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Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune will stream next-day on Hulu and Peacock

Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune will have a new streaming home this fall. Sony Pictures Television has inked multi-year deals for the pair of iconic game shows to stream on Peacock, Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ in the US. The agreement includes both in-season syndicated episodes and library episodes. It’s a next-day deal, so broadcast channels are still the first spot to see the newest content. However, this remains a very exciting development for Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune fans, since it’s the first time currently syndicated seasons will be available on the major national streaming platforms.

Both shows will begin this new streaming arrangement in September, when Jeopardy! will start its 42nd season in syndication. The quiz show has amassed a whopping 45 Emmy Awards and was also honored with a Peabody Award. Wheel of Fortune will be going into its 43rd season in syndication this fall.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/jeopardy-and-wheel-of-fortune-will-stream-next-day-on-hulu-and-peacock-225901653.html?src=rss

TikTok now blocks search results for #SkinnyTok

TikTok no longer shows search results for the hashtag #SkinnyTok. Critics who supported this block said some videos with that label were promoting disordered eating and other unhealthy or risky diet behaviors. We’ve reached out to TikTok for comment on this development.

France’s Minister of State for Digital Affairs Clara Chappaz was one of the politicians leading the pushback against this particular hashtag. She has been campaigning against #SkinnyTok with both French and EU regulators since April. “These videos promoting extreme thinness are revolting and absolutely unacceptable,” Chappaz said. “Digital tools are marvellous in terms of progress and freedom, but badly used they can shatter lives … the social networks cannot escape their responsibility.”

While blocking search results for potentially harmful hashtags is a positive step, it only places hurdles in the path of people who want to seek out similar videos. “Users are savvy,” Cornell University professor Brooke Erin Duffy told The New York Times. “They know how to work these platforms and how to evade their content moderation systems.”

A block on one hashtag is just the latest in TikTok’s piecemeal approach toward content that could encourage eating disorders. In 2020 it placed restrictions on ads that might “promote a negative or harmful body image,” such as fasting apps and weight loss supplements. TikTok began a partnership with the National Eating Disorder Association in 2021 to offer more resources for users with eating disorders. Later that year, it also introduced a new approach to the For You page in an effort to reduce the impact of watching too many repeated clips on a negative topic.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-now-blocks-search-results-for-skinnytok-222836828.html?src=rss

The gorgeous indie game Death Howl will have a new demo on June 9

A deck-building game with soulslike elements is an odd genre mashup, to say the least. But that’s what the three-person Danish studio The Outer Zone is creating with Death Howl. The second demo for the indie PC title launches next week on Steam.

The unusual blend of genres isn’t the game’s only hallmark. Death Howl also has a gorgeous art style and music to match its rich themes. You play as Ro, a hunter from a small tribe, who is grieving her son’s death. Mystical voices beckon her toward a spirit realm as she tries to bring him back. Ro’s adventure leads her on a journey of “love, loss and the slow path toward acceptance.”

The game’s deck-based combat will unlock various melee and ranged spell attacks. As you progress, you’ll craft cards built around your preferred tactical style. Meanwhile, shamanic totems will enhance your deck and buff up your strikes.

The Outer Zone / 11 Bit Studios

What makes it soulslike, besides being hard? Publisher 11 Bit Studios offered some insight on Reddit. “Initially, we thought about a different label for Death Howl,” the publisher wrote. “But as we played it more and brought in random testers, we noticed something surprising. The game, despite not being an action RPG, does feel like a soulslike. It evoked emotions similar to what you experience in a soulslike.” Meanwhile, the game’s difficulty reveals itself most in boss battles and side quests.

Death Howl doesn’t arrive until sometime later this year. But the second demo will be playable from June 9 to 16. Head to the game’s Steam page to check it out. In the meantime, you can watch its new trailer below.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/the-gorgeous-indie-game-death-howl-will-have-a-new-demo-on-june-9-205057519.html?src=rss

Tom Thibodeau’s Net Worth: How Much Money the Ex-Knicks Coach Has

Tom was the head coach of the New York Knicks for five seasons, and he signed a contract extension with the team less than a year before he was let go.

ACIBADEM Beauty Center Brings Red Carpet Aesthetic Standards to the Global Stage

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Splitgate 2 will exit its beta and get an official release on June 6

Splitgate 2 will officially launch on June 6, after what must’ve been a successful beta. It’ll be available on a whole bunch of platforms, including PC via Epic, Windows and Steam. The game will also be playable on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. It’s free, with optional in-game purchases.

As the name suggests, this is a sequel to the extremely popular 2021 arena shooter. Both the original and its sequel offer a fun gameplay hook. Players can create and jump through portals to surprise enemies or to traverse locations quickly. Otherwise, it’s a first-person shooter, so imagine a nice combination of Quake with, well, Portal.

There’s a new trailer to commemorate the official launch, which zeroes in on the story. Developer 1047 Games promises there will be a “metric ton of maps, weapons and modes” on June 6. It has also announced that any progression made during the beta period will carry over to the full release. Version 1.0 will include a map creator and “so much more.”

To that end, the dev team says there’s “one surprise left in store.” This will be revealed at Summer Game Fest, so stay tuned. The first Splitgate was a legit phenomenon, with over 10 million beta downloads before it was officially released.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/splitgate-2-will-exit-its-beta-and-get-an-official-release-on-june-6-185839801.html?src=rss

Reddit will let you hide posts, comments and NSFW activity from your public profile

Reddit will now allow its users to do something it never before has permitted: to selectively “curate” their public-facing profiles by hiding some of their posting and commenting activity from other users.

