The hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30 and NOAA forecasters expect between 12 to 17 named storms. Of those, 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, including 1 to 4 major hurricanes.
Most first- and second-year medical students don't attend lectures. A student and a professor suggest it's a good time to think a lot about medical education, starting with "flipping the classroom."
Debt ceiling dramas have been going on a long time. The first one happened exactly 70 years ago. President Eisenhower asked Congress for an extra $15 billion and the Senate said, "No dice."
Climate change is causing hurricanes to get more powerful and dangerous. Scientists weigh in on what that means for forecasts, emergency officials and you.
Ohio grandma sets record: "I'm the oldest old lady to ever visit every national park."
Image: Polestar
Polestar’s latest software update includes YouTube so Polestar 2 owners can watch streaming video while charging their vehicles and an updated version of Apple CarPlay that includes the ability to project Apple Maps onto the instrument cluster.
That last facet is interesting because it seems to offer a preview of what Apple’s next-generation version of CarPlay, with its support for multiple displays across the dashboard, may end up looking like.
The software update, P2.9, is Polestar’s 15th over-the-air (OTA) upgrade since 2020. Automakers are increasingly relying on OTA updates to add infotainment controls, including streaming video, games, and other creature comforts for the era of connected cars.
Image: Polestar ...
Honor’s foldable is the Samsung Z Fold’s first real competitor outside of China. It’s a more affordable alternative, but its rough edges are grating.
An Australian federal court judge ruled that newspaper articles published in 2018 were substantially true about a number of war crimes committed by Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan.
The store owner, who had a concealed weapons permit, was charged after an autopsy showed the middle school student was shot in the back and deputies spoke to witnesses and reviewed video.
Finished reading "The Book with No Pictures" by B. J. Novak https://a.co/bbtS2MP
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh FFS, this is like a 2nd-rate novella: “Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/30/tara-reade-defects-russia-biden
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
caveat: my graduate training was as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, so this strikes a chord for me
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Jonathan Shedler, a psychodynamic psychologist… [says this] fails to capture other ways patients benefit from psychodynamic therapy. “It’s not a fair comparison to look at how they’re doing the day therapy ends… aiming to go farther — to change something fundamental, so that people can feel more at peace with themselves and have more meaningful connections with others.”’https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/magazine/does-therapy-work.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"The most significant difference in patient outcomes… lies in the skills of the therapist, rather than the techniques… the strength of the patient-therapist bond… is a powerful predictor of how likely that patient is to experience results from therapy… a therapist’s agreeability, years of training, years of experience — do not correlate at all with effectiveness of care." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/magazine/does-therapy-work.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Like, there's clearly *some* effect. Faster cycle times matter. Faster build boxes are better, etc. etc.
But there's no shared terminology, no metric, and no empirical basis to believe this effect is more powerful than many other effects (better test collateral, safer languages, better product organisation, etc. etc.)
But to hear the proponents sell it, this effect should be visible from space! It should overpower even terrible management...has it? Seems not.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The idea that a focus on developer experience leads to better products has to be the most widely cited, evidence-free shibboleth in modern software.
Where are the papers? The double-blind studies? The meta-analyses?
Leap Motion controller
Ten years after debuting with a $79.99 Kinect-like control unit, the company now called Ultraleap is back with a sequel.
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wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:
Stunning timelapse of Earth rising over the Moon captured by lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. ©JAXA/NHK
Reddit is one of the biggest and most important websites on the planet, especially since it’s one of the last places human beings can get questions answered by actual human beings. So it sucks to see that the company is about to crush many of the best ways to actually experience the whole thing.
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
playing Steppenwolf LOUD
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhh, memories of a wasted 3-day-pass and some very clean acid with friends
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.70.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.70.0 with:
rustup update stable
If you don't have it already, you can get rustup from the appropriate page on our website, and check out the detailed release notes for 1.70.0 on GitHub.
If you'd like to help us out by testing future releases, you might consider updating locally to use the beta channel (rustup default beta
) or the nightly channel (rustup default nightly
). Please report any bugs you might come across!
Cargo's "sparse" protocol is now enabled by default for reading the index from crates.io. This feature was previously stabilized with Rust 1.68.0, but still required configuration to use that with crates.io. The announced plan was to make that the default in 1.70.0, and here it is!
You should see substantially improved performance when fetching information from the crates.io index. Users behind a restrictive firewall will need to ensure that access to https://index.crates.io
is available. If for some reason you need to stay with the previous default of using the git index hosted by GitHub, the registries.crates-io.protocol config setting can be used to change the default.
