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https://www.arabnews.com/node/2034631/lifestyle Lebanese TV presenter Annabella Hilal’s appearance on the runway for a top Italian fashion house this past week was not only a personal honor, but also a chance to demonstrate how art can help heal trauma — a reference to the challenges facing her country. In an interview with Arab News, the media personality said that opening the Elisabetta Franchi show in Milan on Friday meant “a lot” to her. She wore a floor-length green dress with a thigh-high slit and subtle pleating. Hilal was among several Arab celebrities and influencers who surprised fans by walking for the Italian label during Milan Fashion Week. “Despite all the difficulties that my country is going through, I opened this show … and was able to represent my country, so it is an honor for me.” she added. “It helps us (to) remember that no matter the challenges, art and fashion play an important role. It gives us, the Lebanese people, a flame of hope.” The presenter had not worked previously as a model, but the backstage meetings with all the catwalk stars and the preparation reminded her of the time when she competed for the 2006 Miss World title in Warsaw, Poland. “I had met … girls who came from all around the world (including) America, Europe and Canada. I quickly recalled the Miss World days in these moments,” she said. Hilal does not plan to continue working as a model in the fashion industry, despite the encouragement of her fans, family and friends. “It needs patience and persistence … I prefer to focus more on the media industry,” she said. Meanwhile, other regional stars who presented the brand’s Fall 2022 collection included Alanoud Badr, Deema Al-Asadi and Zeynab El-Helw. Al-Asadi, who is an Iraqi fashion influencer and Dubai-based blogger, told Arab News she was nervous before the show. “It was my first time ever (walking a runway) and not just any runway, it was walking for Elisabetta Franchi, which is one of my favorite brands at Milan Fashion Week,” she said. “It is an opportunity that I will always be grateful and thankful for.” “It was an adventure and I enjoyed every minute of it. It was a beautiful experience and I learned so much … It made me realize how hectic it is for models. It is very stressful, very intense and the walk is not easy. But I felt so proud to represent my region at Milan Fashion Week,” she added. Al-Asadi said that the Italian designer wanted to show that her brand was wearable for the general public and not just tailored to models of specific sizes and age. The fashion lover said that she has now conquered her fear for the runway and would repeat the experience if she has another chance. “It was really a turning point in my career,” said the social media star.
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Nickname: @Cinderella 乡 Video author: PlayStation Name of the game: Spider-Man Homecoming Video link: Short description of the video: you can suit up as Spider-Man and see what it’s like to be the world’s favorite superhero. Learn the ins and outs of your brand new Stark Industries upgraded web shooters and master different web types as you race to complete fast-paced targeting trials
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https://www.pcgamer.com/dungeon-siege-is-back-and-has-joined-the-metaverse-for-some-reason/ If you've got a once-beloved but now dormant game series gathering dust, you might as well toss it into the metaverse and see what happens. That's what Square Enix has seemingly done with Dungeon Siege, which has been resurrected as a component of The Sandbox, a so-called metaverse which describes itself as "a leading decentralized gaming virtual world". Under the arrangement, there will be a new Dungeon Siege LAND (their italics) on Square Enix's Sandbox Estate, which the publisher has held since at least mid-2021. Square Enix also invested in The Sandbox in 2019. Owned by Animoca Brands, The Sandbox lets you buy virtual real estate (Snoop Dogg and Deadmau5 are among those who have bought up some digital land), as well as "monetize voxel assets and gaming experiences on the blockchain," using its VoxEdit and Game Maker tools. In other words, it's kinda like Minecraft meets Roblox meets "the metaverse" meets NFTs. Now it's all that, meets Dungeon Siege. Where Dungeon Siege is concerned, characters and items from the series will now be available on both the VoxEdit and Game Maker creation tools—in voxel form, of course. As for the Dungeon Siege LAND, that's where you'll go if you want "interactive RPG experiences players can enjoy while learning best practices for constructing Dungeon Siege adventures." It's not super surprising. Aside from Square Enix's investment in The Sandbox, company president Yosuke Matsuda has expressed enthusiasm for NFTs and the metaverse. "I realize that some people who 'play to have fun' and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends, and understandably so," he wrote in January, implying some people play games to not have fun. What is surprising, is that Square Enix chose Dungeon Siege as the one IP deserving to be cast into this dizzying modern context. The last major game in the series was the Obsidian-developed Dungeon Siege 3, which released in 2011, only a year after Square Enix acquired the series from Gas Powered Games. That Obsidian outing was widely considered a bit average, though our reviewer quite liked it. Uwe Boll has since directed three (!) Dungeon Siege films, but that's about as active as the series has been of late. Maybe it's wise to use a series not many people care about anymore: if Square Enix had chosen Final Fantasy, for example, there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Similarly, Ubisoft brought Rabbids to The Sandbox earlier this month, which is hardly the jewel in the publisher's crown. In any case, if you're unlucky enough to have craved a Dungeon Siege revival, this is how it's going to be, I'm afraid. Shaun is PC Gamer’s Australian editor and news writer. He mostly plays platformers and RPGs, and keeps a close eye on anything of particular interest to antipodean audiences. He (rather obsessively) tracks the movements of the Doom modding community, too.
