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Fall Guys wasn’t the biggest game on Twitch in August, but it was close

September 23, 2020
You’ve played Fall Guys, right? The sleeper hit of The Summer That Wasn’t from developer Mediatonic? If you haven’t, well, I suggest you give it a shot, if only because it was the second biggest game this month on Twitch — and the second largest debut there this year. (Valorant’s launch in April was bigger, but Fall Guys did manage to beat out Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the second…
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Newspaper Navigator Lets You Search 1.56M Newspaper Photos Throughout History

September 23, 2020
The Library of Congress has created something really cool. It’s called the Newspaper Navigator, and it’s an AI-powered image search that lets you browse through over 1.5 million newspaper photos from over 16 million pages worth of digitized newspapers published between 1900 and 1963. The Newspaper Navigator project is the brainchild of Computer Science PhD student Benjamin Charles Germain Lee…
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The Market For Discontinued Photographic Film

September 23, 2020
My fridge was recently full of instant film. I mean that literally, it was not possible for me to put any more packets of the film into the fridge without risking damaging them. I had acquired all of the film one day when my printer sent me an email asking if I wanted to purchase 93 packs of Fujifilm FP-100C for 2,790 Swiss Francs (~$3,000) in Switzerland. That’s ~$32.50 per box, about three…
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I have an Xbox Series X, and you have questions — ask them

September 23, 2020
Microsoft has sent me a preview version of the Xbox Series X, and that’s about all I can say about the next generation game console at this point. Oh, I guess I can also share this one (1) image of me with said Xbox Series X. pic.twitter.com/DtAyGd68zQ — Jeff Grubb…
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Mastercard’s VP of AI talks bots, NLP, and why fintechs need AI for customer service (VB Live)

September 23, 2020
Presented by DefinedCrowd Companies like Mastercard are implementing AI strategies that are transforming how customer experience is done. Join this VB Live event for insights on why AI is essential for fintech companies, plus how to implement it, how to make it perfom, and more. Register here for free. AI has been around for a long time — it’s only in the last three or four years that people…
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