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18 Jul

The live-action Halo show has been canceled at Paramount+

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Many moons ago, back in 2013, we that Hollywood royalty Steven Spielberg had teamed up with Microsoft to create a live-action Halo television series. It took about ten years for the vision to finally come to fruition, but the show has now been canceled by the Paramount+ streaming service after a mere seventeen episodes. The first season in 2022 and the second earlier this year. We had about the show's debut, but it's still a sad conclusion for the big-budget project.According to an unnamed source, the show creators plan to shop the project around and search for a new home…

18 Jul

Getting the height of Android device independent of pixel densities

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Table of contents TLDR (too long didn't read) Why does this matter? Resources My app on the Google play store My app's GitHub code TLDR (too long didn't read) When trying to get the height of a Android device, make sure you do it in an pixel density independent way: correct way to get height: val displayMetrics = Resources.getSystem().displayMetrics val heightPixels = displayMetrics.heightPixels //exact physical pixel amount(different on certain devices) val density = displayMetrics.density //density multiplier val pixelDensityIndependentHeight =heightPixels / density Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode val height = Resources.getSystem().displayMetrics.heightPixels //as previously mentioned, this height will change depending on…

18 Jul

Blizzard reveals gameplay for the new Diablo IV class, Spiritborn

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After a at last year's BlizzCon, Blizzard today more details about the new character class that will be coming to Diablo IV this fall. The Spiritborn looks like a fun, powerful mix of several characters from past Diablo entries. Imagine the martial arts combat of the Diablo 3 Monk paired with the animal abilities of the same game’s Witch Doctor plus the aesthetics of the Amazon in Diablo 2. This sounds like a pretty darn tasty recipe to me.The Spiritborn is a dexterity-driven class with four Spirit Guardians whose powers you can draw on in combat. The jaguar grants fire…

18 Jul

Why is unserializing an object in PHP a bad idea?

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Serializing in PHP is a way of converting a PHP object into a string. This string can be used in various ways, such as storing it in a database or passing it to another function. The PHP documentation says this is handy when passing PHP values around without losing their type and structure. But I have never had that problem before. Maybe I’m not seeing it. <?php $test = new User(); $test->name = "Denzyl"; echo serialize($test); /// Output: O:4:"User":1:{s:4:"name";s:6:"Denzyl";} Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode So, let's digest the string. The o stands for Object, and the following number is…

18 Jul

Nintendo finally made a first-party Joy-Con charging station

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Nintendo just announced its own first-party Joy-Con controller charging station, which releases on October 17. This is an obvious boon for couch co-op addicts, as you can have two Joy-Cons charging on the dock and another two charging via the console at the same time. Nintendo’s charging station also integrates with the company’s retro wireless NES gamepads, which are primarily used with Nintendo Switch Online games.The Joy-Con Charging Stand (Two-Way) accessory draws power from the Switch’s dock, via the USB-C port, or any other power adapter. The vertical support can also be removed to make it more portable, another bonus…

18 Jul

RISC-V Shows Ambitious Prospects in Europe

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Munich, Germany — The European tech landscape is witnessing a notable evolution with the growing embrace of RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture. During the recent RISC-V Summit Source link lol

18 Jul

You can try new Overwatch 2 support hero Juno this weekend

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Overwatch 2 fans who are already jonesing for something new after the recent Transformers crossover won’t have to wait long. Blizzard has spilled the beans about the next hero that’s coming to the game, and you’ll be able to try her out as soon as this weekend.Her name is Juno and she’s a support. The publisher teased this hero back at BlizzCon 2023 (when she was referred to only as Space Ranger) and in-game over the last few weeks. Now, her spacecraft has landed on this colorful version of near-future Earth — Juno is the game’s first playable Martian character.A…

18 Jul

Multimodal RAG locally with CLIP and Llama3

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With the recent release of GPT-4o and Gemini, multimodal has been a hot topic lately. Another one that has been on top of the lighting spot is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for the past year, but it was mostly focused on text. This tutorial will show you how to build a Multimodal RAG System. By using Multimodal RAG, you don’t have to use text only; you can use different types of data such as images, audio, videos, and text, of course. It’s also possible to return different kinds of data; just because you use text as input for your RAG…

18 Jul

Microsoft is bringing Designer’s AI editor to Windows 11’s Photos app – gHacks Tech News

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Microsoft has announced that it is adding some new AI features to the Photos app on Windows 11. The options will be powered by Microsoft Designer's AI. As you may be aware, the Microsoft Photos app already has a button that lets you edit an image in Designer online. Clicking on the button opens https://designer.microsoft.com in your web browser, with the image loaded and ready for editing. This is the experience that Microsoft is changing, the company wants to allow users to edit the images with Designer directly. Microsoft Photos app gains AI-powered editing tools The Photos app is gaining…

18 Jul

Xfinity is showing the Olympics with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos on its Stream app

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Xfinity is giving its customers access to better picture quality, just in time for the Paris Olympics. To start with, its customers will have the ability to enable Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos via the Xfinity Stream app on compatible streaming devices and TVs for the first time, if they watch USA Network's Paris Olympics coverage. That will give them access to a viewing experience with more detailed pictures and immersive sounds even if they're not streaming through an Xfinity box.The telecommunications division of Comcast is also debuting an enhanced 4K viewing experience for all customers of its X1…