Our video games writers get their children to play the games they loved as kids – and get to grips with the ones they adore now. Will they be bored, baffled – or hooked? Keza MacDonald plays Pokémon Shield Continue reading… Our video games writers get their children to play the games they loved as …
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Analysis of more than 200,000 chatbot conversations shows how the new tech is actually being used. Turns out quite a lot of it is ‘racy role play’ … Name: AI dirty talk. Age: Since 2022. Continue reading… Analysis of more than 200,000 chatbot conversations shows how the new tech is actually being used. Turns out …
Dirty talk: how AI is being used in the bedroom – and beyond Read More »
From card sharps to crypto traders, a statistician asks what we can learn from the people prepared to gamble everything Nothing is more interesting to poker players and less interesting to everyone else than a breathless recounting of who bet how much with a jack and six of clubs in some game years ago. There’s …
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With 550m users, the social network has been accused of providing a platform for organising riots in the UK With 550 million users, Telegram is the biggest underground app in the world. A hybrid messaging service and social network, the company seems to make controversy a core part of its business. From its early days …
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The ruling found Google broke antitrust laws by making multibillion-dollar deals. Will those agreements evaporate? Google lost its landmark antitrust case against the US Department of Justice this week after a federal judge ruled the tech giant had built an illegal monopoly over the online search and advertising industry. The decision will likely have immense …
A US judge ruled that Google built an illegal monopoly. What happens next? Read More »
Vacation rental company reports second-quarter profit of $555m compared with last year’s $650m The vacation rental company Airbnb forecast third-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday and reported a lower second-quarter profit, as it flagged weakening demand from US customers. Shares of the company were down about 12% after the bell. Continue reading… Vacation …
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X said the companies worked against their economic self-interests in a conspiracy violating US antitrust law Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday sued a global advertising alliance and several major companies, including Unilever, Mars and CVS Health, accusing them of unlawfully conspiring to shun the social network and intentionally causing it to lose …
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Owner of X uses platform to promote conspiracy theory that white far-right ‘protesters’ involved in disorder are treated more severely than minorities Elon Musk has called the prime minister “two-tier Keir” in reference to the conspiracy theory that police are treating white far-right “protesters” are being treated more harshly than minority groups. The billionaire owner …
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Assemble a crew of navy seers and necro medics to take down a dictatorship in a spellbinding new game inspired by XCOM, but without the punishment We’re only just over half way through the year, but Tactical Breach Wizards is already a contender for best video game title of 2024. At once exquisitely silly and …
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LLMs’ ‘reversal curse’ leads it to fail at drawing relationships between simple facts. It’s a problem that could prove fatal In 2021, linguist Emily Bender and computer scientist Timnit Gebru published a paper that described the then-nascent field of language models as one of “stochastic parrots”. A language model, they wrote, “is a system for …
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