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Produced by Jigsaw Productions, the episode is called The Man at The Top and directed by Zach Heinzerling. What made the episode even more interesting is that it will also feature a direct interview with former Prime Minister Najib Razak, as being teased in this trailer: Here is the official description of the episode as provided by Netflix: “An inside look at how billions swindled from a Malaysian Sovereign Wealth fund — known as 1MDB — were used to line the pockets of an international cast of power players, including Hollywood celebrities, Goldman Sachs executives, and the highest members of the Malaysian government....

Prior to Discord’s purchase of the company, Sentropy already has a natural language processing software, Sentropy Project, that it had created via machine learning. In order to detect and flag down messages that sound hateful. Additionally, the company also has two enterprise-level products, Sentrop Detect and Sentropy Defend. In light of the acquisition, Sentropy says that it will begin winding down its services for all currently existing customers. Customers under its Detect and Defend lineup will see service continue until 30 September, while consumers subscribed to its Protect service has already been offline since the beginning of this month....

With the familiar design, the DJI Osmo Action 3 is fitted with not just one, but two full-colour LCD touchscreens with hydrophobic coating. To be more specific, the front display measures at 1.4-inches while the one situated on the back comes in at 2.25-inches. The camera itself is rugged and is able to withstand temperatures of -20 to 45 degrees Celsius. It is also waterproof, with the ability to dive down to 16 metres without relying on a specialised case....

The Ducati V21L is produced as part of a collaboration between the company’s research and development department and its racing department, Ducati Corse. Panigale enthusiasts will immediately recognise the electric motorcycle’s design, which mainly features a carbon fibre exterior along with aluminium parts. Ducati says the e-motorcycle weighs in at 225 kilograms, with the battery claiming under half of its overall weight. This is noticeably heavier than ICE models used for the competition, but it is still around 11 kgs under the MotoE specification for the 2023 season....

A Reddit thread detailed a number of clues that suggests just this. The first came in the form of Mirror’s Edge Catalyst being featured on Steam’s new library UI. Unfortunately, according to Steam’s UI designer Alden Kroll, this is simply wishful thinking on Steam’s part. But since then, more pieces of information that may suggest so have appeared. These includes a test app that’s been updated with Origin integration. There is also data indicating that The Saboteur has been played on Steam, despite not being sold there....

According to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, the social network plans on building an “in-line” audio player, designed to allow listeners to hear songs or playlists, shared directly from its own platform, instead of redirecting them to the Spotify app or webpage. Further, Zuckerberg says that Project Boombox will also be designed for creators on the platform, while giving musicians the ability to share their work. Other details suggest that Project Boombox will support both music and podcasts, and has already been tested in countries outside of the US, including Mexico and Thailand....

The lawsuit from the giants was filed at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and will run parallel to Facebook’s own lawsuit against NSO. To recap, Facebook filed its own lawsuit against the cyber surveillance firm, accusing it of having exploited a bug within the popular messaging app, WhatsApp, and spying on more than 1400 people globally. Microsoft, Google, Dell, and Cisco’s lawsuit are, in effect, aimed at shutting down NSO’s claims that the company should be free from any backlash on the grounds of “sovereign immunity”, a doctrine akin to the phrase “You can’t touch me”....

Rather than seeing the number of reactions a post gets, you see a couple of names of friends who reacted to a post. Where the number is supposed to be, all that is left is a vague “and others”. The previously complete breakdown also scrubs the number from the list of people who reacted. If you’re curious enough, you could still probably count them manually. Tip @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/TdT73wT6A0 — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) September 2, 2019 The practice isn’t exactly new....

The devs of Fall Guys at Mediatonic were quick to remove them, of course. But not before this was noticed, captured and shared by Pavel Djundik, the person behind SteamDB. FallGuys_client_BackUpThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame 💀https://t.co/nWfwOT9d1c — Pavel Djundik (@thexpaw) May 14, 2021 What makes the whole incident funnier to observer is the name of the folder that contains the code. And it is, un-ironically, called BackUpThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame. It’s an auto-generated name by Unity to contain data required to debug games, according to PC Gamer....

