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Warpaws, a real-time strategy game where dogs and cats fight one another utilising World War II-inspired weapons and equipment, has been revealed by developers Slipgate Ironworks and 2B Games. The lighthearted battler allows players to choose a team of canines or felines to battle the opposition to see which species reigns supreme. The game is inspired by cartoons and slapstick comedy shows and will require players to control a total of 16 units in real-time strategy whilst utilising abilities to capture the enemy’s…

The US space agency has collaborated with Google to help local governments improve their monitoring and prediction of air quality.NASA and Google will develop advanced machine learning-based algorithms that link space data with Google Earth Engine data streams to generate high-resolution air quality maps in near real-time."We're thrilled about our partnership with NASA to make daily air quality more actionable at a local level," said Rebecca Moore, director at Google Earth, Earth Engine and Outreach at Google.The results…

The DioField team tells us how their strategy RPG will make a name for itself With just about a month until it launches, The DioField Chronicle will join a growing list of tactics games launching this year. If you’ve played the demo already though, you’ll know DioField stands out in a few ways: its art, its design, and the way it utilizes real-time strategy on the field. We had a chance to chat with the developers behind The DioField Chronicle, to learn more about why they went this direction. The team did anticipate a…

via Sony If you weren’t aware that the movie was a high concept crime thriller designed to unfold in real-time, then you’d be forgiven for thinking Money Monster was an awards-baiting prestige picture, an initial reaction that wouldn’t be too wide of the mark looking at the talent involved, even if the end product didn’t quite live up to the buzz. Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster was behind the camera to direct the propulsive story of BAFTA winner Jack O’Connell’s furious investor, who storms the set…

HyperTrack, which provides standard logistics application programming interfaces (APIs) for enterprise last-mile delivery and fulfillment operations, today released a new developer platform called BuilderX, which enables developers to create customized logistics technology for on-demand use cases.The Berkeley, Calif.-based company also announced it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by WestBridge Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners to support company growth and expand global engineering…

GKN Automotive has created a ‘real-time’ test rig capable of handling the unique requirements of electric vehicles to develop the most advanced, efficient, and capable products on the market, it says. The rig, installed at GKN Automotive’s Offenbach facility, can handle the extreme dynamics and higher torque of electrified powertrains, which make conventional load test rigs unsuitable for driveline parts of the latest…

Cost and resource management in BigQueryPhoto by Morgan Housel on UnsplashCost and resource control is a signification issue for Data Engineers when working with cloud-based big data stacks. Without this knowledge, you can easily end up with an extremely-high cloud service bill or receive complaints from the organization about the slow environment. Besides a cheatsheet with cost-saving tips and tricks, another best practice is to have monitoring and alerting in place to achieve the following goals:spot expensive/heavy…

To date, in videos deepfakes have been generally overlooked by the security research community Real-time deepfake videos heralded as the bringers of a new age of internet uncertainty, appear to have a fundamental flaw: They can’t handle side profiles. An AI software company Metaphysic, many contemporary deepfake programs simply aren’t great at recreating the profile of somebody’s face. There is an interesting vulnerability in video deepfakes that, to date, has been generally overlooked by the…

Japan isn’t exactly known for real time strategy games. That’s why I was surprised to discover that The DioField Chronicle was a real-time strategy game, and not a turn-based tactics one like the Fire Emblem series. In terms of gameplay, this already sets The DioField Chronicle apart from other similar titles in the genre as Japanese strategy games lean heavily toward turn-based and grid-based tactics. In a hands-on preview, I played around three hours of The DioField Chronicle, which consisted of the game’s first…

Capcom has released a new Street Fighter 6 trailer that focuses on the commentators for the game’s Real Time Commentary Feature. During an EVO 2022 panel yesterday (August 5), Capcom shared a brand-new trailer that revealed that Tasty Steve and James Chen are the next commentators to join the Real Time Commentary Feature in Street Fighter 6. Tasty Steve will be the Play-by-Play Commentator who will bring “his trademark hype and charisma to the match.” Meanwhile, James Chen is the first Color Commentator who will…