Writing on Ars Technica, Kyle Orland reveals that Sega wants to use its idle gaming arcades hardware to distribute a new kind of cloud-gaming service that’s been dubbed “fog gaming” for adopting Cisco’s “fog computing” model. Spare arcade capacity According to Arcade Heroes’ Adam Pratt, arcade games are only played for an average eight hours […]
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HPE Discover Virtual Experience sessions: sign up
HPE’s rearranged Discover Virtual Experience begins in a couple of weeks – 23 June to be precise. The online event will feature a keynote speech by HPE CEO Antonio Neri followed by a wide range of breakout sessions and presentations, some of which are listed below. AMD EPYC: The New Leader for Your Data Center […]
The film scene and theme tune mashup challenge
Another example of what happens when creative people are given to much free time to play around to alleviate the boredom. Here, from Twitter posts by @CuriousBritishTelly, are the opening credits to Saturday Night Fever overdubbed with the theme tune to Steptoe & Son and Rocky training on the streets of Philadelphia over the theme […]
BAFTA Craft Awards VFX nominations are in
The Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Craft Awards nominees have been announced. It’s a long list, which you can view in full here. We’ve picked out one category for a special mentionn. Special, visual and graphics effects The Crown – Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Television/Netflix Ben Turner Chris Reynolds Asa Should His […]
Aruba’s ATM Digital conference starts on 9 June: Agenda
Aruba, HPE’s network technology subsidiary, is hosting its ATM Digital online conference this month, beginning on 9 June. It’s “the first industry event to combine the latest in networking with a focus on the emerging data era known as the Intelligent Edge” and Aruba is welcoming special guest James Corden to the proceedings, presumably to […]
BBC’s new intelligent assistant has “warm and friendly” northern male voice
It is estimated that around 20% of the British public own and regularly use a voice assistant such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant. As an antidote to the “sterile feel” and “problematic associations” of their default soothing female (American) voices, the BBC has chosen to give its soon-to-launch equivalent, Beeb, which gets […]
