In an interview this week with Norm from Tested, Valve hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat and product designer Lawrence Yang hinted at the form that headset might take, and a potential key feature.
Ah, yes. The “let’s bloat our game size to bully other games off your SSD so you’ll be reluctant to ever uninstall it, because reinstalling it would be a big pain, that way you’ll play it indefinitely and give us extra money in micro transactions” strategy.
Developed by Hyper Games and based on Finnish author Tove Jansson’s beloved Moomin series — which debuted a whopping 78 years ago — the brand-new ‘Friends in the Valley’ trailer below gives an idea of the gameplay and “over 50” characters you’ll encounter on a musical quest that, , is inspired by the original...
It wasn’t until only several years ago that I learned about Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories. Since then, they’ve become some of my favorite little characters. You can find full episodes of the old anime on YouTube and snuffkin is easily my favorite of the bunch. I want his hat for myself.
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide using AI as seen in a somewhat unsettling video posted by Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics used OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, along with some open-source large language models (LLM) to carefully train its responses. It then outfitted the bot with a speaker, added...
Someday we’ll all be dead and robot dogs will be giving tours to nothing. Some alien species will come across our planet and learn all about us through the ways in which the robots interact with nobody.
I dropped from yearly premium to extra before the price change deadline. I had intended to anyway since I only played a single game on the premium tier by the end of the year. However, if I don’t play enough games in the extra list to justify its new price by the time this year’s sub is up, I’ll drop to essential and leave it at that.
There are actually plenty of games I want to play on extra to justify its price, but they’re always finding their way further down my backlog. So if I just end up not playing them after a year, there’s just no value in that subscription for me. I do play online all the time, though, so I can somewhat justify essential.
Hello everyone. With more than 15k subscribers, I’m sure the Apple community has some great experiences to share with others. My question this week is, “What was the most clever way you’ve ever used an Apple product to solve a problem?”
Worked with some teachers in a school. Occasionally we’d forget something dumb at our desk like our attendance notebook or a stack of handouts for the students. In most cases there was usually someone from our group sitting around at our office space, doing a bit of prep work. We all used iPads in our lessons, so one day I used a combination of Siri Shortcuts with IFTTT, a smart plug and a cheap little lamp to create a quick little alert system that would inform a peer at the desk if something was left behind. The light would click on, and when someone noticed, they’d check the group chat to see who sent it and what was needed.
The internet was open/unmoderated long before the rise of this neo-Nazi, in-fighting, domestic-terrorist bullshit. There are propagandists to blame for this uprise of hate, be they religious extremists, foreign agents, or the billionaire class. It’s not the means by which their agenda is conveyed that’s the problem. Keep in mind that a free/unmoderated internet is how we are able to discuss such things in the first place. Imagine if one of them came along to “moderate” what you say.
My wife, a graphic designer, just showed me a new feature added to Photoshop that basically allows AI to take a close up portrait and turn it into a full sized photo by generating ideal content around the subject using a few simple prompts. It’s really impressive. All she has to do is touch it up to make sure it’s believable and appealing. I don’t really care, since most advertisement photography is fake anyway, but I worry how propagandists are going to exploit the hell out of AI.
Shawna Trpcic, an Emmy-nominated costume designer best known for her work on several Star Wars series on Disney+ and her collaborations with Joss Whedon, has died, her agency Gersh and Lucasfilm confirmed. She was 56. A cause of death was not provided but Trpcic’s passing was unexpected; as recently as three days ago she was...
It’s a fair question, but it makes me want to ask why downvotes even matter to anyone. They are usually outnumbered by upvotes in the first place, & aren’t even federated across instances (at least on Kbin).
I imagine there’s also an aspect of instilling a culture of shame around something that constitutes as a basic human need. That way people will invariably have at least one basic “temptation” to crawl into church to plead forgiveness over before seeking deeper religious indoctrination.
Valve Hints At Its VR Plans In Steam Deck OLED Interview (www.uploadvr.com)
In an interview this week with Norm from Tested, Valve hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat and product designer Lawrence Yang hinted at the form that headset might take, and a potential key feature.
A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly (www.wired.com)
YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers (www.wired.com)
RPGs for people who don't like RPGs
I have tried a ton of RPGs, and most just don’t click for me. Here are a few:...
Modern Warfare 3 download is huge (200GB) due to “increased amount of content” (www.pcgamesn.com)
Ah, yes. The “let’s bloat our game size to bully other games off your SSD so you’ll be reluctant to ever uninstall it, because reinstalling it would be a big pain, that way you’ll play it indefinitely and give us extra money in micro transactions” strategy.
Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new “anonymous and secure” AI chatbot (www.theverge.com)
Apple calls Android a 'massive tracking device' (9to5google.com)
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley | Friends in the valley trailer (www.youtube.com)
Developed by Hyper Games and based on Finnish author Tove Jansson’s beloved Moomin series — which debuted a whopping 78 years ago — the brand-new ‘Friends in the Valley’ trailer below gives an idea of the gameplay and “over 50” characters you’ll encounter on a musical quest that, , is inspired by the original...
GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" (www.eurogamer.net)
Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun (gizmodo.com)
Google is improving Maps with features including where to find EV charging stations and in-depth visualization.
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT (www.theverge.com)
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide using AI as seen in a somewhat unsettling video posted by Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics used OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, along with some open-source large language models (LLM) to carefully train its responses. It then outfitted the bot with a speaker, added...
The Apple Watch’s double tap points at a new way to use wearables - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Sony Defends PS Plus Price Hike, Explains Why It Won't Put Games There Day One - GameSpot (www.gamespot.com)
Question of the week: What was the most clever way you’ve ever used an Apple product to solve a problem?
Hello everyone. With more than 15k subscribers, I’m sure the Apple community has some great experiences to share with others. My question this week is, “What was the most clever way you’ve ever used an Apple product to solve a problem?”
Unmoderated internet should be banned
Unmoderated internet is controlling/manipulating people and destroying this society, future....
Into the Radius - Quest 2 vs. Quest 3 Graphics Comparison (youtu.be)
Google Allegedly Pays Over $18 Billion a Year to Be Apple’s Favorite Search Engine (gizmodo.com)
Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey (i.vgy.me)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/4070845...
Shawna Trpcic Dies: ‘The Mandalorian’, ‘Ahsoka’ & ‘Firefly’ Costume Designer Was 56 (deadline.com)
Shawna Trpcic, an Emmy-nominated costume designer best known for her work on several Star Wars series on Disney+ and her collaborations with Joss Whedon, has died, her agency Gersh and Lucasfilm confirmed. She was 56. A cause of death was not provided but Trpcic’s passing was unexpected; as recently as three days ago she was...
Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
[Meta] People who downvote the daily thread, why?
If you don’t like it, block the bot?...
Lords of the Fallen - Overview Trailer (youtu.be)
Why Are People Frightened That Kids Will Learn About Sex? (www.currentaffairs.org)
Capcom President Thinks Game Prices Are 'Too Low' - IGN (www.ign.com)
Capcom president Harushiro Tsujimoto claims that the prices of video games need to increase to meet ballooning development costs.