GUANGZHOU, China – China seeks to push forward research into what it calls “frontier technology,” including quantum computing and semiconductors, as it competes with the United States for supremacy in the latest …
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Most artificial intelligence it is still built on a foundation of human labor. Look inside an AI algorithm and you will find something built with data that was selected and tagged by …
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Industry veterans from Blizzard, Bungie, Riot Games, and Valve have raised $ 37.5 million to launch a new studio called Theorycraft Games. NetEase led the funding round at the nascent studio, and …
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Let’s say you’re a job seeker who has a pretty good idea of what employers want to hear. Like many companies these days, your new potential workplace will give you a personality …
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Following an accusation of piracy launched by The sinking city developer Frogwares, Nacon responded to the developer with a statement arguing that Frogwares’ lack of cooperation in bringing the game to Steam …
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Real Tom Cruise, for comparisonPhoto: Emmanuel Wong / Getty Images for Paramount Pictures (fake images) Deepfakes are videos that stick the face of one person to the body of another, making the …
Read More »Epic Games Acquires Fall Guys Developer Mediatonic
Tonic Games Group, the parent company of Fall Guys developer Mediatonic, has been acquired by Fortnite and Unreal Engine developer Epic Games. Both parties shared blog posts announcing the acquisition moments after …
Read More »An AI was taught to play the most difficult video game in the world
What is the hardest video game you have ever played? If not QWOP So let me tell you well, I know that you don’t know how really difficult a game can be. …
Read More »Why a YouTube chat about chess was flagged for hate speech
Last June, Antonio Radić, the host of a YouTube chess channel with over a million subscribers, was live-streaming an interview with Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura when the broadcast was suddenly cut off. Instead …
Read More »US Recruits Allies to Counter China’s Tech Push
President Biden describes America’s relations with China as a clash of values: democracy versus autocracy. But his rhetoric obscures the administration’s more pragmatic approach of bringing groups of countries together to work …
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