It’s been a while since I picked a game that irritated me quite so much. I quit playing Frank And Drake twice before even meeting its second protagonist, but something about it kept pulling me back. It’s partly the style. Some gorgeous rotoscoping gives its few characters a sense of constant motion that’s unreal and very lifelike at once, and it’s sometimes pushed further by having them decelerate to a blurred freeze frame when you stop walking. The backgrounds are static but interactable things shimmer a bit, like in old cartoons where you could always tell what was background and…
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Oppo’s foldable shipments appear to be doing more than well in its home market of China as a new Canalys report confirms Oppo was the foldable market leader for the Q1 period. Oppo held a 31% market share in the Chinese foldable smartphone segment for the January-March 2023 period. The jump in market share is remarkable as Oppo controlled just 12% of the foldable market in China a year ago. Oppo controlled 31% of all foldable shipments in China during Q1 2023 The Find N2 Flip was the key seller managing an impressive 15% share of the China…
When Peter Gracey first realized he was gay, admitting it could have cost the engineer his job. At the time, he was an officer with the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy, where until 2000, being homosexual was grounds for immediate dismissal. Since coming out in 2009 at the age of 44, he has dedicated himself to setting up support networks to help LGBTQ+ engineers find their voice. He is a cofounder of InterEngineering, a London-based nonprofit dedicated to greater inclusion in engineering. Peter Gracey Employer: The Worshipful Company of Engineers Title: Clerk Education:Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Royal Naval Engineering College, Plymouth,…
Artificial intelligence and carbon removal are two of the hotter themes for startup funding in recent months. So what if you combined the two? We explored this question in an effort to see how much investment is going to companies touting expertise in both AI and in technologies tied to reducing carbon footprints. Turns out, quite a few funded startups tout credentials in these two areas. Search less. Close more. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by the leader in private-company data. The past two years have been particularly active, with more than $400 million going to dozens…
Apple in August is offering a new Apple Card promotion that will see Apple Card holders entitled to extra Daily Cash rewards for Panera Bread purchases. Through the end of the month, Apple Card users who make a purchase at Panera using Apple Pay can earn 6% cash back instead of 3% cash back. Getting the cash back reward requires Panera customers to use Apple Pay with the Apple Card specifically, and the 6% bonus is available for up to $500 in spending throughout August. Apple Card owners who purchase $500 in Panera food can earn $30. Purchases can be…
Global ransomware attacks are on the rise, according to a The study shows a massive surge from July 2022 to June 2023, with the United States bearing the brunt of these attacks. The organization noted that of the 1,900 reported ransomware attacks collected, over 43 percent originate in the U.S, an increase of 75 percent from last year’s findings. Germany, France and the UK also experienced an uptick in deployed ransomware, but at a lower rate than the United States. The report details 48 separate ransomware groups that attacked American companies, governmental organizations and garden variety consumers during the aforementioned…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is already off to a spectacular start, having now sailed passed the half a million concurrent players mark on Steam after a huge first day, but developer Larian isn’t resting on its laurians; the studio has just released its first hotfix for the wildly ambitious RPG which, among other things, takes aim at that nasty save-preventing bug. Larian acknowledged the save issue and offered some preliminary solutions earlier today, but its first hot fix update aims to tackle things head on. As the developer explains in its accompanying patch notes, after some investigation, it’s now…
Samsung has released the August 2023 Android security update for the Galaxy S20 FE’s 4G variant (SM-G780G), making it the first Android device to get the August 2023 security patch. The update comes with firmware version G780GXXS6EWG9 and is rolling in Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago. Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G If you live in any of these regions and are yet to receive the update on your Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 4G, you can check for it manually by heading to your phone’s Settings > Software update menu. Via Source link
Dual-resonance unit cell with three copper layers on a printed circuit board and a backplane. The front and back of the unit cell are also shown, which, respectively, host a varactor and series varactor-resistor pair. Credit: Physical Review Applied (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.014004 Cities can be obstacle courses for communications signals. A radio signal must travel from a cell phone to a router to a cell tower, and onward to its recipient—all while bouncing between walls, buildings and other structures. When it hits an obstacle, the radio wave gets scattered, diminishing the signal. This in turn reduces the bandwidth. At the…
Shopify, like countless other Big Tech brands, is leaning into generative AI. At its bi-annual Editions conference, the e-commerce company announced an expanded set of features under Shopify Magic, Shopify’s catch-all brand for generative AI. As of today, Shopify Magic can provide answers to merchants’ customers tailored to their conversation histories and store policies, and generate blog post, product description and marketing email content. And, via a new chatbot-like AI tool called Sidekick, Shopify can understand and interpret questions or prompts related to business decision making. “We believe it’s our responsibility to keep the businesses we power on the cutting…