One side-effect to note about changing the access method is that this also changes the path to the crate cache, so dependencies will be downloaded anew. Once you have fully committed to using the sparse protocol, you may want to clear out the old $CARGO_HOME/registry/*/github.com-*
paths.
OnceCell
and OnceLock
Two new types have been stabilized for one-time initialization of shared data, OnceCell
and its thread-safe counterpart OnceLock
. These can be used anywhere that immediate construction is not wanted, and perhaps not even possible like non-const
data in global variables.
use std::sync::OnceLock;
static WINNER: OnceLock<&str> = OnceLock::new();
fn main() {
let winner = std::thread::scope(|s| {
s.spawn(|| WINNER.set("thread"));
std::thread::yield_now(); // give them a chance...
WINNER.get_or_init(|| "main")
});
println!("{winner} wins!");
}
Crates such as lazy_static
and once_cell
have filled this need in the past, but now these building blocks are part of the standard library, ported from once_cell
's unsync
and sync
modules. There are still more methods that may be stabilized in the future, as well as companion LazyCell
and LazyLock
types that store their initializing function, but this first step in stabilization should already cover many use cases.
IsTerminal
This newly-stabilized trait has a single method, is_terminal
, to determine if a given file descriptor or handle represents a terminal or TTY. This is another case of standardizing functionality that existed in external crates, like atty
and is-terminal
, using the C library isatty
function on Unix targets and similar functionality elsewhere. A common use case is for programs to distinguish between running in scripts or interactive modes, like presenting colors or even a full TUI when interactive.
use std::io::{stdout, IsTerminal};
fn main() {
let use_color = stdout().is_terminal();
// if so, add color codes to program output...
}
The -Cdebuginfo
compiler option has previously only supported numbers 0..=2 for increasing amounts of debugging information, where Cargo defaults to 2 in dev and test profiles and 0 in release and bench profiles. These debug levels can now be set by name: "none" (0), "limited" (1), and "full" (2), as well as two new levels, "line-directives-only" and "line-tables-only".
The Cargo and rustc documentation both called level 1 "line tables only" before, but it was more than that with information about all functions, just not types and variables. That level is now called "limited", and the new "line-tables-only" level is further reduced to the minimum needed for backtraces with filenames and line numbers. This may eventually become the level used for -Cdebuginfo=1
. The other line-directives-only
level is intended for NVPTX profiling, and is otherwise not recommended.
Note that these named options are not yet available to be used via Cargo.toml
. Support for that will be available in the next release 1.71.
test
CLIWhen #[test]
functions are compiled, the executable gets a command-line interface from the test
crate. This CLI has a number of options, including some that are not yet stabilized and require specifying -Zunstable-options
as well, like many other commands in the Rust toolchain. However, while that's only intended to be allowed in nightly builds, that restriction wasn't active in test
-- until now. Starting with 1.70.0, stable and beta builds of Rust will no longer allow unstable test
options, making them truly nightly-only as documented.
There are known cases where unstable options may have been used without direct user knowledge, especially --format json
used in IntelliJ Rust and other IDE plugins. Those projects are already adjusting to this change, and the status of JSON output can be followed in its tracking issue.
Check out everything that changed in Rust, Cargo, and Clippy.
Many people came together to create Rust 1.70.0. We couldn't have done it without all of you. Thanks!
A report from Japanese magazine Shūkan Bunshun says that in the leadup to the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom earlier this month two men—in isolated cases—got contract jobs at Amazon for the express purpose of getting their hands on a copy of the game early.
The vote comes as lawmakers race against the clock to beat a June 5 deadline for a potential federal default.
From Australia to Canada, Big Tech has resisted lawmakers' efforts to force them to pay news publishers for carrying their articles. Now, that battle is playing out in California.
Season Three of Fortnite’s fourth chapter is almost upon us, but we’ve still got quests left to do. For Week 12, you’ll be chattin’ it up with NPCs, spending money, stealing money, doing some amateur geology, and killing other players dead.
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MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social ("the happy leftist (they/it)") wrote:
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/slide/
This gets weirder and weirder
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w0bb1t@tldr.nettime.org ("mr.w0bb1t 🌐") wrote:
IBM slide, 1979 ..
