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Spooky season is upon us Halloween is my favorite holiday, and October is my favorite month of the year. Last year I dedicated four weeks of my column to be about storytelling in games that also related to Halloween, but it turns out that’s a pretty niche topic to keep coming up with ideas for over and over. This year I’ve instead resigned myself to watching and playing as many Halloween related movies and games as I can, and I have to say that plan has done a tremendous job of getting me in the spirit of the season.…

HONG KONG—Chinese automotive giant Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., known as Geely, has acquired a nearly 8% stake in British sports-car brand Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings AML -4.74% PLC, adding to Geely’s portfolio of European legacy car companies. Geely, which also owns Lotus Advance Technologies Sdn Bhd. and Volvo Car Corp. VOLCAR.B 2.02% , said Friday that it acquired 7.6%…

HONG KONG—Chinese automotive giant Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., known as Geely, has acquired a nearly 8% stake in British sports-car brand Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings AML -4.26% PLC, adding to Geely’s portfolio of European legacy car companies. Geely, which also owns Lotus Advance Technologies Sdn Bhd. and Volvo Car Corp. VOLCAR.B 2.02% , said Friday that it acquired 7.6%…

Image: Universal / New Line Cinema The horror genre’s golden hour is coming ever closer, and the fans have already picked out which series they’ll be marathoning during the spookiest time of the year. Halloween will see a cavalcade of new spooked-up releases, but it’s about the home entertainment with the genre’s fans planning out which franchises they’ll be giving their eyes and ears over October. With some iconic franchises out there, here are the internet’s go-to favorites. The original poster highlights…

We are entering the second wave of digital transformation, the transformation of operational technology (OT). This is where enterprises are delivering next-generation intelligent systems that will fuel a new intelligent machine economy, which in turn will transform both society and our economy. These intelligent machines range from autonomous vehicles, and robots, to drones that are software-defined and AI-Infused. This market opportunity is unprecedented with an estimated $2T impact on GDP, and software spending of…

Dropout layers have been the go-to method to reduce the overfitting of neural networks. It is the underworld king of regularisation in the modern era of deep learning.In this era of deep learning, almost every data scientist must have used the dropout layer at some moment in their career of building neural networks. But, why dropout is so common? How does the dropout layer work internally? What is the problem that it solves? Is there any alternative to dropout?Figure 0: Indian Jharokhe, dropping out some light (Image by…

BMW's iX electric SUV in China was the first global car brand to include the automobile version of Tencent's WeChat messaging app, according to the Chinese tech company.TencentBEIJING — Chinese internet giant Tencent wants to sell technology which the company says will help foreign automakers that want to sell cars in China's massive electric vehicle market.BMW and some U.S. automakers are already working with Tencent, Liu Shuquan, vice president of Tencent Intelligent Mobility, which is part of Tencent's cloud business.…

When new crypto projects are in development, one of the biggest factors to consider is which blockchain to build the project on All of the big blockchains, from Ethereum (ETH) to Binance (BNB) to Solana (SOL), have aspects that make them appealing to new developments. However, another blockchain with many appealing aspects is Polygon (MATIC). But what is it about Polygon (MATIC) that has drawn projects like Xchange Monster (MXCH) and The Sandbox (SAND) to it? The Appeals of Polygon (MATIC) There are many…

Bloomberg: Indonesia's GoTo Group reports Q1 gross revenue rose 53% YoY to $357M and a loss of $370M, after raising $1.1B in its IPO — GoTo Group posted about 53% gross revenue growth in its first quarterly report as a public company, accelerating from the 2021 pace and highlighting the rapid expansion of Indonesia's tech and online industries. Bloomberg: Indonesia's GoTo Group reports Q1 gross revenue rose 53% YoY to $357M and a loss of $370M, after raising $1.1B in its IPO — …