller training runs. Topping now has an DGX Spark system in his office retraining models.
“You can now invest a few thousand dollars to get started developing powerful AI models,” Topping said.
Open Science, Agentic Future
The team plans to release open source training data and workflows for the pollution models will be released so that similar models can be trained for other countries and regions.
“Our aim is to offer this workflow to the entire world,” he said. “We hope that every global country and every major city with a small burst of supercomputer AI time will be able to produce their own detailed pollution models with their own local data.”
Looking five years out, Topping sees the endpoint as something simpler still: an agentic interface where a clinician or government agency asks the question and the chain of models handles everything else.
“With better open access to air quality observations, someone could ask our pollution model running on DGX Spark: what’s the pollution going to be like in this neighborhood tomorrow?” he said. “And a whole chain of interactions will deliver an answer, grounded on the science these frameworks represent.”
Product quality is often judged long before anyone looks at the specifications. The moment someone picks up a product, presses a button, or simply notices its appearance, they begin forming opinions about whether it feels durable, refined, premium, or cheaply made. Those first impressions are shaped by CMF design, which stands for color, material, and finish. More than just a design element, CMF influences how people perceive a product through its appearance, texture, sound, and overall feel.
For companies looking to create products that leave a strong first impression, Cad Crowd connects businesses with experienced industrial designers, product design experts, and CAD professionals who understand how thoughtful CMF decisions can elevate both product quality and brand perception. Whether you’re developing a new product or refining an existing one, working with the right design talent can help transform a great idea into a product customers immediately trust and appreciate.
Perceived Quality is the notion that forms in a customer about the product’s durability, craftsmanship, and value. This is based on perception, and not on the measurable performance of the product.
An example of perceived quality is that the two bottles may hold the same amount of liquid and are made from the same materials. Yet, the one bottle feels light, uncomfortable in grip, and makes sound; it also has a thin finish. People will have this notion that the product has a low quality. This perception takes place as the brain uses sensory shortcuts to form an idea and judge the product in an instant. One frequently associates the following:
– Heavier objects are made with substance and durability.
– Controlled sounds are precise.
– Comfortable textures are handled with care and craftsmanship.
– The refined finishes have attention to detail and sophistication.
CMF: the foundation of premium product feel
CMF design is found to be the discipline that integrates Color, Material, and Finish to generate the sensory identity of the product.
Color – Color affects the emotion, the brand recognition, and the visual appeal of the product.
Material – The material determines the warmth, durability, and rigidity, as well as the tactile comfort.
Finish – Finish controls the reflection, texture, fingerprint visibility, and the total visual character of the product.
Color attracts the attention of the customers first, but the material and the finish determine how the product will feel during the interaction with it. Even if it is a beautiful product, it can lose its appeal when it is uncomfortable and unpleasant to use. CMF should be planned carefully to guarantee that a product feels intentional and premium. Even a technically sophisticated product development design project servicesmay seem cheap or poorly constructed when it is handled as an afterthought.
The four sensory levels of perceived quality:
Weight: why heavier often feels better
Weight is considered one of the strongest signals in perceived quality. A lot of weight is associated with being durable, stable, and of value. Weight matters in durability, as heavier products feel stronger and less fragile. A product that seems to be noticeable in weight can be more of a value as it is perceived to have more material. When a product’s weight is stable, the product will be reliable in use and more secure.
An example of weight in design is that luxury watches are often designed to have enough weight to feel substantial and light on the wrist. Heavier materials are used in high-end kitchen appliances to give a sense of sturdiness. Yet, having more weight is not always good. Excessive weight can be uncomfortable to use, such as for portable products like laptops, smartphones, or headphones. The best way is to find the right and suitable balance, so that a product can become substantial without compromising its convenience.
Internal weighting – To enhance the balance and give the product a more significant feel, a small weight can be added inside the product.
Material selection – It is important to consider the materials, as they can influence the weight. Such materials are metals, dense plastics, and composite materials.