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https://www.techspot.com/news/93606-valve-leave-steam-deck-repairs-pros-users-already.html Not even a week after Valve's Steam Deck launch, multiple early adopters have reported drifting joysticks. The portable PC's sticks are relatively easily replaceable, but Valve still advises customers against attempting at-home repairs. On Tuesday, at least two Reddit users demonstrated drift in the Steam Deck's right joystick. Both posted videos showing the system's controller input testing screen registering input while the thumbstick isn't moving. Drifting starts after the stick is moved and reset to the neutral position. It ceases when it is moved again. Two cases among the many Steam Decks in the wild don't signify a trend, but it isn't a good sign the ailment is showing up soon after launch. Stick drift usually results from wear and tear after long hours of use. Fortunately, replacing the Steam Deck's thumbsticks isn't too complicated, as iFixit discovered last month. Still, Valve advised against DIY repairs in October and did so again in a recent interview with Rock Paper Shotgun. "We recommend repairs are left to pros or returned to Valve for anything that goes wrong, if that comes up," said Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais. However, Griffais still acknowledged that cracking the case open is a part of the PC gaming experience that will never go away. As such, Valve officially authorized iFixit to sell replacement Steam Deck parts for anyone who still wants to attempt a DIY repair, though they aren't available yet. Third-party repair shops will likely eventually offer to repair Steam Decks as well. For the time being, stick drift is pretty much unavoidable for controller users on every modern game platform. Customers have brought lawsuits against Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony over the issue. Last year, iFixit's teardown of the PlayStation 5's DualSense controller showed that all the console manufacturers made the same "willful cost-saving calculation."
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https://www.techradar.com/news/the-most-ignored-gmail-tool-might-not-actually-be-as-bad-as-we-all-think Getting group chats fired up alongside your Gmail account may actually get to be useful fairly soon thanks to some new updates coming to Google Chat Spaces. Introduced in 2021 as part of Google Workspace, the replacement for G Suite for Enterprise, Spaces is essentially group conversations for Google Chat users, bringing together groups of co-workers or friends in a single location. However Spaces has not proved exactly po[CENSORED]r so far due to a lack of features or flexibility - at least not until now. "We're introducing several improvements for Spaces in Google Chat to help you better organize people, topics, and projects," the company wrote in a blog post announcing the changes. Among the new additions is the ability to add "Managers" to look after specific Spaces, acting as an admin over the entire chat. Given to the creator of the Space by default but able to be changed or edited, Managers will be able to oversee the conversations, adding and removing participants if needed. Google is also offering Managers the ability to add descriptions to Spaces in order to set context or provide information on what will be discussed. Users will also be able to create guidelines so that "safe and effective communication environments" can be created. "We hope this feature makes it easier to share the purpose and guidelines for a particular space, making it easier for your collaborators to navigate quickly to the appropriate space," Google added, noting that the new features are rolling out to users now. The company sees Spaces as a de facto replacement for its little-loved Google Currents tool, which it recently revealed will be gradually shut down over the course of 2022. Starting in 2023, Currents will be found down and its services moved over to Spaces, which Google says offers much better and tighter integration with other tools such as Gmail, Meet and Google Drive.
