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Intel is using machine learning to make GTA V look incredibly, unsettlingly realistic

One of the more impressive aspects of Grand Theft Auto V is how closely the game’s San Andreas approximates real-life Los Angeles and Southern California, but a new machine learning project from Intel Labs called “Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement” might take that realism in a unsettlingly photorealistic direction (via Gizmodo). Putting the game through the processes… Read more

How the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. inspired a wave of real-world Chernobyl tourists

A virtual world leads to IRL excursions By Darmon Richter Apr 29, 2021, 12:32pm EDT Illustration by Alex Castro At the entrance to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, 35 years on from the worst nuclear disaster in history, a yellow souvenir van sells T-shirts, key rings, and glow-in-the-dark “Chernobyl condoms,” all branded with gas… Read more

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite on turntables, soundtracks and live church recordings

Home Features (Image credit: Brian Sweeney) This interview was originally published by What Hi-Fi? in March 2016. It is easy, often and now especially, to become consumed by technology. It is easy to allow the romanticism of music, the entire grounds for that technology, to be camouflaged. That is why, speaking with Stuart Braithwaite, guitarist,… Read more

Funke daily newspapers are appearing again in larger volumes despite the hacker attack

Despite the ongoing hacker attack on the Funke media group, most of the group’s daily newspapers can appear again on this Monday in larger volumes. A spokeswoman announced on Sunday. In North Rhine-Westphalia 24 pages are planned instead of the eight-page emergency issue on the day after the attack. In many other locations there are… Read more

Corona fuels online auctions

The corona pandemic has also shaken up the art auction market worldwide. The big New York auction houses had to postpone their normally record-breaking face-to-face auctions in May and November and finally relocated them largely to the Internet. Auction records in the three-digit million range such as 2008, as a Monet painting for 110 million… Read more

Register modernization: When the state can call up a profile at the push of a button

Experts agreed on Monday at a hearing in the Bundestag that in the digital age, a modern register landscape that complies with data protection is overdue. Opinions diverged completely on the way to this goal. In the end – with a kind of abstention and a lot of stomach ache – there was about three… Read more

Review: Bowers and Wilkins 606 AE Tweaked and improved

If you pair it with a decent amplifier, the Bowers & Wilkins 606 S2 in its price range is one of the best all-round speakers. Now the British manufacturer is bringing an Anniversary Edition that has been adjusted on details. Are we going with this from â ???? very goodâ ???? to â ???? excellentâ… Read more

Review: JBL Club One walking with a club sound

Wireless noise canceling headphones are more popular than ever, which immediately explains why manufacturers are releasing such devices en masse. From JBL we receive the Club One, a new top model with adaptive noise cancellation and adjustable tuning provided by big name deejays such as Armin van Buuren and Tigerlily. Can these headphones therefore immediately… Read more