Up to now, Reddit has included users’ full commenting and posting activity in profiles. So while most users are anonymous, others could easily check out their post history and see what communities they’re active in. The feature, which many users see as a key part of Reddit’s openness, has helped Redditors ferret out trolling, lying and numerous other types of bad (or merely embarrassing) behavior on the platform.

With the update, however, Reddit users will be able to “curate” their profile. The additional control will allow people to hide all their public posts and comments from their profile or hide public posts and comments in specific subreddits from their profiles. There is also a “NSFW” toggle, which would hide posts and comments in NSFW subreddits. The setting won’t hide a comment or post in the subreddit where it originally appeared, but it won’t be visible on a user’s profile.

The company notes that there will be some carveouts to these settings for moderators, who may rely on users’ past activity to suss out rule-breakers or decide who is eligible to join their community. “If you post, comment, send modmail, request to be an approved poster, or request to join a private subreddit, that mod team will have access to your full profile content history for 28 days after the interaction – regardless of your settings,” Reddit says in an FAQ.

Despite that concession, many Redditors aren’t exactly happy about the changes, which could alter some of the core dynamics of the platform. “This seems like it’s going to lead to bad actors being able to more easily hide their behavior from the average user,” one of the most-upvoted comments on Reddit’s post says. “Unless you’re a mod, you won’t be able to see that they’re posting inflammatory misinformation across a dozen different subs, for instance.”

Others have noted the feature also means that creating an alt or throwaway account is somewhat less necessary, as it’s easier to hide posts you don’t want linked to your presence on the app. While that may be an added convenience for some, it also raises questions about the company’s approach to making new accounts. During the company’s most recent earnings call, CEO Steve Huffman suggested that Reddit was considering ways to “evolve” its “historically permissive account creation” process. Huffman didn’t elaborate on what that may look like, but said changes would be necessary to fight AI-powered “abuse or manipulation” of the platform.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/reddit-will-let-you-hide-posts-comments-and-nsfw-activity-from-your-public-profile-191956773.html?src=rss

The Witcher IV’s lush world is on display in Unreal Engine 5.6 demo

Epic Games held its annual State of Unreal event today, offering a first look at some exciting new features coming to Unreal Engine 5 through a tech demo set in the world of The Witcher IV.

The team at Epic Games, together with CD Projekt Red — developers of the Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077 — premiered a roughly ten-minute gameplay and cinematic demo that follows Ciri through a snowy mountain pass in Kovir and into the bustling port of Valdrest. The visuals in the demo are not truly final scenes from The Witcher IV but serve as a proof of concept intended to highlight the cutting-edge graphics and tech behind the new Witcher installment.

The demo ran on a PlayStation 5 at 60 frames per second with ray tracing enabled. This was made possible by a slew of new open-world building features coming to Unreal Engine 5.6, including a new “Fast Geometry Streaming Plugin.” Epic says the new plugin should help open-worlds load faster, though exactly how much faster is unclear. A marketplace scene set in Valdrest brimming with life also underscored the ability to create scenes full of high-fidelity characters and visual effects.

Perhaps the most exciting part of the demo was the vast foliage that made up the forests of Kovir. This is thanks to Nanite Foliage, a new system that renders every leaf and branch as real 3D geometry instead of flat textures. This new feature, slated for release with Unreal Engine 5.7, allows for dense high-fidelity foliage without a huge hit to performance.

Unreal Engine 5.6 is now available though many of the tools announced today are marked as experimental, including the Fast Geometry Streaming Plugin, new Control Rig Physics, improved motion capture tools and more. There is no specific release date for Unreal Engine 5.7 yet. As for The Witcher IV, we know not to expect it before 2027.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/the-witcher-ivs-lush-world-is-on-display-in-unreal-engine-56-demo-174048532.html?src=rss

TikTok is making it easier to control what is (and isn’t) in your ‘For You’ feed

We may never fully understand how TikTok’s “For You” algorithm works or why it sends users down the sometimes very specific rabbit holes it does. But the company is making it a bit easier to control what topics are likely (or not) to appear in recommendations.

The company is rolling out a setting to “manage topics” within the app to all users in an attempt to add more personalization to users’ feeds. The setting, which the company began offering in the United States last year, is a set of sliders that allow people to specify how often they want particular types of videos to appear in their recommendations. The sliders cover about a dozen general topics, like nature; food and drink; fashion and beauty; and pets. For each interest, you can drag the slider to “see more” or “see less.”

TikTok notes that these in-app controls “won’t eliminate any topics entirely,” so the sliders won’t, say, prevent any sports content from ever appearing in your feed. But the company says the setting “can influence how often they’re recommended as your interests evolve over time.”

For those who want more granular control over their feeds — at least when it comes to blocking specific types of content — TikTok is also expanding its keyword filtering option, which allows people to choose specific keywords they don’t want to see. Now, the app will use AI to make those filters smarter by adding extra keywords for similar content. For example, if you choose to filter “remodeling,” the app may also opt to add “renovations” to your filtered words. The app may also automatically block alternate spellings of topics, like “cat” or “c@t.” The company says it expects these “smart filters” to “get increasingly precise as more people use it over time” and that it will eventually allow users to add up to 200 keywords.

Both features are available now in TikTok’s settings in the app’s “content” preferences section.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-is-making-it-easier-to-control-what-is-and-isnt-in-your-for-you-feed-175301931.html?src=rss