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‘The Callisto Protocol’ Gets PC Patch After Being Buried In Angry Steam Reviews


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The Callisto Protocol has had a bit of a rough launch with halfway decent reviews, but a strange situation with performance. It appears to be performing better on PlayStation than on Xbox, sparking conspiracy theories about the Sony engineers who helped work on the project. And somehow, its worst performing platform is PC where for some, the game has barely been playable.
It’s essentially a reverse Cyberpunk 2077 situation, where at launch, the best platform was PC, but console was lagging way behind. Today, The Callisto Protocol has issued a patch meant to fix some of the issues with PC:
However, that did not come in time to save the game from a tsunami of negative reviews on Steam. The game is sitting at just 46% positive reviews, firmly in the “mixed” category, though that has increased from what it was yesterday, where it arrived “Mostly Negative.” Metacritic has not opened up user reviews for the game yet.
The PC problems do not seem to be ultra-consistent, with some citing that the game is okay minus a few hiccups, and others saying that it’s barely functional and will not stop stuttering and crashing. Hopefully today’s patch fixes most of the major issues, but the question remains, why did it launch in this state in the first place?
The game has a 76 on Metacritic from critics, but those were critics playing the PS5 copy of the game, which is where it’s supposed to be performing the best.
So, opinions, and performance, are sort of all over the place. We’ll have to see how the game performs overall as one of the last major holiday releases. Many praise it as an exciting new entry in the survival horror space. Others say it struggles with even the basics of combat, outside of these performance issues. It’s a wide range.
It feels like things may be able to stabilize here, if not with this patch, with a couple more. And Callisto Protocol isn’t nearly as high profile of a launch as something like Cyberpunk, so it’s not like its issues are going to be dominating the headlines for very long. If it can get it together, it may do just fine here in a short while. Though it has some work to do, clearly.
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Google's AI generated music is unsurprisingly great – MobileSyrup


Google has shared a new AI research project called MusicLM that uses AI to make music, and it’s the latest AI to make artists scared for their jobs.
You can’t use this tool publically like ChatGDP, but Google has shared a ton of samples attached to a research document. These range from small ten-second snippets to full-length five-minute songs.
This tool takes simple text inputs or a person humming and turns that into beautiful music. You can even use a sequence of text prompts to write a song that changes over time. After listening to a couple, the AI doesn’t recreate human music perfectly since it can’t do voices well, but the beats are always interesting and melodic, to say the least. I’d also expect Google to make this much better at human singing soon.
MusicLM really shines by recreating soft beats like melodic techno and relaxing jazz. There are five-minute samples of each genre near the top of the research paper’s sample zone, and they are worth a listen.
There’s no word when or how Google will release this fully, but as we extend further into the AI world, it seems like no creative pursuits are safe.
Source: Google Research
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Specialized shutters pioneering women's apparel brand – Canadian Cycling Magazine


Specialized is shutting down the pioneering women’s apparel brand, Machine For Freedom. MFF, founded by Jenn Kriske in 2013, built a strong following for promoting a more inclusive vision of the women’s cycling community.
MFF was one of the first brands to seriously develop women’s riding clothing outside of the traditional, race-focused sizing of most apparel lines. In the years since, other brands have broadened their lines to match the example set by Machined For Freedom.
The boutique California-based apparel brand was bought by Specialized in 2018. Going into the fifth year of partnership, the global bike brand is now disbanding MFF. The news was met with an outpouring of support from riders as well as other women’s clothing brands that have followed in MFF’s tire tracks.
The end of Machines For Freedom is the latest in a series of big changes for Specialized. Specialized also announced significant layoffs earlier this year as well as shutting down most of its long-running ambassador program.
MFF founder Jenn Kriske posted this note to the brand’s community on Instagram:
“It is with a heavy heart that I make this announcement. After eight incredible years, the difficult decision was made to shutter the Machines For Freedom brand.
I am tremendously grateful for everything this brand and this community has accomplished in that time. Our influence in the industry is undeniable, and our industry-leading fit process changed the game for women riders in all shapes and sizes. While the brand will no longer exist, the community – and what we built together – will. What we built is bigger than any single brand or company, and I am eternally grateful to be a part of it.
Machines For Freedom is bigger than cycling.
Always has been.
Always will be.”
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