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[andypiper]

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Last weekend, we recorded episode 3.19 of Techgrumps, aka your monthly dose of very annoyed technology industry professionals letting off their frustrations with the big news stories related to tech topics. Techgrumps 3.19 – Creating the Torment Nexus Among other topics, we talked about DNA testing for proofs of citizenship, AI and other hardware, and a lot around the balance of power between…

[gamesatwork]

E463 - Kickstarting Robo-Modding Mayhem

Michael Rowe via DiffusionBee – Prompt – “Robots defining a Modding KickStarter, Realistic, Dynamic Lighting, by H.R. Giger” This week, while Michael M is in the woods, Andy and Michael R. go thru the week’s links focusing back on our roots talking about various gaming stories, including: Life by You’s open approach to modding, dragon based table top games, and how one gaming studio is support…

[andypiper]

Maintaining a rhythm

A short post to summarise the end of the week. #Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload

A bit short and unstructured today, but posting to keep things moving along. End-of-weeknotes, if you will. Fabrik (which I only wrote about a couple of weeks ago!) is changing their London offering and closing the physical space, so I’ve been trying to track what’s going on with that, but not able to get to any of the meetings about it all. I’m sad about it. We recorded episode 476 of Games at…

[andypiper]

Podcast adventures

I realised that I've been making podcasts for over 15 years; here are some of the places you can find me. #100DaysToOffload

I’ve been a regular podcaster for, wow, around 15 (!) years now. More or less…[1] After some occasional guest appearances early in the run of on a show called “Dogear Nation”, back in 2009 I moved up to a regular slot as a co-host, with my friends (and, at that time, IBM colleagues) Michael Martine and Michael Rowe. That show ran for 200 episodes in total, and then after a short break, the same…

[gamesatwork]

e427 — DeepBarbie Fakery

Stories & toots about #Barbie, #AI, #deepfakes, image obfuscation with PhotoGuard & Glaze, resume hacking, #UnrealEngine for the 2024 #Ford #Mustang and much more!

Photo by Immo Wegmann on Unsplash Published 6 August 2023 Michael and Michael get together for a show full of intrigue and deepfakes – pictorially and in text.  While Andy was not available to record this episode, he was a guest on the TechGrumps podcast recently, and you can check that out in the show notes below. Staying with the Barbie theme, Michael and Michael begin this episode with a…