The official Overwatch 2 forums have been abuzz ever since Blizzard confirmed that there are more queer characters in its hero roster than we were previously aware. While some posts are from folks suspiciously eyeing the welcome confirmation that Pharah is in fact a rocket-powered lesbian as if it must portend some…
Konami is slowly sharing more details about Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, and it’s not sounding exactly like what some fans were expecting. The game will indeed be using the original voice cast, but it won’t be recording any of their performances. The PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC game will be sticking with old…
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@sbourne /icymi
https://mastodon.social/@damianogerli/110463817193839816
::perfect:
A jury reached the verdict after deliberating for seven days spread over two weeks. They could not reach a verdict on the third count, that alleged "That '70s Show" star raped a longtime girlfriend.
After distancing himself from former President Donald Trump, the former vice president is ready to announce his bid for the White House at an event in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday.
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh, masters of understatement…
from the Elecraft AX1 manual:“Radial length adjustments to achieve resonance can be tedious. An antenna analyzer is recommended.”
A whole new sub-genre of awful “true crime” content is taking root on TikTok. Posters there are using “artificial intelligence”-powered media creation tools to create fake videos that purport to show actual murder victims, often children, sharing grisly details about how they were killed. Even worse, these…
Google Assistant will no longer integrate third-party lists and reminder apps starting June 20th. | Image: The Verge
Google Assistant will lose the ability to integrate with third-party notes apps on June 20th, per an AnyList developer blog post announcing the change (via 9to5Google). AnyList says it’s talking to Google about the change and hopes it can re-add integration later but, for now, has nothing to announce.
The loss of third-party notes and list app support will come along with the deprecation of Google software support for third-party Google Assistant smart displays, which was discovered in April this year.
AnyList noted in its post that integration is still possible with Amazon Alexa and Siri. Right now, there are four options for notes app integrations in Google Assistant settings: Any.do, AnyList, Bring Shopping Lists, and Google Keep....
In recent years, the demands on the NEDA helpline, and the humans who ran it, escalated. The organization says it was unsustainable. But some have worries about new plans for an online chatbot.
The official PlayStation UK Twitter account has decreed it’s “OK to throw away the cardboard box your PlayStation came in now,” but squirrelly fans aren’t convinced. What if they might actually one day need the dusty, frayed cardboard their PS4 arrived in 10 years ago?
The Mountain Valley Pipeline got an extraordinary boost in the debt ceiling deal. Court challenges have stalled the controversial natural gas pipeline stretching from West Virginia to North Carolina.
Ron DeSantis is running for president as the man who took on two magical kingdoms. The first, as my colleague Pema Levy recently documented in a profile for the magazine, is Disney World. The second is Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts that’s a summertime haven for the ultra-wealthy. At a campaign […]
Diablo IV, out on June 5 for most major platforms, features an assortment of side quests. The loot-hunting RPG has some 213 optional missions, half of which I haven’t seen during my short time with the game. But of the others I’ve played during the open beta in mid-March and the review build earlier in May, there’s…
Despite a booming job market overall, 2023 kicked off with the biggest tech companies laying off thousands of employees. Cuts at Microsoft hit Halo Infinite devs at 343 Industries and other game teams across the company, including at Bethesda. Months later, layoffs are continuing across other pockets of the video game…
Image: Ring
Amazon’s Ring unit has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its doorbells illegally spied on users.
The settlement addresses a lawsuit filed by the FTC Wednesday accusing Ring of unlawfully deceiving its customers over the privacy of their data and the videos collected by its products. According to the agency’s complaint, Ring failed to restrict employees and contractors from accessing customer videos and used them to train algorithms without user consent.
“Ring’s disregard for privacy and security exposed consumers to spying and harassment,” FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection director Samuel Levine said in a statement Wednesday. “The FTC’s order makes clear that putting profit over privacy...
In a move lauded by safe streets advocates, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed a new rule this morning that would require automatic emergency braking (AEB) on new cars and light trucks. AEB uses sensors to detect objects in a car’s path, like pedestrians or other vehicles, and automatically brakes if the driver fails to […]
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The dead rabbit argument: Men, and only men, have honed their spear-chucking genes through generations of rabbit hunting, therefore trans women should not be allowed to do sports.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/31/we-hunted-the-rabbit/
Ahead of the two-year anniversary of Activision Blizzard being on the receiving end of an unprecedented video game industry lawsuit accusing the publisher of widespread sexual harassment and discrimination, CEO Bobby Kotick has appeared on the cover of Varietyto loudly proclaim the innocence of both himself and his…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Apollo, the popular Reddit app for iOS, could face millions of dollars in fees as a result of Reddit’s new paid API model. According to an update posted by developer Christian Selig, Reddit could charge Apollo roughly $20 million per year if it continues operating at its current scale.
Reddit announced changes to its API policy in April, which allows the platform to put limits on the number of API requests made by a third-party client like Apollo. But now, we have more details on what exactly this means: Selig says Reddit plans on charging about $12,000 per 50 million requests.
Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge
Apple could have a pretty big Worldwide Developers Conference next week, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In addition to the rumored mixed reality headset and the usual updates to its operating systems, Gurman is expecting Apple to focus on “several” new Macs at the show, he said in a tweet.
Gurman has already reported that a MacBook Air with a larger 15-inch screen and M2 chip is in the works, and it seems possible that could be one of the stars of the WWDC show. Apple revealed the redesigned M2-equipped 13-inch Air at last year’s WWDC, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Apple would once again use the event to introduce a larger Air.
I’m expecting three major focus areas next week: 1) several new Macs, 2) the...
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon have just released a new trailer for the upcoming animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, finally giving fans a hint at what the movie’s story is going to be about.
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Instagram users have long theorized about how “the algorithm” works to rank content on the platform and why some users’ posts seem less visible than others. Now, Instagram is opening up the hood on its recommendation system to explain why you see certain posts — at least partially.
In a blog post, the company breaks down its ranking system by where a user will encounter content: the main feed, Stories, the Explore page, and Reels. There are countless pieces of information companies like Instagram use to predict what users will want to see and interact with, and there’s not one singular, all-knowing algorithm that drives...
Investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology will begin testing concrete cores and reinforcing steel in a search for answers from the Surfside, Fla. condo collapse.
What’s the most you’ve ever won in a single hand of poker with some friends? Maybe $50? $60? Perhaps you got really lucky at a casino and walked away with a few hundred. A pleasant evening, but that’s nothing compared to what one player won last night during a livestreamed poker tournament. When all was said and done,…
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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:
#OtD 31 May 1927 Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens, NY. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump's address and reporting that all of those arrested were wearing KKK robes
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
antenna number 1:
Elecraft AX1 (20m) plus extender (40m)
antenna number 2:
Taiwanese wander-lead with telescoping whip element (80m - 6m) plus tape measure #AmateurRadio 📡
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Honestly, though, every university in every state has lots of students who are avid agriculturalists already. Minnesota isn't that special.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This should be another reason you would choose to enroll at the University of Minnesota.
Brazilian Indigenous leaders and environmentalists are outraged after lawmakers approved a measure that would affect claims to Indigenous land, and potentially, environmental protections.
When the first few sounds of a video game’s loading screen music are glinting synth starbursts, disintegrating into airy jazz chords like they got splashed with warm water, I know I’m about to play something cozy.
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
packing for a radio play-date with a friend, we are going to try out setting up a couple of vertical antennas on a hillside near Highland Park Reservoir #ROC
Another month, and another chance to add more games to your PlayStation library if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber. While May 2023 saw GRID Legends, Chivalry 2, and Descenders (which you can still grab if you’re reading this before June 6) added to Sony’s subscription service, June’s got some sports, totally…
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Delta Air Lines misled customers with its sustainability claims, a new class action lawsuit alleges. The suit was filed in California yesterday and seeks damages for any resident who’s been on a Delta flight since it made a big climate commitment back in 2020.
That year, the company made a $1 billion pledge to become carbon neutral. Instead of slashing its emissions entirely, the plan relied on carbon credits to offset the airline’s pollution. The credits are supposed to represent tons of carbon dioxide emissions either prevented or taken out of the atmosphere. But the math on carbon offsets hasn’t added up. Years of academic research and investigations have shown that carbon offsets often fail to represent real reductions in greenhouse...
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
trying to stick to my “follow often, unfollow easily” socmedia behavioral pledge
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The vendors that built these sites are failing, but in a monopsony with disempowered and under-staffed in-house tech, there's nobody to call BS. Regulatory capture is most effective when suppliers are able to degrade state capacity to even outsource effectively.
As controversy swirls around the benefits Thomas and his wife Ginni received from a conservative billionaire, filmmaker Michael Kirk examines the couple's path to power in a new PBS documentary.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
To get the sense of scale of this misapprehension, here's a comparison between a competently built site from the UK's GDS vs. the MA site. They do substantially the same job:
Reade said she feels "safe" in Russia and decided to apply for citizenship after receiving threats in the U.S. She has accused Biden of sexually assaulting her when she worked for his Senate office.
