A familiar face crops up in new Thor: Ragnarok set pictures. Greg Berlanti denies the latest Flash casting rumors. Chloe Bennet talks Daisy’s journey in the early episodes of Agents of SHIELD’s fourth season. Plus, more The Handmaid’s Tale casting, and new details on Son of Zorn. Behold, Spoilers!
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The Aubinator tool has been added to the Mesa tree for helping Intel graphics driver developers debug problems…
Source: Phoronix – Aubinator Added To Mesa To Help Intel Driver Developers
COLOGNE, Germany—What is Scalebound? A slick, action-packed Platinum Games (makers of the Bayonetta and Devil May Cry games) combo-fest? A fantasy RPG with dungeons and dragons and magic spells? An epic story-based adventure? Two years after its announcement—and three since development began—I’m still not sure. Heck, I don’t think even Microsoft knows.
Scalebound‘s Gamescom outing is the latest in a long line of short video clips, technical teases, and scripted battles that have been released since E3 2014, where the game was first revealed in spectacular fashion at Microsoft’s press conference. Its debut trailer—which introduced a cocky 20-something headphone-wearing hipster named Drew and his hulking great dragon Thuban—drew criticism for the apparent douchbaggery of its lead, but there was no denying the overall appeal. A new Platinum Games title with dragons that fight and breathe fire and four-player co-op? Shut up and take all of my money.
What we know about Scalebound so far is that Drew and Thuban fight alongside each other, rather than with each other, and that it’s an open-world game set in “Draconis” with RPG-like elements and real-time combat. The biggest reveal came during Gamescom 2015, when Microsoft dropped a lengthy gameplay trailer showing Drew riding Thuban—complete with light human-to-dragon banter—into battle against a group of heavily armoured soldiers. Cue some sword swinging, crossbow firing, and plenty of random numbers popping up all over the screen. Oh, and a fight against a giant mantis culminating in a fierce fire-breathing attack from Thuban.
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Source: Ars Technica – I’m still not sure what Scalebound is—but I definitely want it
It’s hard to overstate just how popular
Rubbermaid’s FreshWorks containers have been with our readers over the past month, and while the top-selling 2-piece set isn’t on sale today, you can expand your collection with some a la carte deals.
Source: LifeHacker – Expand Your FreshWorks Collection With a Pair of All-Time Low Prices
Not many will be willing to spend big on a phone that is not a Samsung or an Apple.
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Football season’s almost here, and you can power your tailgate with this surprisingly portable 1600 W (2000 W surge) generator.
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Even cable giant Comcast has to pay attention to internet viewers, and last year it launched an interesting YouTube-like site called Watchable. Packed with content from creators including Buzzfeed and Vice it took aim directly at the very millennials…
Source: Engadget – Comcast’s Watchable streaming app adds new exclusive series
Your plans are going to fail. It doesn’t matter how clever you are or how much you prepared, something is going to go wrong at some point. Your losses won’t be determined by how much you can prevent things from breaking, but rather by how you handle it when they do.
Source: LifeHacker – Plan For “Graceful Degradation” to Save Yourself Some Hassle When Stuff Breaks
A new battery system also pushes the range to 315 miles
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Two Cents The Money Saving Habits I Gave Up Because They Waste My Time
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Did you know that tech issues cause most drone crashes? I didn’t. I would have bet you money that pilot error would have been the biggest cause of drone crashes (with surface to air missiles and farmer’s shotguns tying for second).
World-first research has found technical problems rather than operator errors are behind the majority of drone accidents, leading to a call for further safeguards for the industry. Researchers Dr Graham Wild and Dr Glenn Baxter from RMIT University’s School of Engineering, along with John Murray from Edith Cowan University, completed the first examination of more than 150 reported civil incidents around the world involving drones, or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS).
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Tech Issues Cause Most Drone Accidents
Artificial intelligence and deep learning. VR and augmented reality. Autonomous vehicles and intelligent machines. At the center of these technologies is GPU computing. And the GPU Technology Conference is where the people behind these technologies and dozens more connect to shape the future. GTC 2017 provides developers and thought leaders with the opportunity to share their work with thousands of the world’s brightest minds. Past speakers have included developers from Audi, ESPN, Facebook, Google, IBM, Toyota and many more companies, along with top researchers from universities worldwide. Enter your submission now for talks, research posters and instructor-led labs at the May 8-11 event, in Silicon Valley.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – GTC 2017: Call for Submissions Now Open for World’s Top GPU Developer Event
Intel is known for pushing the edge of technology innovation, both creating and leading major advancements in the industry. We did it first with the move from mainframes to standards-based servers, and then again with the move to cloud computing and software-defined infrastructure. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the next big wave of compute that will transform the way businesses operate and how people engage with the world. And while Intel is inherently well-positioned to support the machine learning revolution — after all, Intel processors power more than 97 percent of servers deployed to support machine learning workloads — we know that to truly lead the industry, we must do more. Our industry needs breakthrough compute capability — capability that is both scalable and open — to enable innovation across the broad developer community.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Intel to Deliver Leading Platform for Artificial Intelligence
Deadspin Michigan Lost Their Third Recruit Of The Week Over A Thank You Note Gone Wrong
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Track: To The End (la comedie) | Artist: Blur Et Francoise Hardy | Album: Country House single
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Buying new hardware is almost always exciting, and purchases are even sweeter when they come with included gifts. In spirit of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided receiving DX12 support in the coming weeks AMD is bundling the game with select AMD FX CPU’s through participating retailers.
