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Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 Update 1.060 Patch Notes Revealed For Assault Rifle & Shotgun Tweaks, Stability Improvements
- Activision has released an update patch 1.060 for Call of Duty Black Ops 6 that brings a number of adjustments to weapons including rifles and shotguns as well as improved stability and issues with the campaign.
- The enhanced Headphone Mode has been re-enabled on all platforms for audio settings.
- A variety of crashes across the campaign have been addressed, and they have also tackled the issue where autosaves at the start of the Most Wanted corrupted save data.
- Nuketown is now available in Private Matches.
- The shotgun Slugs attachment is meant to offer an alternate playstyle for shotguns, but there's a problem causing this attachment to perform better in hip-fire than intended.
- The strategic bomber’s fly-in speed has been increased.
- Adjusted stance change cooldowns to reduce the effectiveness of repeated prone to stand movement.
- Increased Player XP earned rates for Team Deathmatch, Control, Search, and Destroy, Gunfight.
- Appropriate Perks will now display when viewing the featured player during Best Play.
- Closed an exploit that allowed moving the Tactical Raft while the player is inside of it.
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Can Google Beat AI Rivals and Keep the Ad Cash Rolling?
- Google's advertising business continues to drive its financial performance with the company posting the highest ever ad revenue of $65.85 billion for Q3 FY24.
- Ad revenue constitutes nearly 75% of Google's total revenue and increased 10% year-on-year.
- Search revenue alone contributed $49.39 billion, a 12% increase from last year, while YouTube earned $8.92 billion for the quarter.
- However, rising competition from AI-driven search engines poses a significant threat to Google's dominance.
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OpenAI hires Meta's former AR glasses lead to head its robotics team
- OpenAI has hired Meta's former hardware lead, Caitlin Kalinowski, to head its robotics team.
- Kalinowski previously led Meta's AR glasses hardware team and oversaw the creation of Orion, Meta's prototype AR glasses.
- OpenAI is focusing on bringing AI into the physical world and unlocking its benefits for humanity.
- This hire indicates OpenAI's reinvestment in its robotics efforts after shutting down the team in 2020.
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Is Apple Poised to Challenge Meta’s Smart Glasses?
- Apple is reportedly surveying the smart glasses market, with a focus on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.
- Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have already established themselves as a benchmark in the industry.
- Apple's smart glasses could bring cutting-edge features such as an inbuilt camera, Siri, and health functionalities.
- Reports suggest Apple might start with a streamlined version of smart glasses before venturing into more complex AR experiences.
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Black Ops 6 devs still looking into unfair spawning - "yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too"
- The developers of Black Ops 6 are addressing unfair spawning and glitches in the game.
- The latest patch aims to fix players spawning directly into gunfire and addresses general spawn logic tuning across several maps.
- The developers state that spawn tuning will be an ongoing process to provide the safest spawn points.
- The patch also includes changes to weapon balancing, including adjustments to assault rifles, SMGs, and shotguns.
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Three Ways Small Banks Can Build the Right AI Talent Pipeline
- Adoption of AI is no longer optional.
- Financial services has hurdles to quickly adopt cutting-edge technologies like AI.
- Tech giants like Google and Apple are putting banks at a disadvantage in a war for AI talent.
- Smaller financial institutions can demonstrate AI value to senior leadership and gain public perception in the AI space to attract talent.
- Small banks can focus on what they offer that larger companies can't, including ownership, responsibility, and flexibility to offer shares for the right talent.
- Small banks can establish themselves in the AI space by attending college events like career fairs and conferences.
- Buy-in from senior leadership is essential to getting talent and using AI effectively.
- Owning projects, solutions, processes, or products allows AI talent at small banks to have an impact on the bottom line.
- Making themselves visible to prospective talent can help small banks build a talent pipeline and attract top AI experts.
- Small banks can compete in the war for AI talent by building a talent pipeline and making themselves visible.
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The humble bumblebee just messed things up for Meta
- Meta has abandoned plans to build a nuclear-powered AI data center due to the presence of a rare bee species on the land.
- Multiple complications, including environmental and regulatory challenges, led to Meta rethinking the project.
