Month: November 2021
Netflix reveals Straw Hats cast for upcoming One Piece live-action show
Netflix has revealed five key cast members for its upcoming show based on the hugely popular manga and anime franchise One Piece. The cast, announced Tuesday, will play characters in the Straw Hats crew, the central group of the series. The currently announced cast stars: Iñaki Godoy as Luffy Mackenyu…
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Data used to build algorithms detecting skin disease is too white
Public skin image datasets that are used to train algorithms to detect skin problems don’t include enough information about skin tone, according to a new analysis. And within the datasets where skin tone information is available, only a very small number of images are of darker skin — so algorithms…
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Johnson & Johnson’s CEO joins Apple’s board
Apple has announced that Johnson & Johnson’s current CEO, Alex Gorsky, will join its board of directors. Gorsky’s move to Apple’s leadership team (he’ll step down from his role at J&J in January) comes at a time when the company is focusing even more on health and how it can…
Read MoreUnity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital to help prepare for the metaverse
Unity Technologies, the company behind the Unity engine, is buying Weta Digital. If you’re a film buff, you need no introduction to Weta. It’s the VFX house Peter Jackson co-founded in 1993. It has worked on movies like the Fellowship of the Ring, Avatar and Black Widow. Under the $1.625…
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You’ll soon be able to use Venmo to pay for Amazon purchases
PayPal has announced that it is teaming up with Amazon to allow users of its ecommerce platform to pay with Venmo at checkout. Beginning next year, users of Venmo’s money transfer service will be able to use their linked bank accounts and Venmo balance to make purchases on Amazon’s website…
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Will these top Steam games support Steam Deck? We ask their developers
Valve’s $400 Steam Deck gaming handheld runs Linux, but it can play Windows games too. Many of them, anyhow! Some of the biggest games on Steam use anti-cheat software that doesn’t play nice with the Proton compatibility layer which lets Windows games work. That’s changing this year, with both Epic’s…
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