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'Cyberpunk 2077' sees Keanu Reeves star in new video game
Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Keanu Reeves is taking the video game world by storm. After a long career in action movies and even several appearances on television, the star appeared in the video game "Cyberpunk 2077," which dropped on Thursday. For the game, the 56-year-old actor portrays -- in voice and likeness -- a character by the name of Johnny Silverhand.
ParsiNLU: A Suite of Language Understanding Challenges for Persian
Khashabi, Daniel, Cohan, Arman, Shakeri, Siamak, Hosseini, Pedram, Pezeshkpour, Pouya, Alikhani, Malihe, Aminnaseri, Moin, Bitaab, Marzieh, Brahman, Faeze, Ghazarian, Sarik, Gheini, Mozhdeh, Kabiri, Arman, Mahabadi, Rabeeh Karimi, Memarrast, Omid, Mosallanezhad, Ahmadreza, Noury, Erfan, Raji, Shahab, Rasooli, Mohammad Sadegh, Sadeghi, Sepideh, Azer, Erfan Sadeqi, Samghabadi, Niloofar Safi, Shafaei, Mahsa, Sheybani, Saber, Tazarv, Ali, Yaghoobzadeh, Yadollah
Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like English. This work focuses on Persian language, one of the widely spoken languages in the world, and yet there are few NLU datasets available for this rich language. The availability of high-quality evaluation datasets is a necessity for reliable assessment of the progress on different NLU tasks and domains. We introduce ParsiNLU, the first benchmark in Persian language that includes a range of high-level tasks -- Reading Comprehension, Textual Entailment, etc. These datasets are collected in a multitude of ways, often involving manual annotations by native speakers. This results in over 14.5$k$ new instances across 6 distinct NLU tasks. Besides, we present the first results on state-of-the-art monolingual and multi-lingual pre-trained language-models on this benchmark and compare them with human performance, which provides valuable insights into our ability to tackle natural language understanding challenges in Persian. We hope ParsiNLU fosters further research and advances in Persian language understanding.
'Hyper Light Drifter' co-designer returns with indie-pop series 'We are OFK'
Teddy Dief is good at keeping secrets. They helped ignite the indie game scene in 2016 as a co-designer on Hyper Light Drifter, and ever since, their follow-up project has been highly anticipated by fans of that game's neon-infused vibe. Meanwhile, Dief has been cobbling together a global team of artists, musicians and programmers, quietly building something known as the Palmtree Project, or simply . For years, they've kept quiet. Dief and their collaborators at Palmtree Team unveiled We Are OFK, a musical, interactive series set to launch in the spring of 2021.
Griezmann ends partnership with Huawei, cites Uighurs
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. French soccer player Antoine Griezmann ended his affiliation with Huawei on Thursday, saying there are "strong suspicions" that the Chinese tech giant has contributed to the repression of the mostly Muslim minority Uighurs. The 29-year-old Barcelona forward's announcement followed media reports that Huawei has tested facial recognition software intended to help China's surveillance of the group. "Following strong suspicions that the Huawei company has contributed to the development of a'Uighur alert' thanks to facial recognition software, I am announcing the immediate termination of my partnership with the company," Griezmann said in an Instagram post.