Month: March 2024
A new Nvidia tech demo features real-time AI characters that react to player decisions
Nvidia has unveiled a new tech demo showing off AI video game characters with speech and animation powered by the Nvidia Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) as part of GDC 2024 and GTC 2024. Created in collaboration with the AI gaming startup Inworld AI, the playable demo is built in Unreal…
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World of Warcraft: Plunderstorm is a new limited-time 60-player battle royale available now
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight‘s latest content update introduces a brand-new limited-time battle royale mode called Plunderstorm. Plunderstorm, which arrives with version 10.2.6, invites players to the lands of the Arathi Highlands where they can take part in a pirate-themed, battle-royale event with up to 60 players to fight against, with…
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Google DeepMind co-founder joins Microsoft as CEO of its new AI division
Microsoft has hired Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman. In a post on X, Suleyman announced that he’s joining Microsoft as the CEO of a new team that handles the company’s consumer-facing AI products, including Copilot, Bing, and Edge. Suleyman will also serve as executive vice president of Microsoft AI and…
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Mac users beware – a macOS Sonoma 14.4 bug could delete saved versions of files in your iCloud Drive
The latest update for macOS Sonoma has yet another bug, this time causing havoc for users’ saved files in iCloud Drive. Normally, when you save files within your iCloud Drive all the different versions of that file will be saved for future reference. So, if you’ve been working on a…
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AT&T denies leaked data of 70 million people is from its systems
A hacker is selling a huge archive on the dark web, claiming it originated from a 2021 data breach at American telecommunications giant AT&T – however the company denies the data originated from its servers. BleepingComputer reported a threat actor with the alias ShinyHunters posted an ad on the RaidForums…
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How AI companies are reckoning with elections
The US is heading into its first presidential election since generative AI tools have gone mainstream. And the companies offering these tools — like Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft — have each made announcements about how they plan to handle the months leading up to it. This election season, we’ve already…
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