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Legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on Peacock — well, an AI-generated Al Michaels voice will. In practice, the effect is a lot like hearing a sports announcer’s voice in a video game like Madden, except it’s spitting out lines about real-life sports, which, in this case, means custom Olympics coverage.
Here’s how it works. To set up what NBC is calling “Your Daily Olympic...
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The Paris 2024 Olympics are nearly here. The opening ceremony starts on July 26th, and this year’s events run through August 11th. On the main NBC channel, you can see hours of live morning and afternoon coverage of events like swimming and gymnastics ahead of a three-hour primetime recap, to go along with livestreams of every sport and event and full event replays on Peacock.
One key aspect of NBC’s Peacock coverage will be an...
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Here’s our coverage from the Summer Games.
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A few years ago, Microsoft was planning to launch a dedicated Xbox cloud console, codenamed Keystone. The device looked like a miniature Xbox Series S, a small white box that was dedicated to accessing Xbox games over the company’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service. Microsoft eventually canceled its plans to launch Keystone, but a new patent gives us the best look at what the Xbox cloud console would have looked like.
Spotted by Windows Central, the patent reveals that...
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Shadow of the Erdtree is gonna get easier. Bandai Namco has seemingly heard the great hew and cry from reviewers and players alike that Erdtree is far too difficult. In response, the publisher is implementing a “calibration update” that will reduce the level of difficulty by making players stronger. According to the patch notes for this update:
The attack and damage negation has been increased for the first half of the maximum amount of blessing enhancements,...
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Matas Buzelis is the NBA Draft’s most confident prospect
Matas Buzelis is used to auditions. Before the 6’10, 19-year-old was flying cross-country for workouts and interviews ahead of the 2024 NBA Draft, he was going up against veterans and some of the toughest athletes in professional basketball night after night on G League Ignite. In the G League, with its 10-days, two-ways, and players looking for a path into the NBA, every night...