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The Morning After: Google tightens up its AI Overview feature after suggesting glue on a pizza
Liz Reid, head of Google Search, has admitted the company’s search engine has returned some “odd, inaccurate or unhelpful AI Overviews” after the feature rolled out to everyone in the US. The executive’s explanation outlined some new safeguards to help the new feature return more accurate (and less funny) results.…
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Doctor Who: 73 Yards review: Don’t stand so close to me
The following contains spoilers for “73 Yards.” Russell T. Davies admits his writing eschews narrative formalism in favor of things that just feel right. Two decades ago, his critics pointed to his use of deus ex machina endings as a stick to beat his reputation with. But we’re in a…
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The next Call of Duty is Black Ops 6
Activision has confirmed that the next Call of Duty game will be Black Ops 6. The publisher updated the website for the military shooter franchise to reveal the title, promising that “official lines of communication have begun,” which essentially means the game’s marketing is shifting from teaser mode to slow-trickle…
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The Morning After: Starliner’s launch pushed back again
Starliner, the Boeing-made vehicle intended to carry the next generation of astronauts, has had its launch scrubbed once again. NASA called off the maiden crewed launch after a number of key engineering faults were discovered, and has declined to announce a new test date. Until then, the two personnel expected…
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INDIKA weaves a mature tale of absurdity, hypocrisy and sexual violence
This story contains discussions of sexual violence. Multiple scenes from INDIKA are seared into my brain. A palm-sized person crawls out of a nun’s mouth and runs down her arm, frenzied, in the middle of a Catholic ritual. A man is suspended in the air, his torso impaled on a…
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Indie developers are trying to make horse games that don’t suck. It’s not easy
Video game horses tend to play a fairly uncomplicated role, at least in mainstream titles. Like semi-sentient meat bicycles, they often exist as little more than a way to make the player travel faster, jump farther or occasionally defy the laws of physics. With the exception of Red Dead Redemption…
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