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allowing the player to strategically flank his enemies.

Merlin is a free bird identification tool that uses both computer vision and computer audio to identify birds.Image: Simon BissonDont worry about the microphone hanging out the window.

analyzing the spectrogram of their calls.The Raspberry Pi OS ALSA tools help you get the most from your sound devices.Image: Simon BissonCould there be another way to spot them? A friend had pointed me at an iOS app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

and various open-source projects have been working to implement them on different systems.I found that increasing the sample time to 30 seconds significantly improved accuracy.

Its been quite surprising seeing how many different birds and small mammals frequent the large tree and the elderberry thicket at the bottom of the garden.

Its a powerful tool for seeing what might be around when all you can hear is a song somewhere in the trees.One of the most prominent new gameplay elements in Conviction is touted Mark and Execute.

and shoot them when they burst through a door or window.Sam also gains the ability to interrogate characters in real-time and use objects in the surrounding environment against them.

Although Ubisoft is very discrete about this kind of details.Ubisoft finally released the latest installment in the Tom Clancys Splinter Cell series