Category: Technology

Artificial intelligence has promised much, but there has been something holding it back from being used successfully by billions of people: a frustrating struggle for humans and machines to understand one another in natural language. This is now changing, thanks to the arrival of large language models powered by transformer architectures, one of the most […]

Some people would rather invest these resources in solving global problems, not launching astronauts to other worlds. People in the 1960s questioned the Apollo program for similar reasons—it was also a time of systemic inequality and fears of nuclear war. Today, in public opinion surveys of US adults, NASA’s climate-related efforts and monitoring of near-Earth asteroids are more […]

The creation of No Fail Mode did not detract from a central mechanic of Tunic: exploration. Players are actively encouraged to seek out the unknown and regularly return to visited areas with new items. Discovering alternate pathways and searching every nook and cranny of zones is what makes Tunic so enticing to play. Despite the success of […]

Let’s start with the obvious here: Between networks, streamers, and whatever else, there is absolutely too much TV to consume these days. It’s impossible to keep up with the zeitgeist and you shouldn’t even try. The flipside of that, though, is that come year’s end, you get to learn about all sorts of “new” shows […]

   It is here that the wish-fulfillment of A League of Their Own and Interview With the Vampire converge and diverge. The League movie, based on a real-life league founded in 1943, erased just how prevalent queer women were in that space. (One of the show’s advisers, the original “All the Way Mae,” Maybelle Blair came out at 95 years old […]

LastPass on Thursday conceded customer data is significantly compromised as fallout grows from a previously disclosed breach in August. An unknown threat actor accessed and copied a cloud-based backup of customer vault data, including encrypted passwords, usernames and form-filled data, CEO Karim Toubba said in a blog post. “These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit […]

Nearly two years ago, I reviewed the $200 Nokia 5.3, which was promised two years of Android OS upgrades and three years of security updates. How has HMD Global, the company licensing the Nokia brand, fared? It only just deployed Android 12 to that device, which is a year-old version of Google’s operating system.  That’s […]

It might finally be happening. For years now, technologists have promised that the age of the electric vehicle cometh. After false starts in the early 20th century (when electrics, for a short time, accounted for a third of US vehicles), the 1970s (thanks, gas crisis), and the early 2000s (when two American engineers founded a […]

On November 15, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. Well, more or less. That was the date selected by United Nations demographers as the moment the world crossed its latest population milestone. The exact date is probably wrong—perhaps off by months or more—but there are roughly a billion more humans alive today than […]

The camera focuses on two bare feet as a Twitch streamer, who goes by JrocTheGod, wrecks boss after boss in Cuphead with just his toes. After a few failed attempts to defeat the devilish final boss (in addition to a few breaks to rest his feet), J-Roc rolls credits on Cuphead as members of his […]