October 3, 2024

Hardware

Xbox president explains why Game Pass was created

Microsoft’s gaming leadership explains why Xbox Game Pass was introduced, and why the company chose to disrupt its own business model of game and software sales. VIEW GALLERY – 6 IMAGES In 2017, Xbox changed the games industry by releasing Xbox Game Pass. It was the first multi-game subscription service, allowing subscribers to pay a low monthly fee to access hundreds of games. Since then, both Nintendo and PlayStation have released their own variants, with

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AR/VR

How GPT-4o defends your identity against AI-generated deepfakes

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Deepfake incidents are surging in 2024, predicted to increase by 60% or more this year, pushing global cases to 150,000 or more. That’s making AI-powered deepfake attacks the fastest-growing type of adversarial AI today. Deloitte predicts deepfake attacks will cause over $40 billion in damages by 2027, with banking and financial services being the primary targets.

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Hardware

Intel confirms Core Ultra 200 series CPUs launching October 10: reviews arrive 2 weeks later

Intel has confirmed that its new Core Ultra 200 series “Arrow Lake-S” desktop processors will be launching on October 10, with reviews and sales coming two weeks later on October 24. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The new Intel Core Ultra 200 series “Arrow Lake-S” desktop CPUs arrive with a new LGA 1851 socket, an entire new fleet of 800-series motherboards led by the Z890 flagship, DDR5 only, and TSMC’s magic foundry process which has

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Web3 Hustle: A Win-Win Venture | HackerNoon

I ventured into the web3 ecosystem for the first time in 2020. It has been a turpsy-turvy journey up till now, and although I am grateful that I keyed in then, there are a lot of things that I’ve learned in my journey and that I’m still learning but wish someone had explained to me then. I started by reading books, but it was not nearly enough because I had to source for them myself

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Hardware

Intel’s new Lunar Lake CPU beats current-gen gaming handhelds: improved IPC, more efficient

Intel’s new Core Ultra 200V series “Lunar Lake” CPUs are slowly coming to the market, you can read our review on the ASUS Zenbook S14 laptop powered by Lunar Lake here, with some more benchmarks and comparisons from Geekerwan. VIEW GALLERY – 8 IMAGES With just 15W of power, the new Intel Core Ultra 7 258V benched against the Valve Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally (the Z1 Extreme variant) in a 15W constrained TDP

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Big Sur AI drives future of e-commerce with AI

From startups to industry giants like TikTok, companies are increasingly turning to AI to improve online sales. Digital advertising is moving five times faster than inflation in the U.S.; 71% faster than the costs of TV ads. Further, the average customer acquisition cost (CAC) in e-commerce has risen more than 60 percent over the past five years due to surging digital advertising costs, as reported by SimplicityDX in 2023. This creates an urgency for companies

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XenTag: Changing the game for collectible products

CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: XenTag is providing brands and creators with a unique solution to break creative barriers and introduce superior, limited-edition products into their product lines. After ten years in the GPS and telematics solutions industries, CEO Vishal Singh and his team discovered the convergence point between blockchain and NFC technology…Read More

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From Tap-to-Earn to Play-to-Earn: How Hamster Kombat Is Fueling The Switch | HackerNoon

To put it in proper context, Hamster Kombat (HMSTR)’s recent launch was quickly followed by a massive sell-off, with the native token dipping by 42% in the space of three days. As a result of this latest development, scores of social media users have begun to call out the developers behind the clicker game for allegedly scamming them or for what appears to be an “unfair distribution” of its native token. The majority of the

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3thix partners with Avalanche on web3 gaming ad data

GamesBeat Next is almost here! GB Next is the premier event for product leaders and leadership in the gaming industry. Coming up October 28th and 29th, join fellow leaders and amazing speakers like Matthew Bromberg (CEO Unity), Amy Hennig (Co-President of New Media Skydance Games), Laura Naviaux Sturr (GM Operations Amazon Games), Amir Satvat (Business Development Director Tencent), and so many others. See the full speaker list and register here. Web3 finance company 3thix announced

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Reflection 70B saga continues as training data provider releases post-mortem report

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More On September 5th, 2024, Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of the startup Hyperwrite AI (also known as OthersideAI) took to the social network X to post the bombshell news that he had fine-tuned a version of Meta’s open source Llama 3.1-70B into an even more performant large language model (LLM) known as Reflection 70B — so

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