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Richard Leadbetter writing for Eurogamer: Arkham Knight on Switch is disastrously poor Lighting is savagely downgraded, texture quality is a total mess, shadows take a trip back to PS2 era standards and geometry is culled. Arkham Knight routinely fails to hit its 30 frames per second target, often lingering in
Flipboard CEO Mike McCue on his new podcast, Dot Social: Decentralization isn't a feature in and of itself. And you know, I think it's tough when, if you build a product that's just a clone of a closed product and it's decentralized,
Jennifer Schuessler for the New York Times: Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year Is … ‘Rizz’ “Rizz” — Gen Z (or is it Gen Alpha?) slang for “style, charm or attractiveness,” or “the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner” — has been named as Oxford’s 2023 Word of the
Tim Wu for the New York Times : Mergers Like JetBlue’s Proposed Acquisition of Spirit Usually Turn Out to Be Bad A comprehensive meta-analysis of 50 studies covering more than 3,000 contested mergers in the United States in recent decades found that “most studied mergers result in competitive harm,
Andrew Webster for The Verge: Zach Gage’s Puzzmo gets acquired as the newspaper games space heats up As part of the deal, Gage and Therox will continue to develop Puzzmo, which currently operates as a website, with a mobile app in the works. But Puzzmo will also begin rolling
Matt Growcoot: 'One in a Million' iPhone Photo Shows Three Versions of the Same Woman Standing in front of two large mirrors, Tessa Coates’ reflection does not return the same pose that she is making, and not only that, but both reflections are different from each other and
Mike Masnick: Musk’s Faulty Vision Of ‘Free Speech’ Is Driving Speech Off ExTwitter I mean, it’s not like we didn’t warn Elon Musk. Free speech is not about creating a single private space where everyone gets to speak, because that doesn’t support free speech. It enables
Lloyd Alter: How 'Skeuomorphism' Is Making U.S. Roads More Deadly — Streetsblog USA The electric car revolution is a golden opportunity to redesign the vehicle from the ground up to make it smaller and safer. Instead, as Alissa Walker wrote in Curbed, [“]If “petro-masculinity” defined the past decade,
Jason Koebler: Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family A new feature, called “Discover Together,” expands social aspects of Plex and introduces an “Activity” tab: “See what your friends have watched, rated, added to their Watchlist, or shared with you,” Plex notes. It
Marianne Garvey for CNN: Robert De Niro claims his speech was censored by the Gotham Awards and Apple: ‘How dare they do that’ “The beginning of my speech was edited, cut out and I didn’t know about it. And I want to read it,” De Niro, prompting cheers from
Here’s a quote from Sports Illustrated in Maggie Harrison’s Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers: Today, an article was published alleging that Sports Illustrated published AI-generated articles. According to our initial investigation, this is not accurate. The articles in question were product reviews and were licensed
Oliver Reichenstein writing for iA: No feature AI is a danger if you resign yourself to it and delegate all thinking to AI. AI is an opportunity if you use the extra processing power it can give us to think deeper, better, clearer. I really appreciate iA and I believe
Jim Norman: Ocarina Of Time's Deku Tree Dungeon Is Still My All-Time Top Gaming Moment | Nintendo Life Prior to that very moment, my childhood had been filled with "get down from the top of that tree," "maybe we shouldn't burn things," and
Benj Edwards writing for Ars Technica: Monday morning, 650 of 770 OpenAI employees sent a letter to the OpenAI board demanding that all current board members resign and Altman and Brockman be reinstated, or they will likely leave to join Altman and Brockman at Microsoft. As of writing, the number
Kyle Orland: Perfect Dark Finally Gets the Full-Featured PC Port It Deserves over 23 years after its release, Perfect Dark has gotten the full PC port it so richly deserves, complete with graphics and control updates that make the experience much more enjoyable for a modern audience. These decompilations of