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Why it is becoming easier to sue Big Tech in the UK
: It should be much easier to know how much a job pays in 2023
How I’m making my life easier for 2023 with these passive income ideas
Jon Smith outlines some passive income ideas from growth stocks and dividend payers to set himself up for the coming year.
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Microsoft makes using formulas in Excel easier, adds new features
Microsoft’s making Excel’s formulas even easier
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Microsoft has announced it’s making Excel’s autocomplete even smarter, at least in the web version that comes with Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365). Last week it announced formula suggestions and formula by example, both of which may help automate some things that you had to do manually.
Formula suggestions are pretty much what they say on the tin: if you type the equal sign into a cell, Excel for web will try to intelligently suggest what type of formula you should be using, given the data that’s around it. For example, if you have a full of quarterly sales numbers and a column at the end labeled “total,” Excel might suggest summing the range of cells. According to a blog post from Microsoft, the feature currently only works…
Scotland passes controversial legislation that makes it easier to legally change gender
Changing gender to be made easier in Scotland
A fan reverse-engineered 1995’s ‘Star Wars: Dark Forces’ to make it easier to play on modern systems
By modern standards, 1995’s Dark Forces doesn’t look like much, but it’s rightfully considered one of the more important Star Wars games ever released. Not only did it introduce important technical innovations to the first-person shooter genre, but it also went on to have an outsized effect on later Star Wars canon and spawned the Jedi Knight series. However, like a lot of games from the mid-’90s, revisiting Dark Forces can be challenging. Before today, your best bet was to buy a digital copy of the game from either Steam or GOG and use DOSBox to emulate it on a modern computer. Dark Forces is one of the easier games to get running on DOSBox, but the software can be intimidating if you’ve never used it before.
Enter The Force Engine. The project is primarily the work of LuciusDXL, who spent three years reverse engineering LucasArts’ proprietary Jedi Engine to make the two games that were built with it — Dark Forces and 1997’s Outlaws — easier to run on modern systems. With version 1.0, TFE is compatible with both the GOG and Steam versions of Dark Forces. Once you’ve installed the software, it will automatically detect the game’s executable, and you can start playing without needing to do things like adjusting cycles in DOSBox.
What’s more, it adds a handful of features to make it easier to appreciate Dark Forces in 2022. One big addition is support for modern widescreen resolutions, so you don’t have to play the game at its original 320 by 200 resolution. Other optional quality-of-life improvements include full mouselook support and a new save system that allows you to make quicksaves. If you’re a fan of Outlaws, LuciusDXL says they’re working on adding support for the cult classic shooter as part of TFE’s version 2.0 release. While there’s no release date for that yet, LuciusDXL estimates it won’t take them nearly as long now that they’ve gone through the process of reverse-engineering Dark Forces.
Heartex’s Label Studio makes labeling audio for ML easier
Heartex, the well-funded machine learning data labeling startup, is launching a major update to its platform today that will open up new use cases for its tools by making annotating audio files in the commercial and open source versions of its Label Studio a lot easier for its users. These updates include a new user […]
Heartex’s Label Studio makes labeling audio for ML easier by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch