The Daily Populous

Wednesday January 3rd, 2018 morning edition

image for PUBG CEO wants the game on every platform, says Sony is “very strict” about quality

That said, PUBG Corp aims to have PUBG available on as many platforms as possible.

The Xbox One version, which released a couple of weeks ago on Game Preview, is only the start of that.

Chang Han Kim, CEO of PUBG Corp, reiterated that the game will be exclusively available on Xbox One “for some time”, but revealed that part of the reason why it hit Xbox One first is because of Game Preview.

Unlike Sony, Microsoft will happily offer in-development games on the store, the same way Steam has been doing with Early Access.

“Early Access on Steam and Game Preview on Xbox One are like pre-release, so they don’t have a restriction on quality.

There were cases where a game took six months more to launch even when it was already completed.”.

According to Han Kim, the game sold 1 million copies in two days, and has continued to sell “considerably” since then. »

'Uber for blood': how Rwandan delivery robots are saving lives | Karen McVeigh

Authored by theguardian.com

An ingenious drone delivery service known as “Uber for blood” has slashed the delivery time of life-saving medicine to remote regions of Rwanda from four hours to an average of half an hour.

Drone delivery also means hospitals can store less blood, which means less waste as blood spoils quickly.

Keller Rinaudo, Zipline’s co-founder and chief executive officer, said the move will make east Africa a world leader in drone logistics. »

New bill could finally get rid of paperless voting machines

Authored by arstechnica.com

Computer scientists have been warning for more than a decade that these machines are vulnerable to hacking and can't be meaningfully audited.

States have begun moving away from paperless systems, but budget constraints have forced some to continue relying on insecure paperless equipment.

In particular, election security experts have come to regard optical-scanned paper ballots as the gold standard for computer security. »