October 31, 2021 3:40 PM Image Credit: John Williams RUS / Shutterstock DeepMind is mostly known for its work in deep reinforcement learning, especially in mastering complicated games and predicting protein structures. Now, it is taking its next step in robotics research. According to a blog post on DeepMind’s website, the company has acquired the…
Year: 2021
Report: At least 25% of consumers use biometrics for online security
October 31, 2021 12:15 PM Image Credit: wonry // Getty Images Biometrics are beginning to move mainstream for online authentication, with at least 25% of consumers now using biometrics in some capacity, according to the FIDO Alliance’s Online Authentication Barometer report. For this research, the FIDO Alliance set out to discover the latest in consumer…
Tencent keeps investing in PUBG Mobile esports in the Americas
October 31, 2021 8:45 AM The North American PUBG Mobile sports event is under way.Image Credit: Tencent Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. PUBG Mobile is a huge gaming property with more than $6 billion in lifetime player spending. And while much of…
How to go hybrid: The right recipe for mixing on-prem and cloud computing
October 31, 2021 8:40 AM Image Credit: Erik Isakson/Getty Images When cloud computing first became widely available, the advantages were clear: ease of use, unlimited capacity, availability, and flexible pricing. Suddenly, enterprises didn’t have to worry about capacity planning or the cumbersome and expensive process of setting up data centers. Cloud vendors empowered organizations to…
Perfecting GLFW for Zig, and finding lurking undefined behavior that went unnot
Today, I am announcing mach-glfw: Ziggified GLFW bindings with 100% API coverage, zero-fuss installation, cross compilation, and more. Building Mach for everyone If Mach engine only benefits people interested in using that engine, and not the broader Zig (and even gamedev) community I would consider that a total failure. Whether you’re interested in using all…
How science is helping unearth an 80-year-old Holocaust mystery
In a grassy patch of public park in central Warsaw last week, archaeologists dug up a rusted metal coat hook and the tangled chain of a decayed necklace. The objects couldn’t be more ordinary. Or more extraordinary. The team excavated them from the buried rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto, where German occupiers sealed hundreds of…
Roblox players suffer through game platform’s third day offline
Roblox offers young players access to millions of games. Roblox Roblox said Sunday evening that access to its game platform had been restored after a three-day outage left millions of the online platform’s young players without access to their games. Roblox announced on its status page at 4:45 p.m. PT that it had resumed normal…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope snaps spooky image of a dying star
This “baleful orange eye” is carbon star CW Leonis as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Ueta, H. Kim The Hubble Space Telescope is sending some seriously spooky Halloween vibes out into the universe with an eerie image of dying star CW Leonis. The star looks like a cosmic cobweb, though…
Werewolves and moon people: Revisiting lost movie monsters for Halloween
In the chilling depths of winter 1920, a Hungarian film crew made its way across Budapest and Vienna to shoot a silent horror film featuring a vampire who haunts the dreams of a woman trapped in an asylum. Drakula Halála was the first on-screen appearance of the world’s most infamous bloodsucker. Though the film is…
The science of fear: Why we love a good Halloween fright
Can’t wait for some screams this October? Here’s why. Warner Bros. It’s that time of year. Millions of people are watching reruns of The Shining, tiptoeing through haunted houses and willfully participating in other forms of what basically amounts to light psychological distress. During spooky season every October, we crave fear. On the face of it,…