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Yup, Google Docs went down, but it’s coming back

If you’ve had trouble loading Google Docs this afternoon, you’re not alone. The company said that an outage has been “affecting a significant subset of users” who were unable to access it since about 3:48 PM ET. As of 4:55 PM ET the status had been updated to say “Google Docs service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future, ” and at 5:10, that ” The problem with Google Docs should be resolved.” So, yeah, get up and stretch before getting back to work, study or your obsessive spreadsheet of fantasy sports stats, but don’t go too far — things should be back to normal in about the time it takes for your browser to refresh. We’re actively investigating an issue with Docs not loading. Thanks for your patience as we look into it. — Google Docs (@googledocs) November 15, 2017 Docs is back up for most users, and we expect a full resolution for all users shortly. Sorry for this disruption and thanks again for your patience with us. — Google Docs (@googledocs) November 15, 2017 Source: Google Docs – Service Details

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This is how good PS3 games were meant to look

Be sure to view full-screen and at full resolution on a high-res monitor to really see the difference. Fans of classic gaming emulation know that modern emulators can do a lot to sharpen up the standard-definition sprites and polygons made for consoles designed to be played on low-resolution tube TVs. This weekend, though, an update to the RPCS3 emulator showed how much resolution scaling can improve the look of even early HD games. While the new update technically supports rendering at up to 10K resolutions, the video above shows that upscaling to 4K resolution and adding 16x anisotropic filtering can lead to a huge improvement for games originally made to run at 720p. Upscaling the 11-year-old hardware with three times the resolution doesn’t even put too much strain on modern GPUs—the creators say in an explanatory blog post that “anyone with a dedicated graphics card that has Vulkan support can expect identical performance at 4K.” Unlike N64 emulators, which often require handmade high-resolution texture packs to make upscaled games look decent, RPCS3 can often get amazing improvements in sharpness and clarity just by using content that’s already in the PS3 software. That’s because many PS3 titles stored extremely high-resolution assets on the PS3’s Blu-Ray discs, then crushed those textures down for faster processing by the console. The result is that surfaces that looked muddy and jagged on the original hardware can take full advantage of the art as it was originally conceived when upscaled for the emulator. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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