‘Critical Role’ Lays Out the Next Era in Tabletop Games and Live-Action Role-Play “What Matt [Mercer] has shown me is that the power of sitting around a table with your friends and…
Month: July 2023
'Candela Obscura' Stars on Magic and Play in an Oppressive World
'Candela Obscura' Stars on Magic and Play in an Oppressive World AB: On a wider scale, I feel like that invitation to people has been the big switch in tabletop games and…
Amazon Web Services Wants to Teach You How to Use Generative AI – CNET
Amazon Web Services Wants to Teach You How to Use Generative AI – CNET Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday that it will offer seven new courses designed to help people understand and…
Shein sued Temu. Temu sued Shein. The war over fast fashion is heating up.
Shein sued Temu. Temu sued Shein. The war over fast fashion is heating up. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive…
Apple and Amazon face UK class action damages suit over price collusion claim
Apple and Amazon face UK class action damages suit over price collusion claim Apple and Amazon are facing a class-action style damages lawsuit in the UK alleging they abused their market power…
The Futurama crew touches down in Fortnite
The Futurama crew touches down in Fortnite Planet Express, meet battle royale. As was teased yesterday, a collaboration between Futurama and Fortnite kicked off today, which mostly involves three characters from the…
How to Download Google Maps
How to Download Google Maps Summer is not over (at least not in the Northern Hemisphere). There’s still time before school starts again to go for a hike in a place or…
Reactive programming with RxJava
Reactive programming with RxJava Reactive programming takes the functional paradigm and layers on sophisticated programming-in-the-large capabilities. These capabilities allow for using functional-like semantics in application architectures. ReactiveX is one of the strongest projects in…
Get started with Python type hints
Get started with Python type hints Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things but with the things themselves. This…
Five Wolfram Alpha Tutorials for Teachers
Five Wolfram Alpha Tutorials for Teachers Yesterday afternoon I published a new video and post on Ed Tech Fitness. The video and post were about using Wolfram Alpha to create personalized estimates…