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https://www.arabnews.com/node/2034001/lifestyle There has never been a Batman film quite like “The Batman.” Something has always been missing. 1966’s “Batman” was too campy to take seriously. Tim Burton’s films relegated Batman to a supporting character. Even Christopher Nolan’s much-lauded Dark Knight trilogy was about Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne first and foremost, with Batman always feeling like a costume he wears rather than a character in the film. And, in all of them, there was a boy overcoming the tragic death of his parents by becoming a hero — with that part of the story ending there. “From the first time I read the script, it was clear that this was a drastic departure from the traditional way that Bruce Wayne and Batman are portrayed,” Robert Pattinson, who plays the title role in the new movie, tells Arab News. Let’s be clear: The much-anticipated latest film from writer-director Matt Reeves (“War of the Planet of the Apes,” “Cloverfield”) is not another origin story. The film picks up with Batman a year into his journey as the caped crusader, and while he’s established as Gotham’s dark knight, he has not processed the traumas of his youth. He has forgotten how to be Bruce — his truest face is Batman’s. “Bruce Wayne is traditionally portrayed as a society playboy. He’s very much in control of the three aspects of his personality — the silly public face, the serious Bruce at home watching old movies, and Batman. In this one, he’s let Bruce wither away since his parents’ death. The only way he can survive is creating this alter ego which he wants to live in more and more,” Pattinson explains. “I think he doesn’t have an enormous amount of control over what’s happening to him when he puts that suit on. He genuinely believes he’s another person when he puts it on. And he’s addicted to it. And so when the red light comes on, and calls him out, it’s almost like he’s more afraid of his identity being revealed than dying. For him, it’s almost worse than death,” he continues. “Don’t ask me to explain that.” For Reeves, that was a conscious decision. While the other Batman films are often about the villains more than the hero, that was out of necessity, as there was no room for Batman himself to grow. But “The Batman” is about the journey of the hero himself, ultimately leading to him the best version of that hero “I’ve seen lots of origin stories,” says Reeves. “I thought, ‘Well, I don’t want to do an origin story. I want to come right into (the life of) a young Batman.’ I wanted to position him along an arc of becoming. This is a guy who has room to improve. He’s still pushing. He can become better. I wanted to take that Batman and have him solve a mystery, something that would not be an origin tale, but would refer to his origins and shake him to his core.” While the film is not an origin story for Batman, it does show how a cast of characters that have traditionally surrounded him — including Penguin (Colin Farrell), Selina Kyle — aka Catwoman (Zoe Kravitz), and Riddler (Paul Dano), came to be who they are. Each of them is more grounded than ever before, without the over-the-top villainy or hint at the supernatural that was found in previous iterations. “That’s how this world was designed,” says Jeffrey Wright, who plays Gotham police commissioner Jim Gordon. “What’s wonderful about Batman as an idea is that they’re all human. They’re all they all exist in a city fashioned after New York City back in 1939. It’s a grounded thing. They have their flaws and their strengths. “What really excited me about this script and Matt’s vision was that he was making a Batman for now, honoring the history of the franchise starting in 1939, and infusing this film with a relevance to 21st century Gotham that I think is really exciting,” Wright continues. “I think it’s going to be thrilling for fans because it is modern, but it’s also based in the origins of the characters, which is around mystery, detective work and all of that good stuff.” That rooted humanity was exactly why Reeves wanted Pattinson in the role. “What excited me about Robert is that he has this intensity,” says Reeve. “We all know that he will push himself to any place. I wanted a Batman who was exceedingly human. His scars are his strength. What happened to him made him perfectly suited to be the person who will push himself to any length, because it’s the only way he can find meaning in his life. This Batman is a h For the cast, it was often a huge challenge to forget some of the franchise’s history and see the humanity buried beneath the iconography; to fashion a real person who was not just an imitation of another performance, and to silo their understanding of those characters. Although not all of them tried to sever that tie fully. “I will say that Jim Carrey (who played Riddler in 1995’s “Batman Forever”) was one of my favorite actors growing up. I was obsessed with Jim Carrey in late elementary school. And coincidently Jack Nicholson (who played Joker in 1989’s “Batman”) was my other favorite actor when I was young,” says Dano. “Luckily, Matt gave us the keys with the script to take the energy that’s there. I do think that this stuff has their energy in it: It’s been around in the culture for a reason. I didn’t have to really think about any other villains work but unconsciously I’m sure it informed me, because those performances are indelible to me.” Kravitz, on the other hand, found the shadow of those previous performances daunting, having to live up to portrayals of the character from Eartha Kitt, Michelle Pfeiffer, Anne Hathaway and others. “It was intimidating,” she says. “I think the hardest part is forgetting that these are iconic characters. That really was half the battle. I think to really honor who these characters are, and play them as three-dimensional people, you can’t think of them as Catwoman. You can’t think of them as someone iconic. You just have to play a human being in a situation and hope that it all flows together.” As well-established as this cast is, another daunting prospect awaiting them once what is undoubtably the most anticipated movie of the year in the Middle East and beyond has been seen is the new level of fame and attention it will bring to each of them. Pattinson has had his fair share from his days in the “Twilight” franchise, but this is something differen. This is Batman. “It feels very surreal. I’ve been seeing the posters and still thinking it isn’t actually happening. But it’s starting to feel a little bit more real now,” Pattinson says. “But when it comes down to it, I really liked the movie. So at least there’s that.”
