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To create a more accessible internet, context matters
Google searches now provide more context and viewpoints for news stories
Google already provides some context around search results to help you understand the news, and now it’s adding more tools to make sure you see the broader picture. To start, there’s a new Perspectives carousel that provides viewpoints from experts, journalists and “other relevant voices” for a given news topic. You may see actors and critics’ takes after the Oscars, for instance. Perspectives will be available soon in the US for English users.
You can also learn more about the writers behind news stories. An “About this author” feature tucked inside “About this result” will show creators’ backgrounds and encourage the use of trustworthy sources. Google is rolling out the author info worldwide in English, and you’ll also find it in the Perspectives carousel.
The company is simultaneously upgrading some of its existing features. “About this result” will be available for all search languages in the days ahead. Advisories for rapidly developing stories are coming to French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese users, too. And if you put an organization’s web address into a search, you’ll now get “About this page” info toward the top. You’ll have a better sense of whether or not that organization’s site is worth visiting.
The extra features help flesh out Google’s larger bid to fight misinformation and promote news literacy through education, fact-checking and supplemental info. Ideally, searchers will both look for more reliable info and escape media bubbles that reinforce biases. It’s not clear how well the additions will help in practice (it requires a desire to double-check content, after all), and this won’t fend off bias accusations against Google itself. However, they may be especially useful to students wanting to verify the quality of their sources for essays and research papers.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/google-searches-now-provide-more-context-and-viewpoints-for-news-stories-191545815.html?src=rss
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Overwatch 2 review in progress: Tonnes of fun marred by context and expectations
Put a screenshot of Overwatch 2 next to a screenshot of Overwatch 1, and you’d be hard-pressed to spot any difference. Both display a vast chaotic ballet, in which two teams composed of some of the most well-realised characters in hero shooters wage war until one team emerges triumphant. Just like its predecessor, Overwatch 2 is one of the most delicately crafted sensory onslaughts I’ve experienced in a game.
Guiding my old favourite heroes through venerable maps like King’s Row and Route 66, it’s like I never left. In many ways, it feels like I’ve simply been given a reason to play Overwatch 1 again. Is that enough for a sequel? Is it enough to justify the incredibly confusing, lengthy, and oft-botched process of trying to make Overwatch feel relevant again? I’m not certain it is. But perhaps it should be.
Square Enix says Forspoken dialogue memes have “no context” – but admits some are “really funny”
Forspoken went viral in August. But probably not for the reason the developers and publishers at Square Enix would have wanted. A video was released on the game’s social media account that immediately caught the ire of the internet’s biggest meme-lords. Pastiches riffing on the game’s dialogue ran the gamut – there was God of War, Yakuza, Doom, Devil May Cry, and some people even said it came off like a Joss Whedon joint (ouch).
But, stay with me here, the game isn’t actually that bad in your hands. Really. I had over an hour to preview the title at Square Enix’s offices recently, and whilst the dialogue is a little try-hard, it’s not that bad. It’s one of those things; a trailer cannot accurately convey how a game will play out in your hands – the timing is off, the editing is wrong, there’s no context.
“I’m so happy you mentioned the word ‘context’ here,” says Forspoken creative producer, Raio Mitsuno, in a follow-up interview after our preview. “That’s been the the key thing for us in terms of how we’re trying to show fun things about this game without spoiling the story. [The trailers and social media posts] obviously come without the context that’s necessary to really understand it, and really get a feel for it.”