Image: Apple
The third — and presumably final — season of the Apple TV Plus series was stuck between a sitcom and prestige drama but still managed to end on a high note.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Went down by the river and found a very angry Big Headed Ground Beetle that wanted to kill us and eat our flesh.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The common thread? Megabytes of JavaScript on the wire:
MA: 7.7MB of JS
NJ: 3.0MB of JS
MI: 3.1MBThis is stochastic errorism: the frontend community's unshakeable, ungrounded belief that it's fine for us to suggest that building JS-first is healthy or normal. That the complexity is under control and that CPUs and networks get faster every year (they don't).
The ESA will be streaming images on YouTube from the Mars Express spacecraft on June 2nd, 2023. | Image: European Space Agency
On June 2nd, 2023, the European Space Agency will be livestreaming images from the Mars Express, a spacecraft that first launched twenty years ago, per the agency’s announcement on Wednesday. The stream will take place for one hour, beginning on June 2nd at 11:45AM ET and will show new images every 50 seconds as they come straight from the Express’ Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC).
The announcement points out that the images won’t be “live” per se, as it takes anywhere from three to 22 minutes for them to reach the Earth thanks to the famously slow speed of light. (That’s a joke — light is, to our knowledge, still the record holder for universal speed.)
The Mars Express has been through a lot while making key discoveries about our rusty...
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The (absolute) state of frontend, 2023: a brief tour of some websites folks need to use to feed children in America:
MA: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230416_BiDc9H_682-r:1-c:0
NJ: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230416_AiDc6G_6AG-r:1-c:0
MI: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230416_BiDcSN_6GF-r:1-c:0
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AstroKatie ("Katie Mack") wrote:
When you walk into the ladies’ room and discover that your hotel is part of the Hilbert franchise
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a row of radishes is a wonderful thing; they sprout so fast & bring such hopefulness
#SpringGardening
Last week, Nintendo mistakenly blocked and rejected the release of a cutesy animal game, after it took a jokey TikTok from the developer at face value and pulled its release in North America.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will announce a presidential run at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday, according to a source close to Christie.
NVME SSD + external USB-C enclosure makes a pretty good #backup disk. I'm currently restoring a backup at 250MB/s.
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When Asus seeded the first units of its handheld ROG Ally gaming PC to reviewers back in May, it’s fair to say that the results were... not overwhelmingly positive. Some reviewers loved the product, while others were broadly unhappy. But across the gamut, there was one thing that pretty much everyone agreed on: the battery life sucked.
The Verge’s Sean Hollister saw a maximum of four hours from the device, whereas his ceiling on the competing Steam Deck (which has a battery of the same size) is closer to seven.
The criticisms rippled through the online sphere. Preorders were canceled left and right — around 10 percent of original buyers, by Asus global marketing director Galip Fu’s recollection, backed out soon after the initial wave of...
A new study has uncovered a not-so-surprising truth about gender bias in video games: Across 50 role-playing games, male characters have about twice as much dialogue as female characters. Shocking, I know.
rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:
@djc Also I have endless problems updating macOS on this particular machine, because for some inexplicable reason Apple's servers refuse to bless writes to the macOS partition. The only way to update the OS is to erase and mess up the disk so hard that Apple Configurator will give up trying to restore the same macOS version, and bless installation of a newer one instead.
Roll can simulate camera effects on stationary iPhone footage that typically require fancy camera equipment like a dolly or crane. | Image: Roll
Roll AI is a new video creation and collaboration platform for iOS and web that allows users to add simulated video effects to iPhone footage that would typically require professional camera equipment to achieve, such as stabilized pan or crane shots. It’s one of the latest examples in a boom of new apps and services that utilize AI to simplify technical creative processes like photo and video editing.
Roll AI uses its proprietary generative AI models to recreate the filming environment in iPhone footage as a 3D space, allowing users to add text overlay effects and simulate side-panning, dolly, and crane camera movements in postproduction and apply various studio effects like bokeh (background blur). The service also uses AI to...
There’s always a new tech trend being billed as the future. In 2021, it was NFTs. Last year, it was the metaverse. And now it’s AI. Some of gaming’s biggest companies are already getting excited about the prospect of computer generated graphics and scripts fattening their bottom lines. This week, Electronic Arts CEO…
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
We can make good things! Things that everyone can use. The tools are there. It's not magic, but it does mean putting users first.
