July 19, 2024

Bethesda Game Studios workers unionize under Communications Workers of America

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here. Bethesda Game Studios workers have voted to join the Communications Workers of America, forming the first wall-to-wall union at a Microsoft video game studio. The workers, consisting of 241 developers, artists,

Dean Takahashi July 19, 2024

Battling Open Book Exams with Open Source LLMs

In the age where everyone uses ChatGPT for work and school, I am taking advantage of that to help me study in my university course Jubayer Hossain Ahad · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 3 hours ago — Image generated by Dall-E 3, prompted by Author Disclaimer This is not a cheat or a hack for any examinations. This is just a tool to prepare you for your course

Jubayer Hossain Ahad July 19, 2024

EA’s return to College Football is a hit, over 2M players pre-launch

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here. Electronic Arts returns to the NCAA with the launch of EA Sports College Football 25 today on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Thanks to changes to Name, Image and Likeness

Jordan Fragen July 19, 2024

Streamlining Object Detection with Metaflow, AWS, and Weights & Biases

How to create a production-grade pipeline for object detection Ed Izaguirre · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 14 min read · 4 hours ago — Overview of the project flow. Image by author. Table of Contents Introduction (Or What’s in a Title) The Reality of MLOps without the Ops Managing Dependencies Effectively How to Debug a Production Flow Finding the Goldilocks Step Size Takeaways References Relevant Links GitHub repo Link to earlier article

Ed Izaguirre July 19, 2024

Gen Z players are highly engaged and looking for new games | Newzoo

Newzoo’s latest Global Gamer Study report shows that Gen Z players are some of the most engaged, and many are also seeking new games to play.Read More

Rachel Kaser July 19, 2024

Software

Telegram Games Have Boring Marketing Strategies | HackerNoon

With the saturation of gamified mining apps on Telegram, every app now feels the same, following similar approaches to building a community. From a player’s perspective, it is boring. Imagine having several games to play daily just to maintain streaks and earn rewards; which one will you prioritize, and which one will you abandon? Pioneers Usually Gain More Traffic Observing marketing tactics from popular Telegram-based mining games like Hamster Kombat, it’s clear that subsequent apps

Ivy July 19, 2024

Restaking Step-by-step | HackerNoon

I have been professionally involved in DeFi for 8 years (as a researcher, LP and advanced user). Today, I would like to talk about one of the major trends of 2023 – restaking. For this, I will try to go step by step, rather than giving the 1001st description of the general processes, of which there are so many in Google search results. So you have ETH, what’s next? Let’s imagine you have 1 ETH.

menaskop July 19, 2024

Video Friday: Robot Crash-Perches, Hugs Tree

3 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Animals hug trees, and now robots can too. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE ICSR 2024: 23–26

Evan Ackerman July 19, 2024

Railroad Infrastructure: How Evertrak is Leading the Way with Sustainable Materials | HackerNoon

Imagine an industry that has seen little innovation since the Civil War. It may seem unbelievable, but the United States railroad infrastructure is still the same as it was back in the original era. Taking on the industry to improve and plan for the future is Evertrak — ready for a railroad infrastructure revolution. The company’s mission is bold: replace traditional wooden railroad ties with cutting-edge, sustainable alternatives made from recycled plastics. Evertrak is addressing

sarahevans July 19, 2024

Hardware

Play Dota 2 competitively with an AMD GPU? Great news: Anti-Lag 2 support is live in new driver

AMD’s latest graphics driver brings support for Anti-Lag 2 to a second game – namely Dota 2. 2 Dota 2 players with an AMD graphics card now have an extra edge (Image Credit: Valve) VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The tech first arrived in Counter Strike 2, and it reduces input lag (like the rival NVIDIA Reflex feature), so clearly enough it’s an important addition for competitive online games – and with Adrenalin version 24.7.1

Darren Allan July 19, 2024