In this week’s newsletter: Sony’s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development – it’s go big, or go home • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I wrote last week about the decades-long console wars between Xbox and …
Sundar Pichai addresses backlash after Gemini software created images of historical figures in variety of ethnicities and genders Google’s chief executive has described some responses by the company’s Gemini artificial intelligence model as “biased” and “completely unacceptable” after it produced results including portrayals of German second world warsoldiers as people of colour. Sundar Pichai told …
Google chief admits ‘biased’ AI tool’s photo diversity offended users Read More »
Little discussed outside its fanbase, it amassed 75 million registered users who provide a brilliantly welcoming community for neurodivergent gamers Six months ago my son Zac started to play a video game I knew very little about – which, as a games journalist, I found slightly disconcerting. Created by the Canada-based developer Digital Extremes, Warframe …
In a toxic online world, Warframe is a refuge for my son – and millions of others Read More »
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe Paper Birds’ new touring production explores forced displacement through physical theatre, interactivity and multimedia What does the rest of the audience make of the show you’re watching? Beyond the odd gasp or laugh it can be hard to tell but this audacious, tech-savvy production by devised theatre company The Paper Birds …
Feel Me review – innovative show puts audience empathy to the test Read More »
Entire online communities have developed around naming this 17-second snippet of catchy pop – and three years after it was uploaded no one has solved the mystery It’s only 17 seconds long, and sounds a bit like 80s-era Genesis playing at the bottom of a swimming pool. But this snippet of bouncy yet sonically degraded …
Everyone Knows That: can you identify the lost 80s hit baffling the internet? Read More »
Packed with swappable parts including the keyboard, ports and graphics card, this machine is unique Framework is back with the new, larger and more powerful Laptop 16 that is its most ambitious device yet: a highly modular and upgradeable 16in machine that can transform in layout and power in minutes. It is quite unlike anything …
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Reports say tech giant made announcement during meeting and forecast layoffs, ending secretive and resource-heavy project Apple is canceling its plans to build an electric car, according to multiple outlets, ending a secretive project that has consumed immense resources over the past decade. Executives from the company made the unexpected announcement during an internal team …
Apple reportedly scraps multi-billion plan to build electric car Read More »
Company will cut 8% of workforce, citing changes in industry and a need to ‘deliver on expectations from developers and gamers’ Sony will cut about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, or about 8% of its global workforce, becoming the latest company in the technology and gaming sector to announce layoffs. The company cited changes …
Sony to lay off 900 workers in its PlayStation division Read More »
The US chip maker is the company to bet on if you want to invest in AI, but with the future of artificial intelligence in flux, staying on top of the game won’t be easy • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Everyone wants to be like …
TechScape: With its trillion-dollar valuation, will Nvidia’s reign last? Read More »
Federal judge in Texas says new requirement would cause ‘irreparable injury’ to industry amid surging electricity usage The US government has suspended its effort to survey cryptocurrency mining operations over their ballooning energy use following a lawsuit from an industry that has been accused by environmental groups of fueling the climate crisis. A federal judge …
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