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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:
@slightlyoff the collective noun for a group of React cargo culters is "reactionaries". Fact.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has plenty of tough bosses, but the Frost Gleeok in Tabantha Tundra is one of the game’s hardest encounters. Fighting it will require some preparation and careful planning, but if you know what to look for, you can slay it and rid Hyrule of this icy menace once and for all (or…
Image: Coin Crew Games
Escape Academy was one of my favorite games from last year. I loved the challenging, escape room-style puzzles that gave my brain a good, hearty scratching, and my only real complaint was that it was over too soon. With no more puzzles to solve, I stepped away from the game. But now, to my delight, Escape Academy is getting its second DLC, Escape From the Past, on June 19th.
I know most folks don’t play puzzle games for the story (the possible exception being the fantastic Professor Layton games), but the premise for Escape From the Past is actually compelling. You’re transported to the Escape Academy sometime in its past to solve puzzles with younger versions of characters from the base game who are still seriously attractive.
One of...
Hvaldimir unexpectedly headed south after several years in Norway, fueling concerns and efforts to bring him to safety. Experts say his story shines a light on how humans treat animals in general.
I like the speed of ARM Macs, but their iPadized locked-down bootloader drives me nuts.
It’s Wednesday, May 31, and that means it’s another day where I tell you about something you might not’ve known you could do in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. While many of us are already aware that you can fuse all sorts of regular items to arrows to increase their efficiency, as some are revealing on…
Ecumene Azted is a newly announced survival action RPG where you play as an indigenous warrior in 16th century Mesoamerica trying to fight off Spanish conquistador invaders. The first trailer looks rough in places but is already drawing attention for showing off a game that’s trying something a little different.
The latest Mini is the smallest model in Apple’s lineup, making it particularly ideal for reading. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Let’s face it: many of us have considered opting for the 10th-gen iPad because it’s one of the more affordable options in Apple’s current lineup. But today’s deal on its midrange sibling changes things. Right now, you can buy Apple’s latest iPad Miniwith Wi-Fi and 64GB of storage at its all-time low of $399.99 ($100 off) at Amazon and Best Buy — which is even less than the price of the latest iPad.
Unlike the 10th-gen iPad, the iPad Mini is compatible with the second-gen Apple Pencil. It’s also lighter, with a smaller 8.3-inch screen that’s easier to hold with one hand, which makes it particularly ideal for reading. At the same time, it comes equipped with a faster A15 Bionic chip while sharing some of the same features, including a...
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All new vehicles will be required to have a “more effective” version of automatic emergency braking (AEB) under a new rule proposed today by the US Department of Transportation.
Around 90 percent of light-duty vehicles on the road today come standard with AEB. But the Department of Transportation is proposing a rule that would require automakers to adopt a more robust version of the technology that can stop vehicles traveling at higher speeds and detect vulnerable road users, like cyclists and pedestrians, even at night.
“AEB systems are a big step forward for saving lives on our roadways and preventing crashes,” US DOT Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg said at a press conference Wednesday. “When deployed, AEB systems can potentially...
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damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:
How it started. How it's going.
Google’s Pixel Fold is one of the most highly anticipated folding phones of the past couple of years, and it debuts this summer. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
Maybe you spotted one at the coffee shop, sitting conspicuously on a table in an L-shape position. Maybe you’ve seen one on the subway, in tablet mode, held by someone who’s trying very hard not to drop their $1800 gadget. They’re out there in the wild, but foldable phones are still a rare sighting. That might be about to change because we are entering — and I’m making an official call on this — hot foldable summer.
They’ve been on the market for years, but there are tons of good reasons why foldables haven’t caught on in the mainstream, starting with the fact that they’re expensive as all get-out. There were also some real bad problems with durability early on, and although build quality is much better now, there’s still a question...
The buttons on its underside are the key to the Apple Watch’s “strap monster” status. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
Changing watch straps isn’t new, but Apple’s hidden little buttons simplified it and took it mainstream.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
You don't have to follow the Reactors off a cliff. It's ok. HTML/CSS is good, actually.
I cannot imagine how daunting it must be to begin making a Diablo-like action-RPG. Not only are there so very few of them, but those that are known are behemoths. Diablo, obviously, then Titan Quest, Torchlight, Grim Dawn…Who’d want to deliberately step into their shadows, especially with Diablo IV coming out next…
After a decade-long wait, the next chapter in Diablo is finally upon us. With it come dozens of dungeons and a sizable open world filled with legions of demons to slaughter. Millions will no doubt answer the call and take up arms, but Blizzard has now issued a special challenge for those willing to brave the game’s…