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May, 2019

Mixing Jazz and J-Pop

I played with the J-Music Ensemble and talked with their frontman Patrick Bartley about what drew him to J-Pop and anime music as an American jazz musician, and what the differences and similarities are between the two genres as performing musicians.

Spice and Wolf VR sortira aussi sur Switch grâce au Toy-Con VR

Une nouvelle expérience VR pour la Switch

Ah. Je m'y attendais pas.

24% of French Internet Users Stream Live TV Content Illegally

A new study published by anti-piracy agency Hadopi has revealed that 24% of French Internet users stream live TV content illegally. The most popular source of video among respondents is live streaming sites, followed by social networks, dedicated IPTV services, and apps. Pirate IPTV is causing particularly concern due to its claimed cannibalizing effect on legal offers.

Memory Pit Exploit For The Nintendo DSi Released - Every DSi console can now be hacked for free without hardmods through the camera app!

While the Nintendo DSi has been out for a little over half a decade and it received its last firmware update in 2012, you could only hack it with a digital-only application (from a store that’s closed) or hardmodding until now. However, things have just changed thanks to the unexpected release of Memory Pit by shutterbug2000!

Sonic movie delayed to February 2020 so they can fix Sonic

Gotta go at a reasonable pace and avoid overtaxing your VFX team

Nintendo’s mobile games to be shut down in Belgium due to loot box law

Service for both games ends on August 27th

Intel, Qualcomm, and other chipmakers reportedly join Google in Huawei ban

Huawei has been stockpiling chips to prepare for this eventuality

Google pulls Huawei’s Android license, forcing it to use open source version

A dramatic escalation in the US war on Chinese tech firms

I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page

... and got away with it.

Comcast is giving Disney full control of Hulu

The last piece of the puzzle for Disney

Abonnez-vous un an à Next INpact pour 30 euros seulement

Cette fois, c'est la bonne ! Profitez de notre promotion du printemps et sautez le pas en vous abonnant à Next INpact. De quoi accéder à notre contenu, mais aussi celui d'INpact Hardware à tarif réduit.

Google Sheets can soon remove duplicates and trim white space, receives new keyboard shortcuts

The Google Drive suite has been a capable competitor to Microsoft's Office apps for a long time. It offers a complete package right inside the browser and can serve as a prime example of how far web technologies have come. Now, Google has announced new features for Sheets, which is now capable of removing duplicate data and trimming white spaces. The web app also receives some new keyboard shortcuts that you might know from other spreadsheets.

Politicians finally realize loot boxes are thinly veiled gambling, introduce bill to combat

U.S. senator Josh Hawley has announced the outline for a bill that could apply new consumer protections to video games played by minors. Specifically, it targets games played by those younger than eighteen years of age and aims to prohibit several forms of abusive monetization practices, such as loot boxes and pay-to-win elements. The goal is to have the Federal Trade Commission enforce the bill's proposed rules by treating the distribution of any offending games as unfair trade practices.

Verizon is looking to sell Tumblr after squandering its potential

Like Yahoo before it, Verizon never really put much into Tumblr

Pour ses dix ans, World of Goo s'offre un petit lifting sur ordinateur

Admirable jeu de réflexion né des mains habiles de la toute petite équipe de 2D Boy, World of Goo soufflait déjà ses dix bougies en octobre dernier. Ce qui ne nous rajeunit pas, surtout pas mon rédacteur en chef que je n'aurai certainement pas l'outrecuidance de citer. De ce fait, ses concepteurs ont décidé de lui donner un petit coup de polish.

Valve’s hilarious Index dongle somehow makes VirtualLink complicated

Not the single-cable solution we’d been promised

Epic buys Rocket League developer Psyonix, will stop selling the game on Steam

Terms of the deal, including how much Epic paid, were not disclosed

This guy built a smartwatch from scratch, resurrecting the idea behind Pebble

At some point, someone decided that smartwatches have to be capable of replacing your phone. While that might work okay-ish on Apple's platform, it's a disaster over in the Android world – underpowered but battery-sucking Snapdragon chips meet poorly written software on Wear OS. With Pebble gone, there aren't many options left for people looking for a simple wearable that just shows them notifications. Reddit user u/smarchbme took matters into his hands (literally) and created his own smartwatch with a custom OS, custom design, and a battery life of one whole week that simply mirrors his iPhone's notifications, with no bells and whistles, all while open sourcing the entire project. Sometimes, less is more.

Au Japon, le changement d’ère réveille le souvenir du « bug de l’an 2000 »

Alors que le Japon s’apprête à connaître son premier changement d’ère en trente ans, mercredi, celui-ci pourrait avoir, à l’heure du tout informatique, des conséquences dans les entreprises et administrations du pays.