Month: August 2023
Microsoft intends to sell Activision Blizzard streaming rights to Ubisoft to counter monopoly concerns
Microsoft has reassessed its plans for its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, announcing its intentions to sell streaming rights for Activision Blizzard titles to Ubisoft, should the deal go ahead. Despite winning its case against the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S.’s own regulatory body for corporate mergers, Microsoft must still…
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15 Best Paper Planners (2023): Planners, Pens, Stickers, and a Digital Tool
Digital tools are not always superior. Here are a few WIRED-tested notebooks to keep you on track. Source
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Meta releases multilingual speech translation model
Meta released a new speech-to-text model that can translate nearly 100 languages called SeamlessM4T, as the company continues to try to make a universal translator. SeamlessM4T, which stands for Massively Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation, that the company said can translate speech-to-text and text-to-text for nearly 100 languages. For speech-to-speech…
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Naomi Duguid ‘The Miracle of Salt’ Cookbook Review: A Vital Reference for Pickling, Preserving, and Flavoring
Naomi Duguid’s The Miracle of Salt is a magnificent single-ingredient trip around the world. Source
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It’s now easier than ever to get Windows apps running on ChromeOS
If you’ve been hunting for a way to bring your favorite Windows apps to Google’s ChromeOS without a virtual desktop, your life might have just gotten a little easier. Today, software virtualization company Cameyo announced that its integration with ChromeOS now supports Virtual App Delivery (VAD) services, allowing Windows applications…
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Nvidia forges ahead with DLSS 3.5, new game support, and… Half-Life?!
Nvidia has announced a new iteration of its powerful game upscaling technology DLSS – though it’s not a fully-fledged DLSS 4. The new version, inventively named DLSS 3.5, is specifically geared towards ray-tracing in games, using a feature called Ray Reconstruction to improve image quality. It’s not a vast upgrade,…
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