Month: March 2024
How Nintendo made Super Mario Bros. Wonder so weird
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a game filled with oddball ideas. Thanks to magical flowers that, once collected, introduce some unexpected new element, players experience everything from a bunch of Piranha Plants simultaneously bursting into song to Mario turning into a sentient pile of goo. It has so many ideas,…
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I lived with Samsung’s S95D QD-OLED TV for a week, and it’s a game changer
Despite still being in its relative infancy by AV technology standards, Samsung’s Quantum Dot OLED panels are seriously shaking up an already complicated TV world. The arrival of the first couple of generations of this pure RGB approach to self-emissive OLED screen technology has already forced its LCD and traditional…
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The US tightens greenhouse gas emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the toughest US standards yet for greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty vehicles like big rigs and buses. The rules apply to model year 2027 to 2032 heavy-duty vehicles and are meant to slash emissions from a major source of the pollution causing climate change.…
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Vision Pro put me on the MLS playoffs field and it was so real I could almost smell the grass and taste the champagne
Apple Vision Pro excels at something few other devices can do: deep immersion and hyper-realistic experiences that make you question your reality. I’ve been using Vision Pro on and off for almost a year. First in a series of all-too-brief demos, but since February I’ve had one to keep and…
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White House demands all government agencies must appoint an AI officer to help mitigate risks
The White House has unveiled a major policy update that marks a major step in the battle to ensure safe AI across the states, following plenty of other policy adjustments and introductions in recent months. The policy, a response to President Biden’s directive, aims to manage the risks associated with…
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Elon Musk’s updated Grok AI claims to be better at coding and math
Elon Musk's answer to ChatGPT is getting an update to make it better at math, coding and more. Musk's xAI has launched Grok-1.5 to early testers with "improved capabilities and reasoning" and the ability to process longer contexts. The company claims it now stacks up against GPT-4, Gemini Pro 1.5…
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