Everstone’s debut video game hopes to do for 10th-century China what Ubisoft’s open-world series did for ancient Greece and renaissance Italy Assassin’s Creed and Total War have proven that video games can be better than any tattered textbook at bringing history alive – though they do tend to retread the same old battlegrounds of western …
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Reports suggest that ‘Project 42’ was a glass structure that contained a residential element for the carmaker’s chief executive US prosecutors are investigating Tesla over alleged use of company funds for a secret project described internally as a house for Elon Musk, the electric carmaker’s chief executive. Information sought from Tesla by the US attorney’s …
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PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PC; Sabotage StudioThis homage to classic Japanese RPGs picks from the best to create something original, and its rich, engaging world makes it feel like a classic in its own right There is more than a little of Chrono Trigger and the early Final Fantasy games in Sea of Stars, …
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Controls apply to A100 and H100 chips, in escalation of US efforts to curb China’s access to products Business live – latest updates The US has expanded the restriction of exports of Nvidia artificial intelligence chips beyond China to some countries in the Middle East. Nvidia, which is one of the world’s most valuable companies …
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In this week’s newsletter: Psychologist Aleks Krotoski investigates the Silicon Valley scions trying to cheat death in The Immortals. Plus: five of the best US politics podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The ImmortalsBBC Sounds, available from Monday“What if I told you that death may not be inevitable?” …
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Technology committee says UK government approach to artificial intelligence is behind EU and US The UK should introduce new legislation to control artificial intelligence or risk falling behind the EU and the US in setting the pace for regulating the technology, MPs have said. Rishi Sunak’s government was urged to act as it prepares to …
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Action by social media company comes after Facebook parent company Meta shut down 9,000 accounts tied to political spam network Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast TikTok has removed 284 accounts associated with a Chinese disinformation campaign after Guardian …
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Can’t face another minute thinking about war, inflation or the climate catastrophe? Give your brain a break in a strange, surprising or entrancing corner of the internet. We’ve got riddles, we’ve got webcams, we’ve got an owl in a box … I must be about 1,000 years old in internet years (which are even shorter …
Swift AI used technique called deep reinforcement learning to win 15 out of 25 races against world champions Having trounced humans at everything from chess and Go, to StarCraft and Gran Turismo, artificial intelligence (AI) has raised its game and laid waste world champions at a physical sport. The latest mortals to feel the sting …
Live service games that try to monopolise attention put immense pressure on developers to keep pace with players • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here One of the only announcements at this year’s Gamescom, an event replete with games to play but usually light on news (as Keith wrote in …
