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Square Enix just dropped almost every Final Fantasy soundtrack on Spotify & Apple Music

Jun07
by on June 7, 2019 at 12:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


If you’re putting together a video game music playlist and are in the mood for some JRPG classics, Square Enix just made it very easy for you, as the soundtracks for almost every Final Fantasy game have just popped up on Spotify and Apple Music. And considering the Final Fantasy series has been around since roughly the mid-Triassic period, that means Square Enix just added a lot of soundtracks. We’re talking as far back as the original NES Final Fantasy, all the way up to the dozens of songs from Final Fantasy XIV. Whatever genre of video game soundtrack you wanted, it’s probably in here somewhere. Several of…

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AI model exposes Hollywood’s bias against actresses

Jun06
by on June 6, 2019 at 11:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Insights


While the technology world and the US political institution grapple with how to deal with incumbent gender discrimination, Hollywood’s seemingly gotten a pass on the matter. But a new study out of London indicates Tinsel Town may be just as bad as Silicon Valley and the US Senate. Researchers from Queen Mary University recently developed an AI model to scour the profiles of more than two million actors and actresses on IMDB. The goal was to see if they could teach a machine to predict when an entertainer would have their best year. They achieved success in that respect; the…

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HTC’s launches Vive Pro Eye in North America at a massive discount

Jun06
by on June 6, 2019 at 8:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged, virtual reality


HTC today launched its latest and greatest virtual reality headset, the Vive Pro Eye, to the North American market. The new device features Tobii eye-tracking, which gives the headset two keen features: users can navigate menus just by looking at things, and foveated rendering. Navigating menus, selecting items, or even triggering animations by making eye contact with on-screen characters sounds pretty cool, but foveated rendering is a game-changer.   Essentially, foveated rendering is a technique that allows the headset to render graphics the same way the human eye sees the real world. The Vive Pro Eye uses Tobii eye-tracking to…

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Google’s cloud gaming service requires a $129 bundle to play at launch

Jun06
by on June 6, 2019 at 5:44 pm
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Google today revealed more information about Stadia, its ambitious gaming service, in a special Connect show. We learned that Google was tossing away their one single advantage — namely, that you’re going to have to purchase a $129 not-console in order to play it at launch. The first details we learned was the launch library of Stadia — and the first title we learned about was the previously-rumored Baldur’s Gate III and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. The other titles in the lineup include Doom, Destiny 2, The Division 2, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and the Tomb Raider reboot games. Google of course hyped its Stadia controller, but specified that it could…

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