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Possibly the most-delayed video game in history is finally available on the Game Boy Advance
Making a video game on any platform takes hard work, and even if a game is finished it’s still not immune to delays (see: Duke Nukem Forever, L.A. Noire and Diablo III.) A group of Italian programmers had to wait 22 years to finally see the release of their fantasy hack ‘n slasher Kien for the Game Boy Advance (GBA)…
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Midjourney is creating Donald Trump pictures when asked for images of “the president of the United States.”
Midjourney, a popular AI-powered image generator, is creating images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden despite saying that it would block users from doing so earlier this year ahead of the upcoming US presidential election. When Engadget prompted the service to create an image of “the president of the United States,” Midjourney generated four images in various styles of former…
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The AI prison of the future is just an Outer Limits episode
According to the Prison Policy Institute, the US has a higher incarceration rate per 100,000 people in its population than any other NATO country and it’s even higher than the next five member states combined (the UK, Portugal, Canada, France and Belgium). So what’s the solution? Hashem Al-Ghaili, a molecular biologist and science communicator from Yemen, claims he’s got it…
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Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice
Reddit has a warning for AI companies and other scrapers: play by our rules or get blocked. The company said in that it plans to update its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which allows it to block automated scraping of its platform. The company said it will also continue to block and rate-limit crawlers and other bots that don’t have…
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Someone apparently hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to peddle a memecoin and made off with millions
50 Cent and his millions of social media followers were reportedly the targets of a pump-and-dump crypto scam on Friday that resulted in hackers pocketing a good chunk of change before it was all shut down. The exact amount they made is unclear; the rapper initially wrote on Instagram that “whoever did this made $300,000,000 in 30 minutes” (per Cointelegraph),…
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Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
Pornhub will cease operating in five more states this summer due to new legislation that requires age verification on adult entertainment websites. The move is in response to a wave of recently-passed laws that require porn websites and other platforms with explicit adults-only content to collect proof of their users’ ages. In all of these states, that means people would…
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NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1 probe is back in action after months of technical issues
NASA engineers have managed to get the long-running Voyager 1 space probe fully back in working order after some seven months of technical difficulties. In November 2023, the spacecraft — which is more than 15 billion miles from Earth — started sending back strange, , and the team has been working ever since to get to the root of the…
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House of the Dragon renewed for season 3 ahead of season 2 premiere
HBO has announced that House of the Dragon will be back for a third season. The network confirmed the renewal of the Game of Thrones spinoff series in a just three days ahead of its Season 2 premiere. “George [R.R. Martin], Ryan [Condal] and the rest of our incredible executive producers, cast and crew have reached new heights with the…
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Resident Evil 7 and the Resident Evil 2 remake are coming to iPhone, iPad and Mac
On a day when there were a few other Apple-related announcements, Capcom snuck in one of its own. Two more Resident Evil games are coming to iOS, iPadOS and macOS: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, coming next month, and the Resident Evil 2 remake, which is “currently in development.” Capcom promises a “console quality experience” for the games, which run on…
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Slapstick platformer Thank Goodness You’re Here! arrives August 1
Thank Goodness You’re Here! was perhaps the highlight of Untitled Goose Game publisher Panic’s first-ever game show last year. It’s described as a “slapformer” or slapstick platformer, and it’s set in a fictional Northern English town called Barnsworth. With a Cartoon Network aesthetic and a very English sense of humor, it captured a lot of peoples’ hearts. Today, developer Coal…
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