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Inside the $100K+ forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting  Ars Technicasource

Tobii has announced it is providing the eye tracking technology for Sony's upcoming PlayStation VR2."PlayStation VR2 establishes a new baseline for immersive virtual reality (VR) entertainment and will enable millions of users across the world to experience the power of eye tracking," said Anand Srivatsa, Tobii CEO. "Our partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is continued validation of Tobii's world-leading technology capabilities to deliver cutting-edge solutions at mass-market scale."The company has stated that the income from this deal with Sony is expected to represent more than 10 percent of its revenue in 2022.Sony formally announced its latest foray into the…

Savers talk of devastating losses as assets such as bitcoin and ‘stablecoins’ like terra fell sharplyYuri Popovich had watched his neighbours’ houses burn down to the ground in Kyiv and he needed a safe place to put his money. So he did what millions of amateur investors have done in recent years: he turned to cryptocurrency.“It was impossible and unsafe to store funds in the form of banknotes. There was a big risk of theft, we also had cases of looting. Therefore, I trusted a ‘stable and reliable’ cryptocurrency. Not for the purpose of speculating, but simply to save,” he…

This week, GBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen sits down with the Morning Edition team to bring you the latest exhibits from around Boston’s art museums.Now at the MassArt Art Museum through December 18This free exhibit at the MassArt Art Museum is “an exceptionally timely thing to do this weekend,” according to Bowen. “Designing Motherhood” takes viewers through the history of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, driven by the fact that “this impacts all of us, we are all born,” as curator Michelle Millar Fisher explains. “We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for this one act,” says Millar.The exhibition’s curators…

After a year or two of working from home, it's inevitable that your desk starts to get a little cluttered - little notes you've placed around your desk for reminders and other work or leisure related paraphernalia might begin to pile up.Not only that, long hours in front of your computer could also damage your health, impacting your eyesight and postureTake a good look at your desk now: is it truly optimal for comfort and efficiency?Even if it's good, it could be better - and sometimes it's best to take a few pages out of someone else's book, especially so…

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In this book Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair introduce text analysis using computer-assisted interpretive practices. It offers theoretical chapters about text analysis, presents a set of analytical tools, called Voyant, that instantiate the theory, and provides example essays that illustrate the use of these tools.<ASIN:0262545896>Voyant allows users to integrate interpretation into texts by creating hermeneutica—small embeddable “toys” that can be woven into essays published online or into such online writing environments as blogs or wikis. Author: Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan SinclairPublisher: MIT PressDate: June 2022Pages: 254ISBN: 978-0262545891Print: 0262545896Kindle: B08BT1H2JZAudience: Data analystsLevel: IntermediateCategory: Data ScienceFor recommendations of Big Data books see Reading Your Way…

Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.98% and ether ETHUSD, -2.09% have exploded in popularity in recent years, and are now traded by both individual investors and large companies like Tesla TSLA, +1.24%  and Citibank.The total market cap for all crypto nearly hit $3 trillion during parts of 2021 and companies like Robinhood HOOD, -0.49%,  Coinbase COIN, +4.30%  and Crypto.com capitalized on higher volume of crypto trading. Since then, a crypto winter has taken shape and the total global crypto market cap moved below $1 trillion in June 2022, according to CoinMarketCap.See also: California is sending ‘inflation relief’ checks up to $1,050 — here’s…

The Film Exhibition Fund has awarded its first two Celluloid Series Support Grants to Anthology Film Archives and Microscope Gallery, for $2500 and $2300 respectively.Anthology Film Archives will be using the grant to support its August 2022 screening of several Andy Warhol films on 16mm celluloid: Sleep (1963), Empire (1964), and Chelsea Girls (1966), the first two of which run over five and eight hours respectively, and the last of which involves over three hours of dual-screen projection."Preserving the experience of theatrical projection - and especially the projection of 35mm, 16mm, and 8mm film prints - is at the core…

By Lucas Mearian Senior Reporter, Computerworld | Technology bootcamps are relatively short-term full- or part-time intensive training programs offering skill sets that in many cases can quickly catapult a previously non-technical person into a high-paying tech career. The schools teach students in-demand skills in areas such as coding, cybersecurity and fintech, and in recent years, the one-and-a-half to six-month long bootcamps have become talent pools for organizations looking for skills-based job seekers. And with the Great Resignation in full swing, more workers are choosing to move into tech for flexible working conditions and high pay.Bootcamp graduates, including coding bootcamps, report quickly finding…