Month: March 2021
When games are hard on their hands, some players turn their voices into controllers
As both a software engineer and an avid player of strategy games, chaosparrot struggled to reckon with the damage his work and hobbies had done to his hands. By 2017, the consistent pain of his repetitive stress injuries was bad enough that he could no longer type comfortably or enjoy…
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How to Turn Your Smartphone Into a Webcam
Using your phone (old or new) as a camera for your Zoom meetings is an easy and affordable way to be visibly present if you don’t have a webcam on your laptop or PC. Source
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Dutch court rejects Uber drivers’ ‘robo-firing’ charge but tells Ola to explain algo-deductions
Uber has had a good result against litigation in the Netherlands, where its European business is headquartered, that had alleged it uses algorithms to terminate drivers — but which the court has rejected. The ride-hailing giant has also been largely successful in fending off wide-ranging requests for data from drivers…
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Netflix nails Resident Evil series casting, with some help from the games Resident Evil Infinite Darkness
Netflix has revealed in a tweet who will be playing the roles of Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield in Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, the animated series coming to the streaming platform in 2021, and the casting is sure to make fans of the Resident Evil 2 remake happy. Nick…
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WTF Is an NFT, Anyway? And Should I Care?
This week we talk about non-fungible tokens, digital art collectors, and what it’s like to sell one of your tweets. Source
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WTF Is an NFT?
This week we talk about non-fungible tokens, digital art collectors, and what it’s like to sell one of your tweets. Source
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