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Watching This Neural Network Render Truly Photorealistic Faces Is Creepy and Mesmerizing
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2017 00:35
In 2015, Google released DeepDream, a bonkers, art-generating neural net users put to work rendering everything from disturbing dog collages to even more disturbing psychedelic porn. DeepDream may have just been the prel...
Skype's chat-focused desktop redesign is available to everyone
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 17:21
If you've wanted to check out Skype's huge desktop redesign without living on the bleeding edge, now's your chance. Microsoft has released the finished version of its big overhaul for Linux, Mac and Windows users. As in ...
Follow our Sony PlayStation Showcase liveblog at noon ET!
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 17:00
In 2015, Sony took the unusual step of doing its PlayStation Showcase, featuring some of its biggest upcoming PlayStation 4 games, at Paris Games Week. After a year off, it's back again in Paris, where we're expecting to...
Essential PH-1 time-limited offer cuts original price in half
Slash Gear - 30 Oct 2017 02:52
Again, no one will refuse a discount, especially one that doesn't seem to have strings attached. But when said discount amounts to more than half the original price tag, one can't help but feel a bit suspicious. That may...
Universal Music taps AR and VR to hype new releases
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 23:59
VR storytelling company Within has been experimenting with different musical collaborators. Universal Music Group artist The Chemical Brothers worked with the company to create an immersive, web VR-based visual interpret...
Microsoft cans Outlook.com Premium as it rolls its features into Office 365
Ars Technica - 30 Oct 2017 23:55
Big inboxes, ad-free interfaces, and premium support will now apply to Outlook.com.
Netflix Announces End of House of Cards Following Allegations Against Kevin Spacey
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2017 23:41
As allegations have surfaced that actor Kevin Spacey made a sexual advance on Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp when he was just 14-years-old, Netflix has announced that it will bring House of Cards, its first orig...
NASA shares spooky space sounds just in time for Halloween
Slash Gear - 30 Oct 2017 23:38
NASA has shared some out-of-this-world spooky sound to get everyone in the Halloween spirit. The space agency has curated a collection of audio clips recorded in space, all of them various degrees of creepy or uncomforta...
Samsung tests Genius Bar-like 'care centers' in co-working spaces
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 23:38
If you've ever spent too much time waiting at an Apple Genius Bar to get your gadget fixed, you know that it can be a pretty boring, sterile moment. There just isn't much to do there, besides checking out Apple Watch ban...
The 10 Best Deals of October 30, 2017
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2017 23:24
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
'EVE: Valkyrie' studio is shutting down its VR department
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 23:17
While CCP Games is best known for its space MMO EVE: Online, its VR spin-off game EVE: Valkyrie won praise for its immersive (if limited) gameplay. While the studio had begun to break into other VR titles, including the ...
Netflix cancels 'House of Cards' after six-season run
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 22:56
Netflix has long used House of Cards as its tentpole show, but that could soon come to an end... and the timing couldn't be more uncanny. Variety, Deadline and Hollywood Reporter have learned that Netflix will end the po...
'Football Manager 2018' will have gay players
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 22:34
Game developer Sports Interactive has done well at grabbing headlines and getting ahead of the curve to reflect current events. Four months after Brexit, the company announced that Football Manager 2017 would include pot...
Destiny 2 DLC Curse of Osiris trailer out with release date details
Slash Gear - 30 Oct 2017 22:15
Sony promised some big announcements for its Paris Game Show presentation today, and it delivered. One of the biggest announcements it made today actually involves a non-Sony game: Destiny 2. We received the first offici...
Toyota will test self-driving cars at tough California proving ground
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 22:10
Now that Toyota has unveiled its latest self-driving car prototype, it needs a good test course to put the vehicle through its paces... and thankfully, there's already one lined up. Toyota has struck a deal to test its a...
Bidet Toilet Seats: $20 vs. $750
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2017 21:53
Treating yourself to a bidet toilet seat may be the best money you ever spend. Not only will it actually get you clean, but it will pay for itself in saved toilet paper almost instantly. We regularly see bidet toilet sea...
'Guacamelee 2!' brings grappling hooks and chicken power to PS4
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 21:49
Originally out for PlayStation 3 and Vita in mid-2013, Guacamelee! hit all the right notes to please both gamers and critics. Developer Drinkbox Studios has decided to keep the fun going with a sequel to the Mexican fair...
Meuller Trump investigation unfolds on Twitter [UPDATES]
Slash Gear - 30 Oct 2017 21:42
We’re living through a day that’ll be remembered in history books, and we’re getting in-the-minute updates from Twitter. News on the ground comes from the same online social media platform current-President Donald ...
9 Things We Loved About Stranger Things 2 (and 4 We Didn't)
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2017 21:31
This past Friday, the kids from 1980s Hawkins, Indiana, were back with Stranger Things 2, the second season of Netflix's breakout show from the Duffer Brothers. It arrived with huge expectations and massive excitement so...
Watch Sony's Paris Games Week event in under 10 minutes
Engadget - 30 Oct 2017 21:28
Sony dropped a bunch of new info for upcoming PlayStation games at its Paris Games Week keynote earlier today. From Infamous developer Sucker Punch's samurai simulator Ghost of Tsushima, to release timing for the first D...
The Dreaded Merger Between T-Mobile and Sprint May Actually Be Dead
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2017 21:27
A much-anticipated merger between T-Mobile and Sprint has been considered by analysts to be all but inevitable for the past few months. But reports that Sprint's parent company, SoftBank, is getting cold feet sent both t...
Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Adds 'Kung Fu Movie Star' to Resumé
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2017 21:10
Jack Ma, the eccentric CEO of online marketplace Alibaba, has a well-documented flair for the theatrical. Now the South China Morning Post--a newspaper owned by Ma--reports their boss will assume a starring role in the u...