Balance point – In comparison to a product that feels awkward in weight, a more refined one is seen frequently in hand.
Context – The ideal weight of a product will depend. A luxury appliance can benefit from weight, and a wearable gadget can feel light but still robust.
Texture: designing through touch
The method and the manner in which a surface responds to the touch is called the texture. It will give the product a cozy, smooth, grippy, tough, or opulent feel. Texture will work best when it matches the intended use of the product.
How texture influences perception:
Comfort – A product will feel pleasant and ergonomic when the materials have a soft touch.
Control – The grips of the texture can improve the handling and will reduce the chances of slipping.
Luxury – Fine textures that convey sophistication include leather-like surfaces and brushed metal.
Cleanliness – A product will appear hygienic and well crafted when it is smooth, and the textures are refined.
Soft-touch coatings are seen in products such asautomotive interiors design services, handheld tools, and electronics. These coatings center on having a smooth, rubberized feel that a lot of users can interpret and associate with comfort and premium quality. The benefits of using soft-touch coatings include improved grip, a more luxurious tactile experience, and a reduced perception of the cheapness or hardness of a product.
Mold textures and SPI grades
SPI surface finish grades are frequently used to specify texture in injection molding. The texture that is applied to the mold surface and subsequently transferred to the molded part is described by these grades. Common effects of the mold textures include fine textures, which hide the minor scratches and fingerprints. Medium texture can provide a balanced tactile feel, and coarse texture improves the grip and gives a rugged appearance.
Draft angles for textured parts
The textured injection-molded parts typically need 3°–5° draft angles to release easily and cleanly from the mold. However, deeper textures may need a greater draft. This directly relates to the design principles of injection molding services: geometry and surface finish need to be taken into account simultaneously. If the draft angle is not properly adjusted, a texture that appears appealing in a rendering could lead to manufacturing issues.
An example of a texture in a product design is when a camera grip may utilize a fine textured surface in order to have secure handling. As well as a power tool, a coarse texture may be used to improve the durability and grip of the product.
Sound: the hidden signal of quality
In a product design services, sound is overlooked, yet it influences the perceived quality of the product. When a product is opened, pressed, or operated, noise will be made, and it will shape the user’s impression of the craftsmanship. Even if the user isn’t paying attention to the sound, a product that sounds sophisticated can seem more precise and costly.
Why sound matters:
Precision – Sound matters as it can suggest careful engineering, the crisp click, or smooth mechanical sound.
Durability – Controlled sounds will make the products more robust.
Feedback – When a button is pressed, or a lid is closed, sound verifies that the action has been finished.
Emotion – A brand’s identity can be strengthened, and satisfaction can be generated by pleasant sounds.
Door-thunk Engineering
A manufacturer in the automotive field invests in having door-trunk engineering. When the sound of a car door closing is solid and controlled, it will make the vehicle feel safer to ride in and more premium. Designing the door seals, panel stiffness, latch mechanisms, and damping materials carefully makes the effect.
It may be overlooked, but the sound and feel of a button press are essential. A controlled click relays a message that it is precise and reliable, while an inconsistent click will make the user feel the product is poorly engineered. The designers should consider the tactile response and the switch type, the travel distance of the button, the required force to activate the button, and lastly, the enclosure resonance, as it will affect how the sound will be amplified or muted.
Dampened battery doors and access panels
If battery doors, covers, and access panels are not properly designed, they can easily produce rattling or hollow noises. Strengthening the structure, adding damping materials, and enhancing fit tolerances can achieve a smoother, quieter closing process. An example of sound in product design is that when the lid of the laptop closes softly, the controlled sounds feel more refined. A camera shutter sound can be tuned to be satisfying and feel precise. As well as, a battery compartment that closes silently and without rattling suggests better craftsmanship.
The partnership, together with the designers and acoustic engineers, fine-tunes the sound. It can undermine the perception of quality when a product rattles or squeaks, even if the product works and functions properly.
