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Valorant’s newest hero has some adorable robots
Killjoy is the latest character coming to Riot’s team shooter Valorant, and she’s a German hacker with what sounds like some useful skills. She has access to a turret and a nanoswarm grenade that should shake up the game’s meta. The most important part, though, is that she has some…
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Fighting identity crime bots with Moving Target Defense null
A data breach where personal data is exposed is one of the most common ways that fraudsters are able to commit identity theft. But it’s not just names, birth dates, and addresses that identity thieves are targeting. In a technique called ‘credential stuffing’, credentials that are obtained from a data…
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Spotify tests visual quote cards for The Michelle Obama Podcast
One of Spotify’s biggest original podcast bets, The Michelle Obama Podcast, premieres today and with it comes the test of a new product feature: shareable quote cards. People in the test will be able to press play on the podcast, and colorful cards with quotes available to share will appear…
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Valorant’s twelfth agent is Killjoy, a German robotics genius
Riot is adding another heroic ‘agent’ to Valorant, its currently PC-exclusive first-person shooter. Today, the developer — best known for League of Legends, a popular MOBA that has spawned its own card game and auto chess spin-off — has unveiled Kill… Source
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A stowaway helicopter on NASA’s Mars rover will attempt the first flight on another world
When NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, launches this week, the robot will have a tiny stowaway on board: a small box-shaped helicopter. If the copter manages to successfully hover above the Martian terrain, it’ll be the first time that a human-made vehicle has ever flown on another world — and…
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MIT algorithm finds subtle connections between art pieces
A new system developed by MIT researchers called “MosAIc” is finding hard-to-spot similarities between art pieces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. MosAIc scans an image, then uses deep networks to find similarities in pi… Source
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