Month: February 2025

RPG Maker was launched in 1992 and has become increasingly complex, but it’s still a remarkably accessible way to make adventure games with no development experience It is said that every 100 years, a small fishing village on the southern coast of an unknown fantasy realm holds a magical artisanal cheese festival. As an adventurer …

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Exclusive: Google executives gave employees details on dropping the company’s promise against weaponized AI and nixing diversity goals Google’s executives gave details on Wednesday on how the tech giant will sunset its diversity initiatives and defended dropping its pledge against building artificial intelligence for weaponry and surveillance in an all-staff meeting. Melonie Parker, Google’s former …

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President brought suit under X’s previous leadership after he was banned from platform following January 6 events Elon Musk’s social media platform X will pay Donald Trump $10m to settle a lawsuit the president filed after he was banned from the platform following the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to a report. …

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard has reached 1.5 million gamers around the world – yet its developers have labelled it a disappointment. With unfair expectations, it’s the niche and left-field titles that will suffer Back in 2013, having bought the series from Eidos, Square Enix released a reboot of the hit 1990s action game Tomb Raider …

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Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies on Sonia Kgomo is an organiser with African Tech Workers Rising; she spoke at the AI Action summit this week Mark Zuckerberg might be done with factchecking, but he cannot escape the truth. The third …

I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo Read More »

Voice actors demanding compensation when AI generates performances from their work have taken industrial action since July When Harrison Ford spoke to the Wall Street Journal last week, praising the performance of voice actor Troy Baker in the recent video game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, he was doing much more than recognising a …

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Musk raids a dizzying swath of agencies with the goal of ‘slashing waste and fraud’ as the two deploy brinkmanship Hello, and welcome back to TechScape. This week in tech: Elon Musk and Donald Trump flood the zone and deploy brinkmanship as a negotiating tactic; US Immigration and Customs Enforcement learns search engine optimization amid …

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Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts Google’s online and mobile calendars are no longer including references to Black History Month, Women’s History Month and LGBTQ+ holidays, among other events. The world’s biggest search engine previously marked the beginning of Black History Month in …

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My heart says he is settling scores and making mischief. My head fears Trump might like an ally controlling the key AI company Elon Musk and Sam Altman aren’t exactly the best of friends. The two had a blowout argument over the future direction of OpenAI – the company they came together to found in …

Elon Musk owning OpenAI would be a terrible idea. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen | Chris Stokel-Walker Read More »

Better fit, great sound, noise cancelling, longer battery life and heart rate sensors upgrade just about everything After five years, Apple is back with a full revamp of the earbuds that put its Beats headphones brand on the map for athletes and sports people: the Powerbeats Pro 2. Designed to hook on to the ear …

Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 review: Apple’s best workout buds are back with a bang Read More »