Long-time Fallout fans are used to long waits between titles, and, depending on their preferences, inconsistent results. But when Amazon's Fallout series showed up on Prime and absolutely nailed it, it spurred a lot of players to crack open their libraries and commence some post-apocalyptic replaying. And maybe first-time playing, too.
Fallout 76, the online multiplayer title that is the most recent full release, saw perhaps the biggest delta. The game hit its all-time peak of 43,887 simultaneous players on Wednesday, April 17, according to SteamCharts, roughly one week after the Amazon series' debut. For the year leading up to that peak, Fallout 76 had hovered around 7,000-10,000 players through most of 2024, and then jumped after the series' debut. Of course, that number only counts PC players, and only those on Steam; the game, which launched simultaneously on consoles, and is available on Microsoft's Game Pass, likely has many more players.
SteamDB, another Steam stats tracker, suggested on X (formerly Twitter) that the Fallout game series as a whole had more than doubled its concurrent player count by April 14.
On Wednesday, Colorado expanded the scope of its privacy law initially designed to protect biometric data like fingerprints or face images to become first in the nation to also shield sensitive neural data.
That could stop companies from hoarding brain activity data without residents realizing the risks. The New York Times reported that neural data is increasingly being collected and sold nationwide. And after a market analysis showed that investments in neurotechnology leapt by 60 percent globally from 2019 to 2020—and were valued at $30 billion in 2021—Big Tech companies have significantly intensified plans to develop their own products to rake in potentially billions.
For instance, in 2023, Meta demoed a wristband with a neural interface used to control its smart glasses and unveiled an AI system that could be used to decode the mind. In January, Elon Musk announced that Neuralink implanted its first brain chip in a human that can be used to control a device with their thoughts. And just last month, Apple Insider reported that "Apple is working on technology that could turn the Apple Vision Pro into a brainwave reader to improve mental health, assist with training and workouts, and help with mindfulness."
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The United States has won an important battle in its war to keep low-cost Chinese electric vehicles from American car buyers. Today, Reuters reports that the Mexican federal government has responded to pressure from the US and will not offer incentives to Chinese automakers, like BYD, that are looking to establish North American manufacturing operations.
BYD last met with Mexican officials in January, according to Reuters, where it learned that Chinese automakers would not be offered tax breaks or cheap land to build factories.
Until now, Mexico has offered foreign automakers generous subsidies that have made the country a cheap place to build cars. Added to that, the United States-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement also makes Mexico desirable for ease of access to the US market, and Chinese automotive part suppliers have flocked to the country in recent years.
Apple's decision earlier this month to open the iOS App Store to generic retro game emulators is already bearing fruit. Delta launched Wednesday as one of the first officially approved iOS apps to emulate Nintendo consoles from the NES through the N64 and the Game Boy through the Nintendo DS (though unofficial options have snuck through in the past).
Delta is an outgrowth of developer Riley Testut's earlier sideloadable GBA4iOS project, which recently had its own unauthorized clone removed from the App Store. Before Wednesday, iOS users could load Delta onto their devices only through AltStore, an iOS marketplace that used a Developer Mode workaround to sideload apps from a self-hosted server. European users can now get that AltStore directly on their iOS devices (for a small 1.50 euro/year fee), while North American users can simply download Delta for free from the iOS App Store, with no ads or user tracking to boot.
All that history means Delta is far from a slapdash app quickly thrown together to take advantage of Apple's new openness to emulation. The app is obviously built with iOS in mind and already integrates some useful features designed for the mobile ecosystem. While there are some updates we'd like to see in the future, this represents a good starting point for where Apple-approved game emulation can go on iOS.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised more layoffs at Google this year, and the company is delivering. Business Insider was the first to report the latest cuts are to "several teams" in Google's real estate and finance departments. The report adds: "One current employee said the changes were 'pretty large-scale' and that some roles are being moved abroad."
CNBC has a copy of the memo that Google and Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat sent out to employees about the layoffs. Porat blames AI for the layoffs, saying, “The tech sector is in the midst of a tremendous platform shift with Al. As a company, this means we have the opportunity to make more helpful products for billions of users and provide faster solutions to our customers, but it also means we collectively have to make tough decisions, including how and where we work to align with our highest priority areas.” It's not clear how or if AI is actually taking over roles in real estate and finance.
Google has been making cuts across a ton of departments since 2022, when Pichai declared Google was not productive enough. There was a big set of 12,000 layoffs in January 2023, and an almost uncountable number of smaller cuts since then. Google's cuts are aligned with a massive wave of layoffs across the tech industry.
La série de Jonathan Nolan et Lisa Joy (Westworld), qui adapte la saga de jeux vidéo à succès, est enfin disponible sur Prime Video. Voici donc 4 séries similaires à découvrir en streaming : The Last of Us, Périphériques : Les Mondes de Flynne, The Walking Dead : World Beyond ainsi que The Expanse.