Finish mainly refers to the treatment that is applied to the product’s surface, such as matte, glossy, brushed, textured coatings, or polished. The use of the finish will affect how both the product and the finish will feel and look.
Common finishes and effects
Finish
Perceived Effect
Perceived Effect
Matte
The effect is modern, understated, sophisticated, premium, and a fingerprint-resistant.
The effect is modern, understated, sophisticated, premium, and a fingerprint-resistant.
Glossy
The effect of glossy finished feels luxurious, polished, eye-catching, vibrant, and more prone to having fingerprints
The effect of glossy finished feels luxurious, polished, eye-catching, vibrant, and more prone to having fingerprints.
Brushed metal
Technical, durable, premium are the effect that should be seen.
Technical, durable, premium are the effect that should be seen.
Soft-touch coating
It should be comfortable, refined, and user-friendly
It should be comfortable, refined, and user-friendly.
Textured finish
Practical, grippy, durable is the effect when textured finish is used.
Practical, grippy, durable is the effect when textured finish is used.
Satin
Satin effect is the balanced finish that combines sophistication with controlled reflection.
Satin effect is the balanced finish that combines sophistication with controlled reflection.
Fingerprint visibility is an integral part that should be considered, such as in high-gloss surfaces, where it often shows fingerprints and smudges clearly. When the surface is matte, it hides fingerprints better, and lastly, textured matte finishes reduce the visibility of minor scratches and smudges.
Examples of the finished products are the following:
– A product that is matte black, especially on an electronic device, may feel professional and sleek.
– A polished metal watch can have an impression that it is a luxury, and there will be attention to detail.
– When a product like a laptop is finished in brushed aluminum, it can suggest precision engineering and durability.
The function of the finish can affect the longevity and maintenance of a product. When a finish is premium-looking but scratches easily, it can reduce the perceived quality. Moreover, it is especially necessary for product designers to look into both the aesthetics and the real-world durability of a product.
A product may function perfectly, but it can be durable and still be abandoned as it is uncomfortable and frustrating to use. Various studies have shown that user experience and consumer behavior have demonstrated discomfort, awkward handling, and unpleasant tactile feedback, as well as poor perception of the quality, which will then lead to reduced satisfaction and long-term engagement.
Some examples are the following:
– A remote control that is slick and cheap.
– A skin-irritating wearable device.
– A rattling battery door when in use.
– A shiny surface that appears smudged all the time.
– A button that is inconsistent or mushy.
Issues may seem small and minor individually, but when gathered together, they will create a lasting impression on the overall quality of the product. Users may tend to stop using a product when it feels frustrating or unpleasant to use even if it functions properly.
Writing CMF specifications into a design brief
To guarantee that the freelancers and the industrial designers, together with the manufacturing partners, provide the product experience, the CMF needs and requirements should be documented properly in the design brief.
Pantone or RAL values, color tolerance, and brand intent.
Material
Resin type, metal alloy, coating material, and performance requirements.
Texture
SPI texture grade, tactile target, and required draft angle range.
Finish
Matte, gloss, satin, roughness target, and fingerprint resistance expectations.
Weight
Target mass, balance point, and whether deliberate weighting is desired.
Sound
Desired button click character, closure sound, and damping requirements.
Here is an example of how to write using the CMF language. The use of the details will help the freelancers understand the intended sensory experience rather than having an assumption about the general aesthetic references.
”On textured walls, the handheld enclosure should have a matte SPI-B1 texture with a minimum draft of 3°.” Under typical indoor lighting project services, the surface should have a smooth, non-slip feel and be impervious to fingerprints. There should be no internal component rattling and a clear but muted click from the buttons.”
Using 3D-printed CMF samples to reduce risk
It is important to note that before investing in the production tooling, teams should evaluate the 3D-printed CMF samples to test the weight, texture, finish, and user perception.
The benefits of early CMF prototyping include comparing the matte, gloss, satin, and textured finishes side by side. It also tests how the difference in textures can feel in the hand; it evaluates the visual impact of the coatings and the color options. Gathering user feedback on the perceived quality is a must before investing in tooling, identifying issues such as the visibility of fingerprints or uncomfortable surface feel.
