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Music icon and all-round pop culture fan Post Malone has created the soundtrack to the upcoming WWE 2K24 title, and fans will be able to hit the ropes with him.
The game’s developer has announced that the music icon will feature in one of the five DLC packs being released across 2024, with the first dropping in May and the last to feature in November of this year. The main game will be hitting online and physical stores on March 5.
Executive Producer Post Malone
Post Malone will also be an executive producer on the game, with the soundtrack featuring the likes of Grimes, 100 Gecs, and Turnstile. Malone took on the task of crafting the music as a fan of wrestling and the 2K games themselves, blending a variety of genres including rock, country, rap, electronic music, and pop.
The WWE 2K24 soundtrack features 12 songs, including:

Post Malone – Chemical
Post Malone – Laugh It Off
100 gecs – Hand Crushed By A Mallet
Busta Rhymes – Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
Colter Wall – Motorcycle
Grimes – Genesis
Militarie Gun – Do It Faster
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Big Rig
Speed – Not That Nice
Turnstile – Mystery
Tyler Childers – House Fire
Yeat – Bëttr 0ff

“The secret to a great video game soundtrack is a little something for everyone and for every mood. It gets you excited and it gets you pumped up to play,” said Post Malone. “This has been a total blast. We have a lot of cool ideas, so I’m super excited.”
For wrestling fans hoping to pick up the DLC it will be sold separately, be incorporated into the Wrestlemania Edition and Deluxe version of the game. Last month we broke down the announcement trailer of the 40 Years of Wrestlemania release.
Fans have been clamoring for the incorporation of the Best in the World, CM Punk since his return to the scene of his infamous pipebomb interview. They have got their way as the WWE Superstar was part of an announcement on the official 2K24 X:

.@cmpunk is making his #WWE2K24 debut along with a long list of your favorite WWE Superstars! https://t.co/asmBSji7sk pic.twitter.com/8QsA42PbhP
— #WWE2K24 (@WWEgames) February 27, 2024

In other wrestling-related news the WWE and Netflix have signed a $5 billion deal to bring the flagship shows Raw and Smackdown to the streaming platform The partnership also ends the wrestling company’s presence on syndicated television since the original air date of WWE Raw on January 11, 1993.
Malone adds to pop culture legacy
Malone is a huge fan of all things geeky and his appearance in the game marks another cool thing he has done across a spectacular American Music and Billboard Award-winning career.
He was immortalized by Wizards of the Coast for the 30th anniversary of the game in a limited Secret Lair, with his own image “Post, Son of Rich” and hit the headlines for paying $2 million dollars for the One Ring Lord of the Rings card.
Image Credit: WWE.
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Concerns over the viability and challenges ahead for Apple to establish its Vision Pro headset have been highlighted by research claiming each device costs a whopping $1,500 to manufacture.
As reported by Omdia, the findings indicate the flagship Apple product is more expensive to make, compared to the retail price of most consumer-grade virtual reality headsets.
The cost factor is an obvious issue and because of it, the Vision Pro will not be for everyone. At an entry point of $3,499, the new device could become a niche product that will not penetrate the mainstream market. Apple will need to ensure it is capable of selling enough units, but one option will be to release a cheaper model.

