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Leak Reveals 'Blockbuster' Skin In 'Fortnite: Battle Royale,' Here's What It Looks Like
Here it is: the ultimate achievement in Fortnite: Battle Royale's superhero-themed Season 4 Battle Pass. It's the Blockbuster skin, which required players to complete seven full weeks worth of challenges in order to unlock it, meaning that nobody will be able to actually earn it until this thursday when the Week 7 challenges go live. But Epic Games just dropped this week's update, and so everything that's going to be in the game on thursday is in the game now: and that means the Blockbuster skin. Thanks to the dataminers @TwoEpicBuddies, we've got our first look at the skin itself, which comes via the Week 7 loading screen: Note that this is technically unconfirmed because we haven't actually seen this in-game yet. But it seems almost certain that this is Blockbuster: not only is it being dramatically revealed in the final Blockbuster challenge loading screen, it also lines up well with the silhouette we've been able to see since the beginning of the season.
The State Of The ARt At AWE 18
The 9th annual Augmented World Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center, May 29th to June 1st, 2018, was a celebration of AR's progress. Watershed events, like the introduction of ARKit from Apple in September 2017, have spurred innovation. Mobile AR is very hot. Most of the glasses look dorky, though some are slimming down. The dorky ones were by far the most popular. The bigger story, however, is how fast the enterprise segment is growing as applications as straightforward as schematics on a head-mounted monocular microdisplay are transforming manufacturing, assembly, and warehousing. Tom Emrich, Programmer of AWE and a partner in Super Ventures, delivered his dramatic keynote AWE using motion capture technology. For AWE's co-founder and Executive Producer, Ori Inbar, the Conference was nothing less than a victory lap. With Microsoft and Qualcomm among the Gold Sponsors, there was a palpable smell of vindication in the air.
Killer robots will only exist if we are stupid enough to let them
The idea of killer robots rising up and destroying humans is a Hollywood fantasy and a distraction from the more pressing dilemmas that intelligent machines present to society, according to one of Britain's most influential computer scientists. Sir Nigel Shadbolt, professor of computer science at the University of Oxford, predicts that AI will bring overwhelming benefits to humanity, revolutionising cancer diagnosis and treatment, and transforming education and the workplace. If problems arise, he said, it will not be because sentient machines have unexpectedly gone rogue in a Terminator-like scenario. "The danger is clearly not that robots will decide to put us away and have a robot revolution," he said. "If there [are] killer robots, it will be because we've been stupid enough to give it the instructions or software for it to do that without having a human in the loop deciding."
Xbox confirms it is building a streaming service that brings 'console-quality gaming on ANY device'
Microsoft is building a Netflix-style streaming service for video games that promises to bring'console-quality gaming to any device'. The Redmond-based company claims players will be able to stream blockbuster titles to their Xbox, laptop or smartphone. It's unclear whether players will have to pay to play individual games, or will be able to access the entire library for a monthly fee, like video on-demand services. Microsoft does not believe streaming will replace dedicated home consoles entirely, with the company also teasing that new Xbox hardware is already in the works. Microsoft is building a Netflix-style streaming service for video games that promises to bring'console-quality gaming to any device'.
Chinese join $5.5m round for Cambridge AI business Business Weekly Technology News Business news
Investors from Shanghai have joined a completed $5.5 million Series A1 round for AI business Cambridge Touch Technologies which aims to build on hard-won attraction in Asia. CTT is developing AI-driven, 3D multi-touch sensing technologies for smart devices. Existing investors - Parkwalk Advisors, Cambridge Enterprise and Amadeus Capital Partners - participated in the round and were joined by new investors China Materialia of Shanghai and Downing Ventures of London. Ascendant Corporate Finance provided advice to CTT on the fund raising. The Cambridge UK company's technology uses what is regarded as the world's simplest architecture to deliver an all-screen, multi-finger 3D touch solution that can scale to all device sizes at a fraction of the cost of existing approaches.