On September 24, Ubisoft abruptly canceled its appearance at the Tokyo Game Show and postponed all press previews of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Wednesday, we learned why. Anti-DEI backlash has sent the company spinning.
The Paris-based video game publisher pushed the release of its biggest game of the year from November 12 to February 14 of next year—and warned investors that net bookings would no longer exceed the 2.3 billion euros of last year, but come in at
U.K. transport officials and police said Thursday they are investigating a “cyber-security incident” after users of public Wi-Fi networks at the country’s biggest railway stations reported being shown anti-Muslim messages.
Passengers trying to log onto the Wi-Fi at 19 stations, including Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street and several London terminuses, on Wednesday evening were met by a page reading, “We love you, Europe,” followed by an anti
Millions of websites worldwide are unable to update thanks to an ongoing dispute that has bubbled over between a core backbone of the internet and a popular hosting platform that brings it to many users.
On Wednesday, Matt Mullenweg, an entrepreneur who developed WordPress and founded Automattic, a provider of free WordPress, shut off access to WP Engine, a platform that many users deploy in order to host their WordPress sites. The reason: a dispute over the extent to which Mullenw
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OpenAI CTO Murati departs as company is set to abandon its nonprofit roots
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer be controlled by its non-profit board, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a move that will make the company more attractive to investors.
The OpenAI non-profit will
There’s a popular adage among photography buffs—often attributed to Chase Jarvis—that the best camera is the one you have with you. In other words, It doesn’t matter how good a camera is if you don’t have it in your possession when you want to take a picture.
Nowadays, that would argue for the best camera being the one most of us really do have with us at all times: the one in our smartphone. But my brain has never
Spotify’s AI playlist-making function, once only available in the U.K and Australia, has finally made its way to the United States.
The feature, rolled out earlier this week in beta, allows Spotify Premium users to prompt a chatbot with whatever genre, emotion, or life event they want their music to represent. Spotify’s AI will in turn spew out a playlist, made up of tunes tht reflect both the prompt and user’s listening history.
Molly Holder, Spotify se
Kyle Wiens recognized something was wrong in July when his staff at iFixit, a website outlining how to fix common household items, began receiving alerts about high traffic on their cellphones. The development team behind the website began looking at the tool that tracks their web traffic (as a highly visited website, iFixit regularly keeps an eye on how many people visit the site). “It became pretty cle
By the end of the year, there will be an estimated 207 billion or more Internet of Things (IoT) devices with a large percentage within industrial environments. As industries across the globe grapple with the challenges of modern manufacturing and production, the rise of IoT promises to revolutionize industrial automation.
Automation is not only enhancing productivity but redefining what is possible in modern manufacturing. As