Google Pixel 8 camera leak details new main sensor, Pro-only upgrades, more ( 9to5google.com )
The camera has always been the best feature of Google’s Pixel smartphones, and according to a detailed new leak, the...
Stoicism Cheat Sheet ( media.kbin.social )
TIL George Lucas not only gave his blessing to make Spaceballs, he also handed the movie over to his effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, to provide the space effects and postproduction. ( www.cbr.com )
Spaceballs has gradually gained a cult following in recent years, but what opinion did Star Wars' creator George Lucas have on the movie's release?
TIL During the 2000’s, Google, Apple, Adobe, Intel, and several other mega corporations had a mutual agreement not to hire each other’s employees in order to keep salaries low. This led to a 400 mil class action lawsuit. ( www.npr.org )
The suit alleged Google, Apple Intel and Adobe agreed not to recruit each others employees in order to drive down wages.
TIL of “Earthquake diplomacy” between Turkey and Greece which was initiated after successive earthquakes hit both countries in the summer of 1999. Since then both countries help each other in case of an earthquake no matter how their relations are. ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL Terry Crews said the reason Fox didn’t promote idiocracy was because Mike Judge had companies pay for product placement and then he made them look bad (Starbucks gave out hand-jobs). ( en.wikipedia.org )
Idiocracy is a 2006 American sci-fi comedy film directed by Mike Judge and co-written by Judge and Etan Cohen. The plot follows U.S. Army librarian Joe Bauers, who wakes up five hundred years in the future after a botched government hibernation experiment to find himself in a dystopian society run by corporations, where...
TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived over multiple centuries. ( www.harrisnecklandtrust.org )
The Language You Cry In is the award winning film that traces the connections between the Moran family and the people of Harris Neck with those of Senehun Ngola.
CEO spez AMA Overview | r/Save3rdPartyApps ( old.reddit.com )
5 and a half years ago EA held an AMA so disastrous that it was unreadable as downvotes pummelling the answering producers and directors to the ground. Back then I made an overview for r/Games....
[FE5] The legendary nine move Dalsin. ( lemmy.ml )
A trained Dalsin with A lances and 9 movement. I wasn’t going to go for the former but since he got like 2 move levels in a row, I went for it.
[Marc Andreessen, a16z] Why AI Will Save The World ( pmarca.substack.com )
The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out. Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.
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The Answer To The Zelda Formula Split Is To Make 2D Zeldas Again ( www.thegamer.com )
If you love Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, that may sound like great news. But, even as a big fan of those games, I can’t help feeling like there’s a bit of a void in gaming created by the more traditional Zelda’s absence. Tears of the Kingdom makes some changes to address that, like incorporating dungeons...
These CCTV cameras recorded the Chernobyl disaster ( www.youtube.com )
For the first time, this is an in-depth review of historical CCTV systems that were used with nearly all Chernobyl robots back in the 80-s.
Shell casing ejectors and extractors in games ( www.youtube.com )
A difference between extractors and ejectors in shotguns and how are they depicted in games.
Why AI’s diversity crisis matters, and how to tackle it ( www.nature.com )
Machine-learning researchers from under-represented groups say the field desperately needs more people like them to ensure the technologies deliver for all.