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Nickname: @Cinderella 乡 Video author: PlayStation Name of the game: The Matrix Video link: Short description of the video: -
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https://www.pcgamer.com/elden-ring-creator-feels-apologetic-to-anyone-frustrated-by-his-games/ Hidetaka Miyazaki, creator of the Souls series and Elden Ring, gave an interview to The New Yorker covering his inspirations, artistic goals, and some ruminations on his meteoric rise through the games industry in the past decade. Miyazaki was candid about his own mechanical skill with games, expressing "I've never been a very skilled player, I die a lot." He went on to explain, "If death is to be more than a mark of failure, how do I give it meaning? How do I make death enjoyable?" Miyazaki was adamant in the interview that his games' difficulty is a core part of their nature, but he wasn't dismissive of the criticisms of players turned off by their design, offering that he does "feel apologetic toward anyone who feels there's just too much to overcome" in his games, but that he just wants "as many players as possible to experience the joy that comes from overcoming hardship." I was fascinated by the feature's exploration of Miyazaki's personal story. He grew up under difficult circumstances and took a well-paying but unfulfilling job out of college to help support his family. After making a late-career shift to the games industry inspired by Fumito Ueda's Ico, Miyazaki was put in charge of a failing project and given license to take risks with it. That project wound up being 2009's Demon's Souls, which established most of the series' defining characteristics. Touching on FromSoftware's latest release and its potential to be a more approachable experience, Miyazaki claimed the team wanted "for people to feel like victory is an attainable feat." That being said, FromSoft's president also clarified that "in our games specifically, hardship is what gives meaning to the experience. So it's not something we're willing to abandon at the moment. It's our identity." One final point of interest was Miyazaki going into greater detail about his working relationship with George R. R. Martin. The nature of Martin's contributions making up the background lore and framework for the setting have been public knowledge for some time, but the feature revealed that Miyazaki has long been a fan of Martin's fiction—well before the breakaway success of Game of Thrones—and that the two artists even developed a personal friendship out of the collaboration. Sometimes it really does pay to meet your heroes.Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he's not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch.
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https://www.techspot.com/news/93580-samsung-introduces-galaxy-book2-series-alder-lake-powered.html With MWC Barcelona underway, it's time to learn what new products are coming to the mobile market segment. As expected, Samsung is at the event, where it announced the new Galaxy Book2 series of laptops. The series consists of four models (two convertibles) powered by Intel 12th Gen Core processors. Samsung's new Galaxy Book2 series laptops will follow some trends of its predecessors, such as the FHD AMOLED displays, thin and light designs (up to 1.55Kg/3.4lbs), and a decent variety of models. Still, new things are under their hood, including Intel 12th Gen Core i3/5/7 P-series processors, Windows 11, authentication via fingerprint on power key, and a new generation of graphics cards, including Intel Arc mobile GPUs. Available in silver, burgundy, and graphite, the Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 is a 2-in-1 laptop that comes in 13.3- and 15.6-inch variants. Inside, it sports an Intel 12th Gen Core i5/7 CPU, up to 32GB of LPDDR5 memory, and 1TB of NVMe storage. Moreover, the Galaxy Book2 Pro 15.6 will have the option to feature an undisclosed Intel Arc dedicated mobile GPU. As an Intel Evo platform, you can expect up to 21 hours of battery life, Wi-Fi 6E and BT 5.1 connectivity, an FHD 1080p webcam, and various physical interfaces, including Thunderbolt 4, a headphone/mic jack, and a microSD card reader. Additionally, both models have dual-speaker sound systems designed by AKG and support Dolby Atmos. The Secured-Core security suite, a 65W USB-C power adaptor, and S Pen support also come standard. The Galaxy Book2 Pro shares a lot with the 360, including the processor, memory (8/16/32GB LPDDR5), and storage (up to 1TB NVMe) options. Available color options only include silver and graphite, but there will be 13.3- and 15.6-inch versions like the convertible model. Connectivity-wise, the Book2 Pro is the better choice, as it offers the same options as the Book2 Pro 360, with the addition of USB 3.2 and HDMI support. The 15.6-inch variant goes even further with a nano-SIM slot and 5G capability. However, the Book2 Pro doesn't support the S Pen. Still, it will feature a sound system designed by AKG, Dolby Atmos support, and 65W USB-C charging. As the name implies, the Galaxy Book2 360 is a stripped-down version of the Pro model. It lacks a 15.6-inch screen and burgundy color option. However, it somewhat makes up for that with a more extensive CPU selection, ranging from low-end 12th Gen Celeron SKUs up to Core i7 chips. Although memory is limited to a maximum of 16GB of LPDDR4x, SSD storage can still go up to 1TB. Bluetooth 5.1 and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity are still present, but the webcam has a 720p resolution. The Galaxy Book2 360 will also support Dolby Atmos, Thunderbolt 4, USB 3.2, and 65W USB-C charging. It also features a microSD card reader and a headphone/mic 3.5mm jack.
