Pokémon Go Fest 2024’s global event is finally upon us, with tons of perks and boosted spawns. As usual with these Pokémon Go events, we’re getting rotating habitats that cycle Pokémon in and out of the spotlight, inspired by Necrozma’s dusk and dawn forms. There are a lot of different perks, alongside new mechanics like …
It’s been decades since games started implementing in-game communication devices that resemble our own real-life phones — and it’s often a successful mechanic for separating and consolidating menus, as well as tracking progress. But recently, I’ve noticed a weird trend: mobile games that are set entirely inside of a simulated mobile device. In other words, …
It’s that time of year in the NFL calendar where teams are releasing behind-the-scenes videos from their war rooms, and the decision making that went into the draft picks. This can often lead to some interesting discoveries — like how bad the Vikings’ internet security is. ENHANCE! This comes to us from the team’s video …
For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about making sure AI is safe. Now, the company is positively hemorrhaging them. Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike announced their departures from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, on Tuesday. They were the leaders of the company’s superalignment team — the team tasked with ensuring that …
Just after the clock struck midnight, a man entered a nightclub in Istanbul, where hundreds of revelers welcomed the first day of 2017. He then swiftly shot and killed 39 people and injured 69 others — all on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Among those killed was Jordanian citizen Nawras …
Questions of how a new technology will change the way we work have only become more pressing since OpenAI’s Chat-GPT burst onto the scene in late 2022. Since then, we’ve seen frenzied predictions of how AI will upend American jobs — perhaps even doing away with the need to work altogether. Some wonder if their …
Israel has reportedly been using AI to guide its war in Gaza — and treating its decisions almost as gospel. In fact, one of the AI systems being used is literally called “The Gospel.” According to a major investigation published last month by the Israeli outlet +972 Magazine, Israel has been relying on AI to …
Israel’s war with Hamas, in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023, has led to more fatalities than in any previous Israeli war, with at least 34,000 Palestinians killed as of May 7, 2024. In Israel’s 2014 war in Gaza, just over 1,400 were killed. One factor in that difference is the use of …
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Just weeks before 2013 became 2014, a video was posted on YouTube. A thudding bass plays over a white screen as superimposed videos of a brown-haired girl form dizzying kaleidoscopes of shapes. Wearing a ruffled maroon top and patterned headband, she peers up into the camera. After 25 seconds of highly edited shots that show …
The bill to require TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban made it to President Joe Biden’s desk on Wednesday as part of a huge foreign aid package that passed through Congress this week. And Biden, as he previously promised, signed the bill into law. ByteDance now has nine …