3D-printed sample design services are a useful tool for risk mitigation of the CMF decisions and aligning stakeholders prior to manufacturing, even though they might not exactly match final production materials. Early 3D-printed sample testing and explicit CMF requirements in the design brief help guarantee that independent industrial designers and manufacturers provide the desired experience rather than depending on conjecture.
Visual direction for the design team
As the perceived quality is highly sensory, there should be a comparison of imagery to guide and show how the CMF choices affect the perception. The captions should explain both how the visuals are different and how each variation makes changes in the user’s perception of quality.
The perceived quality of a product comes from the combination of its weight, texture, sound, and finish. These sensory details communicate durability, comfort, precision, and brand value long before customers evaluate the product’s technical performance. Using CMF as a strategic design discipline helps product teams create products that feel premium, comfortable, and intentionally designed. In competitive markets where many products offer similar functionality, the product that delivers the best overall experience often stands out.
If you’re looking to bring that level of quality to your next product, Cad Crowd can connect you with experienced industrial designers, product development specialists, and CAD professionals who understand how to balance aesthetics, functionality, and manufacturability. With access to a global network of vetted experts, businesses can confidently develop products that not only meet technical specifications but also leave a lasting impression on customers.
How Cad Crowd can help
Creating products that feel premium requires more than meeting technical specifications. Cad Crowd connects businesses with experienced industrial designers, product development specialists, and CAD professionals who understand how color, material, finish, texture, and ergonomics shape customer perception. From concept development and CMF strategy to prototyping and manufacturing support, our vetted experts help turn product ideas into high-quality designs that stand out in the market. Request a free quote today and find the right design team for your next product development project.
MacKenzie Brown is the founder and CEO of Cad Crowd. With over 18 years of experience in launching and scaling platforms specializing in CAD services, product design, manufacturing, hardware, and software development, MacKenzie is a recognized authority in the engineering industry. Under his leadership, Cad Crowd serves esteemed clients like NASA, JPL, the U.S. Navy, and Fortune 500 companies, empowering innovators with access to high-quality design and engineering talent.
Wondering how to fish in Valheim? When you’re not slaying Odin’s enemies in the Norse underworld, it makes perfect sense to kick back with a relaxing bit of fishing. And if you’ve spent time on a raft or ship, or even just wandered close to a body of water, you’ve probably already seen a few fish swimming around. But how do you catch them? Don’t worry, it’s not hard, but you’ll need a little bit of gear and a lot of stamina.
Valheim fishing rod: How to get it
It’s a bit unfortunate that in a world where you craft all your own gear, you can’t craft a fishing rod. But at least there’s Haldor, the vendor you’ll (eventually) find in the black forest.
Haldor sells fishing rods for 350 coins, and sells 20 pieces of basic bait for 10 coins.
If you’re a real gambler, you can attempt to find a fishing rod out in the world. They are very rarely found as loot in frost caves in the mountains biome. I’d probably stick with buying one from Haldor, though: I’ve got over 150 hours in Valheim and I’ve never found a fishing rod in a frost cave.
How to fish in Valheim
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Fishing is stamina based: you’ll need to spend stamina to reel your fish in, so prepare yourself as you would going into battle: by eating enough food to give you a full stamina bar and by bringing some stamina meads with you.
With the rod equipped and the bait selected in your inventory (by right-clicking it), press mouse 1 (or your attack button) to cast your line into the water. When a fish swims near and nibbles—your bobbin will be tugged—click mouse 2 (or your block button). That will instantly hook your fish.
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To reel in your fish, hold down mouse 2: that will drain your stamina while reeling in the fish. If you run out of stamina before you finish reeling it in, the fish will escape.
When the fish is close to you, you’ll be able to target it with your crosshairs and press E (or your use button) to pick it up.
