Month: July 2022
The Dune bible crypto collective wants to sell its Dune bible
The cryptocurrency collective built around a copy of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune script bible will no longer be a collective and is trying to sell its Dune bible. Spice DAO (short for decentralized autonomous organization) recently began “Redemption Phase One,” a fundamental shift in its direction. After a series of setbacks…
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Microsoft 365 update could get you using your Office apps in a totally different way
Some of the most popular Microsoft 365 tools are set to get a lot more interactive thanks to a new update targeting voice dictation. Several new entries in the official Microsoft 365 roadmap have outlined how the company is working on improvements to the Office Dictation tool, which allows users…
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Google Photos for Chromebooks is getting a video editor and movie maker
Later this year, Google Photos is going to get a significant update that has the distinction of first arriving on Chromebooks. According to a Google blog post, Google Photos will get a new movie editor and video editing features this fall as part of an update to Chrome OS. From…
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Is DALL-E’s art borrowed or stolen?
In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists under a false name. Fountain was a urinal, bought from a toilet supplier, with the signature R. Mutt on its side in black paint. Duchamp wanted to see if the society would abide by its promise to…
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Stray is such a hit that the cat is getting put into Doom
Doomguy goes feral thanks to a new Stray Doom mod that turns the ass-kicking space marine into a ginger cat. Stray has turned out to be a runaway hit, due in large part to humanity’s feline obsession. While cats were once a staple of scrawlings in ancient Egypt, the…
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Roblox’s new ‘oof’ sound is a big oof
Roblox has gotten rid of the iconic “oof” sound your character makes when dying (that even I, as an adult, can find some semblance of joy in). In a thread on Twitter (via Kotaku), Roblox explains it removed the sound “due to a licensing issue” and replaced it with a…
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