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https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s22-ultra-isnt-a-tiktok-machine-and-im-a-little-disappointed Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is not ready to be my TikTok creation platform. That’s right, I TikTok. Don’t look at me like that. There are lots of middle-aged people lip-synching, dancing, showing off hacks, and demonstrating oddball skills on the wildly po[CENSORED]r social media platform. My channel is not filled with dances or songs. It’s mostly a hodgepodge of conversations with myself, visual tricks, tech stuff, and a lot of me experiencing the latest trending filter. Lately, I’ve been using a lot of filters, which rely on augmented reality to transform my face into animals, movie characters, optical illusions. They’re harmless fun. While I can find filters that do work, some of the newest, coolest and maybe most sophisticated ones do not work on Samsung’s premier smartphone. This came as something of a surprise to me. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is an excellent and powerful Android 12 phone. It has a great collection of powerful cameras, including two 10MP telephotos, 108MP wide and 12MP ultrawide on the back, and a 40MP camera on the front. It’s that last camera that I rely on for TikTok work. It’s more than capable of shooting standard TikTok videos. However, every time I try to use a new, trending filter like Raindrop control (which lets you freeze raindrops by using hand motions), or SYMMETRY (which lets you see what you’d look like if both sides of your face were exactly the same – for me the answer was Voldemort), the app informs me, “This effect doesn’t work with this device.” Even simple filters like the “Your Decade,” which guesses your birth decade theoretically based on how you look (though I think it may be random), don’t work. Listen, I like to spend a portion of each evening losing myself in the TikTok stream. It’s mind-numbing, entertaining, and kind of relaxing. When I see a fun filter, I like to try it out. I don’t always post the often-embarrassing results, and my draft folder is filled with unpublished efforts. There’s real joy in consuming TikTok video on the Galaxy S22 Ultra’s high-definition 6.8-inch AMOLED, 120Hz-capable display, which only intensifies the frustration when I can’t test drive a new filter. From a technical perspective, this, at least on the surface, makes little sense. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra’s 40MP front-facing camera is capable of some light AR work. There’s literally an AR Zone in the Camera app that lets me doodle in AR on my face, turn my whole head into an AR emoji, and do other AR-based tricks. There are, when it comes to the front camera, limitations. In the AR Doodle, it will only support face doodles. Plus, even though the phone can plop a dinosaur head emoji on my body that can follow my head's movement and some facial expressions, it’s not that precise. If I were to compare what’s possible with Apple’s TrueDepth Module on the front of its iPhone 13 line with what the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra’s single front-facing camera is capable of, I’d call the Samsung effort a 1.0 version. Ever since Apple introduced that depth-sensing module, its front-facing camera’s AR capabilities have grown substantially. When the iPhone 13 Pro paints my face with Mardi Gras makeup, the effect is realistic and disturbing. As I’m sure you know the camera is fully capable of supporting all of TikTok’s latest filters and effects. I’ve contacted Samsung for more details on why the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra doesn’t support all these filters and will update this post with the company’s response. Perhaps they’ll tell me it’s just a matter of a software update, but I doubt it. That lone camera can only do so much with software to understand the real-world depth and create a realistic marriage between artificial reality and my face. Advertisement Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra’s rear camera array includes a laser to assist with autofocus. It does that by reading the depth information of a subject and their environment. I’d have to assume that if Samsung had drilled one additional hole in the screen next to the 40MP front camera for a laser, it might also have brought that depth info to the front of the phone, and then better support all those TikTok filters. So, while you’re passing harsh judgment on my TikTok activities, maybe spare some for a brand-new, innovative phone that somehow forgets to fully support the world’s most po[CENSORED]r social media platform. As for me, I guess I’ll stick to my iPhone 13 Pro in my unending quest to become TikTok famous.
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