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Mr. DeSantis’s trip offered him a chance to buff up his foreign policy credentials, which are in need of positive headlines.

The bid to buff up Mr. Biden’s image while reclaiming “Let’s go, Brandon” from the right earned a left-handed compliment last weekend from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.

The earlier “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” had drawn plaudits for special effects but universal disappointment about everything else, and it wasn’t going to be enough in the sequel just to buff up story, characters and performances.

Still, you could hope that “The Right Thing,” the show’s 457th episode, would at least buff up the old routines, make them shiny and snappy for a night.

Alongside such tools, the Kitfox co-founder predicts machine-learning will buff up the audio and visual aspects of procedural storytelling, from voice-acting to art, so you’ll have “much higher production values on all indie games but especially those with procedurally-generated content.”