August 16, 2020 Amazon’s back-to-school deals include a $75 Echo Plus Amazon is joining the back-to-school sales rush, and like many companies its bargains reflect the learn-from-home reality of the pandemic. Its limited time sale…
August 16, 2020 A college student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of Hacker News Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge College student Liam Porr used the language-generating AI tool GPT-3 to produce a fake blog post that…
August 16, 2020 White House budget proposal would hike AI and quantum funding by 30 percent If the US is going to build a quantum internet and otherwise claim technical supremacy, it’s going to need appropriate funding — and that…
August 16, 2020 David Sandberg Shares Silly Trailer for Some Very Early Reviews of the Not-Yet-Filmed Shazam 2 It’s never too early to start doing good publicity. Read more… via Gizmodo Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast
August 16, 2020 How Wargaming overcame mistakes and reclaimed the future of World of Tanks World of Tanks has racked up more than 200 million registered players in the past 10 years, but it hasn’t all been easy for…
August 16, 2020 Former Glu CEO Niccolo De Masi is at it again, ready to take another company public Niccolo de Masi wants to take another private company public in short order using a special acquisitions process. His target is a gaming firm.Read…
August 16, 2020 How Wargaming enlisted 200 million World of Tanks players over a decade Victor Kislyi has built Wargaming into 5,000 employees and multiple games thanks to the endurance of the World of Tanks online game.Read More via…
August 16, 2020 Bald eagle takes out EGLE’s drone because it’s 2020 and irony is dead Don’t eff with this bird | Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images A bald eagle beat the crap out of a government…
August 16, 2020 After Math: Everything is awesome While the ***** administration spent this past week kneecapping the US Postal Service in an obvious effort to throw the upcoming November election in…
August 16, 2020 The Biggest Unanswered Questions About a Covid-19 Vaccine A vaccine for the coronavirus that causes covid-19 appears to be our best strategy to ending the current pandemic. Unfortunately, the fastest time frame…