Meta AI, un chatbot uniquement disponible en anglais pour l'instant, devient encore plus performant grâce au nouveau modèle de langage Llama 3, dont les deux premières versions sont dévoilées aujourd'hui (avec 8 milliards ou 70 milliards de paramètres). L'objectif de Meta est de dépasser OpenAI et Google, grâce à ses 3 milliards d'utilisateurs dans le monde.
Blue whales have been considered the largest creatures to ever live on Earth. With a maximum length of nearly 30 meters and weighing nearly 200 tons, they are the all-time undisputed heavyweight champions of the animal kingdom.
Now, digging on a beach in Somerset, UK, a team of British paleontologists found the remains of an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that could give the whales some competition. “It is quite remarkable to think that gigantic, blue-whale-sized ichthyosaurs were swimming in the oceans around what was the UK during the Triassic Period,” said Dean Lomax, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester who led the study.
Ichthyosaurs were found in the seas through much of the Mesozoic era, appearing as early as 250 million years ago. They had four limbs that looked like paddles, vertical tail fins that extended downward in most species, and generally looked like large, reptilian dolphins with elongated narrow jaws lined with teeth. And some of them were really huge. The largest ichthyosaur skeleton so far was found in British Columbia, Canada, measured 21 meters, and belonged to a particularly massive ichthyosaur called Shonisaurus sikanniensis. But it seems they could get even larger than that.
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je suis traductrice débutante et à la recherche d’un logiciel permettant de modifier un fichier pdf de plusieurs pages. Je suis sous Ubuntu depuis des années et je trouve tous les outils nécessaires en général mais cette fois j’ai reçu un fichier en pdf et je n’arrive pas à le convertir en libre office correctement .
J’ai tenté pas mal d’outils en ligne. je veux bien payer pour cette prestation mais les outils en question me demandent de m’abonner sur le long terme…pour plusieurs dizaines d’euros par moi.
Sous Libre office draw je peux ouvrir mon pdf mais seule la première page est disponible dans ce cas.
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Après Stadia, Podcasts et One VPN, Google se prépare à faire le ménage dans Google Keep, son logiciel de prise de notes. L'application ne devrait pas être complètement supprimée, mais Google Tasks devrait récupérer une partie de ses fonctions.
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Les modèles d'écouteurs ouverts gagnent du terrain, notamment chez les sportifs. Reconnu pour l’excellent rapport qualité-prix de ses produits, Baseus se lance sur ce segment et officialise ses Eli Sport 1.
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Mercedes-Benz's E Class badge possesses a lot of canon. When asked to picture a '90s-or-newer Mercedes full-size sedan, it's hard not to conjure up mental snapshots of W124-and-up generations schlepping around well-heeled suburban communities. I bet a lot of folks also picture the taxi lineup outside any German train station, too.
Well, at least I do. But I'm not talking about envisioning surly Munich cabbies but rather the faithful four-doors they putter around in. A lot of them are E Classes, which further proves that the cars have always been quintessential Mercedes luxury workhorses.
The brand-new 2024 E 350 4Matic, with its thrifty turbo-four powerplant, might have the most direct lineage in the US market to those cream-colored rickety diesels. It's easy on fuel for its size and ready to soak up all the miles across both traffic-ridden cityscapes and high-speed stretches of highway. And with its expansive suite of tech and mild hybrid propulsion, it's an overall great next chapter for the badge.
Epic Games, par le biais de son store, vous offre 100 $ de contenu dans le jeu Town of Salem 2, cela se passe ici. La ville de Salem est en pleine tourmente depuis que le Coven a pris le pouvoir. Aurez-vous ce qu'il faut pour survivre ? Bienvenue dans Town of Salem, un jeu multijoueur en ligne captivant de meurtre, de tromperie et de survie se déroulant dans la ville pittoresque mais perfide de Salem. Plongez-vous dans cette aventure passionnante de déduction sociale, où votre stratégie, votre esprit et votre capacité à lire les autres sont vos plus grands atouts. Parviendrez-vous à découvrir la vérité avant qu'il ne soit trop tard, ou la tromperie vous égarera-t-elle ? […]
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Lire la suitePour cette dernière vidéo de la journée, nous vous proposons de découvrir le Design Center de MSI l'endroit où l'esthétique des produits sera développé. Dans cette vidéo, nous passons assez rapidement sur le sujet, car tout n'était pas présent, et nous vous préparons un article complet sur le sujet très documenté avec l'évolution de l'équipe RetD durant ces dernières années. Toutefois, vous allez par exemple découvrir quelles inspirations guident les choix des designers de la marque. […]
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