Frontier

This week, Everything But the Girl’s social media accounts posted some previously lost footage of the duo around the time of their debut album, 1984’s Eden. A riot of extravagantly spiked hair, filthy-looking London streets and indoor smoking, the clips act as a time capsule and a reminder of the milieu from which the duo sprang: a grimier, greyer, more earnest 1980s than pop cultural nostalgia – with its rouged new romantics and yuppies bellowing into enormous mobile phones – usually allows.The artwork for Fuse.…

Advancements, Opportunities, and Impacts of Automatic Speech Recognition Technology in Various DomainsPhoto by Andrew DesLauriers on UnsplashTL;DR:This post focuses on the advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology and its impact on various domains. ASR has become prevalent in multiple industries, with improved accuracy driven by scaling model size and constructing larger labeled and unlabelled training datasets.Looking ahead, ASR technology is expected to continue improving with the scaling of the…

Fire destroyed 4,141 km² of forest and 6,484 km² of pasture and cropland between 2003 and 2019 in the area of Boca do Acre. Credit: Débora Dutra A swathe of the Amazon Rainforest almost twice the size of Luxembourg was destroyed by fire between 2003 and 2019. The area is in the southwest of Amazonas state, in Brazil's North region, and includes parts of nine municipalities with some of the worst sustainable development…

Over the course of the last year, so-called “miracle” weight-loss drugs have blown up across the internet. Although celebrity users have boosted their standing, they owe much of their fame to social media and discussion boards, where they are promoted by influencers and everyday people alike. Yet not everyone who wants them goes to a doctor. Throughout 2022, rising demand for weight-loss injections caused global shortages. As a result, some people began seeking these drugs illegally, crossing borders or buying them…

Matt Lightfoot, lead producer for Yager’s extraction shooter The Cycle: Frontier, has told NME that he has bet his career on cracking an Escape From Tarkov-style extraction shooter that serves casual audiences. While a number of games and game modes – including Battlefield 2042‘s short-lived Hazard Zone mode – have tried to create a more welcoming version of the extraction shooter genre popularised by hardcore shooter Escape From Tarkov, none have found the same success as Tarkov‘s Battlestate Games. “I thoroughly enjoy…

The harvest won’t happen this spring It looks like giant robots and a quiet life on the farm will have to wait a bit longer to merge. Developer Frame Break has announced it’s delaying the Early Access launch of its mech-centered farming adventure Lightyear Frontier. The open-world farming sim was set to hit PC, Xbox One, and  Xbox Series X|S sometime in spring 2023, with Game Pass access in tow. Now, in a new post from the developers, it sounds like the game needs a bit more time. No launch window has been set, though…

The Cycle: Frontier lead producer Matt Lightfoot has commented on Escape From Tarkov‘s current issues with cheating, and claimed it’s an opportunity for The Cycle to gain new players. Speaking to NME, Lightfoot acknowledged that The Cycle: Frontier had “painful and horrific” issues with cheating during its launch in 2022. Since then, Lightfoot shared that developer Yager has invested significantly in anti-cheat features, including a compensation system for players who fall victim to cheaters as well as more sophisticated…

The Early Access launch of Lightyear Frontier has been delayed, with developer Frame Break yet to announce a new release date. Last month, Frame Break reiterated plans to launch Lightyear Frontier via Early Access in spring 2023. Today (March 13), however, the studio has released a statement claiming that will no longer be the case. “We know this is never fun to hear, and we fully understand any disappointment caused by this decision,” said the studio on Twitter. “Video game development is tricky and while we can’t…

Hoopa, we have a problem I don’t need to tell you that Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are buggy games. I personally encountered several funny glitches without even trying, let alone the many hilarious oddities shared on social media. The bar for newsworthy bugs in Scarlet & Violet is astronomically high, yet one emerging glitch clears all expectations with approximately 300,000 feet to spare. Trending on Japanese social media is the hashtag “サンドイッチ爆発学“ which Google translates as “Sandwich Explosives.” This refers to a…

Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image of the Triple Frontier, a region where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2022), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOThe Triple Frontier, a region where Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina meet, is featured in this false-color image, captured by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.Also known as the Tri-border region, the Triple Frontier is a geographical area in South America where the borders of three countries…