Why does Apple Vision Pro cost so much to produce?
The Omdia research found Vision Pro costs considerably more to manufacture than the retail price of many other similar wearables.
In addition to the hefty price tag, consumers could be hesitant to put their faith in a product that is marketed as something different to what is already out there. Despite the comparisons to similar headsets, the Apple device is not marketed as a Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality headset. Instead, it has been labeled as mixed reality or termed as a ‘spatial computer’.
David Hsieh, senior research director at Omdia, uncovered the specs with some startling revelations. He found Vision Pro’s primary displays (inside) cost $456 – nearly as much as the retail price of Sony’s PS VR2. Then there is the secondary screen (the one that makes your eyes visible to the outside world), pushing costs up to $526 just for displays, taking production costs above both the PS VR2 and Meta’s Quest 3 which has a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $499.
The next most expensive components for the Vision Pro are its onboard processors.
Its main M2 chip, the same as the one utilized in recent MacBooks, is tasked with running visionOS, apps, and graphics. This is supplemented by the R1 secondary chip, largely responsible for managing data processed by external cameras, sensors and microphones. The combined chip components add up to a cost of around £240 per unit.
Omdia estimates all materials, including every component, required for the manufacture of the Vision Pro racks up a total cost of $1,542 – more than three times the MSRP of the PS VR2 and Quest 3.
It appears almost essential for Apple to drive down the price of any second-generation Vision Pro headset whilst carefully considering any trade-offs in quality or performance.
Image: Apple
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The parent company of Tumblr and WordPress, Automattic, is striking a deal to sell user data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.
The deal has been discovered by 404media, with the tech news site getting hold of internal documents that show the impending data sale with companies like Midjourney and OpenAI.
404media alleges that there will be a new setting introduced today that will ”allow users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties, including AI companies.”
How Automattic plan to use AI
Automattic has a statement on their site that is titled “Protecting User Choice” and it goes into detail about the company’s stance on AI.
“AI is rapidly transforming nearly every aspect of our world, including the way we create and consume content,” the statement reads. “At Automattic, we’ve always believed in a free and open web and individual choice. Like other tech companies, we’re closely following these advancements, including how to work with AI companies in a way that respects our users’ preferences.”
The company also state it currently blocks AI crawlers and search engine indexing sites to keep user’s posts out of their eye-line, unless a user has agreed for this content to be public.
Automattic would also openly discuss their work with third parties saying “we are also working directly with select AI companies as long as their plans align with what our community cares about: attribution, opt-outs, and control.”
”Our partnerships will respect all opt-out settings,” the statement on AI would read. “We also plan to take that a step further and regularly update any partners about people who newly opt out and ask that their content be removed from past sources and future training.”
So a deal with AI companies and the specific impacts on user data is yet to be seen, but the correlation between the 404media report and this public statement shows that Automattic is already considering the implications of public-facing information and artificial intelligence.
Why do AI companies want access to user data?
AI companies and their complicated algorithms need a data source to be essentially “trained” on a set or specific topic.
The better the data that feeds these learning models, the more exact the output will be in theory. So for example an AI model that can only access limited data will have a limited authority on a certain topic.
Impeding regulation on AI, which has been a rather lawless environment means that more deals must be struck with the companies that have access to these data sets for the best return of an AI query. This also means the owners of the learning models don’t fall foul of the legal side of data copyright and those who own platforms like Tumblr and WordPress get something back for access to the user data.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has sent an internal memo to staff, stressing the Gemini errors are “completely unacceptable” after the artificial intelligence (AI) app embroiled the company in controversy.
The tech giant suspended its image creation function on Gemini in recent days after it generated offensive and historically inaccurate results.
In some instances, the technology depicted non-White founding fathers of the United States, mixed-race Nazi-era German soldiers, as well as incorrect race portrayals of Google’s co-founders. A particular concern would have been the reticence of the chatbot to say if Elon Musk tweeting memes is worse than Adolf Hitler killing millions of people.
Pichai spoke out to present a stern position, given the seriousness of the incident, as he held his hands up for the output of the AI technology.
There was no intransigence or deflection over the incident, instead, the 51-year-old Indian-American executive vowed to get to the bottom of the issues with Gemini, after deploying specialists to focus their attention on the large language model (LLM).
“I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias – to be clear, that’s completely unacceptable and we got it wrong,” Pichai said.
“Our teams have been working around the clock to address these issues. We’re already seeing a substantial improvement on a wide range of prompts,” he continued.
Critics have aimed fire at Google, including accusations of an anti-White bias.

1/ Google has halted its Gemini AI image generator due to historical and racial inaccuracies.
The AI was “missing the mark,” per a company statement, after users came forward citing results like Nazi-era German soldiers being depicted as people of color.
Let’s get into it. pic.twitter.com/X4Knqt7OZm
— Morning Brew (@MorningBrew) February 23, 2024

How is Google responding to the Gemini controversy?
AI is built with safeguards and prompts included to supposedly mitigate abuses and bias, but this timely example shows the dangers of the rapidly emerging technology and why it is so important for effective safeguards to be put in place for trust and authority.
Previously, OpenAI was scrutinized for predominantly showing images of white people in professional positions whilst black people were depicted in typically menial roles.
Pichai indicated Google would be striving to fix Gemini’s image generation in the coming weeks, without putting an exact timescale on how long they would dedicate to what is an ongoing, evolving concern.
He stated the company has “been working around the clock” on this matter whilst highlighting “no Al is perfect, especially at this emerging stage of the industry’s development, but we know the bar is high for us and we will keep at it for however long it takes.”
Image: Created by Midjourney
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