Month: June 2023
Final Fantasy XVI is so fucking edgy
It’s no secret that Game of Thrones has been a major influence on Final Fantasy XVI — the developers have said as much. “When we first started creating the game, we had our core team of about 30 members very early on buy the Blu-ray boxset of Game of Thrones…
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Microsoft wants your company to feed its private data into ChatGPT
Microsoft has revealed a new launch giving firms the ability to hand over their corporate data to its Azure OpenAI Service in order to get better results when querying the AI chatbot. OpenAI is the company behind the ever-popular ChatGPT, and Microsoft has been one of its biggest investors, pouring…
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Twitch announces Hype Chat and it sounds potentially problematic
Twitch has just announced Hype Chat, a new tool that allows viewers to pay to pin their message to the top of a streamer’s chat – and thus guaranteeing a higher chance of visibility and attention. The function is simple when distilled down: Hype Chat will mean that even on fast-moving…
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An infamous Final Fantasy XIV monster returns in Final Fantasy XVI
Final Fantasy XVI, out today, is stuffed with neat little homages and references to the Final Fantasy games that came before it. One of the game’s menus features sprites of Clive, Jill, Torgal, or whoever else is in your party if you’re nostalgic for the old pixel art from the…
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Chrome can soon convert PDFs into text it can read aloud
Google will soon make it easier to interact with PDFs if you have low vision. The company is adding OCR (optical character recognition) technology to Chrome that can convert PDFs to text that makes them more accessible, particularly if you want a screen reader to read them aloud. The tool…
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Schools to get Figma for free on Chromebooks
All US students can now get Figma for free after the design tool developer announced a major expansion to its partnership with Google for Education, the G-Suite Workspace for educators. The partnership, which began with a 2022 beta for select schools, aims to encourage K-12 students of all ages to…
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