Monthly Archives: March 2024

Understanding humanoid robots

Robots made their stage debut the day after New Year’s 1921. More than half-a-century before the world caught its first glimpse of George Lucas’ droids, a small army of silvery humanoids took to the stages of the First Czechoslovak Republic. … Continue reading

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Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment

Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $1.25 billion it invested at the time must be producing results, or perhaps they’ve realized that … Continue reading

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No Man’s Sky Orbital Update 4.6 brings with it new revamped space stations

No Man’s Sky, alongside Cyberpunk 2077 is a gaming rarity in that it launched to a sea of derision, but is now so highly thought of in gaming spheres that it is up there with the best games of the … Continue reading

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Mouse and keyboard now supported in Xbox Cloud Gaming

Xbox Insiders can start testing out mouse and keyboard support within Cloud Gaming from this week across Edge, Chrome, or the Xbox app on Windows PCs. This Monday (Mar. 25) Microsoft released the news addressing the Insiders as they can … Continue reading

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Red Dead Redemption Online update bug brings flying horses

Rockstar Game’s acclaimed western game Red Dead Online is encountering a flying horse glitch in the game after a recent patch Patch 1.35 dropped to fix several quality-of-life issues that loyal fans of the game fed back to developers. Coincidentally, … Continue reading

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Strap your Quest on tightly, Metal: Hellsinger is going to get you headbanging in VR

The multi-award-winning rhythm shooter, Metal: Hellsinger is being rebuilt for VR and will arrive this year for Quest 2, Quest 3, PCVR, PSVR2, and Quest Pro. The original version which had you “slaying to the beat” of the pounding metal … Continue reading

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Life2vec: Warning from creators of AI that predicts your death

An artificial intelligence (AI) model has been developed to predict early mortality, among other things, but as interest in the app has risen, the founders have begun issuing stern warnings. The fortune-telling AI bot, named Life2vec, uses the sequences of … Continue reading

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Penthouse to prison: Sam Bankman-Fried’s journey from crypto king to convicted conman

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will be sentenced in a New York court on Thursday, more than four months after a jury found him guilty of seven criminal charges.

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Parent of FTX victim who lost $130,000 asks judge to go easy on SBF, suggests six years in prison versus DOJ’s 40-50

Defense submitted additional character references to the court as Judge Lewis Kaplan nears a decision on Bankman-Fried’s sentence.

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LinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app

LinkedIn is testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. With this new test, LinkedIn joins numerous other popular apps that have launched their own short-form video feeds following TikTok’s rise in popularity, including … Continue reading

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