Fishing tips
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Fish are physical entities that spawn into the world, so if you don’t see any fish in the water nearby, you’re not going to catch anything.
To find fish, run along the edge of the water and try to spot them swimming around, then aim your cast there.
You can also take a boat out into the water to look for groups of fish. Just watch out for sea serpents, which are a little too big to land with a fishing rod.
You can craft bait from fish you catch using the food preparation table. The food preparation table can be made with 5 iron, 15 leather scraps, and 20 finewood.
Make sure you have spare room in your inventory for your catches!
You can also catch fish by hand if you’re fast enough. They sometimes wash up on beaches, too.
There’s a fishing hat you’ll learn to craft by catching at least one of every different fish in Valheim. It gives you a +20 to your fishing skill.
What do you do when your faith in God is tested? When things seem like and physically LOOK LIKE something contrary to the Bible?
Do you believe what the Bible says and your convictions or do you believe what you see with your own eyes?
It’s definitely a tightrope to walk. We want to be wise and smart, listening to our guts, watching for proof and what we see, making wise decisions based on TRUTH, but we also need to have faith and trust God in times when things don’t look like He cares or is there or even knows what He’s doing. Because the Bible is clear that He does!
Not only does He know exactly what He’s doing and cares for us, but He also has a GOOD plan for us (Jeremiah 29:11). Everything He does is for our good, even when we can’t see it at the time.
Our minds are limited, finite, and we need to trust Him in all things, with our lives, IN our lives, in our daily walks with Him, in every aspect of our living out the Christian faith.
These Bible verses about faith that starts with A-Z will help you learn more about faith, see it practiced out by Biblical figures in the pages of Scripture, and really help us to understand what faith is really all about. 💖
If you love these Bible verses about trust and faith, you’ll love these other A-Z guides…
30 Bible Verses About Faith (Examples of Faith in the Bible)
Faith is SO much more than simply saying we believe in God. It’s trusting Him when we can’t see what He’s doing, believing His promises are true when things seem like they’re not, obeying when He calls us forward, and continuing to walk with Him even when the road ahead feels uncertain.
There are so many beautiful Bible verses on faith, and I wanted to study them a little differently! Instead of giving you a simple Scriptures about faith list, I organized these Scriptures from A-Z by the truths they teach us about faith.
From assurance and believing to trust, victory, and walking by faith, these faith in God Bible verses show us what genuine Biblical faith looks like and continually point us back to the One our faith is IN. ❤️
Let’s walk through Bible verses about having faith from A-Z!
Let’s dive in…
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With A
Acknowledge Him – Proverbs 3:5-6 (Bible verse about trusting God)
Asking in Faith – James 1:5-8
Assurance – Hebrews 11:1
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With B
Believe – John 11:40
Believe in Christ – John 3:16
Blessed for Believing – John 20:29
Boldness – Hebrews 4:16
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With C
Christ in Your Heart – Ephesians 3:14-19
Confidence – Hebrews 10:22-23
Creation – Hebrews 11:3
Crucified With Christ – Galatians 2:20
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With D
Do Not Doubt – Matthew 21:21-22
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With E
Eternal Life – John 3:16
Endurance – James 1:2-3
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With F
Faith – 1 Corinthians 13:13
Faith Comes by Hearing – Romans 10:17
Faith in God – Mark 11:22-24
Faith Like a Mustard Seed – Matthew 17:20
Faith That Works – James 2:17
Faithful Promise – Hebrews 11:11
Fight the Good Fight – 1 Timothy 6:12
Finished the Race – 2 Timothy 4:7
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With G
Grace Through Faith – Ephesians 2:8-9
Glory of God – John 11:40
God Is Able – Luke 1:37
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With H
Hearing the Word – Romans 10:17
Hope – Hebrews 11:1
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With I
Impossible Without Faith – Hebrews 11:6
Inner Strength – Ephesians 3:14-19
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With J
Jesus, the Bread of Life – John 6:35
Joy in Believing – 1 Peter 1:8-9 (Bible verse about strong faith)
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With K
Keep the Faith – 2 Timothy 4:7
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With L