The Deus Ex series has been well revered since its inception. The breadth of player choice, storytelling, and player customization was a big step in gaming, and the original Deus Ex is still regarded by many as the best PC game ever made. With varying degrees of success, the series has continued to find success in the same formula started back in 2000.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided follows the aftermath of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and continues the social commentary on human augmentation. Following the golden era of human augmentation augmented humans are being deemed outcasts and separated from the rest of society. From this backdrop the player continues as Adam Jensen, now an experienced covert agent, with the intent to unravel the building conspiracy against mankind.
Starting this week, AMD is providing bundles with participating vendors on select 6- and 8- core FX processors. The purpose behind this bundle – besides clearing out FX inventory, I suspect – is to further promote DirectX 12, albeit in a roundabout fashion. In the coming weeks Mankind Divided will be receiving a patch that will enable DX12 support. With DX12 the game will have better multi-threading support for large core count CPUs. Given the relatively weak single-threaded performance of AMD’s CPUs, this should help these CPUs close the performance gap.
Anyhow, you’ll want to check with your retailer before purchase, but Newegg and the rest of the usual suspects should be participating. While looking around on Newegg I noticed that not all FX CPUs are listed as participating, so vigilance is advised before purchase even at participating retailers. The promotion will run from August 23, 2016 to November 14, 2016 or until game codes run out, whichever comes first.
Those wishing to read more on Deus Ex: Mankind provided, find a vendor, or redeem their code can do so at the AMD Deus Ex: Mankind provided promotion page.
Source: AnandTech – AMD Bundles Together Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and AMD FX CPUs
If you’ve decided to get a 4K TV
, you’re probably faced with the challenge of finding good content that makes use of it. Unfortunately, not everything labeled as 4K is really full 4K. This site helps you tell the difference.
Source: LifeHacker – RealOrFake4K Finds the Best 4K Content For Your TV
By recreating the iconic Wizard’s Chess set from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (sorry America, it’s Philosopher, not Sorcerer), 18-year-old Jambassador Bethanie Fentiman has become my new hero.
Ron, you don’t suppose this is going to be like… ‘real’ wizard’s chess, do you?
Playing on an idea she’d had last year, Bethanie decided to recreate the chess board from the book/movie as part of her A Level coursework (putting everything I ever created at school to utter shame), utilising the knowledge and support of her fellow Jammers from the Kent Raspberry Jam community.
After searching through the internet for inspiration, she stumbled upon an Instructables guide for building an Arduino-powered chess robot, which gave her a basis on which to build her system of stepper motors, drawer runners, gears, magnets, and so on.
Harry Potter and the ‘it’s almost complete’ Wizard’s Chess board
The next issue she faced in her quest for ultimate wizarding glory was to figure out how to actually play chess! Without any chess-playing knowhow, Bethanie either needed to learn quickly or…cheat a bit. So she looked up the legal moves of each piece, coding them into the programme, therefore allowing her to move on with the project without the need to monotonously learn the rules to the game.
Hermione would never approve.
There were a few snags along the way – mainly due to problems with measuring. But once assembled, everything was looking good.
We’ve got our fingers crossed that Bethanie replaces the pieces in time with some battling replicas from the movie.
On a minimal budget, Bethanie procured her chess pieces from a local charity shop, managing to get the board itself laser-cut for free, thanks to her school’s technology department.
Now complete, the board has begun its own ‘Wizard Chess Tour’, visiting various Raspberry Jams across the country. Its first stop was in Harlow, and more recently, Bethanie has taken the board to the August Covent Garden Jam.
MAGIC!
You can find out more about the Wizard’s Chess board via the Kent Jams Twitter account and website. And you’d like the board to visit your own Raspberry Jam event… send Bethanie word by owl and see what she says!
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Most people would agree that pop-ups, in general, are annoying. It’s one thing if a website wants you to confirm that you’re okay accepting cookies, but it’s quite another when a pop-up ad covers the content you’re trying to read after clicking on an interesting link, especially on a mobile device. Well, Google recognizes this and is making
Source: Hot Hardware – Google To Punish Mobile Websites That Annoy Visitors With Pop-ups
