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AI is an enormous energy drain, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the planet desperately needs progress in the opposite direction. Although most of that comes from running GPUs, cooling them is another significant overhead. So, it’s worth noting when a company of Microsoft’s stature claims to have achieved a breakthrough in … Read more
Sony is introducing a new rewards program for PlayStation owners that lets you purchase exclusive physical merchandise if you’ve unlocked certain in-game trophies. The company is starting with rewards for two trophies from Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima (rewards for Ghost of Yotei are in the works), and Sony will presumably offer something similar for … Read more
The inevitable has happened and Disney+ has once again announced that prices will be going up for its streaming service. Whether it’s because of the ever-increasing costs or because of the company’s recent teetering toward censorship or because you simply aren’t using it, you may decide it’s time to take a break. Here’s everything you … Read more
The Secret Service says it thwarted a telecommunications cyber-op in New York City. On Tuesday, the agency announced that it seized a network of SIM servers. It was capable of jamming cell towers, conducting DDoS attacks and enabling encrypted communications. The discovery came ahead of world leaders gathering for the UN General Assembly this week. … Read more
Apple is expanding its Tap to Pay on iPhone feature for merchants to five more countries in Europe. Businesses in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco and Norway will now be able to accept in-person contactless payments on their iPhones. The functionality is limited to specific third-party iOS apps that vary by nation. For example, British fintech … Read more
Riot’s long-awaited fighting game 2XKO, previously called Project L, will be released for PC as an early access title on October 7. That’s just two weeks away. The company dropped a development update video that’s filled with nods to the source material. 2XKO is set in the League of Legends universe and features many characters … Read more
You know how annoying it is to click multiple edits on a photo? What’s that? It’s actually pretty easy to do. Well, Google says otherwise and has a solution for you: conversational editing, a feature that lets you tell Google your requested edits, rather than have to make them yourself. Google first introduced conversational editing … Read more
Disney might be trying to put the Jimmy Kimmel Live fiasco to bed by bringing the show back on Tuesday night (good luck with that). But the company isn’t exactly putting itself back in customers’ good graces. Once again, it’s hiking the prices of Disney+ subscriptions in the US. Several standalone plans and bundles are … Read more
Meta is launching a national super political action committee (PAC), according to a report by Axios. This super PAC will be committed to fighting “onerous” AI regulation across the country. It’s called the American Technology Excellence Project and Meta spokesperson Rachel Holland said the company is investing “tens of millions” into the effort. The goal … Read more
The long-running joke about Hideo Kojima is that he’d secretly rather be making movies than video games. Kojima somehow nearly got into double figures on Metal Gear games without any of them receiving the adaptation treatment (though not for the lack of trying on his part), but it’s looking like a very different story for … Read more