Live by Faith – Romans 1:17
Living Water – John 7:38
Love and Faith – 1 Corinthians 13:13
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With M
Mountain-Moving Faith – Matthew 17:20
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With N
Never Thirst – John 6:35
Nothing Is Impossible – Luke 1:37
Not Seen – Hebrews 11:1
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With O
Obedience – Hebrews 11:8
Overcoming the World – 1 John 5:4
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With P
Power of God – 1 Corinthians 2:3-5
Prayer of Faith – James 5:14-15
Prayer With Faith – Mark 11:22-24
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With Q
Quenching Flaming Darts – Ephesians 6:16
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With R
Resurrection and Life – John 11:25-26
Righteousness by Faith – Romans 3:22
Righteous Shall Live by Faith – Romans 1:17
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With S
Salvation – Ephesians 2:8-9
Salvation of Your Souls – 1 Peter 1:8-9
Shield of Faith – Ephesians 6:16
Steadfastness – James 1:2-3
Strong in Faith – 1 Peter 5:9
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With T
Testing of Faith – James 1:2-3
Trust – Psalm 62:8
Trust in the Lord – Proverbs 3:5-6
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With U
Understanding by Faith – Hebrews 11:3
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With V
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With W
Walk by Faith – 2 Corinthians 5:7
Weak in Faith – Romans 14:1
Wisdom – James 1:5-8
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With X
Xerxes’ Queen – Esther 4:14-16 (Scripture on believing God)
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With Y
Yet Shall He Live – John 11:25-26
Yet Believing – 1 Peter 1:8-9
Bible Verses About Faith That Starts With Z
Zechariah’s Unbelief – Luke 1:18-20
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Chen Yilong has racked up plenty of film and TV credits in his two decades as an actor, but with work getting scarcer he signed a contract in August to license the image of his face to a Chinese production studio. Chen’s role will be to sit in front of a video camera and make facial expressions at the prompt of a director. A neutral stare. An angry glare. A look of surprise. Using artificial intelligence, the studio will use images of Chen’s face to generate an avatar, also known as a “digital human,” to star in an AI-generated movie. “If you can’t beat it, join it,” said Chen, 38, who works in Beijing.
The Chinese film and video industry is being transformed by AI-driven storytelling, fueled by rapid advances in video generation software, and at ground zero are the so-called micro dramas that play out on millions of smartphones. Typically just a minute or two in length, the videos are devoured by Chinese audiences… And the cost of producing them has been cut drastically through the use of AI software developed by Chinese technology juggernauts including Kuaishou Technology and TikTok’s global owner, ByteDance. The number of Chinese-made micro dramas surged in the first three months of this year to 128,000, according to the China Netcasting Services Assn. More than 95% of them were made with AI, the association said….
Sun Wei founded Feixiang Universe, the Shenzhen-based studio that cast Chen. The fear of accidentally “stealing someone’s face” was a big reason she said she decided to license real people’s likenesses for an AI production set during China’s Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago. Thanks to AI’s training data bias, AI-generated performers tend to have similar features and share a homogenous look, Sun said. Many have flawless skin and extremely symmetrical faces, requiring her and other Chinese AI filmmakers to cast a wide net to “buy” new faces and digitize actor’s expressions. Lu Beike, who directed the big-budget Chinese series “Three-Body,” felt theAI-generated scenes he’d tried came out sub-standard. “Lu added that if 90% of a film was generated by AI, a real human performance could appear jarring. A real actor’s expressions carried more nuance and emotion. The skin textures did not match. Sometimes the only solution was to process the live-action material until the person looked a little less real — until they fit back into the ‘AI world,’ Lu said.”
But at Sun Wei’s studio, they’re thrilled they can produce a 90-minute AI film for $500,000 where professional productions used to cost millions of dollars. According to the article, Sun’s team works with ChatGPT, Kimi or DeepSeek to flesh out entire screenplays from a short paragraph. The screenwriter takes over, but “to produce the finished product, Sun’s team uses Chinese video-generation models to input the type of scenes, backgrounds and performers they want, with the AI generating 15 seconds of footage each time.”
