Author: Zach_Wilson
The Indiglo button let there be light
Long before the self-lit pixels of OLED phones illuminated our lives, there was a time many portable gadgets didn’t shine at all. Remember when the display of practically every Nintendo Game Boy was designed to be viewed by sunlight? Remember when it was tough to tell time with your average…
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Fate/stay night Remastered announced, offering the cult classic visual novel in English for the first time
Developer Type-Moon has revealed Fate/stay night Remastered, a remaster of the first game in the long-running Fate series that sees it officially released in English for the first time. Originally releasing on consoles as Fate/stay night Realta Nua for PlayStation 2 in 2007 (which was itself a significantly enhanced port…
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Palworld players can finally experience the joys of Pokémon with this realistic ‘legally-distinct’ mod
Palworld has yet another mod, but this one seeks to put the similarities between the open-world survival game and Pokémon to bed for good. “Welcome to the ‘The legally-distinct pocket creatures into Palworld Mod Pack,’ which adds your favorite original pocket creatures to Palworld, which is not based on a…
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Lawmakers propose anti-nonconsensual AI porn bill after Taylor Swift controversy
US lawmakers have proposed letting people sue over faked pornographic images of themselves, following the spread of AI-generated explicit photographs of Taylor Swift. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act would add a civil right of action for intimate “digital forgeries” depicting an identifiable person without their…
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Google spent billions of dollars to lay people off
Google spent $2.1 billion on severance and other expenses as it laid off more than 12,000 employees over the course of 2023. And the layoff charges keep coming: in just the one month of 2024 so far, the company has already spent $700 million on employee severance charges as part…
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Replika’s new AI therapy app tries to bring you to a zen island
AI companion company Replika partnered with the team behind the AI dating simulator Blush to release Tomo, a wellness and meditation app with an AI-generated avatar guiding users. Its the kind of concept that seemed destined as soon as generative AI took off, but in the time I’ve spent with…
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