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Seattle studio debuts game ‘Pacific Drive’ in a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest

GeekWire

(Ironwood Studios Images) In Ironwood Studios’ debut video game Pacific Drive , an unknown phenomena has transformed a big part of the Pacific Northwest into what’s now known as the Olympic Exclusion Zone. Players are asked to navigate the Zone’s dangers, which include lethal monsters and unpredictable storms, from behind the wheel of an extensively customized station wagon.

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Netflix sees massive subscriber jump after password-sharing crackdown

TechSpot

According to a third-party tracker, Netflix gained more new subscribers in the four days immediately following the start of its password-sharing crackdown in the US than in any similar period since 2019. The numbers will likely signal to the company that it made the right decision and could convince competing.

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Apple vs. Microsoft: Vision Pro, HoloLens, and a familiar pattern in a classic tech rivalry

GeekWire

The original Microsoft HoloLens, above, and Apple’s new Vision Pro, below. (Microsoft and Apple Photos) Some of Microsoft’s biggest missteps over the years have come not from being too late but rather too early, leaving the door open for competitors — especially Apple, it seems — to popularize a product category years later, when the technology and the market are ready.

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Crafty CTO - Untitled Article

Crafty CTO

Speaking only for myself, I get orders of magnitude more value from [GitHub Copilot] than the $10/month it costs. How? Copilot (often used in conjunction with GPT, and now, Bard) has reduced the activation energy for the small scripty projects I want to undertake from being just slightly over a weekend (which meant they would get abandoned or not even started) to fitting comfortably within a weekend.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Grocery industry vet brings fresh take on the corner store to Seattle neighborhoods

GeekWire

Stephanie King, the founder of Kitchen & Market, at the small grocery chain’s location in Medina, Wa., east of Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Stephanie King spent about 20 years helping build private label programs with some of the biggest grocery retailers in the country, from Whole Foods to Kroger to Costco. She left with her belief intact that, as she put it, “grocery shopping sucks.” “But everybody has to do it,” King said. “So my theory wa

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Le Mans, Unabridged

Crafty CTO

Yesterday I was watching the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 2023 edition, when I realized, “wait a minute, I’ve blogged about Le Mans before …” Much to my POSSE horror, I realized that I had taken down my 2015-era blog without preserving its content, and that some of the content actually appeared to be worth preserving. Actually, Cory Doctorow would make the point that ALL of that content is worth preserving, even it if seems cringeworthy or no longer relevant.