Fantasy Island is one such movie. We follow a few people (noisy hot girl, quiet hot guy, two brothers — one white, one gay Asian — and Maggie Q) who arrive on an island after winning an online contest of sorts. The island, as they soon learn, is special and as its owner (Michael Pena) says, has the ability to enable their deepest fantasies to play out. You would think that it’s an obvious opportunity for the screenwriters and director to let their imaginations run wild and create diverse set pieces....

GamesBeat reports that Ubisoft has plans to turn the next Far Cry game into a live service type of title. This would make the next entry in the series very in line with the model that the Assassin’s Creed series is heading to with Infinity. Hay was overseeing this project up until the announcement of his departure, after 10 years with the publisher. With Far Cry 6 having been released relatively recently, we won’t be hearing about this live service sequel anytime soon....

The rumour came from the ResetEra forums, via industry insider KatharsisT. They claim that Square Enix will be announcing a PS5 version of FF7R, alongside a PC one as well, later this year. Though they made no mention of other platforms such as the like of Xbox Series X or Nintendo Switch. The biggest piece here is naturally the PC port. FF7R is technically already available on the PS5, via backwards compatibility....

I’ll start by addressing the overall specifications of the card. Unlike the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, the RTX 2070’s Turing GPU is based on a lower tier TU106 die lithography. Like the RTX 2080, however, the card houses a healthy 8GB of GDDR6 memory. Running at 14Gbps and spread across 256-bit memory bus. Additionally, the card comes with 2304 CUDA cores, 46 Ray-tracing (RT) Cores, and 288 Tensor Cores....

Renders of the smartwatches were shared by German journalist Roland Quandt of WinFuture, which showcased designs and colour options for all three Fitbit devices in multiple angles. The Fitbit Versa 3 is shown to sport a rounded square full-colour display surrounded by a matte plastic case, and is presented in an all-black colour scheme. On the left of the case is a capacity button and on the watch’s back are its health tracking sensors....

The complaint is expected to be filed by the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB), which says that Google’s alleged spying followed by termination of employment, violates several US labour laws. In addition, the NLRB also found that Google instated a rule that made looking at the calendars of other coworkers an illegal act. In line with the complaint, the NLRB is also hoping to get Alphabet to reinstate two employees that were unlawfully terminated for creating a browser pop-up notification whenever employees visited the webpage of IRI Consultants, an anti-union consulting group....

Unlike regular Instax cameras, the SQ1 and other instant cameras under Fujifilm’s SQUARE series uses a, well, square version of the Instax Mini films that are 1.5 times larger. The new device itself features a minimalistic design and interface, sacrificing fancier features such as an LCD screen which results in its more budget-friendly price tag. The Instax SQUARE SQ1 includes two built-in automatic features: Auto Exposure and One-Touch Selfie Mode....

The sensor in the new X-T30 is the 4th-generation 26.1MP X-Trans sensor paired with the X-Processor image processor. The new camera is also equipped with a hybrid autofocus system with 425 points across the entire frame which provides faster face detection when compared to its predecessor. At only 383 grams, the X-T30 is the same weight as its predecessor the X-T20. What it does gain however are several small upgrades in ergonomics and ports....

Despite featuring a similar design to the X-T4, the newer camera is actually much smaller and lighter; measuring at 129.5 x 91 x 63.8 mm and weighing in at approximately 476 g. It is also durable, featuring an Ultra Sonic Vibration sensor cleaning system as well as 56 weather-sealed points for high levels of dust and moisture resistance. Fujifilm adds that the camera is capable of operating in temperatures as low as -10 Celsius....

Miguel Sapochinik (helmer of some of the best episodes of Game of Thrones including ‘Battle of the Bastards’ and ‘The Winds of Winter’) will serve as one of the showrunners alongside George R.R. Martin himself. Sapochinik will direct the pilot and a few other episodes of the first season. Less intriguing is Ryan Condal, writer of Rampage and Hercules, who’s set to be the other showrunner and screenwriter of the series....

After Netflix beat our HBO last year for most nods at the Emmys, this year HBO once again scaled to the top of the mountain, with a whopping 137 Emmy nominations in total. This in and of itself is a record: Most Emmy nominations for a Network in a single year. A lot of it has to do with Game of Thrones which received 32 nods. Not only is that a huge number, but it also breaks the all-time record of most Emmy nominations won by a TV show in a single year — a record previously held by NYPD Blue (26 nominations in 1994)....