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Intel’s new 9th-gen laptop processors give birth to ‘Musclebooks’

Apr24
by on April 24, 2019 at 4:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


Intel today unveiled its latest set of mobile processors, introducing its 9th-generation architecture to laptops and tablets. As we saw with the desktop version back in October, it should provide a decent performance boost. Tthe company introduced the first consumer chip to reach 5 GHz back then, and now it’s doing the same for laptops. This speedster is the flagship 9980HK, which is able to ramp up to that 5GHz speed from a 2.4GHz base clock. Intel says it can provide “up to 18 percent higher fps” in games compared to last year’s flagship 8950HK, or 28 percent faster 4K video…

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Why ‘Magic: The Gathering’ is AI’s toughest challenge

Apr24
by on April 24, 2019 at 12:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, gaming


Games make the perfect teaching environment for developers to train machine learning models in, but which game produces the strongest AI? You can put your money on DeepMind’s AlphaGo or OpenAI’s DotA 2-playing machine, but we’ll take whichever one is the first to master Magic: The Gathering – humanity’s hardest game. A trio of scientists led by independent researcher Alex Churchill recently published research in pre-print archive arXiv that appears to establish that Magic: The Gathering, a collectible card game, is “the most computationally complex real-world game known” in scientific literature. While anyone whose ever tried to casually get into tournament Magic…

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Mortal Kombat 11 sneaks in some jabs at President Trump

Apr23
by on April 23, 2019 at 10:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Of all the things I expected to see and hear when playing the newest entry in the Mortal Kombat series — and, given this series’ reputation, I was expecting the most — sly digs at American president #45 were pretty low on the list. But developer Netherrealm Studios delivered, and they didn’t do it subtly. I got an early promo code for Mortal Kombat 11 and have been playing it over the weekend, enjoying the new characters and the old favorites. To set the scene, the combatants (oh, sorry, “Kombatants”) in the match where this happened are Jackson “Jax” Briggs, an American Special Forces soldier,…

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No Ewoks were harmed in the making of this TNW Star Wars Day gift guide

Apr23
by on April 23, 2019 at 9:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Unpopular opinion: “Ewoks: The Battle for Endor” is the best movie in the Star Wars universe. We won’t be taking questions, but here’s our Star Wars Day (May the Fourth) gift guide. First things first, every Star Wars Day gift guide should start off with this talking Chewbacca mask: And here’s why: It’s been three years and that’s still one of the funniest, wholesome things we’ve ever seen. Chewbacca Mask Lady became so popular she was presented with an action figure in her likeness by Hasbro. The mask was sold out in stores and online for much of 2016, but…

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