- Meta is now exploring deals for carbon-free energy in a different location without bee populations.
- Other tech companies like Google and Microsoft are also partnering with nuclear power companies to meet their energy needs for AI data centers.
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After China, Meta Just Hands Llama to the US Government to ‘Strengthen’ Security
- Meta is making its AI model Llama available for US government agencies and defence projects to strengthen security.
- Meta is partnering with companies like Accenture Federal Services, Amazon Web Services, and others to help government agencies adopt Llama.
- Lockheed Martin has already integrated Llama in their factories for code generation and data analysis.
- China was rumored to be using Llama for military applications, sparking concerns in the AI community.
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A rare bee species reportedly put an end to Meta's plans for a nuclear-powered AI data center
- A rare bee species reportedly threw a wrench in Meta's plans for an AI data center powered by nuclear energy.
- The discovery of the bee species near the planned plant location contributed to the disruption of Meta's plans.
- Regulatory challenges also played a role in the complications.
- Other tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are also investing heavily in data centers for their AI ambitions.
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Chinese E-commerce Giant Alibaba Downsizing Metaverse Unit to Streamline Operations: Report
- Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is downsizing its metaverse operations as part of a restructuring effort to improve efficiency.
- The downsizing has resulted in layoffs in Alibaba's metaverse unit, Yuanjing.
- The unit will continue to be active but will shift its focus to metaverse applications, tools, and customer-oriented services.
- Alibaba's decision reflects the trend among tech firms to reallocate resources towards artificial intelligence (AI) and scale back investments in the metaverse sector.
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Where to buy Ray-Ban Meta Glasses: smart frames with built-in cameras and speakers
- Meta's Smart Glasses, developed in collaboration with Ray-Ban, offer style and functionality.
- The glasses feature built-in cameras for taking photos and videos and providing visual input for Meta AI.
- They also come with open-ear speakers for listening to music and making calls.
- Ray-Ban Meta Glasses are available for purchase on Amazon and the official Ray-Ban site.
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The fastest ways to gain XP in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has arrived with a refreshed Prestige system, and the drive to grind levels is at an all-time high.
- Completing daily challenges is the most obvious tip to level up quickly.
- Dispatcher Perk helps reduce the cost of non-lethal Scorestreaks and Bankroll spawn.
- Another loadout option revolves around objective gametypes to use Strategist, Scrambler, Decoys and Tactical Expert.
- Playing any objective mode is better than deathmatch games if you attempt to play the objective.
- Zombies is extremely efficient for weapon XP, and has its own set of challenges worth XP.
- To earn XP fast, Double XP tokens and Double XP weekends are the easiest ways.
- Double XP tokens are consumable and double all the XP for 15 minutes to an hour depending on the item.
- Black Ops 6 will occasionally host Double XP weekends where anyone who plays within the timeframe earns double XP.
- Make the most of it by using all the above tips to get as much XP as possible during that time.
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Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions
- Regulators have delivered successive blows to Amazon and Meta's nuclear power ambitions for their data centers.
- Regulatory hurdles, such as sighting of a rare bee species and concerns over lower reliability and higher costs, have hindered the plans.
- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied Amazon's expansion of a data center power agreement to connect directly to a nuclear power plant.
- FERC has several more large co-location requests from data centers to review in the future.
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PS5 Pro Gets Enhanced Versions of 2 Microsoft Games at Launch
- PS5 Pro's release is just days away, with over 50 games set to take advantage of the new and improved hardware at launch.
- Among them are two incredibly popular titles from PlayStation's 'rival' Xbox Game Studios.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Diablo IV will have PS5 Pro enhanced versions available on console launch day.
- Details on how the games will utilize the new hardware have yet to be revealed.
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Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications
- Meta announces the availability of its Llama AI models for US national security applications.
- The Llama series of AI models will be accessible to US government agencies and private sector partners in defense and national security.
- Meta is partnering with companies like Accenture, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Oracle to bring Llama to government agencies.
- The move comes after reports of Chinese researchers using an older Llama model for defense applications, sparking debates about the risks and benefits of open AI for defense.
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