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Legendary game composer Yoko Shimomura to be honored with BAFTA Fellowship
Yoko Shimomura, known for composing many iconic video game music scores, will be honored with a BAFTA Fellowship. Her musical works include the Kingdom Hearts series, Final Fantasy XV and Xenoblade Chronicles. The Fellowship, arts charity’s highest honour, will be presented at the 21st BAFTA Games Awards on April... Read more
Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for March 31
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Mini Crossword isn’t terribly tough, but it might leave you wanting scratches afterwards. And if you... Read more
Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful
Those are pretty stringent constraints, so it wasn’t obvious that the extra memory could ever prove useful. But to their surprise, Buhrman and Cleve showed that if you tweak bits in just the right way, you really can get extra computational oomph out of a full memory. “That was... Read more
How Amir Satvat finds jobs for thousands of game industry people | The DeanBeat
Amir Satvat is the undisputed game job champion. During the game industry’s worst job downturn in the past 2.5 years, about 35,000 game jobs have disappeared. But Satvat, in his spare time, has helped create easily accessible resources to help people find game jobs. And nearly 3,500 people have... Read more
Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for March 31, #659
Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections puzzle wasn’t too tough. None of the categories are those really oddball varieties, like... Read more
For a Master Class in Salt, Try Making Kimchi
It turned out Soo Jin wasn’t completely winging it. She used a 200-milliliter paper cup as a sort of measuring device from time to time to keep her in the ballpark, then fine-tuned from there by tasting. While her brined cabbage quarters dripped into the sink, she puréed onion,... Read more
Getting in touch with the Fortnite generation | Cody ‘Clix’ Conrod interview
As an old timer in games, it’s good for me to get to know what young people on the bleeding edge of technology and games think about. I had a chance to do that with Cody “Clix” Conrod, who has millions of followers on social. He has been playing... Read more
Grab a New Apple Pencil While It’s Down to $50 at Woot
If you’ve recently bought an iPad, an Apple Pencil is a great way to turn it into an art canvas and explore more options. Using an Apple Pencil can also help you navigate your iPad without getting pesky fingerprints all over the screen. With Amazon’s Big Spring Sale still... Read more
Wahl Peanut Li Review: A Cordless Take on a Classic
This was borne out by the evidence when testing each trimmer on a horsehair broom, to approximate how each Peanut would fare with the thickest of beards. The old-school corded Peanut can clog a bit if you try to run it through a horsehair broom, or the human equivalent.... Read more
Beyond encryption: Why quantum computing might be more of a science boom than a cybersecurity bust
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last August, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the first three “post-quantum encryption standards” designed to withstand an attack from a quantum computer. For years, cryptography experts... Read more