Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ second summer update has arrived, and it adds a handful of new features to the game, including a weekly summer fireworks festival, the ability to fall on your face, and save backups. You’ll need to have a paid Nintendo Switch Online subscription to take advantage of the latter, and it works […]
Coronavirus UK: New data shows survival and sports games surge in popularity
New data shows that the coronavirus-induced lockdown has ironically made pandemic-related games more popular. We’ve already known for a while that gaming has become more popular than ever due to the coronavirus keeping everybody stuck indoors. Previously, we recommended that, in this time of crisis, you avoid playing any games involving zombies, viruses, or the […]
Vast Data raises $100 million to develop storage solutions for AI workloads
Vast Data, a company developing large-scale flash storage solutions, today announced that it raised $100 million at a $1.2 billion valuation (up three times since February 2019). CEO Renen Hallak says it’ll be used to drive expansion and lay runway for the startup’s future growth, which bodes well for customers like the National Institutes of […]
2020 census data may not be as anonymous as expected
It’s census time in the US once again and multiple ads are running on both online and offline media to encourage everyone selected for the census to respond. The constitutional goal of the census is to ensure that congressional districts are properly balanced, thereby ensuring adequate representation. The modern census has expanded beyond that simple […]
Google releases location data to show if coronavirus lockdowns are working
(Reuters) — Alphabet’s Google on Thursday published reports for 131 countries showing whether visits to shops, parks and workplaces dropped in March, when many governments issued stay-at-home orders to rein the spread of the novel coronavirus. Google’s analysis of location data from billions of users’ phones is the largest public dataset available to help health […]
Researchers release data set of CT scans from coronavirus patients
In an effort to spur the development of systems that can quickly spot signs of the novel coronavirus, a team of researchers at the University of San Diego this week released a data set — the COVID-CT-Dataset — containing 275 CT scans collected from 143 patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19, which they claim is […]
Apex data miner finds code for test emotes in game files
It’s not a LAN party without dance emotes, and they might be coming to Apex Legends at some point. Famous data miner iLootGames found unused code for emotes in Apex’sfiles following today’s update. The data miner shared animations for three different characters. Some of the gestures are thematically related to their characters and might point […]