Still, the article points out that “Similar tools are being tested in the U.S., and the AI trends upending China’s entertainment industry may be a harbinger for what’s to come in Hollywood, said Michael Berry, a professor specializing in contemporary Chinese culture at UCLA. Already, Chinese companies that sell AI-powered video-generation software are seeking inroads in Hollywood…”
I appreciate that there’s a lot more to D&D Arcana Unleashed than finally being able to play as a proper Necromancer, but come on. Yes, being able tosummon a dinosaur (?!) is all good and well. But being able to boss around what may as well be a skeleton butler, presumably while cackling like a supervillain? That’s too delicious.
A pair of mysticism-infused books just hit shelves, and they boast some killer options for players who want to add a dose of magic to their game. The first, D&D Arcana Unleashed, provides a host of new subclasses (including the aforementioned Necromancer), mystical backgrounds, and feats for spell-slinging fans while also offering plenty of options for Dungeon Masters. Meanwhile, D&D Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall is a high-stakes campaign for levels 11-20 that’s pitched as a wizard spy thriller.
I’ve been hands-on with both of these, and they do feel like a treasure trove for anyone wanting to play magically-themed characters – or DMs who’d like to give their world a more mystical feel. I’ve got plenty of thoughts on this below, but the TL:DR version is that Arcana Unleashed will be a worthwhile purchase if you love spellcasting characters, or want to create a homebrew world/campaign bursting at the seams with arcane shenanigans. Especially because publisher Wizards of the Coast seems to have cast ‘discount’ in honor of launch; the books are currently available at record-low prices via Amazon.
Arcana Unleashed is likely to get the most attention, and that’s fair enough. It provides eight arcane subclasses for Wizards, Clerics, Fighters, Monks, and Warlocks, not to mention magic-themed backgrounds and a host of original Feats to go with them. These feel worth the price of admission on the whole, especially due to that excellent Necromancer build. While I’ve got a soft spot for the Arcane Archer (who can use magical arrows to pull off nonsense like sending a foe to an alternate dimension for one turn), the Necromancer comes out of this particularly well.
Before now, it was harder than it should have been to create a fully-fledged Necromancer Wizard; you only got access to key Necromancy spells at a higher level. Arcana Unleashed fixes that, and it makes some clever tweaks that let you lean into those tropes right away. To begin with, it gives you the first-level ‘Find Familiar’ spell and lets you summon a zombie or skeleton with it instead. That’s huge; you no longer need to wait for the third-level Animate Dead to call on deceased corpses for aid. In addition, you can use them as a syphon to regain health. Then, at level six, you can cast Animate Dead once per long rest without expending a spell slot. I could go on, but you probably get the idea. Our own Guides Editor and all-round D&D fan Joel Franey used the Necromancer subclass in a oneshot I ran this month, and he called it the most fun he’d had with the game for a while.
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When combined with a host of new spells, magic items, and patrons that can give your party direction, there’s a surprising amount here despite the book’s comparatively small size. I enjoyed leafing through the world-building section, for example; it was thought-provoking and sparked my imagination.
Speaking of which, the campaign – Deadfall – is also passing the smell test so far. I’m still knee-deep in it, but from what I’ve read it’s a fascinating deep dive into Thay that feels radically different to so much of the Forgotten Realms. As a thoroughly twisted place where mages rule with cruel abandon, it’s the perfect adventure site… and the adventure being a “spy thriller” gives it a radically different air too. As a case in point, one of the early missions reminds me of Hitman; you’ve got to take out a cadre of villains, but how you do so is up to you. Cue an Ocean’s Eleven ‘planning’ montage.
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In short, I’m having a lot more fun than I’d expected with this duo of books; even though they’re shorter than many typical D&D releases, they provide endless options.
