An insider alpha update on the Xbox resets the console back to factory settings and is a lesson for software engineers going forward.Read More
The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame released this week the 12 finalists for induction into the esteemed list of impactful games. The titles include Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Defender, Frogger, Golden Eye, Golden Tee, Harvest Moon, Mattel Football, Quake, NBA 2K, and Tamagotchi. “This year’s finalists span the decades and range from arcade classics to one of the most popular mobile games of all time,” says Jon-Paul C. Dyson,
TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist of this AI-centric era. Yup, we’re one sentence in and AI has already made its entrance. And why not? A quick scan of the massive SXSW schedule illustrates that AI is on center stage in Austin — and globally. It’s worth noting that this year
LONDON, United Kingdom, March 7th, 2025/Chainwire/–Oxalis Games has announced a strategic partnership with Open Loot, the Web3 gaming platform that is redefining player ownership and blockchain-powered ecosystems. This partnership will further elevate Moonfrost, Oxalis Games’ flagship title that has already captured the industry’s attention, winning “Best Art Direction” in 2024 and being developed by the lead developer of Stardew Valley Mobile. Oxalis Games, which began as a small indie studio, is on a mission to
What if you want to write the whole object detection training pipeline from scratch, so you can understand each step and be able to customize it? That’s what I set out to do. I examined several well-known object detection pipelines and designed one that best suits my needs and tasks. Thanks to Ultralytics, YOLOx, DAMO-YOLO, RT-DETR and D-FINE repos, I leveraged them to gain deeper understanding into various design details. I ended up implementing SoTA
POPG, the web3 entertainment ecosystem, has reached a key milestone with the successful listing of $POPG on LBank, marking the utility token’s first exchange listing. This step strengthens POPG’s presence in the web3 space, increasing accessibility for users and reinforcing the project’s long-term vision. LBank, an established exchange, provides a platform for POPG’s expansion. As the first exchange listing, this marks the beginning of a larger rollout aimed at making $POPG widely accessible. With LBank’s
4 min read This realistic rendering shows what the Athena lunar lander might look like on the moon. Nokia’s Lunar Surface Communication System is being deployed on the lander. Intuitive Machines This is a guest post. The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent positions of IEEE Spectrum, The Institute, or IEEE. Although it might seem as though there is intense interest right now in exploring Mars, many people don’t
CCP Games has hired Stefán Þórarinsson as its Head of Economy to roll out new updates and research for Eve Frontier.Read More
When learning Python, many beginners focus solely on the language and its libraries while completely ignoring virtual environments. As a result, managing Python projects can become a mess: dependencies installed for different projects may have conflicting versions, leading to compatibility issues. Even when I studied Python, nobody emphasized the importance of virtual environments, which I now find very strange. They are an extremely useful tool for isolating different projects from each other. In this article,
Discord — the chat app with over 200 million monthly users — is in early-stage talks to IPO, The New York Times reports. Discord’s discussions with investment bankers are still exploratory and plans could change, per the NYT’s sources. Discord understands there is a lot of interest about its plans, but does not comment on rumors or speculation, a spokesperson told TechCrunch. This isn’t the first time Discord has mulled over an IPO. The San