#Cyberscan Technology

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#151 Can ZYTO and Cyberscan Technologies Reveal Your Supplement Needs? with Susan Luschas

#151 Can ZYTO and Cyberscan Technologies Reveal Your Supplement Needs? with Susan Luschas

Susan Luschas discusses ZYTO and Cyberscan technologies, which identify health conditions, help you customize your supplement protocol and heal your body using quantum medicine. Tune in to the podcast to learn: What exactly are ZYTO and Cyberscan technologies? How ZYTO and Cyberscan can detect and heal your health conditions How they can help you develop a custom supplement protocol Quantum…

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New Mass Effect: Andromeda Rumors

So I’m sure that by now, even people who aren’t fans of Mass Efffect are aware of the latest game’s facial animation issues, and many fans of the series have been asking “How could a massive AAA game with millions of dollars and years of development time shit the bed so hard on such an important part of the game?”

Well, it may not have been the fault of the development team, and the blame can instead be laid at the feet of Upper Management at BioWare.

Liam Robertson AKA Game History Guy over on YouTube made this video on the subject. This is all stuff that should be taken with a grain of salt, and may not be entirely true, but it is all certainly plausible. For anyoen who is unable or doesn’t have the time to watch the entire video, here are the key points.

According to his source at BioWare, the reason the animations are so bad is due to the use of CyberScan technology, which can scan a person into the game and create a high-quality model of the person, however, the technology is not to the point where it alone can create a model all on its own, and the 3-D model it creates then needs to be sent to an animator, but it is a fantastic tool for creating a base to work on.

After the Cyberscan Process was complete, instead of letting the game’s development team work on it, the human character models were instead outsourced to various development studios associated with EA, no one is quite sure which ones, but it seems that EA Bucharest in Romania did a lot of the work. But the real kicker are the reasons behind this decision.

While business costs are certainly lower in Romania due to a much lower labor cost, that was apparently NOT the reason that this decision was made. The main reason was because Upper Management at BioWare did not consider the facial animations to be enough of a priority for the main dev team to spend time on, in spite of the Development Team insisting otherwise, and instead sent these animations out to various studios, and had the Main team work on Hard Surface Assets like Enviornments and ships, as well as a few robotic characters and some of the aliens.

Also cited as a reason was a “Corporate Culture of Political Correctness” and a fear that the in-house team would make the characters (not just the female characters, but all characters) “too attractive” and alienate some audiences.

If this turns out to be true, then this has got to be a new level of corporate incompetence, deciding that Facial animations and character modeling is unimportant in a heavily story and character-driven game where you will spend a significant amount of time staring directly at those faces and  models and animations has got to be some kind of record for “Worst Decision Ever Made Concerning a Video Game.” This would be like if Blizzard decided to outsource the shooting mechanics in Overwatch to some other studio.

It goes without saying that this all needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but if this is true, then What the Actual Fuck is wrong with BioWare’s upper management.

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Homeland Security officials to testify in Senate hearing on election security

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Homeland Security officials to testify in Senate hearing on election security

Two Homeland Security officials will testify Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee on attempted hacks of the U.S. voting system during the 2016 presidential election — and the response by federal and state governments — as the committee launches an effort to safeguard against foreign meddling in this year’s election.

Senators are expected to press Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on the department’s efforts to secure state election systems. Testifying along with Nielsen is Jeh Johnson, who was President Barack Obama’s head of Homeland Security when Russian agents targeted election systems in 21 states ahead of the 2016 general election.

Top U.S. intelligence officials have said they’ve seen indications Russian agents are preparing a new round of election interference this year. Experts also said that far too little has been done to shore up those vulnerabilities in 10,000 U.S. voting jurisdictions that mostly run on obsolete and imperfectly secured technology.

Top committee lawmakers on Tuesday called Russia “relentless” in its attempt to meddle in the 2016 U.S. elections and warned that state election officials need to strengthen their safety nets against future cyberattacks ahead of the midterm elections in November.

Read the Senate Intelligence Committee recommendations on election security

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., seated at center with with committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., right, gathers panel members before a news conference to discuss recommendations for improving the nation’s election infrastructure ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, in Washington, March 20, 2018. Joining from left are Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine

 (Associated Press)

The committee recommends that states make sure voting machines have paper audit trails and do not have Internet capabilities, as the senators push for improved communication about cyber threats between the federal, state and local levels and U.S. intelligence agencies.

The senators are also recommending that states consider implementing “more widespread, statistically sound audits of election results.”

Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., released the recommendations in a bipartisan effort.

SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE PUSHES FOR ELECTION SECURITY UPGRADES AHEAD OF 2018 MIDTERMS

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., center, joined from left by, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., previews some of the panel’s recommendations for improving the nation’s election infrastructure ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, during a news conference in Washington, March 20, 2018.

 (Associated Press)

In the coming weeks, the Intelligence Committee plans to release the first of four election security reports in full as part of the wide-ranging investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Burr said the committee’s investigation revealed that the Russian cyber effort exposed “some of the key gaps” in the security of the nation’s election infrastructure and computer systems. 

“Clearly we’ve got to get some standards in place that assure every state that, at the end of the day, they can certify their vote totals,” he said.

Burr also said the committee wants to maintain state control of elections, but the federal government should be doing more to help, while Warner said he thinks the process to prevent any compromise of election systems needs to be more robust.

“Every one of Mr. Trump’s appointees in law enforcement and national security acknowledge what an ongoing threat Russia is,” Warner said in Tuesday’s press conference. “It’s pretty amazing to me we’ve had the director of the FBI, the director of national intelligence and the head of the NSA say in public testimony within the last month that they’ve received no direction from the White House to make election security a priority.”

Senators are also urging state and local election officials to take advantage of resources provided by the Homeland Security Department, such as comprehensive risk assessments and remote cyberscanning of their networks to spot vulnerabilities.

Fox News’ Barnini Chakraborty and The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Amy Lieu is a news editor and reporter for Fox News.