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Apple has long positioned its wearable as an iPhone accessory, but the Series 7’s bigger screen and new capabilities make it a worthy contender as a temporary phone replacement. Ditching your phone means you’ll have fewer distractions and lighter pockets. There even could be safety benefits if you’re not tempted to glance at your phone constantly. “Mobile phone distraction has been a problem since the advent of smartphones,” tech expert Daniel Levine told Lifewire in an email interview....

Obviously DnD Beyond has been a major resource for tabletop RPG fans who want to keep playing at a distance. The digital toolbox allows DMs to access tons of rules, players to edit and manage character sheets, and it even has some very smart integrations with Discord. The officially-supported Discord bot of DnDBeyond, called Avrae, goes a lot further than simple roll1d20 commands and can be a very powerful tool once Dungeons and Dragons players and the DM master its command lines....

Dungeons and Dragons 5E, while expanding upon the previous versions of the beloved title, still affords fans plenty of room to have unique adventures. Some dungeon masters are so dedicated to the title that they spend countless hours crafting individual props/components that leave their parties in awe, and this mansion dungeon certainly fits this description. RELATED: Final Fantasy 14 Fan Creates New Table Top Roleplaying System Based on 5e...

Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness is transparently inspired by BioWare’s classic Dungeons & Dragons cRPGs and proud to say so. Core features include real-time tactical combat (with pause) with a high level of difficulty, rich lore filled with unique NPCs and memorable companions, and a fantasy world in which players will be able to explore thoroughly. Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness is available to pick up and play starting now on PC via Steam and GOG....

New Dungeons and Dragons books arrive a handful of times throughout the year and offer players and dungeon masters new tools for building characters, expanding their home brew worlds, or even providing fully detailed campaign settings to help dungeon masters customize a world for their own players. Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft falls into that last category and will be a campaign sourcebook that provides a detailed guide to running adventures in Raveloft along with with new subclasses, Dark Gifts, and Ravenloft’s expanded Domains of Dread....

Founded in 2011 by University of Pittsburgh lecturer Luis von Ahn and one of his post-graduate students, Severin Hacker, Duolingo (opens in new tab) now has over 500 million registered users worldwide. Rosetta Stone (opens in new tab) – named after the ancient stone slab on which the Decree of Memphis is inscribed in three writing systems – was founded in 1992 by Virginian brothers Allen and Eugene Stoltzfus, along with Allen’s brother-in-law John Fairfield....

The issue of teams resting stars has come into focus again in recent weeks, with the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers both receiving criticism for leaving out stars such as Stephen Curry and LeBron James for games on national TV. NBA commissioner Adam Silver reportedly sent a memo to teams, warning them that they could face “significant penalties” for not meeting rules surrounding notifying the league and opponents when players will be unavailable....

Salvador Panelo, who is also Duterte’s chief legal counsel, made the remarks in explaining a speech given by the president on Monday in which he called on Filipino politicians to revise the constitution to protect his leadership from the military, The Manila Times reported. Duterte purportedly fears that the Filipino military will act on its constitutional role as protector of the people to forcibly remove him from office over the country’s myriad problems, including official corruption, the brutal war on drugs, and terrorism....

The incident took place in the late afternoon shortly after 4:30 p.m., The Los Angeles Times reported.The disrupted vaccine clinic was set up along the 22900 block of Market Street in Newhall, a community located in Santa Clarita, California. Officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were called to the clinic after the vehicle drove into the area, according to local news station KTLA. In addition to striking the clinic worker, the vehicle also knocked over signs and traffic cones that were set up in the space....

Detroit is already finding ways to design–and pitch–its products to older driv-ers. Take the Lincoln Town Car, a favorite among the elderly (buyers’ average age is 67). It features two sets of radio and air-conditioning controls, one on the dashboard and one on the steering wheel. The reason: older drivers have trouble shifting their attention from the car’s controls back to the road, so putting a set on the wheel minimizes the distraction....

