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Mircosoft A.I Summit, Beneath The Ice, Facebook vs Australia & Justice League Snyder Cut

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The Microsoft AI and Gaming summit is about to begin. How long until I get strap on a VR headset and go into a game perfectly designed to keep me interested forever and ever? Strange creatures living at the bottom of the ocean under a polar ice cap is probably not a big issue, but just in case we should be equipping Antarctic research sites with nukes. It's the only way to be sure. Facebook and the Australian government are going to war over the proposed laws requiring sites like Facebook and Google to pay news outlets to link to their sites. Big tech really doesn't like this, but the Australian government won't back down. Finally, a trailer for the Justice League Snyder Cut trailer has been released. It only took years of super fans begging. Let's see what else can happen. Firefly reboot, please? This week DJ got down to business to defeat the Mongols, Professor picked a really insensitive time to play a game about freezing and Dev-i-boy went back to Uni and ran out of time to have fun. Microsoft A.I Summit - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/aiandgaming2021/ It Came From Beneath The Ice - https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-discover-strange-creatures-under-a-half-mile-of-ice/ Facebook vs Australia - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-18/facebook-to-restrict-sharing-or-viewing-news-in-australia/13166208 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-18/facebook-credibility-brought-into-question-health-emergency-news/13166318 Justice League Snyder Cut trailer dropped - https://www.cbr.com/justice-league-snyder-cut-trailer-new-footage/ - https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/02/14/the-new-justice-league-snyder-cut-trailer-the-five-most-notable-additions/?sh=364fd65c27d2 Nerdful things DJ - Ghost of Tsushima - https://www.playstation.com/en-au/games/ghost-of-tsushima/ Rating: 5/5 Professor - Frost Punk - https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/ Rating: 4.75/5 Dev-i-boy - DNP Rating: Other topics discussed Texas weather: Deadly winter storm sweeps Texas and US southern states - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56076686 Burst Pipes and Power Outages in Battered Texas - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/17/us/winter-storm-weather-live AngryJoeShow - Texas Winter Wonderland! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsQk6MPTfT4 AI Dungeon (Play and create adventures with infinite possibilities, brought to life with one of the most advanced AIs in the world…) - https://play.aidungeon.io/main/landing Elo rating system (a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system ANASTASIA OPARA - https://www.anastasiaopara.com/ Procedural generation (a method of creating data algorithmically as opposed to manually, typically through a combination of human-generated assets and algorithms coupled with computer-generated randomness and processing power.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation Unreal Engine – Metahumans - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/digital-humans Watch Dogs: Legion (a 2020 action-adventure game published by Ubisoft and developed by its Toronto studio. It is the third instalment in the Watch Dogs series, and the sequel to 2016's Watch Dogs 2.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs:_Legion Elo Hell (a video gaming term used in MOBAs and other multiplayer online games with competitive modes. It refers to portions of the matchmaking ranking spectrum where individual matches are of poor quality, and are often determined by factors such as poor team coordination which are perceived to be outside the individual player's control.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_hell What is Beta Testing? A Complete Guide - https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/beta-testing/ The Thing (a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and w...