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The Backyard Baseball Kids I Could Easily Strike Out In Real Life
Backyard Baseball has officially released, and with it, a brand-new generation of kids can experience one of the most charming, wholesome, and fun sports franchises around. But alongside the influx of new kids trying the game out for the first time, there are also players like me–longtime fans who have been studying the strengths, weaknesses,…
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Would YOU trust these people? Fake faces created by AI look MORE trustworthy than real people, study reveals – take the test to see if you can tell the difference
Researchers at Lancaster University have found that people are no better than chance at telling AI-generated faces apart from photographs of real people, and, more strikingly, tend to rate the artificial faces as more trustworthy than genuine ones. The study matters because it suggests the visual cues people once relied on to spot fakes are…
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“Compliance-in-advance is never enough to appease a zealous censor”: Robert Yang on the current challenge of bringing experimental gay games to Steam
Radiator Forever, an “ongoing re-remaster/re-re-release” collection of developer Robert Yang’s short and experimental gay games has arrived on Steam, giving it a new home alongside Itch.io. In a blog post about the release, Yang has outlined the complex situation facing adult game creators at the moment, with the likes of last year’s business with payment…
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A. G. Cook & Danny L Harle Share Previously Unreleased Dux Content Songs From New Reissue
Experimental pop producers A. G. Cook and Danny L Harle, co-founders of the influential PC Music collective, have reissued the debut album from their early duo Dux Content. The remastered version of 2012’s Lifestyle, released to mark PC Music’s 13th anniversary, includes two bonus tracks that had never been given a proper release, offering an…
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Watch: Typhoon Bavi forecast to bring heavy rains and floods to Taiwan, Japan and China
See how the powerful storm is expected to move across east Asia on Saturday.
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Struggling pig farmers say £2m support package ‘not enough’
Farmers welcome the Scottish government funding but say it’s not enough to stop them losing about £1m a month
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Streaming accelerates nostalgia-driven catalog discovery, says Vevo study
The report highlights Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” as an example of a new release built on borrowed nostalgia. Source
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Four Tet’s Internet-Breaking New Wingdings Album Is Now Streaming
Kieran Hebden, best known as the electronic artist Four Tet, has released a new album under his unpronounceable alter ego, an alias rendered entirely in unusual symbols and characters. The record first appeared last month as a limited-edition vinyl pressing before arriving digitally, and it quickly gained attention less for its music than for the…
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Ministers plan legally binding debt targets for England’s water companies
Ministers are drawing up plans to impose legally binding debt targets on England’s water companies for the first time, in an effort to prevent further corporate failures of the kind facing Thames Water. The environment secretary, Emma Reynolds, is developing proposals that would compel firms to keep their borrowing below set levels or face legal…