Stadiums such as the MCG, the Adelaide Oval or the Optus stadium in Perth, don’t host just cricket matches. They also provide the turf to football, rugby and AFL contests on the same grounds. Once the ground is done hosting its cricket matches for the season, the pitches are taken out to greenhouses or other grounds where they are made for the rest of the year. It is one of the major benefits of having a drop-in pitch....

Waqar said the big-hitting all-rounder “did not even try” as the Caribbean side slid to a 59-run defeat in pursuit of an imposing 338 for victory at Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Sunday, reports CMC. Pollard entered in the 38th over with the West Indies on 194 for four and facing a required run rate of nearly 12 runs an over but displayed little aggressive intent. “His approach and the way he played in this game and in any of the T20 games, you’re destroying the morale of the team,” said Waqar on Monday, the second highest wicket-taker in Pakistan Test history with 373 scalps from 87 games....

At Melwood on Friday, Jurgen Klopp was asked whether the German will be restored as Liverpool’s starting goalkeeper against Tottenham on Saturday following his counterpart’s recent failings between the posts. “No, I have decided nothing in this case,” Klopp said. “Obviously, we had not 100 fantastic games in a row, so that involves different players, myself and everything.” Both will have reached the same conclusion after hearing these quotes and digested it differently....

The trees are perishing in greater numbers and faster than previously seen before, especially near Fallen Leaf Lake and around North Lake Tahoe, Rita Mustatia, forest silviculturist for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the U.S. Forest Service, told SFGate. “Drought and the stress brought on by drought conditions increases the potential for the spread of insects and diseases that can infest, cause damage to or kill trees,” Mustatia said....

Plekanec scored in his milestone game, and Jonathan Drouin added two goals to lead Montreal to a 7-3 victory over the winless Detroit Red Wings. Julien was also behind the bench for Plekanec’s very first NHL game in 2003. “He was really skating well, he had lots of energy,” said Julien, who also coached Plekanec in his first NHL game in 2003. “You could see he was excited to play his 1,000th game and he wanted it to be a good memory for him....

And that’s just on the weekend. Work is worse. Consider Carl Melby, a loan officer at Chase Manhattan Bank in Chicago. He says he’d get rid of his info-gadgets (he wears two pagers and a cell phone) if his job would let him. Or Charles Cobbs, a 33-year-old neurosurgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco, who says he must carry a cell phone, laptop computer and a handheld organizer to stay on top of his busy schedule....

Those were the days. With Afghanistan now growing nearly 200,000 hectares of poppies and supplying a full 93 percent of the world’s opium, U.S. officials are stepping up counternarcotics efforts in the restive southern provinces of Afghanistan, a move that triggered a bloody six-hour gunfight last week. The clash, the first in this year’s aggressive new campaign to eradicate poppy fields, killed 25 Taliban militants fighting to protect the crops and one policeman fighting to raze them....

Having dry eye could feel irritating and make you want to touch your eye area more often, which could raise your risk of getting coronavirus. Your eyes, along with your nose and mouth, are potential ways that COVID-19 can enter the body. Explore how dry eye affects your risk of getting COVID-19, complications that may develop, how dry eye treatments may affect your risks, and how to stay safe....

After touring around the world, the pop singer showed her appreciation to the country and her fans on Twitter. “All I can say is the deepest of thank yous for a year that has pushed me to grow beyond anything I could’ve imagined with the greatest people to share it with,” the singer wrote. In her globetrotting tour of 94 shows, Lipa began in the United States. Throughout the year, she performed in many other countries, including England, Germany, France, Austria, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and New Zealand before wrapping up in Albania—where she performed in front of 200,000 fans....

Date: 23 February 2022 Tournament: Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2022 Round: Second Round (Round of 16) Venue: Dubai, UAE Category: ATP 500 Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt Prize money: $2,794,840 Andy Murray vs Jannik Sinner preview Fourth seed Jannik Sinner will take on former World No. 1 Andy Murray in the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Wednesday. The Italian started the year well, winning all three of his singles matches at the ATP Cup....