Ready or Not is a tactical horror game where you creep through sprawling mazes of American decay searching for violent suspects amidst cowering bystanders. Steam currently loves it, but after spending a few hours with it I can’t say I do. At its best i…
Tinder is developing a feature called ‘Swipe Party’ that invites friends to join your swiping sessions
Tinder confirmed it’s exploring the development of a new feature called Swipe Party which offers a way to make sorting through possible matches a more social experience. According to details spotted in the Tinder mobile app’s code, Swipe Party requires access to the phone’s camera and microphone so your friends can “see and hear you […]
The Elden Ring Community Is Now Arguing Over Horse Crotches
The hype surrounding FromSoftware’s Elden Ring has reached critical mass for fervent fans in the form of a very unorthodox debate. Surprisingly, the current discourse surrounding the highly anticipated Souls-like game isn’t centered on the same tired o…
無料でさまざまな音声合成エンジンや音声ライブラリを扱える汎用合成音声エディタ「ユニコエ」が登場
人間ではなくプログラムによって特定のテキストを読み上げさせる音声合成ソフトは数多く存在しています。ソフトに使われる音声合成エンジンにはさまざまな種類があり、複数の音声合成エンジンや音声ライブラリを使うことができる汎用合成音声エディタ「ユニコエ」をビスさんが公開しています。 ユニコエ 公式サイト http…
ソフトウェアの複雑さに立ち向かう1つの哲学 :『A Philosophy of Software Design』 を読んだ – こまぶろ
あけましておめでとうございます、になるはずだったのですが、後から読んだ『Googleのソフトウェアエンジニアリング』の方を先に記事にしたので新年2本目の更新です。 ky-yk-d.hatenablog.com さて、本題。最近のお気に入りポッドキャストであるe34.fmで激賞されていた『A Philosophy of Software Design』を読みました…
Cheugiest tech moments of 2021
Technology has come a long way in 2021. There’s widespread mRNA vaccines! An asteroid-deflecting space mission! A very powerful laptop with a very controversial notch! But it’s unfortunately easier to think about the cringiest moments of the year than it is to remember times when we marveled at indoor farming robots. So hop aboard the choo-choo-cheugy […]
Wordle Is That Square Grid Game You’ve Been Seeing All Over Social Media
If you’ve been on Twitter recently, you may have noticed people posting a bunch of differently colored squares. No, this is not a psy-op you are being unfairly excluded from, rather it’s the Twitter manifestation of Wordle, a daily word-guessing game t…
The year the tide turned on ransomware
This year was rife with ransomware. 2021 witnessed the attack on IT software company Kaseya that knocked 1,500 organizations offline, the CD Projekt Red hack that saw threat actors make off with source code for games including Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, and several high-profile attacks targeting big-name tech companies, from Olympus to Fujitsu and […]
End of the line finally coming for BlackBerry devices
Key services, including network provisioning, will shut down January 4th.
Tumblr is at war with Apple over ‘mature’ content on its app again
Hide your “Tony the Tiger”/”Eugene Levy” fan fiction — those phrases, along with hundreds of others, are now banned from Tumblr’s iOS app. Now, any personal blog that flags itself as “mature” is not accessible on the iOS app — users will see a pop-up explaining that the content has been hidden because of “potentially […]